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...communities are braced for the challenge of multilingualism. At Salina Elementary School in the shadow of the hulking Ford Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, 90% of the students are native speakers of Arabic. Academically, many of them lag far behind other students in the district. Earlier this year, spurred by the possibility of a five-year, $5 million federal grant, school superintendent Jeremy Hughes proposed forming a two-way Arabic-English program. Not only was the proposal rejected by the local board of education after heated public criticism, but it opened the way for a wholesale attack on bilingual...
...state government seems questionable to begin with -- or at least an occasion for special vigilance. But at least one more specific potential conflict has been turned up by TIME. In 1983, Madison Guaranty sought state approval, over the objections of a rival S&L, to open a branch in Salina County. A six-member board established to decide such cases had a temporary vacancy. Governor Clinton sent a letter to one Dick Fisch (nobody today recalls anything about him) appointing Fisch a "special member . . . to specifically hear" the Madison case. The board, including Fisch, voted to approve Madison's application...
During the summers between his college years, Restic was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Playing for a farm team in Salina, Ks., a medium-sized city about 15 miles from Ike Eisenhower's hometown, he had the experience of striking out Mickey Mantle, then a player for the Yankees' Joplin, Mo. farm team. Unbeknownst to him, however, his pro play was illegal given his school-year activities at Villanova, an infringement he paid for by forfeiting two years of eligibility at the college...
...dose of family doctrine: "Waste not, want not." Right then another remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most renowned and innovative agriculture researchers, founded the Land Institute in Salina, Kans., in search of perennial prairie grain crops that will halt the wasting of the planet...
...kinds of places to turn to. Rape treatment clinics, shelters for battered wives, and centers for abused children have sprung up across the country. Legal procedures appear to have made prosecution easier. The problems are coming out of the closet in surprising places: in the small Plains city of Salina (pop. 42,600), the Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas gets around 100 "crisis calls" a month...