Illinois Education Goals Booklet Sees Mellow Shift
The second edition of Action Goals for the Seventies issued by Illinois schools chief Michael Bakalis softens the tone from the 1972 edition. It preserves goals and action objectives, with aims to be achieved by 1990, including equal opportunities, anti-pluralism in girls’ distinctions, and an added focus on physical fitness.
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Harold Seaman
Ilinois Association of School Boards
Michael Bakalis
Bakalis
Nike
John Wargo
Ilinois Association of School Administrators
Illinois
State Board of Education
Dorothy Benner
Urbana
PTA
Seaman
General Assembly
Congress Tightens War Powers in 1973 Session
The 1973 Congress passed a war powers resolution over Nixon’s veto, curtailing presidential authority to wage war without Congress. It ended U.S. bombing in Cambodia, restricted new combat actions in Indochina, and reoriented foreign aid toward humanitarian goals while preserving Israel military aid. The measure, intended to limit deployment overseas, was approved after a veto override.
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Congress
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Indochina
Israel
al Senate
Marcos still on top in Philippines as term ends
President Ferdinand E. Marcos faces only scattered opposition as his four year term ends. The armed forces are on alert to prevent trouble, while Marcos governs under martial law and a takeover decree. A July referendum backed extending his rule past 1973 by a 94 percent margin.
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Manila
Ferdinand E. Marcos
The
Philippines
Elert
Mareos
Mareng
Mateos How
Soviet Torture Survivor Recalls Moscow Imprisonment
Alexander Dolgun, an American embassy employee, describes decades long torture and solitary confinement in Soviet prisons after his 1948 arrest. He says torture stopped only after he signed false confessions and was released in 1956, later returning to the United States with help from his sister and officials.
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Jerry T. Bauch
Associated Press
Washington
Alexander D. Colgan
U.S
Moscow
Dolgun
Andrew
Rockville
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn
Gorky Street
Dolgan
Buddy
Colgan
MGB
Lubyanka
Russia
Lefortavo
Sukhanovka
Vienna
United States
Nixon
Skylab photographers capture Kohoutek from space
Skylab 3 astronauts Gerald Carr and Edward Gibson spent about three and a half hours spacewalking to photograph comet Kohoutek as the sun scorched the skyive. William Pogue remained aboard to relay instructions and maneuver the 114 foot long station while the pair shot images with Earth visible far below.
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Earth
William R. Pogue
Carr
Gibson
Airport study forwarded to Transportation Secretary Brinegar
The environmental impact statement on an Illinois site for the St. Louis metropolitan area was completed by the FAA and sent Friday to Secretary Claude EB Brinegar and FAA Administrator Alex Butterfield. An FAA spokesman said the agency declined to reveal specific recommendations.
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Office of Transportation
Claude EB. Brinegar
Israeli election heats up with Nixon ties and Meir appeal
Israeli voters face a heated campaign as premier Golda Meir mobilizes 80,000 supporters and uses Nixon imagery to stress security and peace. Laborites admit errors from the October war while Likud charges a fatal mistake, polls show a tight race and public unease over war tolls and future peace prospects.
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Golde Meir
Nixon
Middle East
Meir
Israel
Dayan
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