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Regulatory Ire. Kennedy's bill is a 33-page proposal for a variety of safety measures, including double bottoms for new tankers as small as 20,000 tons and a satellite monitoring setup that would keep track of tankers and other ships up to 200 miles offshore. Brooke is pushing for similar legislation and argued that if such a system had been in existence in December the Argo Merchant could have been spotted-and warned...
...students find this disadvantage displeasing. Bernard Harris '79 said yesterday he was happy with the people and rooming setup at the Quad, where he yesterday he was happy with the people and rooming setup at the Quad, where he lives, adding he had no desire to move
...talk among the several gathered members of the Vise group is less than conciliatory. "We're going to resist them every inch of the way," says Mike Curtin, one of the arrested students, who has met Bechtel earlier this morning. "They've committed themselves to a quasi-legal setup; now we're going to turn it all loose...
...deepening confrontation to negotiation, the Russians were firing rhetorical broadsides from the sidelines, as if the trauma of another siege of shuttle diplomacy were almost more than they could bear. They accused the U.S. of "gimmickry" and of seeking to preserve "not only racial oppression, but the entire neocolonialist setup in Africa...
...E.C.E. class, a descendant of the British "open-school" concept, replaces a front-and-center teacher and rows of students' desks with scattered work areas, each devoted to a different subject. Lessons in reading, math and, say, art may thus take place simultaneously. Teachers have found the new setup difficult at times, but after adjusting to it and the presence of aides, many have found it a good change. Says one: "I've never worked so hard, but the children are more interested in learning and the classrooms are much more pleasant...