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...Ronald Reagan's top advisers, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, was conspicuously absent from the tight-knit trio of aides that met two weeks ago to determine Alexander Haig's fate. While White House Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver and National Security Adviser William Clark discussed the Secretary of State's resignation with Reagan, Meese was kept in the dark. Indeed, the man once regarded as the "deputy President" did not learn of Haig's departure until he returned...
...present. The poverty rate for such families was 32.7%, compared with 6.2% for married-couple families, and 11% for families with a male householder, no wife present." The report indicates that 50.8% of the female-headed families with related children under age 18 were poor. Seventy-five percent of absent fathers contribute no child support at all. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, which spent $6.8 billion in fiscal 1981, will be spending only $5.4 billion in fiscal...
...third of the 10,000 high school stu dents taking more than two academic courses flunked more than half their basic academic subjects last winter. Some 60% failed because of excessive absenteeism (about a fourth of the high school students were absent on any given...
...teachers took more than the 15 annual sick days provided by the union contract. The president of the teachers' union described the absenteeism problem as "teensy," explaining that continued job stress and budget-based layoffs have demoralized teachers. But on any given day, 55 teachers are absent, and about 1,300 students get little or no instruction. Estimated cost of the absenteeism: $10 million a year...
...finding insanity as in last week's case a jury implicitly argues at least one of those key reasons is absent. The truly insane may be unaware they are committing a capital offense. More frequently their disturbed mental conditions leave them with no apparent control over their actions. Whether John Hinckley was sufficiently mad as not to know or control what he did last March 30 is for experts to assess and for juries to decide, advised by those specialists in how people's minds work...