Desks in South African Black Schools Reveal Crisis
In Mamelodi near Pretoria J Kekana High School hosts 70 plus students in a sweltering room with few desks and no teachers after break. Students aged up to 30 struggle for graduation as violence and political groups threaten staff amid chronic underfunding and scarce classrooms.
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Julia Makhine
J. Kekana
Pretoria
South Africa
Ad. ‘Kekana
Winter Games open in France with grand ceremony
The 1968 Grenoble Winter Games kickoff featured 64 nations and 2 billion viewers worldwide. Stars like Jean Claude Killy drew the crowd as U S athletes entered the arena before 138000 spectators in the stadium.
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Croatia
Bermuda
Canada
Monaco
France
Mitter
Jean Claude Killy
Killy
Savoy
U.S
Quayle Escapes Car Brakes Failure En Route to Olympics
Vice President Dan Quayle faced a brief scare when brakes failed on the army vehicle taking him to the Winter Olympics in Albertville France. After switching to another car he resumed the trip and met U S athletes at the Olympic village before overnighting in Lyon.
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Dan Quayle
Quayle
Marilyn
Albertville
France
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CBS
CNN
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U.S
Olympic Village
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Switzerland
Britain
Olympic flame carried into stadium during games
The scene shows spectators greeting Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife as the crowd relaxes. Michel Platini passes the flame to 8 year old Francois Cyrille Grange who launches the fireball into the bowl completing its Greek-to-Olympic relay.
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Lnter
Michel Platini
Francois-Cyrille Grange
Greece
Pistol Incident At School Leads To Two Juvenile Arrests
Two juveniles were arrested Thursday after displaying revolvers from a car window in the South Aiken High School lot. The students, from another Aiken County high school, were charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol and released to their parents. Police stopped the brown car nearby. four occupants were not charged. Names were withheld due to juvenile status.
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South Aiken High School
Igh
Aiken County
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Boatwright
South Aiken
Dougherty
Silver Bluff
Dawsey
South Africa
Carol Dawson
Alkan County
South Aiken High
Dawson
Aiken
Usc-Aiken Etherredge
Mary Ella Brown
Beverly Clyburn
Serice J. Rabb
Ulysses Flew Past Jupiter on Historic European Mission
The fifth spacecraft to visit Jupiter and Europe’s first planetary mission passed between Io and Europa. It used Jupiter’s gravity to sling southward to study solar polar regions, despite intense radiation that threatened instruments. The mission launched from Earth 416 million miles away after a 624 million mile curved voyage.
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Solar System
Europe
Smith
Ulysses
Europa
Jupiter
Earth
Willis Meeks
NASA
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos
John Gustafson
Tsongas Ads Warn Against Middle Class Tax Cuts
A Tsongas television ad criticizes a Clinton Kerrey backed middle class tax cut, claiming most families would gain only 97 cents daily. The spot frames Tsongas as fiscally realistic while rivals question his staying power as a regional candidate against Bush.
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Clinton
Sen
Bob Kerrey
Nebraska
Bush
Gary Hart
Colorado
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