European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday May 14, 1977 tests of pupils skills Start monday by Lucia Guajardo staff writer Karlsruhe. Germany sol annual curriculum development tests for third and sixth graders of Ood dependent schools dodos Start monday. X d hike asked for training on go Bill by John Iriart Washington Bureau a thief Washington of Sci a 5 percent in crease in min Lily allowances Lor veterans and service i is incl training under the s Leonam Era Cit Hill has been recommend id to Congress by the veterans administration m in cd Lami. Administrator of veterans affairs said the increase would also apply i a s  assistance programs for dependents of veterans the administration s proposed increase would in i ome effective oct 1. 1977. One year nun the Date of the last increase. Cleland said the proposed increase would raise the monthly allowance to $1 17 Tor a single Veteran taking full time train ing a married Veteran without children would receive Xvi per month under the proposal and a Veteran with a wife and one child would receive wig per month Cleland noted that increases totalling a Little More than 30 per cent have been Man dated by Congress in the past three years. A 22.7 per cent increase was passed Over president Ford s veto in 197-1. And an 8 per cent increase became effective last octo Ber he Sai ,1 fi4 6 per cent of eligible Vietnam Era veterans have trained under the cur rent 51 Bill a much higher Pyrc Niage Rale than was recorded for world War ii and korean i Bill programs Cleland said. We Hope the changes we an proposing to Congress will enable even More veterans to participate in the i Bill program which so greatly benefits the nation As Well As the veterans we serve " in another move to Aid a i Bill trainees. Cleland said the present administration was reversing a decision by a former a chief and the prior administration seeking legislation to end a s education loan pro Gram. Termination of the Veteran student loan program providing Low interest direct Federal Loans up to $1.500 for a Normal Aca Demic year had been recommended by the last administration in legislation submitted to Congress Jan 19.1977 a asked Congress to continue the pro Gram under which the number of education Loans to veterans has nearly doubled in the last year More than 1 2 million trainees Are currently enrolled under the go Bill and other a education programs and Many of these will be continuing their training on the oct 1 effective Date proposed for the increase m monthly allowances a a spokesman said thursday. He said there Are also 61,545 Active duty service person Nel in training programs he estimated that More that More than 1 million total trainees will be enrolled under a pro Grams next fall. 20 iranian fishermen drown Tehran. Iran i api Twenty iranian fishermen whose boat capsized in a storm in the persian Gulf Are believed to have drowned or been killed by Sharks the Tehran journal reported. The paper said officials in Bandar Abass told one of its reporters the men were fish ing in a prohibited zone which is subject to sudden storms and is infested with Sharks  authorities said Here. The tests measuring Reading language and mathematic skills Are Jam one part of current curriculum development they said. A second test which schools Hope to administer in september will show if first graders Are ready to learn academically said or. William Bastendorf. Dod Doeur associate director for evaluation and accountability. Also in the works since 1975 is a five year curriculum review focusing on 9-, 13 Rome protesters defy ban a fallen protester is about to be carried away by a crab Lyniere during thurs Day s demonstrations in Rome by the Radical party. During seven hours of fighting Between the leftists and police a 19-year-old girl was shot to death and 1 persons were injured. The fighting began when police broke up the rally $2,500 of 10,000 called by the party despite a 40-Day ban on All Public gatherings in Rome. On Friday left wingers firebombed a Neo fascist party office and fought police in a Rome suburb in the City s second Day of political violence. Police said 10 demonstrators and one policeman were slightly injured in scuffling. A Cash recommended in Cia mail openings and 17-year-Olds and covering 10 subject the tests according to Bastendorf have two reference Points to show How Well corps students do compared to stateside students and what teachers expect them to do. The results of the third and sixth Grade tests arc expected by the Middle of  believes it is important to be re minded they come from All Over. We re not measuring necessarily even the Impact of our program on the kids but the status of kids in this Point in time so we know Best How to plan program to meet the needs at these different  excluding the first Grade tests Basten Dorf emphasized the tests will show How the students do As a group. The results will not reflect on individual students and teachers he said Dodds is not ignoring measurements of individual  but the priority emphasis is to gel a program established he  told How the tests represent ing a couple of years work were devel oped we got together groups of teachers at the third and sixth Grade Levels parents and pros inside Rind outside and asked what arc the most important things you think these kids should know1 " objectives were indent Ifird. Compared with . Curricula and then sent to the Westinghouse learning corp. There specialists familiar with third and sixth Grade curricula developed the tests. Parents May see the objectives by asking principals he said. The first Grade tests will measure five skills Dodds believes children need to have to learn academically visual and auditory discrimination following simple directions received Audi Torilyn classifying shapes colors sizes and drawing inferences in comprehension  in contrast to the others the first Grade tests will give teachers indications of individual strengths and weaknesses he said. The schools also want to gather demo graphic information. Bastendorf said the information is to be compiled because it contains important elements contributing to How a child performs in school. Two of them arc the socioeconomic and education status of parents. Another Factor that is important Only in combination with the rest is whether or not a second language is spoken in the Home. Another in combination has to do with to  he said. We think gathering that information is important. If we find bilingual kids have a problem we need to find time to  temperatures new York a a Federal jury has recommended damage payments ranging from $2.500 to $10,000 for three americans whose mail was opened by the Central intelligence Agency. The recommendations which Are not binding were made to judge Jack Wein Stein in . District court in Brooklyn. Three jurors proposed $10.000. Eight said $5.000 would be proper and one recommended $2.500. One of the plaintiffs is asking $50.000 in damages and two Are asking $20,000. While the government has asked for a Token damage payment of $1 for each Weinstein said he will Rule in the Case by Midsummer. Two other such cases have been referred to h Einstein and it was expected that others would be transferred from other courts tin Cia has admitted it opened hundreds if thousands of pieces of mail to and rum the soviet Union in the late 1960s and Early is. But said the program was halted in. 1h7.1 Weinstein seated the jury which deliberated for nine hours because he said there were no prior cases which he could use As guidelines in setting damages. Norman Birnbaum a sociology professor at Amherst College who asked $50.000. Said the Cia opened mail he sent to a soviet colleague about a sociology Conven Tion in this country. Minneapolis executive Leonard Avery said the Agency opened a letter from his son who was attending a Moscow University writer Mary Macmillen of Boston said the Cia opened a very personal letter she had sent to a prominent russian whom she did not identify the jurors gave varying reasons for the different amounts they Suggs ate one juror who recommended $10.000 said he did so because of the mental anguish suffered by those whose mail was opened another said he voted for $10.000 to show thai their Righi had it a infringed upon " l h 40 14 Albany 56 it Albuquerque 57 a am4r,Llo 33 u Anchorage i att Villa is ii Allan. 41 74 Atlantic pm h 84  4 78 Baltimore 4 u Billings s4 ii birr in Tajo 31 74  39 71 Cleveland 43 0 column. 5 c 3. 7k Calum Bui Sibi Falla Vii worm 41 76 a ton is Flo  Sibi a  44 if Delro i11 d f. X. C1bjvi 34 la a-.�. I an Hajj 1 t 13 1 or Al fall n i so l h 4s 74 Indianapolis 67 86 Jackion is 79 Jacksonville 34 s7 Juneata Siai Kanses cily is 7 last on 53 78 i Rimrock 51 67. Los Angola 44 77 Louis via a a Memphis 70 74 Miami Bacri 41 10 Midland Odessa 54 10 Mila Ranftl a u . Paul 47 71 Natty tilt w 14 newer Lauts isl 77 rat oort 50 77 Norfolk at 77 Oklahoma City 51 u Omaha 60 74 Orlando 45 77 Philadelphia 61 w no anti 3v 72 pinup run 3s 7s Portland. Me. 40 48 Portland or. 47 78 Providence 3 80 Raleigh so �3 rapid City 34 55 Reno 4s 78 St. Louis 61 74 is.  a 81 Sanan Lonin v 63 san Olego 49 to san Francisco 43 a a i sle Mart