European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes March teachers in Arkansas were Given Chance to buy competency test Little a copies of a Basic skills exam Given to Arkansas pub Lic school teachers Over the weekend were offered for Sale before the an official of a teachers group the commander of the Arkan Sas state police said a document provided to a television station was indeed a copy of the test Given and his Agency is investigating How the leak the designed to evaluate teacher was taken by 90 percent of the states despite opposition from the Arkansas education association and Calls for Boycotts by some it included 100 multiple Choice questions 50 in math and 50 in Reading and an essay teachers who fail to pass it by june 1987 will not have their certificates re truck bus crash kills at least 12 in Spain Portugal up a truck collided with a bus carrying vacationing families crashed killing at least 12 people and injuring 44 police and Hospital sources the death toll was expected to Rise As More than 20 including six in coma and 11 suffered severe in said a Hospital spokesman in this coastal City 25 Miles South of the bus was carrying some 60 people mostly families of employees of a Madrid Little Rock television station Kark re ported saturday evening As Early As Fri Day copies of the test were and some were in the hands of a teacher made the test available in the Hope that a scandal would Embarrass Bill the station Clinton re Quested the teacher testing Law approved in a special legislative session in Tommy state police direct said sunday that Clinton had asked for an Clinton declined comment sunday on the television stations the governor said earlier that he doubted a copy of the test was available before but that he  be surprised at attempts to undermine the tests Kark news director Bob steel said state police had asked the station for a copy of the but had asked no other steel said the station would not name its Walt executive director of the a Kansas education which opposes teacher said sunday that he was told copies of the test were available in Pine West Marianna and Forrest people indicated they were offered the test for he it depends on who was offering but i understand some offered the test for do know that Friday night i was asked if i wanted to go to Pine Bluff and pick up a copy of the Eilers said he because of the late Ness of the not to Mike executive producer for said in a Telephone interview sunday that the station was Given the copy but didst report on it until it was sure the Materi Al was actually a copy of the enthusiasm conquers Handicap up photo Tammy of Doest let having Only one leg keep her from cheering for her bearcats in a West Virginia High school boys basketball a cancerous leg was amputated when she was in first justices to consider Utility complaint on Bill inserts Washington up the supreme court Mon Day agreed to consider whether outside groups have a right to place inserts in the monthly Bills Utility companies Send the Pacific Gas and electric appealed the califor Nia supreme courts refusal to review a state Public utilities commission order allowing third parties to place Money solicitations in its Billing the justices will hear arguments in the1 Case next and will Rule in the outcome of the Case will affect similar situations in other in new Nevada and consumer groups Are demanding Access to Utility customers Bills to mail their consolidated Edison of new York is challenging the constitutionality of an order by the new York Public service commission compelling the giant Utility to allow consumer groups to mail messages in its Utility last Oregon voters approved a ballot Initia Tive which requires the states utilities to carry third party messages six times a year or face a Misdemeanour also on the supreme court agreed to hear a reapportionment Case that could determine whether the political party in Power can draw voting districts to its the justices will review a lower court ruling in an Indiana Case that declared House and Senate maps unconstitutional because they discriminate against demo at the same the court refused to get involved in a similar dispute in a Case from where a three judge court refused to review gop complaints that the democratic controlled legislature had blatantly gerrymandered the states 45 House districts in in other the court agreed to decide who has the authority to regulate supreme court Roundup the Sale of natural Gas to pipelines the Federal govern ment or the state where the Gas is let stand a ruling barring the makers of Bayer Aspi Rin from engaging in deceptive advertising of the aspirins Virtues As a pain upheld a Georgia school Board policy that prohibits a state legislator from taking a leave of absence from his school administration Job to attend legislative in the Bill inserts the California Public Utility commission granted outside groups the right to place inserts in Pacific Gas and electrics monthly customer the commission reasoned that ratepayers should receive some Benefit from what it called extra space in the monthly Billing a group called toward Utility rate normalization turn was allowed to place inserts into Bills four times a year for a two year the inserts could be solicitations for funds to be used to represent ratepayers in com Mission proceedings involving Pacific Gas and turn founder Sylvia Siegel said her group would use any funds raised to Challenge the Utility construction of the Diablo Canyon nuclear Power the consumer advocacy group claims up to billion of the costs for building Diablo should be paid for by not the giant which mails Bills to million House holds a appealed the ruling to the California supreme which refused to hear the in its supreme court Pacific Gas and electric said that the mandatory Billing inserts violate the first amendment by disrupting the Way the Utility has communicated with its customers for More than 60 and by requiring the Utility to carry a message when it would prefer to remain cocaine found to be preferred narcotic number of ont Ejob drug users poll finds new York a an increasing number of people Are using drugs at at the expense of their Job and they would become heavier users if they were Given a promotion or according to a Survey of drug hot line ninety two percent of the callers said they sometimes worked while under the in fluence of and 64 percent said their performance suffered As a said Arnold director of research for the 800cocaine which conducted the the Survey questioned 227 people who called the National they were chosen at random during a six week period in february and of those 25 percent said they used drugs at work every and 45 per cent said they used drugs on a weekly the Survey cocaine was the preferred drug of 83 percent of and 39 percent of the callers said they would use drugs More often if they got a according to the Survey by a drug abuse treat referral and information service based in since most cocaine abusers Are pm we have suspected for a Long time that cocaine abuse at work was growing and becoming a significant said Mark founder of the assistance line and director of research at fair Oaks hos Pital in mandatory drug testing of employees whose jobs directly affect Public such As school bus Drivers and nuclear Power is More compelling in Light of the new Gold aftershock rocks Chile Washington a Central Chile has been rocked by another Strong aftershock to the major earthquake that hit the Region three weeks the Geo logical Survey there were no immedi ate reports of injuries or