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LOTS OF DISCOUNT COUPONS www.bcsmcdonalds.com Page 8 • Wednesday, February 17, 1999 N EWS Department of Education prof ie Battalion licensing model for state teachcl WASHINGTON (AP) — Educa tion Secretary Richard Riley pro posed TUesday a national model for states to use in licensing teachers as a way to improve schools. “A growing number of school districts are throwing a warm body into a classroom, closing the door and hoping for the best,” Riley said in sixth annual address on the state of education, held this year at Cali fornia State University in Long Beach. ‘‘This is not the way to reach for high standards.” Riley devoted much of the speech to describing the model, which includes testing, but insisted it is not an attempt to mandate a federal policy on teacher quality. which congressional leaders and many teachers’ groups oppose. State licensing varies; at least 38 states require some sort of test or performance review. Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, said she supports Riley’s teacher-quality model. “These are foward-looking pro posals,” she said. "I don’t think this is federalizing education at all.” Riley previously had told Con gress that some way of making sure states adopt tougher, more-relevant teacher exams would be included in Clinton administration proposals this year for the law governing most education programs. But he said TUesday there wo stick or carrot toed to improve teachetl “My suggestions! last word and I'ms he,” Riley told the as put our thinkingcapsj But members i pressed some cauh idea. Rep. Bill Goo* heads the House! Workforce Commit idea has merit, teacher training standards that ma schools in New Enj be good for schools he said. ilRfilli Secret Cold War spy photos slowly emerging, draws interest of weapons experts HEBpld] A ^ J se'nior fc to repm^st scholars} WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. spy satellite photographs of the Soviet Union taken during the Cold War are emerging from their shell of secrecy. They were taken in the urgent context of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear standoff, but many now have been declassified and can be used for peaceful purposes, help ing to verify and even advance arms reduction efforts, re searchers say. Thousands of images taken by CIA spy satellites from 1960 to 1972 had lain in the National Archives, spooled in a reel 30 inches long by 2.5 inches wide. Now arms control experts are be ginning to pore through the pic tures, using microscopes to ex amine satellite pictures of such places as Krasnoyarsk-45 in south-central Russia, a super-se cret Soviet uranium enrichment facility, and Zlatoust-36, a nu clear warhead assembly plant in Siberia. At a symposium TUesday at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Joshua Handler of Prince ton University’s Woodrow Wil son School said the photographs show that Russia may have enough secure storage space to enable thousands more nuclear warheads to be removed from missiles under the Strategic Arms Reduction TYeaty. Both Russia and the United States have faced a daunting task of financing adequate security for thousands of weapons storage sites scattered across the former Soviet Union. The specter of ter rorists raiding a storage site, or of impoverished nuclear comman ders selling them to rogue states, has been the driving force behind annual U.S. expenditures of more than $350 million per year in dis armament aid. As Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakstan have eliminated their nuclear arsenals, however, the number of active storage sites has shrunk dramatically as has the cost of providing adequate secu rity, Handler argued. ‘‘Now it is clear that the num ber of storages is much smaller, their locations are more well- known and the possibility of un derstanding the cost of upgrading their security is much greater,” Handler said. Based on Russian cost estimates, 20 national-level weapons storage sites and 60 smaller, military storage sites could be secured for $400 mil lion. The satellite photographs be ing used by Handler and others were taken under the CIA’s Coro na program, the world’s first suc cessful spy satellite system. The program was developed by rock et scientists pressing to find a re placement for U-2 spy planes af ter the downing of Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 in 1960, and by op tical scientists at Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., and Polaroid and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, Mass. Images of the Soviet Union taken by Corona satellites were among the most highly classified documents in U.S. hands until 1995 when the Clinton adminis tration approved their declassifi cation, mainly for use by envi ronmentalists and historians. HOUSTON (AP) Dolph Briscoe jnd H E have pledged toreplacej! lege scholarship a Texi er received after a Hour; failed to pay him and Si dents nationwide. “It went real quick lost a scholarship to ha® two times,” the youth's Burt, said Tuesday. ‘ over the shock." Burt’s son, JustinBi was equally excited. “As good as 1 felt ate that first scholarship, ter just knowing that pe worthy of being consid? said Justin, a freshmana: University. Nicole Ki Reboun vas oneo!'?!-’ rooke Sc even state and Washing looted last year to receive Assist; Nicole K USA, a Houston eventsp!;'|P pany. But AdcimsVision ncf there is no money and neve eral parents say they b while others are justtn'lHj enough money to keepttej in school. The company’s owner insists he still is trying^ scholarship money, I unlikely. Last weekthefe which Adams leased®! him and his compan' months’ back rent. Carol Tircuit, manage: Centre, said AdamsVision 5 ! out of its offices lastmoni; pany owes about $6,Oddi rent and about $23,000 a lease it signed through®!| AGGIE BASKETBALL (Men) VS. The Texas Longhorns Reed Arena Saturday at 3 p.m. Students draw your tickets early in the ticket office at G. Rollie White or Reed Arena [ TEXyXf /Kl^ i SPRAY (
