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Reagan on education: Old-fashioned discipline better than more money

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service INDIANAPOLIS President Reagan declared Thursday thaa lagging American Schools could be improved more from ’ “good old-fashioned discipline,” tougher academic standards and pay and promotions geared to teacher performance than by an infusion of money from the government. The president also said he had directed the Department of Education and the Department of Justice “to find ways we can help teachers and administrators enforce discipline” in schools. Larry Speakes, Reagan’s spokesman, said the federal government would help local districts build “public support” for greater discipline and also improve their cooperation with the police and the other authorities. Speaking at a National Forum on Excellence in Education, Reagan returned to some of the basic education themes he has sounded since April when a presidential commission declared that drastic steps were needed to improve the quality of the nation’s schools.

Bush flies jouttohelp Argentina WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President George Bush is flying to Argentina today to help mark the restoration of civilian rule . there and of U.S.-Argentine military ties for the first time in six years. Bush will join dignitaries from dozens of other countries for the inauguration Saturday of President-elect Raul Alfonsin, whose accession signals an end to seven tumultuous years of military domination of Argentine politics. The designation of Bush to head the American delegation reflects the importance the administration at- ■' taches to close ties with Argentina. But U.S. officials, requesting anonymity, said an even more important stop for Bush will occur Sunday when he travels to El Salvador. In El Salvador, Bush is expected to tell senior officials, publicly and privately, that Reagan remains gravely concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation there despite his recent veto of legislation linking continued U.S. military aid to an easing of political repression. U.S. relations with Argentina’s military government have been strained over the 1 suspension of American military ties to Argentina in 1977 and the U.S. decision to support Great Britain in the Falkland Islands War in 1982.

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“Some insist there’s only one answer: more money,” Reagan told an audience of more than 2,000 education specialists at the Indianpolis Convention Center. “But that’s been tried.” He then asserted, as he has in the past, that spending on education increased drastically in the last 10 years, even as educational standards had declined. “If money alone were the answer, the problem would have been shrinking, not growing,” the president said. “American schools don’t need vast new sums of money as much as they need a few fundamental reforms,” he added. There was unusually heavy security around the convention center. Dump trucks filled with sand blocked off intersections nearby, in keeping, apparently, with stepped-up security at the White House that began Thanksgiving Day after bomb reports were received and intelligence agencies learned of possible threats to the president. Speakes declined to say whether the increased security would become standard on presidential trips. Reagan was greeted warmly before and

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MIDEAST MISFITS: An Arab, Israeli soldier share Jerusalem bench

Two more Marines hurt

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Israeli navy gunboats backed by helicopter gunships shelled a PLO guerrilla base on the coast near Tripoli today, three days after Israel vowed to avenge the bombing of a bus in Jerusalem. In Beirut, two U.S. Marines were reported wounded when Shiite Moslem militiamen fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades today on the American peacekeepers’ base. The Christian-controlled Voice of Lebanon radio station quoted unnamed police sources as saying two Marines were injured in a barrage at 11 a.m. at their compound at the international airport. The radio said the Marines unleashed a counter-barrage of Dragon anti-tank missiles that

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after his brief speech, and he received moderate applause for his appeals for greater school discipline, governmentsponsored “prayer and meditation” in schools and merit pay. Although White House officials have predicted for some time that education would be a primary issue in the presidential campaign next year, Reagan had not given a speech on the subject since the summer, when he made several appearances around the country on behalf of his administration’s approach to the problem. In a related matter, Reagan appeared also to take a swipe at what he suggested was a tendancy by some schools to emphasize the horrors of nuclear war without teaching the necessity to defend the nation’s interest. “In schools across the country, students are being taught the dangers of nuclear weapons and the burdens of national defense,” he said. “Well, let’s make certain they understand not only the price of defending America, but the price of failing to.” He received some applause with this comment.

destroyed the position from which Shiite militiamen fired. It was the second attack on the Marine base today. The first was a 30-minute firefight between Marines and Shiite irregulars in the Hay el-Sellum and Amroussieh neighborhoods that resulted in no Marine casualties, according to Lebanon’s state radio. The Israeli navy boats scored “accurate hits” on the PLO base, according to a military communique issued in Tel Aviv. A Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman said one person was killed and three wounded in the pre-dawn attack, which damaged an unfinished barracks. The Israeli communique said the base, less than a mile north

Computer problems probed

Shuttle lands easily after delay

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Scientists inspected Columbia and its astronauts today for signs of wear from a record 10-day flight, but it may be weeks before officials know why a computer and a navigation device failed and forced an 8hour landing delay. With the $1 billion European Spacelab in its cargo bay, Columbia ended its flight of more than 4 million miles in a dusty touchdown at 3:47 p.m. Pacific time Thursday, less than an hour before sunset. The ninth space shuttle mission was hailed as a success for the reams of scientific data accumulated during the voyage. Fourteen countries contributed to 73 experiments

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of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, belongs to Fatah, the faction of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Fatah spokesman Ahmed Ab-dul-Rahman charged that Israeli ships set up a naval blockade after the attack to halt the evacuation of Arafat and 4,000 loyalists from Tripoli, his last stronghold in the Middle East. The loyalist fighters have been under siege for more than a month by Syrian-backed PLO rebels seeking Arafat’s ouster. Lebanon’s state radio described the attack as designed to prevent the departure of Arafat’s forces, who have been negotiating to leave the area aboard Greek ships flying the United Nations flag.

conducted round-the-clock in an unprecedented amount of scientific activity. “We have many scientific firsts that came out of this mission,” said NASA administrator Gen. James Abrahamson, flanked by shuttle Commander John Young and pilot Brewster Shaw at a postlanding news conference. “We also have one that has been proven time and time again, and that’s that the level of uncertainty in the universe is a constant,” Abrahamson said. The four mission specialists Owen Garriot, Robert Parker, Byron Lichtenberg and West German scientist Ulf Merbold were hurried off for a week of 12-hour-a-day experiments on how the body

Schiro, Spranger sentenced to die

By The Associated Press Two more names are being scratched onto the Death Row roster at the Indiana State Prison. The two Hoosiers were sentenced to death Thursday, one in Richmond, the other in Nashville. Wayne Circuit Court Judge James C. Puckett ordered William J. Spranger, 19, of Fort Wayne, executed for the slaying of the Avilla town marshal last

The president’s remarks on this subject appeared to reflect the heightened concern among some White House officials that such programs as “The Day After,” a television dramatization about a nuclear holocaust, were being discussed in schools and were putting the administration on the defensive on its policies aimed at preventing a nuclear war. In addition, Reagan’s return to the general theme of not spending money on education was considered significant because it came just as the president has been reviewing budget requests for next year. Administration officials have been indicating that, despite the heightened public interest in the issue, Reagan would probably reject recommendations from Education Secretary T.H. Bell and others and propose less federal money for education in the next fiscal year than Congress approved this year. A year ago the administration proposed spending $13.4 billion for education activities, but the Congress approved $15.2 billion. According to knowledgeable officials, a debate occurred over whether to

Protestors for Nebraska school and ERA greet Reagan at Indy

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - President Reagan’s motorcade whisked into the Indiana Convention Center, passing no closer than a block away from a mixed group of some 250 signtoting demonstrators who had hoped to catch the president’s eye. Most of the protesters who gathered Thursday were carrying signs opposing the jailing of seven Nebraska fathers whose children attend an unaccredited Christian school. A handful of others gathered to urge Reagan to support the Equal Rights Amendment and nuclear disarmament. Reagan had little chance to see the protesters as they milled peacfully behind police barricades before he spoke at the National Forum for Excellence in Education. The numbers of the Christian demonstrators were swelled by at least 100 school children from private schools in Indianapolis and Anderson. One student, 16-year-old Mary Anne Smith of Frankfort, said she believes Nebraska authorities overstepped their bounds in closing a Louisville, Neb., Christian school and jailing the seven fathers. “I think if they win the case against the Christian school there, they could close down schools all over the country,” said Miss Smith, a junior at Frankfort Union Bible Seminary. The Nebraska men were jailed last week for contempt of court after they defied state law

reacts to weightlessness and the return to gravity. The tests will duplicate those done during the flight. Columbia, which has now made six trips into space, was towed to a scaffold-like device which will hoist it onto a Boeing 747 jetliner for its return to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, planned for Monday. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists examined its exterior for damage. However, inspection of the failed computer there were four backups on board and a broken navigational guidance device will await Columbia’s arrival in Florida. The sue astronauts the biggest crew on any space flight were not endangered by the

May 28. No date for execution was set, and the sentence is subject to automatic review by the state Supreme Court. In Nashville, Thomas N. Schiro, 22, of Evansville was sentenced to die Jan. 4, his third date with the electric chair for killing Laura Jane Luebbehausen, 28, on Feb. 5,1981. The jury that convicted Spranger of killing Marshal William D. Miner recom-

renew Reagan’s request for a figure in the sl3 billion range or accept what one aide called “political reality” and come in with a request no lower than the level approved by the Congress for this year. But Reagan’s appearance here Thursday appeared to reflect continuing uneasiness among his advisers that the Democrats, especially former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, could appear more committed to educational excellence by advocating more federal programs. Reagan cited six “fundamental reforms” he said were needed to improve schools. First was the restoration of “good old-fashioned discipline in schools, including the giving of additional “authority” to teachers to demand that students take tests, hand in homework and “quiet down” in class. He did not specify what sort of authority might be granted the teachers. Asked whether Reagan supported corporal punishment, speakes said the president was “not necessarily” speaking of “physical discipline.” The second revision Reagan called for

Police detain man with sack

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An unidentified man carrying a paper bag was arrested by police after he rushed toward a downtown intersection as a motorcade with President Reagan approached. Indianapolis police Lt. Max Brenton said Thursday that city officers stopped the man moments before the presidential motorcade passed by. Police detained the man after someone claimed the sack contained a bomb, Brenton said. Reagan was en route from the Indianapolis International Airport to the Indiana Convention Center for a speech before the National Forum on Excellence in Education. The incident occurred about 3:30 p.m. EST. Brenton said a search of the sack revealed only clothing and books. “Someone said, we haven’t verified who yet, ‘There is a bomb in the bag,’ ” Brenton said. The claim might have been made by the arrested man himself, but police were unable to confirm that, he said. The man started running south and ignored police orders to halt, Brenton said, adding that the man was eventually stopped by police, taken to the Hyatt Regency Hotel two blocks away for preliminary questioning and then transferred to Wishard Memorial Hospital for observation, he said. “It happened at a time when the president was starting to come by,” he said. “He was stopped before the motorcade came by.” The man appeared to be in his 30s and identified himself during questioning only as “Such,” Brenton said. Asked how the man responded to police questions, he said, “In a word, strange.” The man gave police no useful information to explain his actions, he said.

and court orders and continued to run the Faith Christian School without certified teachers. Standing behind the barricades, but apart from the school demonstrators, were five

delay from the scheduled 7:59 a.m. PST landing and had food and fuel for another two days, NASA officials said. But Young, praising Shaw’s handling of the situation, joked that when the computers failed, “I turned to jelly.” “There was a problem and I don’t want to minimize that, but ... we were not on the edge of some huge problem,” Abrahamson said. Mission Control ordered the delay after a powerful jolt shuddered through the craft, followed by the failure of two computers and the navigational device, called an Inertial Measuring Unit or IMU. One computer was quickly brought back up. Columbia had two backup IMUs.

mended the death penalty Nov. 10. “I shouldn’t have been out there that night,” Spranger said. “But killing me ain’t going to bring him back. I just ask you please don’t kill me.” William Miner Sr., father of the victim, attended the sentencing. “Justice is being done. When it comes to taking another man’s life, you’re gambling with your own. He (Spranger) lost,” Miner said.

was removing “drug and alcohol abuse" from schools. Third, he said that academic standards needed to be raised. Fourth was rewarding teachers “on the basis of their competence and merit.” Fifth, he spoke of restoring parents and local governments “to their rightful place in the educational process.” And sixth was teaching “basics,” including engineering, a field where Reagan said both Japan and the Soviet Union were leading in the number of college specialists produced. The president also reminded his audience of his support for governmentsponsored school prayer, tax credits for parents with children in private or parochial schools. In asserting that the responsibility for schools should rest with local governments, Reagan hailed what he said had been some good examples or proposals coming from states or local districts. He praised a proposal of Gov. Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey, for example, that would permit scientists and other professionals to become paid teaching interns in schools.

protesters urging passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. “We just want to remind him that we’re still out here, and that we’re planning for 1984,” said Jill Chambers of Indianapolis, a member of the

Death preferable to hopeless plight, woman asserts

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) Elizabeth Bouvia’s futile attempts to have a child and the state’s refusal to pay for experimental treatment that might have eased her paralysis were setbacks that made the cerebral palsy victim want to die, her estranged husband says. “She said, ‘Why is this happening? What can I do to change it?,”’ Richard Bouvia testified. “A lot of times she cried herself to sleep.” Bouvia, who married the 26-year-old quadriplegic after his release from prison in 1982, offered intimate glimpses of the failed marriage Thursday, the fourth day of a courtroom drama which has pitted one woman’s desire to die against the determination by the medical profession and the county to keep her alive. Ms. Bouvia says death is preferable to her painful, hopeless, dependent plight in life. She wants Riverside General Hospital to let her die there without forcing her to eat, but supplying her with pain killers and personal hygiene. Dr. Donald E. Fisher, the hospital’s chief of psychiatry, says he will force-feed her no matter what the courts decide because he believes she is attempting to commit suicide with professional help, which is illegal. Ms. Bouvia’s husband, 36, said they were married Aug. 25, 1982 and one of his wife’s strongest desires was to have a baby —“this was one of her most important things in life.” . He said she became depressed when, several months after their marriage, she still was not pregnant. Bouvia said doctors found his sperm count was too low. He also said Ms. Bouvia dropped out of college when she was told her handicap would get in the way of her studies. Ms. Bouvia had testified earlier that depression and recent circumstances of her life had little to do with her decision to die. Superior Court Judge John H. Hews could decide the matter today.

National Organization for Women. Joining the Christian demonstrators was Buddy Perry, pastor of the Church of the Bible Covenant in Anderson and the father of three children in a Christian school there, who stood in freezing temperatures bearing a sign that read, “Release the Nebraska 7.” “If they could do it in the city of Louisville, Nebraska, they could do it in Anderson, Indiana, and I’m very concerned about that,” Perry said. Holding up signs saying, “President Reagan: Remember the Nebraska Seven,” “The Bible Our Foundation,” and “Christian Schools Our Choice,” some sang “God Bless America,” “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and later on, Christmas carols. Dale Vick, associate pastor at the Indianapolis Baptist Temple, said the group supports the president in general, and wants Reagan to order the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to. investigate the Nebraska case. Rick Stone, also an associate pastor at Baptist Temple, said the jailing undermines civil liberties. “We feel that if we don’t get out here today and get the president with us, we’re just a step away from becoming a concentration camp,” Stone said. “They’re not just trying to break up a church, they’re destroying family units,”*; The pastor of the Baptist Temple, the Rev. Greg Dixon, was in Louisville in support of the jailed men, they said.