European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday augusts. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 99% pass teachers Texas fest Austin Texas map More Ihan 99 pc ent  Leach cars who look Texas mandatory Reading and writing competency tests that were Given for the first time this year passed the slate said Friday. The 6.319 teachers who failed the test or did not Lake it. Will Noi be allowed tit teach nest year unless their school districts gel a Spe Cial one year Extension which will be granted Only  inc disc Nils prove icy Are unable to find qualified replacements. Texas education Agency com missioner William Kirby expressed pleasure with inc number  teachers who took and passed the test. Bui he said it was disappointing Hal 4,444  those with certificates did not take in in March and that 676  those who failed did not try a second time in june. Tea officials were particularly pleased at the passing Rales  minority teachers Kirby said. The results showed 95.4 percent  Black teachers passed 98,9percent  hispanics passed and 99.9 per cent  Whites. I think hat indicates that the lest absolutely did not discriminate against any clinic group As is being cd aimed in a Federal Law suit. Kirby said. Reagan oks subsidies for soviet wheat Deal by the los Angeles times Washington president Rea Gan trying to Chart a Middle course be tween the demands  farm slate Law makers and the protests  Canada and Australia. Friday authorized the Sale  up 10 4 million ions  american wheat to the soviet Union during the next two months at subsidized Bantam prices. The decision was made amid a bitter debate out pending legislation 10 subsidize agricultural exports on a much wider scale. The limited program thai Reagan approved fell Well Short  the desires  congressional republicans but in also avoided the worst fears  Canada and Australia two  the nation s oldest and closes allies. Senate majority Leader Bob pole r kan., chief sponsor  legislation thai would require the government to subsidize the sales  Grain and other farm products to China and probably Japan As Well As the soviet Union called the White House move a step in the right  however he said he would continue to press for passage  his Bill. Australia s minister for primary Indus try John Kerin said he was disappointed at the decision but that ii was much less damaging than he Dole legislation would be. Simir arty John Field House a spokes Man for he Canadian embassy said ii could have been  administration officials said Reagan had not yet decided  he will sign or Velo Dole s legislation which appears Likely to pass. The measure has split the Rea Gan Cabinet winning the support  Secretary  agriculture Richard Lyng Secretary  the Treasury James a. Baker 111 wheat supplies in billions  bushels on hand at Start  crop be 2.00 1.75 1.50 1.25 1.00 .75 .50 25 0 nun inti i 1982 83 64 85 b6 67 estimates Chicago Tribune Chan. Source . Department  Ancu inure and Secretary  Commerce Malcolm Baldrige but drawing protests from Secretary  stale George p. Shuttz and Sec Ciary  defense Caspar w. Weinberger. Australia and Canada have warned that the Dole measure could touch off a Trade War. Neither the White House nor the department  agric Hurc would estimate the Cost  the soviet Sale s pin. Whits House spokesman Larry Speakes said the wheat would be sold Al current Wurtz Market  in effect Matching subsidized Export prices charged by inc euro Pean common Market. Australia and Canada complained thai the Rale would undercut their in subsidy cd prices. Lyng said the subsidies were intended to encourage Moscow 10 abide by its agreement under a i9o Grain Sale agreement in buy Al least 4 million tons  wheat in inc fiscal year ending sept. 30. Sovil purchases so far this year have been negligible. When asked at .1 press conference  the soviet Union would have me its obligations Wilhour the Cui talc pricing Lyng said i think Hal icy perhaps would nol. The soviets have told us Hal we were non comic Lilic in world mar Ket  figures compiled by the Canadian embassy certainly support Lyng s con Tention Hal inc soviets had lost interest in . Grain at unsubsidized prices. Moscow purchased 6.1 million ions  . Wheat and hour last fiscal year but has bought Only 153.000 tons in the first 10 months  this fiscal year. There is no Way to be certain  course Why the soviets shunned . Sales this year. Supporters  the subsidy say . Prices were  while opponents  the plan suggest thai mos cow decided to wait out Washington and let . Political pressures produce a More favourable Price. Court rejects Alabama democrats primary vote Montgomery. Ala. Up a Federal court threw oui results  Ala Bama s democratic gubernatorial elec Tion Friday ruling that attorney general Charles Graddick gained illegal Republican crossover Voles in his narrow Victory Over it. Gov. Bill Basly. Graddick a former Republican beat Baxley by Only 8,756 votes. More than 900,000 were Casl in inc june 24 Runoff to succeed gov. George Wallace. A democratic primary Victory is considered tantamount to election in Ala Bama because no Republican has come close to winning the governor s race since re construction. Farmer Guy Hunt is on the gop ticket for november. A three judge panel ruled Hai Grad Dick violated the Federal voting rights act by encouraging crossover votes in the Runoff and ordered the democratic party to either declare Baxley the Winner or hold a new election. The panel headed by . Circuit judge Frank Johnson said a new elec Tion must be held  the party cannot determine by counting challenged votes that Baxley got the most Legal ballots. Baxley lawyer eds ill predicted the Pany would go ahead with the Challenge hearings  in gels approval from the slate supreme court. We d rather win the contest but we re not scared  another election he said.  clerk not psychotic psychologist testifies Dick violated Section 5  the voting rights act  1965," the Federal panel said Craddick. Who switched parties 10 years ago when he firs ran for statewide office openly courted gop voters in the Runoff and issued an attorney general s opinion the Day before the Vole saying crossover voting was Legal. La is absolutely Clear that As a Candi Daic and More importantly As the attorney general or. Graddick made every Effort to gel voters to violate inc Anil crossover Rule inc court wrote. Banley filed a protest  the election results july i claiming Graddick conspired with Republican party leaders to steal the election. Graddick countered by charging that democratic party leaders were working with Basly to deny him the nomination. Beale fab Calif. Up an air Force clerk accused  Irving to sell Mill another air Force psychiatrist maj Robert Kooker Friday testified that on iary i Cunnis to the so Tel Union is was a very average Guy who was in Over not  but shows signs  his head when he allegedly tried to sell".,.f. Fri Cir in Hirr Imiru a military secrets to the soviets Kooker part  a three Man air Force sanity Board that examined Oil in May said he found no evidence on suffered emotional adjustment difficulties a military psychologist testified Friday. You Don t have to look for psychosis it stares you in the face maj. Alan Brooker said. Usually in becomes easily  Brooker testified for the prosecution in the court martial  . Bruce Oil 26,  Erie pa., accused  passing information on High Altitude reconnaissance planes 10 Fri agents posing As russian spies. Oil s trial which had been in recess for two Days resumed Friday with the prosecution trying to rebut defense claims that on was a borderline psychotic. From mental illness. Oil s trial was recessed until monday when the prosecution was expected to continue its Case. Oil who was arrested by the Fri in january at a Davis Calif., Motel faces up to 32 years in prison  convicted  four violations  the uniform code  military Justice. He is stationed Al Beale fab at Marysville 120 Miles Northeast  san Francisco where the air Force bases or 71 espionage planes. We re not afraid  gelling out there and campaigning. We heal him once and Well beat him again Graddick spokes Man Chris Grimshawe said. He said inc ruling won t be appealed because that s what sore losers  Baxley finished comfortably ahead  Graddick in the five candidate june 3 democratic primary but the ensuing head to head Runoff spawned vicious personal attacks and ended Wilh Grad Dick challenging Baxley to a Fis Leighl. Basly at raced widespread Black support in the Campaign against Grad Dick whose Lough Law Ard order image appealed to conservative Whites. By preventing the democratic party  Alabama from enforcing its Rule prohibiting crossover voting in the Runoff and by actively encouraging the violation  the Rule defendant Charles Grad Sands  time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago . 3, 1946 Jerusalem press reports said a showdown was approach nit on the question  whether jews will be allowed to enter Palestine. They said 10 illegal refugee ships packed with More than 10,000 jewish european refugees were approaching Palestine Waters. 30 years ago today. ,. Aug. 3, 1956 golfer Ben Hogan was chosen Man  the decade by the nation s  and sportscasters in a poll conducted by sport Magazine. 20 years ago today. Aug. 3, 1966 an autopsy report said Charles Whitman had a brain tumor. He killed his wife and Mother then shot 12 people to death and wounded 33 others from the University  Texas lower in Austin. 10 years ago today., aug. 3, 1976 a bearded Young Man stripped and Cavor Ted among 500 costumed Young women in the olympic stadium during the closing ceremony  the xxx olympiad in Montreal. Police led the Streaker away