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...When schoolchildren at Southern California's Antelope Valley High play hooky, they often are in hot water by bedtime. Every afternoon at 5:15 the school's computer begins phoning 30-second reports to the parents of youngsters who have skipped class that day. After a year of operation, the machine has helped bring down the truancy rate...
Still, with a landmass of 8.6 million sq. mi. and a population of 271 million, the Soviet Union would present logistical problems for even the most efficient police organization. The KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful largely because Soviet citizens police one another. Schoolchildren are taught to revere Pavlik Morozov, a 13-year-old who was murdered by enraged villagers during the forced collectivization of farms in the early 1930s after he informed local Communist authorities that his father was sheltering more prosperous peasants. Few Soviets today would be likely to follow young Pavlik's example...
...calls it perhaps "the most egregious, aggravated case of race discrimination" his office has ever prosecuted. The statistical evidence is stark. The 1980 census found only 74 blacks in a population of 61,232, despite the fact that adjacent Chicago is 40% black. Not one of Cicero's schoolchildren is black. Nor are any of its 400 municipal workers, since Cicero requires that its employees live there for a year before they can be hired...
...improving. Says a chilling report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessments: "Lifelong retraining is expected to become the norm for many people." There is already considerable evidence that the schoolchildren now being educated in the use of computers are generally the children of the white middle class. Young blacks, whose unemployment rate stands today at 50%, will find another barrier in front of them...
...appropriations bills dangling, and a Government funded only by continuing resolution. The lameduck session probably will be asked to vote on Reagan-backed proposals to replace the public housing subsidy program with a voucher system, and to shave $1 billion from Title I, the main federal program for schoolchildren from poor families. The cut would mean that 2.5 million of the 5.4 million children currently served by the program would no longer be eligible...