4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 21, 1984 Study says schools don't build characi WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of or timidity, about the topic educatorsand scholars, alarmedeat character is especially inconl soaring rates of teenage homicides, this time." suicides and out-of-wedlock births, It cited government s yesterday attacked what it called the showing that out-of-wedlock "timidity" of schools in instilling good white females ages 15-19 character traits in the young. creased 800 percent since 1940 The 27 academics, school officials rate of death by homicidef and policy-makers, including several males, 15-24, climbed 315 perc prominent conservatives, warned in a suicides rose 238 percent betv "Thanksgiving Statement" that and 1981. It did not give fib "schools in general are not doing other races, but said the stat enough to counter the symptoms of blacks also were "very distres serious decline in youth character." "These measures of youth THEY SAID the recent spate of have increased far more qui school reform reports "have bypassed the similar adult measures,"t the critical issue of youth character," said. and they offered an array of THE REPORT also decries suggestions for rectifying that called the growing "dep omission, from putting more emphasis talization" of American scho on school ceremonies to allowing non- "to the sixth grade and low( teachers with leadership qualities to students wandering from clas become principals. instead of spending all day Many recommendations in the 36- teacher. page report, "Developing Character: The report endorsed tui Transmitting Knowledge," echo earlier credits or other subsidies fo calls for higher academic standards, schools, saying competiton1 creation of job ladders for "master" healthy for public schoo teachers and more challenging tex- sparked dissents from four sib tbooks. cluding three public school But the group also cautioned that Private schools can expect go' "good character is not generated solely intervention to accompa by more homework, rigorous significant aid, the report caut traditional grading and better pupil The editor, Edward W discipline." University of Illinois e "YOUNG PEOPLE today are more professor, defined character likely to commit suicide, or kill one servable good conduct: hone another, and males are more likely to sistence, good humor, courtes make unmarried females pregnant," ability to participate in co the report said. "The general silence, work." i ter of youth gruous at statistics births to have in- 0, and the for white cent while ween 1955 gures for tistics for sing." disorder ckly than the report A what it pa rtmen- ools down er," with s to class with one ition tax r private would be ls. That gners, in- officials. vernment ny any ioned. ynne, a ducation as "ob- tsty, per- y and the operative Associated Press Cabbage patch pick-up Cara Renee Campbell, 14 months, finds herself among friends her own size as she sits in the midst of a display of dolls at a crafts show over the weekend in Miami. ppppg-p .. ..... 1 ... .... .. .... ...............:. :::::.1 :J..... 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Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), presented the $30,000 award to Alicia de Barcia, 42, on behalf of the Committee of Mothers and Relatives of Political Prisoners, Disappeared and Assasinated Persons of El Salvador. "We pay tribute in his name," Sen. Kennedy said of his brother, a vocal advocate of civil rights, and "to those who have sent forth the ripple of hope." The mothers committee, formed in 1977, stages demon- strations to pressure Salvadoran authorities to free political prisoners, investigate disappearances and holds talks with leftist guerrillas. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Kirkpatrick to resign in Dec. UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick yester- day announced she plans to resign after the end of the 39th General Assem- bly session in December and return to private life. Kirkpatrick, 58, told reporters she has not yet submitted her resignation to the White House but intended to talk soon with President Reagan to "work something out." It was reported during the election campaign, though never confirmed by Kirkpatrick, that she wanted the posts of either secretary of state or national security adviser in the next Reagan administration. There was no immediate reaction from the White House. Though a life-long Democrat, she gave up a position as professor of com- parative politics at Georgetown University when she was selected by Reagan in 1981 to be the permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations. Kirkpatrick said she has told Reagan many times of her desire to leave the United Nations and return to teaching. Mexico City death toll hits 544 MEXICO CITY - Army troops yesterday poked through the charred ruins of a working class Mexico City suburb in a grisly search for more victims of gas explosions and fire that Red Cross officials said claimed the lives of at least 544 people. Authorities said another 1,500 people were injured in the holocaust that erupted early Monday when a gas truck exploded near a gas distributon cen- ter in one of several impoverished neighborhoods clustered on Mexico City's northern edge. Ten thousand were left homeless in the worst industrial disaster in Mexican history. More than 24 hours after the predawn explosions, small fires still blazed in the barren neighborhood and the smell of gas and burned blesh hung thick in the air. Red Cross spokesman Jose Calderon said the bodies of 544 people killed in the fire had been recovered. He said that because of the severe burns covering most of the dead, only 317 bodies had been identified. British telephone giant sells stock LONDON - In another dramatic denationalization move by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's conservative government, British Telecom offered more than half its shares to the public yesterday in the biggest stock offering in history. "It is easily the largest share issue that has ever taken place anywhere," said Martin Jacomb of Kleinwort Benson, the merchant banking firm ad- vising the Thatcher government on the sale of stock by the world's fourth- largest telephone company. The offering, criticized by the socialist Labor Party, is the Conservative government's most ambitious effort so far in its continuing program of divesting the government of nationalized monopolies. Next year the gover- nment plans to make a similar stock offering to "privatize" British Airways, the national airline. NY subway passengers rally NEW YORK-About 1,500 passengers-most of whom had just been forced to leave a disabled train-rebelled when asked to evacuate a second train, chanting "We won't move!" and disrupting service for 90 minutes during yesterday morning's rush hour. The passengers rebuffed efforts by 15 transit officers to coax them off the train, a policeman said. In the end, transit officials relented and found a dif- ferent train full of passengers to evacuate. The riders' refusal to leave the train at a station in Brooklyn backed up "thousands and thousands of passengers" at eight stations, said Donna Evans, a Transit Authority spokeswoman. The incident began at 8:45 a.m., when a train developed motor problems while pulling into the Church Avenue station, Ms. Evans said. About 1,000 people were discharged peacefully, and many boarded the following train. But three stations north, at the President Street station, the empty, disabled train broke down completely as it was being taken out of service, blocking the entrance. Transit Authority officials decided to discharge the 1,500 passengers on the second train so they could use it to push the disabled one off the main track, Evans said. State upholds killer's conviction LANSING - The Michigan Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed William Hardesty's Washtenaw County conviction on five murder counts, saying authorities did not violate his rights by medicating him during the trial. Hardesty was arrested for a series of murders that occurred in October 1978. He was accused of killing his mother and father, as well as Daniel Ed- ward Wood, Troy Lee Curry and Timothy Layne Schofield. He originally was found incompetent to stand trial. But his condition later stabilized and in February 1981, the trial finally began. Hardesty claimed insanity, but the jury found him guilty but mentally ill on four counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder and two counts of assault with intent to murder. During the trial, Hardesty's attorney objected to the use of psychotropic drugs on his client, arguing the jury was getting a distorted picture of the defendant's mental condition at the time of the slayings. Vol. XCV -No.466 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: September through April - $16.50 in Ann Arbor; $29.00 outside the city; May through August - $4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 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Sharon clings to secrecy NEW YORK (UPI) - Under sharp questioning by a Time lawyer, former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday refused to divulge the con- tents of a secret report on the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Beirut. "If something is secret, I cannot refer to it because then I would be disobeying the laws of my country," Sharon said calmly on his first day of cross- examination. BUT THE stocky, white-haired general added he could disclose that the Name MDM age Address Write*'for roe boket City _____________ State__ Br___Zip d (Check preference) Priesthood_____ Brotherhood - -_ secret report did not contain any of the allegations made by Time magazine in its disputed February 1983 cover story "The Verdict is Guilty." Sharon, 56, is suing Time for $50 million, contending the article is a "lie" and "blood libel" against him and the Jewish people. Time claims its article is based on the secret report - known as Appendix B - that was part of conclusions reached by an Israeli commission that in- vestigated the slaughter during the Isreali invasion of Lebanon. NO TIME lawyers have ever seen the classified report. Israel appointed a commission to in- vestigate the massacre. The com- mission's findings were published in February 1982, except for a secret ap- pendix. Appendix B was seen only by Israeli Cabinet Ministers - including Sharon - who were sworn to secrecy. Sharon became somber when Barr prodded him to disclose whether a meeting in January, 1982, was included in the Israeli commission's secret report. . "I cannot go into any part of the .report," Sharon repeated. Sharon was forced to resign as defen- se minister when the report was released. He now is Minister of Trade and Commerce. Holiday Bowl LIBERAL ARTS MAJORS .. 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