Thursday, Sept. 19, 1985
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U.S. is gold mine of facts for Soviets
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviets have been much more successful than previously thought in stealing Western technology, and as a result the United States has been helping subsidize the military by providing a nation of defense Secretary Caspar W. Weisnerberg said yesterday.
Weinberger released a study asserting the Soviets have targeted specific American defense contractors and universities and are acquiring thousands of technical reports that are not classified but are useful. They also are diverting high technology equipment designed for one purpose but which can be used in weapons programs, he said.
"By their own estimate, more than 5,000 Soviet military research projects each year are benefiting significantly from Western acquired technology." Weinberger said during a news conference. The report said that while comprehensive figures were not available, the Soviets estimated they had saved at least $640 million in 1980 alone on selected military research projects by obtaining western technology.
either Weinberger nor Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle, who later briefed reporters on the study, would elaborate on the sources used to measure the Soviet effort.
But the report, Perle said, should lead to efforts by the United States to even up the number of Soviet diplomats allowed to operate here compared with the number of Americans in the Soviet Union. The United States and its allies also should consider 'a system of cooperation' between Soviet agents who are expelled from one country from gaining posts in other allied nations, he said.
Perle said he would recommend that President Reagan not discuss any broader scientific and educational ties with the Soviets when he met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in November.
The study was described as the product of a special Technology Transfer Intelligence Committee, including officials from the Pentagon, the CIA and 20 other U.S. agencies. Much of the general information in the study had been disclosed previously. But it gave what it called more examples of how the Soviets collect information and products and what they do with the technology.
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Doctors dispute AIDS risk in schools
NEW YORK - Physicians gave contradictory testimony yesterday in the battle over whether a 7-year-old AIDS victim should attend school, with one saying the girl could contaminate her classmates and another saying the danger did not exist.
"The public has to know there is a real danger," said Jose Giron, chief of infectious diseases at Flushing Hospital. "The whole ritual of the blood brother or the blood sister where one pricks one's finger and exchanges blood is clearly a risk."
But Pauline Thomas, a doctor who specializes in treating children suffering from AIDS and who sat on the city panel that recommended a second-grader afflicted with the
deadly disease be allowed to continue her schooling, testified the youngster could not pass on her illness by casual contact or biting.
The two physicians testified at a hearing on a request by two Queens school boards to pull the 7-year-old girl out of school.
Thomas said that the girl was unique because she had lived well beyond the 6-month life expectancy for a child infected with the AIDS virus.
The testimony came as the chief medical officer at the United Nations announced that eight members of the 6,000 U.N. employees in New York have contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome and four have died of the disease.
The report did not identify the
victims or the departments were they worked.
The child's lawyer later said that his client was not suffering from AIDS now.
Despite objections from parents fearing the youngster would contaminate their children, New York City officials granted the 7-year-old girl permission to continue her education.
Officials have not identified the student or disclosed which of the 623 elementary schools in the nation's school system the child attends.
"It is extremely rare that children in a classroom bite each other," said Thomas, who is in charge of pediatrics-AIDS studies for the New York City Health Department. She also said there was no evidence that
AIDS could be transmitted in circumstances such as biting.
Giron, who has treated 100 AIDS patients, including five children, acknowledged that he knew of one patient whose disease was transmitted through a bite.
"I think that when all is said and done, this is a situation where we do not have the data," he said. "I would prefer to be cautious so that we do not have any spread to others who would be innocent victims."
He added that responsible individuals such as principals, nurses and teachers should be notified that they have a child in the class who is suffering from AIDS.
Should the youngster get a cut or require physical care, a teacher or school nurse should wear gloves to clean up the blood, he said.
Students' reading levels improve
Minorities still behind in reading skills
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The reading ability of 17-year-old students improved during the past four years after a decade of stagnation, but 9- and 13-year-olds have stopped making progress, a federally hacked testing agency said yesterday.
on tests administered to 250,000 school children during the past 14 years, also dramatized the large gap remaining between minorities and the white majority.
At all three age levels, pupils read better now than in 1971, the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported. The greatest gains have been registered by blacks and Hispanics.
The average black and Hispanic 17-year-olds can read only slightly better than the average white 13-year-old, the report said.
"We are not raising at present a generation of "illiterates," he said during a news conference. "Virtually all of our children possess rudimentary reading skills sufficient to follow simple directions
The report graded reading on a five-step scale — rudimentary, basic, intermediate, adept and advanced.
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett called the findings good news and bad news.
But "The Reading Report Card," a study based
But he expressed concern that almost 36 percent of the 9-year-olds had not acquired the basic comprehension skills needed to succeed in third and fourth grade work, and that 40 percent of the 13-year-olds and 16 percent of the 17-year-old students lacked the intermediate skills.
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