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Despite the optimism about the future of public education and education schools, administrators acknowledge that a large number of people have doubts about public education. As part of a recent series about public education in Newsweek, a'Gallup poll showed that almost half of the respondents thought public schools were doing only a fair or poor job. Fifty-nine per cent said teachers should be better trained. But in the first sentence of its article. Newsweek acknowledged that "the odd thing is that the public schools are probably getting better...
...office manager of the Hasty Pudding Club, has lost none of his preppy aplomb in the face of this nouveau nuisance. "I find it slightly tiresome that people who come from different backgrounds compensate by dressing in a way they don't come by naturally," he drawled to Newsweek. "I have a bit of casual contempt for these people...
...massacres in the Morazon district alone are not new. Since security forces launched "clean-up operations" --offensives against leftist guerrillas in Morazon and Chalatenango provinces--last October, hundreds of innocent peasants have been murdered. A nun working in Morazon was quoted in the January 19, 1981 issue of Newsweek that 200 persons were killed every week...
DIED. Olivier Rebbot, 31, French freelance photographer; of injuries received on Jan. 15 when he was shot by a sniper in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, while on assignment for Newsweek; in Hialeah, Fla. Rebbot was the second journalist to be killed and the third to be wounded this year in the civil strife in El Salvador. Another, American Freelance Writer John J. Sullivan, is missing and presumed dead...
...captives were allowed only heavily censored accounts of what was going on in the outside world. Stories about Iran and their plight were torn out of magazines, including TIME and Newsweek, that were circulated to the prisoners, but the guards did not censor the tables of contents, so the hostages could tell what stories were missing. Petty indignities continued to the very end. Richard Ode, at 64 the oldest hostage, had his shoes taken away the day he was captured. He shuffled about barefoot or in socks until he was about to board the plane taking him to freedom...