University Daily Kansan, September 23, 1983
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Mideast
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area of hostilities or imminent hostilities
The Foreign Affairs panel approved the resolution despite grave misgivings about the U.S. military presence in Lebanon, which Reagan has acknowledged was in a "civil war."
Four Americans have been killed in the fighting in recent weeks, although the administration contends the fatal shell fire was not almed at U.S. positions.
"For the United States and its marines,
Lemont is its qumigme," warned Rep. Douglas
Bergsman.
But Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., said the Marines must stay as part of the multinational peace-keeping force in order to give diplomacy a chance to bring peace.
TO WITHIDRAW WOULD signal "that the United States is giving up on its long-term commitment to bring stability and unity to the region." The United States' government used by Reagan and his ton lieutenants.
Presidential spokesman Larry Speaks said the committee's approval of the compromise "speaks well for ultimate passage and indicates widespread acceptance and hippisian support."
The committee rejected two amendments that would have substantially altered the compromise.
"It is important to remember that the
president has signed on to this resolution if it remains intact," cautioned Chairman Clement Zablocki, D-Wis. who angrily protested the Appropriations Committee action.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, equally angry, said he would agree to Zablocki's request to have the appropriations bill sent to the Lebanon amendment and where were the Lebanon amendment could be removed.
THE AMENDMENT TO the appropriations bill was offered by Rep. Clarence Long, D-Md., who said, "An awful lot of Democrats are on my side."
The fund cutoff was attached to a stopgap spending bill necessary to keep government agencies solvent past Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
O'Neill said it might be "a good idea" for Reagan to heed suggestions that he address a joint session of Congress to detail his reasons for keeping the Marines in Lebanon.
Speakes said the idea of such a speech hadn't come up at the White House.
The Foreign Affairs panel, on a voice vote, rejected an amendment by Rep. Ted Weiss, D.N.Y., to cut off the authority for the marines to be in Lebanon at the end of the 18-month period, rather than leave it an open question to be decided at the time.
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Reagan as "the father of the Black Panthers," because the party was founded while Reagan was in office.
A FEW DAYS before Reagan's order was to take effect, Cleaver left the country and embarked on a journey to see how his ideology worked in other countries.
The first stop was Cuba, where he and other Panthers went to learn about revolution and communist ideology. Cleaver said he was both royally but also saw a darker side of life there.
"I had a chance to hear, over and over, from writers, painters, even people in the Cuban military," he said. "They wanted no form of diplomacy but down on their version of communism."
So the journey continued, to Algeria, North
Korea, North Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union and other countries. The older communist regime were only weak.
"I found the people crushed. I found the horror of horrors. I found the Gulag."
WHAT CLEAVER FOUND, in himself, was a commitment to return to his country and to fight communism. He did return, served nine months, and volunteered two hours of community service to clear his record.
Now, while "Soul on ice" sits on library shelves, Cleaver's voice rises and booms across the nation's auditoriums and lecture halls in defense of the country that took him back.
This is truly a great nation, one nation under
Gaul, in invisible, with liberty and justice for all,
he said.
MARCOS SAID HE would understand if for security reasons Reagan canceled his stop in Manila on a scheduled five-nation Asian tour. He asked for President Reagan is what we want," he said.
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The Philippine leader indicated that his main concern was what a cancellation by Reagan would do to the country.
"We have a ticklish monetary situation. All over the world banks are very restless and they are watching countries where there is any kind of crisis, hospitals, who appeared visibly exhausted but alert.
"Can you imagine if President Reagan won't come and the banks translate this into something more than a lack of sympathy but a lack of cooperation?" he said.
"But we will work our way out of every jam, every crisis without crying out. We are used to being silenced."
"We've got the Communists, who are against the (U.S. military) bases (in the Philippines)."
We'll be fighting them all alone but it won't be the first time we're fighting all alone.
ASKED IF HE had made any mistakes during the bloody rioting that killed 11 people and injured more than 100.
"If there was a mistake it was in not showing the firmness that could prevent the violation of law, the destruction of property and lives and the terrorism and gangsterism," said the 66-year-old president who has ruled the Philippines with an iron fist for 18 years.
MARCOS ANGRILY denied that troops guarding the gates of palace were armed or battled there.
“你不会 get that many casualties if you men are armed,” said Marcos, referring to the three government troopers killed and several others who injured rocks or shrapnel from homemade nail bombs.
"When your men are armed, they don't die like that — they don't die like flies.
"Perhaps some policemen were armed, of that
I cannot guarantee. But military were not armed, ordered them not to be armed and I saw them marching on Malacanang without any arms." he said.
"Now that probably was wrong. I should have armed them with weapons that would not cause harm to people."
TOLD OF THE existence of photographs of policemen with firearms, Marcos said it was a "matter of escalation."
Asked about opposition predictions that he would soon resign, Marcos laughed and said, "It's wishful thinking, a childish daydream."
"In the beginning, nobody was armed and then the policemen started getting shot at... If they are armed themselves, I don't know. But my orders were no firearms."
"I intend to continue in public office until my (6-year) term is finished. In the next election, if my party wants me, I will run for re-election."
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really reflect the problems in education. Instead, it is full of broad generalizations.
The report pointed out four major areas of deficiency in American schools:
- High school curriculums have been diluted so that up to 50 percent of the classes that students take are electives. The report suggested the "new basics." These include math, English and social sciences, but they also have included computer science and foreign language.
- The skills that students possess when they graduate from high school are becoming more questionable. American students spend one third less time doing homework than any other developed country, which indicates that high schools are demanding less of students and teachers to turn Grades are up but the amount of homework done and competency levels are down.
- Teachers need to be better educated on the material that they are teaching. Education students are spending more time studying the subject and then using the material that they will actually be teaching.
- American students are spending less time in the classroom. The average school week program has been instruction. The report commanded lengthening the school day or lengthening the school year.
Lorraine Michel, vice president of the Lawrence Board of Education, agreed that the American education system was failing.
"There are 23 million American adults who are functionally illiterate," she said. "Between 1975 and 1980, remedial math classes taught on college campuses increased 72 percent, and they now account for one-fourth of all math classes taught at college."
Michel said that although the goals of school should be "equity and high standards," literacy and keeping up school enrollments were now the goals of educators.
"Education is the foundation of society and the public is demanding more from education," she
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, represented higher education at the forum. She said that the report focused on items already been discussed in higher education.
AT THE PRESENT, all state universities must accept any in-state high school graduate who applies. Tacha said that making stricter entrance requirements into state universities might be part of the answer to the educational dilemma.
Some members of the panel argued that the education system was already doing a good job. Brad Tate, principal of Lawrence High, said that students at High School offered students a good education.
The high school offers a variety of classes, but also offers votech and special education courses.
"We have all the basic tools to do the job in the district," said Tate.
Finally, Sherry Schau, general manager of Quaker Oates Co., said that business was changing and future employees would have to be assigned to be able to get and keep jobs in the future.
Schaub said the report was a good step toward a rectifying the problem.
The report called the American educational system "mediocre."
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