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Since then a task force of U.S. Government experts has continued its detective work. There may never be a final verdict. Unlike the SALT agreements, which can be verified by spy satellites and other means, the Biological Weapons Convention is almost impossible to police. Moreover, the treaty is vague about what constitutes stockpiling. But TIME has learned that a draft of the task force's report, classified top secret, diagnoses the Sverdlovsk syndrome as almost certainly pulmonary rather than intestinal anthrax. No matter how the incident is resolved, the Soviets seem to have been caught engaging in some kind...
Like some vast jury gradually and reluctantly arriving at a verdict, politicians, educators and especially millions of parents have come to believe that the U.S. public schools are in parlous trouble. Violence keeps making headlines. Test scores keep dropping. Debate rages over whether or not one-fifth or more adult Americans are functionally illiterate. High school graduates go so far as to sue their school systems because they got respectable grades and a diploma but cannot fill in job application forms correctly. Experts confirm that students today get at least 25% more As and Bs than they did 15 years...
...that damage may get, and how long it will last, is anybody's guess. TIME's Board of Economists last week rendered a mixed verdict: the downturn will proceed at least through the rest of this year, and on the whole will not be quite as violent as the one in 1973-75, though it may be worse in some specific respects-notably unemployment (see following story...
Although there was scattered racial violence last week in Tampa, related to the McDuffie verdict, the nation's largest cities remained the prime points of danger. Said New York Mayor Ed Koch: "Any city in this country could experience that incident. I hope it won't happen here." New York police feel that they have worked hard to improve relations with blacks since the Harlem riots of 1964, but as one veteran officer explained, "There's a group out there that nobody reaches. They don't talk to us; we don't talk to them...
...trouble." And the array of presidential candidates seems to offer little hope to the electorate. Asked which candidate personally interested or excited them, only 12% of the voters answer this revealing question by saying Reagan, 10% say Anderson, 8% say Kennedy, 6% say Bush, 6% say Carter. The final verdict on which presidential contenders excite Americans: 45% answer "none...