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THE BANNERGRAPHIC December?, 1987

Chicago schools nation’s worst?

CHICAGO (AP) The U.S. education secretary says Chicago’s public schools are the nation’s worst: Low test scores, high dropout rates and teacher strikes signal a “meltdown” in the system charged with educating 430,000 children. Local officials acknowledge that change is desperately needed in the nation’s third-largcst public-school system, but they say Chicago’s woes, like those of other cities, are rooted in economics and ethnicity, not education. “The major problem facing the Chicago schools is the terrible social and economic problems in the black and Hispanic communities of Chicago,” says Gary Orfield, a University of Chicago professor of political science and education. THE STATISTICS are compelling: Nearly 45 percent of the class that entered in 1981 did not graduate in 1985, school board spokesman Bob Saigh said; almost two-thirds of 1985 graduates either were unemployed or in dead-end jobs. Half of its high schools rank in the bottom one percent of U.S. schools for student scores on the American College Test, according to state statistics. Nine teachers’ strikes have halted classes during the past 18 years, the latest a record monthlong walkout in September.

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And, 67 percent of Chicago’s public school children come from low-income families. FROM 1970 TO 1986, the white enrollment in Chicago public schools dropped by 21.1 percent, from 34.6 percent to 13.5 percent, while the black student population rose from 54.8 percent to 60 percent and the Hispanic population jumped from 9.7 percent to 23.4 percent, according to teachers’ union statistics. In the nation’s public schools, the white population dropped 19 percent between 1968 and 1984, while the black sector increased 2 percent and Hispanics rose 80 percent. U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett last month said Chicago’s system was so bad thai parents should consider private education. “It’s an education meltdown. If there’s one that’s worse, I don’t know where it is,” Former President Jimmy Carter, also visiting Chicago last month, said the system “suffers from a very low quality.” “WE DON’T NEED cheap shots from a couple of people who blow into town,” said Hal Baron, Mayor Eugene Sawyer’s chief policy adviser. “We know the schools need reform, and we’re working on it,” Baron said, adding, “What they should be asking us is what can they do to help u r >.”

Judge refuses to dismiss charges in Deaver perjury case

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Three-year-old Tabatha Foster is wheeled down the corridor of Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh by her father Roy as she recovers from a recent five-organ transplant. During the Oct. 31 operation, the Madisonville, Ky., youngster received a liver, pancreas, intestines, part of a colon and part of a stomach. She is staying in the hospital on an extended recovery. (AP Wi rephoto).

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. Miller rested his case after Jackson had denied a series of defense motions for directed verdicts of acquittal on all five charges that Deaver lied to a House subcommittee and a grand jury about his lobbying activities. The former deputy White House chief of staff is accused of lying when he said he could not recall a series of contacts with former Reagan administration colleagues on behalf of lobbying clients.

High court to eye tax-exempt status

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court agreed Monday to study a lawsuit seeking to strip the Roman Catholic Church of its taxexempt status because of the church’s anti-abortion lobbying. Today’s action spares, for now, the U.S. Catholic Conference and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops from having to pay SIOO,OOO a day in contempt-of-court fines for not surrendering information sought in the suit. THE CATHOLIC conference and conference of Catholic bishops are the two principal national organizations of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Lawyers for the church and its agencies contend that they should not be held in contempt for refusing to cooperate because the underlying lawsuit is flawed. “Pro-choice” organizations and individuals who support the 1973

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‘Star Wars,’ Soviet Jews issues clouding summit

WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev headed Monday for summit talks with President Reagan capping an agreement to dismantle their medium-range nuclear missiles but clouded by concerns over U.S. “Star Wars” plans and the plight of Soviet Jews. Even as Gorbachev met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher outside London for presummit discussions en route to Washington, U.S. and Soviet diplomats predicted that the Gor-bachev-Reagan summit will yield progress toward a bolder, more farreaching accord to reduce arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons. Success in Washington this week could pave the way for an agreement signed in Moscow as early as next June. “IN MY VIEW the centerpiece is the next step to talk about guidelines to our diplomats, to sign next year when the president comes to Moscow another treaty which will be much more important, cutting by half our nuclear strategic defense forces,” Soviet spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said. “I see we have political will on both sides to reach it, and if you have political will on both side, then there is a way,” Gerasimov said on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” show. Said Secretary of State George Shultz: “I feel quite sure that we’ll make some progress ... but we will not be anywhere near a treaty.” Shultz, interviewed on NBCTV’s “Today” show, said that besides the signing of a treaty to eliminate medium-range missiles, U.S. officials hope there will be some progress on “the more important issues,” including human rights. SHULTZ ALSO expressed confidence that Reagan “does very well” in negotiating with Gorbachev, based on their two past summit meetings in Geneva in November 1985 and at Iceland in October 1986, although recent domestic criticism of Reagan might hurt. “It, of course, hurts a little bit because the Soviets want to deal with somebody who has strength and can deliver,” Shultz said. On the same TV show, former

Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion sued the Internal Revenue Service and the secretary of the Treasury in 1980. The church and its various entities were not named as defendants. THE SUIT SEEKS to force the government to revoke the church’s tax-exempt status, assess back taxes and order that money donated to the church may not be claimed as charitable tax deductions. The suit says the government, by not forcing church compliance with the federal tax code’s limits on political lobbying by tax-exempt groups, is giving the church a subsidy unavailable to pro-choice groups also politically active but not tax-exempt. An earlier attempt by the government to kill the suit was rejected without comment by the Supreme Court last year.

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White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan said the president “can handle Gorbachev,” but Malcolm Toon, who was President Carter’s ambassador to Moscow in the late 19705, said he was “very uneasy” about Reagan. “He doesn’t do his homework very well,” Toon said, while Gorbachev “is on top of all these issues. I’m afraid that we may wind up with a near-disaster, such as we had at Reykjavik.” ON HIS WAY to Washington, the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party met with Mrs. Thatcher at Brize Norton air force base 65 miles northwest of London for two hours of talks. British sources said she was telling Gorbachev that superpower agreement *on a research timetable for Star Wars, the space-based missile defense system, could lead to a new treaty on cutting long-range nuclear weapons by 50 percent. It was Reagan’s Star Wars program that stalemated the last U. -Soviet summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. The plight of Soviet Jews, dramatized by a rally that brought 200,000 demonstrators to the capital on Sunday, also loomed large as Gorbachev begins his American visit. President Reagan, in a written message to the demonstrators, said, “I have high hopes for new, forward steps by the Soviets. I shall press for them in my talks with General Secretary Gorbachev in the coming days for the release of all refuseniks, for full freedom of emigration and for complete freedom of religion and cultural expression.” The Soviets again on Sunday appeared willing to put aside differences over Star Wars in order to make progress on a treaty to reduce

Weapons, nuclear war on young Hoosier minds

MUNCIE (AP) Weapons and nuclear war were on the minds of some Muncie elementary school students who wrote to President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as part of a school project. “The power of nuclear weapons is so great that the world would be destroyed. You wouldn’t win. Nobody would,” wrote 10-year-old Elizabeth Glover. The third-, fourth- and fifthgraders from Burris Elementary School were given an assignment to compose letters on world peace. THE THEME OF a possible nuclear war seemed to dominate the thoughts of many of the children. Tracey Haslitt, 9, thinks nuclear weapons should be destroyed. “I don’t like hearing about

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long-range nuclear arms. But Shultz warned that Reagan would be “pressure-proof” to any Soviet attempt to slow down the Strategic Defense Initiative, as the space-based missile defense plan isC known officially, during the talks: opening Tuesday. SHULTZ SAID ON ABC-TV’s “This Week With David Brinkley” that the United States intended to “go ahead with the tests the specific tests that will allow our research to continue in a profitable way.” Meanwhile, demonstrators in Washington on behalf of Soviet Jews who wantito emigrate, plus a violence-marred protest in Moscow, dramatized superpower differences on human rights. Gorbachev’s first visit to America marks the third effort by the president and the general secretary to lower nuclear tensions and put the U.S.-Soviet relationship on a more stable footing. Both have their critics at home. Some of Reagan’s old conservative allies even suggested he was being duped by Gorbachev to weaken U.S. defenses. AND YET, both Reagan and Gorbachev seemed firmly in charge as they ascended the summit again. Their first session in Geneva in November 1985 produced little of substance. But they agreed on a scenario for arms reductions in Reykavik before that summit collapsed under the weight of Star Wars. Awaiting their signatures this time is a treaty to scrap all inter-mediate-range nuclear missiles over three years. It would be the first accord to ban an entire category of nuclear weapons if the Senate overcomes the opposition of conservative Republicans and votes for ratification.

violence. I don’t see why all the people in the world can’t all be peaceful,” she said in her letter. And 9-year-old Robert R. Franke said enough money has been spent on weapons and more should be spent on peace. “If one child has more toys than the next, is the first more special?,” he asked. “I THINK SOMEONE should fix this world. Someone should teach the countries some good manners,” says Rebecca Waxman. In a letter to Reagan and Gorbachev, Burris teacher Dr. Thereas Winfrey-Greenwood writes, “It is our hope that this small collection of letters from some very young citizens will help spark a worldwide cry from the youth of this world to realize that they have a stake in their future.”