Word: publicize
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...person convicted, or even suspected, of dealing or using drugs. Moreover, anyone who shared the apartment with the drug offender could also be ousted. Mary Brunette, Kemp's spokeswoman, pooh-poohs the civil liberties questions raised by that policy. Says she: "The rights of law-abiding families in public housing are at least as important as the rights of criminals...
...what about the rights of law-abiding family members whose relatives are accused of a drug offense? Should they be held culpable for the crime? "We're concerned about those who might be innocent and evicted," says Wade Henderson of the A.C.L.U. "The next step from public housing for many people is homelessness." Kemp's desire to rid the projects of drug dealers and encourage parental vigilance is commendable. But the strategy he unveiled last week seems likely to provoke legal challenges that could hamper its implementation -- and throw some innocent tenants out on the street...
...even found that 17% of the country wants the return of the monarchy. Seeking new heroes, Mitterrand said last week that he will place in the Pantheon, France's national mausoleum, the remains of the Marquis de Condorcet, an influential leader of the National Assembly who called for universal public education, and of the Abbe Gregoire, a revolutionary priest who advocated civil rights for Protestants and Jews...
What is it about Texas politicians and greed? First there was the furor over John Tower's defense contracting, and now the Jim Wright scandal. Hark back to John Connally's tangled legal history, and recall the get-rich-on-the-public- payroll legacy of Lyndon Johnson. On the national stage, those Texans who have avoided this moral indictment seem to be those who were born rich, like George Bush or Senator Lloyd Bentsen...
Child-welfare groups and educators in several areas are mounting public- education campaigns aimed at stopping the "report-card reflex." The programs, modeled after one begun in Houston by the Child Abuse Prevention Council, use newspaper ads, TV and radio announcements, school flyers mailed to students' homes and brochures inserted into report cards. All these materials contain the same basic message for parents: raising voices or fists is not the answer to raising grades...