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...English-language Athens News (circ. 6,000). He not only prints statements by opposition politicians but also punctuates stories with blunt editor's notes ("We demand an explanation from the regime on this"). Last October Horn headlined a story on Spiro Agnew's visit: BOMBS, RECRUITED SCHOOLCHILDREN...
...Metco study might have been based on groups of students who "are not truly representative of the full population of bused students and their matched siblings." Metco Chief Robert Hayden, for one, declared that Armor had ignored elementary school youngsters, the majority in Metco, in favor of secondary schoolchildren who in many cases had already developed hostile reactions to white prejudice...
Besides emphasis on sports for the masses, there is a continuous sifting of East German talents that begins in some parts of the country at preschool age. In elementary school, sports rank in importance with the three Rs; four hours' participation a week is compulsory. Most schoolchildren from the age of six to 18 also participate in the Sparta-ciades, a series of sports contests on local, regional and national levels that culminates in a kind of domestic Olympic Games every two years...
Meanwhile, back in the city, parents alarmed about the increasing number of muggings of schoolchildren on Manhattan's Upper East Side have formed a vigilante group to patrol the streets. The climate of terror suggests that, taking their lead from their neighbors in Scarsdale, the vigilantes may find that the best way to stamp out mugging is to stamp the muggers, possibly across the forehead, so that victims can tell police: "I was just mugged...
Viennese adults, proud of their culture and heritage, are seemingly oblivious to their uncivilized behavior in automobiles. Not so their children. Asked by Vienna's mass-circulation Kurier to submit letters describing the driving habits of their fathers, several hundred schoolchildren, aged 9 to 14, handed down a nearly unanimous verdict: the Viennese male, normally mild-mannered, becomes a raging brute behind the wheel...