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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
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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
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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
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two-line code stamped on lids of
the cans
Belgians, Danes
devalue currency
BRUSSELS, Belgium
European Economic Com
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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
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"A structure had to be ar
ranged so that we could talk
about it, staffing, pensions,
labor relations." said Andrew
Smith, PNB president "All of
those things will be impacted by
how we arrange the compan
ies ”
Although presented in the
form of a "planning model,"
Smith said it was likely the form
final divesture would take
"It wasn't done lightly." he
added
Smith said the operating
companies would retain their
own identities and serve the
same territories as they do now
PNB serves customers in
Washington, Oregon and Idaho
The regional company would
take the place of American
Telephone & Telegraph, Smith
said, although details still have
to be worked out on what ser
vices the regional company
might provide
Watt proposes
new moratorium
WASHINGTON
Interior Secretary James
Watt, in what appeared to be a
major policy reversal, said Sun
day that the Reagan adminis
tration wants a moratorium on
drilling and mining in wilderness
areas until the end of the cen
tury
Catching environmentalists
off guard. 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
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