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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes thursday october 29,1987 3rd radiation death Rio de Janeiro Brazil a a junkyard worker who handled radioactive cerium ij7 died tuesday the third fatality in what officials have culled the worst nuclear Accident in the Western world Israel Calisla Dos Santos 22, died after three weeks in critical condition at the Marcilio Dias naval Hospital in Rio. The Navy press office said. Family visits rust Moscow a teen age Pilot Mathias rust was allowed a visit in Kcf Ortolo prison tuesday by his parents and younger brother. Rust is Well he ally he s optimistic said Mario do Derichs correspondent Tor the West Ger Man Stem Magazine. The 3 i sour visit by Karl Heinz and Monika rust and their is year old son. Ingo was the first allowed by soviet authorities since rust was sentenced sept. 4 to four years in a soviet labor Camp. 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Bartman Washington Bureau Washington student in the military s overseas school system  their stateside counterpart again in a test of Basic skills. But there still arc areas the military offspring need to Bone up on. Statistics from the 1986-87 sys Temide testing program which is administered to students from kindergarten to he 11 in Grade show students of the department of defense dependents schools worldwide doing belter than their counterparts Back Home. That has been the cae in the past several years of testing. Tote Dodds students exceeded the National score the 501 h percent the often by substantial margins in every Grade category above kindergarten. The preschoolers fell into the Ruth pc Cemile on Reading skills and the 49th percent be for mathematics. A percentile rank May be interpreted As the percentage of students whose scores fall below u particular group s scale score. For example if a group of Dodds student scores convert to the percentile rank of 71, this indicates that the group scored higher than approximately 71 percent of All the other groups of students who look the same lest. The upper Grade Levels were often Well into the 60th or 70th Perth Niles. Scores in inc Joth Grade level were in the 78lh percent Ilc for social studies and 73rd percentiles for language arts and science. But Dodds administrators said there were weak spots among he problem areas that Dodds teachers will have to pay More Alieni Ion to in future classes were proper language expression math computation the understanding of government economics historical persons or events and Reading comprehension. Other possible problem areas included spelling with regard to consonant sounds and the concept of word snack where by a Reader readily identifies Vowel or consonant sounds. The test was Given to 134,000 Dodds students last Spring. The major Ity of the students 77,241, were in Oer Many 25.391 were in the Pacific 13,945on the Atlantic 11,744 in the Mediterranean and 6,027 in Panama Overall lest performance indicated Dodds students highest achievement occurs at Grade six. Language arts i the strongest subject area Tor Grade one through ii. However social nudist tote Chat grades seven through it resulted h the highest scores Oral Tettl areas. Dodds officials said the Rull showed their students exceeding the abilities of students in the United states in All subject areas including mathematics however Grade one main computation skills were slightly lower than the Norm. It $ Back of Texas for reformer is Bujo Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau Bergen Hohne Germany spec. 4 Douglas Ucli Mtsat at the Railhead eating a Sandwich and contemplating his next reformer phase return of forces to Texas As in fort Hood. Two months Over Here is plenty he said in Between bites. We be been sit Ting around waiting to leave and trying to stay out of  a Short distance away another Iii corps sold ice from the 3rd in 3rd regl Field arty 2nd army div bade a passionate Farewell to a new found Friend. A full month after the late septem Ber conclusion of the Field exercise portion of refer Ger the ratio of Europe based support personnel to Iii corps exercise troops in the redeploy ment area was approaching one to one said capt. Dale Bryson redeploy ment area spokesman. About 1,600 troops from Texas re main of the 35.000 Iii corps troops flown Over during reformer. They should All by gone by mid november Bryson said. We flew in to Cologne Bonn air Portland 1 Don t know where we re flying out of Zeliff said. But his movements As movements of All . Reformer troops were being tracked by the 27lh trans in. We had the largest  num Ber of troop the biggest reformer area 70,000 Square Miles and the smallest battalion in inc 4th trans Contd said maj. Frederick Perkins battalion executive officer. We moved them out into the Thea Ter using virtually every Mode of transportation there  most of the work was handled by specialists 4 and below. They needed an intimate knowledge of loading capacities for a wide Range of transport lion equipment and knowledge Floca transportation procedures to get inc Job done Perkins said. From a Normal strength of 73 sol Diers and civilians the Bremerhaven based battalion swelled to 461 people at its Peak strength during inc annual fall exercise. The extra bodies came from stateside Active duly units reservists and Usa eur Perkins said. Field tested this year was a computer linked movement control system that tracked aircraft trains and bum moving troops to and from the North Germany exercise area a Trio of movement control teams in Rotterdam Netherlands Moe Chen Gladbach Germany and Bern Erhan in Germany form the con of the computer transport water. To Date Perkins said there have been no delays in ship departures and no cases of units missing their flights or delayed in drawing gear from Forward equipment Sites. From his Railhead Vantage Point be list would have been encouraged about the Light record. From his computer terminal touted in a Lent not far from inc Railhead pfc. Jeffrey Griffin stood ready to log in Zelir departure time within 15 min utes after the train departed. The movement control team in Monehen Gladbach would know Vivell in Advance that ocl i its unil was on in Way to drop equipment at a nearby equipment Stor age site before Cadi be for the Airport. And Zeliff did t even have to buy ticket. Davis reappointed head of advisory panel Washington Sis Jacquelyn k. Davis has been reappointed chairwoman of the defense advisory Council on women in the services the Pentagon has announced. The Addis Portal one year term comes As the defense department and the air Force and Navy arc in inc midst of an inn Cpl took into the problems affecting military women. Several months ago dacoits delivered a highly critical report of the Way the military treats women and the Pentagon acknowledged the group had raised some serious charges. Dacoits is composed of 32 civil ians from across the United Stales it was established in 1951 to advise the Secretary of defense on policies and mat ten relating to service women. Davis who lives in Boston was appointed to dacoits in 1984 and served on a subcommittee As vice chairwoman until she was appointed in 19e6 to the unpaid Post which she now holds. She is executive vice president of the Institute for foreign policy analysts and has written numerous Anict on National Security issues. 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