A Triumph for City Schools
Date: 23 November 1996
Editorial hails agreement between state and city officials on governance of New York City public schools, which would strip the 32 local schools boards of their hiring powers; commends Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani for giving up his longstanding demand that the mayor have ultimate control over the school system (M)
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U.S. AGENCY PLANS TO REDUCE DANGER POSED BY AIR BAGS
Date: 23 November 1996
By ROBYN MEREDITH
Transportation Department will try to require auto makers to install new, more advanced air bags within two years as part of a package of steps to reduce the danger the safety devices pose to children and small adults; new air bags would rely on better technology to determine automatically whether to inflate on the basis of crash circumstances and the size of the passengers; auto makers hail the new proposals, but with some caution and some doubt about whether they can meet the department's timetable; consumer groups say the move is overdue; drawing shows how 'smart' air bags would work (M)
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Jones Jr. Wins W.B.C. Title
Date: 23 November 1996
By CHARLIE NOBLES
Roy Jones Jr wins World Boxing Council light heavyweight championship in unanimous 12-round decision by two sets of judges over Mike McCallum (M)
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Fighting for Their Films
Date: 23 November 1996
By TERRY PRISTIN
Westfield, NJ, residents march outside town's only movie theater to protest plan to replace it with stores; developer, Hy Carlinsky, says he works on plan to sell air rights over building to nonprofit group for multiplex cinema and performing arts center (NJ Daily Briefing) (S)
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Purdue Names Tiller as Coach
Date: 23 November 1996
Purdue University names Joe Tiller football coach (S)
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Subic Bay, Minus U.S., Becomes Surprise Success
Date: 23 November 1996
By SETH MYDANS
Conversion of Subic Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base to tax-free port and industrial complex confounds predictions of disaster made four years ago, when US withdrew its forces, and attests to vitality of Philippine economy under Pres Fidel V Ramos; 55,000 people now work at Subic port alone, mostly in foreign-operated factories making a variety of products, from computer motherboards to armored personnel carriers; Richard Gordon, chairman of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, which administers port, comments; photos; map (M)
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Canada Drops Charges Against Indians in Fire
Date: 23 November 1996
Canadian authorities drop charges of abandonment against Gregory and Agathe Rich, Innu Indians in northern Labrador, whose five children and a nephew died in a fire in Feb 1992 after they were left alone for the night while the parents went out drinking with friends; case brought national attention to the plight of Indians (S)
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DSP ENDS PLAN TO MERGE WITH PROXIM
Date: 23 November 1996
DSP Communications Inc stock jumps after firm drops plan to buy Proxim Inc (S)
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Victory of 5 Redistricted Blacks Recasts Gerrymandering Dispute
Date: 23 November 1996
By KEVIN SACK
Re-election of five black members of Congress whose districts were redrawn to eliminate black voting majorities sharpens the debate on whether it is still necessary to gerrymander legislative districts along racial lines to insure minority representation; those who successfully petitioned Supreme Court to rejects districts drawn along racial lines say success of black candidates in the five districts shows that minorities do not need super-majority of black voters to win; civil rights leaders argue that key to victories was less the design of the districts than the incumbency of the black candidates; graphs show racial makeup of the old and new districts of the re-elected black Congressmen: Georgia's Sanford D Bishop Jr and Cynthia A McKinney, Florida's Corrine Brown, and Texas's Sheila Jackson-Lee and Eddie Bernice Johnson (M)
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