From junior high to high school: dropouts rise on coast
Mississippi Gulf Coast sees higher dropout rates in ninth and tenth grades during transitions to high school. Last year 1,700+ public-school dropouts statewide and locally. ninth and tenth graders accounted for the largest share. Factors include lack of vocational training, curriculum changes, and age-related insecurities. Specific cases cited: Pascagoula and Harrison Central High in transition-era spikes.
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Finch ends first year with elation over accomplishments
Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch reflects on his first year in office with a sense of elation about achievements. He cites progress on savings and loan reform, job creation, and $70 million in new investment, while outlining six main objectives for improving living standards, health care, and government efficiency.
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Carter plans Blumenthal for treasury post and Pfeiffer for commerce
President-elect Jimmy Carter plans to name W Michael Blumenthal chair of Bendix as secretary of the treasury and Jane Cahill Pfeiffer former IBM executive as secretary of commerce sources said Blumenthal 50 who led the Kennedy Round negotiations in Geneva served in Kennedy and Johnson administrations and became a US citizen in 1979 Carter also said to announce two or three cabinet nominees this week after worship at Plains Baptist Church amid protest over church membership rules by Rev Clennon King and church action threatened to deny tax exempt status for segregationist stance
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Uranium shipment to India held back by US policy shift
Washington reports that the Ford administration is delaying an overdue uranium shipment to India until New Delhi agrees to return its entire stockpile of spent nuclear fuel. Experts say about 200 metric tons have accumulated since 1971 due to US storage shortfalls and that India seeks to retain some for research.
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