just 25. minutes left in the

presidency of Jimmy
Carter.

~ It was Carter who had
supervised - the . long,

drawn-out negotiations

for the. release . of | the
hostages,. and U:S. Presi-
dent Ronald Reagan said
he ‘was “pleased the
hostages were released
while Carter was still in
office.

The hostages were
freed after’ 444 days in
captivity, in exchange for
$8. billion” of Tehran's

Aniericans .and. four
, Britons. who are. believed
imprisoned in Iranian
jails...

- Swiss authorities
representing U.S. in-

- terests in Iran have seen

only one of the
Americans — Cynthia
Dwyer, 49, a free-lance
journalist from Buffalo,
-NCY., who was arrested
and imprisoned in
Tehran’s Evin Prison last
May for spying.

Mohi Soghani, and

SAN SALVADOR, El
Salvador (UPI) - Guerril-
las staged hit-and-run
raids throughout’ El
Salvador, but govern-
ment troops have crippi-
ed the leftist army by kill-
ing a fourth of its
members, authorities

said.

Military officials in San
Salvador said sporadic
leftist raids probably

“on the fate of three other

Junta claims
killed

nian government for
_ transfer of the money to
_ the escrow:account. ~

Once the formal
authorization was flashed.
‘by’ phone. to ‘the banks,
most of the trarisaction
was carried out quickly
by electronics. Iranian
assets held by U.S. banks
were electronically trans-
ferred by computers,

- through accounts at the

Federal Reserve, to Lon-

- “Troaian-be born business-
man from California, was
arrested Sept. 7, ap-

parently on espionage
charges.

Zia Nassry, an Afghan-
born naturalized U.S.
citizen from sNew. York,

was taken’ into~ custody
last March.on unspecified .

charges... ~

‘Church of England
workers and missionaries
Jean Waddell, 58, John
Coleman, 57, and his wife
Audrey,. were arrested
last August for spying.
Andrew Pyke, 57, an
was apprehended and
charged with espionage.

would continue for an in-
definite period, but
claimed government
troops had broken the
back of the guerrilla of-
fensive begun Jan. 10.

Defense Minister Col.
Jose Garcia in a news
conference Monday said
his soldiers had killed
about 1,000 guerrillas —
a fourth of the leftist ar-
my — during the past 10
days.

Whaling ban

welcomed

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
Greenpeace spokesmen
in Vancouver and Paris
have welcomed a dcci-
sion by the Sovict Union,
one of the two major
whaling nations in the
world, to give up the
commercial harvest of
about 4,000 whales a

year.

~

The decision to stop
whaling, part of a larger
marine mammal conser-
vation program, was con-
firmed Monday by the of-
ficial Soviet news agency
Tass in Parts and by
Sovict embassies in Paris
and Bonn.

ation on behalf of the Ira-

a

how to teach according to

’ California have already

‘about ’40 said the program

“(Pro-D), disregarding the 40,

” Most. teachers are well-
schooled in. what to teach
buts Many: meed an update on

been provided for i

“If we see a teacher has a | 1981. budest, : the fc

weakness, our duty is to
point it out to them and help
individuals develop way to
overcome (their) problems,”

requested a report on the
specific needs for eachschool
and . individual teacher. in
West Van. Bowbrick said a

West: Vancouver's school report could be ready by

superintendent Ed Carlin. Carlin said. MayorJune. |

“The problem is re-tooling “This plan gives us the Although the school board West Van has recei
the teachers, ” Carlin ex- proper vehicle.to doit.” has approved the progrm in hours of ‘the 60 hour
d-lastweek while Trustee Norm Alban principle and the funds have + program. -

ram, known as
- Pro-D, ‘for. professional
_ development, is an in-
service program designed to
upgrade the teaching skills
of all teachers in West Van.

It .consists of a series of
workshops on elements of
instruction and classroom
management and is based on
a model used in the United
States.

Instructors from
spent time in West Van-
couver with teachers and
staff. It costs $600 per in-
structor per day - a cost that
trustees balked at.

Carlin has proposed
training four West Van-
couver staff as instructors in
the Pro-D program at an
estimated cost of $400 for
each teacher.

He estimates it will take
four. to five years for each
teachet in.West Vancouver
to_complete the workshops
aiid training. a
_ Of 233 teachers canvassed
for their reactions to Pro-D,

Wednesday to Friday Special —
Jan. 21, 22 & 23

wasn’t needed. .
*“The commitment to it

is very high,” Chairman
Lilian Thiersch said. r

West Vancouver principal Ba S
John Bowbrick who has been an —-
active in examining and 1 5:00-10:30PM °

preparing the program, said
the hope is that teachers will
identify. ‘their needs and
a Ci to improve

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