Friday, September 13, 1985
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Judge refftases to block
test of anti-satellite weapon
WASHINGTON (Reuter) A U.S.
judge Thursday refused to block today's
test of an anti-satellite weapon, setting
the stage for a new confrontation with
the Kremlin, which has warned it will
hold its own tests if the weapon is fired. ,
District Court Judge Norma Johnson
denied a request by four Democratic
congressmen and a group of pro-arms
control scientists to delay the contro
versial test.
After hearing arguments for about 40
minutes, Johnson said the issue involved
a political question that did not fall
within the court's jurisdiction. She also
said there was insufficient evidence
that the test would result in irrepara
ble harm.
A U.S. F-15 jet is scheduled to fire a
rocket tipped with a foot-long ASAT
weapon at an old orbiting U.S. satellite
over the Pacific Ocean. Ground-based
radar will be used to determine whether
the weapon hits the satellite.
Pentagon spokesman Fred Hoffman
declined comment on Johnson's deci
sion. He told reporters the test was
"militarily necessary in the sense that
it is a developmental test."
The United States has charged that
Moscow already has an ASAT weapon,
but defense analysts say it is crude
compared to the device being tested by
the U.S. Air Force.
The Congressmen (George Brown of
California, Joseph Moakly of Massa
chusetts, Matthew McHugh of New
York and John Seiberling of Ohio) and
the Washington-based Union of Con
cerned Scientists said President Rea
gan's Aug. 20 decision to proceed with
testing violated a 1985 law requiring
him to certify that certain arms control
steps had been taken.
The Soviet Union has threatened to
resume its own ASAT testing if the
United States proceeds.
But Kenneth Adelman, director of
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarma
ment Agency, Wednesday told Con
gress the planned U.S. test would not
be an irreversible step toward a wea
pons race in space.
Today's planned test will be the first
by the United States against an actual
target in space, Last year, two tests
were held against points in space.
College men comply
Draft verification rule dropped
WASHINGTON (AP) The Depart
ment of Education has quietly dropped
its controversial rule requiring col
leges to verify that male students
receiving federal financial aid have
registered for the draft.
The rule had been set to go into
effect this fall.
A department spokesman said Thurs
day the rate of compliance among
young men is so high that it isn't
necessary to have college aid adminis
trators police the requirement.
"It's been going about 98 percent
perfect, so there's no need to verify,"
said Duncan Heimlich.
"There's just no reason to hold the
schools up" on awarding aid, he said.
"Things are going so well that we're not
going to bother to have the schools
seek proof."
Congress in 1982 passed an amend
ment sponsored by Rep. Gerald Solomon,
R-N.Y., requiring student aid recipients
to sign forms certifying that they had
registered for the draft.
The Education Department then pro
posed a rule holding colleges accoun
table for verifying that the students
actually had registered before award
ing them any federal grants, loans or
other financial help.
Some students and civil liberties
groups challenged the Solomon amend
ment, but the Supreme Court upheld
the law, 6-2, on July 5, 1984. Chief Jus
tice Warren E. Burger said it was
"plainly a rational means to improve
compliance with the registration re
quirement." Although the military is not now
conscripting anyone, draft registration
was reinstituted in 1980 under a law
signed by President Carter. All male
citizens and resident aliens born after
Jan. 1, 1963, must register within 30
days of their 18th birthday.
Caffing it qmits
Angry teachers say they may leave profession
NEW YORK (AP) - A majority of
teachers think their views aren't
being sought in shaping education
reforms sweeping the country, and
more than one in four say they are
likely to quit the classroom within
five years, according to a poll
released Thursday.
"Clearly, many teachers feel left
out of the wave of reform," said Louis
Harris, who conducted the second
annual "Metropolitan Life Survey of
The American Teacher."
Teachers are as opposed as ever to
merit pay, according to the latest
survey. And most also are leery of
allowing school districts to hire non
certified persons as teachers a
growing practice in New York City,
Los Angeles, New Jersey and
elsewhere.
Low salaries and poor working
conditions were cited by nearly two
thirds of the 27 percent of teachers
who said that they were "very likely"
or "somewhat likely" to leave the pro
fession in five years.
More than half of all teachers sur
veyed said they had seriously consi
dered leaving the profession for some
other occupation. But those who have
stayed on said they did so mainly
because of their love of teaching.
Teachers are telling
the American pub
lic that education is
headed for deep
trouble unless teach
ing is treated as a
true profession.'
NEA President Mary Hatwood
The telephone survey of 1,847 pub
lic school teachers conducted
between April and June found that 36
percent say they experience "great
stress" on the job, compared with
only 27 percent of all American
adults who say they feel that way.
"Teachers are telling the American
public that education is headed for
deep trouble unless teaching is
treated as a true profession," said
Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of
the National Education Association.
The survey findings were particu
larly ominous because federal studies
now estimate that by 1992 the nation
will have 34 percent fewer teachers
than are needed.
The teachers gave mixed grades to
the moves toward educational reform
during the past several years, includ
ing efforts in some states to improve
curriculum, increase salaries and
require students and teachers to pass
standardized tests.
Most significantly, Harris said,
nearly two-thirds 63 percent felt
their views were not sought in shap
ing educational reform. A nearly
equal proportion, 64 percent, said
reforms reflect the views of their
administrators.
More than nine out of 10 teachers
believe that "provfcang a decent
salary" and "more respect for
teachers in today's society" would
help retain good teachers.
But 50 percent said "merit pay"
based on a teacher's performance on
evaluations or tests "would not help
at all" to attract good teachers to
their ranks.
ewsm sitters
A roundup of the day's happenings
The last 119 of more than 10,000 Lebanese prisoners
captured by Israel during the last three years were
released to the southern Lebanon Red Cross on Wednes
day but Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was quick to
warn Thursday that the release would not set a precedent.
In an unusual letter to 2.1 million active U.S. mil
itary personnel, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger
pledged that current retirees and personnel on active duty
will not face pension reductions. Congress proposed in a
still-pending 1986 defense bill that $2.9 billion be slashed
from the $18.2 billion sought for the controversial military
retirement fund.
When the final exhibit from the Nebraska State
Fair was taken down, State Fairgrounds General Manager
Henry Brandt quickly turned his attention to thoroughbred
horseracing, which opens a 40-day stint in Lincoln today.
Great American writers don't talk cheap. Sixteen
of America's most famous, including Norman Mailer,
Arthur Miller, Kurt Vonnegut and Saul Beliow, will read
from their works on Broadway this fall in a lecture series
that costs $1,000 a seat and already has sold out.
When film legend of the '30s and '40s Greta Garbo
celebrates her 80th birthday Wednesday, she'll most
probably be alone the way she has wanted to be since
retiring from Hollywood 44 years ago. In her last published
interview almost 50 years ago, Garbo said, "Being in the
newspapers is awfully silly. It's all right for important
people who have something to contribute, to talk. I have
nothing to contribute.
The NU Press has printed a 50th-anniversary edi
tion of "Old Jules," Mari Sandoz's biography of her "repel
lant yet fascinating" pioneer father.
Should babies be given the vote? In Sweden, the
issue is no joke. It has been raised by the Swedish Pediat
ric Association, which proposes that all the country's 1.9
million children be enfranchised.
Ethnic minorities in the Netherlands, who find
their needs and culture neglected by the established
media, are making their own television programs to fill the
gap and help develop a more multiracial society.
Cincinnati officials unveiled another sign of the
city's affection for Reds star Pete Rose they've renamed
Second Street as Pete Rose Way.
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Soviet spymaster for Britain defects
LONDON The government announced Thar: J. 7 that the Soviet
spymaoter fcrEritain has defected and has identified 23 cr; brs-s agents
v ho "ore being expelled from the country.
The Foreign G3ce sold Qler A. Gordltv&i, 43, recently had been
zppcir.ted head cf the Soviet KC3 office in Lcni:a tut effected because
he ". i;hed to become a citizen cf a democratic covxtry e ". i live in a free
socitiy." lie was grated ssylura in Britain.
fir Cecffrcy Ibvve. the foreign secretary, ccHeitrs election a "sub
stantial ccyp," fcr the C::ti:h security services.
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Re'iujliccno coizo sanctions bill.
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bill in .1 e.xU. cry tii to halt
reverted Democratic eCaris top: stronger curls thn Jh'-c$ imposed by
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Ser - ta rules require the tiil to I c p resent fhyeiciy la the ch;jnber on
the c!;rk's t?.tlc fr the Ser.ta to z.d.
Eiicr, frustrated De:r.e-cras in the ninority in the Senate, temporar
ily gave rp their fiht to force ttsl action en the till but vowed to try
tsr?n sanctions onto ether legislation drrkg the next few months.
Demccratic Sen. Ed.vsrd Ker.rec'y cf lt!assachus$tt3, a leing suppor
ter cf toucher sanctions er;rJnst South Africa, accused republicans of
trickery and action "beneath the dignity cf the Senato" by smuing the
bill c it cf the chamber. '
A V cy Senate uit said Moriiy k ader Bob Dole of Kansas and Senator
Bich&rd Lusr of Indiana, chairman of the Foreip Eelati?r$3 Committee,
said the Republicans had removed the till 4to a sse fh-ee."
N uclear war survivors vould starve
WASHINGTON Eillions cf people who Ec:r.c!,7.v -;nlcd the first
blasts cf a nuclear war would merely faee dravai -out deaths by starvation,
an international scientific group soidThursd ay b a n?. udy supporting
the theory cf a crop-ruining global "nuclcsr v, Lr . t,w
Although an imae of total devastation after .1 r.-deor sttack may well
be accurate for areas around actual targets, one cf the r,: art's authors
famine conditons in unscathed areas would te fcr mora typical as
hundreds cf millions cf tons cf black smoke drastically cut sunlight and
robbed crops of needed warmth and light from the sun.
Estimated famine deaths of 1 billion to 4 billion of the wcriJ's 5 billion
people after direct blast and radiation effects of actual attacks would cost
several hundred million lives.
"The main mechanism by which people would die after a large-scale
nuclear war would not be blast effect, would net be burns, would not be
i&uiuiuii uui ramer wouia oe mass starvation," one ccctor said.
S. African businessmen, ANC to meet
LUSAKA, South Africa Defying their government, five prominent
white South African businessmen are scheduled to ircct with leaders of
the African National Congress guerrillas today, informed sources said
Thursday.
t Anglo-American Corp. chairman Gavin Belly is to lad a f.ve man panel
in talks with ANC president Oliver Tair.bo and other -u:rri!h leaders
aoout ways to end the country's political and c cosmic crises. The
meeting would be the first known contact between th3 buainc-ssmen and
the banned ANC, which is the main nationalist rreup frtbg white rule
of South Africa. w
The South African government eppooes contacts v.'ith crr-anizations
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Lincoln doctors recommend vaccine
LINCOLN A new vaccine that protects ch ii ';;n f - a t ctrrii that can
cause severe infections, including meningitis, b t;:rg r:ccra:nended by
Lincoln physicians snd public health nurses.
e..iCal authorities say the vaccine protects srhat hacmophilus
ira.uenzae type b (III3) diseases in children 2i mcr.tr 3 to 6 years of age.
u s particularly important that children between the -cs of 18 months
ana d years who attend nursery schools and day-core centers be protected,
OiiiCi&iS said.
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