European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 14, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 writers at convention protest Shu Fez speech new York up calling inc writer the con science of society Secretary of stale George Shull opened a conference of 700 International writers punctuated by Proto is Over his appearance. The 4slh pen intern Kitiona conference opened sunday in the Reading room of the new York Public Library with a defense of Shutlz s appearance by pen president Norman Mailer who said he was delighted a representative of Ronald Reagan s conservative government was attending. It Means the government of the United states no matter How far right was willing to recognize authors Mailer said. He turned to Sulu and apologized for the extraordinary bad manners of delegates to the conference who hissed and stamped their feet at times. I did t invite Secretary Schuliz Here to get insulted Mailer said at a news conference following Shulti s speech. Some 65 writers including . Doctorow John Irving Susan Sontag and Grace palsy brought a petition to the conference opposing Shultz s appearance on the grounds that the Reagan administration excluded Many writers from the United Stales using the Mccarran Wal Ler act and because your administration supports governments that silence imprison even torture their citizens for their  the Mccarran Walter act formally the internal Secu Rity act by Congress in 1950 in on Effort to Avert communist subversion. But Shutlz told the audience he United states is a staunch supporter at Freedom of expression Freedom that is what we arc All talking about and is Why we Are Here and the writer is at the heart of Freedom. No government or ideological system has Ever yet succeeded in stopping the writer although same Are trying very  the pen convention the first in the United states since 1966, is said to be the largest Cvar Assembly of literary luminaries in american history. At least two Nobel prize winners Are expected among the 700 poets essayist editors novelists and interpreters from More than 35 countries at the Sidny Congress on the writer s imagination and the imagination of the  pen was founded in 1921 la fight censorship and the jail ing of writers. Don t be so surprised by the fact that Ronald Reagan and i arc on your Side Shults Iid. When the stale Falls Short us it is bound to do writers und intellectual become its most articulate and forceful critics the Cosci ease of society la prepared remarks for his keynote address. Mailer said we work on the unspoken premise that the Freedom to write i one of the inalienable rights of Humankind. We arc passionate about improving the Liberty of writ ers everywhere. That to us is u self evident Noble  despite the Flap pen executive director Karen Kennerly said no one had withdrawn from the convention Over it. She said she Learned eight invited soviet delegates in eluding poet Yevgeny  would not attend. Ken nerdy Suid no explanation was Given for the Cancilla computers losing Appeal to new College students los Angeles up the computer Industry battered by a sales slowdown and increased foreign Competition no longer is attracting the attention of incoming College fish men according to a study released sunday. The study conducted by researchers at the University of California in los Angela and the american Council of education said the proportion of College freshmen pre paring for futures in computer science and programming has dropped by 50 percent in the past two years. Computers have become a generic Tooi. The mystique is getting out of computers said Kenneth c. Green the associate director of the study adding that there is now a tool mentality regarding computers. Resca Chers blame part of the decline on the slumping computer Industry which during its heyday attracted hordes of in coming freshmen to computer science and related majors. According to the study Only 4,4 percent of the freshman class of i9bs desired Ca Reers As computer programmers or analysis. In 1984, 6.1 percent of incoming freshmen held the same aspirations. Similar decline were posted in the num Ber of students majoring in computer Sci ence and data processing. Professor Alexander w. Astin director of the higher education research Institute at the Urcla graduate school of Educa Tion said Many of the students interviewed for inc study were inclined to View computers As a tool for use in other Fields rather than As a career. Well publicized roubles Many students May be misinterpreting the recent a Cal Public cd troubles mite com Puter Industry assuming that difficulties in inc computer Industry affect Job opportunities for computer specialists Astin said. He said most labor forecasts still Call for a very Strong Job Market for com Puter programmers and systems analysts. The study also noted a Sharp decline in the number of student interested in careers As engineers. The proportion of fnT"1 plan Ning careers in engineering dropped to 10 percent in 1985, Down from 0.4 percent the year before and 12 percent m 1981 the strongest gains were posted by Lap top computer sales 1984 85 1.4 1.2 .8 .6 in millions of units 65 86 1984 estimate Chicago Tribune graphic source into cup business and teaching majors. Business which has gained steadily since the 1970s, reached a record nigh among student interest with 23.9 percent of nil incoming freshmen signing up for business majors. Freshman interest in secondary and elementary school teaching Rose from 5.5 percent in 1984 to fi.2 percent in 1985. The study to based on questionnaires completed by. 279,985 incoming College freshmen nationwide. Changes in . Currency will be hardly noticeable Washington a the up coming changes in . Currency aimed at making it harder to counterfeit May nol be noticeable at first glance. We Are not going to change the color and we arc not changing the por traits. Any changes will be Subtle treasurer Kal Herme Ortega said in an interview. While Ortega s words Are aimed at soothing fears Over what the government has in store for the Money not everyone  assured. Ron Paul n former Republican con Gressman from Texas who was Defeated in a 1984 Senate bid questions the government s motives in malting the changes charging that something other than a desire to thwart counterfeiters is at work. The deep Down motivation is to find out where the Money is he warns. It is a direct attack on the privacy of peo ple Paul paints a scenario where the government would put Metal threads in the currency and then use Metal detectors to find where people have slashed Large sums of Cash. Treasury officials say the new Bills will move into circulation gradually As old Bills Are withdrawn and All old currency will remain Legal Lender. Ortega said no final decisions an changes have been made by Treasury Secretary James a Baker i. But some officials suggested that Baker May adopt a two phase approach making relatively minor adjustments first and then delaying decisions on More complicated approaches until More study is completed. One school of thought argues to go ahead and a what can be Dune with current technology Kenneth swab counsel to the House banking subcommittee on coinage said. Chief among the possible changes in the first phase is the addition of a Secu Rity thread a thin strip of plastic run Ning from the tap of the Bill to the Bot Tom. The thread put in the per As it is made would appear As a faint line until it is held up