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...repeatedly rebuked by Congress and the Administration as he has attempted to guide them toward a stable policy. Perhaps as this nation gains momentum toward economic devastation, House and Senate members will remember the man who wanted them to balance their country's checkbook. Edward G. Blizzard Charleston, W. Va. The Biggest Rock Concert Ever...
...colleagues, Army Lieut. Colonel Wayne Gillespie seemed a straight-arrow soldier. A West Point graduate, he had served tours in West Germany and Viet Nam. Since 1982 Gillespie, 46, has been assigned to the Army Materiel Command in Alexandria, Va., where he worked on military projects with the U.S.'s NATO allies. But, according to FBI agents who arrested him last week, he was also part of a seven-member smuggling ring that conspired to ship antitank missiles to Iran, a country that has not legally received U.S. weapons since the takeover by Ayatullah Khomeini...
...paying some promising extra dividends. At Franklin Elementary, since 15-day vacations take the place of the long summer break, "students seem to retain more," says Susan Chin, a bilingual Chinese/English teacher. A few schools have already implemented YRE strictly for educational reasons. Parry McCluer High in Buena Vista, Va., boasts the state's only year-round program, and a student body that consistently scores above 95% on the state's compulsory competency test...
This month Spillane departed for a quieter job, running the Fairfax County, Va., schools. Garrity has decided that the school committee has the "willingness and ability" to run a desegregated system. But he has set such stringent conditions for his withdrawal that one education official described the plans as "Garrity-plus." Among them: a school's racial mix must reflect a district's population ratios, and the percentage of black staff must be roughly equivalent to the 23% black population of the city...
...three stories to sales. Many potential customers buy it from one of more than 100,000 blue-and-white vending machines, where only the top half of the front page is visible. To remind editors of this, boxes are planted throughout the paper's wedge-shaped headquarters in Arlington, Va...