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Weinberger: U.S. subsidizing
military buildup of U.S.S.R.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviets
have been much more successful
than previously thought in stealing
Western technology and as a result,
“we are subsidizing the military
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berger said Wednesday.
Weinberger released a study as-
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are diverting high-tech equipment
designed for one purpose but which
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“By their own estimate, more than
5,000 Soviet military research pro
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cantly from Western acquired tech
nology,” Weinberger said at a news
conference.
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the Soviets estimate they saved at
least $640 million in 1980 alone on
selected military research projects by
obtaining Western technology.
Neither Weinberger nor Assistant
Defense Secretary Richard Perle,
who later briefed reporters on the
study, would elaborate on the
sources used to measure the Soviet
effort.
But the report, Perle said, should
lead to efforts by the United States
to “even up” the number of Soviet
diplomats allowed to operate here
compared with the Americans in the
Soviet Union. The United States and
its allies should also consider “a sys
tem of blacklisting” to prevent Soviet
agents who are expelled from one
country from gaining posts in an
other allied nation, he aaded.
Perle said he would recommend
that President Reagan not discuss
any broader scientific and educatio
nal ties with the Soviets when he
meets with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev in November.
The study was described as the
product of a special Technology
Transfer Intelligence Committee in
cluding officials from the Pentagon,
the CIA and 20 other U.S. agencies.
Much of the general information in
the study was disclosed previously.
But it gave what it called more exam
ples of how the Soviets collect infor
mation and products and what they
do with such technology.
Although the Pentagon believes it
is now doing a much better job con
trolling access to technical docu
ments, NASA, the Patent Office and
the National Technical Information
Center remain key sources for the
Soviets, Perle said.
“What we are hoping to achieve . .
. is to sensitize the scientific and tech
nical community to the fact that
there is a very large and well-orga
nized Soviet apparatus that has tar
geted scientists and engineers and
universities and the like for military
purposes,” Perle said.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The reading
ability of 17-year-old students im
proved in the past four years after a
decade of stagnation, but 9- and 13-
year-olds have stopped making pro
gress, a federally backed testing
agency said Wednesday.
At all three age levels, pupils read
better now than in 1971, the Na
tional Assessment of Educational
Progress reported, and the bii
gains have been registered by bl
and Hispanics.
But “The Reading Report Card,”
a study based on tests administered
to 250,000 school children over the
past 14 years, also dramatized the
big gap remaining between minori
ties and the white majority.
The average black and Hispanic
17-year-olds can read “only slightly”
better than the average white 13-
year-old, it said.
It graded reading on a five-step
scale — from rudimentary to basic to
intermediate to adept to advanced.
Secretary of Education William J.
Bennett said, “We are not raising at
present a generation of illiterates.”
But he expressed concern that al
most 36 percent of the 9-year-olds
have not acquired the basic compre
hension skills needed to succeed in
third- and fourth-grade work, and
that 40 percent of 13-year-olds and
16 percent of 17-year-old students
lacked the intermediate skills “to
handle much of what is studied in a
sixth-or seventh-grade class.”
The 17-year-old students were the
only age group to improve their per
formance over the 1980 assessment.
Only 5 percent of the oldest stu
dents reached the highest rung on
the reading ladder, the advanced
skills. Bennett said.
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Federal official says 1 in 4 young adults has tried cocaine
Associated Press erlully addictive drugs known. that use of cocaine, unlike other il- of the University of Michigan
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A series of
drug abuse studies released by the
government Wednesday inciicate
more than one of every four young
adults has at least tried cocaine, a top
federal health official said.
Dr. Donald lan MacDonald, head
of the federal Alcohol, Drug Abuse
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caine can be a killer. Emergency
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caine use tripled between 1981 and
1984. The number of deaths asso
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Michigan researchers reported
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licit drugs, tends to increase among
young people after they graduate
from school.
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high proportion of young adults in
America place themselves at risk of
developing a dependency on this
highly reinforcing drug by taking
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