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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol.XCIIINo.69 The University of Connecticut Friday, February 2,1990 Ceremony marks beginning of Black History month Recognition given Efforts intensify to black astronaut black awareness By Ed Kuryluk By Katie Guard Campus Correspondent Campus Correspondent Over a hundred students and It is hard not to notice the faculty members were on hand numerous posters and flyers last night to celebrate the first promoting Black History day of Black History Month in Month which have been posted the H. Fred Simons Afro- around campus lately. This American Cultural Center. The month has been reserved for the 10-year-old traditional cere- national observation of Black mony included a dedication, American history. various speakers and singing. UConn is sponsoring many Recognition was given to academic and cultural activities the achievements of astronaut which are intended to help stu- Ronald McNair, who died in dents to broaden their under- the Space Shuttle Challenger standing of Black American accident in January 1986, by history and culture. dedicating this year's opening The importance of Black his- ceremonies to him. McNair tory was first acknowledged in was a mission specialist with 1926, with a week long cele- NASA. bration. It was at that time that "We are dedicating this day historian Carter G. Woodson to Ronald McNair," said Kent vied to make it a national, Butler interim director of the month-long institution. It was AACC. " I hope the tradition not recognized as an official —Kevin Fraser/The Daily Campus of dedicating the opening cere- national program, however. Wesley L. Harris, dean of the School of Engineering, spoke at the H. Fred Simons See page 4 See page 7 Cultural Center during the opening ceremonies of Black History month. Co-op redeposits investment in student credit union By Andrew Slitt "I think we've made a terri- dit Union Audit Report for be most affected. written this semester without Daily Campus Staff ble mistake...I don't want to be 1988 reported a delinquency The return of the deposit the return of the investment. In a flip-flop decision last liable for it," he said. rate of 30.39 percent, with may mean more students will Pape is also on the Co-op Thursday, the UConn Co-op It is unclear what swayed the eight percent of these loans receive loans this semester who Board of Directors, a condition Board of Directors reversed it- opinion of the board; at the last attributed to former officers and may have been turned away had which forces him to abstain self and rcdeposited a $100,000 meeting in November, most employees of the Credit Union the funds not been present. from voting on the issue of investment with the UConn directors present were opposed who took advantage of their Ron Papc, General Manager redeposit. Student Federal Credit Union. to a redeposit of the funds. knowledge of the inadequate and Treasurer of the Credit The National Credit Union The board arrived at a 7-3 Questionable practices of the collection process. Union, said he was pleased Administration (NCUA), in its decision in favor of the rede- Credit Union led to the deci- The report identifies loans as with the result. 1987 report of examination, posit, after debating in execu- sion of the board last May to the major source of income for "We have received twenty ap- the most recently available, tive session. withdraw the funds in Novem- the Credit Union. Credit Union plications for loans this semes- stated the Credit Union was Joe Kershenbaum, an alumni ber. representative Chuck Failla, in ter which we wouldn't have operating at the rate of be- representative on the board, re- The major area of concern to a letter to the Co-op board, been able to write without the coming insolvent in the near mained opposed to the rede- the Co-op had been the Credit states that the Credit Union's Co-op money," he said. Pape future. posit. Union's loan policy. The Cre- ability to provide loans would said no loans would have been See page 4 Iran-Contra Former CIA operative middleman reveals agency's secrets By Maureen Moran sentenced Daily Campus Staff WASHINGTON (AP) — He's been called a drunk, a traitor, un-American, a communist, a Iran-Contra middleman Albert womanizer and despicable, but yesterday in the Student Union Hakim was placed on two years Ballroom ex-CIA agent Philip Agec was merely outspoken. probation and fined $5,000 He spoke before a crowd that filled the original 360 scats in the Thursday after giving up his ballroom as well as an additional 80 seats that were set up. Still claim on what prosecutors said some people had to stand. was $7.3 million in arms-deal "Nothing like notoreity, really, to bring a crowd together at 10 profits now frozen in Swiss o'clock in the morning," Agee said before giving his lecture, accounts. sponsored by die UConn Peace Education Group. The Iranian-born business- Agee, the leading activist in the "CIA Off-Campus" movement, man, who pleaded guilty Nov. had something to say about President and former CIA Director 21 to illegally helping sup- George Bush, who has called Agee "despicable" and "disgraceful." plement Oliver North's gov- Agee said Bush and Ronald Reagan were fully impeachable ernment income with a because of the Iran-Contra affair, Bush having bribed the Honduran $13,800 home security system, president twice and inhibited the Boland Amendment in order to bitterly attacked the govern- finance the Contras. ment after his sentencing. Because the CIA docs not have or make its own policy, he said, "I have been abused by two Reagan was fully aware of what was going on and all orders were presidents," Hakim said after written by the President, he said. " [The CIA] has never been a his appearance before U.S. rogue elephant," he said. District Court Judge Gerhard It was only because the elite of this country had no stomach for Gesell. "I'm talking about another Watergate that Reagan and Bush were not impeached, said President Reagan and President Agee. Walsh," he said, the latter re- The CIA's roots in Latin America run deep, Agcc said. They ferring to independent counsel have their fingers in many pies—trade unions, student organi- Lawrence Walsh. zations, governments and perhaps most importantly, the media, according to Agec. "The American public has Another function of the CIA in Latin America is a paramilitary had enough of this soap opera," one, training irregular forces such as die Contras for sabotage or to Hakim said. carry out their goals without the hand of the American government Hakim, who could have been —UPI showing, he said. Battallion 316 of me Honduran army was trained sentenced to up to a year in jail WASHINGTON—Iranian arms middleman Albert in Texas by the CIA and is now the Honduran government's and a SI00,000 fine. Hakim(C) leaves U.S. District court. See page 4 PAGE TWO Winter returns! New England ^> Temperatures ^ H L &\ ^> ^> Hartford 47 24 Boston 40 30 Worcester 41 25 ^ Providence 45 26 ^ ^ Today: cloudy with rain or snow likely. High 35 to 40. Wind becoming northeast around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Tonight: a chance of snow early then remaining mostly cloudy. Low 20 to 25. Chance of snow 40 percent. Saturday: cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow during the afternoon. High around freezing. Conn. Lottery Friday, Feb. 2 drawing Daily: 6-7-6 -Kevin Frascr/Thc Daily Campus FACING THE HEAVENS- The observatory on top of the math science building Ten years ago looks out toward the stars ready for another class of astronomy in The Daily Campus U.S. clashes with China, Cuba GENEVA (AP) — The three male Saudis, and south of Los Angeles. United States on Thursday •Students held a sit-in at the Homer Babbidge Library to protest a descriptions of the assailants Paramedics, police and others clashed with China and Cuba at cutback in weekend hours. Students studied and wrote their were sketchy — one was who risk exposure also should the annual session of the U.N. congressmen to protest the reduction which was caused by a hiring described as Arab-looking and have use of AZT, he said Human Rights Commission the other Thai. Thursday. freeze. after the two Communist •Shutdebus service to the Hilltop area was eliminated because of One gunman hiding in a The program, implemented residents from this area accounted for only four percent of those countries criticized the U.S. parked car killed Abdullah A. in September, was discussed by who use the bus and the steep inclines caused more strain on the invasion of Panama. Al-Desri, 32, a consular county AIDS coordinator Morris Abram, the U.S. buses and added extra brake repairs. official, as he walked toward Penny Weismuller at an AIDS •The UConn men's basketball team lost to Georgetown by a ambassador to the United his apartment near the embassy conference Wednesday. Nations in Geneva, called on score of 84-64. at about 3:30 p.m. He was Under the program, five the hard-line leaderships in shot four times, police said. public safety workers took Beijing and Havana to test their Interior Minister Banharn AZT immediately after "totalitarian regimes" by Sipla-archa told reporters the potential exposure to the virus, following the recent examples killer was "Arab looking" but Ms. Weismuller said. Animal of Chile and El Salvador and had no further details as to his studies indicate that infection hold elections.