Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 91, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 December 1990 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 19,1990

Bayh’s latest education plan would improve the Hoosier work force

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gov. Evan Bayh has joined the bandwagon of business leaders and educators who want Indiana high schools to produce bettertrained graduates. Under a program the governor announced Tuesday, Hoosier teen-agers would have to stay in school until they’re 18, but their classes would offer better training in vocational and technical skills. THE PROGRAM would make both high schools and vocational colleges more responsive to the needs of business and concentrate workforce training efforts under one agency, the Department of Workforce Development. “When a young man or woman graduates from high school without being able to read or write or add, that’s not fair to them and it’s not fair to the state, because ultimately that individual will not be able to provide for themselves,” Bayh said. “We need to turn that around.” The program was developed by an economic development planning committee headed by Bayh and Lt. Gov. Frank O’Bannon. It will have to be approved by the Indiana General Assembly. THE PROGRAM would cost $76.9 million during the next two years, but most of the money will come from existing training programs. The rest would be funded through interest income on Indiana’s unemployment insurance reserve fund. Under Bayh’s proposals: • By age 16, all high school students would have to pass a basic skills examination put together by parents, educators and business and labor leaders. The skills might include knowing how to balance a checkbook or other abilities needed in the everyday world. Superintendent

Third quarter stats show growing economy

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. economy was still growing at a weak 1.4 percent annual rate from July through September, the government said today, but most

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of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans has proposed a similar test. • Students would be required to stay in school until they are 18, rather than the current 16-year-old dropout rule. • Students in the 11th and 12th grades would select a broad area of concentration, such as health, business technology, liberal arts or trades. The student would be expected to master his area of concentration. Evans’ staff has been working on a similar proposal. • Students would leave vocational schools with a “skills guarantee,” under which employers could request retraining at the state’s expense if their new employee doesn’t measure up. • Adults would be able to improve their skills at local Workforce Indiana Centers, vocational and technical education sites and universities. • The present Commission on Vocational Education, the Department of Employment and Training Services and the Office of Workforce Literacy would be combined under one agency.

economists believe it since has slipped into a recession. The Commerce Department reported its final estimate of the third-quarter gross national product was even slower than the 1.7 percent gain in its initial estimates in October and November.

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Amnesty International report cites Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait

LONDON (AP) Amnesty International issued a report today charging that Iraqi occupation forces in Kuwait have tortured and killed hundreds of people, including 300 premature babies who died because incubators were stolen. Amnesty’s first comprehensive description of abuses in occupied Kuwait since the Iraqi invasion on Aug. 2 gives few precise figures. BUT NORMA JOHNSON, the human rights organization’s head of communications, said today that “About 1,000 people have been executed, many hundreds have been tortured and something like 10,000 still remain in detention in Kuwait. “People going out of their homes to buy food, innocent Kuwaitis, are being picked up by the Iraqi troops, taken back to their homes, and when they are identified by their parents, for example, are simply being shot in front of them,” she said in a radio interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. President Bush, who has cited Iraqi brutality as a reason for wanting to liberate Kuwait, said Tuesday that the 82-page Amnesty report provides examples of Iraq’s “primeval” treatment of the vanquished Kuwaitis. SOME INTERNATIONAL observers say they fear that such reports on Iraqi atrocities might fan the flames of war. The hundreds of deaths that London-based Amnesty and other independent human rights groups are reporting are far less than the thousands alleged by exiled Kuwaiti officials. Amnesty notes in the report that Iraqi authorities have engaged in similar practices against their own people for years. The report cites “widespread abuses of human rights” in Kuwait. “THESE INCLUDE the arbitrary arrest and detention without trial of thousands of civilians and (Kuwaiti) military personnel; the widespread torture of such persons in custody; the imposition of the

IN ANOTHER report, the department said housing starts jumped 9.3 percent in November, their first increase in 10 months. But the gain was due entirely to a rebound in multi-family starts as single-family building fell to a level unmatched since the 1981-82 recession. The Federal Reserve Board noted the “weakness in the economy” Tuesday when it lowered the discount rate from 7 percent to 6.5 percent, effective today, to stimulate growth and ease the severity of any contraction. But most economists say it will take months before the effects of a lower rate work their way through the economy. The rate is the interest the Fed charges on loans to banks and other financial institutions. EVEN BUSH administration officials, while avoiding he use of the word “recession,” agree the economy is weakening. Earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady admitted it is experiencing a “significant slowdown” that is likely to persist through early 1991. Surveys of private economists and professional forecasters show that most believe the economy actually is contracting and will continue to deteriorate into next year. They contend the economy was stumbling along the rim of a reces-

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An unidentified member of the Kuwaiti delegation to the United Nations hands a case Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar at the U.N. It contians computer lists of all Kuwaiti citizens before the August 2 Iraqi invasion and

death penalty and the extrajudicial execution of hundreds of unarmed civilians, including children,” the report says. “In addition, hundreds of people in Kuwait remain unaccounted for, having effectively ‘disappeared’ in detention, and many of them are feared dead,” it says. The Iraqis left more than 300 premature babies to die after stealing their incubators from Kuwait City hospitals, the report says. Amnesty says its investigators interviewed several doctors and nurses and that all saw bodies of the babies. One doctor helped bury 72 bodies, it says. AMNESTY SAID its investigators spoke to victims of torture, doctors who treated them, their

sion before the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and that the subsequent oil-price shock shoved it over the edge. A RECESSION generally is defined as two consecutive declines in the GNP, the nation’s total output of goods and services and its broadest measure of economic health. It grew at an anemic 1.7 percent annual rate during the first quarter, but slowed to an a barely perceptible 0.4 percent rate in the second. The department also reported that a GNP measure of inflation rose at an annual rate of 4.2 percent. It had been revised to 4.2 percent last month after the department initially said it had risen 4.1 percent. IN ITS HOUSING report, the department said starts of new homes and apartments totaled a seasonally adjusted 1.13 million units following a 6.6 percent drop in October. It was the first increase since a 23.2 percent gain last January. Contributing most to the downward revision in the GNP was a slower gain in consumer spending and a wider trade deficit than first estimated. Consumer spending rose just 2.7 percent rather than the 3.2 percent reported last month. The trade deficit was $1.9 billion.

was turned over to the U.N. for safekeeping. The computer lists might be able to be used to verify the victims of torture alleged by a report issued by Amnesty International. (AP photo)

relatives and witnesses. The report lists 38 methods of torture employed by Iraqi forces, including beatings while the victim was suspended from a rotating ceiling fan; rape of women and young men; stubbing out lighted cigarettes on victims’ eyeballs and tethering victims in the burning sun for hours without water. The report said in some cases the arms, legs and ribs of some victims were broken, tongues and ears were cut off and eyes were gouged out. In other cases, victims were castrated, the report said. AMNESTY ADDS, however: “The Iraqi forces’ brutality in Kuwait has shocked many people in the past four months but such

Desert Shield tours may be extended for reservists

WASHINGTON (AP) Some of the 125,000 reservists called to active duty for the Persian Gulf crisis may be away from their homes and jobs longer than they had imagined. The Defense Department said Tuesday it may ask Congress for authority to keep non-combat reservists on active duty for a full year. The current limit is six months. PENTAGON spokesman Pete Williams said Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has made no final decision but probably would seek the extra authority after Congress returns in late January. Non-combat reservists provide support such as medical care, intelligence analysis, aircraft maintenance, truck driving, water purification and legal assistance. They account for about 110,000 of the reservists called up from all four services. “We would like to have from the Congress the authority to extend both combat and non-com-bat reservists to the full 180 (days), plus another 180,” Williams told reporters. “WE DON’T NEED to have that authority in our hand right now because we just haven’t come to that time yet, but I think as a general proposition ... it would be nice to have as much flexibility as we can in terms of dealing with the reserves,” he said. Congress already has authorized Cheney to keep combat reservists on active duty for 360 days, although the only such units activated so far three National Guard combat brigades were called up for 180-day tours. Cheney probably will extend their tours by another 180 days if they arc deployed to the gulf.

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abuses have been the norm for people in Iraq for more than a decade.” A woman at the Iraqi Embassy in London said the ambassador was the only person authorized to comment on the Amnesty report and that he was not available. Bush, in comments Sunday to interviewer David Frost on a PBS-TV program scheduled to be aired Jan. 2, said he read it and “handed it to Barbara as we left Camp David. And she read about two pages of it and said, ‘I can’t read anymore.’” “It is primeval,” he said. THE REPORT SAYS some people were slain because they carried Kuwaiti money or refused to pledge allegiance to Saddam.

THE FIRST non-combal reserve units were called up in late August, so some reservists have been scheduled to return to their civilian jobs and their homes in February. Williams said some Reserve or National Guard units may be needed for longer periods. “It may well be that there are units with unique capabilities, one-of-a-kind capabilities ... and when we hit the six-month period ... we need to decide whether we want to come back and ask Congress to extend that,” he said. IN OTHER developments related to troop deployments in Operation Desert Shield: • The Pentagon said 10,000 U.S. troops have arrived in the gulf area this week, bringing to more than 270,000 the number of American soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines in the region. • Williams said Iraq has added 10,000 troops to its force in and around occupied Kuwait, bringing the total to 510,000. The Iraqis have about 4,000 tanks, 2,500 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles and 2,700 artillery pieces, the spokesman said. • The Army said elements ol the 7th Corps Artillery, based at Augsburg, Germany, have begun deploying to the gulf in support of Desert Shield. It also said elements of the 11th Combat Aviation Brigade began deploying from Illesheim, Germany. • The Army ordered to active duty 636 Army Reserve members from Alabama, Illinois, In diana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, for aviatior and intelligence support.