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Spy business leaves student in the cold or Chinese. Although they came from By NANCY TUTKO makings of a secret agent, as one sessions lasted only two hours. Do you love your mother? University of Connecticut student different parts of the United States, many became close friends during However. these were often Are you a virgin? discovered recently. emotionally and physically draining. What were the circumstances of The National Security Agency their short stay in Washington, partly because they had to spend all of their Pire said. the last time you had sex? recruited Nancy J. Pire. an eighth "The next step for those who make Have you ever had sex with an semester biology and Russian major time together. Pire said. Each morning, a green military it through this series of interviews is animal? and sent her to Washington recently an intensive research of their charac- Do you think any of your friends for four days of interviews, vehicle picked up the applicants in front of their hotel, and took them to ter through friends, acquaintances, are spies? examinations, and interrogations — and other sources.-' Pire said. Have you ever committed any acts a regular part of its hiring process. the NASA Research Facility building, where the NSA is located. Although her interviewers told her of espionage? Pire received her instructions and she was being considered for a If you could answer these quesions a round-trip airline ticket in the mail. Upon entering the building, they received special applicant badges, position as a decoder of Russian properly and many more like them — She flew to Baltimore-Washington messages. Pire withdrew her ap- while strapped to a chair with two International Airport, and an airport and were then ushered into the "ap- plicants' elevator." which stopped plication. "I just couldn't imagine tubes around your chest, a blood limousine took her to the Ramada Inn working under circumstances where pressure cuff on your left arm. skin on Security Boulevard, where she only on the sixth floor where the in- terviewing process was carried out. you're expected to spy and report on sensors attached to the Fingers of stayed with 10other NSA applicants, Although the lie detector vour co-workers." she said."The your right hand, and facing a two- All were in college or were college examination lasted about four and NSA was a scene of incredible way mirror — you may have the graduates, and had studied Russian one-half hours most of the other paranoia, and lack ot privacy." Connect! ntt Satlg (Eampita Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL LXXXll NO HO STORRS, CONNECTICUT Wednesday, February 2H. 1970 Hawthorne, finance panel Carter asks Begin differ on attendance to break deadlock By NANCY SALVATORE Members of the student government's According to Diane O'Hara, the schedu- (UPI) — President Carter Tuesday in an effort to save finance committee have been "shirking ling procedure should allow between two said Tuesday Israeli Prime the peace plan outline that their responsibilities" by consistently miss- and three days notice prior to the meetings. Minister Menachim Begin the three leaders hammered ing committee meetings according to Chair- "We should be able to decide on a will come to Camp David out in their First summit at man Stan Hawthorne, but committee mem- meeting day that everyone can make. Ahd Thursday at his request in an 'the Maryland mountain bers say the attendance problem at recent the chairman should be able to monitor the effort to break the deadlock hideaway last September. meetings stems from a lack of organization. meetings so that when things discussed in the Middle East peace Begin apparently sought Hawthorne said Tuesday that poor start becoming pointless he can stop it. negotiations. to soften the rejection by attendance at committee meetings has been "There is a lack of organization and The surprise announ- declaring his willingness to characteristic all year. He said he was forced although everyone is involved, the chairman cement followed the Israeli go to Washington to meet to pass the chair at meetings several times is ultimately at the end of it," O'Hara said. Cabinet's decisive rejection man-to-man with Carter in order to meet a quorum to be able to pass Another member, Kathy Braun said that if earlier Tuesday of a similar about the peace process and business. they had an agreed upon day that it would Carter invitation. American-Israeli relations. Committee members say scheduling be easier to schedule classwork and activi- Carter told a news con- problems are at fault. ties around it. ference in Washington that Panel hears "No one has come to me with suggestions Both O'Hara and Braun said they felt that he talked personally with for changes except for Carol Cangiano and there is not enough advance notice of both Begin and Egyptian drinking age she has since left the committee," Haw- meetings. President Anwar Sadat thorne said. SEE PAGE 4 separately by telephone arguments HARTFORD (UPI) — Fighting Arguments before a legislative committee that ranged from the evils of increases alcoholism to the rights of teenagers lo drink echoed in Indochina through a crowded Ihall of (UPI) — Fighting in- the House of Represen- creased along the embattled tatives Tuesdav night. China-Vietnam border An estimated 250 persons, Tuesday. The United States many of them high school called on China to end its 11- and college students, atten- day invasion and withdraw ded the public hearings on but Peking moved up rein- the emotional issue of forcements and Vietnam whether the state"s drinking threatened to send its age of 18 should be raised. regulars into battle. Meanwhile, in Boston the Intelligence sources in Massachusetts House rejec- Bangkok. Thailand, said the ted the Senate version of a intensity of combat was in- bill to raise the states legal creasing and Chinese com- drinking age from 18 to 19. manders had ordered new The Connecticut troops from reserves in Legislature's General Law China to cross into Vietnam. Committee is considering a A member of the Pandemonium Puppet theater and his cohort perform for students in the number of bills to raise the Vietnamese media repor- Student Union Tuesday. SEEPAGE 5 drink age to 19. 20. or 21. Branch move react A gross idea Field House fire LaVigne reflects Sunny Partly sunny today with The proposed Water- After basketball co-capt- Are ideas really like bowel A minor Fire broke out in ain Randy LaVigne had the highs in the low 40s. bury branch move is get- movements? That's what the Field House Tuesday Fair tonight with low in ting a mixed reception played his last game at the National Lampoon night.-See page 9. Field House recently, he the 20s. from faculty and students author/screenwriter Chris Thursday mostly there. See page 4. was less than satisfied with Miller says. his performance. See page sunny with highs in the low to mid 40s. The Connecticut Daily Campus. Wednesday. February 28. 1979 f In our opinion Watch your (Entuwrttntt Eatfg (EamjniH electrical etiquette Serving Storrs Since 1896 JOHN HILL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF It seems that UConn has its own mini-electrical crisis. CHARLES A. MOORE VIKKISUSMAN It could be just a matter of time before the university MANAGING EDITOR LYNM. MUNLEY BUSINESS MANAGER administration comes out with an energy packet to con- SENIOR EDITOR trol the use of such frivolities as hair dryers, refrigerators, television set and curling irons on campus, probably resulting in a tremendous savings on the standard Editorials and Commentary 15 watt fuses that seem to come and go so quickly. The simultaneous drying of two wet heads of hair can send a string of rooms into darkness in the small dorms.- and the situation can get to be intolerable for a diligent student cramming for tomorrow's EcOfl 111 final under the broad beam of an emergency Hare, because an R.A. is nowhere to be found. The Physical Plant is working on a total upgrading of the entire electrical system in the Jungle, a wise and long- awaited plan. Other building encounter the same problems, but will have to wait their turn, if it ever comes. However, the problem can be alleviated to a degree by some thoughtfulness on the part of the •'offending" studen- ts. A roster need not be posted to organize residents' hair- crying opportunities and television time. A little common courtesy can go a long way to make things easier for student in dorms plagued by the short-fuse epidemij. especially now. under the extra pressure of midterms. z M WMTHEKf (KWKEfi 5 It's a long, long way to the top By MICHAEL CALVERT due in mid-February and he has no broken—we shall have to use the ran out. time to lose. I told him if that was so. stairs. Roger was for turning back January 30—Barely made third The following is the journal of why didn't we start sooner. I am and asking for an extension on his floor. Only sheer willpower keeping Peter Piton. who. along with a com- growing irritable from the altitude paper, but I dissuaded him. Morale us going. I am beginning to fear the panion, Roger Rappel. undertook last and bad weather. Irving, too. is is low. however. The entire party worst. January to scale the treacherous nor- having trouble adjusting to the cold, knows that no man has ever attacked January 31—I set out alone this th steps of the UConn library: Piton and Ramu complained that last night the stairs and lived. Supplies are morning.