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University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1983
Crisis thwarts weapons race, study reports
By United Press International
LONDON - The economic crisis is forcing a slowdown of the arms race and developed countries are having to concentrate more on the quality rather than quantity of their weapons, the International Institute of Strategic Studies said in a report published today.
Although governments are spending more on arms — a world total of $800 billion last year — they are getting less for their money, the institute said in its annual "Military Balance."
The institute said there was no major change in equipment inventories over the year. And it predicted "the long-term economic basis for defense and the demographic trends presage considerable difficulties for many military forces, like the armed forces at their current inventory levels over the next 10 to 15 years."
Robert O'Neill, the institute's director, told a news conference, "The Trump administration has decided to devote an ever bigger proportion of spending and resources to defense.
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"I think we will see a substantial reduction in arms in both major and minor powers."
STE. MADELEINE, Quebec — Five people died and another three were injured yesterday in a fiery chain-reaction crash touched off when a car slammed into a gasoline tanker truck on a fog-shrouded stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway. Thick black smoke billowed 600 feet into the air, and the fire spread to three fuel tanker trucks and nine other vehicles.
National report on education discussed at Lawrence forum
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
A seven-member panel composed of educators, parents and legislators met at Lawrence High School last night to discuss the report from the Commission on Excellence in Education, "A Nation at Risk."
The forum, presented by the Kansas State Board of Education, was part of a series of nine forums presented across the state this fall.
Lee Johnson, assistant superintendent of schools at Leavenworth, agreed with the report and said that the school was accepting mediocrity in schools.
He referred to the Pennsylvania State Board of Education as a board that had already acted on increasing graduation requirements, by tripling its science requirements and adding a computer science requirement.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION requirements, the report recommends, should be increased in the "Five New Basics," which would entail four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of science, three years of social studies, and one-half year of computer science.
Ruth Ann Hackler, a board member from Olathe, disagreed with the recommendation for an increase in graduate study at the university, as vast majority of high school students in
our country, high school is the end of the road."
An increase in graduation requirements in the "Five New Basics" areas would allow less time for students to receive vocational training, Hackler said.
Pat Boyd, a Lawrence educator who was named Kansas "Teacher of the Year", said that the report might be inconclusive, because it compared other nations' students in the top 5 percentile. Other schools in the United States educate every child no matter how gifted or academically oriented, she said.
"A NATION AT RISK" included data from other countries suggesting that the United States is falling far behind in educating students.
The panel chairman, Gordon Schultz, a state board member from Whitewater, gave the panel positive conclusions from studies on Kansas' educational system. According to recent comparisons with other states, he said, Kansas has the second highest literacy rate, behind Iowa.
Hackler also cited the reluctance of federal and state governments to appropriate more money for recompensate school day and school year increases.
She also pointed out that the "Five New Basics" would require a greater influx of educators, so that "an institution is provided for people to go into education."
PUBLIC NOTICE ON NIGERIA
The Nigerian Students Association is hereby issuing a cordial invitation to all the students, faculty and staff of the University of Kansas and the general public of the Lawrence community to the 23rd Anniversary of Nigeria's independence, Saturday, October 1, 1983. This occasion will feature the following:
1. Soccer: Nigeria vs. the World 1:00 p.m.
Location: Field in front of Watkins Hospital
III. Disco Party 9:00 p.m.
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II. Symposium and Cultural Play 3:30 p.m.
Location: Big Eight Room—Level 5, Kansas Union
We look forward to your participation in this, our important celebration.
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