Pasts and presents: History, politics, and the representation of self and other in pacific ethnography
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Law and order in the New Guinea highlands
are there. He rejects the amending process as a workable check; impeachment, appointment, consent strategies. He rejects Congressional control over the Court's appellate jurisdiction as an effective limitation. He wants all three branches to begin acting as if they were coordinating with one another. This would temper the unacceptable finality of judicial policy making. But one suspects that under all of these fulminations, what Agresto really is upset by is not the Court's excessive activism, which does not really differ so greatly from the activism of the late 19th and early 20th century, but the fact that that activism and the doctrines which have been evolved through it has supported the wrong people in American society—blacks and other ethnic minorities, religious minorities, women, labor unionists, agitators, criminals, juveniles, aliens, and pro-choice advocates— people whom he generally sees as unworthy of constitutional largesse. He argues that the Court has never been a defender of such minorities and their fundamental liberties except in very limited ways, and goes on to suggest that when it assumes the role of their champion the historic pattern of its past behavior is being violated. Thus, because Blacks have always been second-class citizens, the Court should not do much for them other than to correct its own past decisions which unduly denied them abstract constitutional rights. Generally, however, if that is to be done, it is the role of the legislative branch, which will ultimately take care of such minorities. To this extent it is interesting to see him rejecting Jesse Chopper's recent book Judicial Review and the National Political Process partly on the ground that history has shown the majority will never deny the rights of the minority.
APPLICATION OF SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHS IN A MORPHOTECTONIC STUDY OF THE CENTRAL ALBORZ, IRAN
This paper introduces a study of morphotectoni c structure in the Central Alborz Basin, Mazandaran province of Iran (about 1200 square kilometer), using Russian KFA-1000 satellite photography and sequential air photographs. The KFA-1000 metric camera has better ground resolution than SPOT and LANDSAT for the whole of the study area. Results are provided from one pair of 30×30 cm. photos, which provided easy interpretation and better results than other data. Areas identified from these images as being of significance were examined in greater detail through the use of aerial photographs (at scales of 1:5000, 1:10000 and 1:60000 were available).