Wednesday, September 22, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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U.S. OPPUSES MEMBERSHIP:
Vietnam joins World Bank
WASHINGTON (AP) - Com-
munist Vietnam won member-
ship in the World Bank overE
U.S. opposition yesterday, giv-
ing it the potential of qualify-
ing for considerable amounts of
financial aid.
The 127-nation bank each year
dispenses billions in loans, much
of it interest-free, to help
finance development projects in
member nations.
LAST WEEK Hanoi won mem-
bership in the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), which
also is a source of considerable
financial help for its members.
U.S. officials said the United
States, which contributes heavi-
ly to both institutions, was
alone in its opposition to Hanoi
when the World's Bank execu-
tive directors met behind closed
doors.
"I voted against it. No other
country did so," said Charles
Cooper, the U.S. executive di-
rector on the bank's board.
ALTHOUGH HANOI automati-
cally becomes eligible to partici-
pate in bank lending programs.
Cooper said it may be some
time before Vietnam actually
qualifies to receive funds, such
as getting bank approval for
a project.
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Daily Official Bulletin
Membership in the two insti- tions because it felt it is pre-
tutions may be of considerably mature. The unified government
more importance to Hanoi, be- of Vietnam became effective
cause of the possibility of fi- only last July.
nancial help than membership "We don't believe the bank
in the United Nations, which has sufficient information to be
the United States so far has able to determine whether or
prevented. not the newly constituted gov-
Communist Vietnam is known ernment is willing or able to
to have need of immense carry out the obligations of
amounts of financial aid in its membership," Parsky said.
Student
reading
a bility
improves
WASHINGTON (AP) - Massive
federal spending in schools serving
- low-income and minority neighbor-
hoods may be paying off in improv-
ed reading performances by 9-year-
olds in general and southern blacks
in particular, authors of a new edu-
cation survey said yesterday.
Black 9-year-olds who took reading
tests in 1975 scored 4.8 percentage
points higher than in 1971, compared
with an increase of 1.2 percentage
points by white youths, the survey
said.
THE GAIN WAS even more dra-
matic in the South, where young
black pupils gained 7.7 percentage
points during the four-year period
and black 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds
all narrowed the gap between them-
selves and white southerners.
National Assessment of Education
Progress survey.
He and a panel of reading special-
ists who studied the results of the
tests administered to a probability
sample of 63,000 students nationwide
said that school desegregation may
have played a role in the improved
scores for black youngsters.
FORBES SAID the data will be
searched later for a comparison be-
tween students who do and do not
attend schools eligible for federal
Title I assistance under the Elemen-
tary and Secondary Education Act.
More than $10 billion has been pump-
ed into those schools serving large
. 'lations of disadvantaged young-
sters to help them catch up.
Roger Farr, associate dean of In-
dianaa University's School of Educa-
tion, said federal spending for Title
I and desegregating schools brought
about improved teaching of word-
liition skills.
Other factors that could have con-
tributed to the increase, they told a
news conference, are better teaching
of basic reading skills at the ele-
inentary level and social factors out-
side the schools. For example, chil-
dren of persons who did not graduate
from high school themselves did not
improve.
FARR SAID the survey results
may be an indicator that the coun-
try is moving toward the goal of
national literacy.
"In general, the over-all reading
achievement in the United States
is getting better and has been get-
ting better for decades," he said.
He pointed out that students at all
three age levels scored above 90
per cent in functional literacy prob-
lems.
Grls performed better than boys
at each age in reading. Farr said
he had no explanation.
The survey found little change in
- reading ability of 13- and 17-
i--olds between 1971 and 1975.
program to rebuild from the
ravages of three decades of
war.
BOTH THE World Bank and '
the IMF treated the member-,
ship of the Socialist Republic1
of Vietnam as a continuation1
of the membership held sinceI
1956 by South Vietnam.
Gerald Parsky, assistant sec-
retary of the Treasury, said the
United States opposed member- t
ship for Hanoi in both institu-
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HE SAID U.S. opposition to
Hanoi wasn't linked to the ques-
tion of the fate of U.S. service-;
men missing in action in Viet-
nam. This question is involved
in the U.S. threat to veto Viet-
nam membership in the United
Nations.
The United States has no veto
power over membership in the
World Bank and IMF.
Other Communist nations in
the World Bank and the IMF
are Yugoslavia, Romania, Laos
and Cambodia.
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"I believe that these data reflect
a positive learning opportunity be-
ing given to blacks in the southeast-
ern region of the United States"
said Roy Forbes, who directed the
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