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...exam: a Functional Literacy Test ordered by the state legislature to determine whether, as critics had charged, state schools had been graduating as many as 10,000 virtually illiterate seniors each year. The three-hour exam, divided into math and verbal sections, focused on students' ability to cope with such simple tasks as filling out job applications and reading labels on canned goods. The exam, said the state testing director, Thomas Fisher, was "very, very basic" -seventh-or eighth-grade level...
...didn't think the Springfield kid would be able to cope with Bob," Lee said yesterday. "But he didn't just cope, he beat him easily...
...city of Austin may not be able to survive another Texas win. No. 1 has been scrawled on every exposed surface in town, and post-victory celebrations reach near anarchy. For the extra police necessary to cope with the delirious fans, Austin's city fathers have had to shell out $7,500 in overtime pay every Saturday night. Still, no one is complaining. Indeed, when members of the university band strike up The Eyes of Texas Are upon You before the opening kickoff, they are not just tooting their horns...
Prospects are not bright for a rational, peaceful solution to the problem of South Africa. Black Africa is determined that majority rule must come to the country. Sooner or later, South Africa will face guerrilla pressure, although its armed forces could easily cope with the early stages of subversion. But an all-out military threat to South Africa could also bring a threat of Soviet involvement?and a dilemma for the West. Having found their voice at last, the unfranchised blacks of urban South Africa cannot be expected to turn silent again as long as they have legitimate grievances...
...have sworn their willingness to co-exist with bourgeois freedoms in pluralistic societies. Skepticism about the depth of these commitments, which could readily be overturned by future leaders less moderate than Spain's Santiago Carrillo or Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, is warranted. Meanwhile, Moscow tries to cope with the reality of three heretical parties that, alas, simply cannot be excommunicated from the fold...