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mo IWxr.S Weather c.1 W?f7f Rain today and tonight. Highs today in the mid to upper 40s and lows tonight in the low 30s. (tanccttcut latin Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 Volume LXXXIII No. 92 STORRS, CONNECTICUT Wednesday, March 5 1980 Anderson tally surprising By CLAY E. RICHARDS (29 percent). BOSTON(UPI)- Rep. John Anderson scored Republicans: the double-barreled surprise of the campaign Anderson 92,159 (31 percent), Bush 91,422 Tuesday with strong showing against the GOP (31 percent), Reagan 84,325 (29 percent). frontrunners in both Vermont and This translates to 77 delegates for Kennedy Massachusetts where Edward Kennedy won a and 34 for Carter, giving Kennedy the lead so sweet home-state victory over President far 111-85 in the race for the 1,666 needed to Carter. nominate. Carter got revenge of a sort, easily winning The Republican vote translates into 14 in Vermont to deal Kennedy his third New delegates for Anderson, 13 for Reagan, 13 for England setback this year. Bush, and 2 for Sen. Howard Baker. That Anderson, the quiet-spoken congressman would be a total of 35 for Bush, 35 for Reagan, from Illinois surprised the pollsters and 16 for Anderson, 8 for Baker and 1 for John pundits by narrowly losing to Ronald Reagan Connally in the race for 998 needed to in Vermont by only a few hundred votes, and nominate. holding a narrow but firm lead over George Running behind were Connally and Rep. Bush and Reagan in Massachusetts. Philip Crane with 1 percent each, Sen. Robert Anderson led Vermont throughout the entire Dole, Benjamin Fernandez, and Harold night and it was not until the northern town of Stassen with 0 percent each. Gov. Edmund St. Johnsbury reported in the early morning Brown was a distant third in the Democratic hours that Reagan moved into a 400 vote lead. race with 4 percent. The vote and percentage for the leaders of In Vermont with 97 percent of the precincts the Massachusetts primary as of 1:05 a.m. counted. Carter had 26,521 votes or 74 percent EST with 82 percent of precincts reporting: to Kennedy's 9,179 or 26 percent.Reagan had Democrats: 18,654 or 31 percent, Anderson had 18,240 or Kennedy 460,350 (66 percent),Carter 202,253 SEE PAGE5 John Anderson |UPI]. U.N. panel will meet with hostages Bv UNITED PRESS meet the 50 American the council has approved the The minister added thai Although the council INTERNATIONAL hostages. Iran's foreign meeting of the panel with the Khomeini, who diplomats meeting was also attended Ayatollah Ruhollah minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh hostages, an official Pars agree is the ultimate key to by President Abolhassan Khomeini, countering the said Tuesday night. News Agency report the meeting and eventual Bani-Sadr. it was militants at the U.S. Ghofbzadeh emerged from broadcast on Tehran radio freeing of the hostages, has Ghotb/adch who talked to Embassy in Tehran, has a meeting of the ruling said. The radio was approved the meeting the press afterward. ruled that the U.N. panel will Revolutionary Council to say monitored in London. between the U.N. group and Earlier Moslem militants, the U.S. captives. defying the Revolutionary Ghotbzadeh did not say Council.said they would not DiBiaggio earns 'Order of Merit' when the meeting would permit the U.N. commission take place and did not to meet with all 50 specify whether the panel Americans held hostage in award for outstanding service would sec all the hostages. the U.S. Embassy. UConn President John A. DiBiaggio will be decision to award the honor was made by the awarded Italy's prestigious "Order of Merit", President of the Republic of Italy. Testa details burglary Allessandro Cortese de Bosis, consul general The Consul General said DiBiaggio will of Italy, said Tuesday. receive the designation of "Cavalier In a letter to DiBiaggio, the Italian diplomat Officiale" in the "Ordine al Merito della in court appearance informed the UConn president that the Repubblica Italiana" in recognition of his HARTFORD(UPI)—Rocco Testa, a former UConn football outstanding achievement in the cultural and player who moonlighted as a burglar, Tuesday detailed the academic field "and especially for your house burglary in which his uncle and alleged accomplice is contributions toward the enhancement of accused of killing a police officer. Italian culture in the United States." Testa outlined how he and Gerard "Gary'Tastonguay broke The award ceremony will be held at noon into a Plainville home and then fled when policeman Robert Friday, March 7 at the Italian Consulate in Holcomb arrived. New York City. He didn't directly tie his uncle to the officer's slaying, but identified the alleged murder weapon as similar to a gun The Order of Merit, instituted in 1951, can be conferred on outstanding individuals, carried by Castonguay during the Nov. 21. 1977 burglary as both Italian and non-Italian, for services in the he ran from the scene. Testa testified under a grant of immunity in the trial of fields of science, literature, art and trade, and for services in the promotion of public welfare Castonguay, 36, of Bristol. and for social, philanthropic or humanitarian He also identified a prybar found near Holcomb's body as similar to one carried by Castonguay the night of the slaying. undertakings. Testa said he didn't see the shooting, but did hear a gunshot It is also awarded for outstanding civil and while fleeing the burglary scene. military service. The immunity grant drew stiff questioning from the defense DiBiaggio, whose parents are natives of which also drew Testa to admit he burglarized a number of John A. l)iBiaggio| Staff Italy, was born in Texas and raised in other homes, including some on his own while at the Strieker]. Michigan. University of Connecticut. Page 2 The Connecticut Daily Campus, Wednesday, March 5,1980 (Eonnecticut fiatlfl (Humpm SERVING STQRRS SINCE 1896 EDITOR IN CHIEF MARY MESSING MANAGING EDITOR KEN KOEPPER BUSINESS MANAGER MARK BECKER IMMI Sacon»<:las» postaga paid at Siorrt Cann t*2«« .Published by tha Connacjicut Daily ampus 121 N Eaglavilla HO U 1M. Vorra Conn. Monday through Friday 8/10 11'2.1 < 1127 11/30. 1(23 3/6 3/18 4/25 and asocial adlttoni on 9/6. 12(17. 5/12 Talaphona (203) 129 93*4 subacnption »10 non UConn (tudant Unitad Pmas Inlarnalional lalapl otos are |jrowo»d at no coat to Ina Daily Campua by tha Willimantic Crvomcia and Unitad Praaa In- runat'i-'a' -..ih-- Sar: Unitad Prass Int'l : ic Mugabe: new hope for old problems Yes, Teddy, it's really true The patrolman walked into the sandwich grateful for her help, but not as grateful as I There is a glimmer of hope now in Rhodesia. It shop, sweating from the August heat, and sat would have been if she appeared from comes from the democratic Election of Robert at the counter with the other regulars. somewhere else. Mugabe in the new nation of Zimbabwe. "What'll it be today, kid?" After only three But even this incident could not destroy my months at the restaurant I'd gotten used to belief that teachers operate on a different But it is still only a hope. calling all my regulars "kid!'No one seemed to plane—that they are a half-step above Even though former prime minister Ian Smith, the United mind (it was better than "dahlin"), and it sure everyone else. States government and Joshua Nkomo (Mugabe's ally in beat learning everyone's name. That time in the bathroom was just the first the black revolutionary struggle there) have pledged their "Ah, just a coffee and a hot Danish, of a series of similar discoveries. I found out support for the new government, much could go wrong. thanks." I wrote his order on the guest check that teachers drive, smoke, go to parties and Hard-line Marxists from Mugabe's own party might try and was pouring his coffee when I noticed the have children. (It was much later that I to force the government to take a more radical position than little boy behind him. connected this business of having children what is now feasible for a peaceful settlement. This would He was sitting at a booth with his mother, with a much more shocking discovery.) almost certainly lead to an immediate collapse. who was chatting with a woman in the next It is also important for Rhodesian whites to work with the booth. In his hand was a half-eaten ham- new majority government. Otherwise, chances are good burger which was dripping ketchup in his lap. war will break out once again. His mother stopped talking long enough to Other nations should offer help to the new government notice the red stuff oozing onto the child's Julie Lipkin only if it is asked for—Zimbabwe is not a tool for global clothes. politics. It is a nation split by racial strife. "Teddy, you're making a mess," she scolded. Teddy seemed not to hear her voice None of these realizations brought me any at all—he was staring wide-eyed and slack- closer to accepting teachers as human beings. jawed at the patrolman's sweat-stained back. As far as I was concerned, they were only "Teddy! Eat! You're getting ketchup all going through the motions— I felt very sorry over your new slacks." The child^ slowly for them. pressed the dripping hamburger to his parted My reverence for teachers lasted through lips, where it remained uneaten as he junior high and even high school.