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Wednesday, May 9,1990 The Battalion Page 11 Globetrotting Czechoslovakia Today is a national holiday in Czechoslovakia. One Texas A&M student is from this country. Facts about Czechoslovakia: Official name: Czechoslovak So cialist Republic Area: 49,381 sq. mi. Capital: Prague Population: 15.5 million Languages: Czech, Slovak, Hun garian Religions: Roman Catholic, Prot estant, Orthodox, Jewish Life expectancy: 70 years Regulators agree to lower prices IMF approves $60 billion lincrease for assistance WASHINGTON (AP) — Interna- Itional Monetary Fund officials ap- hekj Iproved a record $60 billion increase le kj; jin resources Tuesday to meet grow- lg^. ling demands for assistance from :edJ||emeiging democracies in Eastern a ajjBEurope and debt-strapped nations ^^lin Latin America. The authorization from the IMF’s policy-setting interim committee Icame after the panel adopted a U.S.- ited? ibacked proposal to cracK down on Wlcoimtries that are delinquent in re- ■paying their IMF loans, iwfiwl The 50 percent increase, which acnsllstill nuist l )e approved by the voting w ^membership of the 152-nation fund, ^^Hwould boost IMF lending resources i^ atoS 180 billion. Third World countries had B "night to double IMF resources, intending $240 billion is needed to asure that economic assistance to astern Europe does not crowd out support for Latin America and Af rica. B.T.G. Chidzero, finance minister for Zimbabwe, said greater support from the IMF and its sister lending organization, the World Bank, was critical to avert “falling into a crisis of international development fi nance in the present decaae.” On another matter, the finance officials stopped short of endorsing a proposal to create an environmen tal fund in the World Bank to supply $1.3 billion in low-interest loans over three years. The money would be used to ad dress cross-border environmental problems such as global warming, the growth of deserts, river system pollution and destruction of the ozone layer. France is backing the new fund, but the United States and several other countries are opposed. WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators agreed Tuesday to cut prices on hard-to-sell real estate the government is inheriting from bank rupt savings and loans. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the administration en dorsed stepping up sales, but with held comment on the specifics of the plan. The Resolution Trust Corp. voted unamiously to permit regulators to cut a property’s price by 15 percent if it had not sold in six months — four months for a single-family home. A further reduction of 5 per cent is allowed after an additional three months. The RTC adopted a second policy authorizing auction sales, allowing no more than a 30 percent discount from appraised value. Meanwhile, the Joint Economic Committee said Tuesday that the 1990 budget deficit will swell to $185 billion, up from $152 billion last year, and that thrift-related spend ing could total $45 billion this year. The new sales policy is stirring concern among real estate profes sionals who fear that too many cut- rate sales could hurt already de pressed markets in some areas of the country. “It’s a fine line that has to be walked. They (the RTC) are not oblivious to this,” Fitzwater said. “We are concerned about getting rid of the properties in a way that helps reduce the burden on the tax payer,” he said. “We obviously don’t want to wreck the economy.” Regulators said holding a backlog of real estate off the market, with the hope that prices will rise, can be just as harmful. “We’ve become convinced that holding on to property is too costly both for us and the taxpayer and what we’re adopting is designed to move properties without disrupting markets,” said RTC Chairman L. William Seidman. The proposal originally came be fore the RTC board two weeks ago. The board delayed action at the urging of Comptroller of the Cur rency Robert Clarke, who regulates nationally chartered banks. Clarke said he feared faster sales could hurt still-solvent banks and S&Ls struggling with deteriorating real estate portfolios. However, Clarke said an analysis by the RTC staff convinced him the new policy would have little effect on solvent institutions. “We’ve satisfied ourselves that as far as we can tell, and you can never tell for sure, adoption of this policy would not have an adverse effect on any of the institutions not in receiv ership,” he said. At the end of February, the last month for which firm figures were available, the RTC owned $16.4 bil lion in real estate after having sold $2.1 billion. It expects its portfolio to swell as it repossesses property posted as col lateral for now-aelinquent loans. A Treasury-led panel overseeing the RTC’s work for the Bush admin istration encouraged the agency to offer greater price cuts sooner than permitted in the new policy. ernii: ■idit ivthe insonfl his Mi Fund-raiser dies from pneumonia WASHINGTON (AP) — Carl “Spitz'' Channel!, who was con victed of illegal fund-raising ac tivities in the Iran-Contra case, has died of pneumonia while re covering from a car accident, an associate said Tuesday. The conservative fund-raiser died Sunday, according to former Rep. Dan Kuykendall, a friend of Channel! who worked on pro- Contta causes during the time Channel! was also involved. Kuykendall said Channel! had been undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer and had recov ered enough to engage in consul ting work. But. about two months ago. as he was getting out of his car near his office in Southeast af who is now a Capitol Hill lobbyist. u He struggled and struggled,” to recover from massive injuries that included several broken bones and a crushed pelvis, said Kuykendall. Study: Special education lacking NEW YORK (AP) — At least two of three emotionally disabled chil dren are not getting the special help from public schools they’re entitled to under federal law, according to a soon-to-be released report. Even students who get placed in special education too often encoun ter a stultifying “curriculum of con trol,” heavy on silence and obedi ence and light on learning. One result: a 42 percent dropout rate among youngsters with identi fied behavior disorders, according to a draft copy of “At the Schoolhouse Door: An Examination of Programs and Policies for Children with Be havioral and Emotional Problems.” Less than 1 percent of the public school population, about 400,000 students, were identified by school authorities as having behavioral dis orders. But various studies estimate at least 3 percent to 5 percent of the school population are emotionally disturbed. “This suggests that at best some where between 10 and 30 percent of children in need are identified,” the report said. Such youngsters, like all with sig nificant handicaps, are entitled by the 1975 federal Education All Handicapped Children Act to spe cial education. But whether or not such children get it seems to have as much to do with available resources and local at titudes toward difficult behavior as it does with a student’s needs, the re port concluded. The 160-page study, to be re leased this month, was written by Jane Knitzer, Zina Steinberg and Brahm Fleisch, researchers at Bank Street College of Education in New York. “The report leaves me optimistic simply because such a report finally “X I his is a very tough group to educate, a high- cost group. But the state of practice is well, well behind what the research tells us.” — William Schipper, executive director exists,” said William Schipper, exec utive director of the National Asso ciation of State Directors of Special Education. “This is a very tough group to ed ucate, a high-cost group. But the state of practice is well, well behind what the research tells us.” The report was based on question naires sent to state directors of spe cial education and mental health of ficials, visits to 26 programs in 13 states, a review of literature in the field, and extensive interviews with parents and special educators be tween 1987 and 1989. The visits revealed an overall “bleakness” in school life for the emotionally disabled: low academic expectations, a stress on controlling behavior, and inadequate access to mental health services. “Recognition that all is not well is widespread, yet efforts to develop more intensive and responsive ap proaches are still spotty,” the report said. The report urged states to re-ex amine policies that encourage re strictive, costly placements of emo tionally handicapped students. In some states, for example, school dis tricts are “off the hook” financially if a student is referred to a state insti tution. On the bright side, the study cited a number of schools and school dis tricts trying to improve the lives of behaviorally disabled children. Golden Lake Elementary in Circle Pine, Minn., for example, sends spe cial educators into regular class rooms, allowing youngsters to stay with normal peers. Central Park East School in New York’s Harlem section and elemen tary schools in New Haven, Conn., Benton Harbor, Mich., and Prince George’s County, Md., have begun broad-based reforms that help all students, including behaviorally dis ordered. Such schools tend to shy from labeling youngsters as “hand icapped.” 326 Jersey 696-DAVE l P»yy*wOfksJ On Friday, May 11th, at 6:00 p.m., the Grand Prize drawing for the trip for 2 to Jamaica will be held "at DoubleDave’s on Jersey (“George Bush”). All G.B.E. inductees who finished their cards between Jan. 1, 1989 - Dec. 31, 1989 are eligible. 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