European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and sth1pes Friday october 28.1988 Bonn very careful on sales to soviets Washington a1 West Ger Many has promised the United Stales that in will reject Domestic pressures and Prev Cal the Sale of militarily sensitive technology to the soviet Union . Officials said thursday. The assurances were made in Bonn before this week s trip to Moscow by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and 30 businessmen who have signed deals Esti mated Al More than is billion said unofficial who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. The West germans consulted with the United slates about the deals they in tended to sign and we could see the were being very careful the official said. Al the same time the United states has warned West Germany and other Al lies in Cocom the coordinating com Mittee for multilateral Export controls against being lulled into a false sense of Security by recent soviet reforms the official said. Cocom determines what technology nato members and Japan May sell the soviet bloc. We have received assurances from Wisl Germany that in will observe established Cocom procedures when it comes to carrying Oul the various com Mercial agreements reached by German firms in Moscow said slate depart ment spokesman Charles Redman. The Paris based organization has been seeking to streamline its Complex list of banned technologies in response to in economic liberalization of several soviet bloc countries. The next full round of consultations on the changes is not expected until Spring when the new . Adm Nistra Marine investigators look Otto the charred remains of two helicopters that crashed in the Arizona desert and killed 10 people. Two Marine choppers collided in air during desert training officials think Gila Bend Ariz. A two Marine corps helicopters probably collide before each crashed killing nine marines and one air Force officer while on a de Sert training Mission Marine officials said thursday we feel confident enough to say a midair collision was More than Likely said gunnery sol. Hal Wheeler a spokesman at the Marine corps air Sta Tion at Yuma Wheeler said the two helicopters that crashed tuesday night a Boeing cd 46 and a Bell uh-1n flew from the Yuma base but neither was stationed there. The ch-46 was from the Marine corps air station in new River. N.c., and the us in was from Camp Pendic ton calif., he said. Wheeler also said there was uncertainty about inc number of men in each air Craft. Other spokesmen initially said four men were aboard the ch-46 and six aboard i huh in. The crash site about 16 Miles South East of Gila Bend on the Goldwater air Force Range was in an area so rough that four wheel drive vehicles had Trou ble reaching it said 1st la. Mary Bald win Public affairs officer at the Marine corps air station in Yuma. The last body was nol recovered until Lale wednesday afternoon Baldwin said. The men were participating in the final training exercise of a course taught twice a year at the air station in Yuma,125 Miles Southwest of the crash site. The course is an advanced program in Battle tactics including moving person Nel from place to place rescuing wounded and countering enemy weapons and aircraft. The crash was the second in the course s history. In 1984, two marines were killed when their Light observation plane crashed on the Range. The twin Rotor ch46 sea Knight which Boeing stopped building in 1971, is the Marine s main assault helicopter. Three marines were killed in May when a ch-46 crashed during a lest night from Kanco Emarine corps air station in Hawaii. A Marine ch-46 carrying 21 men crashed in 1986, killing eight during Anat exercise off Norway. In one of the worst crashes involving the helicopter 14marines and a Navy chaplain were killed in 1985 when a cd m6 crashed into the Atlan tic often Orth Carolina. On monday a us in helicopter hit a Power line and crashed near he .-Mexieo Border in California killing five Law enforcement officers and three National guardsmen during the first mis Sion of an anti drug smuggling program. Nearly Blind woman gets Legal marijuana fort Lauderdale Fla. A a woman nearly blinded by glaucoma is happily puffing on her first shipment of government grown marijuana a drug Federal officials took months to approve for her medical use. This is going 10 mean i m nol going Owonder where my Neit dosage of Medica Tion is going to come from mid Elvy my Sikka at a wednesday press conference to announce the government s decision. Musika. 4-4, was tried in August on charges of growing marijuana plants inner tack Yard. She and her physician successfully aug we that using the drug was the Only Way to relieve the glaucoma s pressure on her eyes. After her Arr Tel eight Nemih a she applied to lilt food and drug admin is i ration for a Federal program to receive pot legally for medical Iri aim ends. Lusikka who is already Blind in her right Eye. Said she was slowly losing inc remaining sigh in her left Eye waiting for her application to be processed. She now carries a Brown Laslie con Tainer for her marijuana cigarettes. She is said to be Only inc third person in the United slates Given permission 10 smoke the drug legally for medical reasons. She can use the marijuana anywhere tobacco smoking is permitted said her attorney. Norman Kent. Tion is in place. There Are Domestic political pressures in some countries to relax Cocom restrictions the unidentified official said. If you Are living across the Border from Easl Germany for example the temptation to believe the soviet threat is Over is  West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genic her has been advocating greater Trade with Moscow As a Way of stimulating the stagnant soviet Economy and creating jobs. Plans unveiled for testing of new teachers new York a the educational testing service unveiled plans thursday for a comprehensive new teacher Licens ing Esam including computer simulations of classroom situations id help Stales Weed Oul incompetents there is a widespread and growing concern Aboul the preparedness and effectiveness of beginning teachers and we believe that breakthroughs in research and technology make possible a new kind of assessment thai will provide greater assistance fairness and accuracy said ets president Gregory r. Anrig. He expressed Hope thai the new exam would help put to rest recurring charges by teacher unions and others that exist ing teacher less Don t accurately assess classroom skills and Are unfair to Minori ties. Jane Usdan a spokeswoman for the american federation of teachers called the new test a step in the right direction. We have said we need to test teach ers differently not Only on what they know but on what they can  National education association presi Dent Mary Hatwood Futrell also applauded ets s plans we Are very pleased that hey arc calling for a Multi faceted  she said adding she was pleased the testing firm had sought the advice of teacher unions and other educators. The exam is designed As a licensing tool for beginning teachers and is not intended to assess Veteran leathers Anrig stressed. Prototypes of the exam As vet unnamed will be Field tested in 1090. And a final version is expected to be ready in 1992. According to inc Lawrenceville  testing service. The lest eventually is expected to re place inc National teacher exam a paper and Pencil. Multiple Choice teat taken by some 200.000 leaching Candi dates a year and administered by ets. Thai lest which costs from $15 to s50depending on How Many parts of it a stale requires was first offered in 1939 and is part of the teacher licensing pro Gram in 30 Stales. Unlike current teacher exams the new lest is designed to be taken at Ihrcke stages of a would be teacher s training. The first part would use a computer to test Reading male and writing skills Dur ing or after the second year of undergrad uate Siudy. The second test would assess grasp of subject Mailer and teaching principle following completion of teacher training. Beginning leathers would take a third test to evaluate How Well they perform in actual classrooms once they have had some supervised teaching experience. It would include observation of leaching performance and computer simulation of classroom situations