European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes May Arkansas teachers take skills test Little a makeup tests were administered saturday to teachers who missed an examination of Basic skills when it first was administered in March amid opposition from teachers about teachers took what was termed the nations first Ever statewide competency test March under a 1983 teachers must pass the Basic skills test before june 1987 or they cannot be if a teacher fails the he can retake it up to three the Arkansas education which has opposed teacher testing from the predicted that thousands of the teachers eligible for the test would Boycott although the group did not endorse a it set up centers around the state for teachers who refused to take the some 300 to 400 teachers boycotted the state officials said saturdays testing went i dont know How Many teachers ended up taking the i dont know a thing in the world i just know that its going said Austin the states coordinator of teacher education clearence education department supervisor for teacher education and said the tests were to be Given at 34 Sites around the state officials have not decided whether to allow teachers who boycotted the test to take it Wallace wont oppose gunman parole up an aide to George Wallace said saturday the governor will keep his word and will not oppose possible parole next month for the Man who put him in a wheelchair 13 years Ken the governors Legal assist said Wallace has forgiven Arthur Bromer for shooting him and no longer has any ill feelings toward he has said he will not file any objection to Bremers Wallis i dont think Hes going to change his that been his position then and the Maryland parole commission announced Friday that Bremers 53year sen tence for the May shooting will be reviewed probably during the first week of Bremer is serving his sentence at the Maryland correctional Institute in Hagers the parole hearing will be the first for Bremer since his 1972 conviction for the shooting of who was seeking the democratic presidential during his Bremer will meet with a member of the parole who will decide whether he should be re leased from the members recommendation will then be reviewed by the full seven member com has been paralysed from the Waist Down since he was shot five times while campaigning for the presidency in a shopping he has been hospitalized four times since starting his unprecedented fourth term As governor in and aides say he suffers almost con stantly from intense Bremer was 21 when he shot and the governor said a few Days ago he has Long since forgiven his i have no ill feelings toward the Man who shot Wallace said on the 13th anniversary of the having the Day before won still another political Battle with a landslide voter approval of a constitutional Amend ment he was even lighthearted about the he told if i haunt been i would have been holding press conferences in wallaces Legal adviser said saturday the governor genuinely is not bitter at in sure he Hast changed his Wallis he said a parole is a matter for the people of Maryland to because those people were so wonderful to he would not presume to Tell them How they should run their pardons and parole Wallace said it would be ironic if Bremer should be allowed to walk the and i cant walk at Wallis said Wallace would not encourage the but he also would not be making any kind of formal Wallace aides have said in recent Days they expect the ailing governor to try for a fifth term next Wallace has dodged reporters questions about the but he has not ruled it Arthur standing by at rally for George Wallace in a photo agree on need of preserve gains civil rights groups conclude Summit Washington up the solutions proposed saturday were varied and sometimes but the individuals representing some 100 civil rights organizations had the same goal in mind keep intact the gains of the it is this stepped up assault on civil rights that convinces us if we dont take extraordinary action that Well find that the gains weve so painfully won have been rolled a act executive director Benjamin Hooks said in an inter Wii historian John Backer Dies not John a historian and former government official who wrote extensively on the Post War period in has died Here Fol lowing he was 82 years old and lived in Backer served under Lucius Clay in the economic Section of the occupation government at the end of world War ii and later became the generals Biog a winds oif history the German years of Lucius Dubignon published last was his think Book on the the others were priming the German Economy and the decision to Divide View with United press this is the most concentrated Effort against civil rights gains that Ive seen in my the a act saturday concluded what it termed an emergency civil rights Summit some called it a think tank or an alignment of groups with similar individuals representing profession religious and educational groups spent two Days meeting in groups trying to devise strategies to halt rollbacks in education and they also discussed the Federal governments obligation to ensure equal among the suggestions were the forma Tion of local committees to counteract statements by the Reagan administration that Are false or deliberately creation of a National task Force and filing lawsuits to Challenge questionable actions by the the proposed solutions or suggested actions will be compiled and released during the Naa cps 76th annual convention in Dallas in to the Reagan administration and the Justice department Are spearhead ing the assault on civil he said William Bradford chief of the departments civil rights Divi has notified More than 50 jurisdictions that they must modify existing consent de crees that settled employment discrimination Hooks also pointed to attempts to halt desegregation of schools and the transformation of the commission on civil rights from an Independent bipartisan entity to a self serving lobby for its ant civil rights it is not Only a matter of the Reagan administration listening to but its a matter of trying to inform the Hooks complaining that officials piously and hypocritically use words like Colo Blind society and sex now All of a everything All right now All the women have equal All the Blacks have no More so lets now move to a sex Neutral and color Blind All of us would like to see a Colo Blind society at some but you dont achieve it by simply making an an Kiev Salzburg connection Moscow a regularly scheduled weekly flights by the soviet National airline Aeroflot Between Kiev and the aus Trian City of Salzburg have the offi Cial news Agency Tass the flight leaves Kiev at 10 on Aeroflot also has direct flights on Friday and Sun Day Between Kiev and news update panel oks funds Washington a the House foreign affairs committee has approved million in spend ing authority for each of the next two fiscal years for the arms control and disarmament Agency to support the arms control talks with the soviet Union now under Way in in the committee approved a million supplemental authorization for the Agency for the 1985 fiscal shuttle Accident Cape a a 15foot Metal beam fell onto a platform in the cargo Bay of space shuttle but caused no damage or Nasa spokesman Jim Ball the which usually rests parallel to the shuttle was being elevated during a test when it was struck accidentally by an Over head Ball a Weld broke and the beam fell onto the platform mounted in the cargo Well do a close scrutiny of procedures to make sure it Doest Nap pen Ball he said the incident will have no Impact on Dis covers planned june 14