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...massacre, Gambian President Sir Dawda Jawara, the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, which had organized the peacekeeping force, asked troops to intercede in the evacuation of Doe loyalists who had barricaded themselves inside the presidential mansion. Two weeks ago, ECOWAS representatives met in Ghana to select an interim government for Liberia, to be led by Amos Sawyer, a political scientist who in 1984 drafted the country's present constitution. Both Nimley and Johnson have indicated their willingness to turn power over to Sawyer once he has been installed in Monrovia...
Tallahassee will join a select group of cities in the world with magnetic laboratories, according to Jack Crow, director of the Florida consortium. Others include Moscow; Amsterdam; Grenoble, France, and cities in Poland and Japan...
According to the statement, the search committee will select a successor to President Derek C. Bok by February or March...
...that would give parents as much as a $2,500 tuition tax credit for each child in a private or religiously affiliated school. Already, students statewide in Minnesota as well as in such widely praised individual school districts as Cambridge, Mass., and New York City's East Harlem can select which public schools they will attend. These are grass- roots manifestations of a political idea that is rapidly gaining momentum and, if fully implemented, holds the potential to radically transform American public education...
Whenever they choose candidates for the Supreme Court, Presidents must decide whether to select known quantities whose votes they believe they can reliably predict or to go with gifted independents, putting faith in their judgment if not their loyalty. Americans will learn which category Souter fits into only if they see his rulings on the court. For that matter, Souter himself may not know until then...