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ss Postage Paid VOLUME 15 NMER 1 STONY BROOK, N.Y. SEPTEBER 14,1971 . ifur CIroo .O w York rl5vl rARnI ARIA l- -- -- -- - -- - - - - - .dmlbbTroons -mo,- - M Storm Attica LNews Briefs j More than 17,000 state policemen and National lGuard troops stormed the International Attica State Prison The U.S. and the Soviet Union have agreed to joint 3yesterday morning to end a investigation of any nuclear arms accident to prevent ffour-day riot. When the escalation into atomic war, according to reports in both ssmoke of guns and tear-gas the London Observer and the New York Times. Informed <cleared, 40 persons, 31 Washington sources said that a fundamental part of the iinmates and nine hostages, agreement was the use of a new communications satellite 1lay dead. hotline to insure instantaneous communications in case of such an accident. The attacking force moved in Showing of "Sesame Street" has been barred by the underl cover of clouds of tear-gas British Broadcasting Corporation because the show has 1to wrest control of the maximum security facility from "authoritarian aims." The decision brought angry '12,000 inmates who had been responses from educators who have urged that the popular lholding 38 prison employees American teaching program be shown. It will be seen, lhostage. The remaining 29 hostages were brought out alive however, on a limited basis on commercial television. but| four were reportedly listed National in serious condition. Any extension of the current 90-day wage-price-rent freeze was ruled out last week by President Nixon in an Governor Nelson Rockefeller, address before a joint session of Congress. But he c before the assault, said that he said that Would not grant the prisoners' "all steps necessary" would be taken to fight inflation dJemands for amnesty. After the afterward. Nixon declined to give details of the second aassault, a spokesman for the phase of his new economic policy, but he bid for labor and cGovernor, in New York City, ;a id that Rockefeller public support. An'completely supported the A 15.5% drop in preschool children, recorded by the aittack. " 1970 census, threatens a major reshaping of the economy, Rockefeller announced an according to a study by the Washington Center for 'Iinvestigation into the events surrounding yesterday's tragedy Metropolitan Studies. The "baby bust" was the greatest decline in the nation's under-five population in 120 years, and coincided with the greatest increase among young adults in the prime child-bearing years. The study asserts Kruschev Dead at 77 that the toy industry already has begun to suffer a and Nikita S. Khruschev, who led respects to him in the red brick open to show his head declining market, and notes that "actual surpluses of shoulders. The room was large the Soviet Union for a dozen hall on the hospital grounds. hold only about 100 classroom space are beginning to show up in many ... years with vigor and personal Western correspondents were enough to the mourners and the the rule." flair, was buried yesterday admitted to the short ceremony of areas where shortages were remainder overflowed into the But, school enrollment is up 1% from last September's without public display or which contained no euologies or ceremony. speeches. A small band played a corridor outside. 59.7 million, the U.S. Office of Education said. It funeral dirge as mourners filed The Kremlin's way of predicted that a record 60.2 million persons will attend into the room where Khruschev handling Khruschev's death was, lay in his coffin, the upper half classes, despite the second consecutive year of declining The former Soviet premier to some observers, indicative of elementary school enrollment. The cost of running the and Communist Party chief was ne government's level o0 given a private farewell in the Fool itical maturity and nation's school systems is expected to rise 9.7% from the mourning hall at the hospital sophistication. To many it was year-earlier $77.6 billion, officials said. Both enrollment where he died Saturday of a no way to announce the death - and cost figures cover elementary grades through graduate heart attack at age 77. His coffin especially after a 33-hour delay was then transported to - of a man who hald played a school. Moscow's Novodevichy major role in socialist Proposals to streamline the Democratic Party's Cemetery and lowered into the construction in the Soviet presidential convention were released by a party reform grave under a gray autumn sky. Union. He was, even in obscurity, far more than just a commission. The proposals A rain shower stopped just include eliminating strictly before the funeral procession "pensioner," as Pravda called alphabetical roll calls and prohibiting "favorite son" reached the cemetery. him. He was still the holder of presidential nominations. Other proposals would cut the nation's highest award, Hero of the Soviet Union, and other representation of small states to one from two on Shortly before the burial honors. convention committees while increasing that of larger news of Khruschev's demiso states from two to possibly 10. finally reached the Soviet public through brief radio reports and, brief announcement ire Pravda Wreaths displayed around the State coffin included one bearing a Evidence linking Hodgkin's disease to an infectious virus ribbon from the Soviet Council was reported by scientists at New York's Sloan-Kettering The Pravda acknomlednement )f Ministers and another from the Central Committee of the Institute for Cancer Research. The scientists said they have came at about 9 p.M., 33 hours after Khruschev died. Soviet Communist Party. At the found, for the first time, evidence that two different kinds cemetery Sergei delivered a short of virus-like particles exist in malignant cells taken from 10 eulogy to Khruschev "as a father About 150 mourners, header wld a human being." He said he patients with Hodgkin's disease. The next step, the by Khruschev's widow, Nina to history books Nikita Khruschev Iwould leave it scientists said, is to check persons close to those with Petrovna. fathered for the final 'o tell his political story. Hodgkin's disease to determine if their blood contains -@------@-----s--v---------------------------------------b--Nikita Khruschev m antibodies to the virus. : : * : * Local * Inside * President Nixon's all-pervasive wage-price freeze has * * * now reached down to save some money for potential * Statesman * students at the State University. A projected increase, * * from $5 to $15, in the fee for an application to any of the State University's 48 campuses was announced in June. * uPBsa}eas * * w But the Office of Emergency Preparedness, which * * F o rty Dead at State administers the freeze, has ruled that the increase is not in * * Prison - See page 2 * keeping with the principles of the freeze, the University * Chason Assumes New Role * * - See page 3 announced Sunday in Albany. * * Where the Children Are - The ruling is expected to prevent any increase in * * See * - page 5 application charge this year at the three Long Island * * Sticky Fingers - See page *--v----------s-----s--------------s------------------------" campuses, Stony Brook, Old Westbury and Farmingdale. A 10 s t u d e n t Harrison & Co. - See page spokesman for the Stony Brook campus said that it is STATESMAN , newspaper of SUNY at Stony Brook, is published 12 unlikely that there would be need for many refunds of Tuesdays and Fridays during the The name is the same, Not Even a Nice Place to academic year and once during the but application fees already paid at the new rate, since summer semester by Statesman . Statesman. has changed Visit-See page 12 Association, an unincorporated A little more respohsive. A littl students applying for this semester had probably done so non-profit organization. Mailing more interesting. address: P.O. Box AE, Stony Brook, before the higher rate became effective. N.Y. 11790. Editorial and business If there are any comments, phone: (516) 246-3690. Subscriber N e w s see The major party cross-endorsement ban aimed at the Service, College Statesman mail box for our Pressto LiberationService and Reuter n o address.s. And, if you're still not Conservative Party will get its first in today's primaries in Represented for natia advertisingl by National Edu cational Advertising quite sure about the new 1 8 E 5 0 t SN Nassau and Suffolk Counties. In Nassau, the most Service. ow., YorkCity .a rr a anrgement,see "Inside Printed by Smithtown News, I significant challenge to the ban is being made in Oyster Brooksite Drive, Smithtown, N.Y. S tatesman" index for class matter at departments Bav while in Suffolk, the liveliest contest is in Islip. Entered assecond and stories. Stony Brook,N.Y. - C'·s.... Chason Assumes New Role By ALICE J. KELLMAN and NANCY CALLANAN Key members of the university's administration have changed jobs in order to achieve, as Dr. Toll put it, an administration "more responsive to the needs of the student." With the position of Acting fill that office. In my opinion the students and for more Vice-President of Student affairs the credibility of the office from effective use of SA resources. He vacant as a result of the which Chason comes is in did feel that "it would be departure of Scott Rickard this question." necessary to evaluate the role of summer, most of the Student Chason, in an interview said student affairs." 0.··- Af fairs Office personnel that his "primary concern is that When asked about the resigned. Dr. Rickard accepted a this office be of the greatest possibility,of changesl in the SA position at the University of offiee, Chason replied that liv semester.