8The Daily Tar HeelThursday, January 10, 1990
U.S.-Soviet
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW Soviet spokesmen
deny that superpower relations are
worsening in the run-up to the Moscow
summit, and say they hope Washington
won't react harshly to a crackdown on
draft dodgers in rebellious republics.
"I would not describe what has taken
place in U.S.-Soviet relations in the last
month as a chill," Foreign Ministry
spokesman Vitaly Churkin told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.
But White House officials already
have criticized a decision to use Soviet
troops to round up deserters and draft
dodgers in seven republics, including
plans
of Alb
aiuan
From Associated Press reports
VIENNA, Austria Albania's first
opposition party in 46 years is con
sidering boycotting parliamentary
elections unless the Communist lead
ership postpones them, a party leader
said Wednesday.
The vote is set for next month, and
the opposition says it needs more time
to prepare.
Also Wednesday, Justice Minister
Enver Halili told state television the
government was considering pardon
ing 170 political prisonersThe gov
ernment already announced Saturday
it was pardoning 202 prisoners jailed
for political offenses and for trying to
defect.
The government has never disclosed
the number of political prisoners, but
the state news agency ATA said 392
prisoners were pardoned since June
including those whose pardon was
announced Saturday.
Word that the opposition was con
sidering boycotting the Feb. 10 bal
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relations -could be affected by draft dodger crackdown
the three secessionist Baltic states.
And U.S. authorities have warned
for close to a year that using military
force in the Baltics could damage su
perpower ties.
Soviet authorities say the crackdown
is an internal matter, necessary to con
tinue President Mikhail Gorbachev's
reforms.
'The leadership must take some de
cisions that will be unpopular," Churkin
said. "If we want to go ahead with the
political and economic changes in this
country, we must have discipline and
observance of law."
The crackdown comes on top of what
boycott
loting came from a leading member of
the Democratic Party, Petrit Dodbeba.
He said a six-man negotiating team
failed to persuade Communist Party
chief Ramiz Alia to agree to a post
ponement during a meeting Tuesday.
"We are still not competitive toward
the party in power " Dodbeba, who
was reached by telephone in Tirana,
told The Associated Press. "I think if
we cannot get the elections postponed
we should not take part."
ATA quoted Alia, who is nominal
head of state, as saying that "with
every passing day" Albania's political
and economic problems are making
free elections more urgent.
An initial request by the Democratic
Party for a postponement of the elec
tions was turned down last month.
The party was founded Dec. 12
after Alia, under growing public
pressure, allowed the establishment of
independent political organizations.
: More recently, an ecological party was
setup.
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U.S. officials view as several recent
shocks to American-Soviet relations,
including last-minute snags in a strate
gic arms treaty that was to be signed at
the Moscow summit, now scheduled
for Feb. 11-13.
The Americans also are reeling from
the resignation of reformist Foreign
Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, from
his wamingthat 'dictatorship iscoming"
to the Soviet Union, and from accusa
tions by the KGB chief that U.S. intel
ligenceistryingto destabi 1 ize the So v iet
Union.
U.S. officials worry that Gorbachev,
as he loses political control of the re
South African schools
From Associated Press reports
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Black students attended some white
public schools for the first time
Wednesday, beginning a new term that
brings fundamental changes to public
education in South Africa.
A government plan permitting
schools to determine their own admis
sions policies was passed in September
of last year.
Previously, public schools were
strictly segregated.
Some of the public schools began
new terms on Wednesday. About 205
of more than 2,000 white public schools
have elected to integrate. Most held a
referendum among parents that required
at least 80 percent to vote and 90 percent
of those voting to approve open admissions.
High school nongraduates must prove college
From Associated Press reports
College officials are fuming over a
new federal rule requiring any students
lacking a high school diploma or its
equivalent to take a government-approved
test to prove they can benefit
from higher education.
The rule, affecting students ma
triculating after Jan. 1, was adopted
with little fanfare by Congress in No
vember as one of hundreds of provisions
of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1990.
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publics, will rely more on traditional
instruments of power: the KGB security
police, the Communist Party and the
armed forces.
Such a retreat from Gorbachev's
"new thinking" could weaken Soviet
support for Washington if and when
U.S. President George Bush orders U.S.
forces into action against Iraq.
Bush's spokesman Marl in Fitz water
expressed concern Tuesday over
Gorbachev's crackdown on draft
dodgers, saying it was "a serious step
toward the escalation of tension within
the U.S.S.R. and makes the peaceful
evolution of relations among the people
At Parkview Primary School, black
and white children played enthusiasti
cally on the jungle gym and in the
school field.
"It's the same as always," said Ari
Michalopoulos, 12. "It's no big deal."
Two girls, one white and one black,
walked together on their first day as
classmates. Karabo Mapela, 12, said
she was very happy to attend Parkview,
even if it meant traveling 1 2 miles from
her home in the black township of
Soweto.
Her white friend, Linda Temlett, 1 1 ,
welcomed the change.
"I don't know why it took so long,"
she said.
But strong opposition to integrating
schools still exists, particularly from
right-wing whites who support apart
heid. The idea behind the revised "ability
to benefit" regulation is to weed out
academically weak students most likely
to default on federal college loans.
Many such default-prone students
attend the nation's for-profit and trade
schools as well as the 1,200 junior and
community colleges.
Defaults on student loans totaled $2
billion in fiscal year 1990, and have
reached an accumulated $8 billion, ac
cording to U.S. Department of Educa
tion statistics.
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of the Soviet Union more difficult."
Fitzwater's tough talk jarred with
recent expressions of mutual admiration
by U.S. and Soviet officials. "Things
looked a lot better in U.S.-Soviet rela
tions three months ago than they do
now," said one American official, who
spoke on condition he not be further
identified.
In the Soviet view, the Americans
are overreacting, and that reaction could
jeopardize the summit, where the two
presidents are expected to sign a Stra
tegic Arms Reduction Treaty to slash
nuclear arsenals by up to half.
"To expect for the two sides to deal
open doors to blacks:
While the integration plan is a sig
nificant step toward unifying South
Africa's education system, it remains
limited. Under national education laws,
schools opting to allow non-whites must
reserve most spaces for white children.
At several schools beginning the new
term Wednesday, less than 20 percent
of the students were non-whites.
Headmaster Niels Frylinck said
Saxonwold Primary School wanted to
remain small, despite opening admis
sion to all races. A Parkview official
said it lacked facilities to expand en
rollment, limiting the number of new
students.
Another factor limiting black en
rollment was that apartheid laws prohibit
non-white families from living in areas
of white schools, forcing some black,
A subsequent interpretation of the
new regulation by the Education De
partment, printed in the Federal Regis
ter on Dec. 19, has stunned many higher
educators by extending the testing re
quirement to all students lacking high
school credentials, not just those ap
plying for federal loans.
The department so far has listed 14
standardized tests students can take to
demonstrate they can succeed in higher
education. The best-known include the
Scholastic Aptitude Test, the ACT As
sessment, the GED high school
equivalency exam, the Armed Services
Vocational Aptitude Battery, and sev
eral other widely used tests measuring
skills such as math, reading and lan
guage. Passing scores would vary from in
stitution to institution depending on the
student population served, according to
the regulations.
Community college officials and for
profit school operators claim the new
rule unfairly jeopardizes thousands of
their students, especially immigrant,
minority and older students, who fre
quently lack high school degrees.
"I think it will devastate this college
district," Donald Phelps, chancellor of
the 1 10,000-student Los Angeles
Community College District, said in a
telephone interview. He said 67 percent
of the district's students were ethnic
minorities or foreign-born, and many
are likely to fall under the rule.
Like many community colleges, those
in Los Angeles already administer tests
to prospective students. But such tests
typically are diagnostic in nature.
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differences would be naive," Churkin,
said.
"There is room for future progress,
and we'can make the further steps that
both sides have agreed we should take,
including signing agreements at the
summit, the most important of them the,
START treaty," Churkin said. "Since"!
the START treaty is almost complete, it
wpuld not be to anyone's benefit not to
sign it."
The Soviets propose that deputy
foreign ministers meet in Geneva to;
hammer out START problems, Churkin ;
said. '
Indian and mixed-race children to make.,
lengthy commutes by taxi, bus or car. I',
President F.W. de Klerk has pledged .
to scrap remaining apartheid laws as he.;
' makes reforms to give political power
to the black majority.
Under apartheid, the 5 million whites''
control the government and economy;
while the 30 million blacks have no"'
national voting rights. r
The education system has reflected ;
apartheid's disparity. The government
spends five times more money on white
students than on black. Black teachers,;
and students, for years have staged pro-.;
tests and boycotts, further weakening i
black education. Results of graduation ;
exams released recently showed 97. ,
percent of white students and only 36
percent of black students passed. 4
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tional Association of Trade and Techni-
cal Schools representing 1 ,300 for-profit r:
schools, called the new rule "educa-'
tional apartheid." ;
He said in an interview Wednesday
that more than 100,000 of the 660!000 '
students attending trade schools na-''
tionwide lack high school credentials
and could face the loss of aid. :
Blair said the rule also raised the.4
issue of whether the standardized tests
listed by the department are biased
against minorities. He said his group
was considering seeking an injunction '
against the rule.
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tn mail rnlle.pes the names of several
additional approved tests on Thursday.
The ability-to-benefit regulation al
readv has oromDted two federal lawsuits. .
One, brought Jan. , 2 byalifornia'.s
. community college system, resulted in
a temporary restraining onJerin; that "
state until at least Jan. 14, when further
hearings are set. k
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rolled in California's two-year colleges .
are non-high school graduates, accord- :
ing to chancellor David Mertes.
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