Connecticut imlg (Eampua Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXV No. 57 University of Connecticut Tuesday, November 17,1981 Northern Ireland legislators shout protests to Parliament LONDON (AP)—Three dressing the House of Com- Speaker George Thomas, Northern Ireland Protestant mons, urged restraint by shouting above the uproar of legislators, enraged over both Protestants and Roman English legislators deman- Britain's failure to contain Catholics in the province. ding "Out! Out! Get out!" IRA violence, screamed ordered officials to remove abuse in the House of Com- Belfast legislator Peter Paisley, Robinson and mons Monday and one Robinson yelled. "The blood threatened to make the of Ulster-is on your hands! " another Belfast legislator, province "ungovernable." as Prior said Bradford's John McQuade as the trio They were suspended in- slaying was an IRA attempt continued screaming abuse definitely from Parliament. "quite deliberately to use from a gallery above their Police with specially murder to provoke further regular seats on the floor of trained dogs, meanwhile, murder." the Commons. * hunted in and around the British capital for a huge cache of explosives in what Soviet flights halted Theodore Wilson, professor of history from the Scotland Yard called the University of Kansas, explains bow England manipulated biggest search of its kind. the United States in order to get more financial aid [Jim They said they believed 500 over New England Lofink photo). pounds of gelignite were WASHINGTON (AP) — The government Monday hidden by Irish Republican suspended flights into the United States by the Soviet airline, Army guerrillas responsible Aeroflot. for a week as a penalty for overflying "sensitive Britain manipulates for a recent wave of bom- areas" in New England. bings in London. The Civil Aeronautics Board said it would bar Aeroflot U.S. foreign policy In Belfast, the IRA issued flights from Nov. 21 to Nov. 28 at the request of the State a statement on its Department, which had complained that two Soviet flights, By Warren D. Robards assassination of Protestant one inbound and one outbound, strayed from their agreed Staff Writer legislator the Rev. Robert paths on Nov. 8. Bradford in Belfast last Britain manipulated U.S. foreign policy after World War Aeroflot has two roundtrip flights a week between weekend, saying people who Washington and Moscow, with arrival and departures on II to get more financial aid, according to Theodore Wilson, shipped up anti-IRA sen- a professor of history from the University of Kansas. Tuesday and Sunday. The assigned route calls for the planes timent "cannot expect to to keep over the Atlantic between New York City and Maine. Wilson, speaking to about 35 people in the Student Union remain immune forever." Monday, said poor planning and incorrect assumptions by The State Department complained that the two flights both Britain and the United States put Britain in desperate Protestant legislators "overflew sensitive areas of southern New England" instead. financial trouble after the war. denounced British pleas for Officials at both the State and Defense Departments were The U.S. military's timetable for victory was off by calm and said they would set reluctant to discuss which sites they consider sensitive. several months in both Europe and Japan, Wilson said. up vigilante-type groups However, it was noted that the U.S. Air Force has two B-52 Victory in Europe came nine months later than expected, unless Britain cracks down bomber bases in New England, Loring and Pease in New and victory in Japan came 15 months earlier. on the outlawed, Hampshire, as well as a sophisticated new radar complex at Britain had been planning to use the time between victory predominantly Roman Otis Air Force Base, Mass.. which scans the Atlantic on guard in Europe and victory in Japan to build up its economy Catholic, IRA, which for 12 against possible missile attack from Soviet submarines. through the lend-lease program. "The British thought they years has waged a bloody An obvious focus of Soviet interest is the Groton, Conn, area were given a blank check to use lend-lease goods," Wilson campaign to drive the British where all of this country's Trident missile-firing submarines said. out and unite the province have been sent to sea. The Russians posted an intelligence- But the original timetable had forecast two years between with the mainly Catholic gathering ship, called an AGT, in waters off New London last victory in Europe and Japan. Instead, there were three Irish Republic. summer to observe the sea trials of the first Trident months. Both the United States and Canada cut off their Hardline Protestant leader subm rine, the Ohio. lend-lease program immediately when the war with Japan the Rev. Ian Paisley and two There was no suggestion in the official U.S. announcement ended, Wilson said. colleagues started shouting that th? Soviet jetliners were carrying reconnaisancc gear, and officials would not elaborate about their concern. Although the U.S. State Department had made careful when Northern Ireland The manager ot Aeroflot's Washington office could not be SEE PAGE 3 Secretary James Prior, ad- reached for comment. Athletic building slated for 1984 By June Hammel Staff Writer A multi-purpose athletic building that will double the existing space for sports and recreation will be built by 1984 if development plans proceed on schedule, according to John Toner. UConn athletics director. Hawley Armory and the existing Field House will be freed for more intramural and leisure studies use after the new facility is completed. It will be built on the field hockey arena adjacent to the Field House. The structure will contain an olympic-sized swimming pool with a diving well, a basketball arena, and raquetball courts. It will provide 218,000 square feet of new and rehabilitated space. Additional locker rooms, laboratories, physical education classrooms and gymnasia will be built, more than doubling the existing space, according to a project planning guide prepared by the Physical Plant. About $21 million will be needed to build the structure as it is planned now. "SI.2 million has already been appropriated from the state for the final design and plan." Toner said Monday. "The rest of the money has yet to be raised." S4.5 million will be raised through private fund-raising efforts Dog day afternoon which will begin later. Toner said. He expects a total of $21.1 A Husky dog, leashed to the sidecar of a motorcycle with Alaska license plates on million for the project to come from state-appropriated bonds. i-ampus, abandons his dish of food and huddles in the sidecar during Monday's rain [Jim SEE PAGE 3 Lofink photo |. Page 2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Tuesday, November 17,1981 NCAA upsetting To the Editor: I was appalled, but not surprised, to read in the recent "Alumnus" newsletter that UConn would be hosting the "first ever NCAA women's field hockey championship. " It seems rather ironic that the front page o* the newsletter would headline. "Mindpower—Our state and country depend on it.* when this article clearly shows the lack of such "mindpower" on the part of the women athletes, their coaches and administrators. As a former athlete at the University of Connecticut, I consider the move to the NCAA as nothing less than a slap in the face to myself and all those who have contributed to the level of prestige that women's athletics presently enjoys. It is unfortunate that the women's athletic department has chosen to turn its back on the AIAW, its founding organization. It is a disgrace that UConn "...has played the leadership role in crealing championships in the NCAA..., the very thing the AIAW worked feverishly to prevent. I refuse to support the University of Connecticut in any endeavor. Any institution which supports this action by the NCAA should hang its head in shame. The NCAA, which worked tirelessly against the advancement of women's athletics, has decided, in its infinite wisdome, that "if you can't beat 'cm, control 'em." COKHPCNTIAOY... I THINK THE5£ 5HUTTIES HMEWST The University of Connecticut, in a "leadership role." is setting the example; no class, no principles, no guts. »OF THEIR MYSTIQUE... Patricia J. Bresser A call for political awareness and activism By Robert J. Klrschenbanm river!" Voices carry over water, she minds to the mistakes of the past but A recent essay in this paper writ- told them. fear to step boldly into the future. We or f^jhardy policies and continually ten by an alumnus blasted UConn But why were they worried about long for a recurrence of past glories, raise questions. Politicians are students for being apathetic. In past war? many of which came in battle, but acutely aware of the multifaceted years, this charge has been made "The war will start in Coventry, hesitate to find and use innovative nature of today's problems and are several times, and with good reason. our parents talk about it," they an- ways for keeping the world at peace. willing to listen to people with dif- Compared to the other colleges in swered. The war is not here yet, she We are part of a technological ferent viewpoints. New England, UConn is a highly con- told them, and they jumped for joy. revolution ushered in by our Protesters were once seen as long- servative, Yankee blue collar in- But the war may come someday, she discoveries in electronics. Yet, we haired, self-indulgent, anti- stitution. Students at the University said, and told them about a petition lead in the field of weaponry, and establishment youths who just liked of Vermont were a major factor in the she had that proclaimed concern therein lies our fatal flaw.