Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 419, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 December 1985 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic. December 4,1985

And you were complaining about the Putnam County cold...At least it's not created the slick traveling mess that resulted in a 24-vehicle pile-up on U.S. 131 in Kalamazoo, Mich., Monday. Traffic was stalled for several hours and was backed up in both lanes more than two miles as a result of the accident. Freezing rain and snow were the culprits. (AP Wirephoto).

Reagan calls on Soviets for new cooperation

FALLSTON, Md. (AP) President Reagan called on the Soviet Union today to “draw back the barriers that separate our peoples" and to cooperate with the United States in a wide-ranging exchange of students, athletes, scientists and average citizens. Plugging anew the idea he first touted before meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last month, Reagan said in remarks at Fallston High School in rural Maryland that he hoped such trade-offs would build a safer world for the coming generation. “> 4e should have no illusions that people-to-people contact will solve all the problmes that exist between us. The Soviet Union is not a democracy. ..." Reagan warned. “But these exchanges are a beginning to building a better world, one based on better human understanding.” Reagan told the students and faculty that his 15 hours of talks with Gorbachev

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showed him that the Soviet leader was “a determined man. but one who is willing to listen.” Despite the lack of major accords reached on such issues as arms control, Reagan said the Gorbachev held out “the promise of change” and said he wanted better relations between their two peoples. “What better way to do this than allowing people to travel freely back and

Near-perfect mission ends

c. 1985 N. Y. Times News Service EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif The space shuttle Atlantis landed safely here Tuesday, concluding a nearly flawless weeklong mission that included the first construction project in space and three successful satellite launchings. After puncturing the air over Los Angeles with a trail of double sonic booms, the Atlantis glided up to the Mojave Desert, made a 170-degree left turn and landed on the large concrete runway here. It rolled to a stop at 1:33 p.m.. Pacific standard time “Welcome home, Atlantis great landing,” Mission Control told the seven crewmembers, led by the mission commander, Lt. Col. Brewster H. Shaw Jr. Shuttles usually land on endless dirt run-

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forth?” Reagan asked. “Let’s begin, at the very least, to draw back the barriers that separate our peoples from one another.” The president said he was asking no more of the Soviet Union than that nation had agreed to do under the Helsinki Accords, which dealt with contact between peoples and freedom of information. At the summit, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a new agreement on

ways at the base. But a week of rain left scattered puddles on the usually dry lake bed runways. Remnants of rain clouds and wispy mare’stails filled the sky as the Atlantis returned to the Earth, seven days and 2.8 million miles after its blazing nighttime liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla. “Atlantis looks beautiful,” said Jesse Moore, associate administrator for space flight at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Apart from “a few dings” around the ship's nose and landing gear, he said, there appeared to be “no unusual damage.” An estimated 6,700 people witnessed the 17th shuttle landing at Edwards, the last one for eight months. From now until next July, all shuttles are scheduled to land,

McFarlane's departure imminent

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - White House officials said Tuesday that the Reagan administration was actively seeking a replacement for Robert C. McFarlane, the White House national security adviser. Amid reports that McFarlane was planning to quit his job, both President Reagan and his spokesman, Larry Speakes, brushed aside questions about the national security adviser’s plans. White House officials predicted that an announcement of McFarlane’s departure would probably take place this week, and that Reagan was hoping to name his replacement at the same time. Reagan, asked by a reporter whether he had talked to McFarlane about his job, responded, “We talk every day.” Pressed on whether he had discussed the job issue

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cultural exchanges, but agreed only to broaden contacts in the fields Reagan has proposed. They include an annkal exchange of professors, the creation of a U.S.-Soviet scholarship porgram, the promotion of language studies, a joint program of cancer research, a program for microcomputer education and the expansion of contacts in sports. Reagan called Gorbachev’s willingness to broaden such contacts “one of the most exciting developments to come out of Geneva.” The president said the two nations are still negotiating the specifics of such exchanges, and that it remains to be seen how much the Soviets will be willing to open up their closed society. "But our objective is massive exchange programs between private citizens in both countries between people, not government bodies,” Reagan said.

weather permitting, at Cape Canaveral. One of the main objects of the flight was to test construction methods designed to be used in building a large space station. To that end, Lt. Col. Sherwood C. Spring and Maj Jerry L. Ross made two excursions from their spacecraft totaling more than 12 hours. In part of the building exercise, they were moved from place to place by a robot arm operated by Dr. Mary L. Cleave, a mission specialist on the trip. Although both excursions left the astronauts nearly exhausted, the building systems seemed to work as planned, apart from one minor problem. A pin used to secure one of the structures to the shuttle’s payload bay could not be inserted in its socket, and one maneuver had to be canceled.

with McFarlane, Reagan just shrugged his shoulders. At the moment, the key contenders for the national security job the key foreign policy post in the White House are David M. Abshire, U.S. delegate to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, former under secretary of state, Frank C. Carlucci 3d, former deputy secretary of defense, and Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, who is McFariane’s deputv, a White House official said. The precise reasons for McFarlane’s possible departure remained unclear, although White House officials cited two key factors: the first being McFarlane’s continuing frictions with the strong-willed White House chief of staff, Donald T. Regan, and the second reason being his desire to enter the private sector and to

Pursuit not trivial as new game puts flash into SAT grind

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON A couple of years ago, Larry Gadd was watching his teenaged son prepare to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test an academic rite of passage for America’s college-bound adolescents. “There was such terrible anxiety,” recalled Gadd, who runs a small publishing company. “I thought, ‘There’s something wrong with this.’ I wanted to come up with something that’s fun and would help them learn.” What Larry Gadd came up with was a homemade version of “College Pursuit” a flash-card game in the spirit of Trivial Pursuit that is aimed at helping high school students prepare for their college board tests. A massmarketed version is being distributed nationally by Simon and Schuster and is on store shelves just in time for the Christmas shopping season (not to mention the January college board tests). “It’s selling like crazy,” said Gadd in an interview on Monday. Gadd came up with the concept for the game, but the actual product has been developed and tested by an assortment of academic types high school English and math teachers, college admissions officers, psychiatrists and educational psychologists. College Pursuit consists of 800 flashcards with SAT-like questions on the fronts and answers, plus explanations, on the back. Like the SAT itself, the questions are divided into verbal and math categories with 10 additional larger cards with “reading comprehension” sections. The game even scores like the SAT perfect score. However, in marking the scores, a student’s deficiencies are charted. Priced at $19.95, about 50,000 of the games have sold since distribution began just over a month ago, said Gadd. who resides in Stafford, Conn. The Scholastic Aptitude Test is developed and administered by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. Dennis Kelly, a spokesman for that firm, said Monday that he is aware of the College Pursuit game but knows little of it beyond that. “We haven’t reviewed it,” said Kelly. “We have no comment on it.”

earn a greater income. Under current guidelines, McFarlane is at a level for which the maximum salary is $75,100 a year. A senior White House official indicated Tuesday night that McFarlane had told the president that he wanted to leave the White House for personal reasons, unrelated to Regan. Associates of McFarlane said that the national security adviser felt that the recent Geneva summit meeting, which he saw as relatively successful, marked “a perfect time” to leave the White House. Of the frictions with Regan, a White House aide said, “They just didn’t get along, and neither did their staffs. The NSC people put down Regan’s people and Regan’s people put down Bud McFarlane and the NSC.”

Rail merger foes say this monopoly no game

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wrapped in brown paper, a curious package found its way to the office of each U S. senator this week a game of Monopoly. It was the latest volley in the intense lobbying that has surrounded the proposed sale of Conrail to the Norfolk Southern Corp. ’’monopoly in the real world is no game,” suggested a note accompanying the package, which had been sent by a coalition of shippers, state officials and other parties opposed to legislation approving the merger of the two Eastern railroads. With Congress moving rapidly toward its Christmas recess, opponents of the Conrail sale to Norfolk Southern have stepped up their efforts to head off a Senate vote, hoping that next year support for the merger will fade. At the same time, Norfolk Southern and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole have been trying to convince senators that a vote should be taken before the holiday recess and that the proposal, which Mrs. Dole sent to Capitol Hill last April, has

Gadd said College Pursuit is “a teaching game... not a trick on how to do better on the SATs.” The game helps students review the general information and concepts that they will be tested on during college board exssms, he explained, and it helps them prepare for the way the SAT asks its questions. From the analogies section of College Pursuit, for example, comes the question: EMACIATION: STARVING: (A) robustness: sitting (B) sturdiness: sleeping (C) fullness: drinking (D) health: dieting (E) obesity: gormandizing The answer is (E). “We associate the idea of emaciation (abnormal leanness, wasting away) with that of starving (suffering from prolonged lack of food).” the game explains. “The best answer, therefore, is (E) since we associate the idea of obesity (the quality of being overly fat or corpulent) with gormandizing (eating and drinking like a glutton) -- antonyms for the initial word group...” The game also explains why the other answers would be wrong. “The key to the game is that kids teach kids,” said Gadd. “It works. They play it on the bus, in the lunchroom, everywhere.” A lot of parents play the game “to see how they stack up against their kids,” said Gadd. In developing the game, groups of high school students were given past SATs before and after playing College Pursuit and their scores improved, Gadd said. A scientific survey of the SAT scores of high school sophomores who do and don’t play the game is being conducted, too. “It will take a few years” to get valid results, he said. Gadd said he was uncomfortable with the special courses that have sprung up to specifically help students “beat the SAT.” There are value judgments to make in paying to help “kids learn to outfox the testmakers," he said. College Pursuit, he said, “is just teaching. It puts sugar on what was a very boring process.” Incidentally, said Gadd. his son did “very well” on his SAT score.

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ROBERT C. McFARLANE Replacement is sought

been debated enough. Meanwhile, a rival proposal to sell Conrail to an independent group of investors has been gaining support amid lingering controversy over the impact that combining Conrail and Norfolk Southern would have on shippers along the major East-West rail routes from the Northeast to St. Louis. While critics of the merger say the Fenate has not had time to examine the complicated competitive implications of the sale, congressional sources said Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole wants to bring the matter to a vote as soon as possible, perhaps even late today. If a vote is called. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, has promised to try to delay action on the measure by filibustering. Supporters of the sale to Norfolk Southern are expecting the filibuster and have focused on getting enough votes at least 60 to force an end to debate, possibly by Friday.