33 Refugees Drown Off Florida Coast Strikes in Poland Reach New Heights
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35:¥Z Get. 17,11% I cJ Connecticut Sailg CamnuB Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol.LXXXVNo.42 University of Connecticut Tuesday, October 27,1981 Bloodmobile 33 refugees drown continues The Red Cross blood- off Florida coast mobile on campus got off to a HILLSBORO BHACH. Fla. (AP) — Thirty-three Haitain slightly slow start Monday, refugees drowned early Monday after their leaky. 25-foot as representatives reported a wooden sailboat broke up in rough surf less than a hall-mile total donation of 295 pints. from shore, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The 34 others aboard The Mansfield branch of the boat survived. the Willimantic Red Cross, It was the worst such accident since heavy influxes of which is sponsoring the Caribbean refugees began arriving by boat more than three drive, is hoping to collect years ago. 1.400 pints of blood during Petty Officer Daryl Gale said all the bodies washed ashore, its four days here. and a search by helicopters and hoats was suspended shortly The bloodmobile will be before noon. conducted until Thursday "You come so close. Half of them made it. half of them from 9:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. didn't. It's so sad." said Dan Hynes. a police sergeant in this at the St. Thomas Aquinas town 35 miles north of Miami. Center. Appointments can By midmorning. the dead--their near-naked bodies twisted be made at the center by into odd positions by the fierce waves that dumped them Laurie Mac Alpine [left], of the Farmington Red Cross, aids calling 486-5123. or by ashorc--littered the beach along with ship debris, including Paula Ve/ian, a second-time donor. Next to her is Maria calling Mrs. John Trail at the broken mast. The partially submerged ship's frame Woiosiuk [Jim Lofink photo]. 429-4685 after 5 p.m. washed to within 50 feet of shore. Bomb explosion kills Scotland Yard officer LONDON (AP) — A Princess Diana will take Scotland Yard explosives ex- Thursday during their three- pert was killed Monday day tour of Wales. while trying to defuse a Police said they suspected bomb planted by IRA Welsh nationalist extremists guerrillas in a Fast-Food of planting the device, and restaurant on London's had increased security crowded Oxford Street, around the royal newlyweds. police said. The second Oxford Street Another bomb was bomb was discovered by discovered in a nearby police dogs in Debenham's department store and department store 400 yards defused, police said. The down the street from the Irish Republican Army Wimpy restaurant, but was issued a statement in Belfast defused, police said. claiming responsibility for Police cleared the the bombs. restaurant, of 175 customers The blast shattered the and staff after a man with an front of Wimpy's hamburger Irish accent gave telephone bar and caused panic among warning of the bomb. But hundreds of people on the the explosives expert, Ken- street, London's most neth Robert Howorth, 49, popular shopping district. was killed when the device Police sealed off the area. exploded in a basement toilet. The ice cream machines at the UConn Dairy Plant help generate three tons of dairy Earlier Monday, police in products each day (Jim Lofink photo). Pontypridd, Wales Scotland Yard said Howor- discovered and defused a th, who was married and fire bomb planted in a joined the police in 1974 af- British army recruitment of- ter serving 23 years in the UConn Dairy Plant fice. The office is only a few Royal Army Ordinance Cor- hundred yards from the ps, was wearing a helmet route Prince Charles and and padded fiberglass vest. churning out the goods By Kevin Lawther dent Commissary Cafeterias, products is supplied by the Staff Writer the commissary in' Wright University's 65 milking cows. Strikes in Poland B. all the large University Although production has The constant clacking of dining halls, the Faculty increased 14 percent over the the Extrude-Drap machine, Dining Center, Kappa last two years, the plant was reach new heights making ice cream slices, fills House. Mansfield Training still forced to raise prices last the room. Condensers, pas- School, Norwich Hospital, year. For example, eggs WARSAW. Poland (AP) — Thousands of soldiers fanned teurizing tanks and homo- Mansfield Recreation Center went up 10 cents a dozen, out over Poland Monday to supervise preparations for winter genizers quietly churn 4,000 and even the state prisons in milk went up 10 cents per and "maintain law and order" as the nation's strike wave gallons of milk into cottage Somers and Enfield. gallon and cream cheese surged toward a new crest. cheese, sour cream, cream "The state's contract speci- went up 10 cents per tub. "The situation in the country is beginning to slip out of cheese, white milk, chocolate fies that only certain places "The reason for the in- control," the popular Warsaw daily Zycie Warszawy said in a milk and ice cream. The may purchase our products." crease in prices," Norman grim, front-page commentary. result is 6,000 pounds-three George Norman, plant mana- said, "is that the cost of With strikes and demonstrations affecting some two-thirds tons-dairy products per day. ger, said. "It's based on Fair ingredients, labor, commodi- of Poland's 49 provinces, the mounting protests appeared to The UConn Dairy Plant is a Competition Laws." ties and practically every- be the most serious since the worker upheaval that spawned non-profit organization run And part of the reason for thing else has risen." the independent labor federation Solidarity in August 1980. by the University and has the plants unfair advantage And although the price Local Solidarity officials reported new protests in Konin, been located in the George over other dairy plants stems increase may seem slight. Lomza and near Katowice in defiance of renewed government C. White Building since from student labor. The plant Ruth Barton, the plant's demands for an end to strikes to save the country from 1953. employs four students part secretary, explained its sig- "disastrous consequences." But perhaps the most time to help the eight full- nificance. "When I first Communist authorities earlier had sounded dark warnings striking characteristic of the time employees produce and started, back in 1966," she of martial law if the labor unrest continued, but the plant is its clientele. For deliver the three tons of dairy said, "milk was only 20 cents government's action Monday was seen, initially, as strictly an example, the plant delivers products each day. Also, the a quart -and it came in a economic measure. daily to: 158 Associated Stu- milk used to make those bottle." Page 2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Tuesday, October 27,1981 Create community involvement •mwiovcmitom— To the Editor: WYOUP0OR.STARVING. Students, community, professors, administrators. Let's come together to meet weekly, discuss and take steps to TWRP WORLD... UK.UT improve our community. There are specific tasks (e.g. a journalism training session) for us to engage in. that will v ME FILL YOUR CUP,,. accomplish ^ great deal in the problem areas needing our attention. An example of these areas is Dialogue, the crisis hotline in operation since 1971. which, as of this semester, no longer exists. Another example is the Afro American Cultural Center. It has not yet moved into its new location, designated for Sept. 1st. 1981. Each of these presents specific problems: for example, we have only learned of Dialogue's termination a couple of weeks ago by an article in this newspaper. The Afro- American Cultural Center, that vacated its house on Gilbert Rd. in June. 1981. has continued its programs in Commons 214. The ex Co-op was not renovated by the Physical Plant by Sept. 1st. 1981. as scheduled. No other date has been set. On a broader and underlying level. UConn President John A. DiBiaggio is leading our battle against cuts, by not submitting the lisi of programs to be the target of the 10 percent projected cut. Education is being affected and it is going to be further affected. There is a lot of good things at UConn: I hope you share my sentiments of refusing to lose them. Here in rural Storrs there is more than meets the eye to enrich our lives. Opportunities are numerous. We must come together to inform each other of them, protect them if possible, and if necessary start choosing among them. The community involvement meetings will start The new opium is green tomorrow in Room 302B in the Student Union Building at 6:30 p.m. They will be held every Wednesday at the same BY Michael Burgan time and location until the end of the semester. "Can you imagine." a chemical engineering student said, "spending four years in college Franceses Piantedosi Drug use and abuse has been a part oi just to get an education? Shit, my parents campus life since the '60s. In the Haight- would kill me if they thought I was wasting my Ashbury era. psychedelics and speed domi- time in a History or English course. I mean, nated the scene. The Nixon years saw a they're cashheads too." turning away from stimulants and an increase Verry should be in the use of depressants: reds, Quaahides Although money abuse ■ is growing, few and alcohol. Lately, alcohol has become the officials, in government or education, seem campus drug, imbibed with relisli by all. Now concerned with its proliferation. "Look." a retained a new drug has seized the college student's school administrator said, "so they like to go fancy: money.