Soviet Officials Abandon Hope for Survivors Bundy May Have Killed Up
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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCII No. 63 The University of Connecticut Thursday, January 26,1989 Soviet officials abandon hope for survivors Three mountain Eyewitness villages account recalls dedicated as earthquake common graves horror SHARORA, U.S.S.R. (AP) SHARORA, U.S.S.R. — Officials on Wednesday (AP) — It moved as fast as a abandoned hope of finding any running man, and with more survivors of the enormous force. Looming earthquake and mudslide that black against the predawn inundated three mountain sky, the mudslide sounded villages, and said this like thunder, or rocks being settlement would be dedicated crushed into dust, survivors as a common grave. recall. Along with the bad news Unleashed by an earthquake, that no more survivors could the moving wall of mud, 50 expect to be found, there also feet high in places, crashed was good news: officials said down on this hillside peasant the death toll from Monday's settlement in Soviet disaster was only about a Tadzhikistan on Monday. It quarter of the 1,000 they buried one—story mud—brick originally had estimated. and prefabricated concrete In addition, a young man homes and killed 207 described how his 6—day—old villagers, most of them in cousin miraculously survived their sleep. the quake, held aloft in her It left a silent, moonlike father's hands as he and his landscape of rolling, moist household died in a torrent of earth and no signs of life, mud. except for white roofs that Kholmurod Barotov, 17, a Russian officials have given up hope of finding any more survivors in three peeked through the grime or worker in a Sharora bakery. Soviet villages flattened by an earthquake and a mudslide earlier this week. The scraps of brightly colored See page 4 villages have been dedicated as common graves (Reuters Photo). cloth carried across it by a morning breeze from the hills. Bundy may have killed up to 50 women In house No. 1 at Sharora's 1 TALLAHASSEE,TAT I AUACCEC Fla.TZln (AP)/AD* thatikm maymati naimrnever )ube pnnfirmwlconfirmed onnn havei i been t briefed. -_r_j at-. the.u. FBI'}T7r>t». In. an _ interview• . • >Monday< i_.. with dairy farm, herdsman Saifulo — The prosecutor who sent 14 more cases in Washington, Quantico, Va., center for the psychologist James Dobson, Khodzharayev, 30, and seven Ted Bundy to the electric chair Utah, Idaho, California, analysis of violent crime. Bundy refused to discuss details members of his family were said Wednesday that the serial Vermont and Pennsylvania, and Hagmeier checked out of his of the Leach murder. "I can't buried alive and suffocated sex killer may have slain as touched on at least 20 more Starke motel Wednesday. talk about that right now... It's after the earthquake, many as SO young women, a slayings in various states Until last week Bundy had too painful." measuring 5.4 on the Richter toll frustrated investigators dating back to 1969. Three denied killing anyone. He was He was also sentenced to scale, dislodged the earth have sought to prove for Florida killings charged to convicted in three slayings in death for killing two Florida softened by thawing snow. years. Bundy would be added to the 13 Florida and charged in only one State students in their Chi They were among about 270 State Attorney Jerry Blair closed cases, putting the total death in Colorado; several Omega Sorority house on the confirmed dead. said that just before Tuesday's to at least SO. bodies have never been found. university campus, just three The family's tone survivor execution at Florida State "I don't know that it's far off Bundy, a 42—year—old law weeks before Miss Leach was was Khodzharayev's 6"—day— old baby girl, who had not yet Prison near Starke, he and an from the figures everybody has school dropout and one—time abducted in Lake City. FBI expert on serial killer, bandied about anyway," Blah- Republican activist in He died under his fourth been given a name. She was informally discussed a weekend said. "Those are the figures death warrant, held by her father aloft at Washington state, was executed arm's length, and escaped the of Bundy confessions. I've heard for many years. I shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday for "There is no way in the deadly torrent of wet, sticky Blair said FBI agent Bill don't think we'll ever know the 1978 kidnap, rape and world that killing me is going Hagmeier told him that exactly how many." to restore those beautiful clay, said Kholmurod murder of 12—year—old Barotov, 17, a bakery Bundy's confessions closed the FBI spokeswoman Kathy Kimberly Leach, whose body children to their parents," said worker. books on 13 killings in Bradford said no formal was found in an abandoned Bundy, who told Dobson he statement would be made about Barotov said his mother, Washington, Utah and pigsty. didn't want to die. Colorado; provided information Bundy's crimes until officials the infant's aunt, had gone to spend the night at her house Third search is concluded ,-».,— ■« A farther up the hill to help her sister take care of the new born. Powell named new A-ACC director See page 4 By Angi Carter "He (Powell) offers to us all the things we're looking for. We Daily Campus Staff think we've come up with a fine candidate... We were looking for 100%, but I think we've come up with 110%," said Wrobleski. TODAY IN The division of Student Affairs and Services has hired Mr. According to Wrobleski, Powell has served as director of the THE DAILY CAMPUS Yale University Afro-American Cultural Center. He has taught for Ronald Powell as director of the Afro-American Cultural Center SPORTS (A-ACC), according to Milton Wrobleski, search committee several years on the collegiate level, hosted the "Black Perspective" chairman and Student Activities and Union Programs fiscal talk show on Channel 30 and was the fiscal manger for an The UConn Women's Bas- manager. insurance company. Powell is also an alumnus of the UConn Law ketball team, ranked number The position was vacated when Artie Travis left almost 20 School. one in the Big East, defeated months ago. Kim Harris, president of the Black Student Associations said that St. John's 78-61 in a home This was the third search for an A-ACC director conducted by the the increased involvement of students in the search process was the game last night division of Student Affairs and Services. The first two searches reason for the success. See Back Page failed to find a replacement for Travis. "The increase in student input sparked interest across the state," The third search began with the appointment of a committee Harris said. ASK VIC AND SHER consisting of two representatives from the Black Student "He's (Powell) highly qualified and very active in the See page 8 Association, one from the Board of Trustees, and three UConn community," said Liston Filyaw, counselor for the Center for administrators. \cademic Programs. News Pages 3-6 Wrobleski said rather than base the committee's decision on it's "I'm pleased that the search was successful and I feel the candidate Sports Pages 20-24 judgement alone, they sought input from the UConn community. vill be a strong leader and an asset to the UConn community," said Comics Pages 18-19 "We got rave reviews," he said. Donna Maness, search committee member. Editorials Pages 12-13 The committee interviewed six out of a pool of thirty-four Powell will be at the A-ACC on Friday, January 27 at 1:00 pm Features Pages 7-10 candidates. Each of the candidates spent time in the A-ACC to meet students, faculty, and all interested persons and answer any Arts Pages 11,14-16 meeting with students, faculty, and staff. questions. ALMANAC STATE for a moment of silence. The state and local just before 4 p.m. and was officials said. routinely searched by Customs The attorney general said HARTFORD (AP) - A The resolution, describing governments oppose licensing the nine young men and Shorcham because they inspectors, who found nothing, police raided between 20 and 25 resolution honoring the said Eastern spokeswoman places in the capital and its memories of ihc nine people women as among maintain the area around the Connecticut's "best and S5.4 billion reactor could not Karen Ccrcmsak. suburbs as part of an from Connecticut who died in The placement seemed to investigation of the base the terrorist explosion of Pan brightest," was then sent be evacuated safely in the event of a nuclear accident. indicate "someone with attack, but he declined to give Am Flight 103 over Scotland upstairs to the Senate where it was also adopted unanimously. 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