flection than either Index on Censorshipnor Freedom at Issue, Survey turnsnfrequently to the themes of “the repressionnof the individual” and “thenstruggle … to create pluralist formsnof social existence within a totalitariannsystem,” especially in the USSR andnEastern Europe.nLike Survey, The South Slav Journalnseres primarily as a journal of seriousnscholarship, drawing upon distinguishednWestern authorities on Yugoslavianand outstanding emigre writersnfrom Yugoslavia, including editornNemanja Marcetic. But besides scholarlynarticles. The South Slav Journalndoes regularly publish factual accountsnof abuses of intellectual freedom innYugoslavia and of protests againstnthese abuses. A recent issue, for instance,ndetails the detention, interrogahon,nand beating of Yugoslaviannintellectuals legally assembled to hearnan essay on Miloan Djilas.nEen more narrowly focused andnnearer the cutting edge of the protestnagainst intellectual repression are suchnpublications as the Bulletin of thenDemocracy International Committeento Aid Democratic Dissidents in Yugoslaian(CADDY) or the Voice of Solidaritv.nPublished irregularlv in NewnYork Citv, the CADDY Bulletin pro-nides the most up-to-date informationnon political arrests and imprisonments,npolice harassment of writersnand priests, and press campaignsnagainst dissident intellectuals. OthernCADDY publications provide transcriptsnof the farcical judicial proceedingsnagainst Yugoslav dissidents andnlists of the numerous Yugoslaviansnimprisoned for long sentences onncharges of “falsely and maliciouslynpresenting socio-political conditions innthe country” to foreign journalists orneen promulgating “hostile propaganda”n(in an article written for and at thenrequest of Kommunist!).nPublished bimonthh’ in London,nVoice of Solidarity takes a more populistnand labor-oriented approach toncommunist oppression in Poland. Innits reports on the continuing fight fornfree associating and free expression innPoland, the Voice documents the brutalnpolice measures the governmentncovertly employs. “Special policensquads . . . inflict selective terror,”nbeating up 10-year-olds who flash thenV-for-ictory sign and murderingnVOICEG/3n,. ‘•• -.’- i ^ ornBetOSSntro/awt ssratNsn laM i»*(i oxo^nthose recalcitrant adults who will notnlearn from beatings: “The technique isnalwa}s the same. The victim is firstnbeaten up and then . . . thrown out ofna high window, so that the new injuriesncoer up the earlier ones. Theninquest is conducted in a perfunctorynmanner, and the victim’s family isnintimidated by vague threats.” Voice ofnSolidarity also offers a rare look at hownthe war in Afghanistan is fueling dissent,nespecially in the predominantiynMoslem regions in southern L’SSR.nThe Voice reports an epidemic of infectiousnhepatitis in the westernnUkraine caused because young con­nBOOKS IN BRIEFnSOVIET TERRORnSOVIET PRISONERSnscripts “drank the urine of those havingnhepatitis and thus landed in thenhospital” rather than being sent tonAfghanistan. Such things make it intonAmerican newspapers only infrequently.nIndeed, ‘anyone reading Index onnCensorship, Freedom at Issue, thenCADDY Bulletin, or Voice of Solidaritynmay wonder why the Americannmedia—source of exhaustive informationnof the latest unrest in El Salvadornor the Philippines — provides suchnspotty coverage of the tyrannous actsnof communist regimes.nBut censorship in America is almostnnever a matter of government decree.nWeeping in Ramah by J.R. Lucas; Crossway; Westchester, IL; 57.95. A novelistic look at thenhorrific world of legalized infanticide and fetal experimentation that the abortion mentalityncould create.nBreaking Faith: The Sandinista Revolution and Its Impact on Freedom and Christian Faithnin Sicaragua by Humberto Belli; Crossway/Puebla; Westchester, IL; 58.95. A formernmember of the Sandinista movement traces Nicaragua’s continuing evolution into antotalitarian regime and explains why the Sandinista agenda has been—from the verynfirst—antithetical to democratic liberty and to Christian faith. Recommended reading fornDr. Spock, Ed Asner, and Jim Wallis.nRecent Philosophers by John Passmore; Open Court; La Salle, IL; 524.95. Sureing thenworld of philosophy during the last 20 years, a distinguished .Australian philosophernconcludes that “for all the greater sophLstication of method … it is surprising how muchnphilosophical effort is still deoted to trying to soke problems which Plato, or Descartes, ornHume, first saw as such.” Given their contorted prose and their insistence on relegatingnreligion to “marginal areas” of the discipline, the course of modern philosophy seems one ofnimolution, not progress.nThe Modern Researcher by Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff; 4th edition; Harcourt BracenJovanovich; San Diego; S24.95. An expanded version of the standard research manual usednfor 30 years by scholars, writers, and editors, updated to help readers make effective use of thenword processor, computer, and other new research tools. More than a guide to accepted andnfruitful research practices. The Modem Researcher combines sophisticated anah’ses of thencompeting philosophies of historical verification with specific suggestions for achieving claritynand grace in .style.nnnFEBRUARY 1986 / 43n