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...everyone, of course, is angry over the proposal. The 33-page bill, sched uled for a Senate Energy Committee hearing this week, is intended to brake the upward winter of U.S. gas prices. The rise sparked a spate of protests this winter by adding about 25% to the average residential user's rates, despite an oversupply of gas and a drop in the cost of heating...
LEGISLATORS AND EDUCATORS finally took steps in the right direction last week towards addressing one of the most dangerous problems confronting American society today--the alarming shortage of mathematics and science teachers in secondary schools. A spate of new proposals would reverse the decline in math and science teaching--both in numbers of teachers and quality of those entering the profession--by retraining teachers from other fields and by making teaching jobs more attractive. Although the new measures are to be lauded, they still fail to deal with the reason for the shortage, namely, the ridiculously low salary level...
...with most of the recent spate of "peace" organizations, the Greens misunderstand entirely the basic premise of deterrence and the reality of the Soviet threat. Acting as if the real danger to Europe is not the 350 Soviet SS-20's aimed at all major military installations and cities in Western Europe, but the American Pershing II and Cruise missiles about to be deployed to deter Soviet Hawkishness, the Greens demand that West Germany refuse to allow the new American weapons on its soil. The very threat of deployment has driven the Soviets to the bargaining table in Geneva...
...official at the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated last summer that executions will be stepped up in the next two years, and may approach the frequency of the Depression era, when there were three executions a week. Any attempt to stop the spate of killings must begin quickly. Public debate has nearly ended--the Times buried Brooks' execution on page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with signs saying "Kill...
Despite severe fiscal woes, public television should make it through the next month to bring viewers a spate of high quality productions--most more cultural in nature than the network offerings. Broadcast dates will vary according to each station's schedules...