European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday july 19,1986 Shultz to meet Shevardnadze in september Washington up Secretary of stale George Shutlz and soviet for eign minister Eduard Shevardnadze will meet in new York in late september to prepare this year s Reagan Gorbachev Summit a senior . Official said Fri Day. The official Swa lung on the basis of no further identification said thai it hat not been decided whether the Schuliz Shevardnadze meeting would be in and Vance of he two men addressing . General Assembly or after but the preparatory meeting will take place inthe last week of september. The . Official said there had been blips in the diplomatic channels be tween Washington and Moscow about the Sulu Shevardnadze meeting an that the Choice had narrowed Down to a time when Shevardnadze would be in the United states which meant late septem Ber. He said the exact schedule has not been set. At the november Geneva Summit president Reagan and general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to meet in the United Stales this year and again in the soviet Union during 1987. But the Tim ing was Uncertain and a May 14-16 pre Paratory session Between Shultz and Shevardnadze was cancelled by the soviets in protest of the . Bombing of Libya i april. The official made his comments while British foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe met with Sulu to Brief him on his acc Cal meetings with Shevardnadze in Moscow. As he left the state depart ment Howe declined comment on whether a Date had been set for the Shutlz Shevardnadze meeting or Rea Gan Gorbachev Summit. I reported on the substance of the meetings Howe mid and the administration will be making its own he said his talks with she. Vard adze had been Businesslike and useful Howe mid he would meet later with president Reagan and said his talks with Hull on both South Africa and the so Viet Union had been Howe later cancelled a scheduled a i conference at the British embassy be cause according to an embassy spokes Man he had been called to Ine White House to meet with Reagan. He was scheduled to return to London immediately after Hij White House talks. Parents suit asks alternate schoolbooks fundamentalists testify texts violate Bible Greeneville ten up a fundamentalist Christian Leader testified Friday that some textbook in Rural Tennessee schools violate the Bible by teach ing thai human Are animals and there s no Hope beyond the Mel Gabler 71, a texan who has spent the Ian 25 Yean trying to get god put Back in school textbooks said he commends parents who Are suing the Hawkins county Board of education in . District court for alternative textbook. Gabler said he is offended by a theme that animal Are equal to one of 16 textbook themes identified As objectionable by the parents from Churchhill. La would fit in with the idea that humans Are Ani Mals Only a Little More advanced Gabler Aid. The texts themselves seem to teach the humanist manifesto Gabler said the readers used in Hawkins county schools leaches a false definition of death that there no Hope beyond the the families charge the texts violate their religious beliefs with topics such As humanism evolution witchcraft rebellion against parents and criticism of the government. Also testifying Friday Wai Jerry w. Homer Dean of panel requesting reason for barring of Koop testimony Washington up a congressional Ai cd White House chief of staff Donald Regan f to appear at its next session and explain Why the i ministration has prevented surgeon general c. Everett Koop from testifying in favor of a Bill that would ban cigarette advertising. Rep. Henry Wax Irum. D-calif., chairman of the House subcommittee on health and environment accused the administration of censorship in ordering Koop to stay away from the hearing after he had been scheduled to opening a session Friday Waxman said he had received a letter from Koop that said the surgeon general plans to appear at our next hearing set for aug. 1. Waxman also said he had written to Regan asking him to appear at that session to explain the administration s decision to bar Koop s testimony. Rep. James Scheuer d-n.y., said it was quite ironic that the Reagan administration which opposes the Bill before us on the grounds thai it threatens the first amendment right of free speech is the very same administration which has barred surgeon general Koop from speaking freely to this panel it is absolutely ludicrous for the administration to argue against a tobacco advertising ban using the free speech argument on one hand and then muzzle sur Geon general Koop on the other Scheuer said. Koop is an outspoken critic of smoking and tobacco ads who has called for a smoke free society by the year 2000. The Bill introduced by rep. Mike Synard Okja. Would ban advertising of tobacco products in newspapers magazines billboards and display cases. The surgeon general s office has been linked closely with the smoking Issue for two decades since cigarette packages were required by Law to carry the printed warning the surgeon general has determined that smoking is hazardous to your the school of biblical studies at pal Robertson s can University in Virginia Beach vs., who said the parents have a Christian duly to protect their children against anti Christian teachings. The Bible teaches that children Are to be Safe guarded from Alt influences of evil that might Lea them away from the ways of Homer said. In testimony thursday Janet Whitaker one of the parents said she could sense something different about her son Steve when he was forced to read the Holt Basic Reader. I could Tell a change in his personality that few weeks he had to participate in the Reading class. Head even become a Little rebellious said Whitaker who approved her son s refusal to read from the books leading to his suspension from Church Hill Middle Schorin late 1983, Patrick Groff a professor Ai san Diego state University testified thursday that Public schools should provide special textbooks on request far fundamentalist christians the Way special services Are offered to handicapped and bilingual students. It s imperative we try to meet the individual needs of children Groff said. I Sec no reason Why the schools can t accommodate this in a Good Faith Corn needs Well do everything we can to tend to the special needs of children " . District judge Thomas Hull is hearing the suit by seven fundamentalist families against Hawkins county school official Over the Holt Rinehart and Winston Reading series which Are widely used in ten Nessee and nationwide school systems. In a suit echoing the 197 j Scopes Monkey trial at Dayton tcnn., just 150 Miles from Greeneville the families say the Holt Reader leaches evolution one world government pacifism witchcraft rebellion against parents and other topics they feel Are anti they want their children Many who now go to private Christian schools to learn from alternative textbooks and o be segregated from students Reading from the Holt books. School officials and their lawyers say the parents demand would cause chaos in the local schools and set a dangerous National precedent. Both sides agreed the Issue could end up before the supreme court. Hull is hearing without a jury the Case reminiscent of the historic Monkey trial that convicted High. Promise with the parents and say we ii do everything school biology teacher John Scopes of teaching we can As we do with children with other special Tion in violation of stale Law in 1925. Blanton released furry friends a photo Elaine busier of the busier humane society Labarre Moss la engulfed in canine caresses. It was a genuine if not entirely unprompted out pouring of affection. It came at feeding time. From Halfway House vows to Clear name Nashville Tenn. Up former Tennessee gov. Ray Blanton vowing to Clear his name Ware leased Friday from a Halfway House where he served the final two months of a three year prison sentence for peddling state liquor licenses. Blanton 56, told close Friend Drue Smith just before his release from the Samaritan i House a drug and alcohol abuse treatment Center that be will take a week s vacation and visit his Mother he has a temporary office in i Nashville and has been Selling Metal buildings for a company. Smith said Blanton Lold her he i plans to try to Clear his name. He was released under Federal parole supervision. Blanton had remained free i while his Case was appealed then entered the Federal prison system july 3,1984, to serve his sentence for mail fraud extortion and conspiracy for his scheme to Tell liquor licenses to his cronies while he was governor. He was first sent to a Federal prison in Alabama and was later transferred to a prison in Lexington by. His Mother ova Blanton said her son will live in Nashville and she Hopes he will stay away from poli tics. The first time was Good enough she said. They made enough of that 1 Hope they la just leave him alone Blanton still maintains he is innocent and his attorneys have filed a motion in Federal court seeking a new trial so the former governor could Clear his name
