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...only national study of bilingual ed was completed in 1977 by the California-based American Institutes for Research. After studying 11,500 students over two years, researchers found that children in bilingual programs did no better at learning English or anything else than non-English-speaking students thrust into regular classes-except for a slight edge in elementary math. Proponents of bilingualism, including Hufstedler, regard the report not only as inadequate but out of date. Says Rudolph Troike, director of the office of multicultural bilingual education at the University of Illinois: "The payoff of bilingual education doesn't show...
When the crown was thrust upon her shy, stuttering husband after Edward's 1936 abdication, she promised, "We'll do the best we can." Her best was exemplified by a wartime courage that won the lasting devotion of the British. When London's East End was pummeled nightly by bombs, the King and Queen toured blitzed neighborhoods. Elizabeth's reaction when Buckingham Palace was first bombed: "I'm glad it happened-now I can look the East...
...thrust forward, spoiling for a fight, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did not mince any words. "It is no good dreaming about U-turns," she shouted at the Labor M.P.s who had been demanding a radical reversal of her economic policies. "Far from demoralizing the country, we are doing what the country elected us to do, and this government will have the guts to see it through." The buoyant show of indomitability was occasioned last week by a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, the second called by the opposition in five months. The outcome was never...
...region that looks particularly promising for Republican gains among working people is the South. That is the thrust of a memo written to Reagan by one of his Southern strategists, Lee Atwater, who thinks the blue-collar workers hold the balance of power in the area. If they could be converted, the South could eventually be solid, he concludes, for Republicanism. Some evidence supporting this view comes from Texas, where the G.O.P. primary contest between Reagan and Bush drew a record 510,000 people to the polls. Says Reagan's Texas strategist Ernest Angelo: "There was just a greater degree...
...main thrust occurred at the two border camps just north of Aranyaprathet. The camps, at Non Mak Mun and Nong Chan, had long been a source of annoyance to the Vietnamese. Non Mak Mun was the headquarters of a Khmer Serei group known as the National Liberation Front of Cambodia. Nong Chan was the main dispersal point for the "land bridge" program, operated by international relief agencies, that distributed rice, seed and other supplies inside Cambodia. The camps were also the sites of huge jungle black markets, where smugglers bought sarongs, watches, cigarettes and other consumer goods for resale...