Using mediation to resolve civil conflicts in America
The Ford Foundation backs dispute settlement efforts since 1968 with the National Center for Dispute Settlement and a New York mediation center to handle racial, student and community clashes. More than 500 disputes across the nation include issues from discrimination to tenant disputes and school crises.
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Ford Foundation
National Center For
National Center
United Givers Fund
Jackson
Miss
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Lawrence
Kans
Washington, D.C
New York Center
Theodore Kheel
Newark
East Harlem
Young Lords
Lords
Seeing Eye Trains Its 6000th Dog Guide
The Seeing Eye Inc announces it trained its 61st guide dog for the blind in Morristown New Jersey. As the country’s oldest dog guide school founded in 1929 it has aided 3600 blind men and women through 43 years of service. Executive VP George Werntz Jr notes the numbers reflect broader human aspirations beyond statistics. Congratulations to The Seeing Eye and future milestones.
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Seeing Eve, Inc
Morristown
N.J
Seeing Eve
George Werntz Jr
American Kennel Club
Seeing Eye
Doctors perspectives on telling patients of terminal illness vary worldwide
A Medical College of Ohio study of 230 doctors from Argentina India Ceylon the Far East Israel Jewish American and non Jewish American finds opinions on truth telling aggressive treatment and death outlook depend more on doctors culture and religion than on patient preferences. The report notes Americans favor informing patients of fatal disease while many non Americans oppose it preferring to spare distress. disparities also appear in views on immortality and death preparation.
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Medical College of Ohio At
Toledo
Argentina
India
Ceylon
Far East
Israel
Australia views Russia as biggest threat to peace
In a Canberra House interview, Australian Foreign Minister Nigel Bowen says Russia poses a greater risk to regional and global peace than Red China. He notes shifting power in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, Australia’s naval base plans south of Perth, and Canberra’s independent, US-friendly stance while pursuing ties with Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
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Australia
Asia
Russia
China
Nigel Bowen
House of Parliament
Bowen
United States
Peking
Japan
Indian
Pacific
Indian Ocean
Perth
America
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Korea
Vietnam
Bangladesh
Nixon
Reyer
U.S
Britain
Malaysia
Indonesia
Philippines
Taiwan
Republic of China
Defense
Fairbairn
Plain English in legal ties ends in costly litigation
Gerald and Fred started a toy venture on a fifty fifty split but after a year split profits disputes led to two years of court battle. The piece warns that plain English hides ambiguities in contracts and urges expert advice. Written by Will Bernard for ABA and Texas Bar in 1972.
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Gerald
Fred
United States Supreme Court
The
American Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Will Bernard
Largest living land animal and record elephant measured
The World Almanac notes the African elephant as the largest living land animal. The biggest specimen, a bull shot in Angola in 1955, measured 18 feet 2 inches from shoulder to foot base and weighed about 12 tons, now preserved at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
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World Almanac
Angola
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
Pecos Range Conservation Program Opens May First
County Agent Ted Johnston urged ranchers to sign up now as the range conservation program begins May 1. Participating ranchers will be paid for practices such as deferred grazing terracing and construction of surface tanks and spreader dams under the plan.
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Ted Johnston
Johnston
Lincoln shot at Ford's Theater on this date in 1865
Today in history notes Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington and died the next morning. It also lists events from 1775 Philadelphia abolition society to 1876 election disputes and other milestones with birthdays and trivia.
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Associated Press
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Washington
Society For Abolition of
North Atlantic
Spain
Alfonso
Texas City
Tex
Soviet Union
Moscow
Cuba
Letters to the Editor Guidelines for Submissions
The notice explains that letters are welcome if they include signer name and address, may be withheld upon request, must not exceed 500 words, should cover general interest, and poor taste letters will be rejected. It outlines eligibility and submission expectations for readers.
Hurdles in path of creative students
Washington reports on E Paul Torrance research for the American Educational Research Association. He argues the US risks dulling creativity as teachers and parents undervalue independence and courage in students and favor conformity and timely work over bold judgment.
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Washington
Nea
United States
E. Paul Torrance
American Educational Research Association
Torrance
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