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Page 8 • Wednesday, February 17, 1999
N
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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
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Secret Cold War spy photos
slowly emerging, draws
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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.
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