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Rescue 4a miracle' VALDEZ, Alaska (UPI) - With all 519 foot waves and they just go right up and right rescued passengers and crew members safely down." ashore from the crippled luxury liner Most of the passengers and crew, all put Prinsendam, the Coast Guard set out Monday ashore at the towns of Sitka or Valdez, awaited to save the ship, burning and adrift in the Gulf flights to Seattle to get them started on their of Alaska. *'»y home.The Coast Guard revised the total The cutter Mellon went along side the listing of passengers and crew from 506 to 519. vessel at daybreak and put aboard a Coast Dense fog at the oil port of Valdez, where Guard team to assess damage. A firefighting 227 rescued passengers waited, prevented crew from the cutter was ready to board and planes from arriving to begin a shuttle service begin dousing flames to save the $25 million to Anchorage and on to Seattle. vessel, a spokesman said. Passengers and officials marveled at the success of the rescue, termed the biggest of a Related story, p. 5 single ship in modern maritime history. Coast Guard helicopter pilot Lt. Bruce Two Coast Guard helicopters also headed for Melnick. Who pulled 109 people from lifeboats, the ship, drifting 145 miles west off Cape called it "a miracle everybody was all right." Spencer on the southeastern Alaska coast. The last persons to be rescued, a lifeboat Weather was reported subdued compared to C-J***--"*& contingent of 20 persons, spent about 21 hours the high winds and 25-foot seas rescuers bobbing on the rough seas before they were contended with when pulling survivors from rescued. hobbling lifeboats Saturday and Sunday. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — S.S. Prtnsendam passengers "It was cold, it was raining, the winds were Aboard the helicopter were more fire- disemark from a Jet which brought 100 survivors to tremendous. But I got to say the lifeboats fighters, the Dutch ship's skipper Capt. Anchorage from Valdez where they spent the night on land were incredible," said entertainer Richard Cornelius Wabeke. the chief engineer and an after an at-sea rescue Sunday morning (UP1 photo). Vanni of New York. "They ride everything-30- owner's representative. (tanerttmt laflg (ftamjroa Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXIVNo.28 University of Connecticut Tuesday, October 7, 1980 Iraqis seize port, bomb Tehran KHURRAMSHAHR, Iran (UPI) - could be heard in the center of the junior officer stuffed a large plastic driver who resists the government Iraqi troops Monday seized control of city, home to about 150,000 people. bag full of orange and yellow order will have his vehicle the Iranian port city of The port area was captured by Iraqi baseball caps, hot plates and electric confiscated. Khurramshahr — a major strategic invaders Sunday. fans. The move came less than 24 hours prize in the 15-day-old Persian Gulf Baghdad said the attack on Tehran Iraqi troops, with Khurramshahr's after King Hussein returned from a war — except for the city center, was "in retaliation for enemy air port area along the strategic Shalt al brief visit to Baghdad and pledged which they surrounded. strikes against civilian targets in Arab waterway in firm control, full support for Iraq's war effort Iraqi jets bombed Tehran. An different parts of Iraq." surrounded the city center and against Iran. Iranian communique said three Tehran Radio reported that in seemed content to starve out the few Both sides reported Iraqi people were killed and 65 injured in addition to bombs, the Iraqi planes Iranian defenders left there. At the warplanes bombed Tehran, and the "cowardly attack...on populated released paper handkerchiefs, pens, same time, Jordan prepared for full- Baghdad said the attack was areas." toys and dolls over the Iranian scale assistance to Iraq. "in retaliation for enemy air strikes Western journalists in capital, and warned they might be Jordan's Prime Minister, Mudar against civilian targets in different Khurramshahr saw Iraqi soldiers booby traps. Badran, Monday placed all civilian parts of Iraq." looting the city's port sections. Only Journalists in Khurramshahr transport vehicles under the Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker a few blocks in the central area watched Iraqis haul away war booty government's command, apparently of Iran's parliament, said any Iranian remained in Tehranian hands. from dockside containers — bicycles, to make them available to ship conditions for ending the war would Iran insisted its forced were vacuum cleaners, furniture and other supplies to Iraq. They can be come from Ayatollah Ruhollah holding out. but no sounds of fighting portable household goods. One Iraqi commandeered at any time and any Khomeini. Committee suggests -*• I % impeachment clause a- ■ .■:£-«,' -stf 4 »- By MATT SCARBOROUGH w , ■'- The Undergraduate Student Government must establish an impeachment clause to remove Central Committee members who do not do their jobs, according to Cheryl Hayden, chairman of the USG constitutional review committee. "In the past, the Central Committee had to rely on personal —ft-. id pressure to force the resignation of an unsatisfactory mr> • * committee member." she said, an apparent reference to ■ ■ former Central Committee member Sam Mayer, who resigned under fire two years ago. ■ ' The proposed clause would give the Central Committee voting power to impeach one of its members. If impeached, a ^■^1:;. j, ■ second vote will determine whether or not he will be removed from office. #P 1 "# STV:-V *♦ The ad hoc revision committee, formed last semester, will .* *%.„ submit several revision proposals this fall, Hayden said. A small-scale student referendum may he held to pass revisions Yfr"' * before a new constitution is proposed in the spring, Hayden Residents of Jefferson House and Keller House battle for the ball in an intramural water polo said. SEE PAGE 4 game Monday. Keller won, 20-7 (Nelman photo). 1 Sweitzer, Wilson win honors Story, p. 12 The Connecticut Daily Campus, Tuosday, October 7,1 OPINION Mid-terms minor .part of education Mid-term examinations often cause students to disrupt i their daily schedules. We study until early morning hours, lose sleep and whimper when we don't perform well on tests. Who will be His choice ? We procrastinate. We leave most of our required reading until a few days before mid-terms. We shouldn't do these things, but we do anyway. WASHINGTON-God is really getting a about. I've told them time and time again that We are willing to take the risk. We have confidence in our workout during this election year. There was a I don't give political endorsements. If I did, I abilities. We can learn a lot of material in a little time, so time when the TV preachers devoted their wouldn't be God. I have a good mind to sue programs to telling us how angry God was we use time we could have spent studying for leisure them for using my name without my activities or other work. with the way we were behaving in our private permission." There is little leisure time during mid-terms. We are too "I don't blame you." I said. "And I for one busy learning for tests. We aim for a high grade point never believed them when they kept quoting average, which reflects our test scores. Art Buchwald you on the political issues." But test scores do not measure one's education. Some "What scares me," God said, "is that these God Doesn't Vote employers still rely on grade point averages to screen TV ministers are not only telling the American potential employees. These employers are also looking for lives, which of course is their business. people whom I support but they're raising all what you have learned, which may not be represented in But now we're being told that God has a their money in my name. They keep warning your average. vested interest in who we put in public office, the viewing audience that if they don't sei?d in Your leisure time can be spent furthering your education. and some fundamentalist sects known as the their checks, I'm going to be very upset. I Read a book, magazine or newspaper when you have the "Moral Majority" are spending loads of don't deal in money--never have and never chance. Write for the Daily Campus. Join a club. money to defeat anybody whose voting record will. But they're telling those poor souls out Get an active education. You're here to learn, not to get a doesn't go along with their interpretation of there that if they don't come up with a number. the Bible. contribution they won't have salvation. I'd They are calling for a holy war against those appreciate it if you would put the word out who arc for the ERA. abortion, school busing that anyone is free to send in any amount of and against the B-l bomber. money to a TV minister, but their money isn't I always thought the nice thing about God buying a place in heaven. It's buying was thai he stayed out of American politics. limousines and private airplanes and $500 But after watching the TV shows for the past suits for the people who are making the two weeks. I was beginning to wonder. pitches." So when I spoke to God the other night I "God, you sound mad." asked. "Who are you going to vote for this "I am mad. I'm trying to keep the whole year?" world from blowing up and those preachers God seemed very angry. "I never take sides down there say my only concern is to defeat in an American election." George McGovern in South Dakota." "But there are a lot of people down there "I wish you could somehow get the message who say you want Reagan." over that you aren't for or against anyone "That's ridiculous.

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