PLO clash and Japanese history reform spark debate
A column condemns PLO violence and Israeli actions in Lebanon, noting civilian casualties and rising sympathy for Arafat. It then criticizes Japan's education ministry for revising wartime history to downplay aggression, urging truthful acknowledgment and open debate about World War II.
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Nick Joe Rahall
PLO
Yasir Arafat
Arafat
Israel
Beirut
China
Southeast Asia
Pacific Islands
Nanking
Japan
South Korea
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Pacific
Purloined Defenses and the MAD Debate on Space Shielding
M Stanton Evans argues the United States has dismantled its defenses under mutual assured destruction. He contrasts U S neglect with Soviet moves to deploy anti missile defenses and space based options. Evans cites Caspar Weinberger and Daniel Graham and advocates restoring space defenses as a national survival measure.
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Washington
Annals of the Obvious
Edgar Allan Poe
United States
U.S
Reagan
House
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Weinberger
Daniel O. Graham
Defense Intelligence Agency
Graham
America
Malcolm Wallop
R-Wyo
Ken Kramer
El Salvador Report Debates U S Aid And Rights Abuses
The administration presents a cautious El Salvador progress report on curbing abuses and reforms, while noting continued killings. It cites right wing and security force involvement, farm evictions, and police torture. Amnesty International lists disappearances and abductions post election. United States aid remains a point of contention.
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el Salvador
US S
Congress
U.S
Elliott Abrams
San Salvador
Abrams
New York Times
Constituent Assembly
Amnesty International
Leonardo Esteban Landaverde Hernandez
Terraza
National Guard
Leopoldo Alberto Bolanos Zolorzano
Colonia Santa Lucia
Ilopango
Departamento de San
Ciudad Satelite
Colegio Garcia Flamenco
Home schooling grows as private and home instruction rise
Growing numbers of private schools appear while home schooling expands across the states. The National Association of Home Educators spreads information and legal advice, with a newsletter reaching 5000 readers in 50 states. Mary Bergman started the effort in Missouri, inspiring others nationwide.
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National Association of Home Educators
Gallatin
Missouri
Mary Bergman
Cathy
Association
NAHE
Home Education Growth Spurs TV Tutoring Movement
Dr Raymond Moore cites about 500000 homes tutoring children as families in 37 states seek aid and the trend fuels home education groups. In Grand Junction 200 families supplement schooling with close circuit math and woodworking lessons while Lincoln feeds classroom subjects via satellite to PBS stations. Don Bell argues taxpayers spend 200 billion yearly on a failing public system and experts including Benjamin Bloom endorse home education as a strong early learning option.
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Raymond Moore
Hewitt Research Foundation
Grand Junction
Colorado
Lincoln
Nebraska
Central Education Network
PBS
Don Bell
Dorothy and
Raymond
Useless But Interesting Kid Irony on Kittens
A humorous line notes that a child views kittens as valuable and questions why anyone would give away perfectly good ones, highlighting a child’s perspective on animal care and sentiment.
Nuclear waste dumps eyed by Nevada and Washington
Washington faces a heated debate over where the federal government will bury radioactive waste from U S nuclear plants. Nevada and Washington emerge as leading candidate states with Utah next on the list, amid contention that politics may drive site selection more than technical suitability.
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Washington
Department of Energy
Nevada
DOE
Michael Einstein
Energy Department
Utah
Congress
House Subcommittee On Energy Conservation and Power
Nevada Test Site
Hanford, Wash
Richard C. Odle Jr
Leon Silverstron
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
John Mountain
Battelle Memorial Institute
Nevada Test
Mahan Gates
Florida
Texas
Social Security Administration
Lawton Chiles
D-Fla
SSA
Chiles
Action
Agency
For Good Works
Thomas Pauken
Volunteers In Service To America
VISTA
Young Volunteers In Action
YVA
Capitol Hill
House
Austin Murphy
D-Pa
General Accounting Office
Pauken
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Hugh Shott
Richard Wesley
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al Haig
M. Stanton Evans
Wan
Donald F. Graff
Paul Harvey
Benjamin Bloom
University of Chicago
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