Spectroscopic study of 1,2-indandione

This paper describes the spectroscopic study of the new fingerprint reagent, 1,2-indandione, using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS). When 1,2-indandione is dissolved in methanol, NMR and MS show formation of a hemiketal similar to that proposed for DFO when it is dissolved in methanol. In contrast to DFO where reactivity with amino acids appears to be enhanced by hemiketal formation with alcohol solvents, the reactivity of 1,2-indandione towards amino acids is diminished by hemiketal formation. Alcohols should be avoided in 1,2-indandione formulations.     

Anti-semitism and African Americans

Her intellectual interest center on intercultural relations, history of social thought, and organizational analysis.     

Concentrations of ethanol in two segments of the vascular system.

The time courses of capillary and venous blood concentrations of ethanol after oral administration of 0.30 and 0.34 g/kg doses of ethanol to two normal human subjects indicated that, by interpolation, equal capillary and venous concentrations are reached at only one time, and this time varied with the subject. The capillary/venous blood concentration ratios varied markedly as a function of time in both subjects over the entire observation period of 4 h.     

Violence and terror and the extreme right

The author begins by examining Sprinzak's theory of ‘split delegitimization’ and finds that although it provides a persuasive account of why some extreme right groups become so radicalized that they perpetrate acts of terrorism and political violence, its major weakness is that it fails to explain the emergence and long‐term survival of mass parties of the extreme right. The article briefly surveys some of these mass parties and finds that there is no clear correlation between the electoral success of extreme‐right mass parties and the level of terrorism and political violence from small extreme‐right groups. However, the evident ambivalence of mass parties of the far right towards violence, and intensification of the propaganda of violence, racisim and xenophobia are clearly conducive to violence and Terrorism and Political Violence.     

The key role of intelligence

Christopher Andrew, For the President'sEyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. London: HarperCollins, 1995. Pp.660. £25. ISBN 0–00255–260–0.

Roy Godson, Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: US Covert Action and Counter‐intelligence. Washington: Brassey's, 1995. Pp.342. $24.95 £21.95. ISBN 1–57488–03433–9.     

Nationalism and its consequences: A review

Anthony D. Smith, Myths and Memories of the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 288, £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–19–829684–3 (also published in cloth edition).

Umut Ozkirimli, Theories of Nationalism A Critical Introduction, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000, pp 253, £14.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–77712–3 (also published in cloth edition).

Hakan Wiberg and Christian P. Scherrer (eds.), Ethnicity and Intra‐State Conflict: Types , Causes and Peace Strategies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, pp.327, £42.50 (cloth). ISBN 1–84014713X.

Michael Hechter, Containing Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.256, £19.99. ISBN 0–19829742–4 (cloth).     

Reflections on bloody Sunday

Don Mullan (ed.), Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1997. Pp.288. £8.99 (paper). ISBN 0–86327–586–9.     

An anatomy of loyalist terrorism

Steve Bruce, The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp.311, 10 tables, 1 fig., statistical app., glossary, select biblio., index. £25 (hardback), £7.99 (paperback). ISBN 019–215961–5 and 019 285256–6.