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Stop Payments. One basis of Fulbright's two-year-old campaign is that the stations, instead of being the private organizations that they claimed to be, were actually supported by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last spring the Nixon Administration ordered the CIA to stop its payments and proposed the creation of a public-private corporation similar to COMSAT that would run the two stations under congressional scrutiny. But Fulbright has created a deadlock between the House and Senate over bills that would keep the stations alive until this or some other new arrangement could be worked...
...when he found a two-year-old Ibo child cowering in some bushes, its parents lying dead near by, he personally nursed the boy back to health. After keeping some Biafran army brasshats cooling their heels outside his caravan one night, Steiner emerged soaked with sweat and water. "I have been bathing my baby," he declared deadpan. In contrast to this episode, a trembling young Arab woman whom Steiner held captive in the Sudan testified at his trial that he had snatched her baby and thrown it in a river...
Correspondence Courses. Anne and her husband Johannes, 35. who have a two-year-old son Olvar, share the job of packer in a drug supply firm. "Our employer doesn't mind at all," says Johannes, "as long as there is always one Bulko signing in in the morning." In fact, it was Johannes who minded at first: "I was scared I would lose my masculinity if I did the housework and changed the baby's nappies. But that soon changed." Anne calls the new arrangement "marvelous," both for herself and for her son, who benefits from seeing more...
...opportunity to avoid new construction costs during a savage budget squeeze (TIME, Oct. 4) has prompted at least a dozen other school systems to follow Valley View's two-year-old example. Some have installed air conditioning, but that is a lot cheaper than putting up new buildings. The plan offers no savings, of course, to districts with enough room in their present buildings. Even so, the number of schools using rotation schemes is expected to double next year, and an estimated 1,000 systems are studying the idea...
...mothers do by the time their children begin school. But until then, the going can be rough. For one thing, unmarried mothers find a normal social life hard to arrange. "I'm in a very vulnerable position," says Peggy Fleish, a New York travel agent with a two-year-old son named Peter. "Men know it, and lots of them try to take advantage of it. They think, 'Here's an easy trick.' " Another difficulty is providing masculine influence in the life of a fatherless child. For this, Peggy relies on friends and her family...