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Show g daily utah CHRONia F, THURSDAY. JANUARY 15. 1981 TMt UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VOL 90 NO. 79 WASHINGTON. DC. (CPS)-Fr- ank Till Knows he's a marked man. liumlicd-soin- e Till figuies he'll Ik ont of Klitical ; prointee s at the U.S. Depai line tit of Education to be out of a job when ihcKeacan .Administration lakes o ere Jan. 20. But 1 ill is piobably mote of a symbol than the others. He is. of course, an employee of of Education, which the Department President-elec- t Reagan has pledged to dismantle. He woiks at the Office of Civil Rights, which Reagan advisers have often roundly c riticized. And. as a former leader of the National Student Association. Till is associated with Women's Educational Kquality Programs, a project that some Reagan advisers wanted killed immediately. Till's departure, however, is about the only sure bet among anxious education lobbyists and watchers here who are trying to guess what the Reagan administration will adopt as its education policies. SjH'c ulation has become rampant, fueled, ironically enough, by the unwillingness of the Reagan education transition team to comment on the policies. Consequently, many members of the higher education community here have become increasingly worried that a positiion paper, written by the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, may become the basis for Reagan education policy. e The foundation's paper a rexrt advocates a d budget cut for the education department, the elimination of the Teacher Corps, women's education, and bilingual education programs, the end of affirmative action, and a requirement that all recipients of federal education monies teach "traditional values." Lorelei Kinder, head of the Reagan education transition team, further increased speculation that the Heritage Foundation report will be made into policy at a recent Washington meeting with education leaders. Asked if the transition team's final report would resemble the Heritage report, Kinder would only reply with a smile,"! don't know. It will be interesting to see." "It's an incredible document," gasped a lobbyist for a major education association after Kinder's two-hou- r meeting. "It's hard to ilu-on- w. ,tl 9 A : Ike Pappas Chronldo photo by Paul crco Newsman speaks 180-pag- 'Iranians anxious to settle' Lincoln Hobbs Chronicle staff by Ike Pappas, a CBS news correspondent, told a Challenge Lecture audience Wednesday that a recent action by the Iranian Parliament the decision to engage in binding arbitration with the United States makes the prospects for release of the hostages before Jan. 20 look quite positive. Pappas, sponsored by ASUU as a Challenge Lecture speaker, also discussed the possibilities for the MX missile, the future of the Defense Department under the Reagan administration, the possible return to a draft, and the foreign policy that the Reagan administration may pursue. The possible release of the hostages may fall through as it has on previous occasions, Pappas said, but it is less likely this time because the Iranians want more than ever to gel the hostage situation solved. "The Iranians are apparently anxious to take the money and run," Pappas said. The Iranians, like the entire world, have few ideas as to what they should expect from the Reagan administration. Not only are the Iranians anxious to get the hostage problem solved before the inauguration of Reagan, but they are also beginning to be pinched by the sanctions that are on them, Pappas said. The Iranians need $5 million worth of spare military parts they own, which are in the U.S., in order to continue their war with Iraq, but those parts will be held until the hostages are released. Pappas said there is a possibility that the MX missle system may be scrapped by the incoming Reagan administration in order to allow for different defense expenditures. The final decision on the MX missile will likely come from Casper Weinberger, Reagan's defense adviser, according to Senate Pappas. In Weinberger's he said that last week, confirmation hearings made been has no decision yet, although the see a need for a does administration Reagan new missile system. The situation in Poland is just as dangerous as it was in November, Pappas said, despite the apparently calm mood in the bolder areas. Pentagon officials aie viewing the situation in the same way they viewed it in November, Pappas said, because the Russians still have the same concerns about unrest in Poland, and the Polish protests have not slowed down enough to apjicase the Soviets. c The Soviets fear Polish unrest because of a possible domino effect they feel the strikes may cause in the Warsaw pact. Success of the Polish people's strikes could cause unrest in other Warsaw pact nations, Pappas said. Therefore, the Russians are considering intervention as a possible solution. "The Polish situation continues to be critical and could develop into one of the world's biggest crises," Pappas said, even though the United States would probably not become involved militarily. He said economic sanctions by a unified West would probably occur if the Soviets were to invade, and that would cause the Soviets to seriously consider the merits of involvement. Defense policy and spending will probably be the biggest change brought by the Reagan administration, Pappas said, and that change will be very significant. By the end of Reagan's term, the government may be spending over $300 billion yearly on defense alone, making it difficult to achieve a balanced budget, he said. President Carter's proposed 1981 budget calls for $172 billion for defense. Reagan will likely add $20 billion to that figure, Pappas said. Foreign policy in the Reagan years will be closely tied to the increased defense spending, because the administration will want to make the world realize that America's strength may be used anywhere in the world. The Reagan administration will handle all foreign policy from a tough standpoint, Pappas predicted. There will be several new approaches to foreign policy taken by Reagan, Pappas said. These approaches will include ending the policy of detente with the Soviet Union that began in the Nixon administration, an attempt to strengthen alliances with NATO nations, an unquestioning support for governments (with little or no concern for human lights), and a very restricted amount of trade with the Soviet Union. Pappas said that grain and technology embargoes may be used often in the Reagan administration. Several factors will have an effect on whether or not the nation's will continue registering for the draft, or even whether the United States returns to the draft. Reagan has not made a decision on what to do with the registration program, Pappas said, and the Supreme Court decision on the registration of women is expected in spring or early summer. There is really no way to tell at this point what the final solution to the army's manpower needs will be, Pappas said. anti-communi- st one-thir- believe they would use some of this stuff, but looking at who's ended up on the transition team, and what we've been hearing, it may be possible." A number of transition team members are associated with the Heritage Foundation, which was started by New Right apostle Paul Weyrich, and Stanford Hoover conservative University's Institute on War, Revolution & Peace. Transition team Onalee McGraw, for an education consultant to (tie Hcnt.tt;c- Foundation, as is I..nt Uell. a example, - sr. life I lliw lor 1981 Utah State Senate that pertain directly to higher education, according to Sen. Lowell S. chairman of the higher Peterson, education committee. In the committee's first meeting it considered a Wednesday morning, building bill and one about taxes on motion pictures. The committee favorably approved Senate Bill 29, which allows for state institutions, including colleges and universities, to do minor construction and repair work without going to the state Building Board for approval. The bill was submitted by Sen. Ronald T. Halverson, R Weber, and provides for new construction and repairs- not exceeding 530,000 to be taken care of within the institution's funding mechanisms. This new construction will mainlv consist of storage -- - IMliM-t.llto- I Senate l.aboi Jt Human Resouiecs Committee. W. Glenn Campbell, executive chrcctoi of the Hoover Institute, works with Hoovei Institute Fellow Thomas Nowell em the Reagan Advisory Task Foiceoin Education. Transition director Kinder savs that the transition team is "only evaluating the department (of education) and not making rxdiey decisions." The plan to ablish the Department ol Education was revived when top Reagan adviser Edwin Meese III called it "a ridiculous but cane tat ie joke." Main education watchers, howevei. icfuse-tbelieve the depaitment whic h was officially opened in May. 1980 will "I just don't think they'll ele it." opines John P. Mallon of the American Association of State Colleges it Universities. "I think it's more likely that most piogtams will continue, although they may have become increasingly Lobbyists worried, however, that the rearranging w ill be done according to the Heritage Foundation recommendations. The foundation called for the elimination of the Teacher Corps, which aids teachers of e and minority students, and the Womens Education Equity Act Programs "within 90 days." Later, it asserted that "affirmative action runs counter to American ideals, and should be jettisoned as soon as politically possible." The foundation further recommends scrapping the "excessive federal regulations" tied to making campuses architectrually accessible to handicapped students and enforcing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, w hic h prohibits sexual schools. discrimination in federally-aideis the controversial more even Perhaps foundation's suggestions for including "values clarification" in education. To remedy the problem, the report states. "We must require all recipients of federal social money to meet generally-acceptelow-incom- d d objectives." While the transition team hasn't addressed the "values clarification" issue, educators are guardedly dismissing it. But most are not speaking for the record these days, adopting e an official policy. The to comment on "values willing clarification" moreover, didn't have much left to lose. "I would think there'd be constitutional objections." Till said. wait-and-se- ComunMee hears There are no bills proposed to the ('ll( committee. Ron Poeksai. who edited the Hciir.igc Foundation iciwtit. works for Sen. new chairman ot the Ou in Hatch. and other only-observe- r ballUs structures, Halverson said. Debate on the bill took 15 minutes, after the committee began the meeting 20 minutes later than planned. It then moved on to consideration of Senate Bill 79 a bill w hich would exempt movies for distribution from sales tax. low-co- st No justification for the higher education subcommittee considering a tax bill was given. Several industry representatives were allowed to speak during the course of the debate, which was recessed until Friday. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Rex Black. Lake, later said, "I'm not sure w hy the higher education subcommittee is considering it. Maybe it's to even out the number of bills each committee has. My bill (the- one alxnit motion pictures) belongs in the Revenue and Taxation Committee. D-Sa- lt - Non-Prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, Utah |
