Report urges school boards to direct policy
Washington AP The Twentieth Century Fund Task Force calls on local school boards to focus on big picture policy instead of routine administration. It notes boards handle $220 billion and 47 million students, but often manage minutiae like field trips and uniforms, hindering leadership. The panel urges teachers and principals to assume more decision making.
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Washington
America
Twentieth Century ‘Fund
West Virginia
Ttke
Tucson
Ariz
William Kolberg
National Alliance Ousiness
Arizona
Kolberg
Howard O'Call
West Virginia School Boards Association
Katlehong Gang Slaughter Deepens South Africa Violence
A gang attacked a Katlehong squatter camp killing at least 20 people and wounding 23, with attackers using guns and firebombs. Survivors and officials said residents, many Inkatha supporters, faced shootings and arson amid ongoing township unrest near Johannesburg and political strife between ANC and Inkatha.
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Katlehong
South Africa
Johannesburg
Wikus Weber
Douglas Madlala
Inkatha Freedom Party
African National Congress
Madlala
Bush spokesman denies vacation tied to White House turmoil
Marlin Fitzwater said he did not resign or threaten to quit and his Bermuda vacation was unrelated to a Washington Post report about frustration with White House leadership. Officials note tension over expanded duties but praise the management team and ongoing policy push on economy, reform, health care and education.
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Washington (Ap
Bush
Marlin Fitzwater
White House
Fitzwater
Bermuda
Michael Bush
Washington ‘Post
Marlin
Samuel Skinner
Henson Moore
Gadhafi defies U.N. demands over Pan Am suspects
Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi rejected UN demands to hand over Pan Am bombing suspects in a fiery Tripoli speech end Ramadan. He warned Libyan sovereignty cannot be violated and left open a possible compromise to avert sanctions, while the U.S. urged Americans to leave Libya and Venezuela recalled its ambassador.
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Tripoli
Libya
Muammar Gadhafi
United Nations
Gaddafi
U.N. Security Council
State Department
U.S
United States
Venezuela
Security Council
Arab League
Pan Am
Israel accuses U N council of bias over Rafah clash deaths
Israel said the U N Security Council took a one sided view of the killing of four Arabs by Israeli troops during a clash at Rafah market in the Gaza Strip. The U N condemned the violence and urged adherence to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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Jerusalem
Israel
U.N. Security Council
Territories
U.N
Gaza Strip
Ers
Rafah
Palestine Liberation Organization
West Bank
Security Council
Mother and son reunited in York video store
In York Nebraska, Michael Drennen, 34, overheard a woman state her name while signing up for a video store membership and realized she was his mother Shirley Keener. After years apart, they embraced and began reconnecting, both living in York since 1990, and they hope to locate Michael’s three sisters.
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York, Neb
Michael ‘Drennen
Drennen
Keener
York
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F.W. de Klerk
Soweto
Inkatha
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Herms Kriel
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Clarence Makwetu
PAC
Nigeria
Gadhafi
Shirley Keener
Michael
Mydren
Osco
Cedar Rapids
Osco Drug
Hawkeye Downs
6Th St
C.R. Productions
Bali
Westdale & Lindale
Continental United States
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