World writers gather in New York for PEN Congress
The 48th International PEN Congress opens in New York drawing Kurt Vonnegut Eugene Ionesco Nadine Gordimer Umberto Eco Amos Oz Octavio Paz Gunter Grass Harold Pinter Kobo Abe Claude Simon and others. Theme centers on The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State with panels at St. Moritz and Essex House and high profile attendees including former leaders Trudeau Kreisky and Norman Mailer vows bold exchanges about state power and freedom.
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New York
Kurt Vonnegut
Eugene Ionesco
Nadine Gordimer
PEN Congress
George Shultz
Norman Mailer
PEN American Center
Congress
Mailer
State Department
Italy
Umberto Eco
Israeli
Amos Oz
Mexico
Octavio Paz
West Germany
Gunter Grass
England
Harold Pinter
Japan
Kobo Abe
France
Claude Simon
Donald Barthelme
Barthelme
St. Moritz
Essex House
Vonnegut
Reagan
Gorbachev
Statesman
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Bruno Kreisky
PEN
Homeless mingle with Hollywood at DC shelter party
In Washington a party for a movie about homelessness brought actor Martin Sheen and about 800 homeless people together at the Community for Creative Non-Violence shelter. Shooting for Race Against Winter starts in DC then moves to Los Angeles with Cicely Tyson co starring.
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Washington
Martin Sheen
Sheen
Mitch Snyder
Los Angeles
Cicely Tyson
Chuck Fries
Cbs-Tv
Hollywood
Vladimir P Dounaér
U.S
Snyder
Reagan
White House
Menominee school blends language revival with modern education
Keshena Wisconsin study describes Menominee School District as 10th year since seceding from Shawano Gresham. Language immersion and Indian cultural programs lift identity and achievement while the district documents enrollment 921 in elementary and high school, 401 in grades seven to twelve, with a 25 to 30 percent native American teaching staff and a push to keep the language alive through required classes and powwow activities.
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Menominee Reservation
Shawano-Gresham
Pines
Wisconsin
Shawano
Lisa Waukau
Ireland
England
Europe
Cain Sores
John Tomasich
Neopit
State Department of Public Instruction
Menominee
Tomasich
Stockbridgegee
Aeettle
John Teller
Waukau
Richard Peters
But & Renominee
Menominee Eagles
Central Wisconsin
Peters
Department of Public Instruction
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Father Fears Social Security Number Threatens Child Soul
BELLEFONTE Pa Associated Press government officials press for a Social Security number to continue Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits for Little Bird of the Snow. Stephen Roy and Karen Miller challenge the requirement as an infringement of religious freedom. Oral arguments set for Jan. 14 before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Roy
Social Security
United States
Stephen Roy
Lite Bird
Karen Miller
U.S
Malcolm Muir
Roys
New England
Muir
Supreme Court
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