Editorials Lessons in education reform and youth outcomes
The Carnegie Council urges breaking up the monolithic high school with smaller schools and altered schedules. It favors work-based elements and community service, moving vocational programs to skills centers tied to colleges, and envisions cost up to 1.9 billion while arguing long-term gains justify the expense.
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Carnegie Council On Policy Studies In
Clark Kerr
Kerr
Carnegie Council
U S progress shown in reduced oil consumption
U S officials report significant gains in cutting oil use with first eleven months down 2.5 percent to about 18.4 million barrels daily. Net imports under 8 million, July September demand off 7.8 percent from 1978. Chase Econometric estimates a 4 percent yearly gasoline drop, with overall petroleum demand down over 2 percent.
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R. Gregory Nokes
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
U.S
Treasury
G. William Miller
Carter
Chase Econometric Associates
Chase
Miller
Congress
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Abu Dhabi
United States
Today in History and Birthday Reflections
Today lists events on December 14 with Amundsen reaching the South Pole in 1911 and Washington's death in 1799. It notes Alabama's 1819 statehood, the 1939 USSR expulsion, Kaunda's 1962 government, Kissinger’s 1973 oil embargo urging, and Vietnam clashes a decade earlier. Also mentions Lee Remick’s 44th birthday and a Horace Greeley quote with farm export projections for 1979 at $32 billion.
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Roald Amundsen
South Pole
George Washington
Alabama
Soviet Union
League of Nations
North Rhodesia
Kenneth Kaunda
Henry Kissinger
Saudi Arabia
Faisal
United States
My Lai
Vietnam
Gerald Ford
Martinique
Valery Giscard D
Branding scheme to curb drilling equipment thefts
The Wall Street Journal reports rustlers thrive in the Southwest not for cattle but oil assets. A black market for drill bits pipes and rig parts grows as new sources rush and equipment stays scarce. Authorities plan a branding system for equipment to deter thefts despite difficulties.
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Wall Street Journal
Central presidential library proposed near Washington
Rowland G. Freeman of the General Services Administration suggests a single six presi dents library near Washington to house archival material, replacing multiple separate facilities. The plan would limit exhibition space, cut costs, and address disposal of papers, with six smaller libraries costing about 222.5 million versus 286.5 million for six separate structures.
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Washington
Jefferson
Franklin Roosevelt
Rowland G. Freeman
General Services Administration
GSA
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N.Y
Truman
Independence
Eisenhower
Abilene
Kans
Johnson
University of Texas
Kennedy
Boston
Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace
Stanford University
Hoover
White House
Ford
Ann Arbor
Mich
Nixon
Freeman
Austin
Senate Appropriations
America
Connally acquittal analyzed amid braggadocio and secrecy
John Connally touts his 1975 acquittal as innocence while critics note severed perjury and obstruction charges, secret juror doubts, and judge bias. The piece also profiles Voice of America resistance to government pressure and a Kim Young Sam interview before Park Chung-hee's assassination.
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Washington
John Connally
Connally
George L. Hart Jr
Edward Bennett Williams
Hart
Gary Cohn
Jake Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Grand Jury
White House
Dennis O'Toole
Muffled Voice
Voice of America
State Department
National Security Council
Kim Young Sam
Kim
VOA
Edward Couley
Chung Hee Park
Couley
Park
Ron McRae
U.S
William Gleysteen Jr
Gleysteen
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