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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol.XCIIINo.116 The University of Connecticut Friday, April 20,1990 UConn prepares for Earth Day activities By Hillary A. Jackson On campus, WHUS is presenting 24 level Radiation, High-level Cover-up. "If you're on campus and you can't go Daily Campus Staff hours of special environmental pro- The book will be released on Sunday in to Earth Day, you should spend the day Celebrating the earth. People all over gramming. "It's a bunch of people try- honor of Earth Day. listening to WHUS, or some people arc the country will be celebrating Earth ing to create awareness—it should be a Schwartz said the station will be giv- doing something natural like going to Day this Sunday, April 22. There arc fun day," said Tim Schwartz, a disc ing away copies of the book "50 Simple watch the sunset or sunrise. Spend the rally sites in Boston, New York, and jockey with the radio station. Things You Can Do to Save the Earth" day cleaning up your area, make sure Washington D.C., but what is there to Among many other specials, there throughout the day to people who call you don't use styrofoam, conserve watci do in this area to observe the 20th an- will be a live ovcr-the-phonc interview in with questions or comments on or energy," said Sara Kaplan, Earth Day niversary of Earth Day? at 9:30 a.m. with the author of "Low environmental issues. project coordinator for ConnPlRG. Kaplan and other members of Conn P1RG have been working the whole semester to educate and create opportu- Defense Soviets cut Lithuanian fuel nity for activism. ConnPlRG has been working with Jonathan's to stop using styrofoam by may be Earth Day and got them to replace the plastic plates at the salad bar with paper slashed ones, said Kaplan. WASHINGTON (AP) — Kaplan said ConnPlRG is trying to The Democrat controlled House educate students about recycling. Mem- Budget Committee on Thurs- See page 5 day approved a plan to slash President Bush's defense Vaccine may spending proposal and shift billions of dollars to domestic programs. block AIDS The SI.24 trillion budget for fiscal 1991 was approved on a from cells 21-14 party-line vole. Debate WEST HAVEN (AP) - An AIDS in the full House was scheduled vaccine created by a West Haven for next week. pharmaceutical company appears to House Majority Leader protect healthy human immune cells Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., said from infection by the AIDS virus when there was "good common the cells arc in mice, but a Yale re- sense" behind the Democratic VILNIUS, U.S.S.R.—Women support! ng the Lithuanian government weep searcher cautions that doesn't mean it version of the fiscal 1991 bud- and carry flowers at a mass demonst ration outside the parliament building will protect people from the virus. get. He described it as "a sharp yesterday. The vaccine, called, VaxSyn H1V-1, departure from the status quo." was developed by MicroGcncSys Inc. Republicans portrayed the VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. (AP) — The Krem- liamentary press office. A liter is slightly lin tightened its economic squeeze Thursday more than one quart. During a 2-ycar study, 200 people plan as an embodiment of the were injected with VaxSyn HIV-1. Sci- same old liberal Democratic on Lithuania by shutting off more than 80 "Where we can give up the use of gas, percent of the Baltic republic's gas supply gasoline, any heating or lighting, let us do entists then harvested immune cells priorities, with irresponsible from those subjects and injected them defense cuts and loose reins on following a complete cutoff of oil the previ- this, and then we will be able to survive ous night. longer and, maybe, we will not be intimi- into specially bred mice. domestic spending. But they MicroGcncSys Inc. research showed expressed little concern, calling The independence-minded republic dated by these sanctions," government promptly ordered that the first to lose their spokesman Ccslovas Jurscnas said on that the vaccine was able to defend hu- the committee action just an man immune cells transplanted into the early step in the long budget energy supplies will be Soviet military Lithuanian radio. He said that in the areas of fuel and power, mice from the AIDS virus. But mice process. bases and factories run by Moscow, accord- ing to the parliament's press office. Lithuanians would be put on "a starvation injected with cells from unvaccinatcd "We believe the sooner we people were vulnerable to the virus, of- get this exercise over the Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev diet" Lithuania, forcibly incorporated into the ficials at the company said Wednesday. sooner ... we can actually be- started his most drastic attempt to force Soviet Union in 1940, is entirely dependent The next step would be to vaccinate gin writing the bill" in Lithuania to retreat from its March 11 on Moscow for its oil and gas, which it re- those in high risk groups and study the bipartisan talks involving the declaration of independence late Wednesday when a pipeline to Lithuania's only oil re- ceives at bclow-markct prices. incidence of the disease, a step that president, said Rep. Bill Fren- Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman won't be taken until more research is zel of Minnesota, senior Re- finery was shut off. Vadim Pcrfilicv told reporters Thursday that completed to avoid infecting healthy publican on the committee. Lithuanian Energy Minister Lconas Moscow "might have some other restric- people with the virus. At the White House Asmantas ordered immediate gasoline ra- tioning of 30 liters per month for private tions" to impose on Lithuania, but he re Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of ihc spokesman Marlin Filzwater See page <» See page 6 See page 6 cars, according to Daina Kalendra of the par- Turner to sign NC State contract By Adam Minichino Dave Maggard and University of North Carolina- Daily Campus Staff Charlotte head coach Jeff Mullins. The News and Observer of Raleigh and The However, newspapers reported Tuesday that Charlotte Observer reported Thursday afternoon Mullins was not interested in the position and that University of Connecticut Athletic Director that Mullins wanted to remain in the coaching Todd Turner will sign a five-year contract to be- profession. come the new athletic director at North Carolina Turner, a 39-year old Raleigh native, has been State University. the athletic director at UConn since July 1, 1987. N. C. State has called a press conference for 10 In the past two-and-a-half years, Turner has a.m. today on its main campus in Raleigh, North played an instrumental role in increasing the ath- Carolina. letic fund raising. The announcement is expected to end a week of In 1987, the university raised S38S.OOO and speculation that began on Tuesday when it was UConn is expected to surpass the SI million reported that Turner was "an active candidate" for mark in donations by the end of the 1990 school the position. year. Turner met with N.C. State athletic department "I think he's done a spectacular job," said and coaching personnel Monday and Tuesday and UConn president John T. Castccn III. "The record a Wolfpack official said that Turner and East speaks for itself. He's produced a program that's Tennessee coach Lcs Robinson had near unani- successful across the board." Turner served as an administrative assistant at mous approval of the search committee. —Kevin Fraser/The Daily Campus Robinson is expected to take over as the new the University of Virginia after earning a mas- Vo Van Ai, the p ter's degree in sports administration from Ohio resident of the Vietnam Committee head basketball coach following the resignation on Human Rights, spoke to about 75 people about the University. of former coach Jim Valvano. plight of Vietnam at the H. Fred Simons Center last Other possible candidates for the N. C. State Casteen said that he never heard Turner corn- night. job were University of California athletic director See page 17 PAGE TWO More clouds for us Connecticut Weather Today: increasing cloudiness, breezy and mild. High 60 to 65. Tonight: Lows in ihc mid 50s. Saturday: cloudy wilh a chance of showers. High 60 lo 65. Connecticut Lottery Daily: 3-7-4 Play 4: 9-8-8-0 Husky Talk —HillaryH Jackson/The DailyCampus What are you doing for Earth Day? Robin Ladd Anthropology "Celebrating the earth!" —Kevin Frascr/Thc Daily Campus SUNNING—Cathy Sheehan, a freshman psychology major, took a little time out yesterday to sit in the warm sun and read Time. lU Hi Hoagland Family Studies Imelda's on a shopping spree NEW YORK (AP) — When toward the unidentified store, according to a ledger. "/ have to work, but our whole Imelda Marcos visited New household is trying to do new Michelangelo painting, leaving Food expenses ranged from York in 1983, she put $1 mil- $55.95 for hamburgers and fish things with composting and a $2.5 million balance. ion toward a Michelangelo During a 1984 visit to New fillets at McDonald's to $305 things like that." painting and spent millions York, Mrs. Marcos spent for lunch at the Sign of the more on jewelry, documents in $13,284 in a single day at Dove restaurant two days later. evidence at her fraud trial show. Bloomingdale's department During a visit a year later, she spent $55 at McDonald's. The purchases were ledgered of the city Department of in stenographer notebooks kept Streetwalking Transportation's traffic division by Mrs.