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THE BANNERGRAPHIC JULY 1,1988

Hamilton for V-P?

DPU alum being considered by Dukakis

WASHINGTON (AP) When Rep. Lee Hamilton was picked to chair the House panel investigating the Iran-Contra affair, the wellrespected but relatively littleknown Indiana Democrat found himself thrust into the limelight. During the weeks of nationally televised joint House and Senate hearings, amid a cast of colorful characters like Fawn Hall and Oliver North, Hamilton displayed the traits he was best known for on Capitol Hill caution, fairness, even-handedness. WHEN THE HEARINGS ended, Hamilton resumed his usual low profile. But in recent weeks, he’s been flirting with fame again, mentioned as a possible running mate for Democratic nominee-to-be Michael Dukakis. Hamilton appeared with Dukakis as the Massachusetts governor made a campaign visit to Indiana Thursday night. At a town meeting in Terre Haute, local Democrats were selling Dukakis-Hamilton buttons for a dollar each. “Not bad, not bad,” Dukakis said when he was presented with one. “Has kind of a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?” Dukakis aides say the two got acquainted at a dinner before Indiana’s May 3 primary, which Dukakis won handily. “I THINK THERE is a great deal of mutual respect,” said Dukakis spokesman Mark Gearan. Hamilton’s office says he has complied with the Dukakis campaign’s request for detailed background information being sought from prospective running mates on everything from his finances to his driving record. Christopher Edley, issues director for the Dukakis campaign, said the Massachusetts governor has consulted Hamilton on a variety of issues, particularly foreign affairs. Hamilton, 57, joined the House

Only four percent qualify for ISTEP help this summer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) With only 4 percent qualifying for remedial work, Indiana school children performed better than expected on the first ISTEP proficiency test, state officials say. Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans said Thursday 13,628 students in five grades scored below the state cutoff score and must take remedial courses this summer. A total of 340,131 children in grades 1,2, 3, 6 and 8

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LEE HAMILTON Seems unlikely to him

Foreign Affairs Committee as a freshman congressman in 1965. He is now second in line behind Jhairman Dante Fascell and is seen as likely to come into the chairmanship eventually. After the 1984 election, he was picked to chair the House Intelligence Committee. MANY OBSERVERS believe Dukakis will choose a running mate with strong foreign affairs experience to make up for his own lack of background in that area. But even with his foreign-policy expertise as a selling point, Hamilton’s chances of being tapped for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket appear remote. He himself plays down the prospect. “I guess I still feel it would be rather unusual for him to come to Indiana for a nominee,” Hamilton told the Indianapolis News this week. “We’re a relatively small state. We don’t have a large number of electoral votes.” And Hamilton might not even be able to deliver his home state in the general election. Indiana is traditionally Republican. HOWEVER, THAT rule doesn’t seem to apply in Hamilton’s district. He was elected by a

took the test in early March. IN JANUARY, education officials predicted more than 30,000 children might qualify for remedial work. Another 135,393 children in grades 9 and 11 also participated in the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress program, but those students aren’t required by law to undergo remedial work if they have low scores on the test. “Our students scored well above the national average in all subject areas,” said Evans.“ Our students also did much better than they did in pilot testing” last year. Evans said education officials will begin immediately to analyze the results to determine if the cutoff scores established in consultations with advisory groups, educators and the state Board of Education should be raised before next year’s testing. THE SCORES also will be studied to determine what parts of school curriculums need to be strengthened, he said. Results showed 5.1 percent of first-graders and 5 percent of second-graders qualified for remedial work. The sixth grade had the lowest percentage of students needing summer work, 2.8 percent, while the eighth and third grades had 3.2 percent and 3.6 percent

landslide in 1964 and has won reelection by large margins. In 1976, the Republicans didn’t even bother fielding a candidate. The son of a Methodist minister, Hamilton shares some personality traits with Dukakis. Neither could be described as flamboyant. Both are cerebral types, lawyerly lawyers. They have in common a dogged competitive streak. Hamilton was a high school basketball star in Evansville, Ind., leading his team to the state finals, and he played college basketball at DePauw University. LIKE DUKAKIS, Hamilton has a reputation for being earnest and strait-laced. Hamilton for decades has sported a 19505-style crew cut. He told an interviewer last year that he has let his hair grow out only once while he was attending Goethe University in Frankfurt, West Germany on scholarship before going on to law school at Indiana University. “It was the only time I ever let my hair grow long,” he said. “I just wasn’t comfortable with it.” HAMILTON APPEARS to share Dukakis’ conviction that a well-managed government can cure many ills. When the Iran-Contra hearings ended, many of the committee members, especially Democrats, expressed dismay about the foreign-policy fiasco that had unfolded in the testimony they heard. Hamilton agreed with his fellow legislators that the hearings had been “depressing.” But he also struck a positive note, saying “the process has been refreshing.” “We know better what happened and what mistakes were made,” Hamilton said. “We can see more clearly what needs to be done to make our system work better.”

H. DEAN EVANS Reviewing good grades

qualifying, respectively. Evans said he was certain there are students who scored above state minimums but need remedial work. “The best way for us to do this is to speak with teachers this fall and find out how many kids who achieved above the remediation standard for ISTEP would have benefitted from the summer program,” said Evans. “That will help us set the standards in subsequent years.” EVANS SAID HE believes students did better than expected because “ISTEP became a social phenomenon,” and students, teachers and parents attached great importance to the test in its first year. The Republican nominee for superintendent, Evans called “outrageous and irresponsible” a suggestion by Rep. B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, that state officials deliberately kept the cutoff score low so thousands of children wouldn’t be forced into remediation during an election year.

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Colorado couple eyes profit in drought

STRASBURG, Colo. (AP) Jack and Loma Rhine, dryland farmers who depend solely on rainfall, feel almost guilty talking about their thriving wheat fields while farmers in the droughtstricken Midwest and South pray for rain. “They lose and we gain someone has to suffer to make anything now,” Jack Rhine said. AROUND THEM farms are dust-choked, but the Rhines have enjoyed more than double the usual rainfall for this time of year and are looking forward to one of their best winter wheat harvests ever. In addition, they stand to benefit from wheat prices driven up by crop damage elsewhere. “We’re just abundant, and you go 100 miles southeast of here and it’s dry,” said Rhine on Wednesday. Abundance for the Rhines means 6 or 7 inches of rain in the last two months, compared to about 3 inches during those months most years and an average annual rainfall of about 14 inches. SO FAR THIS year they also have managed to escape the hailstorms that can wipe out a wheat field in an hour. The Rhines’ 3,000 acres lie about 40 miles east of Denver and the Rocky Mountains. A single dry

Gorbachev pushing for Soviet reform

MOSCOW (AP) Mikhail S. Gorbachev made an emotional plea for his proposals to redistribute power in the Soviet Union, emphasizing that political change is essential if his economic reform is to succeed where similar attempts failed. He took the floor for the second time before 5,000 delegates at the Communist Party conference he called to assess his reform program. In his 40-minute speech Thursday, Gorbachev suggested that Soviet socialism will die if his proposals to restore more real power to local legislative councils are blocked. “SOCIETY IS WAITING for it,” he said. “The whole of socialism is waiting for it.” Soviet President Andrei A. Gromyko, criticized by some delegates Thursday for having “fallen behind the times,” opened today’s session, Soviet television reported without giving details. Pollution was among the topics raised today. Fyodor Morgun, the head of the Soviet Union’s new environmental protection agency, said the rush to build giant factories had destroyed fertile soil, ruined forests, raised air pollution above healthly levels and contaminated water supplies. “Those who created these problems should be identified and give their due,” Morgun said. His remarks to the closed-door session of the first party conference in 47 years, were carried by Tass, the official news agency. GORBACHEV’S SPEECH ate into the schedule of a conference where only 47 delegates of 261

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creek runs across the property. The only water their wheat gets comes from rainfall, and the Rhines are more susceptible to moisture levels than farmers who irrigate. Rhine, vice president of the Adams County Farm Bureau, said most farms along the Front Range are faring well this year. A string of 90-degree-plus days in the middle of June caused some heat stress, he said, but not as much as in areas farther east and south. THEW RHINES PLAN to harvest their wheat in two to three weeks, a couple of weeks earlier than usual. They expect to get 35 bushels per acre, near the limit the thin soil can produce, Rhine said. On Wednesday, the Rhines had to stop tilling a fallow field when the tractor wheels began kicking up clods of mud after a midday rain shower. “This is more like Hawaii or Florida weather than Colorado,” said Mrs. Rhine. The Rhines haven’t always been so lucky. Jack Rhine, 57, lived in the same area in 1935 and remembers his wheat-farmer father scraping by, growing just enough food to feed the family while the fields turned to dust.

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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV: Casts his ballot for reform

who asked for the floor have spoken. Officials originally said the gathering would end today. Also breaking into the schedule was a conflict over the reformist journal Ogonyok’s allegations that certain delegates from the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan took bribes. Uzbekistan’s party chief, in an apparent reference to the magazine’s editor, Vitaly Korotich, countered that demagogues are operating “under the cover of perestroika,” the name Gorbachev has given his plans for reform. Among those waiting to speak, an official said, is Boris N. Yeltsin, ousted as party boss in Moscow last fall for criticizing the slow pace of reform. A MOSCOW AREA delegate demanded Yeltsin be given the floor so the conference could hear his views. In his speech Thursday, Gor-

THE RHINES GOT their own farm in 1954, a year that brought a poor harvest They recall floods that washed away their crops, hail that damaged their fields and morq than a few dry spells. In the last five or six years,; wheat cost more to grow than it was worth at market, they say, and they lost some extra revenue when two oil wells on their property went bust a few years ago. Rhine said that thanks to the drought in much of the country, wheat prices, which recently topped $4 a bushel, likely will stay higher than the $3.25 to $3.50 he invests per bushel. Other parts of Colorado haven’t escaped the drought and scorching temperatures, which come on the heels of a dry fall and winter. Colorado State University agronomist Jim Echols has predicted the state’s winter wheat crop could be reduced by as much as 25 percent. “The drought helps us, but it’s really a disaster for those people,” said Rhine. ”1 don’t think a person should brag very much because it really isn’t a very fair thing. ... It’s worked just the opposite other times.”

bachev said that a call he made in his first speech Tuesday for vesting real power in legislative council?, known as soviets, had been misunderstood. “We do not abandon the leading role of the ruling party in the country,” Gorbachev said. “On the contrary, we emphasize it.” Gorbachev proposed Tuesday that local party heads should be elected chairmen of the soviets in a secret ballot. The proposal seemed designed to ensure that the Communist Party retains its traditional control over Soviet society, but operates through a forum elected by the people rather than a government executive body. UNDER THE proposed reforms, party leaders “of all ranks” will be selected in secret ballot, multicandidate elections.