Bush Returns from Five-Day Asian Voyage University Assault Statistics May Be Distorted
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The Daily Campus " . Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCII No. 86 The University of Connecticut Tuesday, February 28,1989 Bush returns from five-day Asian voyage President to Invitation to concentrate dissident on Tower offended issue Chinese WASHINGTON (AP) — BEIJING (AP) — The President Bush returned home government said Monday it Monday night from a five-day resented the United States Asian voyage that he having invited a leading pronounced a "productive and dissident to a banquet given by rewarding" journey and moved President Bush, and regretted to take personal command of that a fuss was made when the struggle to win police barred him from confirmation for John Tower as attending. defense secretary. Chinese intellectuals, mean- In a prepared statement he while, said the action against read at the foot of the ramp to Fang Lizhi was "stupid," Air Force One, Bush said his "neolithic" and "unacceptable." trip to Japan, China and South Fang, an internationally Korea demonstrated that the respected astrophysicist who United States "is and will has criticized Marxism and remain a Pacific power." called for democratic reform in "It's great to be home. God China, was invited to the bless the United States of banquet along with his wife, Li America," Bush said in ihe Shuxian. chilly darkness at Andrews Air But dozens of police Force Base in suburban converged to block his car and Maryland. Vice President Dan bar him from entering the hotel Quayle was on hand to where the Texas-style barbecue welcome the new president was held Sunday. Police then back from his first overseas refused to allow him to ride in voyage. a taxi and made a bus driver In his brief statement, the pass a stop where he was president said he had held waiting. "thoughtful and candid "All the arrangements George Bush prepares to board Air Force One in Alaska (UPI photo). conversations" with world concerning Prciiden: Rur!"-; leaders, including the several he stay in China !:ad bnwi ngrccd Due to unreported incidents: Sec page 6 See page h University assault statistics may be distorted By Lee Condon only report statistics on percent of those surveyed had the attention of a member of mental health clinic, and Daily Campus Staff incidents reported to them. been the victims of rape or the university's Violence UConn Health Services. A university announcement "The FBI says that one out of attempted rape. Of these Network. The statistics reported by the Violence Network reported 12 in The Daily Campus that three women is raped in her victims 84 percent were The Violence Network incidents of sexual assault, four reported statistics on violence lifetime, but only one out of acquainted with their attacker. coordinates services to students incidents of physical assault, against women at UConn in 10 report it." she said. Only 5 percent of those who have been victims of The UConn Rape Education acquainted with their attacker violence. The Violence and 8 incidents of sexual and the Fall of 1988 was called a discriminatory harassment. In dramatic underestimation of Program has found statistics reported being sexually Network at UConn is made up 11 of the 24 cases women did women who had a forced sexual consistent with national assaulted. of nine separate departments of encounter at UConn, by Gail averages from questionnaires The announcement printed in the university, including The not officially report the Mellow, director of the received from people on The Daily Campus last Women's Clinic, The Women's incident, therefore no action Women's Center. campus who have attended their Wednesday was a report of the Center, The Rape Education could be taken by any campus Mellow said the university program. number of sexual and physical Program, the department of department or the police. Whenever someone tells a has no way to determine how A 1987-88 Ms. magazine assaults and sexual and residential life, the department survey of 3000 women on 32 discriminatory harassment of student affairs, the UConn member of the Violence many incidents actually See page 4 occurred last semester and can college campuses found that 25 incidents that were brought to Police, Affirmative Action, the ToilAY IN THE DAILY CAMPUS After a night in jail, NEWS UConn Do It Day will be a Gandall is at UConn day of beam ideation for By Michael Greenwood UConn. The day is sponsored Daily Campus Staff by the student life committee After being arrested and spending Sunday night in a West Palm ARTS Page * Beach, Fla. jail. Bill Gandall, 80, still kept his Monday night The U.S. College Comedy speaking engagement at UConn. Competition rolled into Gandall was arrested for leading a protest after a shelter for the homeless refused to take in any more boarders for the night. Gandall Storrs last night. Rage u said the police "usually" didn't arrest him for such protests, but last SPORTS night was an exception. The Men's Haskctball team Gandall, a veteran of three wars, spoke at the Puerto Rican-Latin prepares to lace Syracuse American Cultural Center about his experiences as a soldier during University tonight and keep the U.S. intervention of Nicaragua in 1928 and his service in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Gandall also served for three years in hopes for an NCAA bid alive, World War II. but it is not going to be easy. Gandall described his political transformation before the events of Back Page the past 24 hours proved too much and he fell islccp from fatigue. Editorials pgs. 10,11 In 1926, as a young man, Gandall saw posters of South Sea Comics pgs. 14,15 dancers and decided/'that's for me." He joined the Marines shortly Sports pgs. 17-20 after to see the world, but found himself going to Nicaragua Bill Gandall went from a jail in Florida to a speaking inslcad- See page 3 date at UConn (Dena Levinson photo). AROUND THE WORLD Soviets sent weapons to Sandinistas WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union exported about S515 million worth of military equipment to Nicaragua last year, the second highest total since the Kremlin began weapons deliveries in 1980, according to a new U.S. government report. The report says last year's delivery of 19,000 tons of equipment came during 68 ship visits to Nicaraguan ports, an average of about one every six days. The unclassified analysis, compiled by intelligence agencies, said the peak year for Soviet arms shipments was 1986, when the Sandinistas received $550 million worth of equipment. That was the last year Congress approved military aid for the Nicaraguan Contras. A year ago, Congress suspended military aid to the Contras, and as the months passed, Reagan administration officials expressed deep disappointment that the Soviets did not reciprocate by cutting back on weapons shipments to the Sandinistas. The aid suspension was quickly followed by an interim cease-fire between the Sandinistas and the Contras in late March. Subsequently, about 11,000 Contras fled to camps in Honduras along the border where the rebels are sustained by a U.S. humanitarian aid program. ALBANY- Governor Mario Cuomo arm-wrestles against Fred Meyers of The Sandinistas have contended that continued Queens, New York as he arrives to address a group of senior citizens in Albany. Soviet arms shipments were needed in the event the The match ended in a draw (UPI photo). United States decided to resume military aid to the Contras. The Kremlin has said that it would suspend arms Price increases Mistrial possible Youth shot after deliveries to the Sandinistas as part of an overall ban cause riots for 'Wight Stalker" stabbing soldier on outside arms shipments to Central America, but CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — LOS ANGELES (AP) — The EL-BIREH, Occupied West Bank the United States has shown no interest in that Slum residents looted stores and attorney for "Night Stalker" murder (AP) — A Palestinian teen-ager proposal. burned cars Monday to protest a defendant Richard Ramirez is stabbed an Israeli soldier Monday doubling of bus fares, while suffering from trial-related nervous and then was shot in the head as Troops deployed students fought police and soldiers exhaustion, the judge said Monday, troops chased the boy through a in several cities. and the prosecutor said they might crowded market, the army said. in Kosovo More than 100 people were have to start the trial over. Also Monday, a previously PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) — Troops and tanks reported injured, two seriously, "Probably the chances of a unknown Arab group claimed it moved into Kosovo province Monday, the eighth day when when looters formed human mistrial are good," Deputy District was holding a paratrooper who has of a strike by ethnic Albanian miners, and provincial chains to face national guard units Attorney P. Philip Halpin said. been missing for 12 days. Communist Parly leaders began resigning as in tanks and firing birdshot, the "We can't keep this jury hanging demanded by the strikers. journalists said. around indefinitely." In clashes in the occupied West At another mine, workers from the province's Students took the state governor, A mistrial would mean a new Bank and Gaza Strip, soldiers shot Slavic minority began a strike in support of the party Orlando Guttierez, prisoner for jury would need to be selected in and wounded 10 Palestinians, officials. about an hour Monday when he the 3-year-old case. according to Arab reports and Air force jets flew over the provincial capital approached rioters in an attempt lo Ramirez, 28, is charged with 13 hospital officials. Pristina several times in a show of might by the talk with them.