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Vera Rich looks at the Soviet Union's recently published Five Year Plan, in which the prominence usually accorded to science and technology is again apparent.
Colin Norman in Washington examines the arguments which two recent events involving Soviet dissident scientists have helped to regenerate in the USA's scientific community.
The ways in which Canada's Royal Society might have a broadened role in the country's scientific affairs is becoming a matter of some controversy. From Ottawa, David Spurgeon reviews the main issues, which focus chiefly on the question of relations with the government.
Last year British university teachers were involved in ‘industrial action’ before finally resolving their dispute with the government over salary increases. The government has since introduced its pay policy. This month many academics will receive for the first time the cost of living element of their 1975 salaries settlement. David Walker reports on the discontent that still prevails.
