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,.rV ‘ ’ A -1 ^ to - MANCHESTER HERALD. Monday. May 20. 19«5 MANC HESTER EOCUS SPORTS WEATHER B U S IN E S S GOP prefers sale Bandshell’s lineup Manchester n ^ Clouds stay tonight; At risk In marketplace of Love Lane land includes new faces fails in the clidCh sunny Wednesday ... page 10 I ... page 11 ... page 15 ... page 2 Illiterate Americans Ignore languages STUNNER NO. 1: More than 40 percent of the policeman of the entire world. I thought EngUah countries." Being called “ unique" in this sense is no| [ UUi-graders in the United States surveyed as the was the only language necessary for anyone to apeak. a compliment! _ . ‘ decade began where unable to place Egypt correctly Now I am ashamed of my past Irritating arrogance What should be done? Again, to quote B radm as; - ■ on a map while more than 20 percent were equally Y o u r and ray dismal performance in foreign languages. I Schools should provide every student foreign ignorant of the location of France and Canada. M oney's feel a primitive when I am abroad and wlui people language instruction in the earliest years and; STUNNER NO. 2: Only 15 percent of American high who routinely speak two or three languages fluently. ’ ‘ opporti^ty to study the same language until a uMful < Hanrhpalpr Hrrali school students were studying a foreign language in Then I sat down and Brademas p ic k ^ up where I level of measured proficiency has been reached. ' . I 1900, sharply down from 24 percent In 1965. W o rth had left off, even though his was a p r e jM i^ speech Colleges and universities should require dem ons; Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Tuesday, May 21.1985 — Single copy: 25d: STUNNER NO. 3: Only eight states in 1960 required Sylvia Porter and he had had no idea of what I would say m my strated proficiency in a foreign language, not simply 41 that high schools offer foreign language courses while impromptu remarks. Said the NYU chief: .credit ^ r s , for admission and graduation, Such i NO state required students to take the courses. e The Reagan administration would eliminate the capacity— to apeak, readand write— should be based In a major address before the Northeastern graduate followships that could lead to the less of the on national standards. ’ Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in next generation of faculty to teach foreign languages Hartman New York City recently, Dr. John Brademas, more competitive economy and the security of the and International studies. It la to the point that Defense Secretary Caspar ^ president of New York University, hurled these U.S. in a dangerous world." e The budget would cut out support of programs to Weinberger says that language and area studies along •> GNP growth whoppers to 1,500 educators in International educa I was in the audience, and before Brademas spoke, I improve the International understanding and exper with math and science are among the domains of tion. Then, the well-known and respected veteran of 22 bad unwittingly triggered his remarks with an open tise of U.S. businessmen and women— understanding higher education in greatest Jeopardy of decline. ‘ may fight years in Congress went on to warn his audience: confesson; that is imperative if we are to take on the And Reagan's hard-headed defense secretary adds "Am ericans’ ignorance of other people and cultures " I am a typical, proud American educated in our responslbili^ for building a peaceful and stable that this dMline la "o f greatest Interest to the nation ., represents a danger not only to our idefense and school system in Latin, French and German, yet now world. and the Department of Defense.” The battle la on; the security. ... It also puts our ability to compete in the unable to communicate in any language except my "Our nation’s indifference to foreign languages and tim e to stand aside has long since passed. ■ moderate as mall plan world marketplace at risk." And Brademas added; own. cultures." Brademas accused. “ Is unique among the To paraphrase the president himself, if it is not our "W e need to remind President Reagan that be really " I speak English only, and for one fleeting Instant advanced industrial countries, and our performance reaponiriUlity, whose responsibility is it? If the time is is threatening both our prospects for a growing and after World War II when I thought we were to become in these areas lag behind that of many developing not now, when? By Susan Vauahn prices rise Herald Reporter The Hartman Tobacco Co. indi Reagan boosts summer jobs cated Monday that it may sue to stop the development of the -i'C ' WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi and, in his most recent attack on Although the measure has at Bv United Press International rising gasoline and fu d oil costs. proposed Buckland Hills mall. A lawyer representing Hartman dent Reagan is looking to private $200 billion-plus budget deficits, tracted support from some influen The increase brought 1909’s industry to seise the initiative in advocating abolition of the Job tial groups within the black com WASHINGTON - The nation’s inflation rate so tar, whm figured Monday filed complaints about extending the fruits of economic Cor]M, which targets employment munity, opposition in Congress gross national product grew at a on an annual basis, to 4J percent. documents submitt^ to the town Planning and Zoning Commission m - expansion to teenagers — espe and training efforts on the hard remains sti ong, fueled by protests rate of only 0.7 percent in the The revised GNP figure ended cially minority teenagers — who core unemployed. from the AFL-CIO that emidoyers January-Marcb quarter, new data any skepticism about the economic in connection with the mall. The disputed documents Include a plan have yet to benefit from the job In April, as the nation’s unem would be encouraged to replace showed today, even weaker than slowdown, doubt that was wides boom. ployment rate remained steady at adult workers with teenagers — tlw 1.3 percent growth first pread after Commerce Depart showing a 750,000-square-foot mall and a separate residential com Turning his attention to a seg 7.3 percent, joblessness among despite provisions to levy sharp reported. ment economists first documented munity off Buckland Street in the ment of the population that has whites between the ages of 16 and penalties on businesses that do so. Tbs Commerce Department said the abrupt change in mid April. been overlooked in the recovery he 19 was at 14.9 percent and at a ’The pitch for summer jobs, an the new G N P figure is the lowest The previous quarter grew at a northwestern section of has termed the "great American whopping 39 percent for blacks in annual event that brings together stoce the last quarter of the 1962 4.3 percent annual rate, seasonally Manchester. Attoitiey DomlnteSquatrito con miracle,” Reagan today arranged the same age group. leaders of government and indus recession, this time pulled down by adjusted. tended In a letter to PZC Chairman a Rose Garden ceremony to In March, Reagan renewed his try. marked the start of a high- enormous trade deficits. Today’s revision did not improve Alfred W. Sieffert Sr. on Hart- promote summer jobs for young appeal for Congress to encourage profile bid by Reagan to sell a . By comparison, economists the measure of inflation, which nnan’s behalf that the plan violates Americans. summer hiring of teenagers by range of domestic and foreign agTN a sustained 3 percent to 4 soared to a rate of 5.6 percent in the the requirements of the Compre In the last two years. Congress passing legislation to permit em policy initiatives over the next two percent growth is necessary to first quarter from only 2.3 percent hensive Urban Development zone has rejected Reagan’s appeals to ployers to pay them $2.50 an hour, weeks. keep unemployment from getting in the fourth quarter, measured by In which it would be located. improve the employment outlook instead of the federal minimum On Tuesday, the emphasis shifts worse. the govenunent’s "implicit price in the nation’s urban areas by wage of $3.35 an hour. to his embattled Central American Also today, the Labor Depart deflator." Hartman Tobacco owns about 100 acres of. land and several creating enterprise zones to spur WHliam Brock was quick to policy with a visit by Honduran ment reported that consumer Analyzing the first quarter econ * smaller parcels in South Windsor economic development, and pas promote the sub-minimum wage President Roberto Suazo Cordova prices rose 0.4 percent in April, omy, the department economists near the proposed Buckland Hills sage of a sub-minimum wage for proposal — dubbed the “ Youth and a speech to the Council of the sUi^tly less than in March, with found that what little expansion site, Squatrito said. Competing teenagers. Employment Opportunity Wage Americas. Reagan tackles defense more than half the increase due to that did occur was almost entirely developers have an option to buy 00 PRESIDENT REAGAN At the same time, however, the Legislation” by the White House — spending during a commencement added to inventories. president has been criticized for of those acres for the propo^ . .. high-profile pitch soon after his recent confirmation speech Wednesday at the U.S. As goods piled up on shelves and opposing federal jobs programs as secretary of labor. Naval Academy. in warehouses final sales “ in Winchester Mall.