The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 6, 1984 - Page 5
Lebanese factions agree
on Saudi peace proposal
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -
Lebanon's warring religious factions
have agreed to Saudi Arabian peace
plan, officials said yesterday, although
Druze Moslem rebels persisted in bom-
barding government troops with rocket
and mortar fire.
President Amin Gemayel was expec-
ted to announce today the warring fac-
tions had agreed to comply with terms
of the Saudi-proposed agreement
covering Beirut and areas south of the
capital, Information Ministry officials
said.
The peace plan that covers about one-
third of Lebanon - a 24-mile strip bet-
ween the capital and the Isrreali lines
- would strengthen a Sept. 26 cease-
fire. It has spurred hopes in Washington
that U.S. Marines stationed
around Beirut airport could be at
least partially withdrawn.
Nonetheless, official Beirut radio
said sniper fire continued from Syrian-
backed Druze rebel positions southeast
of the capital after the third cease-fire
of the day took effect in the afternoon.
At least one army soldier was killed
in the fighting between the rebels and
troops of Gemayel's Christian-
dominated government, the radio said.
The shelling began early in the day,
with Druze gunners pouring rocket and
mortar fire on Lebanese army units in
Kabr Shmoun, Ain Ksour and Khalde
near Beirut airport from their bases in
the Shouf Mountains overlooking the
capital, the radio said.
Guerrillas staged three attacks
yesterday on Isreali forces in the south,
apparently in reprisal for a devastating
Israaeli air raid Wednesday on suspec-
ted Shiite Moslem guerrillas based in
Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon.
Beirut radio and other government
news agencies said at least 100 people
were killed and 400 others were woun-
ded in the air strike.
Lebanese officials have said the
agreement is a "start" toward overall
security for the country. They em-
phasized it would work only on the
goodwill of its participants.
Mosi Americans want
Marines out of Beirut
Snow Bowl Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF
University students Bill Henry, right, and Seth Burgin get caught up in the spirit of the bowl season as they enjoy a
friendly football game yesterday. Burgin's team won the game which included players from the Pink Party House
Football League and members of Sigma Nu fraternity.
ACT, SAT scores fall nationwide
NEW YORK(AP) - A majority of
Americans polled by ABC News want
U.S. Marines pulled out of Lebanon,
and six out of seven want President
Reagan to meet with Syrian President
Hafez Assad, the network reported
yesterday.
However, two-thirds of those
questioned opposed withdrawing the
Marines as a response to Syria's
release of captured Navy Lt. Robert
Goodman Jr., the poll found.
ABC said the poll of 508 people, taken
Wednesday for its "20-20" program,
found that 57 percent want the 1,800
Marine peacekeeping troops withdrawn
from Lebanon. That compares to 48
percent who favored withdrawal in
December and 39 percent in November.
In the recent poll, 8 percent favored
sending more troops to Lebanon, 29
percent would keep the same number in
Beirut while 6 percent had no opinion.
While 67 percent approved of the Rev.
Jesse Jackson's meeting with Assad in
Damascus, only 33 percent said their
opinion of the Democratic presidential'
candidate had become more favorable.
Twenty percent said their opinion was
WASHINGTON (AP) - Education
Secretary T.H. Bell released yesterday
a broad ranking of public school quality
across the nation which he said shows
that the states which spend the most
don't necessarily provide the best
education.
Bell said he expected to get "kicked
around" for publicizing the data, which
includes high school dropout rates and
college entrance exam scores.
BELL ALSO released figures on state
poverty rates and the percentage of
minority and handicapped students,
and cautioned, "some states have more
hard-to-educate students than others.e"
Bell said states in the top half on
education spending generally ranked in
the top half on college admission test
scores. But he said such low-spending
states as Idaho, South Dakota and New
Hampshire were among the leaders in
test scores.
"The highest spending states are not
necessarily the highest achieving
states," said Bell, who expressed hope
that the statistics would serve as a ben-
chmark for states trying to improve
their schools.
MANY OF the statistics have been
published previously, but Bell's
crowded chart included in the first-ever
release of state averages on the
American College Test (ACT) and new
figures showing that high school
dropouts have increased.
The figures showed that among 28
states where college-bound students
customarily take the ACT, the best
average was compiled by Wisconsin,
followed by Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska
and Colorado.
Among 22 states where students
usually take the Scholastic Aptitude
Test (SAT), the leaders were: New
Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont, Califor-
nia and Delaware.
'The highest
spen-
ding states are not
necessarily the
highest achieving
states.'
-Education Secretary
T. H. Bell
THE STATES with the worst ACT
average were: Mississippi, Louisiana,
Alabama, West Virginia and, in a tie for
the fifth lowest, Kentucky and Ten-
nessee.
Those with the lowest SAT average
were:South Carolina, District of
Columbia, Georgia, North Carolina and
Hawaii.
From 1972 to 1982, college entrance
exam scores fell in every state; only the
District of Columbia registered an in-
crease. The SAT and ACT scores were
for both public and private school
students.
IN THAT same period, the percen-
tage of public school ninth graders who
stayed to get their high school diploma
fell from 77.2 percent to 72.8 percent. No
private school figures were available.
The District of Columbia had the worst
dropout rate, followed by Mississippi,
Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.
The 1982 dropout rate was not available
for Georgia, which ranked 49th in 1972.
Bell said Minnesota, where 89 percent
of the students graduated in 1982, was
the only state near his goal of reducing
dropouts to 10 percent or less by 1989.
Bell has also challenged states to
raise their graduation standards, im-
prove teachers' pay and create new
career ladders for "master" teachers
and to boost students' college entrance
test scores back to the 1965 level.
The Educational Testing Service of
Princeton, N.J., first disclosed state-
by-state SAT scores two years ago. The
American College Testing Co. of Iowa
City, Iowa, refused to release state
averages to Bell, and he said he had to
go to state education officials to obtain
the figures.
The Educational Testing Service has
cautioned the public about misinter-
preting the figures. The average scores
are usually highest in states where the
lowest percentage of students - the
cream of the crop - take the exam.
Proposals incite debate
(Continued from Page 2) Ypsilanti than back in the actual
Councilman Gerald Jernigan (R-4th village," because the land was con-.
Ward) echoed Ezekiel's sentiments and fiscated by Israelis operating with the
questioned the method of circulating aid of U.S. funds, he said.
such a statement. "Who will we send As if in answer to PRAI's problems
the statement to anyway?" he asked. with the form of their proposal, the
EZEKIEL SAID he is planning to council last Monday voted unanimously
present his own proposal to the council, to construct a new city charter amen-
which addresses seven factors obstruc- dment which would allow voters to
ting peace in the Middle East. bypass the council and put ordinances
He said he would present his proposal directly on the ballot via petition
as a council resolution rather than an drives.
amendment "because this type of thing Currently voters can only propose
has no place on a ballot." amendments to the city charter without
Mendenhall defends the proposal, council action.
saying the issue is not just a matter of Language of the new amendment is
international politics, but affects local being worked out by city attorney
residents as well. Bruce Laidlaw, and will be presented to
"A village on the West Bank whas the council for approval some time this
more residents living in Ann Arbor and month.
less favorable, 38 percent said their
opinion was unchanged and 10 percent
said they had no opinion.
However, 86 percent favored a
meeting between Assad and Reagan to
discuss the situation in Lebanon. Ten
percent opposed a summit and 5 per-
cent had no opinion.
When Goodman was released, the
Syrian government said it hoped that
its gesture would encourage the with-
drawal of the peacekeeping force.
The poll has a margin of error of plus
or minus 5 percentage points, ABC said.
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