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...faith in increasing federal aid to education, which currently runs around $20 billion a year. The extra money, and some of the present aid, would be used to prompt changes in the system. Samples: Senator Joseph Biden would lengthen the academic year by 30 days; Congressman Richard Gephardt would reward school districts that show the most improvement; Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis would intensify federal efforts to help recruit and train teachers. When Gephardt asserted that educational reform "is going to take money -- I think all of us would agree," no Democrat dissented...
...meanwhile proposes automatic rookie and second-year salaries of $60,000 and $70,000 on top of uniform college draft bonuses ranging from $500,000 for the first pick ($400,000 for the second, $350,000 for the third) down to $5,000 for the last. The better to reward veterans, says the Management Council's long-standing director, Jack Donlan. The union is cynical. Says Wisconsin Senate-hopeful Ed Garvey, who broke former Raider Lineman Gene Upshaw into the job of labor leader: "In 1982 I honestly had the feeling there would never be another football strike...
Soon after that, he began to write messages, sometimes in his own blood, promising a $10,000 reward to anyone who would help rescue him. He wrote nine such notes, scribbling some of them on the pages of a prayer book supplied by his captors, and pushing them out through the opening in a wall fan. His kidnapers found the ninth note. They warned him that if he made such a "mistake" again, they would kill him. Then they moved him to another location, the one at which he plotted his successful escape...
...letters. You walk into houses, the radio is blasting, the TV is blasting, and babies are crawling on the floor. I really think a lot of the answers are in early childhood." He finishes his list of ills with the failure of communities and the nation to train and reward good teachers properly. "We don't want to pay or respect them," he says. Hence, "we're not attracting the teachers we should...
...restore peace. California Assemblyman Paul Zeltner announced he would introduce legislation requiring a minimum three-year prison sentence and permanent revocation of the driver's license of any person caught shooting from a car. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of roadway gunmen. Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn vowed to jail all gun-toting motorists. Said Hahn: "People are going to start learning that this isn't the wild West anymore...