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High school students offered college credit
13 By United Press International
NEW YORK — A record 6,273 of the nation's 23,000 high school last year gave bright juniors and seniors a chance to earn college credits by taking college level courses and then passing an exam, the College Board said yesterday in a report on its Advanced Placement program.
Seventy percent of grades given in £29,666 tests taken by the special students last May were 3, 4, or 5 levels usually accepted for college credit, the report said.
The addition of 446 schools and about 19,000 students for a total of 177,406 in 1984 marked the largest annual increase in the Advanced Placement Program's 29 year his president. George Hanford, board president.
High school students who take a sufficient number of advanced courses may shave as much as one year off a four-year college education, saving one-fourth of the normal cost of a bachelor's degree.
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*Particularly noteworthy is that Advanced Placement is a college-level program of educational excel
"It is challenging students from all income levels, in inner cities, suburbs and rural areas."
lence that is work in schools of every description." Hanford said.
Other highlights of the first "National Summary Reports for Advanced Placement";
"Advanced Placement is like a shot of adrenaline for a school system," said Harian P. Harson, the school's advanced placement program.
- Minority students accounted for 15 percent of all college-level advanced placement exams taken, up from 11 percent in 1979.
- Males took 52 percent of the exams, performed better than females on all but 6 percent, and achieved the average grade . 3.19 versus 3.04
- The most popular exams among those on 24 introductory college courses were English literature (60,507 exams), followed by American history (40,632) and introductory calculus (30,151).
Victims of celebrating fans get brighter tour of Detroit
DETROIT — Thirty-eight senior citizens from Indiana got a free trip to Detroit to compensate for a terrifying experience at the hands of rampaging fans celebrating the World Series last month.
The three-day, red carpet trip included visits to Greektown, the Edsel and Eleanor Ford mansion and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Transportation, food and lodging were provided free.
By United Press International
The group returned to Indiana yesterday after breakfast at a
On Oct 14, the group was aboard a tour bus that arrived in the downtown area from Canada shortly after the Detroit Tigers won the World Series. A mob surrounded the bus at Hart Plaza.
The mob rocked the bus and broke into the luggage compartment, stealing most of the luggage. The terrified group canceled a planned stopover in Detroit and left for New York, many many personal belongings.
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Detroit citizens, shocked by the incident, invited the group back for a look at the better side of Detroit.
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Bishop criticizes single issue plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The president of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops yesterday rebuked "single issue" Catholics who make abortion the church's only issue on the public agenda.
"We oppose a "single-issue strategy because only by addressing a broad spectrum of issues can we do justice to the moral tradition we possess as a church and thereby demonstrate the moral challenges we face as a nation." Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, the president, told the opening session of the annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
MALONE'S SPEECH PUT him and the conference leadership squarrel on the side of what has been called the "consistent ethic of life" movement, led by Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, and opposed to other influential prelates who stress abortion as the primary public policy issue for Catholics.
"The inner logic of Catholic moral principles has taught us to join issues rather than to isolate them," Malone said.
Malone's speech to the approximately 300 bishops said that the bishops' conference must "affirm a multi-use moral vision"
The speech also hinted that the bishops' conference may shift its strategy on the abortion issue while not ending its strong oppose
In the past, the bishops have been united behind the drive to
secure passage of a constitutional amendment that would overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Malimeine long ago acknowledged the division in Catholic ranks over the controversial issue.
"WHILE our POLICY efforts must continue so must our work on public opinion," he said. "We especially need to concentrate on our Catholic people in their efforts to form correct conscience."
He said there was "troubling evidence" that the nation no longer cared about the poor and "without a public opinion sensitive to the poor we will have little trust in our compassionate policy for them.
Malone strongly endorsed the work of the bishops' committee in writing a draft statement on the church and the U.S. economy, underscoring the committee's determination to continued poverty in the United States.
THE THEME OF Malone's speech was the religion and politics debate that occupied much of the recent presidential campaign The speech committed the bishops' conference to continue efforts to build a strong, inclusive and influence public policy on four of the most contested issues: nuclear arms, poverty, abortion and Central America
"Poverty is a direct attack on the image of God found in the least of our neighbors," he said. "The moral quality of a society is judged not by how it honors the powerful and powerful individuals, priests and needs of the powerless."
Light CIA reprimands spark Moynihan's ire
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., yesterday criticized President Reagan's decision to reprimand only low-level CIA officials and the manual saying production of the "represented" "a failure of command."
"If anybody's to be reprimanded, it should not be in the field." Moynihan, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, telephone interview from Jerusalem
Reagan approved two internal investigations of the manual Saturday, concluding that the agency's preparation of the manual did not violate U.S. law or a ban on CIA involvement in political assassinations.
A CIA inspector general's report "identified instances of poor judgment and lapses in oversight at lower levels within the agency" that led to the manual's distribution before objectionable material concerning
the use of violence could be excised, the White House announced.
The 90-page manual recommends the "selective use of violence" to "neutralize" officials of Nicaragua's leftist government.
The White House said disciplinary action against an unspecified number of CIA employees could include letters of reprimand and suspension of pay, but did not say whether anyone would be fired. In his Oct. 21 televised debate with Walter Mondale, Reagan said he would dismiss any CIA employee found responsible for the manual.
Moyhain, who was in Jerusalem to attend a conference, had read the CIA inspector general's report on the manual and said he did not think the report presented all the information available about the manual.
"It's not the story I would tell," he said, noting the report did not point out the manual was drawn from a course on communist guerrilla tactics used in 1968 at the U.S. Army Special Warfare School.
Robot works to make reactor safe
By United Press International
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — A robot has taken the first step to de-contamination of Three Mile Island's crippled Unit 2 reactor, providing the first look at the facility's highly radioactive basement, the plant operator said yesterday.
"We have opened up an area we haven't had access to," said Dave Giefer, head robotics developer for GPU Nuclear Corp., the plant's operator. "We see this as the first step to decontamination."
The basement is the most contaminated area of the reactor, damaged in March 1979 in the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident. No human has set foot on the water-covered floor since the accident.
The remote-controlled inspection vehicle is the first in a generation of working robots that will be lowered into the basement, Giefer said Later models will perform decontamination work.
On its first mission Friday, the six-wheel, half-ton vehicle was lowered in the basement for four seconds to reach levels and send back video pictures.
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