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Bush stresses need for education reform (iff centrated on the importance of education reform in the nation. "As a nation we are going to face an unprecedented level of competition not just militarily from our adversaries but also economically from our friends and allies," he said. "If we're to prevail against our global competition, we must be adequately prepared." Claiming illiteracy in the country could be eliminated "the way we wiped out polio," Bush said education would improve the plight of the nation's poor. "The surest way to win the war against poverty is to win the battle against ignorance," he said. "The challenge of the future is not just to make education more available, but to make it worthwhile." The vice president called on schools to assign more homework, teach the basics, test students' progress and ensure computer literacy for graduating students.

He also called for competency tests for beginning teachers and merit pay to award good teachers. Bush said increased governmental not a cure-all. "Even though we spend more for eduation than any other nation on earth, we don't measure up," he said, citing examples of students who could not locate the United States on a world map. "Money is not the fundamental answer. The fundamental answer it to make use of what we have.

We should provide more, but we should also demand more." Bush said the federal role in education should be limited, with local school boards and state legislatures shouldering the task of reform. But, citing concerns over the rising tuition costs at colleges and universities, Bush called for the creation of "college savings bonds." The bonds, he said, would work in much the same way as U.S. savings bonds and would not be taxable if applied to a college education. He said saving $25 a month could finance an education at a state school and $140 a month would pay for a private school college education. Bush concluded by calling on the legislators to take action on educa By JEFF HUTSON 0ily Journal StaH Writer Touting the economic importance of education to the nation, U.S.

Vice President George Bush stressed the need to teach the basics in public schools and called for parental saving for their children's college education. Bush spoke before several thousand people attending the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis Tuesday. The vice president drew polite applause from the standing crowd as he was introduced. After touching on the need for a federal balanced budget constitutional amendment, Bush con Daily Journal, Johnson County, 0IMOV OzW Wednesday, July 29, 1987 tion reform. "Good education is good policy, but this group probably knows better than any other that is good politics." State Rep.

H. Jack Mullendore, R-Franklin, who attended the Bush speech, agreed with what he heard, but said the vice president's ideas were not new to Indiana. "Indiana is already doing the things that he pointed out. Our education bill in the last session was really more encompassing than what he was getting at," he said. "I think it's good that the national government is taking that much interest in it.

But, if you try to give them too much of a prerogative, than we also take their control and I don't want to be in that situation." danger as individuals and as a nation. And Democrats must say so, no matter how forbidding the popularity polls." Cuomo sees the 1988 presidential election as a turning point for the country, and he used the words of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy to make his point. Cuomo referred to a speech by Kennedy two months before he was killed in 1968 in which he urged Americans to commit themselves to living together, improving the quality of life and seeking justice for all Americans. "It is again within our power to choose the kind of America we want," Cuomo said.

In a news conference before his speech, Cuomo said he will not join the other eight Democratic contenders for the presidency next year. But he offered his views on the candidates and the issues. The issues, he said, are complex too complex to be resolved in a presidential campaign. So he recommends a national commission to look at such things as the national debt, U.S. trade Cuomo draws spectators, money ilf J' iy7 mi ba Si fMil Jjj Ja i i I I -i I 'mi AniKflrJ STAFF PHOTOS BY JIM JACHIMIAK contenders for during the news conference.

Later, during the Indiana Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, he spoke about the issues those candidates will face. NEW YORK GOV. MARIO CUOMO shows a variety of expressions during a news conference Tuesday at the Indiana Convention Center. Cuomo answered questions about the field of presidential not find education for all who need it; cannot find shelter for all the homeless; cannot find care for the elderly and infirm; and cannot find hope for the destitute." He also lobbed heavy criticism at the Reagan administration for the Iran-Contra affair, which he said Huston has emphysema attack on way to filming UPI WIREPHOTO VICE PRESIDENT George Bash called for education reforms to OUCUgUlCU U1C 1U1UUU 9 1UHUC Page Three deficit, and issues of peace and justice. All of those issues, he said, are intertwined.

"You're not likely to have any of those issues debated in a presidential campaign, so why not appoint a commission? Come up with a plan that your next president can use, whether it's a Democrat or a Republican." He said the Democrats' chances for taking the White House in 1988 are "terrific," especially in light of the Iran-Contra affair. "When you separate Reagan's obvious, immense and enduring personal popularity from his record, the Republicans are very vulnerable." Cuomo's speech drew more than people, including a delegation of 31 Johnson County Democrats. The turnout helped fill the coffers of the state Democratic party. John Livengood, state party chairman, called it "the single most successful fund-raising event the state Democratic party has ever had." He said gross income from the event will be between $100,000 and $125,000. should remain in the hospital for at least the rest of the week.

"He has survived several infections like this and worse," Haft said. "The fact is, John has faced situations like this before and bounced back." Hospital spokeswoman Dorothy Allen said Huston was in stable condition. "He has emphysema. He's in the hospital for an evaluation." A spokesman for Huston, Ernie Anderson, told The Boston Herald, "His condition is grave, but there are hopeful signs since he hasn't contracted pneumonia." Huston became ill as he left his rented house to drive to a Newport mansion where he was to begin filming his role in "Mr. North," an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's comedy of manners set in jazz-age Newport.

most of Elwood's municipal workers ended Tuesday night. Policemen and firefighters were back on normal shifts Tuesday night after all but supervisory personnel "voted themselves sick" and walked of their jobs at noon Tuesday A police spokesman said the officers and firefighters returned to jobs just jninutes before court personnel were to serve a back-to-work injunc tion issued by Madison County Superior Judge Dennis Carroll. The order applied only to the police and fire departments. Eight sewage treatment plant workers also were off the job. GLIMPSES: A federal judge in Portland, Maine, denies he handed out a stiff drug sentence four years ago because the smuggler, Richard Stratton, refused to implicate writer Norman Mailer-in his operation.

"That is absolutely ridiculous," U.S. District Court Judge Edward T. Gignoax said. "There is absolutely no basis in fact whatsoever." Stratton, who was caught with $1.5 million worth of marijuana, received a ltyear sentence because authorities wanted to link Mailer to the ring, the writer claims madman who ever usurped a people's rightful power started by saying, 'I'm better than the law. I'm wiser than the he said.

"When people in power start violating that rule, which has kept us free and safe for 200 years, and millions cheer those violators, then we are in ft FALL RIVER, Mass. (UPI) -Oscar-winning director John Huston was stable and in improved condition today at a hospital where he was brought after an emphysema attack while on his way to film his role in a new movie, a spokesman said. Huston, 80, was admitted Tuesday to Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River after being Huston stricken in the resort town of Newport, R.I., about 20 miles away. Steven Haft, producer of the movie, said Huston is improving today and Ct, By JIM JACHIMIAK Daily Journal Staff Writer New York Gov. Mario Cuomo came to Indianapolis Tuesday, invigorating the Indiana Democratic party both financially and spiritually.

Cuomo was the keynote speaker at the Democrats' annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, a fund raiser scheduled this year to coincide with the National Conference of State Legislatures at the Indiana Convention Center. In his after-dinner address, Cuomo urged party members not to lose sight of traditional Democratic values. While Democrats are seen by Republicans as "nay sayers," Cuomo takes a different view. "The Republicans tell us we are forever doomed to a world consisting of the lucky and the left out," he said. "But we reject the idea that a society as blessed as ours, the most affluent democracy in the world's history one that can spend trillions on instruments of destruction cannot help the middle-class in its struggle, especially our farmers; cannot find work for all who can do it; can- NBC on top with 'Family Ties' episode NEW YORK (UPI) NBC won the ratings game in both entertainment and news last week and even gave viewers a break with a brand new episode of "Family Ties" amid a sea of summer reruns, figures revealed.

It was NBC's 26th straight weekly win in prime time ratings, according to the A.C. Nielsen and the previously unaired "Family Ties" episode came in first. More good news for "Family Ties" fans there is a new, non-rerun two-part episode that will air Aug. 6 and Aug. 13.

For the week ending July 26, NBC had an 11.6 rating and 23 share, CBS had a 10.6 rating and 21 share and ABC had a 9.1 rating and 18 share. In news, "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw won its 15th straight week with a 10.0 rating and 22 share. "ABC World News Tonight" with Peter Jennings had a 9.2 rating and 20 share and "CBS Evening News" with Dan Rather had an 8.8 rating and 20 share. Each ratings point represents about 874,000 households and a share is the percentage of operating sets tuned to a particular show. The top 10 prime-time shows for the week ending July 26, according to the A.C.

Nielsen were: 1. Family Ties (NBC) 2. The Cosby Show (NBC) 3. Cheers (NBC) 4. CBS Sunday movie, "Murder By Reason of Insanity" 5.

Murder, She Wrote (CBS) 6. (tie) Golden Girls (NBC) Designing Women (CBS) 8. Hunter (NBC) 9. (tie) Molly Dodd (NBC) Growing Pains (ABC) Aretha Bv United Press International BACK TO GOSPEL: Soul singer Aretha Franklin is concentrating on save-your-soul music this week. She's in the midst of three nights of sold-out gospel concerts at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her late father, the Rev.

Clarence L. Franklin, was pastor for many years. The shows are being recorded for an album her first live gospel album in 16 years and as a side act, Franklin has the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who joined her onstage and brought the crowd of to its feet several times with state briefs shows a distorted sensetf values. "Now we've been told that this world is such a dangerous place that we Americans can't even expect the officials of our government to respect the rule of law they are sworn to live by." He said that sets a dangerous precedent for the country.

"Every JkT2 CM A 'This is the first time the Beatles singing one of their recordings has ever been used to endorse a commercial product. They did it without the authorization or permission of the Beatles." The suit asks that the commercial be pulled off the air. "That's not why they wrote or recorded music. They didn't do it to promote or endorse products with their artistic said Marks. The Beatles recorded "Revolution" in 1968.

SI' tr: T. Franklin Jackson stage to the television screen. Jackson, who won the British Drama Critics Award for her work in "Interlude," is in London re catches the eye Va. UPI WIREPHOTO of a pedestrian Tuesday in Blacks-burg, THE 'OLIVE NORTH SANDWICH' advertised in the window of Cobblestone Cooks restaurant Beatles file suit over Nike Juvenile plan outlined FORT WAYNE (UPI) The Allen County juvenile probation office will use electronic devices to monitor veniles on probation, an official said Tuesday. The devices are similar to those used to ensure that adult offenders are abiding by the terms of their probations.

An electronic bracelet that emits a radio signal received by a base station is worn by the offender. Elwood workers return ELWOOD (UPI) A walkout by NEW YORK (UPIJL- The Beatles want it known they did not write songs to "peddle sneakers or pantyhose." A $15 million suit was filed Tuesday for the disbanded group against the Nike athletic shoe company for using an original recording of the song "Revolution" in a commercial promoting a line of sneakers. "The Beatles say, 'The Beatles don't sing to endorse or peddle sneakers or said lawyer Leonard Marks. commercial The rights to the song are now owned by singer Michael Jackson, but the suit claims that Nike used an original recording of the Beatles singing "Revolution" and accuses the company of trying to cash in on the rock stars' enormous popularity. The Beatles, through the group's companies Apple Corps Ltd.

and Apple Records filed the suit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan against Nike Inc. of Beaverton, and the Oregon-based advertising firm Wieden and Kennedy. hearsing and filming begins Aug. 10.V The result will be a television mini-series that is expected to be aired in February 1988. "Brat Packer" Judd Nelson also is busy in the mini-series industry.

Less than a month after the founder of the Billionaire Boys Club was sentenced for murder, Nelson is portraying him for television. Nelson will star as Joe Hunt, a charismatic whiz kid who organized friends in get-rich-quick schemes until he was convicted of killing a Beverly Hills con man. freeway of gospel success riding on the ALAMO NOT FOR SALE: To set the record straight, Michael Jackson is not interested in buying the Alamo. A spokesman for Epic, record company, came out and denied a supermarket tab- loid report that said the singer was offering $20 million for the Texas shrine. "I think it's safe to say that's ridiculous," the spokesman said.

The tabloid report said Jackson became interested in the Alamo after his bid for another trinket the skeleton of the Elephant Man, John Merrick was rejected. people talk exhortations against the importation of drugs and the exportation of jobs. Aretha is best known for secular hits like "Respect" and "Freeway of Love" but her roots are in gospel she was an established gospel star as far back as the '50s MINI-INDUSTRY IS BUSY: Glenda Jackson is taking "Strange Interlude" from the.