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...unpretentious eye for natural beauty and an admirable restraint that forces neither the melodrama nor the elegy. And Richard Farnsworth, the former stuntman who was so fine in Comes a Horseman, gives another splendid performance here. Like the movie, he is slight but sturdy. Film and actor compel one to lean for ward in order to catch all their whispered nuances...
...Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that Chinese-speaking students were entitled to some instruction in a language they could understand, the DOE issued "informal" rules that now bind more than 400 school districts. Immersion in English, even rapid transition to English, does not satisfy the DOE; the rules compel school systems to offer a full curriculum to any group of 20 or more students who share a foreign language. The DOE rules have survived three presidencies, although Jesse Soriano, director of the Reagan Administration's $138 million bilingual program, concedes, "This is money that could be spent more effectively...
Bitter staffers compel an editor's ouster and an unusual expose...
...unanimously the proposed quota system as an affront to the principles of university autonomy and racial equity in higher education. Furthermore, the senate of the largest institution involved, the University of the Witwatersrand, issued a pointed statement last month, nothing that the University's leaders condemned any attempt to "compel the university to become an instrument of the Government's policy of discrimination against students on grounds of race...
...that post in 1974. Moreover, in contrast to Rather and most other reporters and anchors, Donaldson voices his political opinions freely. On the Sunday-morning ABC roundtable led by David Brinkley, where Donaldson is a regular, he lambasted the Reagan Administration's so-called squeal rule, which would compel health agencies to inform parents when dispensing birth control devices to women under 18. Said Donaldson: "It is an awful idea. That is the problem with this Administration. Too often it wants to dictate morals to the American people...