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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.
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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.”
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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.