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Chalk one up for mischievous schoolchildren. Britain's House of Commons last week struck down a longtime classroom practice: punishment by the cane. The bill abolishing corporal punishment in state-run schools passed by a bare 231 to 230. An earlier version would have retained caning while allowing parents to exempt their children from the practice, but critics charged that the measure would divide students into "beatables" and "unbeatables." Last week's final approval came despite the Education Minister's warning that "the abolition of corporal punishment would send out wrong signals...
...clearest indications has been the transformation of IRI, a vast state-run conglomerate that dates back to Mussolini. The 1,079 firms in IRI's portfolio include Alfa Romeo, Alitalia airline and Banca Commerciale Italiana, the country's second-largest bank. While this leviathan was losing nearly $2 billion a year, previous governments had been reluctant to touch it. Craxi encouraged IRI's new president, Romano Prodi, to take bold action. He promptly laid off 47,000 unionized workers and raised more than $3 billion by selling all or part of 35 companies and other holdings...
...remarks were reported by East German television. The state-run network filmed Gorbachev's speech in a machine tool factory in a suburb of East Berlin and translated his Russian words into German...
...Boston Globe headlined Mayor Ray Flynn vowing that he would personally see to it that the laid-off employees kept their jobs--even if it meant the city itself buying out the plant. The gesture and publicity ensured at least that the workers would be immediately accommodated in state-run retraining programs...
...directors of a state-run finance company reportedly gave low-interest loans to all of their rich friends...