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®he latlit dampiia Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896" LXXXVIIINo. 44 The University of Connecticut Thursday, Nov. 8, 1984 Election turnout in '84 Reagan vows reverses 20-year trend his program, By The Associated Press will he kept WASHINGTON (AP)—When all the ballots are counted, voter turnout in Tuesday's election will be up slightly, reversing a 20- By the Associated Press year trend of declining participation in presidential elections, an President Reagan said analyst said Wednesday. Wednesday that his unrivaled All toll. 52.9 percent of the voting age population went to the electoral landslide proves polls, according to Curtis Cans, director of the non-partisan voters want second- term pro- committee for the Study of American Electorate He said it is grams like those of his first likely 92 million Americans cast ballots. four years, and vowed to The 52.9 percent rate is an increase of three-tenths of 1 per- "take our case to the people" cent over 1980 and the first rise since the decline began after the if the new Congress blocks his Kennedy-Nixon election of 1960, when 62.8 percent voted rhat conservative course of election marked the highest turnout since women got the spending cuts and tax re- vote in 1920. form Gans blamed television's projections of a winner and the per- Reagan looked ahead to a ception of a landslide in the making for low turnouts in the West new term as vanquished rival The TV projections were made while the polls were still open in Walter F. Mondale offered Western states. congratulations a half a conti- In states where the polls had closed by 830 p.m. EST or earlier, nent away. But Mondale made 14 and the District of Columbia had increased turnout and 10 no attempt to mask his dif- states had decreases, Gans said ferences with the president But in states where the polls did not close until 9 p.m. EST or and said Reagan needs to later, 19 states had turnout declines and only five had in- change course. creases. Even some GOP leaders Maine with 64.7 percent of its adults voting had the highest said smaller-than-expected turnout gains in the House would Other states with high participation rates were Minnesota, 64.2 mean problems for the presi- percent; Wisconsin 63.4 percent; South Dakota 62.9 percent and Ronald Reagan smiles during victory celebration after his dent House Republican Connecticut 60.1 percent big win (UPI photo). leader Robert H Michel of Illinois suggested Reagan Salvadoran revolutionary: could have done more to campaign for congressional candidates. Reagan's re-election puts Central America in danger Reagan read the returns differently, telling re- By Lauren Ungaro He vehemently said that porters at a morning news Staff Writer Raagan's belief is mistaken: conference that by verdict Arnuldo Ramos, the nation- "We are not willing to fight for the voters "made it plain they al spokesman for the Democ- the Soviet Union, believe me." approved what we're doing ratic Revolutionary Front a*id With a spark of dry humor, and approved of the fact that the Front for National Libera- Ramos said the only reason things are better and the tion (FDR-FMIN), a Salvador- they call us the left is because economy is expanding and an revolutionary coalition, the United States only recog- that's what we're going to commented Wednesday on nizes the right" Then he star- continue to do." the reelection of President ted writing to the left of what He repeated his belief that Ronald Reagan: "With such an he has already written on the federal budget is "larded extraordinary event as the the blackboard with fat" and said he would one that took place last Tues- Ramos said that Congress press for overhaul and sim- day night the people of Cen- has recently allocated $311 plification of the tax laws that tral America are in danger." million toward military aid for "would not result in any in- He spoke to a crowd of about El Salvador. This military sup- dividual having his taxes 250 at a lecture in the "Sur- port is aimed at the murder of raised" vival of Humanities" class. civilians, whom the United But at his own day-after Ramos, who represents a States and the Salvadoran re- news conference in his home group comprised of both a gime recognize to be actively state of Minnesota Mondale political federation (the FDR) opposed to the established predicted, "One of the biggest and a military, guerilla- government He estimated meals of crow this administra- backed organization (the that at least 40 civilians are tion will eat - and there will be FMLN). said that Ronald Rea- killed each month by United several - is this one concern- gan has been justfying sup- States-supported bombings ing revenues" port of a repressive regime, and death squads. As for his own future, Mon- insidiously justifying that sup- Ramos repeated that the dale said he has no plans to port with the mistaken idea violence in El Salvador has run for president "or any that he is purging El Salvador nothing to do with the Soviet other elective office again" of Communist influence The Union and that the United Despite Reagan's over- belief that El Salvador revolu- States must see that the up- whelming personal triumph - tionaries are aided by the heaval's roots lie in strife bet- final popular vote totals Soviet Union is false Reagan's ween the Salvadoran people showed him with 53,324,171 fears to the contrary are Arnuldo Ramos spoke about how President Reagan's and their government which or 59 percent to Mondale's based on an imagined Com- he called "fascist" He warned 36,862,510, or 41 percent - reelection will affect Central America in a speech at LS. munist link to Nicaragua he 154 last night (John Metaxas photo.) that the labelling of Safvador- even the GOP wondered said Seepages where the coattails went ^x Inside Today: Weather Forecast: •A sports editor's first taste of the Big Apple See back page Sunny today with highs between 55 and 60 degrees Fair tonight lows in the upper 20s •A view of "To Embrace the Leopard" See page 15. *...!"•• Page 2 The Dally Campus, Thursday. November 8. 1984 i r P * ■*•. F Jrt •«•* < r /»/ f, jr*. ft ', ' News • Roundup State New hopes for new regime HARTF( )RD( AP)—It's been 10 years since Republicans last held con- trol of both houses of the Connecticut legislature and about that long since many Fairfield County lawmakers and lobbyists felt their gripes were adequately heard at the state Capitol. This may change, some think, with the Reagan landslide and the effect it had in Connecticut. When the new 1985 state legislature - with 30 Republicans in the com- bined House and Senate • begins its session, many in the Republican - dominated mostly white-collar county hope government will listen to their voices with a more sympathetic ear. Statewide, the Republicans picked up 22 seats in the House of Rep- resentatives and eight in the Senate, giving the GOP an 67-04 majority in the House and a 24-12 majority in the Senate. In Fairfield County, six Dem<x-ratic representatives and two Democratic senators were de- feated by Republicans. Of the county's^' representatives, 25 will be Republican, as will seven of its nine senators. "We're always optimistic that there will be a change in attitude." said state Rep. Morag L Vance, a legislator from Trumball who chairs the Fairfield County Republican Caucus and who believes her area has been largely ignored by Democratic-controlled legislatures since 1974. Farrakhan dropped STAMFORD (AP)—The local chapter of an international collegiate iraternity, responding to concerns raised by Jewish leaders, has can- celed Thursday's scheduled appearance by Muslim leader Louis Far- rakhan. Farrakhan was due to speak during the Omega. Psi Phi fraternity's Achievement Week Program. "We received numerous phone calls from both sides of the fence Luck shined dutifully on Willis Nicklas, 49, of Bryantville, Mass. He is holding the ticket some people in favor, some against." said Colone Pearson, the group's that won $1,373,170 in the Mass. State Lottery's Megabucks Game drawing attorney. Taking the comments of both sides into consideration and (UPI photo). our own desires to work toward a better understanding in the com- munity, we made an independent decision." Representatives from Farrakhan's Nation of Islam headquarters in Chicago, who refused to give their names, told The Advocate of Stam- World ford Tuesday that Farrakhan had canceled his visit Monday. Nation "He's been on a self-imposed silence for the past month and he's decided to continue it," one spokesman said MiGs may be serious When informed of the claim. Pearson said: "I don't know anything Ustinov is unseen about that" WASHINGTON AP)—As U.S. officials studied intel- Farrakhan's proposed appearance at Stamford High School spurred MOSCOW (AP)—Defense Minister Dmitri F. Usti- ligence data suggesting the Soviet Union might be nov did not appear Wednesday to review the troops concern—especially in the Jewish community—because of statements shipping MiG-21 fighters to Nicaragua, President when the Soviet Union paraded its military might in he made earlier this year in support of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's presiden- Reagan on Wednesday warned that he would regard tial campaign that some interpreted as anti-Semitic. Red Square on the 67th anniversary of the Bolshe- arrival of the planes as a serious matter and a threat vik revolution.