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1 6 A Demon: free pressMonday, aprl 6. 1 987 3,300 Canadians brave the rain to protest President Reagan's visit Bennett criticizes states on education BENNETT, from Page 1A sis, subject to further verification." MICHIGAN, HE SAID, is backsliding because the state Board of Education has decided not to require local districts to give statewide student science tests. Last fall, the state included a science exam in the annual Michigan Educational Assessment Program test it gives to fourth-, seventh- and lOth-graders in the state's public schools. The scores were low. Fewer than 40 percent of the state's fourth-graders passed the science portion of the test; 27.3 percent of the seventh-graders and 22.4 percent of the lOth-graders passed.

Educators have been trying to determine whether the exam is too diffi SFEv mm promise of arrest by the RCMP. In a milling parade the chants were "Ronald Reagan get out of Canada." One group called the Boondoggle Players, Puppetry of Resistance, put on a skit using puppets of the two leaders. In it, Reagan kept falling asleep and calling Mulroney "Muldoon," "Brad" "Ryan" and "Brendan." The Reagan puppet suggested that Gene Kelley, star of the 1952 movie "Singing in the Rain," be named special ambassador for acid rain "because he could help people be happy, even in the rain. "It's not important whether you win or lose," the Reagan puppet told the Mulroney puppet, "It's only important that we win." Meanwhile, the signs of dissatisfaction blossomed in the crowd. "Send AIDS to the Contras." "Reagan Hors du Canada" (Reagan out of Canada).

"Newfoundlanders Against U.S. Imperialism." "Nancy, Take the Big Guy Home for a Snooze." "Stop Arm Sale to Iran." And the somewhat bewildering sign "Legs Not Arms." Some people were selling doormats with caricatures of Reagan and Mulroney. "You wipe your feet on their faces," Andrew Dicks of Ottawa said with a grin. Elizabeth Casuga, whose shoes had soaked through in the wet grass, was saddened that the two leaders were unlikely to produce major decisions on issues like Central America. "It's been cold," she said, "but we came here to make a statement." SUMMIT, from Page 1A rain, defense, bilateral trade and passage rights through the Northwest Passage.

Reagan on his first foreign trip since the Iran-contra affair was publicly disclosed also is to address a joint session of Parliament today and meet with opposition leader John Turner before returning to Washington this afternoon. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS of both countries said beforehand that the meeting was unlikely to produce big announcements. However, Mulroney indicated Sunday on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" that Canada might be willing to reach an accommodation on the Northwest Passage. On that issue, Canada contends the Arctic is Canadian waters. The U.S.

maintains it is international waters. When asked if he would accept a deal that recognized Canadian sovereignty, but allowed the U.S. free, unimpeded access, Mulroney suggested it was possible. "That's ours," he said of the Arctic. "We own it, lock, stock and icebergs." But he added, "We share common responsibilities for the defense of this continent, we would look with favor, obviously, on arrangements that would facilitate and expand those agreements between the countries.

"And therefore you can draw some pretty fundamental conclusions from that." About 4 p.m., President and Nancy Reagan were whisked to downtown Ottawa in a sweep of limousines. They never saw the demonstrators, who disbanded at 4 p.m., as the government requested. What preceded on Parliament Hill, however, was a festive gathering of Canadians, who despite the rain were happily protesting an almost uncountable number of issues that included acid rain, native rights, Nicaragua, EI Salvador, Iran, free trade and abortion. Their buttons, comments and wilting placards for the most part centered on acid rain. CANADIANS ARE particularly sensitive to this issue because scientists report that more than 50 percent of the acid rain that falls on Canada is blown in from the United States.

In two languages the signs said "Stop Acid Rain" and "II Pleut A Mourir" (The Rain of Death). Scores of people carried dead limbs from maple trees. "It's serious. It's not a joke," said Lise Routhere, whose Sherbrooke, Quebec, farm depends on the sale of maple syrup for survival. "I carry the maple branch because acid rain destroys," she said in broken English.

"And we have less syrup." Across the way, members of Greenpeace, an activfst environmental group, held up a huge banner that read: "Acid Rain Burns Our Bass." Greenpeace had planned to send a balloon over the protest and have a man parachute into the crowd. That was stopped by strong winds and the 6i A demonstrator wearing a Ronald Reagan mask leans over to whisper to a huge puppet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during protests in Ottawa on Sunday. Lake weed herbicide problem may lack neighborly solution cult for the students or if it is an indication of a low level of science instruction in the state. BENNETT ALSO cited Indiana, where he said state legislators gutted the governor's plan to reward schools that improve educational performance and extend the state's school year. The movement also is in danger in Texas, he said, because lawmakers abandoned plans to test teachers in their knowledge of the subjects they teach.

Reforms could backslide in Maine, where a bill has been Introduced in the Legislature to eliminate a 1984 measure that implemented the professional level of master teacher, he said. Bennett also criticized the head of the National Science Teachers Association for opposing a plan to raise high school science requirements above the 1.8 years that students currently receive. Keith Geiger, vice-president of the 1.8 million-member National Education Association, countered in a telephone Interview: "You're not going to reform education without paying teachers a salary to attract the best." Geiger said Bennett was trying to distract attention from his own failings, Including the beating he took in Congress over Reagan's attempt to cut the Education Department's budget by $5.5 billion, or 25 percent. among farmers who used with' get inhalation exposure to skin with them that is the same as Agent Orange the defoliant alleged by Vietnam veterans to have caused cancer and birth defects. Schlaff, however, said he only told residents that is a component of Agent Orange.

Indeed, one of the most common and widely used herbicides in the United States since the 1940s was one of the two major ingredients of Agent Orange. Concerns raised by a National Cancer Institute report prompted DNR officials to review whether the state should continue Issuing lake permits. The Institute's study showed a lymphoma rate eight times higher LAKE, from Page 3A Since the decision, Ron Schlaff, a resident opposed to use of the chemical, has collected signatures of 37 of the 57 lake property owners on a petition demanding that not be used. "I have a baby on the way and a two-year-old boy," said Schlaff, a chimney sweep. "I've put in a beach and my little boy's In the water all the time.

I don't want to expose him to these hazardous chemicals." SCHLAFF PRESENTED the petition to the Lake Board, hoping it would reverse the decision. Board Chairman Larry Crake, a county commissioner, said he repolled the board and members haven't changed their minds. Schlaff now hopes to get state or local officials to block the chemical application, scheduled for early May. Crake and others contend Schlaff browbeat neighbors to sign the petition with exaggerated claims about the dangers of "Mr. Schlaff has went around the lake with his tale of gloom and doom, and I'm sure that's why a lot of them signed his petition," Crake said.

David Bruce, a Scott Lake resident, said Schlaff has "scared the neighbors Into signing" the petition by telling liquid than granule. Wandell also said that the study, which contradicted many studies that have shown no cancer risk from Identified higher cancer rates only among applicators who wore no protective clothing. All but minute quantities of applied In lakes are absorbed by plants within two days, said Maureen Heln, a DNR aquatic biologist. Swimming is banned in the lake for 24 hours after application. Despite the evidence In favor of chemical control, Wandell, Heln and other scientists want more studies.

out protective clothing and equipment than that of the public. After studying the issue, state officials decided to continue issuing permits. Last year, about one-third of the 700 aquatic herbicide permits the state Issued were for applications, said Howard Wandell, the DNR's supervisor of inland lakes management. "THERE ARE many differences between the farm community study and what would happen in the lake," Wandell said. "The form (of used in the lake is granular.

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