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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, December 7, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 7, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 3 Darmstadt Junior High student Amy Juriako Lead kindergarten pupils in learning game. Gurisko is thinking about becoming a teacher and finds he experience helpful. Students find teaching a learning experience by Connie Dickey staff writer Darmstadt Germany in the English is a second language class a group of kindergarten children is play ing Simon says to learn their body parts. Their Leacher is seventh grader Amy Gurisko who voluntarily spends 30 minutes a Day with the youngsters leaching instead of being taught. I have had no trouble working with Stiem Gurisko said. In fact i want to be either a teacher or a veterinarian and i think this experience is  Gurisko is one or 32 Darmstadt Junior High students participating in a Slu Donl aids program helping out Elemen tary teachers and in some cases actually leaching the children. The program started last year with about three students volunteering to help a teacher with a learning impaired class. The program grew according to Junior High Counselor Marlene Fritz mainly through word of Mouth. We had 25 requests from teachers when the school year started for some kind of Aid futz said. She and elementary Counselor Pat dish pics worked together to set up the program. A. Smith Reeves chief of executive services for the department of defense dependents schools Germany said other schools in Germany have similar programs. In Darmstadt the students a what Ever the teacher needs grading papers setting up displays cutting out items for bulletin boards or tutoring a child. Some of the aides work in the Library office or nurse s office. The seventh through ninth graders in the program have to be of Good Aca Demic standing and must choose work ing As an aide instead of going to an elective class Fritz said. They arc evaluated by the elementary Leacher they Are helping. Participants receive either a passing or failing Grade. We be found this program is Good for their self esteem and it helps give the students a perspective from the teachers viewpoint Fri said. Tracy Kyriakeas who leaches English As a second language is Happy with Gurisko. She is very helpful and lakes it upon herself to expand on an activity that i want her to do Kyriacas said. For instance this game of Simon says is one Good example. It teaches the children parts of their bodies and Amy just took that idea and went with it. When we were leaching the concepts of up and Down she got out blocks and slacked hem. She really enjoys working with the  other students in inc program Are Happy with their decisions to become aides Tabitha Smith said she chose to Hel with third graders because. It seemed like a Good Grade. I have two Little Sisters in first and third Grade and t Felt i already knew something about that age group. 1 would like to be a school Counselor and this has got to  Kristina Serrano a seventh grader who helps out in the Library wants Tobe a teacher and said helping the younger kids learn to read is very re warding and while seventh grader Paula Lusk in toys her work in the third Grade the program has helped her Mark one Job Oft her Lisl of possible careers. I like helping the younger kids and besides it gets me out of a Boring class Host nation Lusk said. It is going to help me decide what 1 want to do later. I know i m not going to be a  demand for strike to oust Haiti Junta is renewed port a Prince Haiti a three major Trade unions and a top presidential candidate have called for a general strike to oust the ruling Junta which was blamed for rampant violence that aborted National elections. The roman Catholic Church urged haitians to keep the military dominated Junta from making its own election rules and charged the army was responsible for the wave of terror sweeping through this poverty stricken Caribbean nation. Port a Prince was quiet sunday. Some people were blocking up on groceries filling their cars with gasoline and in other ways preparing for the possibility of a Long strike the autonomous Central of haitian workers the country s largest Tabor group in a communique Broad cast by radio Metropole Friday urged haitians i throw out the criminals and the candidates thai sympathize with the  presidential candidate Sylvio Claude the association of Public employees and he Union of Public transport Drivers joined the autonomous Central s Call fora nationwide walkout to Start  the Junta does not resign we ask for the intervention Ota multinational Osier or Force in supervise elections and guarantee occur ii said Claude Hove previous Call for a strike to Start Friday Drew no sup port apparently because it was hastily organised. Last sunday inc civilian electoral Council stopped elections three hours after balloting had begun to save voters from being killed. Soldiers As Well As marauding gangs linked to the military Domina cd Junia roamed port a Prince shooting Clown people at random inthe Streels and slaughtering others at voting stations. When voting stopped inc violence abated bul at the end of the Day 34 people were dead 75 were wounded and Haiti s first free election in 30 years was As dead As inc Bullet riddled and hacked corpses on the streets. The Junta led by it. Gen. Henri Namphy has governed Haiti since a popular uprising chased president Jean Claude Duvalier out of the country on feb. 7, 19s6. Duvalier s flight into exile ended a family dictatorship begun in 1957 by his father Francois papa Doc Duvalier. After i Lions were cancelled. Namphy s group is sued a decree dissolving the Elk Coral Council and asking churches and other civic organic Lions to name new one. None of the nine organi Lions that disc the Origi Mil Council members complied with inc decree Friday. And four of them publicly condemned Ilas . They represent churches civil rights workers journalists und other to  groups. A no Lucial source Sirij inc Jun Lii in ulily runic j new election Pizik l in Adf if Givihan  Dii i in. Haili s Constitution gives inc electoral Council Complete charge of the election process until an elected president Ond National Assembly take office feb. T,1988, the second anniversary of Duvalier s flight. Electoral Council members some of whom went into hiding fearing for their lives say any election held without their supervision is illegal. All four major presidential candidates have called Namphy s decree unconstitutional and most have said they will not run in an election i Junta organized. On Friday the Catholic Church for inc first Lime Pul i ill blame on the army for that violence that has plagued Haiti since the Junta came to Power 22 months ago. The move was significant because the Church is a Strong political Force Here roman catholicism is the country s official religion and most haitians arc roman catholics. The in Catholic Bishops signed a statement condemning the military s arbitrary arrests of Southl in Pon a Prince and the country vide. Our country is experiencing the agony of Al a Argam Vej  they said. It in inc first turn we ice in Haiti armed civilian burning election Hall nos m Public places even in poll ing Slatum. With the com Lii ily it tin armed i   Llic st.ilei7ll-nl.  Vujs i id Over Jiulio i i. Tupule wild the Church Tutum k Nln Molcil  
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