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Monday, March 14, 1994
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Gergen: No plans to leave this year
By Tom Raum The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The fumbled handling of the Whitewater affair by the White House is the kind of public relations nightmare David Gergen was hired to help President Clinton avoid.
Yet the seasoned image-master, a survivor of the Nixon Watergate years and the Reagan Iran-Contra investigation, has been fading from sight in recent months.
Gergen, 51, helped Clinton recover from early presidential trouble. But he was conspicuously missing from Clinton's side for months — and only recently came out of the woodwork to defend the president on Whitewater.
His lowered profile further fuels persistent rumors that he's about to leave. He shrugs off such talk and says he plans to stay at least through the end of the 1994 congressional session.
But other White House aides said privately that they wouldn't be surprised if he left sooner, perhaps for a high-powered media job — and that they had difficulty defining his exact job right now.
In an interview, Gergen, who retains the title of White House counselor, seemed to have a little trouble with that concept himself.
"I give, I try to give, advice to the president as best I can on a range of issues that include, that go across the board, foreign as well as domestic issues," he said. "I'm happy. And I have no plans to leave. What I do each day is very important."
A reorganized White House staff, the president's 1994 agenda and the rise of deputy chief of staff Harold lckes have all resulted in a diminished role for the former TV commentator
and editor-at-large of "U.S. News and World Report."
Even before the Whitewater matter began to mushroom, Gergen's star was being eclipsed by that of Ickes, 54, a former New York lawyer with close ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gergen has been cut out of two significant White House priorities this year: health-care reform and the midterm congressional elections. Both have gone into Ickes' portfolio.
Ickes, known for his organizational skills and ability to get White House meetings under way on time, was also overseeing the damage control effort on Whitewater.
White House insiders said Gergen had urged more openness in releasing and opening Whitewater files, joining senior adviser George Stephanopoulos and political adviser James Carville. But the team of lawyers handling the matter, including recently resigned counsel Bernard Nussbaum, argued the opposite.
"Lessons are not remembered as well as they should be," Gergen said on ABC's "Nightline" last week. It was a reference to the failure of White House officials to be as forthcoming as they should be — from Watergate to Iran-Contra to Whitewater.
One of the jobs Gergen is rumored to be in line for is Washington bureau chief of ABC. Both Gergen and ABC have denied that such a move is in the offing.
Gergen, in a CNN interview, conceded that there were some in the White House who did not trust or like him.
"You know, one has to be philosophical about it," he said. "I really honestly believe that, you know, if you spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder, you don't spend much time looking ahead."
New SAT tests analyzing not memorizing
WASHINGTON — When 200,000 college-bound high school juniors and seniors show up to take the new Scholastic Apitude Test on Saturday, they'll have something besides their O.2 penchants with them. For the first time, they can bring calculators.
The Associated Press
That's just one of the changes in the test, which will be different from the SAT given for the last 20 years.
Seventy-five percent of the nation's colleges and universities use the SAT in their admissions decisions. The College Board, which sponsors the test, said the new version better measured a student's ability to think critically and more accurately reflected what was being taught in the classroom.
"High school and college teachers from around the country suggested that the new SAT should continue to emphasize thinking more than memorizing; that is, emphasize the ability to use information, knowledge and skills, more than testing
whether you have information, knowledge and skills. The changes in the SAT reflect this advice," the College Board said in its book "Introducing the New SAT."
About 200,000 high school students are expected to take the test Saturday. Because of the new format, some students at Manasquan High School in New Jersey decided that they needed more time to prepare, Principal Jeffrey Osborn said.
Kate Hill, a 17-year-old junior at Manasquan, got a taste of the new exam when she took the pretest — the PSAT — in October. She'll take the new version of the SAT in May.
In 10 of the 60 math questions, students will have to figure the answer, rather than pick one of five presented as a multiple choice. They'll have to write in the answer, then express it in a grid, column by column.
Half of the new SAT's verbal section will test reading comprehension, said Lisa Bartl, associate director of the New SAT Project for the College Board. The new test assesses a student's vocabulary through the reading passages, rather than through a separate section on antonyms, or opposites, which has been dropped.
"We're asking students to think more critically, to take a more active posture rather than rote memorization of words," Bartl said.
To help students prepare, Osborn is using videos and computer software prepared by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and providing test-taking skills and sample questions in math and English classes.
The College Board discourages outside coaching classes offered by private companies.
"Short cuts to beat the test don't work," Bartl said. "If a student takes the time to really get familiar with the test format and has done extensive reading and development of reading abilities, there's no reason to be more nervous about this test than any other test."
a study by Price Waterhouse that said participation in Kaplan's test preparation classes increased a student's score by an average 115 points. A perfect SAT score is 1,600.
"There is a tremendous anxiety about the SAT, now more than ever," said Kate Foster, Kaplan's SAT director.
Kaplan has enrolled about 150,000 students annually, but Foster said that has increased significantly with the introduction of the new SAT. For the new PSAT alone, she said, enrollment was up 300 percent.
The National Center for Fair and Opening Testing, which is critical of standardized testing, says the winners in the new SAT will be companies such as Kaplan and Princeton Review. Students, it said, are the losers because of the "failure to address the test's fundamental flaws such as its gender and class biases." The College Board says there is nothing wrong with this.
NAACP urges investigation of Wichita shooting
"The test is absolutely fair, and it always has been." Barl said.
The Associated Press
WICHITA — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wants the Justice Department to investigate the death of a 24-year-old man in a shoot-out with Wichita police.
James Crump, president of the Wichita branch of the NAACP, said Saturday that an investigation by the organization had determined that Officer Terry Fettke had violated the civil rights of Franchot C. Mitchell.
Crump said the group also thought that the officer had used unnecessary
and excessive force when he shot Mitchell 16 times after a traffic stop on Feb. 1.
After being stopped, Mitchell lunged out of his vehicle and began firing at Fettke's partner, Officer Mark Barnes, with a 380-caliber semiautomatic handgun. Bullets struck Barnes in the side and face.
Fettke returned fire, killing Mitchell.
"There's no evidence that indicates racism was involved," Crump said at a news conference. "But there is substantial evidence that indicates that the officer acted in blind rage and was
seeking revenge because his partner had been shot."
Fettke was exonerated by District Attorney Nola Foulston, who on March 4 said Fettke had used "reasonable and necessary" force.
The NAACP's investigation reported that Mitchell had shot at Barnes without provocation but that Fettke had used unnecessary force in shooting Mitchell 16 times.
Most of the shots hit Mitchell from behind, and many were fired when Mitchell was on the pavement unarmed and only trying to get up, the NAACP report said.
Foulston said that witnesses had seen Mitchell reach for his gun, lying a few feet away on the pavement, before Fettke resumed firing at Mitchell.
Though Crump said he thought Mitchell's shooting had been unjustified, he did say that the police harassment Mitchell had complained about might have caused him to react the way he did.
Mitchell had complained before the shooting that he had been unnecessarily detained and handcuffed twice by Wichita police officers, on July 31, 1992, and March 8, 1993.
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