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Princip swallowed his cyanide pill, but it did him little harm. Neither did the authorities who convicted him of murder but could not execute him because he was a minor. Sentenced to 20 years, he died of tuberculosis in prison in 1918. By then, the war that started with a punitive Austrian attack on Serbia had bled all of Europe white. But Princip's deed did finally achieve its purpose. In the redrawing of maps that followed the war, the Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved into fragments; both Serbia and Bosnia were included in the new state of Yugoslavia...
Educators dispute the Education Department's use of statistics. Each month, the "Disorder" report contended, 282,000 students are physically attacked on school premises, 1,000 teachers are assaulted seriously enough to require medical attention, and 125,000 teachers are threatened with bodily harm. But the figures are out of date, gathered by the National Institute of Education between 1975 and 1977. Indeed, in an N.E.A. survey of its members last year, only 45% of the teachers questioned thought that discipline was a major problem, against 74% in a 1979 survey...
...volunteer military. Under an ERA, women probably would, and certainly should, be subject to a draft. Defending one's country is neither a feminine nor a masculine issue. It is simply a duty that should be shared equally by all, and excluding women from combat positions would not harm that spirit in the slightest...
...Shavuos case is a perfect chance for Harvard to behave better. The harm is done as far as rescheduling goes, though the University is unquestionably at fault for not correcting the problem last year while it still could. For now, it should acknowledge and apologize for the slight to a segment of the community, perhaps by printing announcements in Commencement programs; it should do its best through alternative ceremonies and additional functions the next day to ease the effects of the conflict: and it should now promise in certain terms that next time the holiday and the Harvard formula conflict...
Differing sharply with Reich was the Brookings Institution's Charles L. Schultze, President Carter's chief economist. Any attempt at industrial policy, said Schultze, is more likely to do harm than good. While he approved Government support of research and development and Government-financed job-retraining programs, Schultze warned that a "coordination" program would almost surely increase protectionism and unwarranted subsidies. Said he: "A Government agency that explicitly tries to sit there and say, 'The cotton industry can live but the wool-textile industry will die' or 'The Youngstown steel plant can be rehabilitated...