Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EDUCATION: Taking aim at the nation's schools...
...well-orchestrated protests were more a publicity gesture than a serious attempt to impede lumbering operations. Forest rangers and police largely ignored the climbers. But they did manage to focus renewed public attention on an issue that has been simmering for years: logging of the nation's "old- growth" forests...
...Silber scored a double coup over neighboring + Harvard by playing host to Presidents George Bush and Francois Mitterrand of France at B.U.'s graduation exercises. Next month Silber's precedent-setting experiment at running the troubled public schools of Chelsea, Mass., gets under way in the glare of national publicity. And in a forthcoming book called Straight Shooting (Harper & Row; $22.50), Silber takes some potshots at the shortcomings of the nation's educational system...
...NATION: The U.S. mulls widening the drug fight into a new jungle...
Activists from the radical conservation group Earth First take to the treetops to protest logging in the nation's few remaining tracts of old-growth woodland...