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Errata In the Authorsand Readingsdepartmentof the January/February1975 issue of SOCIETY, the names of the following publishers were erroneously omitted: 9 Anne Sutherland's article, "'Gypsies, The Hidden Americaets,'" was excerpted from her forthcomingbookGypsies: The Hidden Americans to be published in May by The Fr~ Press, A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. Copyright Anne Sutherland. Printed by special arrangement with The Free Press. 9 Abdul A. Said's and Luiz R. Simmons' forthcomingbook The Ethnic Factor in Worm Pohtics is being published by Transaction Books.

THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION is m u s t r e a d i n g for a n y o n e i n t e r e s t e d i n war a n d peace, w h e t h e r a scholar or citizen.~ S e y m o u r M a r t i n Lip~et, H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y 9 . . an extraordinarily valuable and interesting book . . . . he has c o n s t r u c t e d a n e w p o l i t i c a l category of b e h a v i o r , w i t h i n which q u e s t i o n s of policy, strategy, a n d tactics can be systematically pursued. Margaret Mead, A M E R I C A N JOURNAL

Teresa Rakowska.Harmscone's article, "Ethnic Autonomyin the Soviet Union," whichappeared in the January/February1975 issueof SOCIETY, was an earlier version of "'The Dialectics of Nationalismin the USSR," Problems of Communism. May-June 1974. Barbara Ledeencoauthoredthe Amarcord film review which appeared in t~e January/February 1975 issue.

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