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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1983)
: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST OMELETTES b/\Gbb6IG)E GAPb Weekdays 9-11 AM 754 East 13th Avenue House halves El Salvador aid WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres. Ronald Reagan's request for $60 million in military aid to El Salvador was cut in half by a House panel on Tuesday as he readied a special plea to Con gress and the nation to rally behind his Central America policy. The 7-5 decision by the Ap propriations subcommittee on foreign operations to slash the Salvador aid to $30 million followed a tie vote, 6-6, that would have barred any deci sion at all for 90 days. The compromise was engineered by Chairman Clarence Long, D-Md., who just returned from El Salvador. The Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee already had settled on an identical cut. Meanwhile Tuesday, the full Senate talked behind closed doors about whether the ad ministration is waging a covert campaign against Nicaragua. And Reagan promised to name a special envoy for Central America, whose duties will In elude assisting ‘‘the Salvadorans in their efforts to find a basis for dialogue with their opponents." Speculation centered on former Democratic Sen. Richard Stone of Florida as the choice for that post. Long said he supported the the scaled-down aid package after assurances that the new ambassodor “will be charged with advancing the peace pro cess" in El Salvador. The Maryland Democrat also said he was satisfied with promised steps toward open ing of Salvadoran prisons to inspection by the International Red Cross, freeing political prisoners and undertaking a review of evidence in the 1980 killings of four U.S. chur chwomen in El Salvador. Long acknowledged that “this is not a perfect solu tion,” but he said the assurances represented substantial progress "in view STUDENT SAVERS Navel Oranges 6 ,b/ 00 ! Iar9e seedless / * Green Onions 5/$100 ^resh bunches jf Carrots 4 lb. Snowboy Clip Tops / s-joo U.S.No. 1 Chuck Roast boneless USOA Choice $1 48 lb. Fresh Fryer Breasts whole breasts 98 $ lb. Boneless Ham fully cooked $1 78 lb. Lean Ground Beef ground fresh daily $1 48 lb. Drive N Save Peanut Butter crunchy or creamy reg. price $1.49 first one with coupon Exp 5/3/83 98° Pet Evaporated Milk reg. price 59c first one with coupon Exp. 5/3/83 44c Nice N Soft Bath Tissue reg. price $1.29 first one with coupon Exp. 5/3/83 Spill Mate Paper Towels reg. price 99c first one with coupon Exp 5/3/83 Haley Chili t reg. or hot reg. price 89c first one with coupon Exp. 5/3/83 Pic’t Ripe Elberta Peaches reg. price 79c first one with coupon Exp. 5/3/83 of the tortured history of El Salvador." After the vote approving the $30 million, the subcommittee released a letter to Long from Secretary of State George Shultz, in which Shultz said “we favor a negotiating pro cess which would lead the way to a political solution through free and fair elections.” "To advance this objective, the president will soon be designating a senior U.S. of ficial of ambassadorial rank to act as a special envoy to Cen tral American governments,” the secretary wrote. Commission says U.S. education needs new basics WASHINGTON (AP) — America has squandered a post-Sputnik surge in the race for knowledge and committed “an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disar mament” that threatens its very future, a national commis sion charged on Tuesday. The scathing report card on U.S. schools, from first grade through college, called for tougher standards, longer school days and higher pay for teachers to combat a "rising tide of mediocrity.” The National Commission on Excellence in Education called upon all high schools to emphasize five “new basics”: four years of English, three years each of math, science and social studies, a half-year of computer science and, for the college-bound, two years of foreign language. Pres. Ronald Reagan sum moned education and civic leaders to the White House later Tuesday for a briefing on the report, titled “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.” “Our nation is at risk” the diverse, 18-member commis sion declared in its unanimous report. “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational perfor mance that exists today, we might well have-viewed it as an act of war. “As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in stu dent achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge,” the Soviet Union’s shocking, opening shot in 1957 of the space race. "We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthink ing, unilateral educational disarmament.” WILDERNESS FIELD STUDIES EARN COLLEGE CREDIT Natural history, wildlife studies, nature writing, environmental philosophy, field ecology Courses for 1983 in the Pacific NW, Sierra Nevada, Utah, Hawaii Spring Summer Fall Quarters available. For information write or phone: Sierra Institute Carriage House 8on C UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Cm*. CA 9S064 (4G6W29 276.1 ;
