005 77-/0/ (Hanntttxtnt Sa% (ftampua Serving Storrs Since 1896 2Z. VOL. LXXXI NO. -9^T STORRS.CONNECTICI IT \203\ 429-9384 MONDAY. MARCH 27. 1978 . Plain speaking may become legal language By CHARLES A. MOORE contracts and government regula- "There is so much overlap that to put things in clear language tions are so badly needed State even in the legislature itself we get while they are still in school,*' he A regulation covering compu- Sen.: Audrey Beck, D-Mansfield lost sometimes." added. said Sunday. ters, passed by the General As- Phillip Blumberg, dean of the Edwin Tucker. UConn professor semly several years ago, could be Beck said plain language is UConn School of Law said Sunday of Business administration also interpreted so broadly that it he was not sure of the need for the doubted the necessity of the included the purchase of a cabinet needed in regulations governing many state agencies, especially language modification. legislation because he said it is and a two-dollar calculator. This is mainly lawyers, trained in legalis- one example of why laws now the health, mental health and "I'm not sure legislation is the tic jargon, who must deal with pending in Congress and the social services departments be- answer. It is very hard to mandate General Assembly calling for in- cause there is often a lot of overlap this type of thing," he said. regulations. "I'm not sure it would creased use of plain language in in their jurisdictions. "Law students should be taught serve any point." he said. UConn to keep use of truck after sale By ROB OBIE The University's hook and ladder fire truck, which may be sold to the town of Mansfield, will still be available to UConn if the sale is made, the deputy fire chief at the Eagleville stateionsaid Sunday. There will be "no change whatsoever" in University use. Deputy Fire Chief Leroy Rowe said. For the past several years, the town of Mansfield has been housing the truck and paying for its upkeep, while the University pays for insurance and other expenses. If the truck is transferred, UConn will be left with one truck that reaches to the fourth story and cannot cover the high-rise dorms such as Ellsworth, Hale, McMahon, Shippee, Alumni Quadrangle and Buckley. The transfer of the truck will be discussed at a meeting of the Appropriations Committee Tuesday. March 28. at 6 p.m. Staff Photo by Joseph Niedermeyer m RoQm 31Q rf the State CapitQ, petitions are being The Eagleville Fire Dept. one and a half miles from UConn on Rt. 195 currently houses the circulated on campus by a group of students in opposition to University's only aerial hook and ladder truck which may be sold to the town of Mansfield for the proposed transfer. one dollar. French may dynamite super-tanker leaking oil By ROLAND TYRRELL might be facilitated if all the oil could be got PORTS ALL, France (UP1) — French out of the tanker. authorities said Sunday they are considering "I have asked the navy to tell me if we can using dynamite to blow up th shattered hulk of precipitate things in complete safety. I am the supertanker Amoco Cadiz to empty the expecting a reply from them very quickly," he ship of its remaining oil. said in a radio interview. The Amoco Cadiz already has spewed more Asked if dynamite could be used to breach than 190,000 tons of crude oil onto the shore of the tanks and empty them, a senior navy Brittany in the worst oil spill in history after officer said, "this is one of the five or six or breaking up on reefs a mile off the fishing seven alternatives which are all under study. village of Portsall in a storm March 16. Absolutely no decision has been taken. We Secretary of State Marc Becam, heading the are making a report for Mr. Becam." government cleanup program, said "between More than 6.000 soldiers, sailors, farmers 20,000 and 30,000 tons" of the ship's original and fishermen turned out Sunday to help with 220,000-ton cargo of oil remain in 12 tanks the cleanup along 110 miles of Brittany coast. that are all breached and leaking. Becam said the operation is concentrating on A navy helicopter that flew over the , wreck removing oil from the sea and harbors and reported large jets of oil gushing from the that beach cleaning is not planned until after 233,000-ton tanker, which crashing waves Tuesday's spring tide. United Press International have snapped in two. The spring tide is the year's highest, and The houses of the small fishing village of Portsall on the Becam said the continuing flow of oil from Becam said there is a risk it could bring oil coast of Bretagne France are reflected onto the oily surface the wreck is hampering the cleanup, which back onto beaches already cleaned. of the water. The student government's BRIEFLY... The University of Connecti- While all the basketball student check-cashing ser- It has been anything but a cut Jazz Ensemble will pre- news of late has concerned vice will open for business quiet, happy year for former newcomers Corny Thompson today in the UConn Co-op. sent its Spring Concert in Los Angeles Laker forward Von der Mehden Recital Hall and Clay Johnson, there will The start of the service will Kermit Washington with the The Weather: Wind and be another new face on next be delayed until mid morning tonight at 8:15 p.m. Boston Celtics who reflected rain, heavy at times, with The En semble features season's roster, guard Bobby because the Federation of last month about his trials temperatures in the 40's. music by Duke Ellington, Dulin who transferred to Students and Service Organ- and tribulations. Details Maynard Ferguson and Billie Storrs from Penn State for izations (FSSO) must still page 11. Holiday, as well as original the upcoming season. Details cash a check to be able to compositions. Details page 5. page 11. have the cash for the service. (Ei)tm?rttntt Uaily Qtampiu Serving Storrs Since 1896 In support of MARK A CXJPUIS/Ed.lCK-ln-Chi«f CRAiGK SPERY/8usin«ttMan»9«r JOHN HILL iiI'Mmiglng Editor educational pluralism VIVIAN B MARTIN/Associate Editor Washington The proposal to allow families to will come apart if there is more subtract from their taxes half of what pluralism in primary and secondary Where will they pay in tuitions, up to $500 per schooling. And there are abundant student, has provoked predictable reasons why it should not be govern- hostility from the public education ment policy to homogenize children. lobby. Although most of the bill's ONE OF THE TUITION bill's standing alone lead? benefits will accrue to parents paying virtues — that a tax credit involves no tuition to public institutions, private administrative burden — is, in the institutions also will benefit. And eyes of some detractors, one of the The United States has not, as other staunch Arab opponents. like any protected, subsidized, semi- bill's vices. The bill would allow Israeli Prime Minister Menachem This weekend, former Israeli monopoly, public education fears families, during the difficult years Begin claimed last week, left Israel Defense Minister Abba Eban said nothing so much as competition. But when they have not reached their to stand alone. Israel must be ready to make the ferocious criticism of this bill IT IS. INSTEAD, that Begin, with concessions concerning Resolution suggests that it stirs passions more his unyielding stands on the key 242 and there was talk privately of a complicated than avarice. 555 F. WILL issues in the Middle East dispute, is Labor Party move to call Begin to The bill is an example of mature finding fewer and fewer people who task on the issue in a parliamentary peak earnings but bear maximum conservatism, using government pos- education expenses, to keep a bit will stand with him and soon he may vote of no confidence. Apparently, itively to nurture institutions and find himself standing alone. not everyone in Israel agrees with values worth conserving. Its values more of their own money, to be used Begin's refusal to discuss Israeli Begin. The list of those who do not are pluralism, freedom of choice, and for education. • withdrawal from the occupied West continues to grow. excellence achieved through competi- This offends people who believe Bank of Jordan — as sought in The United States did not, as the tion. that, whatever else a social policy Resoltuion 242 of the United Na- Israeli leader charged, desert But Albert Shanker, head of a aims to achieve (such as improved tions Security Council — represents Israel. Thousands of American teachers' union, opposes the bill education), it must be redistribution- an attitude out of line with what was tanks, fighter planes and other because he thinks it will produce "a ist, involving government- said and done by the Israeli prime military equipment remain in that huge exodus from the public administered transfers of taxed minister earlier this year in at- country and the U.S. committment schools." He probably is wrong; he wealth. The assumption is that tempts to promote a lasting peace in to continue defense of Israel re- certainly is an unconvincing advocate dollars that do not pass through the Middle East. mains strong. What has changed, of public schools. Washington cannot possibly achieve A refusal to discuss any point in though, is President Carter's usual HIS ARGUMENT IMPLIES that intelligent social goals.