European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes Friday May 24, 1991 by Oswald Johnston a los Angeles times. St. Paul Minn. A president Bush choosing a much touted experimental Magnet school in St. Paul As a backdrop sent his sweeping package of educational reforms to Capitol Hill on wednesday. A America 2000�?� Reform program which leans heavily on incentives for stale and local government action was announced at the White House a month ago wednesdays Quick in and out visit to St. Paul seemed designed to revive the glow of that earlier  his message to Congress accompanying the legislative package Bush said the proposals a a arc just components albeit very important components of a Strate. By most of which would take place outside the Federal government.�?�. Addressing a St. Paul audience Bush ticked off his administrations goals raise literacy and High school graduation rates improve Quality establish a National Standard of Quot Core competence in Basic elementary in Tenn Ditc and High school academics and raise the competence of american workers to compete in a global Economy. A a a Minnesota remains a Pioneer leading the nation m educational Choice a Bush said in his speech underscoring the theme of parental Choice and school accountability that remains a key part of the Agni Iimura Tion program devised by Secretary of education Lamar  have guaranteed that every family in the state can choose which Public school its children will attend. Minnesotans know that education Means  the package sent to Congress would authorize $654 million in fiscal 1992 to implement its incentive programs a pittance compared with the proposed $29 6 billion earmarked for education in the Overall 1992 budget. Through 1996, the. Projected budget for the package would total $ 1.3 billion. Most of the Money would be funnel cd to governors seeking funding for approved programs. While most of the reforms were made Public in april the legislation contains some new items. For example the administration Bill Calls for a flexibility and accountability programs Quot that would enable districts to seek waivers from Federal requirements so they could streamline their curricula. In return the districts would be required to test their schoolchildren in order to demonstrate that the waivers provided some Benefit. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., chairman of the Senate labor and human resources committee introduced the administration Bill at White House request along with five education proposals of his own. The committee will begin hearings on All the education proposals in the first week of june. President Bush leans Over student Brandon Seeger to Check out his work during a school visit in St. Paul Minn., on  teaches presidential lessons St. Paul Minn. Up a to hear George Bush Tell it being president is not All work and no play. Its a different life but at times not so much different from life outside the White House. That was the overview Bush offered wednesday at Saturn school for tomorrow which he visited to dramatize his Effort to a revolutionize education for the 1990s and beyond. Bush came to see How computers and other state of the Art technology have become the High tech tools of modern education. The students however were More interested in his personal life than his political Agenda. Fielding questions from fifth sixth and seventh graders in an interactive communication classroom Bush said. That his attraction to politics probably grew out of the dedication of his father sen. Prescott Bush r-conn., to Public service. When asked if he Ever found a time to have fun a Bush told the school kids about weekends at Camp David with its swimming Pool Tennis courts pitching machine workout facilities Bowling Alley shooting Range and Wall Ball a form of volleyball played indoors. Sex aide to Truman identifies source Washington a nearly 44 years after president Harry s. Truman got a memorandum that Many believe helped him win an upset Victory Over Thomas e. Dewey in 1948, the argument Over who wrote it May finally be settled. In his newly published memoirs a counsel to the president a former Truman aide Clark Clifford says he was the author but the memo was based on an earlier one by new dealer James h. Rowe or. Clifford said in an interview wednesday that he and his co author Richard Holbrooke researched the subject Exten Sicly in writing the Book. Rowe said in 1968 that he had just realized after Reading a Magazine article that mentioned the Clifford memorandum that his advice had reached the president after All. Stories about the two memos subsequently became a hot topic in Washington just As Clifford was taking Over As president Johnson a Secretary of defense. Rowe a , made Light of the matter telling Clifford in a letter a however you want to handle it is All right with  �?o1 have no recollection of it being any embarrassment to me at All a Clifford said. Rowe a former administrative assistant to  Franklin d. Roosevelt died in 1984, and members of his family have maintained that Clifford never gave him proper credit Clifford said he Wasny to aware of this but a they  possibly claim that  the memo said a the democratic party is an unhappy Alliance of Southern conservatives Western progressives and big City  it argued that Success for the democrats depended on their a ability to Lead enough members of these three misfit groups to the  Truman Defeated Dewey the Republican nominee by less than 5 percent of the vote. According to Clit lord a account Rowe then in private Law practice mentioned to Truman budget director Janies Webb in the summer of 1947 that he had some ideas about the forthcoming election. Webb suggested that Rowe write a president Harry Truman memo. The trouble according to Clifford was that Rowe had become a Law partner of former Roosevelt aide Thomas Corcoran. Truman disliked Corcoran and his distrust extended to Rowe. A after rewriting the memorandum and reviewing it once More. 1 handed it to the president Quot Clifford said. A the would have dismissed it again if it was associated with Rowe so i did not mention rowers role in its  executed for murdering prison librarian Huntsville Texas apr Ignacio Cuevas was executed by injection thursday for his part in an 11-Day prison siege that left four people dead 17 years ago. A a in a going to a Beautiful place a he said in a final statement. Then he turned toward Warden Jack Pursley and said Quot of Warden Roll  Cuevas 59, was pronounced dead at 12 18 . Cuevas the illiterate son of a mexican peasant was put to death a few Yards from where two women hostages and two fellow convict gunmen were slain in the Climax of the 1974 siege and escape attempt at the Walls unit prison. Last minute appeals wednesday were rejected by a Federal judge in Houston a Federal appeals court in new Orleans and the . Supreme court. Cuevas who was serving a 45-year term Tor murder when the attempted prison break occurred was convicted three times of capital murder and sentenced to death for the slaving of Julia Standley a prison librarian who died in the shootout. The first two convictions were overturned on Appeal. Prison teacher Elizabeth Besida also died in the gunfire. W