See preceding entry (CIA world factbook). Data was compiled from open Soviet literature, translated, and formatted to imitate the CIA version. Contains data on 249 countries, in the same categories as stated for the CIA version. Disparities in the reported figures on the two discs might be of intere

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Papers presented at various seminars held during 1995-1996. (view table of contents)

Contributed articles presented at a workshop held in Jan. 1992.

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