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MILITARY REDUCTIONS...continued from page 30 Linking Assistance to Arms Spending and independence; as tangible evidence that they intend to defend their sovereignty; or to reward their To stimulate movement toward such savings, I armed forces for supporting the government against strongly urge the linking of external financial assis- internal opposition. tance, through ‘‘conditionality’’, to reductions in An extremely important factor affecting how many military expenditures. The conditionality could take weapons a government will import is the availability the form of special consideration given to countries of financing, particularly export credits. But there is spending less than two percent of their GNP in the an additional factor, important but hard to assess, in security sector. The huge savings that many countries the financing of military outlays: fungibility. In my would make by reducing security spending to two view, it is bad economics and bad policy for the donor percent of GNP or less could be used to address nations and the international financial institutions to pressing economic and social needs. While such continue to behave as if the funding of development conditionality will be difficult and contentious, I programs can be separated from the financing of believe it is an essential part of the solution to the military expenditures. waste represented by excessive military spending in I believe the collective security system under the poor countries. Security Council outlined above would allow Third World countries to reduce their military expenditure, If East and West and North and South dare break as a percent of the GNP, by 50 percent by the end of out of the mindsets of the past four decades we can the decade. The savings would approximate half of reshape international institutions, as well as relations what they now spend on health and education and among nations, and we can do so in ways which twice the amount of development assistance received will lead to a far more peaceful world and a far from OECD countries and international financial more prosperous world for all of the peoples of our institutions. interdependent globe. e Humanist in Canada SUBJECT INDEX TO VOLUME 24 (1991 #1 to 4): Issue Nos. 96 to 99 (See inside back cover to order back issues) Titles of articles are listed chronologically under subject headings and after the issue number (in bold): page number. Bible, Biblical Criticism Humanism, Biography Politics, Political Science 99:16 What? The Author of the Adam 97:17 Charles Bradiaugh—Freethinker 96:26 Our Voting System Needs Reform and Eve Story an Atheist? Humour, Satire 97:22 Get Smart, Get Political: Women Children, Youth 96:21 Leprechauns Have Eyebrows in the Apolitical School 99:14 ‘‘Yes Virginia, We Lied To You’’ 97:15 Paradise Restored Population, Hunger 99:33 The Christmas Present 99:3 Population, Energy and Environment Index Environment 98:8 No Friend 96:39 Subject Index to Volumes 21, 22 99:9 Gaining People, Losing Ground 98:35 Transportation In The Non- & 23, 1988 to 1989 99:10 Prayer for a Baby Smoking Section Media, Language 99:11 What Others are Saying 99: inside cover—The Environment— 96:5 Bewildering the Herd Religions, Cults, Mythology Time For Action 96:16 Journalistic Freedom: Solidarity 97:5 Religious Fascism in America 99:28 Specific proposals for an Before It’s Too Late 97:20 Sex, Gender, and the Christian ecologically sensible city Native peoples Church 98:28 The Sleep of Reason—Part | Ethics, Morality, Values 96:31 Canadian Governments and 96:24 Morals Without Religion Aboriginal Peoples (poem) 98:30 The Vatican Heresy 98:5 Albert Schweitzer: Reverence For Paranormal, Superstition 99:31 The Sleep of Reason—Part I! Life 97:16 The Discombobulated (poem) Evolution Superstitionist Science, Technology, Energy 98:18 In the Beginning: The Teaching of 98:14 Carrying the War Into the 98:22 Conversation With Mother—About Evolution and Creation Never-Never Land of Psi—Part | the Age Of The Earth Freedoms, rights 99:24 Carrying the War...—Part II 99:22 The Limits of Science 97:21 From the Fall of the Bastille to the Fall of the Berlin Wall: the Peace, Security, Disarmament Self-development, Fellowship, Celebration Enlightenment Lives On 96:19 Yamassoukro Declaration on Peace 97:28 Relationship With Oneself Global Concerns, Futurism 98:24 Cinu rtihneg Mtihned sD isoefa sMee no f Nationalism 9988::2167 SIsc iTshseorrse A Place For Ritual In 97:24 The Role of the UN after Desert Humanism? Storm Philosophy, Thinking, Logic Sociology, Society, Culture 97:30 Glasnost and the Global Village 97:11 Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and the 97:29 Time to Start Thinking 99:20 Global Accords for the 21st Perils of Analogical Thinking 99:29 Our Chances of Survival Century 98: inside cover—The Ethics of Belief, Violence, Terrorism Humanists, Freethought by Soddy 96:18 Seville Statement on Violence 96: inside cover—Values and Principles Kai Nielsen’s Atheism Women of Ethical Humanism, by Kurtz The Great Jump-Off 96:20 A Personal Response to the 97: inside cover—Humanism, by Lepine Massacre Ingersoll 98:9,28, 99:19,31 97:7 Pro-Choice Is Pro-Family Is ... Humanist in Canada