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...After a frustrating day with negotiators in Jerusalem, Kissinger offers to recess the talks-but the Israelis present new concessions...
...vote on the matter by July 31. If articles of impeachment are approved, Nixon will be given a month to plan his defense, enabling the Senate to begin the trial by Sept. 3-the day after Labor Day. Although the Senators will meet six days a week with no recess for the fall campaigns, the leaders are not certain a verdict can be reached by Election Day, Nov. 5. At all costs, they want to keep the trial from going on into next year, when the 93rd Congress expires and the 94th begins. If that happens, some congressional experts believe...
Kept Apart. As a show of support for the "Hortonville 84" - as the fired teachers call themselves - 500 Wisconsin teachers poured into town over the Easter recess, staging a mass march and blocking traffic with sitdowns. They were greeted by a truckload of self-styled vigilantes and a group of farmers, who met them at the school with canes and broom handles. Police managed to keep the two sides apart, but the ten days of turmoil resulted in 73 arrests (nearly all for obstructing law officers, with a few for disorderly conduct...
...discipline is enforced by the paddle-often administered by Kellner-and every day from five to 20 children may be held after school in a detention room for "character training," designed to curb unruly behavior. Neatly dressed students move about only on passes and line up single file for recess. Says Board Member Henry Myers, a chemical engineer: "This is my idea of the way basic education should be carried out. Parents are fed up with violence, vandalism, poor teaching and permissiveness. They want their kids to be disciplined and to learn the basics-how to count, spell, read...
Barret called the omission of a time limit an "honest mistake" and his firm had caught the discrepancy earlier yesterday. He said the advertisement was directed to students who attend schools which recess around May 10. "Most students go on vacation as soon as they get out of school," he said...