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...Chinese Government announced Thursday that candidates not affiliated with the official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had won 38 per cent of the vote in Peking district elections...
Throughout the trial, Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk County assistant district attorney, argued that the three defendants attacked the Harvard students on November 16, 1976, as part of a plan to help prostitutes rob pedestrians...
Meanwhile, across the continent, a judge has just given a boost to one group of testing reformers. In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham last month ruled that California could not use the common Stanford-Binet IQ test to screen pupils for placement in a special program for the "educable mentally retarded." California's EMR program is 25% black, although blacks make up only 10% of the statewide school population. Even under the improbable assumption that black children have 50% more mental retardation than white children, said Peckham, the EMR enrollment pattern had just one chance...
FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT by Mavis Gallant Random House; 243 pages...