CONSISTENCY OF PARITY-VIOLATING PION-NUCLEON COUPLINGS EXTRACTED FROMMEASUREMENTS IN F-18 AND CS-133

The recent measurement of the nuclear anapole moment of Cs-133 has bee n interpreted to yield a value of the weak pion-nucleon coupling H-pi( 1) which contradicts the upper limit from the F-18 experiments. We arg ue that because of the sensitivity of the anapole moment to H-rho(0) i n the odd proton nucleus Cs-133, there is a combination of weak meson- nucleon couplings which satisfies both experiments and which is (barel y) in agreement with theory. In addition, the anapole moment measureme nt in Tl-205 gives a constraint which is inconsistent with the value f rom Cs-133, calling into question the theory of nuclear anapole moment s. We argue that measurements of directional asymmetry in (n) over rig ht arrow + p --> d + gamma and in the photodisintegration of the deute ron by circularly polarized photons, combined with results from pp sca ttering, would determine H-pi(1) and several other weak meson-nucleon couplings in a model-independent way.