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...Steinmetz Scholars Scandal...
...seemed too good to be true last month when students from Chicago's working-class Steinmetz High School won a prestigious state academic competition with unprecedentedly high scores. And it was too good to be true: the city's board of education announced last week that several students had admitted cheating with a stolen test copy-and that one had even impersonated and served as a judge...
...billion over five years. Programs that provide food during the summer and to preschoolers in child care would be slashed 45% in fiscal 1996. "It's a complete retrenchment from the federal role to ensure that poor children in this country receive nutrition assistance," says Susan Steinmetz, director of the welfare-reform division at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, an advocacy group for the poor. "One couldn't imagine a more ill-advised proposal. It's amazing...
...cease-fire to the R.A.F. Its leaders responded by promising to stop murdering high government and business officials. The overture, though, led to a lapse by the terrorists: they made contact with leftist sympathizers, who might serve as go-betweens in talks with the government. One was Klaus Steinmetz, 33. What the R.A.F. did not know was that Steinmetz had been a police informant for several years...
...made further contacts among the Red Army Faction leadership and on June 27 told GSG-9 he was to meet Hogefeld and Grams at the Bad Kleinen station. While Steinmetz and his R.A.F. companions sat talking in the station / restaurant, 54 officers deployed around the building to close in as the three departed. The police botched the job. When they pounced, they grabbed Hogefeld and Steinmetz, believing him to be Grams. Instead of fleeing, though, Grams drew a pistol from his waistband and opened fire. One officer was wounded; a second fell dead. Officers saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" from...