Editorial: the class size dilemma tests school budgets
The piece argues that reducing class sizes hinges on staffing, not logs or heroic measures. It notes Norwalk La Mirada teachers want funds focused on studying reductions, yet Centennial's policy shows teachers chose librarians and counselors over smaller classes.
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la Mirada
Teachers Association
Centennial Intermediate School
Teachers’ Association
Centennial
Ciation
Deukmejian Named State Senate Minority Leader
Long Beach welcomes George Deukmejian to a new role as state Senate minority leader succeeding Fred Marler. Colleagues praise his intelligence vigor and willingness to compromise on policy. He will direct legislative strategy as floor leader and may become Senate president pro tem if Republicans gain a majority.
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Sacramento County Superior Court
Deukmejian
Senate
Preserve our coast and defend the campus in Long Beach letters
Long Beach residents rail against Coast Zone plans to recycle Ocean Boulevard and convert neighborhoods into high rises. They warn of crowding, higher taxes, strain on services, traffic and emergency crowds, urging preservation of mixed housing and local character. A second letter praises guardsmen indicted in Kent shooting, defending campus police actions and calling for indicting lawbreaking students, signed by Dr. Paul Brainard.
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Louis F. Jobst Jr
Press-Telegram
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Coastal Zone Planning Commission
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Belmont Shore
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Aur
Anchorage
Long Land
Kent
Ander
Paul Brainard
Stimson’s Undoing of the Black Chamber and Moral Rigidities
In 1928 Henry Stimson shut the Black Chamber coding office and argued that trust would prevent spying. He later reflected that wartime fairness did not apply to peacetime, a stance cited through the Cold War as an example of moral stiffness by an intelligence community shaping its own methods.
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Henry Stimson
Black Chamber
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McGeorge Bundy
Stimson
Shre
Oval Office
John Ehrlichman
John Mitchell
Hrlichman
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Hamlet
Nixon
Lony
Fulbright's fragile bid in Arkansas primary falters
An Arkansas primary analysis argues Sen. J. W. Fulbright faces defeat by Gov. Dale Bumpers, due to alienation over Fulbright's distant image and a rising, reform-minded challenger. Bumpers' popularity, stance as a southern liberal or centrist, and Wallace-era white support threaten Fulbright's long tenure as Foreign Relations chair.
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Bill
Wallace
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
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New Republic
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Mark Shields
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Smiley
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