McCormack (international humanitarian law, U. of Melbourne) uses the case of the bombing of Osiraq, the Iraqi nuclear reactor, in 1981, to test the limits of the right of self-defense in international law. He details the legislative history of the UN Charter and examples from state practice, and identifies the limits of a legitimate act of anticipatory self-defense, applying the legal principles to the Israeli-Iraq situation and concluding that Israel's action was a legitimate exercise of force within international law. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.