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S. African government offers integregated school proposal
The South African government yesterday proposed a way for segregated public schools to become integrated private schools if parents favor such a change.
The announcement by Education Minister Piet Clase gave no indication that the government intends to integrate public schools, a demand made by leading anti-autism groups.
good public schools, which are completely funded by the government, have been segregated by race for decades under apartheid laws. However, many private schools, which receive some government money, have been integrated in recent years.
Under the government plan, parents would have to vote on whether to integrate the schools
British hostage has been ill still alive, former hostage says
Terry Waite, the Anglican Church envoy held hostage in Beirut for more than $3½ years, has been ill but is alive, released Irish hostage Brian Keeen said yesterday.
"He was in the same apartment as I was being held in," Keenan said in an interview with Britain's Independent Television News. Wate's cousin, John Wate, said this was the first confirmation in more than three years that Terry was alive.
Keenan, 38, was released last month after 4 years in captivity. He said he heard the guards calling Waite by his first name. He said he was sure they were talking to Waite, and not Terry Anderson, because he heard Waite speak and recognized his English accent.
U.S. budget talks at standstill; participants voice complaint.
Stalled budget talks between Bush administration officials and congressional leaders reached the negotiators' self-imposed deadline in February. The president complaining publicly about the lack of progress
For a fourth day, bargainers haggled in the privacy of the officers' club of Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, 10 miles from the capital. With little progress to report, House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., told reporters that he asked White House meeting with President Bush
Before the talks began, bargainers said they had to shake hands on a deal yesterday to give Congress time to enact it by the Oct. 1 start of the coming fiscal year.
If there is no deficit reduction plan in force by that day, the Gramm-Rudman law will automatically pare government spending by $100 billion.
From The Associated Press
Unwanted German goods to be delivered to Soviets
The Associated Press
EAST BERLIN — German officials yesterday announced a deal to help troubled East German farmers supply shortage-plagued Sovietis with food and precious cigarettes.
The contract, estimated at $636 million, will allow East Germans to rid their packed storehouses and processing plants of millions of tons of unsold fish, livestock, butter, milk and flour.
East German stores for the past several months have been spurning homegrown goods in favor of Western products, and the nation's farm sector has been the most restive sector. We have been the most restive section of the workforce.
About 253,000 pounds of meat, 60,000 tons of butter,
a. 1000 tons of fish and more than 1 million eggs are
used in making the meat.
Also included in the deal is the sale of 1 billion cigarettes. The Soviet Union has been plagued by cancer and death.
The contract was announced by government officials and West German Agriculture Minister Ignaz Kiechle, who will be in charge of East
Germany's farm economy after the two nations unify Oct. 3.
Officials said deliveries would begin in the next few days and continue through June.
Jane through June. Guenter Krautsch was Germany's state secretary, called the deal a "suitable contract."
East German farms — Soviet-style collectives that are typically overstaffed — have been unable to sell enough goods to cover their payrolls and to sell them because of the nation's switched to a free market July 1.
West German food chains made deals with East German stores in March requiring them to stock many Western products, nudging East German goods off the shelves.
Farmers have been slaughtering cows and pigs prematurely because they could not find places to sell them or afford to feed them, and some harvest has been unsold. half of a record grain harvest has been unsold.
Officials also announced that West Germany would give about $20 million in aid to the East European states.
ACT averages show no change while minority scores improve
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Average scores on the ACT, the predominant college-entrance exam in 28 states, were unchanged in 1989-90. but minority students improved, prove, the test's publishers reported yesterday.
The average national composite score among 817,066 graduating high school students was 20.6 on a scale of 1-36, according to American College Survey data, based organization that administers the exam.
Students in 1990 took a new form of the test, called the "Enhanced ACT Assessment," and therefore results were not directly comparable to previous years.
But ACT officials calculated that the scores from last year and the previous school year, which used different data sources, were close.
ACT averages have been practically unchanged on the past five years and offer fresh evidence that learning through experiential play is effective.
Two weeks ago, the College Board, which sponsors the SAT, the predominant college entrance test in the remaining 22 states, reported that averages on the verbal section of the test had to be the lowestest in a decade, and math scores were unchanged for the fourth straight year.
The ACT is a four-part exam testing English, mathematics, reading ability and scientific readin-
The SAT and ACT are supposed to test a student's readiness for college. But the ACT is generally considered a broader test of high school mastery than the SAT, which tests a more circumscribed set of math, reading and language skills.
The new version of the ACT, given to students for the first time in October, included new measures of writing ability, new advanced math questions and a new reading test stressing reasoning skills.
ACT officials have consistently declined to release state-by-state test data because they argue that it would increase comparisons. The College Board issues a similar comparison, but nonetheless releases state-by-state SAT data.
Among the ACT results:
■ Students who took all or more of a recommended core high school curriculum, defined as four years of English, and three or more years of math, social studies and natural sciences, averaged 22.3. Students taking less than that amount of coursework averaged 19.1.
- Forty-five percent of students taking the test
    and the core courses, compared with 36
percent in all.
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