European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday january 27.1866 schools Hope to boost sat scores. .i_.,. ,.  to stink service of fiby Mary Hladky education writer american High schools in Germany soon will add new mathematics classes Antl programs in an Effort to boost Stu Dent performance on College Entrance lexis. Depart Mem of defense dependents schools officials in Washington ordered Germany Region officials to take action because 1985 Scholastic aptitude test results show Germany students lag be Hind the National average in math. We were challenged with ways to improve lest score in Dodds Germany to bring them up to the american National average said Clyde Finnell one of two mathematics curriculum coordinators for inc pc Filion. For the 10th consecutive year score.1 of nil Dodds students Ial s5 were above Itic National sat average. The test is used by Many colleges and universities 10 determine whether n student is capable of College level work. On the verbal portion of the  students averaged 442 Cam pared to a National average of 431. On the math portion Dodds Slu dents averaged 480, compared to 475 for Slu deals nationally. The maximum score Kissoo on each Section. The minimum score is 100on each Purl. In Abr Germany Region students also outs cured their Peers on the verbal por Tion but they averaged Only 472 in math. High school principals and mathematics department chairmen recently were cabled to regional Headquarters in wies Baden for a math score improvement brainstorming session. We asked cacti High school  and his or her male department choir person to create a school action plan to come up with ideas to improve lest scores Finnel Suid. Euch of the Germany Region s 23 High schools could develop its own plan but Mast will use one of five methods Ora combination beginning with the Sec Ond semester thai starts this week. The five options arc adding a one Sam Cilcer. Elective sat review course in mathematics. At least one school plans to spend half the semester reviewing the verbal portion of the lest. Drilling students in advanced math classes on about 10 sat Typo questions each week. Using new computer sat Drill pro Grams. Providing a one Day math review seminar for students who arc signed up to take the sat giving students tips on How to late time Annj att til inking tension other techniques also will be  High school Long has hid an sat club that gives students a Chance to Bone up on the types of questions asked on the test. Nuernberg High school plans to re Cruit its better math a to take the Ejus it in serv. C a foals test ns3 Wayo boosting average so also Vesa a g of Many score raising techniques in a Jill dam. We a durin to thru 1,1 e Al i year in College by sch research has showed students can improve their scores by practising the types of questions asked on College Entrance  educational testing service of Princeton n.j., which cranes the sat even publishes old sat tests for student Siudy. The sat is changed yearly. We feel just the Opportunity to Lake an sat test even if it is on old one  Finnell said the Type of Juc tons remains the  dodos Headquarters alarm about Germany scores caught officials in wies Baden off guard Finnell said. We thought we showed a fairly respectable score he said. We weren t a that alarmed. Apparently the Washington office  Pinna it in t sure Why Germany Stu dents lagged in male but he denied implications that the math program is weak. We Don l buy off on that at All he said. We think we have a Good pro Gram Finnell also said sat results do not measure mail program . We do object to inc use of the sat test As a program evaluation tool he said. We Don t think it is a Rull measure of a Good math  by slams use scores to evaluate their educational  Finnell and Gerald chicle also math per Dimof for dodos Germany think lire new sat programs will Benefit students and boost their scores. It allows individual student to get higher scores and that helps them got where they want logo Schie Esaid the relatively Low scores in the Ger Many Region May pc because of to the Large number of students taking the i Finnell  2,572 Dodds students who took the lest in 1985, 1,339 were from the Germany  Board officials have said thai the More students who take the Les the Tower the average scare will be. The n u because test takers will include those who May not be top Static its Aren t sure they want logo to College or Are aiming for colleges that Don t require High scores for  addition the scores of non Dodds students Are included in Overall Dodds scores Finnel said. About half of the people taking the sat at Munich High school Are students from private International schools. University of Maryland Junior College students who want to truer a stateside University  and their spouses. Carter Calls for stringent sanctions to Force s. Africa to end apartheid Lusaka Zambia a former president Carteron saturday called for inc most stringent sanctions against South Africa. Carter addressing a news conference before flying to China on the last leg of a four nation african trip was asked his views on International moves to impose wide ranging economic sanctions against South Africa to Force the abolition of its racial separation system. I think the United Stales should to what most other nation in the world Are doing applying the most stringent sanctions against the president . Bolha government to Force an end to apartheid through working closely wit the african National Congress. And with others la bring about solution. Carter also suggested that the United Stales work closely with the african National Congress guerrilla movement and leaders or Independent Black Stales to bring about a peaceful Resolution to this problem permanently through economic and politics  Carter a Peanut Farmer was in Zambia representing a private group called the Green revolution which seeks to end famine in Africa through increased harvests of crops like Corn sorghum and soybeans. Carter visited Sudan and Tanzania before flying to Lusaka in a private Boeing 727 Jet accompanied by Japa Nese shipbuilding magnate Toyoichi Sasa Waka Atlanta s mayor Andrew Young and Nobel laureate and Plant geneticist Norman Borlaug. The team is proposing widespread use by peasant farm ers of High yield drought resistant crops to Blunt the effects of famine drought and famine struck most of Africa Between 1983 and 1985, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Rains improved in most areas last year but food shortage remain in Ethiopia Sudan and elsewhere. We in Southern Africa Are particularly grateful to you for the positive attitude Tomaio our Region which you exhibited through your presidency zambian president Kenneth Kaunda told Carter on Friday night. You listened to us understood our problems and pre occupations and worked tirelessly with us to find just lasting solutions to the burning issues of the  in reply Carter us the world silo wild sol rest until the horrible and embarrassing policy of apartheid is eradicated in South Africa . Marriage cuffed swindle Moscow a a soviet woman who has irked for Teven years to join her american husband bus come under a Lack by a communist party newspaper thai accused her of arranging a fictitious marriage to set out of the country the youth league newspaper Komsomol Laya pravda accused the state department of applying pressure on her husband when he filed for divorce last year Gary Tala nov a 31-year-old Lake Tabor ski instructor hied for divorce from pc Luna Kaplan. 27, in a court in Auburn calif., last july they were married in Moscow in april 1978 while Tal nov who has since changed Bis name from Kaplan was a student. Talany left Hal october and mrs. Kaplan has been refused an exit visa. Tala Nelv said he marriage was Only intended to get mrs. Kaplan it of the soviet Union. He dropped the divorce Case in december but the judge ordered him to try again to bring his wife to the United slates mrs. Kaplan said sunday that Talano a testimony and the charges in Komsomol Skaya pravda were not True. The newspaper Laid saturday that Talany concluded a fictitious marriage with a seeker of adventure to create conditions for her exit from the soviet Union. But the swindle did t work  the original divorce hearing was delayed so mrs. Kap Laii could reply by mail. Kont Samovskaya pravda charged that like delay was granted because the slate department became interested in maintaining his fictitious  it said the clerks of inc stale department pressed Tal nov to change his testimony and also alleged  has been seeking a new husband. "1 Don t know where that came from she said. I Don understand it at  mrs. Kaplan denied the newspaper s allegation Hal she and Tai nov never had marital  we lived together almost a year and a half when a was Here and 1 officially moved in with him after we were married she said mrs Kaplan said it was not a marriage of convenience. The Story of my life Over the past seven and a half year proves it s no True she said. World today photographer shot by guard at Mcdonald s in Al Salvador san Salvador Al Salvador a a Mcdon Ald s Security guard shot a Brillh photographer outside the Easi food restaurant thursday night when a Vita try ing u take pictures witnesses said. Simon Fisher 29. A photographer for the British photo Agency Rex features was treated for a Rifle Bullet wound in the right leg and was in stable condition said Hospital officials who spoke on condition they not be identified. At the polyclinic Hospital Fisher told reporters he was talking photographs when a guard old him to Stop. Bat be continued taking pictures and the guard shot him. Witnesses supported his Story. There was no explanation from police. There arc three Mcdonald s in the capital All of Ibero with armed private Security guards. The restaurants have been the targets of attacks by leftist guerrillas waging a 6-year-old War against the  government. Australia to allow shooting of More than 2 million kangaroos Sydney Australia a More than 2 million kangaroos. Australia s National Symbol vill be that Zegil Louii year As a result of new quotas set by the Federal government. Environment minister Barry Cohen said the govern ment has fined the new quotas at 1.3 million for four of the five states where kangaroos Are legally shot. But the Overall total will probably reach 2,67 Milerm with the inclusion of the yet unannounced quota for the stale of Queensland said professor Derrick Ovi Ngow. Who Heads Australia s National Parks and wildlife service. Pope invites religious leaders to meeting on world peace Rome up1 Pope John Paul ii a invited the leaders of Christian and non Christian religion to join him in Assisi Hilltop Birthplace of St. Francis for a Spe Cial prayer Summit on world peace. Wars can be decided even by just a few people but peace requires the Strong commitment of All the pops said in announcing the one Day prayer meeting. The Pope said he will consult the religious Leader he is inviting before deciding on a Dale for the Summit. With this initiative the Pope said the holy see wants to contribute to Awakening a world movement of prayers for peace which surpassing the Frontier of sing nations and involving believers of Alt religions will embrace the entire