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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.
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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 . . .
(and) throw good money after bad.”
He said he would make regulate
and administrative changes “toa
greater flexibility for local sch
districts,” and make sure that I
civil rights agency does ‘'notimix
a particular method of instruction I
He also said he will “explore w;|
Congress the possibility of removiii
the four percent cap on alternate
instructional methods.”
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