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Thursday, April 28, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11 by Scott McCullar COUFt hcaFS death penalty issue ^5 bond. Oilers ;e thatimaai draft has ben g and what inization,'’ Schools ‘need reforms’ United Press International Wt; pVASIUN('. I'ON — President and major education itgan atm major ups favor a commission’s posals to upgrade America’s ools, but remain at odds over the government’s role in tlie rackboneofiWroom. reesmtiBReigan stood linn Tuesday (season In bis position that education !5tha offensive kt| he Oilers i| with their i :k Steve BttJ nerbackCn rth round, i n the sixthiii souri inthti Is less, not more, federal in tention. The education orga- [itions argued that greater lemtnent involvement is ded — particularly in ■tiicing. Regardless, both embraced jereport by the National Com mission on Excellence in Educa tion that cited slumping achieve ment scores and concluded that schools are in a dire need of re form. The 18-member commission, appointed 20 months ago by Education Secretary Terrel Bell, made several recommendations — including a greater emphasis on math, science and English, better-paid teachers and more homework. It also asked state legislatures to consider lengthening the school year, asked colleges to stiffen entrance requirements, and asked parents, students and the nation to make an increased commitment to education. The president, in an address to a group of educators at the White House, linked future progress in education to his poli tical agenda. “We’ll continue to work in the months ahead for passage of tui tion tax credits, vouchers, edu cation savings accounts, volun tary school prayer and abo lishing the Department of Edu cation,” Reagan said. He said the declining quality of education in America dates directly to the growth of federal intervention in school system. “Our education policies have squandered the gains of the Sputnik era,” he said, referring to the science programs that were popularized with the 1957 launch of the first Soviet satel lite. “Financing education is pri marily the responsibility of the states and local governments,” Bell said. But Albert Shanker, presi dent of the 580,000-member teachers federation, warned, “State and local governments will not heed these recommen dations without financial help.” United Press International WASHINGTON —The Sup reme Court should halt the use of a new legal shortcut that could send death row prisoners to their executions more quick ly, argue lawyers for Texas in mate Thomas “Andy” Barefoot. In a case with implications for the 1,163 condemned prisoners nationwide, Barefoot’s lawyers told the justices Tuesday that death row inmates cannot have their cases fairly heard if they must operate under a crash schedule. “(It) does not help the federal courts, does not help criminal justice and is certainly to the de triment of criminal defendants” lacing immediate execution, argued Jack Greenberg of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Greenberg criticized a prac tice by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of quickly dismissing a death row inmate’s last-hope challenges without normal re view time. The policy almost sent Barefoot to his execution in January. Only 11 hours before Bare foot was to be given a lethal in jection on Jan. 24, the Supreme Court halted the execution and agreed to make his case a prece dent. In opposition to Greenberg, Texas Assistant Attorney Gen eral Douglas Becker contended the processing of death penalty appeals should be sped up, at least when a prisoner fails to raise solid challenges in the final stages of the process. “We want people off death row,” Becker said, either by ex ecuting them or having their sentences quickly set aside if they are unconstitutional. So far, the New Orleans appeals court is the only in the nation to try the legal shortcut. Both times it used the technique, the court combined its consider ation of a prisoner’s request for a stay of execution with his con stitutional challenges. By denying both prongs of the prisoner’s legal request at the same time, the court cleared the way for the inmate to be ex ecuted without further delay. Under ordinary procedures, it would have taken months to process the inmate’s appeal and meanwhile, the execution would have been postponed. The first use of the procedure was in an appeal by Charlie Brooks. In that case, the nation’s highest court refused 6-3 to in tervene and let him be executed in Texas on Dec. 7, 1982. The justices reconsidered when Barefoot, 37, was to go his death for fatally shooting Har- ker Heights policeman Carl Levin in August 1978. The high court agreed to re view how federal appeals courts, generally the next-to-last hope for condemned prisoners, should handle final-hour re quests for stays of executions. esearchers testing accine for gonorrhea lini f | [ United Press International QSlCfl TTSBLJRGH — A promis- conorrhea vaccine being ''IT Rd on U.S. military person- j U |jn Korea could lead to corn- eradication of the venereal ulnumMW* that strikes U P to 4 mil ‘ - Jack Wort ilAmericans a year, a resear- ; guard wit says. ignornU Initial testing in the United isferredtoS t es on more than 200 volun- teUnivenit »showed the vaccine is the ollow coat^t safe and effective preven- (afiomafir if medication for the disease, id Dr. Charles Brinton, who mhingtons develop it over the past s a freshnffl p e in his microbiology quit this pas l( ! rator y at the University of rns had bee ! b urgh. byBobWdl [The vaccine also is being an said bet F on 3,500 soldiers in Korea mstinSunil jart of a worldwide project, isfertoOla W ton sa ^ Monday. Hewi/ik jfaJ] tests prove successful, ckuphisi nU)n h°P es t° have the vac- ility. cine on the market in two to four years. “Gonorrhea (bacteria) has tiny protein hairs called pili that stick to human cells and tissues, and that’s the first step in infec tion,” Brinton said. “If you can stop that step, you can stop all the other steps.” The vaccine contains these pili, and injecting it spurs the development of antibodies that prevent the bacteria from latch ing onto host cells, he said. Gonorrhea strikes only humans. “You interrupt the chain of disease,” said Brinton, who jointly developed the vaccine with doctors from Washington’s Walter Reed Army Institute. “We hope to eradicate the dis ease through vaccine, like small pox has been eradicated.” He said initial results of the Korean tests, conducted by the Army, are expected in about a month. ms mtms mmm& Mother's Day Specials 30% OFF Gold Chains & Pendants 415 University Charges CriNE JEWELRy] 846-5816 Lay-a-ways eshman averag assists a gai pear, heavt Of thl KILLER TOMATOES IK V CINEMA I & II SKAGGS CENTER 846-6714 “GANDHI” (PG) Bast Picture - Actor 8:00 “MONTY PYTHONS MEANING OF LIFE” <R) 7:30 9:30 CINEMA III .lOST OAK MALL 764-0616 “FLASH DANCE” <R) 7:45-9:45 “LOCAL HERO” (PG) 7:20 9:40 BAD BOYS’ 7:00 9:30 (R> jSCHULMANjf BMSH ♦2000 E. 29th 775-2468 * Mon.-Family Night Sch. 8 * LONG wfe * McQUADE 7:20 9:40 * Max Dugan Returns 7:15 9:30 THE OUTSIDERS 7:15 9:30 Table for Five 7:25 - 9:45 Losin’ It 7:20 - 9:40 HIGHROAD TO CHINA 25 9:45 PRESENTED BY msc cepheid variable thur. 28april, 7 3 °- 9 45 701 RUDDER Travel Tools for Texas t the USA. 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