71.   When the plan to end remedial courses was first disclosed last week, it was presented to a CUNY committee without any indication of its authorship.

72.   While white students constitute a majority of those taking remedial courses nationally, black and Hispanic students are overrepresented.

73.   Others, like most of the Central Asian nations, are candidates for that remedial course.

74.   If they were giving grades for democratic elections in the former Soviet Union, a lot of countries would be held back for a remedial course in representation.

75.   Instructor Oscar Casdorph, of Tempe, Arizona, said Al Salmi hired him in April for a remedial flying course after Al Salmi flunked his initial licensing test.