1. Letters from readers

   • James Meehan
   • Cynthia McClintock
   • Stephen H. Balch

   Departments Pages: 2 - 4

2. Social science and the citizen

   Departments Pages: 4 - 4

3. Revisiting the dilemma of rights and obligations

   • Irving Louis Horowitz

   Scientific Freedom And National Security Pages: 5 - 8

4. Secret knowledge and open inquiry

   • Donald N. Langenberg

   Scientific Freedom And National Security Pages: 9 - 12

5. Overcoming complacency

   • Sumner Benson

   Scientific Freedom And National Security Pages: 12 - 15

6. Defining the basics

   • Jan P. Herring

   Scientific Freedom And National Security Pages: 16 - 19

7. Determining military criticality

   • Boyd J. McKelvain

   Scientific Freedom And National Security Pages: 19 - 21

8. Nurturing a dynamic system

   • Mitchel B. Wallerstein

   Scientific Freedom And National Security Pages: 22 - 24

9. What is a political trial?

   • Ron Christenson

   Special Feature Pages: 25 - 31

10. Past is prologue

    • Rosemary Stevens

    Compound Fracture: The American Hospital Today Pages: 32 - 37

11. Upheaval and adaptation

    • Ross M. Mullner
    • Odin W. Anderson
    • Ronald M. Andersen

    Compound Fracture: The American Hospital Today Pages: 37 - 42

12. The all-frills yuppie health care boutique

    • Emily Friedman

    Compound Fracture: The American Hospital Today Pages: 42 - 48

13. The business of childbirth

    • Jeanne Harley Guillemin
    • Lynda Lytle Holmstrom

    Compound Fracture: The American Hospital Today Pages: 48 - 54

14. Hospital care for profit

    • Geraldine Dallek

    Compound Fracture: The American Hospital Today Pages: 54 - 59

15. Public prospects

    • Robert G. Hughes
    • Philip R. Lee

    Compound Fracture: The American Hospital Today Pages: 60 - 65

16. Opiate of the managers

    • Alan Sager

    Compound Fracture: The American Hospital Today Pages: 65 - 71

17. Julian semyonov and the soviet political novel

    • Walter Laqueur

    Culture And Society Pages: 72 - 80

18. University scientists as entrepreneurs

    • Maurice N. Richter

    Social Science And Public Policy Pages: 81 - 83

19. America in the forties

    Photo Essay Pages: 84 - 87

20. Social science books of the month

    Departments Pages: 88 - 88

21. Books in review

    • Robert L. Kidder
    • Jean Bethke Elshtain
    • Nicholas DiMarzio

    BookReview Pages: 88 - 96