EDITORIAL: pages de journal (M.N.)..... BUILDING BLOCKS/LADRILLOS: Ashok or Nero? Governments confronted with the militarization of outer space (Muchkund Dubey)... Sweden re-thinks care in society (Marten Lagergren)... Theatre as a tool for communication (Dickson M. Mwansa)... Por que atender a la autoconstruccion independiente (Jaime Nisnovich)..... MARKINGS: Superpower intervention in the Third World: the US case (Richard A. Falk)..... INTERACTIONS: The impact of the economic crisis on children (UNICEF)... Environmental crisis in Asia-Pacific (SAM seminar)... World military and social expenditures 1983 (the 9th Sivard report)... De la medina à la ville (Bichara Khader)... India: degradation and development (Chakravarthi Raghavan) International commodity control - a contemporary history and appraisal (Leelananda de Silva)... Letters..... NEWS FROM THE THIRD SYSTEM: The Asia-Pacific people?s environment network... The Chingleput rural women?s social education centre... A women?s information and communication service... 1984 census of ?world problems”... The UNU/lFDA urban self-reliance project..... FOOTNOTES/NOTES/NOTAS..... MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION