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emerald Inter I national Military recruits outscore civilians WASHINGTON Young blacks and women scored slightly less than half as well as whites on mathematical and reading tests given by the armed forces to a national sam ple of young people, Pentagon sources said Suriday But white, black and Hispanic recruits also given the test all scored higher than their civilian counterparts, the sources said The tests were given to deter mine whether the military ser AUTO INSURANCE Low Monthly Rates Jerry Brown Ins. 1385 Oak 485-4010 vices were filling the all-volun teer forces with below-average or representative people It was not a measure of na tural intelligence or learning potential, but was designed to assess what a person has ieamed and to measure his or her capability to be trained as a soldier, said the sources, who asked not to be identified. In the sample of civilians, young whites scored an aver age of 56 percent on the math and reading sections, young blacks scored an average of 24 percent and young Hispanics scored an average of 31 per cent. Among recruits, however, whites scored 58 percent, blacks scored 33 percent and Hispanics scored 41 percent The Pentagon study, reported in Sunday editions of the Washington Post, was commis sioned in 1979 We try to satisfy you Hair Faire 1410 Orchard, Rm. 207 342-2165 485-4444 For Reservations -Oregon Electric Station Special BEER & BONES SDAY $495 -MONDAY AND TUESDAY MUG OF BEER (under 21 gets Pepsi) BARBECUE BEEF RIBS BAKED POTATO TOSSED GREEN SALAD " while they last the OREGON ELECTRIC station 5TH & WILLAMETTE • DOWNTOWN EUGENE 5* BLOCK FROM HILTON HOTEL IN CORVALLIS VISIT THE CLASS REUNION 777 N.W 9TH ST. ATOP THE OLD CANNERY MALL Alaskan salmon may be infected SEATTLE Four laboratory mice injected with liquid from damaged cans of Alaska salmon have been under observation at the regional Food and Drug Admin istration headquarters, as mil lions of cans of the fish are be ing tracked down A 27-year-old Belgian man died of botulism on Feb 6. ap parently after eating salmon from a can produced at the New England Fish Co.-Fidalgo can nery in Ketchikan. Alaska The mice were injected on Friday with a liquid extracted from tins found in a Seattle warehouse The cans found in Seattle were marked with the same code and were punctured in the same way as the 73/i-ounce tin blamed in the death of the Belgian Susan Hutchcroft, an FDA spokeswoman, said Sunday the labratory mice would be moni tored for 72 hours The tests were ordered in the wake of a huge recall of Alaska canned salmon that was ordered by the FDA The key distinguishing fea ture is a marking “KK13," “HK13,” ‘ RK13,” “CK13,” or ' MK13" on the top line of a two-line code stamped on lids of the cans Belgians, Danes devalue currency BRUSSELS, Belgium European Economic Com munity finance ministers agreed CASH For Textbooks Mon -Fri Smith Family Bookstore 768 E 13th 1 Bl From Campus **> 34V 1651 Sunday to devalue the Belgian franc by 8 5 percent and the Danish krone by 3 percont, ac cording to the governor of the Dutch Central Bank The Belgians had sought a 12 percent devaluation and the Danes a devaluation of 7 per cent. but they were considered unreasonably high by all of the other delegations, according to a Common Market source who asked not to be identified Both countries had applied for the devaluations to make their export products cheaper abroad and therefore more competitive Belgium's unemployment rate of more than 13 percent is the highest in the Common Market, and earlier Sunday the govern ment froze wages and prices until May 31 in a move to revive the flagging economy Premier Wilfried Martens said the devaluation of the Belgian franc is part of a move to breathe new life into the Belgian economy, which suffers from record public spending and borrowing In Copenhagen, Danish Prime Minister Anker Joergensen said the 3 percent devaluation would bring some improvement in his country's ability to compete abroad, but he admitted he was disappointed the 7 percent devaluation had not been ap proved PNB may merge after AT&T breakup SEATTLE Under a planning model for the breakup of the nationwide Bell system, Pacific Northwest Bell would become part of a regional corporation including two other Bell operating com panies PNB would be combined with Mountain States Telephone and Northwest Bell Telephone to form one of seven operating companies The regional firm would be independent from the other Bell WAR*WORLD5 —Oraon wales*®*— Do You Know the Classics When You Hear Them? 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Watt said the admin istration would propose legisla tion this week to amend the 1964 Wilderness Act to protect the 80 million acres of land from developers until the year 2000 Under the present law, the land would be permanently off limits for exploration and development after Dec 31. 1983 But Watt said the nation's •'vulnerability to a natural re sources attack or war' requires a new look in 2000 Watt, speaking on NBC's Meet the Press' program, said the legislation will include a provision that would allow a president, with the consent of Congress, to withdraw whatever acreage might be required to meet "a national need for oil, natural gas, strategic minerals or timber GRE PSYCH • GRE BIO • MAT GMAT • DAT • OCAT • PCAT VAT* SAT-ACT- CPA-TOEFL MSKP• NAT L MED 80S ECFMG • FLEX • VOE NDB • NPB I NLE SfcafiM KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER Tfs? P'epaf*'»on Spv* «'\’s S.me l 9 38 f Of <r'>. • ^ it on P r Call — 485-5699 _ Oieq&K ‘PkmUc£COmi
