2The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, January 31, 1989
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia
Communist Party chief Stipe Suvar
battled calls for his resignation
Monday and told the Central Com
mittee the country faces a stark choice
between more democracy or "neo
Stalinism." As liberals and hard-liners clashed,
Adm. Petar Simic of the armed forces
warned the military might play a
more active role in "the battle for
Yugoslavia. "
The action took place at a key
meeting of the policy-setting Central
Committee, called to discuss
demands for Suvar's resignation and
a possible shake-up in the ruling elite.
Suvar indirectly hit out at his chief
political rival, Serbian party leader
Slobodan Milosevic, although he did
not identify his opponent in keeping
with the convention of party
solidarity.
But his speech was a scathing
attack on "dogmatic" policies gener
Report calls for chaoses in -math
By KARI BARLOW
Staff Writer
The quality of mathematics edu
cation in the United States has fallen
sharply in the areas of teaching,
curriculum and testing, according to
a report released Thursday by the
National Research Council, a branch
of the National Academy of Sciences
and the National Academy of
Engineering.
The report, "Everybody Counts,"
is a product of a three-year study
conducted by 70 teachers, school
administrators, parents and execu
tives on mathematical education from
kindergarten to graduate school, said
Marcia Sward, executive director of
the Mathematical Sciences Education
Board.
"What we feel is needed is a
curriculum that is more strongly
related to the real world, so they
(students) can experiment with the
kinds of thinking they'll need as
adults," she said.
"The way that mathematics is
taught is almost exclusively by
lecturing," Sward said. "Namely,
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ally attributed to Milosevic, party
chief in the largest of Yugoslavia's six
republics.
"Socialist political pluralism or
neo-Stalinism those are the two
alternatives" offered by different
factions in the Communist Party
leadership to guide Yugoslavia out of
its economic and political crisis,
Suvar said.
Speaking hours later, Milosevic
defended his stands and called for
sweeping changes in the leadership he
blames for the current crisis.
"It would be honest and intelligent
that those who have clashed with the
people should allow themselves to be
replaced by better and more capable
men," Milosevic said.
Serbs demand Suvar's resignation
and accuse him of opposing the
people's will by criticizing recent mass
rallies organized by Milosevic
supporters.
The street gatherings have torn at
the country's fragile ethnic balance
students are supposed to take notes
and regurgitate what they hear. That's
an ineffective way to teach
mathematics."
Mathematics education should
move away from passive learning and
toward a more experimental method
involving exploration and trial and
error, she said.
Sward said the tests now used in
the school system also need to be
changed. "We need to move into a
setting where students are working on
a problem that will involve a number
of techniques," she said.
A shortage of qualified teachers is
another part of the problem. "There
are many school districts that are
unable to get certified teachers,"
Sward said.
Mathematics education in North
Carolina compares favorably to other
states in the South, said Robert
Jones, director of the mathematics
division of the N.C. Department of
Public Instruction.
"This report is right on target. The
whole nation is going to be less
competitive because our work force
and led to the ouster of several
opponents of Milosevic, who defends
the rallies as a popular instrument of
change.
Milan Kucan, party chief of liberal
Slovenia, told the meeting "a feeling
of revolt can be expressed on the
streets, but a way out of the crisis
cannot be found there."
"Yugoslavia will become a demo
cratic community, or it will not exist,"
said Kucan.
The pragmatic Suvar is supported
by Slovenia and his native Croatia,
which favor political pluralism, more
democracy and radical market
oriented reforms as a solution to
Poland's protracted crisis.
Yugoslavia's woes include a 250
percent inflation rate, a sharp drop
in living standards and an alarming
increase in labor and ethnic unrest.
Milosevic, who has called for more
centralized party control over the
country's affairs, draws his support
from Yugoslavia's poorer southern
does not have the appropriate skills
that are required in this technological
world," Jones said.
"From the teacher's standpoint the
weak link is at the elementary level.
We have to involve the parents more,"
Jones said. Students are often labeled
slow-learners in elementary school
and do not receive access to several
kinds of mathematics, he said.
The report proposed that students
eventually be required to take a math
course every year of school. However,
Jones said the state should not put
that requirement into any kind of
legislation. Instead it should try to
sell the idea to the school districts as
a valuable policy.
"I think as we raise public aware
ness of the problem it will generate
interest and concern," he said. "We
all need a little algebra. Basic mathe
matics is very important.
"WeVe got too many people com
ing out of schools with minimal skills
who need massive retraining," he
Reagan
Not all of Reagan's appointments
were poor, and he deserves credit for
his better choices, Smith said.
"I think his most favorable eval
uators will give him credit for
appointing some good people and
letting them do their jobs. He knew
his limits," he said. "He will always
be remembered as the Great Com
municator, even if his administrative
skills are questioned."
The mood in Washington was one
of great relief to see Reagan leave,
not because he was disliked but
because there was constant tension
regions.
They fear that market-oriented
reforms would end state subsidies for
their loss-making industries and lead
to massive layoffs.
Milosevic supporters suffered an
initial setback at Monday's meeting,
which in a show of hands overwhelm
ingly voted down a proposal to air
calls for Suvar's resignation before
the party chiefs speech.
Suvar called for more "political
pluralism which is conditional on the
competition of ideas" as against "the
dictatorship of the Communist
Party."
Adm. Simic, the political chief of
the armed forces, appealed to the
meeting for party unity and indicated
the army might take a more active
role "in putting a stop to confron
tations between the republics."
"What some describe as the battle
for Yugoslavia will not be waged
without the Yugoslav army," he said.'
education
said.
Mathematics is essential to all
aspects of academics, said Ivette
Torres, communications specialist for
the National Education Association.
"Mathematics is going to be a
prerequisite for anyone who operates
a computer, anyone who is on an
assembly line, anyone who enters the
work force," she said.
The quality of mathematics edu
cation on the college level must be
changed as well, Sward said. "There
is not an emphasis on problem solving
and real world problems," she said.
The changing demographics of the
nation will also have a great impact
on the improvement of mathematics
education, Sward said. "Minority
populations are increasing by leaps
and bounds. The traditional popula
tion from .which we have drawn
people who develop their mathematic
skills has been the white population.
We have to change that," she said.
that his administrative style was
eventually going to lead to disaster,
Leuchtenburg said.
"Everybody was wondering when
his luck was going to run out," Smith
said. ' ' '-' ' ' '-; ' v " '
Reagan's major accomplishments
include the improved relations
between the United States and Soviet
Union and his foreign policy achieve
ments in Western Europe.
"I think hell be remembered most
of all for the easing of tensions
between the United States and the
Soviet Union," Smith said.
Reagan's image in the Soviet
Union has changed significantly since
he first took office, mainly because
he reversed his opinion of the Soviet
people, said Boris Malakhov, first
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President escapes subpoena
in North's Iran-Contra trial
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Oliver
North's Iran-Contra trial will
begin Tuesday with President
Bush free of a subpoena seeking
his testimony but with former
President Reagan still "subject to
call," the judge in the case said
Monday.
Portions of Reagan's diary also
might be required as evidence,
U.S. District Judge Gerhard
Gesell ruled. However, he rejected
North's subpoena seeking Bush's
testimony in the trial in which
North faces 12 criminal charges.
When North, who was indicted
last March, walks into the U.S.
courthouse near the foot of
Capitol Hill, he will become the
first figure in the Iran-Contra
affair to stand trial.
Many of the same witnesses
who testified in the nationally
televised congressional hearings
two years ago are expected to be
called by the prosecutors, includ
ing former Attorney General
Edwin Meese III and North's
secretary, Fawn Hall.
Alaskan cold snap continues
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
Temperatures fell as low as 64
degrees below zero again Monday
but Alaska's record cold eased in
some areas as a mass of frigid air
from above the Arctic Circle
headed toward the lower 48 states.
Movement of the huge cold air
mass that has covered Alaska for
about two weeks generated high
wind that produced extremely low
wind chill factors in southern and
south-central Alaska.
And because of the wind, the
Coast Guard on Monday closed
the continent's northernmost ice
free port, Valdez Harbor, to oil
tanker traffic and said it may
remain closed for two days.
Jackson plans telethon
MOSCOW The Rev. Jesse
Jackson said Monday he met with
secretary at the Soviet Embassy in
Washington.
"His very anti-Soviet stance when
he first took office, calling us the
empire of evil, insulted the feelings
of the Soviet people," Malakhov said.'
British public and official opinions
may be the most positive anywhere
in the world.
"Most of us, including Prime
Minister (Margaret) Thatcher,
believe history will prove him to be
one of the greatest presidents in
history," said Michael Price, press
secretary for the British Embassy in
Washington.
"The unparalleled economic
expansion and the fact that the world
is a safer place to live are direct results
of the president's policies. He has
Small Unrlh
News in Brief
an adviser to President Mikhail
Gorbachev and other Soviet offi
cials in an attempt to organize a
superpower telethon to aid victims
of Armenia's earthquake.
Jackson arrived in the Soviet
Union on Sunday to promote his
plan for the fund-raising broadcast
and also to gauge political and
economic reforms made under
Gorbachev, Soviet leader since
March 1985.
He told reporters he hoped the
Armenia benefit telethon would
raise money to help buy prefab
ricated housing for some of the
500,000 people left homeless by the
Dec. 7 quake that killed 25,000
people.
Jackson declined to reveal
details of his plans for the telethon,
saying he preferred to have every
thing organized first. But his
spokesman, Eric Easter, said
organizers had been in touch with
entertainers Cher, Bill Cosby, B.B.
King, Eddie Murphy and others. .
Product line divestment
NEW YORK Kohlberg Kra
vis Roberts & Co. (KKR) said
Monday it agreed to divest some .
duplicate product lines it would-.
acquire in its $24.53 billion buyout -
of RJR Nabisco Inc. under a ,
tentative agreement with the staff .
of the Federal Trade Commission. (
The buyout firm said either
RJR Nabisco or Beatrice Co.,
another consumer products firm-
owned by KKR, would sell some '
of their assets and businesses after
the merger.
Atlanta-based RJR Nabisco,-
accepted KKR's $I09-a-share.-.
offer last November over a shghlty.
higher management-led bid. The
holding company, RJR Holdings '
Corp., has since been formed for '
the takeover.
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made the American dream possible
for the entire world," Price said.
French opinion has not been as,
unconditionally positive. ;
"The original French perception
was. not very. good,", said ; Jerome
Marchand, a French foreign corres-.
pondent.
The French slowly began to accept
Reagan, and he became very popular
with the French people and most of
the government by the beginning of
his second term, he said.
But French historians are often
very critical and probably will not be
very kind to Reagan, Marchand said;
The majority of the French press is
still hesitant to give Reagan the.
benefit of the doubt and is almost ,
as critical as the French Communist .
party, which considers him the worsk
president ever. .
"The attacks on Reagan in the.;
French press were very much like ;
those in America on Dan Quayle, .
treating him like a complete idiot,";
he said. .
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