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Critics attack bilingual programs on several grounds: that they are inadequate or inefficient; that extra efforts should not be made for Spanish-speaking children unless they are also made for French-speaking or Hebrew-speaking or Vietnamese-speaking children; and, perhaps most cogently, that Hispanic students who speak mostly Spanish at school and whose parents speak mostly Spanish at home will never really learn to compete in American society as a whole. Cultural pride notwithstanding, this could prove a-fatal handicap in a specialized, highly technological nation where language skills are more important than at any other time in history...
Hadi Abdul Taher, Saudi Arabian Minister of State and governor of the Petroleum and Minerals Agency (PETROMIN), told an audience of about 75 in Science Center C that unless both oil producers and consumers take a "moderate approach to the price question," the result may be "really important imbalances...interruptions of continuity of supply on a high level" sometime in the next 10 to 15 years...
What had gone wrong? Unless contrary evidence is found, it appears that the pilots in both planes failed to see each other, despite the puzzling PSA report about "traffic in sight." Investigators have not dismissed the possibility that the 727 sighted a plane other than the one it struck, although a second Cessna some twelve miles away at the time should not have confused the PSA pilots. There were other hazards. Both crews were facing a glaring sun. Worse, each craft appeared to have entered a blind spot in the other's field of vision. The 727 crew, with...
Thus did a single 4,600-member local bring two-thirds of the nation's rail operations to a halt. And the disturbing fact remains that, unless the Administration can smooth over the bitter differences between B.R.A.C. and N&W, a replay of last week's turmoil on the rails remains a possibility...
...Sophomore year, the intention was that the returning varsity players were going to play unless someone really went out there and beat them out badly. It isn't the talent type they want here, it's more who's been out for a while, and understands the system...