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Political observers see the introduction of standardized testing as the latest move in China's campaign to modernize rapidly through building up a technocratic, managerial elite, ending Mao's long-term efforts to eradicate all hierarchy and status inequalities even at the cost of slower growth and inefficiency. Experts also note the testing may be evidence of growing strength within the Chinese hierarchy by the backers of Teng-hsiao Ping, who was intrigued by the massive test-administering bureaucracy he saw when he visited the U.S. Hua Kuo-feng is a known foe of SATS, and the establishment...
Rounding out this weekend's traveling squad are veterans Rich Corrado in the 142-lb, class. Alex Montgomery and Mark Cocalis at 150 and 167 lbs, respectively and co-captain Doug Mason. Mason's recovery from last year's long-term virus is a definite plus. Always a bright spot in the program over the past three years, he fills the 158 slot solidly...
...Soviets concede privately that, in the longer term, the turmoil in Iran has potentially worrisome consequences for the U.S.S.R. Islamic fundamentalism is anathema to Communism, and the Ayatullah is religiously akin to the Muslims of Soviet Central Asia just across the border. On the other hand, the National Security Council last week pondered the possibility that anarchy in Iran could lead to a radical leftist takeover. No doubt the same possibility has occurred to Iran watchers in Moscow. That helps explain the ambiguity of Soviet behavior so far: provocative Farsi-language broadcasts from a Soviet radio station in Baku, combined...
Hartwick asked to play Columbia today because the College is on a trimester system and the first term just ended this week. Hartwick athletic director James Konstanty argued that if the game was played today a number of students would remain on campus to attend, but if the game were put off until Tuesday, most students would leave...
Four New York bond trading houses have failed. One of the victims is Frederick Gorsetman, 34, who, riding along with rising bond business in August 1978, opened his own firm. But when the Federal Reserve drove up short-term interest rates, his firm had to absorb devastating losses on bonds that no one would buy. After three weeks of harried days on Wall Street and sleepless nights in his Riverside Drive apartment, Gorsetman closed his ofiice's front door. Although he is now looking for another job on Wall Street, he says bitterly, "The market stinks...