Cultural change blamed for U S education decline
The piece argues a cultural revolution, not liberals, drives America's educational slide. It criticizes conservatives for shifting blame, notes home discipline erosion, the pull of television, and the rise of teacher unions. It questions GOP simplicity, calls for broad action by students, parents, schools, states, and federal government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commission On Excellence In
Commission
Amanda Newton
Zelda Colvin
Reagan
The
Wall Street Journal
California
Opposition grows to CIA Nicaragua policy in House panel
Liberal critics press toward an overt end to the CIA's covert Nicaragua program as the House Select Committee on Intelligence weighs a formal interdiction. Key leaders Rep. Boland and Rep. Wright mobilize colleagues amid public doubt about Reagan Latin policy and calls for negotiated settlement led by Linowitz.
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Washington
House Select Committee On
Ronald Reagan
CIA
Nicaragua
House
el Salvador
Reagan
Linowitz Commission
Edward P. Boland
D-Mass
United States
Boland
George Shultz
William Casey
Shultz
Middle East
Jim Wright
Wright
Sen
Christopher Dodd
Connecticut
Wyche Fowler Jr
D-Ga
Fowler
U.N
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Salvador
White House
Central America
Wisconsin
Clement Zablocki
House Foreign Affairs Committee
el Saviador
Costa Rica
Honduras
Florida
Richard Stone
Stone
Tip O'Neill
Saints seek to limit PAC money in Congress
In a move reported by Newhouse News Service, Rep. David Obey and 70 sponsors push a bill to cap PAC contributions to Congressional campaigns at 90000 over two years. The piece notes PACs as a major growth industry, Mobil’s favorable view of PACs, and the politics of appearance versus reality in campaign finance.
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Washington
Congress
David Obey
D-Wis
America
Senate
Washington Post
Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee
Black Caucus Pac
Congressional Black Caucus
Mobil Corporation
Mobil
U.S. Senate
Ved Vy
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Prolific Adolf's secret retirement satire
A fictional interview with Adolf Hitler in an East German nursing home reveals a literary agent urging diary fabrication to burnish Hitler's image for Western readers. The dialogue touches on Churchill, Roosevelt, Goering, and the publishing plan to monetize fabricated diaries despite Hitler's reluctance and anti Jewish views.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
Adolf
der Stern
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Churchill
Roosevelt
United
Ates
Biya
Hermann Goering
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Joseph Kraft
Mary McGrory
Saints
Otis Pike
Newhouse Ews
Art Buchwald
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Luftwaffe
Goering
Dumkopf
Phil Donahue
Adolph
Klaus Barbie
Tm Thomas
Thomas Lighting
Dia
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