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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy in Rome last June while President Reagan was attending a seven-nation economic summit in Venice. Okudaira's organization is believed to have trained in Lebanon with Islamic Jihad, a Shi'ite Muslim group with ties to Iran. Responsibility for the Naples explosion was claimed by various factions of Islamic Jihad, one saying the attack was in retribution for the U.S. air assault on Libya two years...
...first grade. This year Georgia became the first state to require a standardized written exam as part of a "readiness assessment" that determines who passes and who fails kindergarten. Testing of various kinds is prevalent in three-fourths of the other states for evaluating aspiring first- graders. In Minneapolis, for example, kindergartners must answer a set of 56 verbal questions put to them on a one-to-one basis (last year 13% failed). Many Connecticut and Michigan youngsters face similar tests. But only Georgia asks all its tots -- in both public and private schools -- to sit down, No. 2 pencils...
Richmond said it would be difficult to change the requirements so that undergraduates would still take eight Core classes in a program with 11 categories instead of the current 10. He said the subcommittee expected the departments would disagree over which topics should be required for students in various concentrations, if it became necessary to exempt students from three courses apiece instead...
...Director Beckett says that "a typical tour involves making deals with various hotels. We perform in exchange for room and board. It's a great bargain...
...have the lowest salaries of any institution for which we have obtained hard figures," Lurie says. "There are various graduate students who live in slums...