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THE BANNERGRAPHIC September 8,1988

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Republican John Mutz took the offensive in a debate with Democrat Evan Bayh and says he liked it. Bayh said his performance in the televised debate between the can- - didates for governor shows he can handle the state’s highest office. “I’m very pleased with my performance,” said Mutz after the onehour debate Wednesday at the University of Notre Dame. “I had a chance to say many of the things I wanted to say.” THE DEBATE WAS the first between the two candidates after months of negotiating over sponsors, date and place. The campaigns have not agreed on a second debate. “I think I succeeded in getting my message across,” said Bayh. “I thought I demonstrated I do have the experience and capacity to be a good governor. I think we had some good give and take. I don’t think there were any low blows.” The debate televised live in most major markets in Indiana was sponsored by the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors and AP Broadcasters association. MUTZ SET ASIDE an apparent reluctance to attack his opponent and assailed as unworkable Bayh’s stands on education, business

Foreign language study needed: committee

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Before a Hoosier graduates from high school he or she should have

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development and administration. Mutz had been urged publicly by his running mate, Stephen Goldsmith, to campaign more aggressively against Bayh. Bayh pressed on with his attacks, however, criticizing the GOP administration Mutz served for signing five tax increases and for permitting what Bayh called waste and mismanagement in government Bayh repeatedly promised change “from the first day of my administration,” a phrase that prompted Mutz to remark later “Based on how often he mentioned it, he is going to have one of the busiest first days in history.” THE 52-YEAR-OLD Mutz, who is finishing a second term as lieutenant governor, emphasized the experience of his 21 years in public service and said judgment and maturity were needed in state government. The candidates often momentarily ignored questions from a panel of five journalists to defend policies and launch attacks. “There will be no new tax increase in a Mutz administration,” said Mutz in response to an early question. He defended a tax increase approved for the A-Plus education program and charged Bayh with wanting to destroy the

at least a year of foreign language study, a State Board of Education advisory committee has recommended. The 10-member foreign language advisory committee offered 12 proposals Wednesday to

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program. “Let’s not destroy it before it’s got a chance to work,” he said. BAYH PURSUED THE tax issue repeatedly, bringing up increases in the state income and sales taxes, and promising to battle wasteful spending. Bayh said he would vote in favor of a state lottery amendment, despite his “mixed feelings” and share some of the revenue with local governments. “We can’t afford to let the money go to Ohio, Illinois and Michigan anymore,” he said. Mutz also supported the constitutional amendment, then launched an attack on Bayh’s decision to cut the budget of the secretary of state’s office. He claimed services once performed in days now take weeks. “This is a situation where the people of Indiana were treated to a good headline, but service was cut,” he said. ASKED ABOUT prison crowding, Mutz said he was “willing to experiment” with alternative forms of incarceration but pledged no dangerous inmates would be freed early. He turned the topic into another opportunity to attack Bayh, claiming Bayh would support a right-to-strike among prison workers. Bayh countered by vowing to disband any union of

strengthen foreign language education in Indiana. The board of education will act on the suggestions in 1989. AT PRESENT, students are not required to study foreign language. “In view of the realities of world travel, world communications and the world economy, it behooves us to review our foreign language requirements,” said H. Dean Evans, Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction. “We must recognize that the quality of adult life of our schoolage children will be enhanced if they are able to communicate in a language in addition to English,” he said. More than 500 new teaching positions could be created in state high schools if the proposal is adopted, said Walter H. Bartz, an Indiana Department of Education’s consultant. THOSE ENTERING the sixth grade by 1990 would be required to complete either one year of a foreign language in high school or two years in junior high or middle school. A state survey shows about 17 percent of seventh -and eighthgrade students currently study a foreign language. A foreign language proficiency test would be incorporated in the state’s competency test by 1995 under the committee’s proposal. The foreign language committee’s proposals include changes in curriculum and graduation requirements, foreign language

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striking prison workers. “Under my administration, there will be no strikes,” he said. In an unrelated comment a moment earlier, Bayh claimed Mutz raised his office budget 350 percent, overspent the Department of Commerce and won $l.B million in federal Housing and Urban Development grants bv overstating the benefits. “I hope we can avoid fingerpointing on this subject,” Bayh said. ASKED AGAIN about ethics, Mutz said the question was not a problem for his campaign. He said Orr had moved quickly to remove corrupt officials. “The people of Indiana expect ethical behavior. In the Mutz administration, we’re going to give it to them,” he said. “We need higher ethical standards and a zealous administration to support them,” said Bayh. Bayh, 32, attempted to turn around the question of experience against the Republicans, saying he served longer in public office than Ronald Reagan had when he was first elected governor of California. “And he went on to be elected and re-elected by an overwhelming majority, and we all know what has happened to Ronald Reagan,” he said. MUTZ AGREED AGE doesn’t

teacher training and licensing. THE COMMITTEE also proposed foreign language instruction be implemented in middle and elementary school programs and language requirements tightened at the university level. Foreign language instruction in high school has fallen off considerably since many universities dropped graduation requirements in languages in the 19705. Among the committee’s other proposals were: • Indiana schools should extend foreign language teaching into the middle schools and later into elementary schools. • Indiana schools should be encouraged to offer at least one of the less commonly taught languages. • All Indiana high schools should offer at least a three-year sequence in one foreign language and a twoyear sequence in a second foreign language. • All Indiana universities should require at least two levels of study in one foreign language for entrance. Some of the ideas, such as this one, would have to be considered by other educational bodies. • A teaching licensing procedure should be established to allow certification of teachers to instruct teach foreign languages in the elementary grades.

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matter but said what counts is “knowledge of Indiana government and how it works.” He criticized Bayh for suggesting the hiring of consultants to reduce waste, claiming the suggestions would take three years to implement and reflected poor judgment. Mutz deflected critics who claimed the Orr administration practiced crisis management rather than leadership. “This has been an administration that has demonstrated leadership,” he said. “I want to take this same leadership and make it work for Indiana.” HIGHER EDUCATION could be better funded by re-allocating wasteful spending and raising out-of-state tuition 5 percent at public

Indy man faces N.M. counts after police chase in Gallup GALLUP, N.M. (AP) An Indianapolis man stands accused of leading officers on a car chase into Gallup where the patrol car pursuing him was involved in a fatal traffic accident with two other vehicles, a prosecutor says. Michael Patrick Doran, 27, was charged with two counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to run down two Gallup police officers and one count of possessing a stolen vehicle, Assistant District Attorney Larry Fowler said. DORAN, WHO WAS BEING held in the Gallup jail, was to be arraigned today before Magistrate Lidio Rainaldi. Fowler said he was researching whether charges would be filed against anyone in connection with the death of 3-year-old Ernest Jim Jr.' of Continental Divide, N.M. The chase began Friday afternoon on Interstate 40 about 20 miles' east of Gallup when state police started pursuing a car that had been reported stolen in San Diego, the McKinley County Sheriff’s Department said. Speeds during the chase reached 90 mph, officers said. State police asked for assistance when the car entered Gallup. THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT sent two patrol cars, one of them driven by patrolman Clayton Garcia, authorities said. Garcia was chasing the car shortly after 2 p.m. when a pickup truck pulled out into traffic as the speeding cars approached, authorities said. The patrol car struck the rear of the pickup truck and the truck then broadsided a small car in which the boy was a passenger, authorities said. Two Gallup officers on routine patrol found Doran walking in a Gal- ‘ lup neighborhood and arrested him at 9:40 p.m., police said. -

Commissioner lacks power to dismiss criminal counts:

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled a court commissioner didn’t have the authority to dismiss theft charges against a man indicted after an investigation into the alleged purchase of stolen property at an Evansville fire station. In a unanimous ruling Wednesday, the appeals panel ordered the case of William Hancock sent back to Vanderburgh Circuit Court. Hancock had been charged in September 1987 with attempted theft and conspiracy to commit theft. IN JANUARY, Hancock’s motion to dismiss the charges was granted by Vanderburgh Circuit Court master commissioner Robert

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universities, said Bayh. Mutz said, however, that motivating students to excel was a more critical issue. Bayh criticized the decision to lengthen the public school year five days, saying the cost wasn’t worth it. On the issue Of motor vehicle license branches, Mutz credited the GOP administration with eliminating the practice of legally funneliqg money from branches to the governor’s political party. Bayh responded, “It is quite clear the administration waited until the last possible minute” to change the system. Both candidates promised a tough stand on drug law enforcement.

S. Matthews. The state later pealed. The appellate panel suspended consideration of the appeal after concluding a court commissioner cannot enter a final judgment that is subject to appeal. The case must go back to the court for a final judgment rendered by a judge. COURT COMMISSIONERS often preside over a court’s routine business during the absence of a judge. The appeals court’s decision was identical to one the court rendered last week in the case of Randy Clayton, whose charges on theftrelated counts in the Evansville fire station investigation also had been dismissed by Matthews.