University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 15, 1989
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ROTC student told to finish obligation
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The U.S. Army has ordered a college student, who set off a nationwide search when he ran off with his new wife to find "perfect" men we gave four years as an enlisted man to work on his HC scholarship.
Scott Swanson, 24, will be permitted to finish college, delaying his induction to active duty until as late as May 1990, officials said. Swanson is working as a sales representative and educating a education at an unidentified college.
Swanson can appeal and, if the Army approves, avoid service by paying back the $14,673 ROTC scholarship in a lump sum. "In most cases it is accepted," Capt. Charles R. Wade, an ROTC spokesman, said.
"I won't appeal," Swanson said Monday. "I will enlist."
Monday. "I will enlist."
Swanson swallowed ROTC contract and his wife, Carolyn, disappeared April 2 before he had completed his military and academic
obligations at Wheaton College, a private Christian school. He had been scheduled to graduate last May.
Had Swanson completed the requirements, he would have had to serve four years as an officer.
The Swansons were secretly married a week before they disappeared. Their ransacked car was found in a Chicago alley with the engine running, leading to fears of foul play.
The couple turned up unharmed July 27 in San Diego, where they said they had been living under assumed names, pursuing "perfect love."
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Wagner, the national ROTC commander, issued a statement Monday saying he had determined that Swanson willfully evaded the terms of his ROTC scholarship and was disroiled from the Army ROTC program.
"He is directed to serve on active duty as an enlisted man for four years to satisfy the ROTC contract agreement," he said.
U.S. company ordered to pay victims in India
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — Union Carbide Corp. agreed yesterday to pay $470 million to India's government in a court-ordered settlement resulting from the 1984 gas leak at Bhapal, which killed more than 3,300 people in the world's worst industrial disaster.
Activists in Bhopal denounced the settlement as a betrayal of the 20,000 victims who still suffered from exposure to the deadly gas that escaped from a pesticide plant Dec. 3, 1984. The government had sought $3 billion in damages.
Chief Justice R.S. Pathak interrupted a government prosecutor's routine argument when the court reconvened after lunch and ordered the U.S. based multinational firm to pay the damages by March 31.
Lawyers for the government and
Union Carbide agreed.
"It was apparent that there was an-out-of-court agreement between Union Carbide and the government," said a spokesman on the condition of anonymity.
More than 2,000 people were killed almost immediately when the white vapor of methyl isocyanate seeped from a storage tank at the Biddeford Indian subsidiary and drifted over nearby shantytowns and into Bhopal.
The leak occurred shortly after midnight, and some victims died in their sleep. Others, blinded by tears and gasp, suffered a tremor, tried to die in death.
More than 20,000 people still suffer from exposure to the gas, and victims continue to die at a rate of at least one a day, according to a government gas relief board. It said the death toll had reached 3,329.
Reading, writing, arithmetic Students lacking high achievement, report says
WASHINGTON — the traditiona classroom, with its lecturing teacher and workbooks, is turning out students with basic skills but little more, says a report issued yesterday.
The Associated Press
The National Assessment of Educational Progress called for major changes in how and what American students are taught, based on 20 years of evaluations that indicated a disturbing lack of high-level achievement across the board.
it to reason effectively about what they know — skills that are essential if they are to take an intelligent part of the lives of life work," said the report.
"It is apparent that fundamental changes may be needed to help American schoolchildren develop both content knowledge and the abil-
The group credited "relatively traditional" classrooms, relying heavily on textbooks, workbook exercises and teacher presentations, with gains at the lower levels of achievement.
But it said teachers would have to become less authoritarian and students less passive if more sophisticated learning was to occur.
"Discussion teams, cooperative work groups, individual learning logs, computer networking and other
activities will need to be added and may even predominate," the report said.
The group has studied the math, science, reading and writing performance of 9., 13, and 17-year-olds for 20 years under the auspices of the private Educational Testing Service. Some 1.4 million pupils have participated in the studies, which are paid for by the Education Department.
The group's latest observations come in "Crossroads in American Education," a review of trends in all regions since the first assessment in 1970.
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The report said reading proficiency had improved and earlier declines in math, writing and science appeared to have been reversed. In addition, it said gaps between minority and white student performance had been reduced considerably in certain subjects.
But the report noted that not all lost ground had been regained and even the benchmark — the earliest assessments — was considered below par. Furthermore, it said, recent gains may have been at the lower levels.
Khrushchev attends U.S. conference
The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said yesterday the opportunity for improvement in superpower relations was greater today than at any time since his father's ouster in 1964.
"In the past, unity between peoples was considered science fiction. But today, we see that as a real possibility," Sergei Krushchev said at a Harvard University news conference on his first trip to the United States in 30 years.
The 54-year-old, heavyset computer scientist came to the university for a Soviet-American news conference on a six-year Harvard study of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, who took the superpowers into an enlarw war.
nedy in the showdown, praised two new books resulting from the study that called for the United States and the Soviet Union to move away from military confrontation and toward "sustainable peaceful competition."
But he also stressed continuing misunderstandings, including what he said was an inaccurate report that Fidel Castro asked his father to launch a nuclear strike against the United States.
"It seems to me that the main thing is, we've come to understand how poorly we actually understand each other, and those misunderstand levels. We have even at the highest levels," Krhuschev said.
In contrast to his father, a hot-tempered leader who once banged his shoe in anger on a table at the United Nations, the young Khrushchev appears
Khrushchev, whose father faced President Ken-
soft-spoken and urbane. Nikita Khrushchev, premier from 1588 to 1694, died in 1791.
In an attempt at levity, Krushchev tried to tell a story about his youth. But, as if to prove his point about misunderstandings, the story fell flat when a translator muffed the punch line.
Khrushchev's last visit to the United States was in 1969, when he accompanied his father on a tour through Disneyland, Iowa cornfields and Hollywood movie studios.
Khrushchev, who has a doctorate in computer science, lived in relative obscurity for more than 20 years after his father lost power. But recently he has attracted attention with the publication of his diaries. He also is editing the Russian edition of his father's memoirs, which never have been published in the Soviet Union.
Balloonist launches first solo Pacific trip
The Associated Press
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Fumio Niwa soared into the night early today, hoping his huge orange and blue balloon would find the easterly jet stream and carry him to San Diego on the first solo balloon flight across the Pacific.
reports said the winds in the jet stream, which begins at about 35,000 feet, had veered to the north and probably caused the balloon to sink. It was justed.
big so I think I'll make it, some- where.
San Diego is the sister city of Yokohama, his hometown, but Nika might not reach it even if he crosses the ocean successfully. Late weather
Just before setting off for North America, which he hoped to reach in about four days, Niwa said, "My long dream of crossing the Pacific is coming true today. I still wonder if it's really possible. The jet stream is bending strangely, but America is
"As people say, things that go up must come down, so I'm not very worried."
His balloon has no maneuvering ability, so its direction depends entirely on the wind. It carries no navigation equipment, and Niwa must rely on amateur radio reports or based on satellite tracking.
Ground equipment that was used to receive the satellite data malfunction, and a standby unit was installed, delaying his takeoff for several hours.
Niw, 38, said he never outgrew his childhood love of playing and was called what he hoped would be a 5,000-mile flight to test the balloon and gondola, both of which he designed.
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