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...dearly held goals of the Reagan Administration has been to provide financial relief for parents sending children to private schools. But even the plan's most fervent supporters have worried that it might not withstand a constitutional challenge. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld laws permitting states to provide secular textbooks to both private and public schools and to pay for transporting students to private as well as public academies, it has regularly struck down other forms of aid. Reason: since so many private schools are connected to a religion, most public assistance leads to a forbidden entanglement...
...swath along jumbled Olympic Boulevard. They seem eager to become full-fledged American bourgeois, holding golf tournaments and staging beauty contests. According to L.A. Demographer Eui-Young Eu of California State University, 40% of the area's documented Koreans own their homes. Most are fervent Protestants. Koreatown has some 400 churches. Ironically, younger Koreans are more likely to commit crimes than any other Asian nationality...
...reassured the graduating seniors whose generation has often been characterized as apathetic that their commitment is no less fervent than that of Trudeau's contemporaries, "the generation that took to the street...
Among the most fervent of Ronald Reagan's campaign supporters were far-right special-interest groups, particularly antiabortion activists. Yet the Reagan Administration has worked only halfheartedly in Congress for laws that would permit organized school prayer, stop busing and ban abortion, and none of that social agenda has been passed. Still, the President periodically pays lip service to the right wing's priority issues...
...Social Security rescue bill last Wednesday. Three codgers, who together have spent more than two centuries on this planet, assembled on the chilled South Lawn of the White House. Ronald Reagan, 72, signed cheerfully. Thomas P. O'Neill, 70, spoke passionately. Congressman Claude Pepper, 82, gave his fervent blessing. Three months ago they were ready to choke one another. Now they smiled...