European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Cd saturday March 22, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 upper Marlboro my. A wanted 400 teachers. Fringe benefits cheap car Loans restaurant Dis counts a summer Job and one month s free rent. Prince Georges county md., schools which have the lowest starting teacher s salary in the Washington d.c., area Are trying to get an Edge on the Competition for teachers in a seller s Market by offering some unusual extras to those who Are hired before aug. 1. The idea came from business people who have been working with the 103,000-Pupil school system the last two years with the belief that Strong schools Are Good for Busi Ness. The school system is the heart of the Community said Winfield Kelly president of the advisory Council for business and Industry which organized the program. If it is Strong and healthy than everyone else in the Community will the business leaders raised More than $200,000 for a recent television advertising Campaign promoting the schools and Are instructing the system s personnel staff in corporate recruiting techniques to get the Best teachers. The Council will Host a hospitality suite in april at the Boston consortium where 130 school systems will vie for prospective teachers. It will do the same at a similar program at the University of Maryland in May. Kelly says that if the incentives the schools Are offering applicants work some of the brightest and most gifted teachers in the Northeast will be coming just like everyone we Are competing for a Small num Ber of applicants said Jacquelyn Lendsey spokeswoman big Muddy a photo nine year old Donald Gross is pulled from the mud by grandparents Home in Lansing mich., into a Quick Rescue workers after ram turned a vacant lot near his Sand like bog. For the Prince Georges county school system which at full Force has 5,000 teachers. The system has the lowest starting salary in the metro Politan area $15,738 though an increase to $19,000 next year will make the schools competitive Lendsey said. But we Are also going to have an extra Edge by offering these discounts she said. The new teachers will receive a month s free rent at their Choice of 12 apartment complexes which also will waive Security deposits. Discounts on All consumer and Auto Loans and Bank credit cards without an annual fee at two local Banks. A 20 percent discount at three restaurant chains inthe area. Summer employment in professional positions wit local businesses. Reagan refused Bonner meeting newspaper says Washington a Yelena Bonner wife of soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met this week with a White House official but president Reagan decided not to see her for fear of upsetting efforts to win Freedom for others according to a published report. Albert Brashear a White House spokesman said he did not know of any meeting Between Bonner and National Security adviser John m. Poindexter As reported in Fri Day s editions of the Washington Post. But he said the president would not have refused to meet the wife of Sakharov a Nobel prize winning physicist who has been in internal exile in the provincial City of Gorky since 1979. The president personally would not have rejected such a meeting request for fear of upsetting future prospects. His record is Clear and he certainly stands firmly on the Side of those whose rights have been suppressed Bra Shear said thursday night. However the Post quoted an unidentified White House official who said Reagan s attitude was that these Are people i respect. But he does t want to do anything to Lessen the chances of others being released. He s told a lot of people that he does t want to Rock the the Post did not say what Day Poindexter met Bonner. It quoted an informed source who described the meeting As Cool and Correct and said Bonner was unhappy that she did t meet with the president. Bonner has been in the United states since december for treatment of Eye and heart ailments. In May 1976, Reagan sharply criticized then president Gerald r. Ford for refusing to meet with writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn another prominent dissident. Since Reagan s november Summit meeting in Geneva Switzerland with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev the soviets released Anatoly Shch Aransky a jewish activist who was permitted to emigrate to Israel after nine years imprison. Administration sources told the Post that they believe further releases May be forthcoming. Armed guards to protect cargoes of Light munitions Washington a the defense department has ordered armed guards to accompany civilian truckers hauling Light munitions to fend off hijackers or terrorists. Starting june 1, Drivers hauling category ii munitions including machine guns and Light weapons will be under the same requirements that govern truckers who haul heavier armaments Christopher Powers a Canadian an Washington a Sondra Gotlieb the Canadian ambassador s wife apologized immediately to a female embassy employee whom she slapped across the face in Public before a Black tie dinner the Canadian embassy says. Mrs. Gotlieb slapped the staffer in the foyer of the ambassador s residence wednesday night As reporters and camera Crews looked on witnesses said. The incident occurred after Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney and his wife Mila arrived at the embassy spokesman for the military traffic management come said thursday. For the past decade he said truckers of category i munitions which include everything from missiles to torpedoes have been required to Send a second person along with the Driver armed with a loaded shot gun and trained in its use. We Are just taking what we consider to be prudent precautions on our ship ments Powers said. If terrorists were to get some of those munitions into their hands it could be a potent Force against us or our we have not had a problem with terrorists. The reason this is believed to be Nec Essary is that there Are increasing terrorist activities everywhere including this coun try he said citing bombing incidents in the United states in recent years. The defense department makes 400 to 500 category i shipments per year and 4,000 category ii shipments Powers said. The department does not require armed guards for shipments of its lightest munitions such As smoke grenades he said. Powers said the department informed the 42 commercial munitions carriers of the pending requirement in a memorandum sent on feb. 12. S wife regrets slapping staffer residence for a fancy dinner. The Gotlieb and the embassy staffer in charge of announcing guests were awaiting vice president George Bush on the Steps of the foyer when mrs. Gotlieb hit the woman witnesses said. They said the employee in tears and missing an earring knocked off by the slap fled Down the front Steps of the residence with her hand up to her face. She appeared moments later with mrs. Gotlieb in the foyer however and both were smiling. Bruce Phillips the embassy s minister for Public affairs issued a statement thursday that said i am informed that an incident of a purely personal character occurred last night before the embassy dinner. The incident was immediately regretted an apology extended at once and at once accepted and the Issue was immediately another embassy spokesman refused to answer questions about what prompted the slap
