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Martin Lu ther King Jr. was a lawbreaker and singer Joan Baez of fends “people with traditional values,” according to »lescjuite woman who Tuesday complained about textbook refer ences to King and Baez. »Iary Lassiter presented the testi- Ibiiy on the second day of State Textbook Committee hearings. The committee’s recommendations will go to the State Board of Education, Kch next month will pick $92.9 jhillion worth of books for use next jear. H^assiter testified about a Spanish supplementary reader. She said Bae/'s views of “peace and freedom . Bnay have stirred emotions but re- Kts a total lack of intellectual anal ysis. ■‘Clearly, you can’t have both peace — which in Miss Baez’s philos- Hiy is a lack of resistance to oppres sion — and freedom, or at least the freedom . . . enjoyed by our found ing fathers when they escaped from lotalitarian tyranny,” Lassiter said. ■Furthermore, it is offensive to ■iple with traditional values to Jiold up Joan Baez as a role model as she advocated lawbreaking,” she added. “The use of Martin Luther ®KingJr. as a role model is objection able on the same grounds.” |She called for deletion of the Baez references and editing of the King ■erences “to eliminate the praise for lawbreaking.” ■Textbook comments about news caster Connie Chung also sparked criticism. The book quotes Chung as saying, “I would say it definitely helped me to get hired, the fact that *‘am a woman and from a minority.” [The book says “democracy pro vides opportunity for women and racial minorities to have a higher quality of life and freedom from dis- frimination.” B Lassiter said, “One gets the feel ing that the author is rejoicing in the change that our democracy is under going whereby the majority is made to be guilty for being the majority, and the minority deserves more just for being the minority.” ■Tuesday’s schedule also included review of art textbooks. In prefiled testimony, Clova Wood of Garland complained about an art book that offered a critic’s interpretation of Grant Wood’s famous American Gothic painting, which depicts a farmer and his wife. Reagan described as being optimistic Photo by GREG BAILEY A Different Angle Five stars superimposed on each other form a sculpture that can he viewed from many angles. The stars hang on Rudder Tower’s north wall. Associated Press WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after being told he had cancer, President Reagan was described Tuesday as being in excellent spirits, optimistic and not dwelling on his ill ness. The White House put on a face of business-as-usual, with Vice Presi dent George Bush declaring, “Life goes on.” Emphasizing that the government is running smoothly in Reagan’s ab sence, Bush said it was “as if the president were off on vacation some where.” The 74-year-old president spent a restful nignt at Betnesda Naval Hos pital and was said to be continuing a good recovery from the surgery Sat urday, when doctors removed a large intestinal growth that proved to be malignant. His temperature, which had been slightly elevated, was reported back to normal. Reagan’s medical team reported Monday that it appeared all of the cancerous tissue had been removed, and that chances were better than 50 f >ercent the president would not suf- er a recurrence. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes was asked at a news briefing Tuesday if Reagan had discussed the cancer finding with anyone since first learning about it in a five-min ute meeting with doctors. “The president is not one to dwell on anything of that type,” Speakes said. “The president has a very opti mistic and enthusiastic outlook. “There are no complications on the president’s road to recovery . . . Virtually trouble-free.” White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan visited with the president eporting on id a meetii inet breakfast and a meeting with congressional Republicans. They also discussed a statement issued later by the White House, expressing disappointment at the Soviet posi tion in nuclear arms control talks, Speakes said. RELATED STORIES: •Chances of being cured assessed •Reagan’s health affects stocks Regan and the staff are making some decisions on Reagan’s behalf — “a few more but not that many,” Speakes said. Nancy Reagan, making her daily trip to the hospital, was quoted by her press secretary as saying, “I’ll be glad when he’s home.” Reagan still was experiencing ab dominal discomfort when he was el evated in bed or got up to walk around the room. Speakes said the president has not eaten so much as a hamburger since last Wednesday when he went on a special diet before entering the hos pital. Since his operation, Reagan has been fed intraveneously. During his four-day hospital stay, Reagan’s only visitors have been his wife, Regan and Speakes. Speakes said Reagan had not talked by tele phone with Bush, members of Con gress or any other officials. Bush was asked why he was put ting off visiting Reagan in the hospi tal and replied, “I want to be a little considerate of his feelings, his fami ly’s feelings and the doctors’ feel ings. They think that the less crowd- ing-in the better, the more chance he has to rest, relax and recover, the better.” The White House said “hundreds and hundreds” of get-well cards and notes had been received and that flowers delivered to the White House and Bethesda were being re routed to other area hospitals, in cluding the Children’s Hospital Na tional Medical Center. Speakes, in a written statement, said Reagan’s condition was “excel lent, his vital signs — temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiration — are within normal ranges.” Reagan E lanned to continue walking about is suite, which has caused some ab dominal discomfort, but “is in excel lent spirits,” Speakes said. That upbeat report was matched at the White House by Bush as he met with retired Adm. James Hollo way, the newly appointed director of a government task force on finding ways to combat international terror ism. “Life goes on, and I think the news (about Reagan) was so encour aging that it’s really going to slip back into (being) just as if the presi dent were off on vacation some where,” the vice president said. In the course of several minutes, Bush repeated the phrase “life goes on” three times — underscoring the administration’s effort to show that the government continues running even though the president is hospi talized. Reagan is expected to remain in the hospital at least until the week end, and then his recuperation is ex pected to take six to eight weeks longer. Warns of 'Strangers and Dangers' Game to teach children about safety Associated Press CHICAGO — Three law enforce ment officials who know the anguish of child abductions and accidents have now made a game out of it. But it’s for a good cause — chil dren’s safety. Strangers and Dangers is touted by its inventors as the first board game in America to teach children about safety on the streets and haz ards around the home. The game, which should be in stores in some cities this week, is the brainchild of three men who’ve drawn on 40 years of combined ex perience to create a new way to teach an old lesson. “We’ve all had a lot of work with kids,” Jeffrey Chudwin, a former prosecutor, said last week. So Chudwin and partners Michael Dooley, a former police chief in south suburban University Park, and Patrick Barry, a former investigator with the Will County sheriffs police, got together to do something about it. They listed common childhood hazards they’ve handled and then incorporated them into the game.; The object of Strangers and Dan gers — designed for children 4 years of age and older — is to be the first to arrive safely home from school. The direct route provides a safer course. Shortcuts pose more obsta cles. The game aims to teach kids to be assertive — to run and scream —- if confronted by strangers. Chudwin said one case he pros ecuted was “a young girl who was ab ducted off the street in broad day light . . . and she still made no attempt to raise her voice” even when the gunman moved away from her and placed his gun down. The board portrays the danger ous strangers as both male and fe male. It also has “Safe-T-Places,” such as libraries and police stations, where children should go when in trouble. Chudwin said that although the game deals with a serious subject, there’s nothing “threatening. None of this is high pressure or scare tac tics.” tment is ses, de- sginners ed Mon- uesday, ler ses- g July 1 1 a week All class onal ID. id Build- i The Bai ze, Manor iers of the e by Tom anhattan Project scientists blast Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ Associated Press 1 WASHINGTON — On the 40th anni versary of “Trinity,” the epic first test of the atomic bomb, scientists who worked on the project condemned President Reagan’s iStar Wars” plans on Tuesday as a sign the world still doesn’t understand the dangers unleashed in the New Mexico desert. I U.S. emphasis on a policy of strategic bombardment, though terribly effective against the Japanese at the end of World War II, has weakened rather than strength ened American security by eliminating oceans as realistic barriers against war, said Philip Morrison, who was a member of the Manhattan Project that built and exploded the first atomic bomb. But the world’s most powerful nations continue striving in the same directions, pointing to Reagan’s “Star Wars” defense plan. Morrison said the scientists who knew most about nuclear weapons when they were new in 1945 realized three crucial facts that remain true today: There are no nuclear secrets that can be kept for long; there will be no real defense against nuclear weapons; there must be international agreements against their use. The scientists distributed a broadsheet appealing for support of a series of steps to fend off destruction by the world’s 50,000 nuclear weaptons. • Both superpowers should “move rap idly, persistently and in concert towards dramatically smaller nuclear arsenals com posed of weapons that are invulnerable and which do not threaten the wholesale de struction of an opponent’s deterrent forces.” • The United States should work to im prove its ability to monitor compliance with arms agreements rather than spend so much money on new weapons. • This nation must remain committed to the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, pursue ne gotiations against anti-satellite weapons and work to stop or at least slow the weapons spread by, banning all underground nuclear weapons tests. Prof: Agricultural ability of U.S. envied By JERRY OSLIN Stull Writer I Most Americans today take the Abundance of food in their country for granted because they are not aware of the long processes it take* to improve agricultural technology and production, Texas A&M’s dis tinguished professor for interna tional agriculture said Tuesday. I Dr. Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Pri/.e winning agronomist, said, ■The agricultural ability of the Inked States is something the rest If the world envies, but this ability didn’t develop over night. Ameri cans take this ability for granted be cause they have lost touch with the kind.” I Borlaug’s comments came during a speech at a conference of the iTexas Agricultural Extension Serv ice employees being held at Texas toi. Dr. Norman Borlaug Borlaug told a group of about 1,500 people that today, less than 2 percent of the country’s workforce is employed in the agricultural indus try while at the time of the American Revolution, 85 percent of the coun try’s population lived on subsistence farming. “The large part of our population today lives in large metropoliton areas,” Borlaug said. “They aren’t familiar with the flooding, the drought, the slumping markets and the other problems farmers face.” Borlaug also said the agricultu rally underdeveloped countries of today will have to go through a long developing process before they will be able to feed all their people but they can do it. “People wrote off India and Paki stan 25 years ago,” he said. “They said they would never be able to feed their people, but today they are pro ducing enough food.” Borlaug said the United States was agriculturally underdeveloped as recently as 100 years ago. “In the late 1800’s, the United States was the underdeveloped na tion,” he said. “We didn’t know how to revitalize the soil. We got our technology and improvements from Europe.” But between 1938 and 1978, the agricultural technology of the United States increased tremen dously, Borlaug said. “During those 40 years, we in creased our cultivated acreage by only 4 percent,” he said. “If we used 1940 technology to get 1980 produc tion, we would have had to increase the cultivated acreage by an area equal to all the land east of the Mis sissippi River excluding Illinois, Wis consin and Michigan.” The TAES conference, which ends Friday, is being held to im prove emloyees’ knowledge in live stock, crops, natural resources, home economics, community devel opment and horticulture. 2 TDC officials indicted for abusing 2 inmates Associated Press WASHINGTON — Two Texas prison system officials and four guards were indicted Monday. on charges of physically mistreating a pair of prisoners, the Justice Depart ment announced. A federal grand jury in Houston returned the four-count indictment, which alleges that the defendants mistreated two prisoners who had been returned following their es cape, the department said. The report said Robert Minor Lawson II, assistant warden of the Wynne Unit of the Texas Depart ment of Corrections in Walker County, and Donald L. Shiver, cap tain of the unit, were named as de fendants. The guards named in the indict ment were: Leonel Leal Jr., Morris Ray Bigham, Nathan Bryant White and Henry E. Farris, Assistant Attor ney General William Bradford Rey nolds said. Reynolds heads the de partment’s civil rights division. All six defendants were charged with conspiring “to injure and intim idate” Scott E. Licklider and Mark A. Griffith “in violation of their consti tutional rights not to be deprived of liberity without due process of law, not to be subjected to summary pun ishment, and to be kept free from ‘ harm while in official custody,” the department said.