News and Notes

• DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300437
• Date: 01 December 1970
• Published date: 01 December 1970
• Subject Matter: Articles

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NEWS

AND

NOTES

Organizations

The

25th

annual

meeting

of

The

Western

Political

Science

Association

will

be

held

in

Albuquerque,

New

Mexico,

April

8-10,

1971.

The

Political

Science

Department

of

the

University

of

New

Mexico

will

host

the

meeting.

Professor

Robert

Wrinkle

is

in

charge

of

local

arrangements.

Program

chairman

is

Pro-

fessor

Currin

V.

Shields

of

the

Department

of

Government,

University

of

Arizona,

Tucson,

Arizona.

Frederic

J.

Fleron,

Jr.,

has

recently

become

editor

of

the

Newsletter

on

Com-

parative

Studies

of

Communism

sponsored

by

the

Planning

Group

on

Compara-

tive

Communist

Studies

of

the

American

Council

of

Learned

Societies.

Persons

wishing

to

have

their

names

added

to

the

mailing

list

or

desiring

to

make

contri-

butions

to

the

Newsletter

or

&dquo;Occasional

Papers&dquo;

should

write

directly

to

Professor

Frederic

J.

Fleron,

Jr.,

Editor,

Newsletter

on

Comparative

Studies

of

Communism,

Department

of

Political

Science,

State

University

of

New

York

at

Buffalo,

4238

Ridge

Lea

Road,

Buffalo,

N.Y.

14226.

The

W.P.S.A.

committee

to

evaluate

dissertations

in

1969-70

made

its

award

to

Jeffrey

T.

Fishel

who

did

his

doctoral

work

at

UCLA.

Heinz

Eulau

of

Stan-

ford

chaired

the

committee

and

Henry

Jansen

of

San

Diego

State

was

the

other

member.

The

annual

meeting

of

the

Southwestern

Political

Science

Association

was

held

in

Dallas

March

26-28,

1970,

in

conjunction

with

the

meeting

of

the

South-

western

Social

Science

Association.

Officers

of

the

S.P.S.A.

for

1970-71

are

Fred

Gantt,

Jr.,

North

Texas

State,

President;

Richard

S.

Wells,

University

of

Okla-

homa,

Vice-President

and

Program

Chairman;

Harry

Holloway,

University

of

Oklahoma,

Associate

Editor

of

the

Social

Science

Quarterly;

Robert

L.

Line-

berry,

University

of

Texas

at

Austin,

Associate

Editor

of

the

Social

Science

Quar-

terly,

and

Gordon

G.

Henderson,

Texas

Tech

University,

Secretary-Treasurer.

Other

members

of

the

Executive

Council

are

James

E.

Anderson,

University

of

Houston;

Jewell

L.

Prestage,

Southern

University;

Ellis

Sandoz,

East

Texas

State

University;

Dick

Smith,

Tarleton

State

College;

and

David

M.

Welborn,

Uni-

versity

of

Kansas.

Information

on

the

program

for

the

meeting

of

the

S.P.S.A.

which

will

be

held

at

the

Statler-Hilton

Hotel,

Dallas,

March

25-27,

1971,

may

be

obtained

from

the

program

chairman,

Richard

S.

Wells,

University

of

Oklahoma.

The

American

Academy

of

Political

and

Social

Science

is

preparing

a

special

monograph

on

&dquo;Design

for

International

Relations

Research:

Scope,

Theory,

Methods,

and

Relevance&dquo;

which

will

be

published

shortly.

Any

person

wishing

to

receive

a

copy

may

obtain

one

free

by

writing

to

that

academy,

3937

Chestnut

St.,

Philadelphia,

Pa.

19104.