Title I at crossroads amid misused funds and calls for tighter control
The federal Title I program for disadvantaged children faces scrutiny after audits show funds spent inappropriately across states. Aimed at equal opportunity, it funds school improvements, with officials pressing tighter management, weekly funding, and accountability to measure student outcomes and prevent supplanting.
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Leon Lessinger
Ohio Democrats say Gilligan eyes governorship
Ohio Democratic sources say John J Galligan plans to announce his candidacy for governor at a Cincinnati news conference. The Cincinnati insurance agent would prefer a statewide race setup in the upcoming campaign cycle.
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Aiken attacks costly food stamp bill
Senator George D. Aiken warns that Senate substitute legislation would let even millionaires use government script for vast nonfood purchases and questions the 25 billion dollar annual estimate. He says the bill amounts to a broad welfare program not a food bill and could include many ineligible buyers. The Senate measure and political maneuverings at a Cleveland gathering are noted with several gubernatorial hopefuls shaping strategy.
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Seven Women Die as Bus Crashes in Storm
A Philadelphia chartered bus carrying 41 passengers, mostly elderly women, skidded on snow on Route 30 near Gap Pa killing seven and injuring 33. The vehicle struck a utility pole and high tension wires before overturning into a five foot embankment near Elizabethtown. Rescue crews freed a woman pinned under a seat as ambulances converged on the scene.
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Whyte
Joseph Wright
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Biggest ship ever sunk off West Africa off Dakar
The 207000 ton Dutch supertanker Marpessa owned by Royal Dutch Shell sank 50 miles northwest of Dakar after an explosion last Friday. Two crewmen were injured and two more missing. survivors were rescued by the British tanker Serenia. The ship had just delivered crude oil from Rotterdam.
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Nixon offers to renew relations with seven Arab states
Washington signals readiness to resume ties with Egypt Syria Iraq Yemen Sudan Mauritania and Algeria as part of a broader Mideast policy shift. Officials disclosed privately the United States will wait for outreach from the Arab nations before taking further steps.
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UPI
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Mideast
William P Rogers
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Syria
Iraq
Yemen
Sudan
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Algeria
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Israel
Ceausescu Urges East Bloc Ties With West Germany
Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu backed warm relations with West Germany under Willy Brandt. He praised Bonn Soviet talks on a nonaggression pact and Bonn Polish moves toward diplomacy while warning against neo Nazi forces and urging the recognition of East Germany. The remarks were published from a central committee meeting held last week.
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Romanian Communist Party Central Committee
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Warsaw Pact
East Germany
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National Democratic Party
U.N. Budget Panel Endorses $80 Million HQ Expansion Plan
The Budgetary Committee expected to approve a resolution authorizing an $80 million enlargement of the United Nations headquarters in New York to seat all staff. It also requests Secretary-General Thant to explore non New York and Geneva locations for UN units. Delegates pressed for relief from high costs and living conditions in New York, urging decentralization of expansion plans.
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U.N. Assembly
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New York
L. Thant
Geneva
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World Organization
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Eisenhower backs handgun ban and city rebuilding drive
Milton Eisenhower, head of a national violence study, said the U S will eventually ban pistols from private citizens. He urged city rebuilding, stronger law enforcement, and continued limits on television violence while noting crime factors and youth protest.
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National Commission On the
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Commission On Violence
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