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...recess. Says Board Member Henry Myers, a chemical engineer: "This is my idea of the way basic education should be carried out. Parents are fed up with violence, vandalism, poor teaching and permissiveness. They want their kids to be disciplined and to learn the basics-how to count, spell, read and write...
...basic issues could not be simpler-even though they have taken 8½ months, more than 800 official exhibits and 18,500 pages of court testimony to spell out. Indeed, the federal court suit against Reserve Mining Co. has become the classic pollution case because it poses so sharply the questions of whether or not damage to a region's environment is worse than damage to the same region's economy, and of who should pay for cleaning up pollution. Ten plaintiffs, including the Federal Government and the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, want a Reserve plant...
...After two months of intense psychological pressure, Patty was brainwashed into joining her captors and willingly participated in the robbery. To FBI investigators last week, this seemed the most likely theory. Experts on terrorism say that women victims can fall under the spell of their captors, sometimes to the point of forming quasi-love relationships. And some psychiatrists believe that Patty's taped messages indicate that she is not a strong personality and might have been swayed under the strain and terror she has had to endure. Support for that conjecture came last week from Bank Guard Shea, who said...
Only last month United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim returned from a tour of drought-stricken African states and declared that several of the six nations of the Sahelian strip just beneath the Sahara could literally disappear as a result of the devastation spread by a six-year dry spell. Last week, in landlocked Niger, a military coup toppled the democratic government that President Hamani Diori, 57, had conscientiously administered since he led his people to independence from France in 1960. Though the coup was largely bloodless, three people were reported killed, including Diori's wife, who was shot...
Lucas Alexander, the doctor who has been Martha's old flame, comes to join her in the Golden Age ghetto, and without a false touch of pathos, Miss Douglas writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...