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...deficiencies are stark, indeed. The state of Georgia, for instance, recently had to adopt a "floor score" for all state university applicants to try add boost standards. The minimal requirement: a student had to score 250 on either the math or verbal component of the SAT. Even so, state laws set aside a number of places for disadvantaged students who can't qualify. "That ain't much of a minimum," allows a state Board of Regents official...
...independence of Israeli policy that they have so long urged, and that this long-awaited initiative could die quickly if it is too adamantly rejected by both sides. At week's end there was speculation that even the P.L.O., which is struggling to preserve its political influence, would adopt a position in advance of the Fez summit that fell short of outright rejection of Reagan's proposals. Even if that happens, the most that American diplomats expect from Fez is a highly qualified pledge by the Arabs to consider the U.S. initiative...
Coppola's execution was the first in the U.S. since March 1981 and only the fifth since the 1976 Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment constitutional. More than 1,000 prisoners now wait on death row. Two weeks ago, New Jersey became the 37th state to adopt a death penalty. Due to the appeals process, few inmates are expected to be executed soon. But by late 1984, experts predict, there may be a surge in executions. By then, perhaps the Supreme Court will have worked out a more seemly system for deciding the many last-minute appeals...
...effort to spur protective legislation for time-share consumers, the National TimeSharing Council Board of Governors will meet this week in Orlando, Fla., to adopt a tougher "model act" for state governments without such laws. Though time sharing can be an inexpensive vacation alternative, it also quite plainly remains for now an investment that requires careful planning and close investigation...
Reagan inspired scant confidence by using his press conference "to get a little more publicity for the American people to urge their Congressmen to adopt the constitutional amendment" requiring a balanced budget (see ESSAY). One reporter had an apt question: "[Aren't you] presiding over the biggest budget deficit in history and telling the American people, in effect, 'There ought to be a law against what I'm doing?' " Reagan insisted, fairly enough, that the big budget deficits cannot be laid solely "at an individual's door." Then he turned the question around, asking...