European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes August h 1977 vow Calls canal playtime bomb Minneapolis uple the veterans of foreign wars shouted unanimous opposition to Carters proposed Panama canal treaty tuesday and called the plan a Lime bomb threatening about delegates to the vow nation Al convention Rose and shouted approval of a Resolution which said the canal should official says he overstated Lockheed Bill Washington chairman of an Agency that oversees government con tracts admitted monday that he made mis lakes in calculating the amount thai Lockheed aircraft May live Over charged the government far its Navy ship building con Goodwin chairman of the renegotiation did not say his allegation was but he said if Lockheed figures Are my figures for us amount of steel arc Over questions remain re Garding the Cost growth figures submitted by Lockheed to the Navy in support of its contract the apparent excessive Progress payment Billings to the and a variety of other Chase Chase had criticized Lockheed ship building and construction at Senate banking committee hearings in steel unaccounted for Chase said the company account Cor 73 million pounds of steel for which in billed the Navy 38 part of the Cost of seven amphibious transport the Billing he prove Lial the defense on its protect the taxpayers against Over charging by in Chase increased his estimate to it million pounds at a value of Mil William Hanking committee asked the general accounting office to Robert Lockheed Board chair said the company could prove that it never billed the Navy for 117 million pounds of and he also urged the Gao to Lockheed officials met with renegotiation Board officials 5 and Chase sent Lockheed his letter last analysis revised following our the boards Malusis was again taking into account data assembled by Chase based on that 1 erred in the translation of the Dollar amounts in question to pounds of if figures calculated by your internal auditors arc my figures for the amount of unaccounted steel arc Over chose said in the that there Wens still big differences Between the amount of steel Lockheed bought and the amount it used for seven ships Lockheed issued a statement saying it would cooperate in n further audit in the but Chase was not available for com Man washes our of Job Iran i apr a Weatherman at Kerman Airport in sout Central Iran was fired because he left his Tower Post to use a washroom in a neighbouring building and an unable to get a weather aborted the Landing und returned to Tehran with its Iso passenger remain under the Reso Lution said the revolutionary Panama government would use the proposed treaty against the Jamea Vanzendt of past National gave a fiery speech against the proposed pact under which the would relinquish sovereignty Over the canal by the year 2000 but keep the right to defend a vote for this treaty is a vote for a major military defeat for this he said Engelbert the vows Panama canal said his Post had unanimously endorsed the vow Reso Lution against the the revolution said Given the emotionally irrational Situa Tion in psychological time bomb is being consciously fabricated by Tho revolutionary government of Panama set to explode to the detriment of the United Stales and the world shipping the vow resolved that control and defense of he canal Are tensions relating to the administration of the canal zone be resolved on the spot without disturbing present treaty a citizens and employees in the canal zone continue to meet their responsibilities under communist role charged the Resolution said the Panama govern ment since 1971 has undertaken a bitter and sustained Campaign of ant american propaganda fuelled in Large part by cuban end soviet several delegates said the canal is a canal in Panama and should remain that a lot of our people died building the said Mariano Badali of the Pennsylvania commander of the hours and we should hang onto the had Many As employ is at one time working on the during Ita construction from 1906 to about 000 died of yellow fever and hear Henry with feathers in her hair and a mud scared Henry of shows the farm that won her tint Purtee in the husband Catling contest at the Indiana stale fair in a photo wafer gone Low sat scores Laid to traumas new York api a steady 14year decline in College Board scores has been blamed on National traumas such As the Vietnam War and lower educational standards and the increasing number of poor and inferior Stu dents taking the a special Al member headed by former Secretary of labor Willard also blamed television and the nations divorce rate in its 75page report tuesday on the results of a two year the decline in Scholastic aptitude test scares constitutes serious business War ranting careful attention by everybody interested in the group said since the average score in the Scholastic aptitude test verbal Section has dropped 49 from its to 429mathe Matics scores declined 32 from 502 to scores Range from 200 to the 2t hour lest is Given by the College Entrance examination Board to about one million High school students a year As a tool for Collegia trying to gauge future academic the report noted that the 14year period was divided into two seven year time brackets by societal the report said the decline before 11171 was due largely 10 a change in the kinds of students taking the in the seven years with the test Akini other developments in the schools mid society were held Between two thirds and three fourths of the decline until 1970 was related to the notable Extension and expansion of educational Opportunity in the United the panel with Many More Young persons staying in High school and going on to the pane there has been a greater pro portion of test takers who have lower nigh school grades and who come from the Low income and minority groups which traditionally score Low the growing number of women taking the sats contributed to a decline in the mathematics the study also women traditionally have scored higher than men in the verbal the study rejected the interpretation that student makeup was the Basic using instead the explanation that lower scores resulted from the in completeness so far of the National under taking to afford meaningful Equality of educational the panellists who wife drawn from such institutions As the Ford universities and High schools said their analysis of causes since 1970 was based on evidence because no Clear causal relationships could be they found thai adding elective courses and cutting required courses has weakened the traditions of critical Reading and careful writ there is clearly observable evidence of diminished seriousness of purpose and attention to Mastery of skills and knowl among other this is seen in automatic Grade inflation and a reduction in the hours of television children watch by the time they reach in detracts from Homework and cum petes with schooling More but television gives the future of learning us the number of children living in Homes with fewer than two parents present has increased at the rate of per White evidence is not available to determine the effect of these changes on students College Entrance examination our conjecture is that it is Nega the decade of distraction caused by riots and political corruption probably made quite a differ ence in the motivation of Young there has been an apparent marked diminution in Young Peoples leaning Moti the panel the and the educational testing service appointed the special Whitfi commissioned in research project in its study of the causes of the decline in
