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Harvard Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe, speaking for many opponents of the amendment, replies that "the premise that prayer is not allowed in schools...is a lie. Official, organized prayer is not allowed, true, but kids can pray if they want"-silently, individually, on the bus, in the lunchroom, during classes. North Carolina Democratic Congressman Charlie Rose wryly notes, "As long as there are math tests, children will pray in school...
...stayed above the fray. His campaign logistics, from scheduling to delegate counting, were said to be unprecedented in sophistication. Suddenly cracks began to appear. In Birmingham he showed up to shake hands at the wrong factory gate; in Florida reporters covering him had to pile into taxis-the press bus had disappeared. By the middle of last week he looked desperate ("I'm in trouble, I need your help"), making lame excuses for losing primaries ("We didn't really contest Vermont") and attacking Hart for petty deviations from liberal doctrine...
Sectarian murder, that tit-for-tat madness so familiar to residents of war-torn Lebanon, found a new venue last week in the streets of Israel and the occupied West Bank. In the Israeli port of Ashdod, 22 miles from Tel Aviv, an Arab grenade exploded on a crowded bus, killing three Israelis and wounding ten others. Responsibility for the action was claimed by the Black June terrorist group, a breakaway faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization based in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Only three days earlier, a bus carrying some 60 Palestinian laborers from their West Bank homes...
William Crissey, manager of the Cornell Campus Bus System, said that "because of the growing concern, the bus company has added a second grab-rail to the back steps and has instructed all drivers to warn passengers of potential hazards...
Crissey added that the busses used the Campus Bus System are fully proved by the New York Department Transportation, and that no other serious accidents have been reported...