She Gave to All... Unselfish Love' Polish Premier Ousted by Party
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f%J>.to (Ennnecttcut Satltr (Eamnua Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol.LXXXIVNo.78 University of Connecticut Tuesday, February 10,1980 She gave to all... unselfish love' WINDSOR LOCKS (UPI) - Ella Tambussi Grasso. the ;v".. nation's first woman governor elected in her own right, was buried Monday atop a sun-splashed slope in St. Mary's Cemetery next to her Italian immigrant parents. "She gave to all of you what she gave to me...a mother's gift of unselfish love and compassion," Mrs. Grasso's son, James, 29, said in delivering an eloquent eulogy to his mother who died Thursday of cancer complications. Mrs. Grasso, her body racked with cancer of the liver and intestinal tract after an almost year-long struggle, resigned in her second term on New Year's Eve. She died in Hartford Hospital with her husband, Dr. Thomas Grasso, an educator, and her children, James and Susane, at her bedside. She was 61. James Grasso said he took the "unusual step of paying tribute to my mother at her funeral because I'm so proud and privileged to have had Ella Tambussi Grasso as my mother." He described his mother as "a radiant ray of sunshine, whose warm and engaging smile brought a flow of love upon each day." And to his father, he said: "It goes without saying that my sister and I both realize that our father gave of himself so unselfishly to allow her to accomplish what no woman had ever dared to. "He was as she always said, 'My best friend.' " James Grasso, (left) son of the late former Gov. Ella Grasso, delivers the eulogj al his As James' sister, Susane, left the pew with her family, she mother's funeral Monday at St. Joseph's Cathedral. Listening are Gov. William O'Neill, reached over the edge and plucked from a vase near the altar (center) and Lt. Gov. James Fauliso (UPI ohoto). a red rose and clutched it. SEE PAGE II Polish premier ousted by party WARSAW. Poland (UPI) - Pinkowski's ouster had .appointed by former Party Polish Premier Jozef been expected, for in the leader Edward Gierek. who was purged last year, and Pinkowski was ousted from months since he took office office Monday at a in a strike-triggered may have been considered a f Communist Party Central government shuffle Aug. 24. relic of his discredited Committee meeting and labor strife has persisted and regime. r 7*#T ~^ In Washington. Reagan replaced by the nation's in the past month has defense minister in what escalated to its most intense administration officials were reported to believe that could signal a new hard-line point since the massive Soviet intervention was policy toward the strikes of the summer. inevitable. independent labor In addition, Pinkowski was movement. In an added sign of a possible crackdown on labor Administrators call unrest, party leaders at the special 13-hour Central for more minority Committee session warned that the escalating work stoppages and deteriorating students and profs economic conditions have created a "dangerous"' By KEITH FONTAINE threat to Poland's "national* existence." UConn administrators called for the recruitment of more «r< ' In a brief bulleting at the minority professors and students Monday at a race relations close of the session, the forum attended by about 50 students. Kenneth G. Wilson, vice president of academic affairs, official Polish news agency PAP merely said Pinkowski, blamed the lack of black professors on campus on the "limited pool" of black professionals in the hard sciences and who is also a party Politburo on the small demand for professors in the humanities, which member. resigned as has an abundance of minority professors seeking employment. premier and his resignation UConn President John A. DiBiaggio suggested that had been accepted. University administrators "grow their own" minority PAP said Pinkowski will professors by recruiting more minority graduate students in be replaced by the current the hard sciences. Defense Minister. Gen. Other issues discussed during the question-and-answer Wojciech Jaruzelski — who period included the University policy banning racism of all will be Poland's fourth Workers at more than 450 factories in Poland walked out forms on campus. DiBiaggio said the policy will be enforced premier in a year and the on strike Monday. Here, workers listen to Solidarity union and students acting in violation of the regulations will be third since the labor leader Lech Walesa's strike announcement outside the punished. gates of the Fampa paper factory [UPI photo). upheavals.of last summer. SEE PAGE4 UConn drops to third Kuralt picked up in N.E. basketball poll for drunk driving Story, p. 16 Stoty, p.7 Page 2 The Connecticut Daily Campus, Tuesday, February 10.1980 OPINION Health students should attend hearing If you're an underclassman enrolled in the school of pharmacy or allied health . you should try to stop the state from adding $200 to your fee bill by attending Wednesday's budget hearing at the State Capitol. Students in these schools are being asked to compensate for the state's stinginess this year, so they should be i survived especially concerned. But students in other fields have a lot to worry about, too. This year, the University is asking students desiring HAI6 professions in the health schools to pitch in. Next year, US ARMY students in the hard sciences and engineering may be told they must pay more because of rising laboratory costs. Student Trustee Steve Donen says the extra fee for health students sets a bad precedent for the University, and we'd have to agree. He thinks the state should make up the difference caused by the increasing costs. Supreme Court or TV studio? Again, he has a good point. The money won't come from anywhere else except the students' pockets. But the state WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court just would give you a suspended sentence." must be convinced to reallocate the necessary funding. voted to allow television cameras into the "I'm not a bank robber," Arnold protests. That's the purpose of the hearing. courtroom. It might be one of the most "You saw me on television in regard to a case Students in the affected schools can call attention to the far-reaching decisions the Burger Court has in which I refused to pay a train ticket." excellent records of their graduates. About 50 percent of ever made, and possibly the most frightening "Don't tell me what I saw on television. You the allied health professionals in the state have UConn as far as protecting the innocent goes. were on Monday night." degrees. Let me explain. Anyone who has had any "That was another trial." And about 80 percent of the state's pharmacists obtained exposure on television knows that everyone "Get out of the bank, I don't ever want to diplomas from UConn. The pharmacy school stipulates that who has seen you recognizes you, but no one see you here again," the guard tells him." students partake in five years of undergraduate study Arnold leaves in a daze. He's stopped on the before they can obtain degrees, an indicator of Its tough street by a man. "Hey, Arnold, I'm a big fan standards. Art Buchwald of yours. Anyone who could embessle $7 Legislators should be convinced that students won't be million from his company and wind up with a able to afford a degree in one of the affected fields. TV in the Courts hung jury is my kind of guy. How about your Testifying to that would be the most effective way of autograph?" showing the urgency of the situation. "I didn't embezzle $7 million from my Buses will leave from the Student Union at 4:30 p.m. can remember what you said or did. For 15 company." Wednesday for the hearing. If you would like to reserve a years people who watched them every night "Okay, so it was more. I bet 5-to-l you'd seat, call the Undergraduate Student Government office. didn't know Huntley from Brinkley. I had the beat the rap. Just put your John Hancock here good fortune to be on "6tf Minutes" in a on my business card and sign it to my son friendly piece done by Mike Wallace--but to Billy." this day people can't remember if I was the Arnold signs it. A crowd gathers and a§ks Letters policy scheming real estate developer in Arizona, or for autographs. "Who is it?" a lady wants to the guy who was smuggling in illegal aliens .know. from Mexico." "It's 'Son of Sam,' " someone else says. All letters submitted for publication should not exceed With the advent of cable television and its "They just let him out." 250 words, and must be typewritten and double-spaced. eventual choice of 50 channels, we have to Arnold manages to break through the crowd The Daily Campus reserves the right to edit letters for assume that courtroom trials will provide and make it to his office where all his friends length, grammar and libel. Letters must also include the some of the best entertainment on television. are shaking his hand. One says, "Arnold, I name, address, and telephone number of their authors. Therefore some smart cable TV operator will don't want to be critical but you should look at Send letters to Box U-189, Storrs, Conn. They may be plug into the courts and get an entire channel the camera more when you're talking." hand-delivered to the Daily Campus office on I2I N.