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Some members of the Reagan administration appointed in recent months with Bush's approval are expected to stay on in the Bush administration. President-elect Bush announced Tuesday that his friend Nicholas Brady will remain as Treasury Secretary. It is also believed that Richard L. Thornburgh, the former Pennsylvania governor now on leave as director of the K-Schoo's Institute of Politics (IOP), will remain the Attorney General...
Although she is taking a break from politics, Williams says she intends to remain abreast of developments in England and looks ahead to the next general election in 1991 or 1992. "I don't see myself as having left home, and I will return to England at least once a month," she says...
...Washington, President Reagan said implicit PLO recognition of Israel "would be some progress," but added: "There are other problems that remain to be solved...
...furlough policy used by Massachusetts went beyond the boundaries of common sense. Unlike other states and the Federal Government, which usually employ furloughs to gradually acclimate prisoners near the end of their sentences to living outside the walls, Massachusetts granted weekend leaves to convicts whom judges had condemned to remain behind bars until they died. Horton is precisely the sort of criminal that people have in mind when they say someone should lock him up and throw away...
Earnings, or the lack thereof, have much to do with the exodus. During the 1970s, while salaries in other fields soared, teachers' pay fell 15% in real dollars. In some states starting salaries remain as low as $13,000. In Mississippi social-studies teacher Jewelie Brown makes only $22,200 after 31 years in the classroom. Californian Ken Capie does better: $41,000 after 30 years, but that is still $3,000 less than his 25-year-old son's starting salary as an engineer...