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Over the past century, the organized bar in the U.S. has waged a relentless and effective campaign against lay judges. In Vermont, which is still governed by a part-time legislature where lawyers are in a minority, most efforts to curtail the assistant judges' power through legislation have failed...
...Zimbabwe won approval of a resolution banning all visits by foreign journalists who are based in South Africa, except by specific invitation. Since almost all reporting on Zimbabwe is done by 90 foreign correspondents who work in South Africa, the ban's immediate effect will be to sharply curtail coverage of the country...
...Draper Laboratories, which receives $116 million a year in nuclear weapons-related contracts, to cease work on defense systems. With the recent growth of the anti-nuclear movement, Nuclear Free Cambridge has finally received well over the 3800 signatures needed to put a referendum on the November ballot to curtail or eliminate defense work in Cambridge. The signatures have not yet been verified, but they are expected to clear the minimum when checked...
Some kind of turbulence had seemed imminent ever since French students fathomed the implications of an almost impenetrable, 68-article scheme for restructuring French education, proposed last September by Education Minister Alain Savary. The plan threatens, for example, to curtail subjects like art restoration and comparative Literature that are not deemed useful to society. As originally drafted, moreover, it suggests that all high school graduates be allowed to enter a university. Some 75% of them would be eliminated through competitive exams after two years, thus implicitly encouraging students to pursue technical training. The protesters also object to a provision that...
...current reform proposals, already approved by the faculty's executive committee and awaiting a full faculty vote which most expect to be affirmative, will curtail some of the flexibility. Students will be required to remain on campus for their full freshman and senior years, so experimentation in innovative scheduling will be limited to sophomore and junior years. The summer session requirement will remain...