European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jackson warns of Boycotts Tokyo Fuji the Rev. Jesse Jack son warned monday that japanese Compa Nies May face Boycotts in the United states unless Japan starts doing More business with american minorities and stops doing business with South Africa. The civil rights Leader and head of the Washington based Rainbow coalition met with prune minister Yasuhiro Nakasone far More than 45 minutes on racial and Trade issues. He said Japan s chronic Trade surplus with the United slates has Hurt the Progress of minorities in the United slates. We seek to renegotiate the relation ship or is will organize to end the relationship he Laid we will no longer wednesday december 10, 1986 Jackson i one Way relationship or relationship with South Africa Jackson arrived in Tokyo earlier int be Day on a five. J Day visit to Japan that he said was to Call attention to human rights questions to seek better i treatment of Amer ican minorities by the japanese and to demand that Japa Nese companies and investors pull out of South Africa. Jackson said Blacks buy 12 percent of japanese cars and about id percent of the electronics products sold in the unite state and that Only a handful of minorities hold dealerships to sell japanese products. He accused Japan of foot dragging unending business Contact with the White minority government in South Africa claim ing Inal japanese firms have actually expanded operations there to fill the void left by withdrawal of american companies. We Don l want to play musical chair sin South Africa he said. Jackson said he also will meet this wee with lop executives of japanese Auto and electronics companies to press for heightened sensitivity to racial questions. He said he would Point out that Amer ican Blacks generate s210 billion annually in consumer spending and hispanic spend $ 125 billion a year priest plans to continue anti abortion protest Giussani Italy a a magistrate has ordered the Parish priest to Stop sound ing the death Knell to protest abortions at the local Hospital but the Rev. Agostino Curri said sunday he planned to continue. Cerri was cited last week for disturb ing the peace by ringing the largest of the Church s eight Bells it 2 . Every tues Day when abortions arc performed at Borella Hospital the priest said. Pastry chefs much through the streets at Toon France carrying a 15-foot prodigious pastry Long  they say if the big Gest in the world. Ii look four bikers 38 a photo hours to produce the 195-Pound jumbo Roll. Fears of teacher shortage unfounded private education group s report says Washington a enough peo ple Are entering teaching in All but a few subjects and regions of the country despite fears of a teacher shortage a report by private education group said monday. Teaching is still desirable to enough people to meet the demands of the a lion c. Emily fist Ritter author of the report said in an interview. The study by the private Washington based National Center for education in formation reported that the Overall num Ber of teachers in Public elementary and secondary schools is increasing faster than enrolments. It found the largest number of teacher vacancies in the areas of mathematics science special education and foreign languages. Raw data indicate the numbers of people stepping Forward to Leach is keep ing up with demand in All but a few con tent areas and regions of the country said the report. Education Secretary William Bennett raised Feistritzer s report. Armed with facts that the establish ment often wishes weren t so Feistritzer has written a powerful report that de bunks a lot of myths scotches Bunches of rumours and generally clean the air Bennett said. To was labelled misleading and Simplis tic however by the  million member National education association the nation s largest teachers Union. Spokesman Howard Carroll said the study flies in the face of several major reports warn ing of an impending teacher shortage. When she plays up the Angle of More teachers and less students it does t take into account the Way schools have changed More specialization and reductions in class size As Well As require ments for meeting the needs of minority disadvantaged and handicapped Stu dents he said. The real danger Wilh the Feistritzer report is hat in uses sweeping generalizations that May cause the Public to Lessen its necessary concern that this nation have the Best Educa cd people in the world he said. Feistritzer director of the Center that produced the report said the data on shortages is unreliable because definitions of shortage differ from school to school. Shortages also were found in Urban schools and Rural districts she said but added that is not  Feis Tilzer s report teacher crisis myth or reality Analysed data on enrolment trends teacher hires teacher salaries and emergency certifications. The report said that the number of students graduating with teaching de Grees has begun to increase and that growing numbers of people who receive teaching degrees but never taught in Many instances because they could t gel jobs Are now entering the profession. From the 1972-73 school year to ihe1985-86 school year the number of elementary school and secondary school students declined Overall by 14.1 per cent to 39.5 million while the number of teachers increased by 3.3 percent to 2.2 million the report said. In the last two years of the period elementary school Enron meals have increased by 2.3 percent while the number of teachers has increased by 3.4 percent. At the secon Dary school level enrolment has slipped by 2 percent and the number of teachers has grown by 2.1 percent the report  you count Heads there s no prob Lem Feistritzer said. But she added certification require ments that Are based More on course work than competence Are keeping out of the profession Many people whose experience and expertise could ill the gaps in shortage areas. There is a vast number of people who would like to teach that this system lockout she said. The report found that in the 1983-84 school year 3,965 teacher positions went unfilled with the largest concentrations in general elementary education special Edu cation bilingual education physical sciences an. Music and computer science. Santa escorts 50 needy kids to Scandinavia los Angeles i a fifty Distad a tagged children have been liken to Scandinavia with Santa Claus As their Host to visit the gift giver s Village appear on television and take a two Day Cruitt. Jus i Vaittinen 43, a popular finnish linger and children s entertainer. The children will visit Santa Claus Village at Kovaniemi Finland. Will Lake a two Day cruise bet Tinaci Finland and stoc a m7 swe Pucar on finnish television pro Matei with finnish Jeffrey Browb of Yea mild from Loi Angeles said be so ii excited when he found out he it Toj n the trip that he was running whole House Jeffrey s Mother in Strawn Saint the Tnp Mead ret Bifid extra to Herson Bce Quinle recently overcame a six the with leukaemia. For the children from Camp Ron Ald Mcdonald for Good times whose future it Uncertain it ii especially wonderful Brown said. They love life they look at things like this with a Spe Cial magic because they be seen theother tide.". Camp Ronald me Taal a resident camping program children with cancer Ere the Salvage los Angeles and Holly iras Chinatown service Conte Mucich provides services for newly in a immigrants my the Orange  Center which provides Edu Caia we assistance for indians living in South in California. Tero Palmroth a finnish citizen who works in Beverly Hilb proposed the trip last Winter said Mike Sims executive vice president of the Beverly Hull chamber of Commerce. The chamber crated the Santa Claus fund to collect Money for future inn Sims Laid adding thai he Hope other . Cities will be Able to participate donations totalling $50,000 Trombu unease in Beverly Hilli and Finland paid for the children s tour including air fare hotel accommodation us clothing