Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some never find salvation or happiness. San Francisco has the highest suicide rate and one of the highest alcoholism rates in the nation. Despite constant closed-circuit television monitoring, there have been 642 known fatal leaps from the Golden Gate Bridge. Last week, after the horror in Jonestown, the Suicide Prevention Center reported that the number of calls from desperate citizens had increased...
...sense Carter seems at last to have experienced "his Bay of Pigs," the kind of crisis that historians tell us bares the true stuff of Presidents, forcing them to search out the bedrock of their own convictions, to urge the nation toward the same conclusions, to make decisions that totally involve the presidential mind and heart; decisions that, if waffled later, could produce national trauma and personal political eclipse...
...week's end Chinese authorities appeared to be putting the lid on this unprecedented outburst of free expression, which was seemingly confined to the country's capital. One poster went up saying that informal exchanges between foreigners and the masses should be ended for the sake of national unity. Gradually, the crowds at "democracy wall" grew smaller and less demonstrative. Yet even if there were no more public challenges to Maoist orthodoxy, foreign observers were left with two distinct impressions. One was that Peking's outbreak of poster politics had been tacitly authorized by the leadership...
...federal judges and how merit should be made the standard have never been as hotly debated or as important as now. Last October Congress passed the Omnibus Judgeship Act, creating 152 new federal judgeships, the largest one-shot increase ever. Given normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character...
...school system lost an eight-year legal battle against a federal order for reassignment of teachers and principals to increase integration. Hannon thereupon transferred 3,500 teachers and principals in an integration program that Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano called "a model for the nation." But last month a federal judge declared the scheme unconstitutional because it exempted teachers over age 55, thereby discriminating against younger teachers. Meanwhile, Hannon has ignored a recommendation from the school board's City-Wide Advisory Committee, made up of church, labor and business groups, that the schools prepare a contingency plan...