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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCII No. 107 The University of Connecticut Monday, April 10, 1989 Pro-choice rally draws 600,000 By Lisa Fay Wellek either way. "There are Daily Campus Staff some things hanging by a WASHINGTON— Consti- thread ... abortion is one of tution Avenue's pavement them," he said. On the. sidewalk, behind disappeared yesterday. Over 500,000 men and police with clubs, pro-life women of all ages and from supporters held signs saying every state held banners saying 'The babies have no choice." "Keep abortion legal and safe," "I'm too angry... this is and yelled "pro-choice" as they about dead babies," a woman marched to the Capitol steps. who referred to herself as Baby Police estimated there were Doe said. "My name is Baby 600,000 people attending the Doe for the babies that died in rally with more people coming my name," she said. even as it ended. The fifty or so pro-lifers Three bus loads of people yelled "Abortion is the ulti- from eastern Connecticut were mate child abuse" to the thou- The band Little Feat will headline Spring Weekend. Band members, clockwise from at the march. They left from sands in the streets. But the top left, include Paul Barren-, Sam Clayton, Fred Tackett, Bill Payne, Kenny the Student Union at 12:01 marching continued. And so did Gradney, Craig Fuller and Richie Hayward. a.m. Sunday. the yelling. "We must live with the "Choice now," a group of consequences of our choices, people yelled while throwing but be free to make our own their fists in the air. Spring Weekend features choices," the Rev. Jesse After marching a mile and a Jackson said from the Capitol half taking nearly two hours, steps. "Those of us who are the marchers came to a fenced Little Feat as main band pro-choice are pro-life," he area with 4,000 white, wooden said. crosses. By Michael Greenwood On Friday night comedian Guest tickets will be on sale The pro-choice march came A sign said that these Daily Campus Staff Rick Avilez, who appeared on from April 17-21 at a cost of almost three weeks before the crosses represented the 4,000 The eclectic rock band Little the Showtime special "Live $2. Students will be allowed Supreme Court is scheduled to abortions committed daily Feat will highlight this year's from the Apollo Theater," will two guest tickets each, review a case which could since Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Spring Weekend concert series appear in the ROTC hangar. sponsors said. make abortion illegal. Supreme Court decision which along with the jazz band Pieces Comedian Jedda Jones, who The doors for the Sunday If approved by the Supreme made abortion legal. of a Dream and the Boston- appeared in such films as concert series will open at 11 Court, the case, Webster v. In a telephone interview, based band Treat Her Right "Avenging Force" and "Angel a.m. and will be held rain or Reproductive Health Services, Dr. Herschel Larson, from the scheduled as opening acts. Heart," will also appear on shine. would declare that life begins at Centers for Disease Control in The concerts, part of "Husky Friday night. Alcohol will be prohibited at] conception, said Cindi Billian Atlanta, said there were Fiesta '89," will begin at noon The weekend's events, co- all of this year's Spring Stem, public affairs manager of 1,328,570 legal abortions in and run until 6 p.m. on sponsored by the Afro- Weekend functions, including Connecticut Planned Parent- 1985. In 1985, only six Sunday, April 30 in the American Cultural Center, the alcohol on the Grad Field hood. "We do see this as women died from legal abor- Memorial Stadium. Admission Black Students Association and McMahon Hill, Hillside and! chipping away at reproductive tions, he said. He also said that for UConn students is free with the Student Union Board of Stadium roads, due to problems rights." 26 percent of these abortions a student ID. Governors, were announced in the past, sponsors said. According to Steven were performed on teen-agers. In addition to the Sunday last Friday afternoon. Wisensale, assistant professor "We have our ear to the concert series, UConn's Spring Little Feat, originally formed of public policy at UConn, the ground. There are very few that Weekend, running from Friday, in 1969 in Los Angeles, is a Supreme Court could rule get missed," Larson said. April 28 until Sunday, April seven member band which See page 6 30, will feature a wide variety combines such diverse of other events and influences as blues, country, performances. gospel and New Orleans R&B Otis Day and the Nights, who appeared in the movie with a mixture of surreal "Animal House," will headline lyrics. The band reformed last the Saturday night dance in the year after lead singer Lowell Field House. Another Boston- George died. based band, Scruffy the Cat, "Sailin' Shoes," "Dixie will also perform at the dance, Chicken," "Feats Don't Fail which is scheduled from 9 p.m. Me Now," and "Hoy-Hoy!" until 2 a.m. The event is free include some of the bands Pieces of a Dream to students with a UConn ID. previously released albums. Today in The Daily Campus Soviet nuclear sub The Daily Campus student government elections and student referenda guide for sinks,kills 42 Tuesday's and Wednesday's MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union said Sunday that 42 USG elections. SPORTS sailors were killed when a nuclear-powered submarine caught fire and exploded in the Norwegian Sea, and it disclosed that two Softball wins three out of torpedoes on board were armed with nuclear warheads. four over the weekend The official Tass news agency said the design of the warheads See back page "completely rules out radiation threat during large-depth Arts pages 1216,17 submergence. To ensure radiation safety, the nuclear-powered engine was stopped and the power unit was effectively blanked off." Classifiedspages 13-15 It said the submarine carried 69 men and that only 27 of them Comics pages 14,15 survived. Crossword page 9 The vessel went down in international waters 120 miles Editorials pages 10,11 southwest of Norway's Bear Island and about 310 miles west of Features pages 7-9 Tromsoe, on Norway's northern coast News pages 1-6 Scientists were gathering deep-water samples Sunday, and they Sports pages 18-20 Chris Hyde takes advantage of the nice weather to placed equipment near the sunken ship that would monitor radiation Weather page 2 practice with his 9 iron (Charles Pickett photo). levels for years. AROUND THE WORLD North felt like a 'pawn' WASHINGTON (AP) — Oliver North, depicting himself as a pawn in a deadly chess game, says he accepted a home security system free of charge because he feared for his family's safety. Lawyers defending the former National Security Council staffer showed jurors a videotaped news broadcast of a 1986 terrorist threat aimed at North by name, a week and a half after a U.S. bombing raid on Libya. North asked the government for protection but "ihe bottom line of the discussion was that there isn't a lot we can do for you; you are too junior," North said Friday on his second day on the witness stand. He returns today for more testimony. North lawyer Brendan Sullivan asked if national security adviser John Poindexter got government-paid protection for his home. "I wouldn't put it that way, but he did get a security system," replied North. County police went to North's house and offered to be helpful, but a private company said it couldn't survey North's needs until June, spring being a busy time for the security business. North turned to Richard Secord, whom North had enlisted to run arms to the Contras. Secord ended up WASHINGTON: President Bush talks with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir during a footing the bill for a $13,800 security gate at North's meeting in the Oval Office (UPI photo). home and now North is charged with accepting an il- legal gratuity. "I intended to pay for it," said North, but he ac- Sailors killed in EPA post lead by Guerrillas given knowledged, "I did not." explosion former official safe passage out On another charge, North acknowledged that he MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet WASHINGTON (AP) — An ex- WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — didn't tell the truth to congressmen who went to the Union said Sunday that 42 sailors Justice Department official is the White House to question him about the Contras. were killed when a nuclear-powered South Africa agreed Sunday to leading candidate for deputy allow Namibian guerrillas safe He said he didn't think it was unlawful because the submarine caught fire and exploded administrator of the Environmental things he was hiding "I was told, could not, should passage out of northern Namibia to in the Norwegian Sea, and it Protection Agency, despite once- not be revealed." disclosed that two torpedoes on Angola under U.N. supervision. bitter EPA protests that he The plan is designed to end "I felt like a pawn in a chess game being played board were armed with nuclear undermined pollution enforcement by giants," he testified. fighting between South African-led warheads. against federal installations. On another of the 12 criminal charges against security forces and black nationalist The official Tass news agency F. Henry Habicht II, proposed for him, North is defending himself by showing that top said the design of the warheads guerrillas that has interrupted the the No.