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Page 16/The Battalion/Thursday, September 26, 1985 Rescuers scour rubble for victims (continued from page 1) Swiss and French teams tunneled farther into the collapsed Juarez Hospital, once a 12-story tower com plex, where two babies and some adults have been found alive since early Monday. They still were trying to reach the head of the teaching staff, Dr. Gil- berto Lozano Saldivar, who spoke to them Tuesday from under the de bris. About 900 people were believed trapped in the hospital by the quakes. Communications, transportation and education were creeping back to normal Wednesday, but city officials said at least 2 million people still were without drinking water. Most are in the southern part of this huge urban sprawl of 18 million people. U.S. Ambassador John Gavin said late Tuesday that the United States was delivering 800 water tanks of 3,000-gallon capacity, vehicles to carry them and water purification tablets. The Social Security Institute said the last of hundreds of bodies were removed from its old baseball field, where survivors had gone to identify dead relatives. The bodies were taken to public cemeteries for burial in mass graves. Spokesman Jorge Humberto Mo rales said the field was being cleaned and fumigated, and 170 field tents would be put up as shelter for the homeless. Only about half of the estimated 300,000 homeless people in the city were reported to be in public shel ters by Tuesday. Officials said food supplies were adequate, but more than a dozen stores had been closed because of price-gouging. Some stores were charging 400 pesos for a kilogram of tortillas — 2.2 pounds. That is 33 f jercent above the average price be- ore the quake. Schools had been scheduled to re open Wednesday, but the Education Department said they would remain shut until Monday. Spokesmen said 37 of the approximately 4,000 schools would be demolished and 222 would need major repairs. De la Madrid pledged “total hon esty” in distribution of foreign con tributions for earthquake relief and for the national recovery fund, which has received approximately $12 million so far. Bilingual education criticized Associated Press Government officials said money is the most critical need. “We don’t need blankets. We do need money to rebuild the city, to rebuild the schools. Tell them that,” one said. Mexico’s econony is strapped by recession and a foreign debt of $96 billion, second only to Brazil in the developing world. Aggies to explore outer space (continued from page 1) astronaut, he will not undergo astro naut training. Instead, he will have about 100 hours of habitability train ing to help him adjust to everyday functions such as eating and sleep ing while in the shuttle. Aldridge will begin his training for the mission in October. While he is in the Houston area for training, Aldridge said he hopes to come to College Station to see a few football games. “I’m delighted to be in such close proximity to A&M,” he said. Aldridge said he had no idea he’d someday be travelling in space back when he was a second lieutenant in Squadron 7 in the Corps of Cadets in 1960. “My number one priority was to graduate,” he said. After graduating from A&M, Al dridge, a native of Shreveport, La., earned a master’s degree in aero space engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1962. He worked in various defense-related industries until being appointed by » his sition as the second highest-ranking official in the Department of the Air Force. President Reagan to his present po- Aldridge, who was awarded the College of Engineering Distin guished Alumni Award in May, also serves on Texas A&M’s Space Advi sory Committee, a group that helps direct the growth of space research at the University. In addition, Al dridge is a member of President Vandiver’s new Select Committee to advise the administration on the role of a Corps of Cadets commandant. WASHINGTON — U.S. Secre tary of Education William J. Bennett said the government’s bilingual edu cation program has failed and should be changed to put more em phasis on teaching foreign students English. Schools have been spending too much time and too many resources to teach in Spanish and other for eign languages, he said in a speech prepared for delivery Thursday in New York City before the Associa tion for a Better New York. The text was made available in advance. Bennett charged that “after sound beginnings” in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Elementary and Sec ondary Education Act of 1965, the federal policies governing bilingual education “went astray ... Too many children have failed to become fluent in English.” The government has funneled $1.7 billion in bilingual education aid to school districts since 1968. Federal civil rights officials in the 1970s began pressuring school dis tricts to teach students with limited English in their native tongue and until 1984 forbade schools from us ing the funds for classes that relied soley on intensive English instruc tion. “After 17 years of federal involve ment, and after $1.7 billion of fed eral funding, we have no evidence U.S., Soviet relations (continued from page 1) While the two apparently did not agree on any outstanding is sues, they clearly made an effort to emphasize that they got along well in the talks, which ran 20 minutes longer than scheduled. They shook hands and smiled broadly at one another, both be fore and after stepping to micro phones on the sidewalk in front of the mission; and each listened patiently as the other addressed reporters. Before the discussion, She vardnadze told Shultz, “I’m sorry,” for not attending a U.N. General Assembly meeting Mon day where the American secre tary of state spoke. The Soviet foreign minister said his schedule was too full. In addition to Shultz, the American delegation at the meet ing at the Soviet U.N. mission in cluded Robert C. McFarlane, na tional security adviser, and Paul H. Nitze, special arms control ad viser to Reagan. The presence of both underscored the importance the administration attached to the meetings, expecially in its poten tial for signaling a breakthrough in the Geneva arms talks. In Washington, Reagan said lit is ready to discuss in detail “any serious proposal” about reducing nuclear weaponry. But the ministration made it clear the real bargaining should be reserved for the Geneva negotiations. Other U.S. officials did notdis-1 guise their hopes that Shevard nadze would unveil a new Soviet initiative to break the impasseat the arms control talks. A breakthrough at the arms control talks could help ensure | the success of the Reagan-Gorba- chev summit. But Soviet officials | were keeping Washington gues sing on whether Shevardnadze | carried such a plan. Speaking lor Shultz, State De partment spokesman Charles Redman said Tuesday that US, of ficials had detected from She vardnadze’s U.N. speech Tues day an indication that Moscok planned to unveil a new proposal in Geneva soon. Vol.81 tin But a Soviet spokesman said the foreign minister had only been referring to proposals al ready made and which Washing ton has rejected. that the children whom we sought to help — that the children who de serve our help — have benefited," Bennett said. He said the administration would “give up on the promise of equal educational opportunity” for these children, but it also will not “con tinue down the same failed path . . . 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