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12A THE JOURNAL-NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1979 Officials fear open-testing law hurts students ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) State education officials say they are concerned that the state's new "Truth in Testing" law may harm the very persons it was intended to help. David Bower, the state Education Department's administrator of post-secondary testing programs, told United Press International Thursday that sponsors of 20 out of 26 college and graduate admissions tests have tentatively decided to stop giving the tests in New York. "Our concern is that the law may have an inverse impact on the people it was designed to help," Bower said. Minorities and other persons not able to attend prestigious schools might be hurt the worst, he added.

Bower said a survey showed that tests in danger of being withdrawn included those for medical, dental, pharmacy, optometry and veterinary schools, as well as the Miller Analogies Test, a widely-used graduate school exam. The open testing law, sponsored by Sen. Kenneth LaValle, R-Port Jefferson, and signed by Gov. Hugh Carey this summer, forces sponsors of the exams to give copies of the completed tests, as well as the correct answers, to test candidates from New York who request them. Testing companies complained that the law would force them to continue updating the exams to prevent cheating, and would cause financial and administrative problems which would make it unprofitable for them to give the tests in the state.

The Education Department, which is conducting a survey of how many companies gave the admissions exams in the state, is also composing regulations for the companies to follow. "Thu far, we have named 26," Bower said. "Every sponso has given us tentative plans and of those 26, about 0 may be withdrawn from the state. The six remaii ng, in each case, may be reduced." Thos; bix include the ACT, SAT, PSAT and law school exams, Bower said. Bower added that persons who attended prestigious colleges and had high grades for four years would most likely not be hurt badly if the tests are withdrawn.

"Probably the persons going to be hurt the worst are those who went to small schools," Bower said. "Another group that could be hurt are those who have a lower grade point average because they started out slow in college and then did better in their last years," he added. "They are probably not going to get a second look without a test score." A third group that could be hurt, Bower added, were persons who had "stale credentials" because they had stayed out of college for several years before applying for a graduate program. If the exams are withdrawn, state residents probably will not have the option of going to another state to take the tests, Bower said, because the department interpreted the law to apply to all tests which have their results sent into the state. Bower said that while the testing firms would have to make a final decision on whether to withdraw by Jan.

1, the department expected some final responses in the next month. Several of the companies indicated they wanted to see the department's regulations on the exams, expected in weeks, before making their final decision Bower added, however, that the regulations would deal with the administration of the law and would not change its intent. 25 S. WILLIAM ST. PEARL N.Y.

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Mrs. Grasso said damage in Windsor Locks was estimated at $100 million for 28 commercial and industrial businesses, $50 million for National Guard aircraft and $15 million for private aircraft. In Windsor, there was about $12 million in damage to 10 businesses and 115 homes, 65 of which were destroyed, she said. In Suf-field, 25 to 30 homes and 25 tobacco sheds suffered about $2 million in damage. Mrs.

Grasso, who applied for federal disaster aid for the area, received offers of assistance from the governors of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Bradley International Airport reopened Thursday morning after being closed since the tornado hit shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday. Workers cleaned bits of wreckage from the runways. The main terminal building was not damaged.

But James Fine's Acme Auto Supply, its roof peeled back and windows popped out, did not reopen. Fine said he does not know when it will. "It's incredible. It looks like a bomb hit the place," Fine said. "It's incredible, there were people in that building.

It's amazing nobody got hurt." ANDREA WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) A United Airlines pilot didn't have much time to decide what to do when he found he was about to land his jet and its 114 passengers on top of a tornado. Flight 220 from Chicago was only about 200 feet above Bradley International Airport shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday when pilot George F. Deihs decided the air was probably the safest place he could be.

When he pulled the plane up, the funnel of the tornado was visible from the right side of the jet, said Evan C. Nielsen, a passenger. The tornado crumpled grounded aircraft and closed the airport as it churned across north-central Connecticut, breaking apart houses, killing two people and injuring hundreds in the towns of Windsor and Windsor Locks. Damage was estimated at about $214 million. Officials said 143 victims remained Lots of people were excited, talking loud.

Stewardesses were in their seats." he said. Deihs said the crew could barely see the ground from 200 feet up and the jet was slightly off to the side of where it should have been. Then Deihs, a veteran Air Force pilot with 23 years at United, slammed the throttles wide open and headed up. "It's something you have to do instantly," said Deihs. "There's a very short period of time.

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President Carter on Thursday approved Gov. Ella Grasso's request that the devastated communities be declared a major federal disaster area, opening the way for grants and lowin-terest loans to help people rebuild. Deihs, who flew the jet on to Newark, N.J., said it was a routine flight until he started the descent to Bradley. The jet hit the storm as it approached the airport and the crew flew on instruments through heavy rain and changing winds. "I knew it was going to be an approach that requires some effort," said Deihs, a Chicago resident.

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