The World - News from Feb. 1, 1989

History examinations for Soviet students, canceled last year, will be given again this year--but with a twist, a Soviet newspaper said. Teachers will now be able to devise their own exams, and students will be permitted to disagree with their teachers and textbooks without receiving lower grades, according to Uchitelskaya Gazeta, the national teacher’s newspaper. Last year’s exams in history were called off because the books on which they were based were at odds with accounts of Soviet history being printed by the Soviet media.