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Carter has pledged to put together a comprehensive energy policy, which is mostly being drafted by his energy coordinator James Schlesinger (see following story), for presentation to Congress by April 20. What should it contain? An impressive amount of agreement has been building up among experts, and it is reflected by TIME'S Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan last week for their first day-long meeting of 1977. Though the board contains liberals and conservatives, the nine members present were unanimous in recommending a drastic policy focused on sharply higher energy prices and taxes. Observed Alan Greenspan...
Fell's evidence for his theories depends almost entirely on linguistics. He claims to have deciphered what he says are inscriptions left by ancient visitors in all parts of the North American continent. In addition, he says that some modern American Indian languages contain elements of, or are directly descended from, ancient European and North African tongues...
Exposure's next issue, which will come out in two weeks, will contain a full page devoted to school activities and more articles of general interest to students, Randall said...
Statistically South Africa's church schools play a small role, since they contain less than 5% of the nation's white students. The rest-some 900,000-attend free, compulsory state schools. For the nation's 3.7 million black students, however, attendance at separate state schools is optional, tuition costs $50 a year, and schooling is generally inadequate. The government spends ten times as much per pupil on whites as on blacks; the student-teacher ratio is 20 to 1 for whites, 60 to 1 for blacks. Better education was one of the major demands by young...
Freed from the necessity of wooing voters or answering opponents, Mrs. Gandhi was able to sidestep her socialistic promises of welfare programs and land reform. To contain inflation, the government in effect banned strikes and required employers to withhold and deposit in banks money awarded to workers in wage increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron...