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Search heightens for escaped killer
BALITMORE—The search for a 31-year-old convicted cop killer intensified yesterday after authorities learned he had threatened the lives of 74 people in the city.
miser Unger of Shape Gap, Pa., allegedly “told some of the inmates he'd been housed with at the (penitentiary) that he couldn't get at them while in prison, but he'd try to retaliate through the family chain,” Lt. John Himpelmann of the state police Waterloo barracks said.
State police will speak with penitentiary inmates today to get more details about Unger's threats, Himmelmann said.
Himmelmiln said the threats were a major reason police were making unusual efforts to recapture the inmate who has escaped from prison seven times since he was first locked up in Chambersburg, Pa., at age 17.
Unger was imprisoned at the penitentiary in Baltimore for two years before being transferred to the Patuxent institution July 14. Last Wednesday he and two other inmates who have since been captured broke out of Patuxent.
Himmelman said the FBI would probably enter the investigation for Hunger Monday, based on the belief that he may have fled to Pennsylvania.
Penitentiary warden George Collins said he had no knowledge of any threats Unger made against other inmates or their relatives.
"Nobody ever mentioned it to me," Collins said. "I didn't know he had any enemies."
Casey approved anti-Kaddafi plans
WASHINGTON - CIA director William J. Casey approved an agency scheme to topple the Libya Col. Muammar Kaddafi from power, it was announced on Monday.
But the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Newsweek magazine reported, was so outraged by the plan that it sent a strong letter of protest to the White House.
Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign director, is currently facing an investigation into his past business dealings by the Senate Intelligence
Newsweek said that Max Hugel, former CIA deputy director of covert operations, presented the agency plan to the House committee. Hugel recently resigned after reports linked him with possibly illegal business practices.
The CIA plan, according to the magazine, called for a campaign to embarrass Kadian and create of a counter-government to challenge his paramilitary activities.
The House committee interpreted the agency's goal of "ultimately" removing Kaddafi from power as a code word for his assassination.
Although Casey denied that the plan included killing Kaddafi, one source quoted by Newsweek said the committee just didn't trust the CIA director.
An administration spokesman, according to Newsweek, said Keagan has not yet seen the committee's letter of protest because it was going through an investigation.
FBI says Hinckley acted alone
WASHINGTON—The FBI has turned up no evidence indicating that John Hinckley, the man accused of shooting President Reagan and three others last March, was involved in a conspiracy to kill the president, an agency spokesman said yesterday.
FBI spokesman Anthony Schippa said a three volume report on Hinkley was turned over to the Justice Department last week.
"The bottom line is the investigation did not turn up any evidence of a conspiracy." Schianna said.
He declined to give details of the report—the second submitted to the Justice Department since the March 30 shooting—but said it was 1,500 pages. It's the final comprehensive report on the Hinckley investigation, Schippera said.
Justice Department spokesman Tom Decail declined to comment specifically on the report, but said it would be used by government
Within hours after Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a Washington police officer were shot, law enforcement officials say.
Hinkley, the 28-year-old son of a wealthy Colorado oil man, has been undergoing psychiatric examination at a federal prison in Butler, N.C. A federal grand jury has been hearing evidence in the case against Hinkley, but has not returned an indictment.
Colony independent after Sept. 21
LONDON-Bellize, the last British colony in continental Latin America,
will become independent on Sept. 21, the Foreign Office said yesterday.
The announcement followed talks in London last week between George Price, prime minister of Belize, and Nicholas Ridley, British minister of
The 23,000-square mile colony of 151,000 people, formerly known as British Honduras, has been the focus of a lengthy wrangle with neighboring Guatemala. Under a 19th century treaty with Britain, Guatemala has laid claim to part of Belize's territory.
For years, the government of Belize refused independence without a defense guarantee from Britain to secure its borders from Guatemalaan
Guatemala participated last March in preliminary discussion in London about independence for Belize, but did not attend the talks that led to today's
The agreement specified that British forces, which now number 1,600 troops, will remain in Belize "for an appropriate period."
The announcement, made jointly in the Belizian capital of Belmopan and in London, said the agreement established a sound basis for the security of Belize.
it follows, will remain in Delaware that Britain will provide military training for Belize and that "certain countries" will act to protect Belize if it comes under attack.
The Foreign Office did not say what countries would be involved, but a spokesman said Ridley would discuss the entire agreement in a statement to
Successful fetus surgery performed
SAN FRANCISCO—A University of California medical team performed its first successful surgical treatment of an unborn child, a twin now 11 months old.
Michael Harrison, a UC San Francisco pediatric surgeon, said the operation was the first successful surgical intervention in utero. However, doctors in Boston and Denver have reported similar successes.
The second twin had been nearly since conception, like doctors's observations on the critically ill male fetus suffering urinary blockage last April.
websites; doctors reported yesterday.
The second twin had been healthy since conception, the doctors said.
A similar operation was also reportedly performed in a Denver hospital. The patients were born May 10, one month prematurely, which is normal for twins.
Doctors at Boston's Pet Ben Brigham Hospital reported earlier this year that they successfully drained excess fluid from the brain of a poten-
Doctors said they were not certain whether the baby would have died without the surgery. But they are sure he would have suffered serious injuries.
Iran denies receiving U.S. arms
LONDON—An Argentine cargo plane that crashed in the Soviet Union had just delivered U.S.-made military supplies to Tehran as part of a $27.9 million arms deal between Israel and Iran, the Sunday Times reported.
But in Tehran, the Iranian foreign ministry called the Sunday Times report a "fairly tale", in a statement quoted by state-run Tehran radio.
The ministry also ridiculated the Soviet claim that no trace was left of the creature'sinian plane that supposedly was carrying food and relief to Iran.
The Sunday Times said the alleged arms deal was to supply Iran with 360 tons of tank spare parts and ammunition it desperately needs to pursue its interests.
Students complain of instructors' lack of proficiency in English
By DAVE McQUEEN
Staff Reporter
Maria L. McDougal, Lawrence junior, felt cabled. Although the professor in her calcu- tion class seemed familiar with the lectures were hard to understand.
"She talked very softly and had a thick accent," McDougal said. "And she didn't seem to know how to teach American students."
McDougal said that because she couldn't understand the professor's poor English, she had to drop the class.
SUSAN K. LAUGHIN, Lawrence junior, felt she had wasted her time trying to understand her math professor.
"He was intelligent, there was no doubt about that," Laughlin said. "But he couldn't hit his point across."
Laughlin said that because his English was so bad, she and 15 others dropped the class.
No uniform criteria exist at the University of Kansas to determine the language proficiency of a professor or graduate teaching assistant who speaks English as a second language. Some students said they thought it was a good idea to admit the chairman and deans admit there have been a few complaints.
One criterion that is used to determine English proficiency is the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
However, some department chairmen and the head of the Applied English Center are critical of the teacher. They say it doesn't judge teaching ability.
WHILE THE UNIVERSITY encourages department chairmen to guarantee the language proficiency of anyone who teaches at KU, the exact language required for mentoring, according to Jerry Hutchinson, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"We have not dictated what these procedures will be, but he left the design up to the department chairman," Pitchchun said.
But Hutchison said it wasn't very likely that a professor would do that.
However, Hutchison also said the evaluation information was controlled by the fact that it did not only from the public, but from the evaluation committee as well.
SINCE THERE ARE no set guidelines for determining a faculty member's language proficiency, it usually determined through the hiring process, according to Robert D. Bowers, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
He said that all full-time faculty were subject to peer review on their research, community service and teaching ability. Most of the information used to judge their teaching ability, came from student evaluations.
"At evaluation time, if a professor doesn't have anything to prove that he can teach, then he's in trouble," he said.
This process, Adams said, included bringing prospective candidates to the campus and interviewing them. The student was also assigned a seminar on his area of research.
It's better than not having somebody to teach them at all.
"It's a judgment call," Adams said. "If they can't communicate with us, they probably can't communicate with the students."
Adams said that because most of the faculty candidates they recruited had earned doctorates at American universities, assumed they were proficient in English.
The computer science department, of which more than one-third of the faculty is foreign, relied heavily on each candidate's interview and required presentation in determining whether to hire him, according to Victor L. Wallace, chairman of the computer science department.
The computer science department hires many foreign professors and instructors, Wallace said, because foreign universities have better doctoral programs in computer science than most American universities, and also because of the high demand for higher technicians in the business world.
BECAUSE OF THIS high demand, and a sharp increase in the computer science course enrollment, Wallace said he would be to as selective as he would like to be.
"It's better to have someone who can convey the subject matter well, but may have an accent that's hard to get used to, than not having a faculty member to teach that subject at all," Wallace said.
While most of the department chairmen and deans interviewed acknowledged there had been some complaints from students unable to
"It's a complaint raised less frequently than one over other areas of teaching." John Tolleson, dean of the School of Business, said.
understand a professor or teaching
person, and then they believed the
problem was significant.
Tolleson said the School of Business, which has a small number of foreign faculty, usually averaged about one percent more master's degree about a professor's English.
In computer science, according to Wallace, the only time students complain about a foreign professor's lesson during his first semester of teaching.
"I can't recall any significant complaints about a professor after the first semester," he said.
EXCEPT FOR A couple of complaints about a calculus professor, the department of mathematics has had little trouble with foreign professors, according to Charles J. Himmelberg, man of the mathematics department.
"It's generally the TA's where we get the complaints," he said.
Some of the deans and department chairmen said they believed that most
"He was intelligent, but he couldn't get his point across."
of the complaints were usually linked to some other reason.
"Very frequently, when a student complains about the language proficiency of one of our faculty members, I ask them if they are really comfortable with language deficiency, or is this the case a convenient excuse to get out of the class?" "Tolleson said."
Gordon Wiseman, associate chairman of the department of physics and mathematics.
“There are some students who come
on their shoulder.” Wise said.
"I think the students see it as a problem," Lisa D. Menzle, Shawnee Mission Jimson, said. Menzle was one of the faculty members at the calculus class Laughlin was in.
Ros W. Brickley, Plainville freshman, said that he has had problems understanding teaching assistants in his economics, chemistry and calculus.
"I think it's a gigantic problem," Brickley said. "There are so many
them, it's hopeless to make a complaint."
Foreign students who want to be teaching assistants are required to pass the TOEFL. Although a student must have a high score to teach, it still isn't a good measure of someone's ability to handle a classroom, Elizabeth Soppsela, director of the Applied English Center, said.
Sopelape said that while the test was an accurate measure of ability to understand written and spoken English, it couldn't test for the cultural differences that might hinder a person's ability to teach.
Because of these cultural differences, the foreign teaching assistant might not be able to respond to a student's question clearly or teach his class in a way American students are used to, Sopelna said.
Supporters Wiseman, and most other department chairmen, said they felt the same way about the TOEFEL.
BECAUSE OF THE TOEFEL's problems some departments with large numbers of foreign teaching assistants have set up their own programs to test teaching ability. In the physics department, for example, all foreign and native students wanting to be teaching assistants are required to undergo a training period, Wiseman said.
The training, he said, included explaining an experiment in a simulated classroom situation, with students asking the instructor questions about the experiment. The teaching assistant is evaluated. Wiseman said, on his ability to explain the experiment and answer the students' questions.
Universities with large foreign student enrollments have training programs for all foreign students who want to teach, Soppela said. The University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, for example, has a class that all foreign teaching assistants must take that acquaints them with American classroom atmosphere and evaluates their ability to teach.
Soppela said that a course like that would be a good idea for KU.
"It makes a lot of sense that a course like this could be offered," Suspensa said. "We don't have the staff for it and we are trying to hire more faculty."
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