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...hopes for education were overblown, he asks, does this "require us to abandon the effort to carry out the educational mandate of a democratic society, or does it require a democratic society to undertake economic and social as well as educational reforms to facilitate carrying out that mandate?" In short: one social program has failed, so let's turn to another...
Both Israel and the U.S. now face the problem of how to deal with a new ingredient in the Middle East morass: a Lebanon that is not the Lebanon of old. It seemed certain last week that the Moslem leftists were on the verge of forcing the country to abandon the old sectarian political system, either by accepting reform or by facing the muzzles of 25,000 AK-47s. As King Hussein observed in Washington, it is no longer "a question of changing a President in Lebanon, but of changing a regime and its shape...
...time being, only workers under direct control of the mayor's office -112,000 of the city's 250,000 employees-stand to be affected. If New York does abandon Social Security in 1978, these people will take home considerably more money-up to $895.05 a year if today's tax rate still applies. Of course, the city would have to join a private plan or set up one of its own to cover employees who are not vested and supplement the benefits of those...
...Ford hewing to the right and to influence the party platform, the choice of Cabinet officers and the vice presidential nominee-perhaps Reagan himself, although Ford would seem to gain nothing from him as a running mate. In fact, the President's men hope to force Reagan to abandon the race and thus allow Ford to move toward the center. That would help him attract the independent votes he will need to win in November. The effort was made more urgent by a Harris Poll taken before the Florida primary and released last week. It showed that by wide...
...know how." Seeing Marian, being back in Sherwood, rekindles Robin's spirits. Age and old scars are forgotten, save in times of extreme stress-as in a sword fight on the castle walls of Nottingham. It is just the sort of escapade that Marian was hoping Robin would abandon...