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...Blue Island, Ill. (pop. 22,000), last October voted down a 30% increase in property taxes thought necessary to pay rocketing liability-insurance premiums, and the town expects to self-insure for the 1986-87 fiscal year, taking a chance that a large judgment might force taxes up anyway. Five counties in Missouri closed their jails for several weeks last fall, sending some prisoners elsewhere for incarceration and releasing minor offenders outright. The jails reopened after the counties' sheriffs set up a self-insurance pool, which was financed by tax money...
...convention ended in a shambles of fisticuffs and name-calling. The apparent loser was Shamir, who failed to win a vote of confidence. "You'll never be Prime Minister!" shouted his opponents. Shamir insisted that he would not accept the post anyway if his party did not support him. Unless Shamir can quickly find a way to undo the damage, the crisis within Herut may yet provide Peres with the excuse he needs to seek a mandate to form a government without Likud...
That was precisely the purpose, according to Texas Education Commissioner W.N. Kirby. "There never was a question about 95% of the teachers anyway," he said. "The concern was over a very small percentage who didn't have the skills." Kirby expressed pride in the teachers who took the test: "I don't think there is another state in the union that could have pulled this...
...February a panel of three federal judges rejected that argument but threw out the law anyway on a flipped-over version of the objection. Gramm-Rudman did not infringe upon the authority of Congress, they said, but upon that of the President. The Constitution forbids giving Executive powers to an official who, like the Comptroller, is removable by the legislature. In effect, the judges said, an officer who carries out Executive Branch functions must not be beholden to another branch...
...first, anyway, Soviet audiences and museumgoers will probably be shown only the most traditional aspects of American culture, such as its major orchestras and Broadway musicals. If history is any judge, ordinary Soviets, who tend to be more conservative than their American counterparts, may not like much new American art. Until lately, in fact, few Soviets considered abstract art to be art at all. One of the exhibits Soviet officials have approved, interestingly, is a selection from three generations of the Wyeth family, whose work is solid and representational...