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...some way of overriding the spending cap imposed by Proposition 2 1/2, schools may not be able to open next September for lack of teachers. Cambridge mayor and school committee chairman Francis H. Duehay '55 says that the system will have to work with the state legislature to modify Prop. 2 1/2 and at the same time find other sources of revenue. Otherwise, the anticipated cuts might "destroy the school system," Duehay adds. Superintendent of schools William C. Lannon, has made much the same forecast for the coming year, explaining that if the school sustain further funding cuts, the system...
...STRONG IRONY marks this Reagan administration "triumph." Although American foreign policymakers seem intent on flaunting the country's military power, they appear intent on flouting the principles of power in international relations. It would not seem to behoove those who pride themselves on their realpolitik to prop up the Royal House of Saud. Or to give Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin further incentive to act intransigently. Or, as a matter of principle, to arrange for others to defend American interests, to trust the kindness of undemocratic regimes while exerting pressure on one of America's few genuine friends...
...Administration is working to combat the far more insidious threat of Libyan subversion of the Sudan. It is trying to prop up the country's faltering economy by offering $100 million in nonmilitary aid this year and enlisting financial help from other nations, especially Saudi Arabia, and the International Monetary Fund. The strategic importance of the Sudan is undeniable: the country controls the headwaters of the Nile. Says one State Department official: "If the Sudan falls, Egypt follows...
Mary Bessington, who retired as master of Cambridge's Fletcher School last year and is making her first run for the school committee, agreed that it was important for the city to press for the right to exceed the spending limits imposed by Prop...