European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday March 22,1988 decline in sat scores worries Dodds Bidav Walczak education writer ka1serslautern the director of the military s overseas school Mem promised monday to Lake a Cleat look at declining Scholastic aptitude test scores unions he school system s College bound population. John Sorc Mulc said the department of defense dependents schools system is concerned about the decline because in dents need the scores in order to gel into the universities they want Matte and. The sat. Given six times during the school year is used by most . Colleges and universities 10 help determine admissions. Top score � 800 in Bath the math and verbal portions of the multiple choke test. Although the school system s average verbal score still exceeds the National avenge Dodds student have fallen be Hind the National math average for the first time since the school system began compiling figures in 1976. In 1985, Dodds student averaged 442 in the verbal Section and 460 in the math Section. A year later scores fell to 441 and 475. In 1987, verbal scare fell to 437 and math scores dropped to 474. The National average in 19b7 was 430 in the verbal portion and 476 in the math Section. Strum pc cited increasing numbers of College bound students As part of the Rea son far the decline. Studies have shown thai scores decline As More students Sig tin Tor the test. An estimated 57 percent of Dodds students eligible to Lake the lest did so Lait year although Stre Ropoc declined to offer specific plans to Deal with the falling sat scores he Laid the Dodds curriculum will be adjusted if school system educators agree on the need for More emphasis on the sat in an interview Midway through Mon Day s one Day educators conference in the Kaiser Lautem District the Dodds director announced that Bart logo Marcino of Elk Grove calif., has been appointed Deputy director for the school system which serves mom than 152,000 students worldwide. Logomarsino replace Steve Motta. Who resigned to late a Job with Federal Agency in Florida. Predicted a new Syslo wide con tract with he overseas education association by the end of the year. Thi cur rent three year contract expires this summer. Both parties will adhere to that contract s provision until a new one can be hammered out. Dodds officials in Washington have asked Region level officials for people to represent Dodds in the Washington , negotiations. Pointed to a revised teacher evaluation system u inc school by item s to priority. Strict Nile said a new Leitem should be in place by the summer of 1989. Promised More Slanda Rind canc Tatum throughout dodos Fivek Taj. As director he said i Dent know what s going on in the Engleh dam what being taught. I we decide for in stance that Shakespeare needs to be taught then we need to get Shote Materi Al into the teachers  predicted the Atlantic Region Wilt have a permanent director by my i to replace Joe Tarkin who retires Friday. Copfer unit bowing out because of Buff get woes by Daryle. Green Katsma Lauvern Bureau Eshbach a West Germany the budget Cut Ting info proved stronger than the Rotor Blade As helicopter unit assigned to Sembach a Heads for Duaei ovation. The air Force announced feb. 17 that the 601 St tac air support so at Simbach would be deactivated by the end of this fiscal year. The major reason for the deactivation is the trans Fer of the ch-53 helicopters throughout the world to a new Mission said col. Dennis c. Torr a com Mander of the 601 St tac control Wing at Sembach. But the underlying reason is a Lack of Money. Moneys were not available for a replacement air Frame therefore an alternative was do activation of the Squadron torrent said. According to a release by the office of the Secretary of the air Force the reductions at Simbach Are part of a Range of action taken by the air Force to meet congressional budget restrictions. The congressional funding decisions have slopped the momentum toward reaching the objective we established Early in this administration air Force Secretary Edward c Aldridge or. Said in the statement. As a result future air Force capability will certainly be reduced and past gains will in some cases be re versed. In addition budget cuts of this magnitude will increase the risk to our National Security. The United states deserves a better air Force than this budget will  the unit will lose its seven ch-53 helicopters and about 175 military Andl civilian personnel. The mis lion of the 601st tac air support so has been to help move radar equipment supplies and personnel to and from Remote locations. The loss of the unit is not expected to seriously affect he wine s ability to do the Job. I Don t think that it s going to affect the Mission but it s going to limit our flexibility Torrez  still can accomplish the Mission however the flexibility that you have in making certain decisions in deploying Force becomes limited the Wing was prepared to lose the aircraft so it was not caught off guard by the Short notice dealt Ivaton. In Many respects the announcement Wai not a great surmise to us said it. Col. Gary l. Stevens commander 601st tac air support so. The unit began winding Down its operations March 1 and expects to lose i final aircraft March 31. Of fighters in Iceland keep tabs on intruders by Dave Diehl Ujco. Bureau . Air Force Jet fighters from he Iceland defense Force have intercepted 73 intruders in the country s air defense zone so far this year a Navy spokesman said monday. Pilots from the 57th fighter interceptor so flew More Llian 900 sorties to meet and escort the non Allied air planes enter ing the Iceland military air defense zone since Jan. 1, said chief Petty officer Dave Evans. The Large majority of the non Allied air planes that Fly through the Greenland . Cap and into the air de sense tone arc southbound soviet Mili tary planes. Evans said the air Force s Iceland unit intercepted 22 air planes in the tone in january and it in february. N 1987 the unit escorted 139 planes from the zone he said. The 57th, along with air Force air borne warning and control system air Craft and Kc-135 refuelling air planes take Flavin. Is charged with the Protection of the zone which often is entered by aircraft from Northern soviet bases. To avoid flying Over nato airspace War saw pact air planes Mast Fly Over the norwegian sea and through the Gap when flying South Evans said the Al is had to scramble from the base for Only 36 of the Aerial meetings the first two months of the year. He said the other 37 intercepts were by piano already airborne when the Alert was called. The Fiss normally scramble to meet the air planes headed for the Lone about an hour before they get there. The flit with the help of the air to air refuelling from the Kc-i3s. Can stay with the in truders for four or five hours the zone is a 200-Naulinl-mite zone surrounding Iceland that is deemed Crit ical by nato. Under a 1951 agreement the us. Is responsible for Iceland s de sense. Iceland he no military forces. News update emergency Laws Cairo Egypt a Egypt parliament on sunday approved a three year Extension of emergency Laws the government a of Are needed to combat moslem Funda mentalists and terrorist threats in an evening session a com Mittee headed by Rifal Al Man grub head of the nation s parliament approved the Extension. The emergency Laws that have been in existence since president Anwar Sadat was assassinated oct. 6,1991. The assassination was carried out by by moslem fundamentalists. Airman sentenced in assault on female no correction one of the Safe units winning the air Force s annual maintenance effectiveness awards for 1987 was incorrectly identified in sunday s military round up. The 38lh tac missile Maint so at Woseth twin As Weil Germany won far in maintenance program for ground launched cruise missiles. By Daryl Green  Bureau Ramstein a. West Germany an airman was sentenced to six months1 confinement and was Given a bad con duct discharge following his conviction on charges stemming from an adulterous affair with an no. . Brian t. Layton of the 86th equipment maim so also was ordered to forfeit $200 per month for six months and reduced in Grade to Al. Layton could have been sentenced to life plus 17 years if he had been convicted of a variety of charges including rape assault communicating a threat extortion two counts of destruction of non military property Housch realing and breaking re Striction. After a three Day court martial. Lay. Ton was convicted Friday of assault one count of destruction of non military property and the lesser charge of unlawful entry instead of Housch realing. He pleaded guilty to the charges of breaking restriction one count of destruction of non military property and part of the other. He was found innocent of theother charges. The charges stemmed from a five month affair Layton had with a married technical sergeant from Sembarti a West Germany. The woman testified  Layton assaulted her nov. 19 Fay punching her in the face As she was driving on the Highway after an argument. Layton admitted hitting the woman but he said it was in self defense. He testified that she had been drinking an was driving erratically and that striking her was the Only Way he could Force her Israel will investigate Kahane Over Book Jerusalem a attorney Gen eral Yosef Harish has ordered a criminal inquiry into .-bom legislator Meir Kahane and i Radical Kach party for publishing a Booklet about the disappearance of yemenite jewish children lie Justice ministry said monday. Harish ordered the probe alter Kac distributed in Israel 75.000 copies of the Booklet which allegedly contains incite ment racial instigation Aud slander against government officials. Eastman Kodak Purchase Rochester , up Eastman Kodak co has agreed to acquire interactive system corp., Santa Monica Calif . To pull Over to gel control of the vehicle. The woman also testified that Layton had threatened to opos their affair to her husband and to her commander to extort sexual favor from her alter another argument on thanksgiving. During this argument Layton Cut the phone cords in the woman s Home. The couple had sex that evening the woman said la Loti raped her. The charges of assault rape communicating a threat and extortion weat in to once until nov. 28, when Layton entered the woman s Home without her knowledge and destroyed her television. After the offences were reported. Lay ton violated an order restricting Hun from contacting the woman by visiting her some after being placed in pretrial confinement at the army confinement facility in Mannheim. Layton continued to write and phone the woman further violating the restriction order. Lay Jorj said he contacted her to apol Ogia and to Tell her he still loved her. The prosecution contended he tried to manipulate her into changing her Testi Mony. No charges will be fixed again the woman the Sembach Public Affan of tree said