European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 23,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7interest in teaching on rebound Survey says Boston a a new Survey Indi Ca s interest in teaching has jumped f in filling on hard times in the Early 5980s when word got around that the in v thing tougher than finding a teach in Job was living on the salary. Unroll Mcnol in the nations teaching programs Rose by 61 percent Between 1985 and 1989. The figure would have Hren higher had All those who applied seen accepted according to an unpublished study by the american association of colleges for teacher education. A As someone who makes his living teaching people to be teachers 1 m ecstatic Quot said Gary Galluzzo an associate professor at Western Kentucky University and co chair of the study. And there a More Good news. As the perennially popular social studies have held steady interest in teacher poor subjects such As math and science appear to be keeping Pace. _ _ but Progress is not All positive. Researchers said total enrolments May have skyrocketed but elementary and secondary school teachers Are still mostly White and female. Minority participation in schools of education exceeds 15 percent in Only six states whereas 33 states had minority Public school enrolments of 20 percent or More according to the Survey which was presented in Chicago last month at the associations annual meeting. A the fact that they done to have any minorities is really a huge headache a said Mary Dilworth director of research and information for the Washington  association. Explanations for the Overall surge vary. Admissions officers say there has been a gradual but constant increase in enrolment for each of the last five years. The average number of education de Gree candidates enrolled at 90 . Colleges and universities surveyed randomly went from 520 to 835 Between 1985 and 1988, the study said. Administrators at teaching programs around the nation attributed improved enrolment largely to the exposure through the mid-1980s of serious problems in the . Education system. Many parents tuned in to the trouble when a National geographic sponsored Gallup poll in july 1988 indicated americans ranked among the Bottom third in an International test of geographic knowledge a those Ages 18 to 24 were to teacher enrolment 849 835 604 Jet. Source 1906,1987,1988 rate project institutional surveys Fri probing stolen books papers Worth $20 million Des Moines Iowa apr the Fri began the difficult process wednesday of trying to match reports of stolen rare books and manuscripts with thousands of volumes Worth up to $20 million seized from a House in Southeastern Iowa. A a it a going to take months a it could stretch Well Over a year Quot said Larry Holmquist an Fri agent based in Omaha neb. The Fri appealed to universities and libraries for help in locating the owners of the estimated 11,000 publications seized tuesday from a 14-room House in the Community of Ottumwa. The Homes owner Stephen Carrie Blumberg 41, who lists his address As St. Paul minn., was arrested at the House tuesday and charged with interstate transport of stolen property. Authorities valued the collection at Between $10 million and $20 million and said the antiquities included a copy of a Book published in 1309 and a Bible published in 1568. Fri agent Dennis Aiken said the items were stolen from universities and private collections across North America including Harvard University the College of William and Mary and the University of notre Dame. He said agents recovered a suitcase full of Library slickers bearing the names of numerous colleges and universities. Blumberg has been under investigation by numerous Law enforcement agencies for two years said Aiken. The basis of the search of the House was a complaint that manuscripts and books valued at $662,000 were missing from the University of Oregon in Eugene according to a Federal affidavit filed in Des Moines. Blumberg was arrested in april 1988 at the University of California Riverside Library and charged with trespassing and Possession of burglary tools. Aiken said he did no to know the outcome of that Case. Holmquist said inquiries about missing books should be made in writing to Charles Lontor the senior agent in charge of the Omaha Fri office. The Fri said the items Blumberg would be transferred to a warehouse in Des Moines for inventory and cataloguing. Holmquist said most of the work would be done by Fri agents but that professional help would be sought for some of the older More fragile books and documents. A we will take All the precautions a he said. Dead last. The Issue was also signalled by president Bush a push for the education excellency act of 1989 and projections that the demand for teachers would exceed by 1 million the Supply needed Between 1988 and 1995. A a it a impossible to pick up an article about teachers without seeing the word a shortage a ,. A Galluzzo said. A people who always wanted to be teachers and who were told there were no jobs arc now returning to get their credentials a pragmatic incentives have also spurred potential teaching degree candidates. Salaries have risen and encouraging educational reforms have slowly taken Root education researchers said. A the news went out that teachers were needed and states were working for better salaries and conditions a said Dilworth. A in the late 1960s and Early 1970s, it was the same situation. We were told there was a shortage of teachers arid by 1982 wed peaked  Galluzzo said he had no Survey results prior to 1985, but administrators believe the Pool of teaching degree candidates hit Bottom in 1984. Bush preparing new guidelines for Federal pay Washington apr the Bush administration is preparing legislation to award Federal employee pay raises based on performance rather than How Long they have been on the Job. The office of personnel management which handles personnel matters for the Federal bureaucracy plans to ask for congressional authority to do away with the a a step salary system that awards a pay increase every year Richard Mcgowan an pm spokesman said wednesday. The proposal also would Divide government employees into two classes. One would cover professional and administrative workers and the other technicians and clerks he said. Technicians and clerks would get annual step increases until they reach the average local salary for their jobs after which they would have to win Merit increases just like professional and administrative employees. Pm director Constance Newman testified about the administration plan wednesday before the Senate governmental affairs committee. While the administration plans to present its own Bill legislation independently introduced in the House and Senate proposes overhauling the Federal pay system. Abolition of annual increases is not popular with organized labor. A we arc adamantly opposed to moving to this system a Janice Lachance spokeswoman for the american federation of government employees told the Washington Post. Trio charged in Selling bid data to defense firms Washington apr a a former a by procurement officer and two private consultants were indicted wednes a on charges of peddling confidential information about lucrative Pentagon contacts to defense firms. Gcorge g. Stone a former division a so Rel Navy a space and naval terms come and consultants icon As e. Muldoon and Mark c. Saun named in the eight count in Surv in pc Lurnel a oteral grand jury m suburban Alexandria a. Oath ndl9tm�jtf was returned As part inv Lar 9epartmenl�?Ts continuing a Roihl ? defense department named Quot of Audi that drive Nick More tha 3nrau�n-in wind a has netted Quot Finnan 30 convictions. Pass nere. Charged with Partick 8 in an illegal scheme to sell to two defense contractors bid information about a contract to build a Battlefield air traffic control system for the Marine corps. The indictment charges that the defendants relayed the confidential bid data to Norden systems a division of United technologies corp., and a subsidiary of Litton industries inc. The indictment also charges that Muldoon tried peddling similar information to Grumman corp. And Ltd corp., which were competing for the contract. The indictment charged that Muldoon gave Saunders $32,000 of the $96,000 he was paid by Litton and $13,750 of the $27,500 he received from Norden. Three former Norden executives have already pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to pay Muldoon for inside in formation on the award of the $ 150 million contract. No charges have been brought against Litton or any of its employees. According to the indictment Muldoon gave information to the contractors that he had received from Saunders who in turn obtained it from Stone. The indictment also charges that Stone used his influence during the contract Competition on behalf of Norden although Stone was not accused of receiving any Money from the scheme the indictment suggests that he was paid to help keep Norden in the Competition. Recounting a wiretapped conversation the indictment quotes Stone As telling Saunders that Norden had a made the Cut and was among the final competitors. Keeping Norden in Competition was not a waste of time a if it Puls you know bread on the table a the indictment quotes Stone As telling Saunders. The indictment quotes Stone As saying his efforts had been a a piece of cake and that he and Saunders were  the three Are also accused of relaying information to Uniss corp. About a Navy contract to develop a computer data base for submarine detection. The indictment is the second against Muldoon who was sentenced in february to 27 months in prison for participating in a six year scheme to bribe another Pentagon procurement official. The three defendants were each charged with conspiracy wire fraud and conversion of government property. The charges against each of the three carry a maximum sentence upon conviction of 45 years in prison