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...Unrest & Recrimination...
...basis of "pull, influence, race, or some other way instead of merit." Albert Shanker,*president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, con tends that it would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead to "thou sands" of resignations. Most Puerto Rican and Negro civil rights organiza tions, however, strongly endorse the Bundy proposal in the hope that local control of schools will lead to better education for their children - and they now give such improvement a much higher priority than enforced...
...judge by the official government press, all but nine of the country's 26 provinces and regions are beset by some degree of unrest. Peking has officially described the province of Kirin in Manchuria as "very disturbed" and warned the citizens of far northern Heilungkiang, which is rich in both industry and agriculture, that "bad elements are trying to sabotage the people's dictatorship and spread lies and rumors." In Inner Mongolia, counter-revolutionary bands have sprung up, murdering, sabotaging government installations and passing out anti-Mao leaflets. Mao Tse-tung's men charge that...
...student unrest has undertones of irony. In 1943 the Franco government created an official union of Spanish students aimed at indoctrinating them in the country's political ideology. Students are now creating their own autonomous unions to express what they consider to be their true political beliefs. Since these are often considerably to the left of Franco's, the government is now insisting that politics has no place in a university. But politics was not the only issue responsible for a series of pitched battles between police and University of Madrid students; on a recent weekend some...
...week began with football; pro games from coast to coast cluttered the autumn Sunday. Then, with athletic diversions out of the way, television turned to the week's news.' And inevitably, the major preoccupation was with varying aspects of violence. There were films of angry student unrest from Madrid to Manhattan, and the most familiar dialogue the viewer heard came from policemen ordering antidraft demonstrators to "Move! Move faster...