European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 20, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7report says soviet spying in , impaired Washington Al j the Reagan administration renewing a charge that the soviet Union Plant spies at the United nations says ii s Loo Early to led whether a . Crackdown has significantly reduced soviet intelligence gathering. In an unclassified report 10 Congress prepared by the state department he administration said expulsions and travel restrictions imposed by the United states last year have impaired these operations. With reductions of personnel at the soviet embassy consulate and soviet Mission to the United nations the scape of their operations will be further con strained said the report relayed by pc Sidcot Reagan to the chairmen of the congressional intelligence and foreign affairs commit ices. In addition the travel controls imposed on soviet personnel As Well As inc nationals of East Germany Poland Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria employed at the , secretariat have closed an Avenue of exploitation by hostile  but the report said it is 100 Early to make any definitive assessment of the Impact of those intelligence gathering counter measures undertaken by the . Government in a letter accompanying transmit Alof the report to Capitol Hill Reagan Lold the committee chairmen that while we cannot ensure espionage can be completely curtailed i am pleased that the administration and Congress together Are making significant Progress to Deal with this problem and it remains a mat Ter of h Igli National  in March i Odd. The United Stales served notice thai the soviet had to re Duce their . Staff from 27s employees to 170 Over the next two years. At the Lime the soviet foreign ministry in Moscow called utterly far fetched and unfounded the . Claims of espionage by soviet . Workers. But the report released wednesday said some Kab officers have reached positions of authority in the . By  Massachusetts girls top boys in statewide test of school skills Springfield mass. A girls oui scored boys in All subjects on the first statewide tests of Basic skills a state education researcher said wednesday. How Many children displayed Mastery of Basic skills and How Many fell Short however arc yet to be deter mined because the state has t set a passing score said Allan a Hartman director of the Bureau of research and assessment in the state department of education. The children were tested in Reading mathematics and writing skills. Hartman said he was at a loss to explain Why girls outscored boys and Why students from families in higher income brackets outscored their poorer counterparts. Girls outscoring boys is a pattern we be been seeing across the nation in the last five years Hartman said in a Telephone interview from his Quincy office. But we Don t know Why. I d probably be no better Dole Headquarters hit by burglars Washington a the National Campaign Headquarters of Senate Republican Leader Robert j. Dole of Kansas who is a Likely presidential contender in 1983, was burglarized police said wednesday. We Haven t determined at this time if it was committed Tor monetary reasons for taking office equip ment and converting it to Cash or if it could possibly have some kind of political overtones police spokes Man capt William while Iii said. Dole s Campaign director William b. Lacy said that inc 25-Memberslafforihc Dole for president explore Lory committee had moved into a suite on l Street in the Northwest Section of the City two weeks ago and had barely unpacked making in difficult to determine what had been taken. I Don t think anything was taken but someone s Backpack Lacy said. A Silver watch and a camera were stolen from a neighbouring suite the offices of Atlantic garage inc., police said. Police said the break in occurred late tuesday or Early wednesday morning. Sex congressman Cole Dies of cancer at 82 Washington a a Sterling Cole 82. Al for Mer Republican new York congressman and first director of the International atomic Energy Agency died of can cer at George Washington University Hospital. Cole a resident of Arlington va., served in the House of representatives from 1935 to 1957 from the 39th and 37lh districts of new York. Than anyone in the Street in giving you an explant  schools received the results of the october tests ear Lier this week however the department of education will not release the scores to the Public until March 25, to give schools time to review the tests present results to school boards and staff and report any errors the tests Are the first an Rorm examinations in the state. Previously school districts chose their own Basic skills exams from hundreds on the Market. The department designed and administered the new tests to 170,000 children in grades three six and nine. The tests give three passing scores 60, 70 and 80 in Reading and math Ana Tell schools How Many students passed for each and which students failed to pass the writing tests were judged on a pass fail basis. Many special education and bilingual students were exempted from the tests up of on fire gut  Junior High Morg Anton . Api an explosion and fire gutted a Junior High school and shattered windows in an elementary school cancelling classes wednesday for More than 1,000 students Ana Federal a Ems were called in to investigate. The blast which rocked houses several blocks away and tossed locked doors 60 to 70 feet occurred tuesday night 300 people watched an adult basketball game in a gymnasium next to Salem Junior h High school. Several parked cars were destroyed but nobody was Hurt. The cause of inc explosion had nol been deter mined said Nick Waters director of Burke county emergency management services. This explosion is nol consistent with anything that should have been in that building said Waters. He said it was nol like an explosion caused by Dyna mite although in was consistent with the Type of explosion caused by natural  Waters said the build ing is heated by an Oil Furnace and propane was used in the Kitchen in die building s basement. Picking up the pieces App Heio jewel Martin salvages what she can after a Tornado destroyed her Mobile Home tuesday near Natchez miss. Nearly 100 Homes i damaged by the twister authorities said. California court swears in three conservatives los Angeles a gov George Duck Majian s nominees to replace three state supreme coun justices swept out in the november election were sworn in wednesday fulfilling his longtime goal Ofa conservative majority on he court. Appeals court justices John Argueles David Eagleson and Marcus Kaufman won 3-0 votes of the state commission on Judi Cial appointments and were sworn in by chief Justin Malcolm Lucas. Dukmejian now has five appointees out of the seven justices a dramatic change for a court that has had a Liberal majority for about three decades. Kaufman regarded As one of the state s leading conservative scholars Sard he expected the new court to show a greater regard or adherence to  he also said inc court Likely would use the same Standard of review for death pen ally trials As other criminal convictions. Since 1963, the court has required re Versal of death sentences for any sub Stantial error in the Penally phase of the trial a stricter Standard of review than inc one used in other criminal cases. I ship Sci there will a a tendency 10 really assess whether an error was prejudicial Kaufman said. I m nol sure thai that has always in adhered to in the  the court s reversal of All but four of the death sentences it has considered since 1977 was the Moil prominent Issue in the Campaign thai resulted in the unprecedented us fear of chief Justice Rose Bird and justices Cru Reynoso and Joseph hirudin. Deuk Mcwinn. Who opposed All three justices named Lucas his former Law partner and first supreme court a. Printce to succeed Bird As chief Justice in january