European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. June 22. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 Dod seeks More funds for drug War Washington aim the di.-1i.-Nse department said Friday it it asking Congress for auth Orelj 10 spend an additional $18.1 Milliun an aircraft and other equip ment in help Federal Law in Fra Iii ent agencies Stem the him of drugs in he United Stales. ,  Chapman it. On also said Ilie Pentagon has provided assistance North More than $130 million 1o that Effort in the first eight months of the current fiscal Jear including an extensive training exercise in the Caribbean Ihl operation helped authorities confiscate drus valued at 127 billion he said Cox void the department while still observing Lav barring it from gelling i Milu a in the actual arrest of traffickers will men up its Al tools in Light of a new presidential directive Flint defines drug smuggling As a threat to  Curili. I arts of the secret directive were repealed two weeks Jug h vice president George hush. Cox Lold reporters the new measures if approved by Congress would include sa2.5 million for five Aerostat observation balloons along the Southwest Border and s79.4 million for iwo -1 m i Eliziu nce Eal Hering aircraft to he stationed in Panama. Other items include $14 million for maintaining four More Hawkeye e-2c surveillance aircraft to Bek it in either the customs service or the coast guard. S2 million for classified intelligence equipment and Sis million for transferring six air or orc helicopters to Dai is Mon Han fab in Ari Ona. For possible use in interdicting Low flying aircraft from  said those items were part of a 1232 million plan Suh Milu d to selected members of Congress on wednesday by the National drug enforcement policy Hoard a govern men Twidy panel headed by attorney general Edwin Mcnese. The plan also Calls for spending s6 million to bolster the anti drug staffs of . Attorneys $6 million for additional drug enforcement administration agents and a million on prevention programs. Cox said that since october the Navy has spent  million for operating ships and aircraft the army $600,000 and Lite air Furuc s2.4 million on Ami drug missions. Those figures Don l include personnel coils. If said which could perhaps double the total. Much of Hal Effort went into Hal trick ii a surveil Lance training Mission in the Caribbean involving Many ships and hundreds of aircraft in which we practice on drug traffickers As targets of Opp nuni Tyc of mid. Because that operation was in successful he Iii to. Much of the drug traffic has been diverted to the Southwest where the new military Effort will he focused. Most of the army s contribution has been focused on helicopters and satellite communications equip ment used to track aircraft flying into the Bahamas with drugs he said. Cos acknowledged the department has been shrug gling for years with the question of How far it should go la assist civilian Law enforcement authorities. He stressed it is Clear that it is not our role to arrest civilians even on the High seas. Rut lie said the military can offer civilian authorities Access to intelligence information prov id i Iii nuance and secure communications svs lems and lend i quip ment such As helicopters and aircraft. Senate demos push Bill to pull . Firms out of South Africa Washington api leading sen ate democrats Are urging the Republican dominated chamber to follow the Lead of the House and quickly pass legislation re Quiring the total withdrawal of . Busi Ness interests from South  they said the House passed Mea sure far from being the Poison Pill claimed by House republicans will place the Senate under enormous pres sure to adopt its own Lough sanctions . Idward m. Kennedy a mass and two other senators introduced legis lation identical to the total divestment total Trade embargo Bill that was sponsored in the democratic led it ouse by rep. Ronald Dellums. A Calif. Fourteen senators urged Senate for eign relations committee chairman Richard Lugar r-lnd., to hold immedi ate hearings on sanctions legislation be fore Congress leaves for its two week in dependence Day recess. But Lugar said he would hold to his original schedule with three Days of hear Ings beginning july 22 and said Secretary of stale George Shu it c had asked to Bethe Lead off wit Ness to restate the Reagan administration s Strong objections to any sanctions legislation. Kennedy said he and Sens. Alan Cranston a Calif. And Lowell Weicker,r-conn., would place the House passed Bill directly on the Senate Calendar to ensure that Senate committee consideration docs not become a pretext to Bury the  opponents of the sanctions legis lation say they permitted the Dell urns Bill to pass without opposition because they believed in was so Tough it would cause the Senate to kill All similar measures they said a Milder and More measured sanctions Bill would otherwise have been passed and the Senate would have been under Strong pressure in an election year to approve . Mark Siljander r-mich., said that by voting out a substitute Bill calling for total disinvestment sanctions arc dead.""1 do not expect the Senate to come up with a Bill dealing with South Africa Siljander said. The House Bill would require total . Disinvestment from South Africa within 180 Days of enactment and impose a Trade embargo against that coun try except for key minerals needed by the . Defense  Reagan administration strongly opposes attempts to impose sanctions on South Africa by Law. Claiming such a step would cause the United Stales to lose Al influence with the South african govern  said he will up com the next month attempting to understand the implications of total divestment called for in the Del Luis Bill looking at the feasibility of the Steps and what would happen if there was a total pullout of . Business interests 180 Days after the Bill became  should be a shoe in eight pairs at sneakers line a Crew less Shell in Victoria British Columbia where the annual Royal Victoria Twal race will the held this weekend. Sat May change name to change image new York api in what would be a rare Concession to its critics the College Board will consider changing the name of the Scholastic aptitude test to remove the implication that the examination measures intelligence or academic potential. The Issue arose at a 2 i Day Board sponsored colloquium in Wakefield mass. The word aptitude in the test title has been a sore Point for cars a critics who say the description unfairly and often inaccurately pigeonholes Stu dents As future academic successes or failures. The implication that the sat Mea sures relatively fixed traits like aptitude is especially offensive to some minority critics since the scores of Blacks and hispanics on average Trail far behind those of Whites. The topic is not a new one. On the other hand in inc Wake of the Wakefield conference this is something we should take another serious look at said George Hanford president of the Board in an interview Friday. Hanford has announced he will retire As president next year. Sure go ahead and change the name. It would t bother me a bit said Greg Ory Anns president of the educational testing service who also was at the Wakefield gathering. Ets administers the sat bul the College Board sponsor in and would therefore have the sole authority to make a name change. The sat is a two part exam taken ii about 1.5 million College bound High school students annually. It has a verbal and mathematical Section each scored on a scale of 200 to 800, with 800 a perfect score. The exam was first Given in 1926 and has always been called the same name. Over the years the Board has defended the Validity of its test and the test s title by arguing that the sat has proven to be a highly reliable predictor of first year College performance and is there fore a valuable admissions tool. But during a panel discussion at Wake of tend a Cornell psychology professor. Kich Ard b. Darlington said using the word aptitude raises a serious problem for the general Public. They define their self Worth in terms of these lest  suggested a new name like Ilie colleges readiness test would belter describe its int Cal and limitations. If they really give the test an honest name that would be a significant  David Owen author of none of the above one of the most stridently anti sat books Ever  have always said the lest does t measure what it says it does. Peo ple Are led to think that inc sat Means a lot More than it really measures that i measures something that does t change Owen said