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...possible progressive vote in New Hampshire will be the Watergate reaction, of course. Senator Barry Goldwater has estimated that Republican candidates throughout the nation will suffer a 10 per cent attrition from their normal vote as a result of Watergate. For no other state does this assessment seem more valid than New Hampshire, where the state Republican organization has been pro-Nixon down the line, and whose two congressmen have been key Nixon henchmen in the House. But Watergate is only one of several issues which endanger the conservatives' hold on the state power structure...
Even as it moved against its noisiest critics, the Suharto government seemed to be admitting that many of the students' complaints had been valid. The Cabinet announced a new code of conduct aimed at reducing corruption. For example, officials will no longer be permitted to buy "personal" gifts for friends and business associates with government funds...
...contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child and to enable administrators to plan for continuous instruction. Faced with similar suits by LaFleur, another Cleveland teacher and a teacher from Chesterfield County, Va., the court concluded that, while health and instructional continuity are valid goals, long leave requirements are unnecessarily rigid. They violate the due-process clause, said Justice Potter Stewart, because there is a constitutionally protected "freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life." Therefore long mandatory leaves "unduly penalize a female teacher for deciding to bear a child." Justice...
...What happens in the classroom when students are passed along until "a third of the high school seniors have reading and math skills below eighth-grade level"? The teachers can no longer wjite valid tests or conduct meaningful discussions; the faculty disagree among themselves about the purpose of education; confused students note with increasing frequency that learning is not the name of the game: and the mentally gifted become turned...
...Quiz. In a statement, the White House pleaded with "the American people" to realize that the erasure did not prove that the lost conversation had contained any incriminating evidence. But that legally valid distinction defied logic and, perhaps more important to Nixon's survival as President, plain ordinary common sense. Only the White Queen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as conservative Columnist George F. Will observed, was capable of believing "six impossible things before breakfast...