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Recruiting from Tunisia. Although elementary-school teachers are needed most, specialists in such high school subjects as mathematics, science and women's physical education are also scarce. The shortage of high school industrial-arts teachers is "horrendous," says Ohio State Superintendent Martin Essex. Colleges produce few vocational teachers these days, and anyone with mechanical skills can easily triple his teaching salary in industry...
...teachers break contracts until replacements are found. Districts in Georgia and Massachusetts have turned to what they call "two for one" or "platoon" systems, in which two teachers, often housewives with degrees, are hired for each vacancy and each works only half a day. Maine is seeking teachers from Tunisia, Greece and Turkey in a "reverse Peace Corps...
...Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba has long been the Arab world's loudest cham pion of women's rights. In 1956, when Tunisia won its independence, Bourguiba abolished polygamy, made it harder for men to get divorces, and gave women their first, real legal rights. He looked on approvingly as the Moslem veil began to vanish, and he has shown no objection to the new garb of girls who parade gracefully through the narrow streets of Tunis in brief, airy frocks. But one has to draw the line somewhere, and last week Bourguiba did-just below the knee...
...also have had the modesty of women in mind when he deplored the conversion of the old Bey's Palace in nearby Carthage into a swinging, open-air nightclub called the Zéro de Conduite (Zero for Conduct), a favorite of Tunisia's go-go set; on opening night several ministers of state showed up, including Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's Foreign Minister. Now, according to Bourguiba Sr., it is only a bohemian den of iniquity where youngsters "practice a shameful exhibitionism in morbid and degrading dances." With that, Bourguiba ordered the Zéro closed...
...Feisal was talking up the possibility of an "Islamic" summit meeting next March that would theoretically include all Moslems, but clearly had the aim of rallying anti-Nasser leaders into a single alliance. So far, Feisal has strong support from non-Arab but strongly Moslem Iran, as well as Tunisia; he also enjoys sympathy from Jordan, Morocco and Kuwait. This month the King plans to visit Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel and, in September, Morocco's King Hassan II and possibly Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba...