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By LIS A J DUPREE
Reporter
The atmosphere at the Louis
Peace Pavilion Saturday was friendly
and full of excitement as partici
pants in the Special Students Riding
School for handicapped people
laughed and waved to their parents
who were sitting in the bleachers.
The clinic was the First of a three-
part riding school for handicapped
students. Sponsored by the Texas
A&M Horsemen’s Association, it
gives handicapped students the op
portunity to perform simple maneu
vers on horseback.
Bill Doug Potter, committee co-
chairman, said students with a vari
ety of handicaps ranging from learn
ing disabilities to cerebral palsy at
tend. There is no fee or age limit for
the event. People from ages two to
22 took part at this clinic.
Potter said dates for the next clin
ics are Oct. 13 and Oct. 20, from 8
a.m. to noon.
He said area schools and the reha
bilitation center sent letters to pro
spective students’ parents.
The riding seems to have a thera
peutic effect on the students, he
said. “It helps them feel more self-
confident and less handicapped,” he
said.
The club members enjoy the ex
perience, too, he said.
“We have a great time,” he said.
“It’s real gratifying for us and we’re
honored to work with these kids.”
Three or four club members assist
each student, Potter said.
“One leads the horse, one walks
on each side of the student, and
sometimes a member rides with the
student,” he said.
Potter led the group in warm-up
exercises, Simon Says, Follow the
Leader and other games.
Most parents seemed pleased with
the program. One parent, Lynda
Marino, praised the Horsemen’s As
sociation members for their generos
ity in donating their time to the stu
dents. Her daughter, Katie, was
attending her second clinic.
Richard Reynolds, whose son Ian
has Down’s Syndrome, described the
clinic as a “good public service pro
ject.”
He said he feels the parents ap
preciate it because it brings them to
gether, too. “It’s reassuring to Find
out you’re not the only one with a
handicapped child,” he said.
Bettie Merchant said the riding
school was a “wonderful opportuni
ty-
The students were entliiJ
“Mom, I need a horse!” Staciej
chant called to her mother.
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because she was born with spimM' : i !
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horseback riding because it duT
her perspective. “Instead ofeil
one having to look down
I’m the one looking downf
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Local businesses are alsoassij
McDonald’s and Jack ’n'Jil
provided refreshments.
Anyone interested in atlej
may contact Potter at
his co-chairman Petra Schlinji
775-2960.
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Striking teachers in New Jersey
were threatened with contempt of
court citations if they don’t return to
work Monday, while Louisiana tea
chers whose strike is entering its
eighth week downplayed board
threats of mass Firings.
Strikes in four states affected
more than 50,000 students — 21,300
in Illinois, 12,000 in New Jersey,
12,700 in Pennsylvania, and 6,200 in
the nation’s longest teachers’ strike
in St. John the Baptist Parish in
Louisiana.
Disputing threats by the school
board, the Louisiana teachers vowed
Sunday to continue their strike.
Rita Williams, a spokeswoman for
the St. John Association of Educa
tors, dismissed school board threats
of Firings and also disputed board al
legations that contracts negotiated
by individual workers are breaking
down the walkout.
The walkout has continued de
spite efforts by Gov. Edwin Edwards
to negotiate a settlement.
Although a 5 percent pay raise
was the initial point of argument, the
main issue has become the demand
by teachers for some form of collec
tive bargaining.
Negotiations resumed Sunday in
strikes in East Brunswick, N.J., and
neighboring Sayreville, where teach
ers nave been out for two weeks.
Both unions have been ordered
back to work by a Superior Court
judge, with 11 members of the East
Brunswick Education Association
facing contempt citations this week.
The union is also paying a court-or
dered J 10,000 daily fine to the
school board.
The school board in East Bruns
wick has offered teachers amnesty —
but not back pay — if they return to
work today.
No talks were scheduled in Wau
kegan, Ill., where the walkout by 660
teachers idled 1 1,500 studentsi
nation's largest strike. Teack ^
District 60 rejected the r™*
board’s Final contract offer-
year contract with a 14 percem
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20.4 percent.
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By MARK SPICER
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The United States is the biggest
member of NATO, but the Ameri
can people know less about it than
natives of the other 15 countries in
the alliance, U.S.M.C. Col. Billy
Palmer said to about 600 cadets in
Rudder Auditorium Thursday
night.
Palmer is the leader of an interna
tional briefing team from the Su
preme Allied Command Atlantic in
Norfolk, Va. The team gave a pre
sentation on NATO, the Soviet
threat and NATO’s response to that
threat.
Palmer said the statements made
that the United States is doing more
than its share in the alliance is not
true. The Europeans contribute a
tremendous amount of men,
material, and money, he said.
SACLANT is the only NATO
headquarters in the United States.
The other two headquarters are lo
cated in Great Britian and Germany.
Commander Moe, a naval officer
from Norway assigned to the Strate-
f ic Planning and Policy section of
ACLANT, gave a presentation on
the history of NATO.
Moe said after World War II the
eastern part of Europe came under
Soviet domination.
Twelve nations signed the North
Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949.
Greece and Turkey joined the alli
ance in 1952, West Germany in 1955
and Spain in 1982.
Moe said Article V of the Treaty
states that an attack against the terri
tories of any one of the individual
nations in Europe and North Amer
ica, or on their ships or aircraft in
the Atlantic area shall be considered
an attack against them all.
SACLANT is responsible for all
military operations in the North At
lantic, from the North Pole to the
Tropic of Cancer.
Commander Becker, a naval offi
cer from West Germany assigned to
the Intelligence section of SA
CLANT, presented material#
Soviet threat.
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