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United Press International
TBILISI, U.S.S.R. — The Soviet
Union’s drive against corruption has
resulted in death sentences and long
prison terms for several public offi
cials in the republic of Georgia, a
member of the country’s ruling
Poliebro said.
In a speech to a Georgian Com
munist Party meeting, Eduard She
vardnadze admitted economic crimes
are still a problem in the Soviet
Union.
Shevardnadze’s May 24 address,
reprinted in provincial newspapers
during the weekend, indicated many
of his listeners already knew about the
strong punishment that has gained
public exposure for the first time.
“You will recall in recent times the
court organs of our republic have
taken the strongest measures against
cases of embezzlers, plunderers,
bribetaking and dealers up to the
highest means of punishment,” he
said.
Soviet officials use the expression
“highest means of punishment” as a
euphemism for the death penalty. He
did not specify how many people had
been sentenced to die or if any death
sentences had been carried out.
“Many have been sentenced to long
terms of deprivation of freedom,” he
said. “Why then should one knowing
ly ruin oneself and one’s dear ones?”
Shevardnadze, 55, is a member of
the 19-man party Politburo that runs
the Soviet Union. He also is first sec
retary of the Georgian Party.
Georgia has a flourishing economy
but historically has suffered from
free-wheeling corruption and pro
fiteering.
Giving one example, Shevard
nadze mentioned an “especially large-
scale” case in which food warehouse
officials ignored warnings to quit dec
laring some goods spoiled so they
could be sold on the black market for
personal profit.
In another case, the republic’s fi
nance minister was dismissed in 1981
for bribery and blackmail. His fate
also was not known.
“There will be no weakening (of
prosecution) in the future, either,”
Shevardnadze said. “This struggle
will require even greater sharpness
and sternness.”
Shevardnadze, the party’s first sec
retary in Georgia for 11 years, urged
all public officials in the Soviet Union
to sharpen their personal responsibil
ity for “every governmental kopek
(the smallest unit of Soviet cur
rency).”
both public and private, Cooper says.
“I would simply say (the board’s
purpose is) to assist, in every way pos
sible, young people in making the
transition from secondary to college
education,” he said.
The board serves that purpose in
ways other than achievement tests.
Cooper said. One of its many other
functions is assisting students in ap
plying for financial aid.
Before the College Board’s assist
ance, different applications were
used by the many institutions offering
student financial, aid. Now, Cooper
said, thanks to the College Board one
standard form is used.
When Cooper assumes his duties in
October as one of the 25 members of
the board of trustees, he will enter the
top ranks of an organization he has
been associated with for 11 years.
“I can tell you it is a real honor,”
Cooper said.
During the past year, Cooper was
the chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Southwest Region of the
College Board. The region, one of
eight in the United States, comprises
four states: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan
sas and New Mexico. It was at the
February meeting of the region that
Cooper, after stepping down as chair
man of the executive committee, was
elected to the position of a trustee.
Cooper also has served for the past
11 years as the Texas A&M represen
tative to the College Board. Each
member of the board, whether a high
school, university or other education
al institution, has a representative to
the College Board. He was elected to
his new four-year position by the rep
resentatives.
Cooper has been associated with
Texas A&M for many years, both as a
student and an administrator. He re
ceived a bachelor’s degree in wildlife
management in 1953 and was a mem
ber of the Aggie Band. He also served
as a county agricultural agent and in
the 2nd Armored Division of the
Army.
Cooper has served as assistant to
President Earl Rudder, director of
civilian student activities and director
of admissions. In 1971, he became
assistant to President Jack K. Williams
and in September of the same year
was appointed to his current position
of dean of admissions and records.
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because of poor science education
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smalla®ETROIT — A weakening of sci
re invipee education has placed the United
d,25 ’bies in “jeopardy,” and more fund-
werectoj. a better curriculum and qualified
liven Rchers must be sought to correct the
rertPuBblem, scientists said Monday.
charttB' A shortage of pre-college science
Gregorfed mathematics teachers, first mea-
i Ha:'^ re( i in 1980, has continued to
i possf# rsen ,” Betty M. Vetter of the Scien-
, rt R, ilc Manpower Commission said.
jthpoBln 1982, 42 states reported a shor-
;e of physics teachers, 43 of mathe-
tics teachers and 38 of chemistry
Ichers.
‘New graduates are not available,”
she said at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science
annual meeting.
“Courses are being dropped, un
qualified teachers hired and test
scores falling. The quality of teacher
aspirants also is down and experi
enced teachers are leaving for other
jobs.”
F. James Rutherwed, A A AS chief
education officer, said in an inter
view: “But there are some deeper,
more fundamental problems why
we’ve gotten ourselves in this
trouble.”
He cited a failure to crystallize
goals for education in general.
“We’ve gone for a long period with
out any leadership,” Rutherford said,
adding President Reagan seems to be
more concerned with school prayer
than the major issues.
“It is now abundantly clear to near
ly everyone that the United States has
placed itself in jeopardy by allowing a
weakening of science education,” he
said. “The question is not at all about
the problem and its nature, but rather
what action needs to be taken by each
level of government and by the pri
vate sector in order to re-energize and
re-establish our ability to provide a
strong scientific education to all stu
dents.
“Communications, transportation,
health, military — everything we in
vest a large fraction of the total ex
penditure in — is getting new know
ledge. In science education, that
amount is almost trivial,” he said.
Rutherford said an “antiquated sci
ence and math curriculum” needs to
be updated. He suggested a modern
delivery system by satellite with re
ceiving stations at schools.
“School administrators are willing
to assign teachers from other fields —
such as history — to teach science
courses. That’s not leadership in my
judgment,” he said.
United Press International
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Leaders
of the largest industrial democracies
head home from their seven-nation
summit today, agreed on a broad
strategy to maintain the emerging
economic recovery and spread it
around the world.
President Reagan and his wife,
Nancy, arranged to say goodbye to
the leaders this morning after hosting
an elegant banquet for them Monday
night under a big tent.
Reagan — seated next to French
President Francois Mitterrand, who
led Allied pressure on him to ease
high U.S. budget defits — toasted the
success of the summit at the dinner.
“I think we can drink to the causes
that have brought us here, to the suc
cess we have had and to the dream of
continuing on this road as far as we
can see,” he declared.
During candid private talks around
an oval conference table Sunday and
Monday, West European leaders
pressed Reagan to ease the United
States’ projected $200 billion budget
deficit they blame for high interest
rates they fear in turn will slow re
covery.
The “Williamsburg Declaration,”
as it is being called, included that
view, described by all as sharply but
cordially expressed.
Reagan, involved in a budget dead
lock with Congress over how to re
duce the U.S. deficit, argued the U.S.
recovery will bring interest rates
down regardless of the deficit.
Reagan won the show of unity he
wanted from the Allies — sensitive to
the growing nuclear freeze move
ment — Sunday, however, pledging
commitment to global arms control
and deployment on schedule of
medium-range nuclear weapons in
Western Europe if Moscow does not
join in an agreeent.
Report questions
inaugural practices
EC official may be probe subject
United Press International
VASHINGTON — The enforce-
Ifent chief at the Securities and Ex-
lange Commission has been ques
ted by a federal grand jury in New
Irk investigating his role as a consul-
am for a firm indicted for conspiring
oribe a state tax official, it was re
tted Monday.
But The Washington Post, quoting
federal sources, said John Fedders
currently is not a target of the grand
jury probe, which already has re
sulted in the indictment of the Dallas-
based Southland Corp., parent of the
7-11 chain, for a bribery and kick-
back scheme.
The sources said Fedders, who has
appeared before the panel twice, is
only a subject of the grand jury, de
fined by the Justice Department as a
“person whose conduct is within the
scope of a grand jury investigation.”
The Justice Department did not
have an immediate comment on the
report.
A House subcommittee also is in
vestigating Fedders to determine
whether he was aware of the alleged
bribery and kickback scheme. Fed
ders’ lawyer told the newspaper that
Fedders did not know of any wrong
doing.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The use of
military personnel as chauffeurs and
aides during President Reagan’s inau
guration was of questionable legality,
the General Accounting Office con
cluded in a report.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., re
quested the report after he gave his
monthly “Golden Fleece” award to
the Inaugural Committee for using
1,533 military personnel as chauf
feurs and aides “to 274 inaugural
VIPs as well as several hundred addi
tional inaugural celebrants.”
Proxmire said Monday the GAO
report said there is “no specific au
thority” for the Pentagon to provide
drivers, personal escorts and social
aides for inaugural activities.”
The cost to the Defense Depart
ment was estimated at $1.8 million
said Proxmire, a member of the Sen
ate defense appropriations subcom
mittee.
“To this day. Inaugural Committee
members still claim no public funds
were spent,” he said in a statment.
Proxmire said the GAO concluded
the Pentagon could pay the expenses
of military personnel by actually tak
ing part in the ceremony and provid
ing medical and safety support.
“But logistics and administrative
support for other participants was
clearly ruled out,” the senator said.
The Defense Department pro
vided “similar though less extensive”
support for Jimmy Carter’s inaugura
tion in 1977, Proxmire said.
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Bports 9
State 4
National 11
Memorial Day honors
America’s war dead
forecast
\ 30 percent chance of thunder-
ihowers today and tonight with a
tich of 80 and a low near 61. Vari-
ble cloudiness Wednesday with a
20 percent chance of showers and a
tigh near 81.
United Press International
Memorial Day ceremonies honored
America’s war dead from the Revolu
tion to Vietnam, along with military
men killed recently in El Salvador and
Lebanon, and a stockbroker in New
York offered the most unique tribute
by climbing the 110-story World
Trade Center to unfurl an American
flag.
Cities and small communities
across the nation put on parades, de
dicated plaques and had 21-gun sa
lutes Monday. Some people marked
the day with quiet graveside visits.
The Vietnam War remained the
most sensitive subject with veterans
from that war refusing to march in an
American Legion parade in Sag Har
bor, N.Y. At the new Vietnam War
Memorial in Washington, D.C., De
puty Secretary of Defense W. Paul
Thayer placed a wreath and said,
“There are few memories more pain
ful than the Vietnam War. There are
few wounds that took longer to heal.”
Six Vietnamese restaurants in
Houston opened their doors to Viet
nam veterans and their families to
thank the people who fought their
war.
“We wanted to do something to re
member the servicemen who died
and honor them and those who came
back,” said restaurant owner Tran
Vuong Quang. “And this is our way of
reminding them of one of the nicer
things about Vietnam: the food.”
About 250 veterans and their fami
lies gathered in National Cemetery at
Little Rock, Ark., to hear Gov. Bill
Clinton urge Americans to honor
those who died in the small conflicts
as well as the major wars.
Cattle raisers to file suit to stop
blockade on livestock shipments
United Press International
AUSTIN — With a federal
quarantine on Texas cattle that
could cost ranchers millions of dol
lars looming at midnight today, it
appears the issue will be settled in
the courts.
A spokesman for the Southwest
ern Cattle Raisers Association said
his group will file suit in U.S. District
Judge James Nowlin’s court in Au
stin today to stop the U.S. Agricul
ture Department from imposing the
blockade on interstate shipments of
Texas cattle.
Texas Attorney General Jim
Mattox said he also will go to court to
stop a quarantine.
Last week, the Independent Cat
tlemen’s Association of Texas and
two individual south Texas ranchers
filed suit in Hidalgo County and
obtained a temporary restraining
order prohibiting the USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service from imposing the quaran
tine.
However, APHIS said it was un
sure if a Texas district judge had
that authority.
“A federal quarantine on inter
state shipments of Texas cattle will
cost our livestock industry and a lot
of decent ranchers millions of dol
lars,” said Cattle Raisers Association
spokesman Steve Munday.
The USD A said it called the
quarantine because Texas’ brucello
sis eradication program does not
meet rigid federal standards fol
lowed by other states.
The Texas Senate Friday defe
ated a measure to bring the prog
ram into compliance.
a cutoff of most federal funds to
fight brucellosis in the state.
Those funds totaled about $11.5
million in 1982 and were projected
to amount to more than $8 million
in 1983, said USDA spokesman Don
Nielson.
Under the quarantine, breeding
cattle may be shipped out of Texas
only from qualified herds that have
passed two tests for the disease 120
days apart, he said.
Animals from herds that do not
meet those requirements — includ
ing unspayed heifers over 6 months
of age coming out of feedlots —
must be branded with an “S” and
can only be shipped for slaughter,
Nielson said.