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Alfred W.H. Spencer Strasbourg, France...
...around his neck. Two Bundestag Deputies played soccer in the aisles. From the podium, a man in a clown suit complained that the conference was interfering with Carnival, West Germany's annual spasm of pre-Lenten revelry. A delegate suggested that male candidates for the European Parliament in Strasbourg, whose nomination was the purpose of the meeting, should "undress and present themselves in the nude because the human body reveals political attitudes." Keynote Speaker Antje Vollmer railed against the "industrialized nature-destroying internationalism of neocolonialist nation states." Finally, the proceedings were disrupted by a gang of youths in punk...
...early education itself really desirable? Does the discovery that a young child can absorb large quantities of knowledge require that it be stuffed like a Strasbourg goose? There were social reasons for launching Project Head Start in the 1960s to get poor children into preschool programs. Most psychologists engaged in the new research, however, are strongly opposed to any formal schooling before the age of three or four, even if the child is capable of it. "We know that babies are coming into the world with a lot more sophisticated skills than we had previously thought...
...would like to know another profession that has worked for the same wages for 14 years." The city council has agreed to consider the prostitutes' petition. If it is denied, promises Josephine, she and her colleagues will take their case to the European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg...
DIED. Humphrey Waldock, 77, British president of the United Nations International Court of Justice; of a heart attack; in The Hague. A former Oxford professor and president of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Ceylon-born Waldock presided over the U.N. court's May 1980 decision calling for the release of the U.S. hostages from Iran...