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Colonel Thomas M. Phillips, who heads the program, is even more excited by the fast growth. "In just a few short weeks, Minuteman Tech met and surpassed all viability criteria, and the future of the program seems assured," he wrote in a school newsletter...
INTEGRITY, responsibility, honesty--those sound a little hard to grade. Fortunately, there are objective criteria. "Appearance, now appearance counts quite a bit, the number of times you wear your uniform and all," Henderson explains. The U.S. government provides the uniforms free of charge, small, baggy replicas of real Air Force clothes. More importantly, they provide decorations. At the front of the class, all the pins and badges--right up to four-star general--are glued on a piece of cardboard...
...formulation by all nations, and particularly developing countries, of comprehensive communication policies linked to overall social, cultural, economic and political goals." Another, obviously aimed at the international news agencies, recommends "effective legal measures designed to circumscribe the action of transnationals by requiring them to comply with specific criteria and conditions defined by national development policies." That is an open invitation to discriminatory legislation...
Ominously, UNESCO's threeyear, $625 million budget, which was tabled in Belgrade last week, would fund studies into several pet UNESCO projects opposed by Western newsmen. These include a definition of "socially responsible communication" (implying criteria for news content), the "promotion of ethical principles" for journalists (feared as restricting reportorial freedom) and analyzing "the impact of advertising" (which could lead to a restrictive international advertising code). UNESCO also seems determined to push toward "special protection" for journalists-even though the MacBride report warns that this might involve setting up licensing bodies to determine which journalists should be protected...
...fears, explains Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is the molding of a judiciary with "a monolithic right-wing ideology." It is true that Reagan has made it clear that he would appoint strict constructionists who believe in judicial restraint. But such philosophical criteria are nothing new. Presidents have tried to pick judges who read the Constitution their way since George Washington, who insisted on Federalists for his Supreme Court. President Carter, if reelected, would be no exception. Former Attorney General Griffin Bell says Carter would opt for Supreme Court candidates with progressive civil...