Thursday, April 28, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11
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United Press International
Wt; pVASIUN('. I'ON — President
and major education
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posals to upgrade America’s
ools, but remain at odds over
the government’s role in tlie
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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
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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.
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