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erot urges educators to lob
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L PASO — Dallas millionaire
Ross Perot continued his al-
on the state board of edu-
ation Tuesday and urged a
roup of El Paso educators and
leaders to lobby for the
[ecomniendations of the gover-
’s Select Committee on Edu-
ation.
“Individually and as an orga-
liization, contact your legis
lators and urge them to support
the select committee’s recom
mendations as a package,” he
said.
Perot said the state board of
education “has been in opera
tion for 25 years and has let the
schools deteriorate to their pre
sent condition.”
Included among select com
mittee’s recommendations are:
• Replacement of the 27-
member elected state board
with a high-talent, cohesive, ap
pointed board.
• Equalization of state aid
for school districts so that chil
dren in poor areas of the state
have an equal opportunity for a
quality education.
• A standardized cost ac
counting system.
• Accountability for aca
demic achievement.
Wayne Windle of El Paso, a
member of the state board, said
he was opposed to Perot’s idea
of an appointed board because
West Texas would be left with
out adequate representation.
He said he also opposes Per
ot’s suggestions to drastically re
duce vocational education and
to increase the number of hours
in the school day and the num
ber of days in the school year.
Many of the select commit
tee’s recommendations, Windle
said, originated with the state
board. He cited increased ap
propriations, more pay for tea
chers and equalization of state
aid for the 1,180 school districts
in Texas.
Perot said it was necessary to
“put and keep a great teacher
with a first-class rigorous text
book in every classroom.”
He called for increased
homework and a decrease in ex
tra-curricular activities.
Reagan bypasses Congressional notificaton of sale
U.S. sends weapons to Saudis
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WASHINGTON — The
■nited States announced Tues-
lay it has delivered 400 Stinger
■iti-aircraft missiles and a huge
■nker jet to Saudi Arabia to
Bolster the Arab kingdom’s de
fenses against air attacks in the
Persian Gulf war.
■ President Reagan bypassed
legally required notification of
Congress of the Stinger sale by
■ting the “current emergency
Brcumstances” in the oil-rich
Bkilf region, where Iran and
It,it) have escalated their 44-
■onth war of attrition to in
dude attacks on commercial
fspipping.
The new U.S. hardware will
be used to protect Saudi oil,
port and naval facilities, a Pen
tagon spokesman said.
Announcement of the sale,
made by the State Department,
came four days after the admin
istration decided to launch the
emergency military airlift. The
heat-seeking missiles, 200
shoulder-held launchers and a
KC-10 tanker — a converted
DC-10 jetliner — arrived in
Saudi Arabia on Monday.
While the Stingers will be
used by Saudi troops after
training by a special U.S. Army
team dispatched with the ship
ment, the tanker will be flown
by an American crew and con
duct refueling only over Saudi
territory, the Pentagon spokes
man said.
The missiles and launchers
are valued at about $30 million.
In addition, the administration
decided to speed up deliveries
of previously purchased special
fuel tanks for Saudi Arabia’s
U.S.-built F-15 fighters, en
abling them to stay on patrol
longer, the State and Defense
Departments said.
The missiles, taken from U.S.
stockpiles, and the KC-10 were
dispatched under an emer
gency order signed by Reagan
High court to review
Indian claim to land
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superb I'w ASH INGTON — The Su-
, rs in aroB eme Unirt stepped into a dis-
ivs. ‘'and:|P llte between the federal gov-
ork withIMnnient and two Shoshone
Indian sisters over ownership of
that Bed]'- million acres of land in Ne-
throuehoiiB^ 3 — nearly a sixth of the
us A&M:: I slale -
nts whom!
I And the court handed the
ith and,'-|Qumuull Indians of Washing-
hurdi 1 ton state a victory in a tax case
rom home H refusing to review a lower
as servedMurt ruling allowing the tribe
Nobles' to tax non-Indians who own
lusinesses on tribal lands.
_^l lln the Nevada case, the jus-
1 ill' ! ces sa ' ( ^ Hiey will review a fed-
^|| 11 Eal appeals court ruling allow
ing Mary and Carrie Dann to
Birsue their land claim. Argu-
Beaum penis will be scheduled in the
um. B 86 nexl term, which begins in
Bilober.
ers includtBThe disputed land extends
, e, illiistraijrouglily from the northeast cor-
ssancelolnei of Nevada through the cen-
iblitalions trdl portion of the state. Most of
illustrawiis desert. The largest commu-
i book conily on the contested land is
?r, authoripKo, which has about 7,600
the nor people,
tar Wars’B
nd authoil
The government argued that
a $26 million trust fund set up
for the Western Shoshone Indi
ans at the Interior Department
constituted payment for 24 mil
lion acres of land in central Ne
vada.
But the Dann sisters argued
successfully in the appeals court
that they were improperly den
ied an opportunity to withdraw
the disputed 12 million acres
from the settlement when they
decided it should not be sold.
The case between the Bureau
of Land Management and the
two Shoshone sisters who oper
ate a ranch in Crescent Valley,
40 miles southeast of Battle
Mountain, has been in court for
a decade.
The government filed suit
against the Dann sisters in 1974
because they refused to pay
grazing fees. The Danns say the
government has no right to col
lect the fees because it does not
own the land.
The sisters are part of the
Dann Band of Western Sho
shone Indians. They say they
never gave up their right to the
land settled by their ancestors.
If the Indians win, there
would be a “paper” transfer of
land from the BLM to the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs. But the
tribe has said it has no intention
of interfering with existing pri
vate land rights in the area.
In the Washington case, the
justices turned clown a chal
lenge to a ruling by the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals autho
rizing the Quinault tribe to
charge a business license tax to
non-Indian shop owners on the
shores of Lake Quinault and in
the town of Amanda Park.
The appeals court rejected
arguments that the license tax
was unconstitutional “taxation
without representation.” It also
said the tribe can charge a
higher tax for non-Indian shop
owners who hire non-Indian la
bor.
Justice Harry Blackmun,
writing for the court, said laws
giving Indians power to settle
disputes in tribal courts do not
prevent state courts from hear
ing disputes between Indians
and non-Indians.
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Friday without advance consul
tation with Congress, which
normally has 30 days to disap
prove an arms sale.
Congress was wrapping up its
Memorial Day recess Tuesday
and opposition was expected
from some lawmakers to the ad
ministration’s move. Israeli De
fense Minister Moshe Arens,
who objected to the decision,
meets Wednesday at the Penta
gon with Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger.
White House spokesman
Larry Speakes, traveling with
Reagan on a two-day trip to
Colorado, indicated the admin
istration is not concerned by the
Israeli reaction.
The administration scrapped
previous plans to sell 1,200
Stingers to Saudi Arabia in
March when a parallel sale to
Jordan ran into insurmountable
congressional opposition.
In accordance with a clause
in the Arms Export Control
Act, Reagan waived notification
to Congress on the Stinger sale
“due to the current emergency
circumstances which require an
immediate sale in the national
security interests of the United
States,” Sta'te Department
spokesman Alan Romberg said.
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