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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 VoL LLXXXIXNo. 33 The University of Connecticut Tuesday, Oct 22, 1985 Town parking tickets face extinction here By Paul Parker Daily Campus Staff Students may no longer have to pay $10 parking tickets to Mansfield under a proposal which Town Council candidate Scott Earl Murray will announce today. The Republican hopeful will announce the plan at 1:30 p. m on the south steps of the library along with student government President Jay Stolfi and state Sen Jim Giuletti (R-Vernon). Murray has consulted with Stolfi and Giuletti about the proposal as well as speaking with Mansfield Town Manager Mar- tin Berliner and Harry Hartley, UConn's vice president for finance and administration Murray termed these consultations "preliminary discussions," but said a firm plan could be ready as early as next week. The plan calls for, in part, doing away with the dual ticketing process Illegally parked cars with UConn stickers get a $5 ticket which is collected by the university. Illegally parked cars without the stickers are ticketed $10 by the town of Mansfield In an interview earlier this month, Murray said 88.7 percent of the Mansfield tickets are not paid About 90 percent of UConn's tickets are paid he said Monday night The difference in success JUST FOR KICKS—Two members of the Karate club practice a few moves at Hawley See page 4 Armory (Lisa Hanson photo). // commission approves plan Politicians participate Apartments may open by fall in financial aid forum By Paul Thlel facilities, 70 acres for housing and 12 acres for By Beth King Daily Campus Staff roads. The remaining land will be open space or If the Town of Mansfield rezones ConnTech's Campus Correspondent farmland "The most important players in the area of financial aid" U.S 390-acre parcel of land north of campus this Goldberg expressed his desire that the com- winter, additional off-campus housing may be Congressman Sam Gejdenson said Monday at a financial aid mission pass the rezoning proposal sometime forum "are the people around the country who are affected" available for fall occupancy, according to Paul this winter, which would allow his company, Goldberg the developer of the ConnTech He urged students, their families, and faculty to write to their ConnTech Development Co., to follow a timet- congressmen and let them know there's a need for financial aid. research park able by which construction would begin in Goldberg officially presented plans for the Most mail, he said asks for spending cuts. the spring. Gejdenson was joined by U.S. Department of Education's Bill $120 million project to the Mansfield Planning If that happens, the roads and utilities would Reilly, state rep. Jonathon Pelto and others at the forum held in and Zoning Commission Monday night, which be completed by the end of the summer, as the Student Union The Undergraduate Student Government and the board voted unanimously to receive A would some of the "simpler" buildings—like the Public Interest Research Group sponsored the conference, public hearing was scheduled for Nov. 20 at 7:30 apartment complexes, Goldberg said Con- which about 40 people attended Federal state and university p.m in the Audrey P. Beck Building struction of the major building would start in student financial aid issues were presented followed by a ques- According to Goldberg's plans, 30 acres are the early fall, he said. tion and answer session and a reception designated for the hoteV conference center, ♦ The town indicated its general approval of 200 acres for research and light industrial Reilly said he had planned to speak on proposed reforms for See page 4 financial aid programs but that "Washington did not approve" Veronica O'Dette, director of financial aid said one proposed change involves the definition of an independent student one See page 4 Israeli head wants end of Mideast strife UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the General Assembly s 40 th anniversary session Monday that he is willing to go to Jordan to negotiate peace in the Middle East Most Arab delegations including Jordan's walked out when Peres took the podium their customary reaction when Israeli leaders speak. The delegation from Egypt which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. remained in the halL " I hereby proclaim- The state of war between Israel and Jordan should be terminated immediately," Peres said "Israel declares this readily in the hope that King Hussein is willing to reciprocate this step." Peres suggested negotiations that "can take place before the end of this year, in Jordan Israel or any location as mutually agreed upon We will be pleased to attend an open meeting in Amman" Jordan's capital. He was one of 20 speakers Monday, including President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua who said he would not remove the suspen- HANDS ON EXPERIENCE—Laura Senior spends a late night working on a project for sion of civil rights imposed last week until the United States ends her photography class (Mark Caswell photo). "state terrorism" against his Central American country. NT Inside Today: Weather Forecast: I Identifying the dead are their speciality. See page 7. Partly cloudy today with tem- peratures in the 50s Clouds increasing towards evening with temperatures UConn students help Hartford students learn. See page 5. ....I.I.I.'.;.; ;.;.;!■.■.•.•■•.;.'■"■"■!•■• ■'■'''■'■'* ■•'■ dropping into the 40 s J < P«ge2 The Daily Campus, Tuesday, October 22. 1985 ALMANAC STATE NATION WORLD Northeast Utilities Union files suit to free Former Italian premier proposes rate hike anti-nuclear protesters to form government HARTFORD (AP)—Northeast Utilities Chairman PROVIDENCE RL (AP)—The state chapter of the ROME (AP)— Bettino Craxi was asked to form a William B. Ellis said Monday that at least some of the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Monday to new government Monday, four days after he resigned $25 million in costs his company incurred as a result free five protesters jailed for turning their backs on a as prime minister. Politicians expect him to try to of Hurricane Gloria should be borne by customers. judge after he sent five of their fellow anti-nuclear resurrect the same coalition that fell apart over the He said that while the request would not be made activists to prison for one year. Achille Lauro hijacking this year, he expected it would be made in a future The ACLU maintains Superior Court Judge John P. "I will immediately start work to resolve the politi- rate-increase application before the Department of Bourcier grossly overstepped his authority Friday by cal crisis, which does not lend itself to easy Public Utility Control. ordering five supporters of the Trident il Plowshares solutions," Craxi told reporters after President Fran- cesco Cossiga named him premier-designate "In the past, we have requested this and received to spend 10 days at the Adult Correctional Institu- tions for contempt of court . Politicians said Craxi would try to form a govern- it," Ellis told members of the General Assembly's A state Supreme Court hearing on the suit was set ment with the same four parties that joined his Energy and Public Utilities Committee, which is for Thursday. The supporters staged the brief Socialists in the former coalition—the Christian studying power companies' responses to the storm 1 It has been found "reasonable"in the past and would demonstration at the rear of Bourcier s courtroom Democrats, Republicans, Social Democrats and probably be sought on an amortized basis, he after the judge imposed maximum sentences and Liberals. added $500 fines on the Plowshares, who had pleaded no Hopes for a solution to the latest of many govern- contest to a misdemeanor charge of malicious ment crises in postwar Italy boosted prices on the The hurricane which struck Connecticut on Sept damage Milan Stock Exchange Shares regained two-thirds of 27, caused the worst power outages in state history, The demonstrators raided the Electric Boat plant the six percent they lost after Craxfs resignation affecting about 718,000 customers. Some were at Quonset on Oct 1,1984, and damaged six Trident Thursday. without power for more than a week. submarine missile tubes with hammers, paint and The success of Craxfs effort appeared to depend Rep. Christine M Niedermeier, D-Fairfield said NU blood The Plowshares admitted to the acts, but largely on his talks with Defense Minister Giovanni should have had insurance to cover storm damages called them a legal, justified attempt to prevent SpadolinPs Republican Party, which precipitated the and that seeking higher rates would be "grossly nuclear war. collapse by withdrawing its three ministers from the unfair to ratepayers." The year- long sentences apparently took about 50 26-month-old Cabinet supporters in the courtroom by suprise. prompting Ellis replied that insurance was no longer available the back-turning by five, two women from Vermont, Craxfs previous government was the 44th since He said NU had such coverage up until July 1, when it two Connecticut men and a New York City womaa World War II and in another month would have been was canceled He said no other utility company in In issuing the contempt citations, Bourcier said the the longest-lived New England has hurricane-damage insurance five disrupted the proceedings and exposed the Political sources said another five-party coalition He said the only companies that still have it are courtroom "to an extremely volatile situation" headed by Craxi would be the most realistic way of those whose policies have not yet come up for Attempts to reach Bourcier by telephone Monday obtaining a comfortable parliamentary majority and renewal.