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65; 28 Od. 1,1181 c.l titamtecttoit latitj (TJampitB Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol.LXXXVNo.28 University of Connecticut Wednesday, October /, 1981 Sadat assassinated at parade immediately disclosed. The 62-year-old Sadat had Nine others killed, enemies at home and throughout the Middle East because of his peace treaty gunmen arrested with Israel and his recent CAIRO,Egypt (AP) — dignitaries and three crackdown on hundreds of President Anwar Sadat was American officers. opposition figures suspected assassinated Tuesday by The attackers also were said of fomenting Christian- men in army fatigues who to have shouted, "Glory to Moslem strife in Egypt. leaped from a jeep and Egypt" and yelled "agents The reviewing stand was lit- poured automatic rifle fire on and intruders" at foreigners tered with bullet-riddled ar- a reviewing stand during a in the reviewing stand. One mchairs and bloodied military parade com- report said three of the memorating the 1973 war raiders were killed and three with Israel. The raiders arrested, but another report See related were said to have killed nine said one attacker was killed other people and wounded and five arrested. stories, p. 14 22, including foreign Their identities were not dignitaries were thrown into pandemonium by the attack. UConn profs react It occurred shortly before 1 p.m. during a low flyby by jet fighters. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat: assassins who shouted, to Sadat's death Vice President Hosni "Glory to Egypt" |UPI photo|. By Edward Steadham Mubarak announced a one- parliament, Sufi Abu Taleb. in mourning the death of Staff Writer year state of emergency and There were no outward Anwar Sadat." The death of Anwar Sadat, former Egyptian president, told the nation in a TV ad- signs of alarm in Cairo, other could hinder the Camp David Peace Accords, according to dress announcing the death than deployment of anti-riot several UConn professors. of Sadat: police, which was considered In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime "The peace talks may be seriously delayed, possibly "We are accustomed to a normal precaution. Islamic Minister Menachem Begin jeopordized," Howard Reed, history professor said. these wounds and we believe prayers were read on state said he hoped the U.S.- "For now." Ramon Knauerhase, director of the Middle in God's will and we will con- radio and television and sponsored peace process East Studies department said, "there's nothing but tinue in the name of the Cairo residents appeared would . continue "as uncertainty. It could change a great deal. It depends on spirit and soul of our leader calm. President Sadat would have the successor." ; and our constitution that we In Washington, President wanted with all his heart. I The professors all emphasized the importance of Sadat to will abide by all treaties and Reagan said with the death have lost not only a partner U.S. interests in the Middle East. Elizabeth Hanson, commitments made." of Sadat "America has lost a in the peace process but also associate professor of international relations, said U.S. Mubarak was named by the close friend, the world has a friend." foreign policy in that area was "very dependent" on the ruling National Democratic lost a great statesman and personality of Sadat. "The Camp David accords were an Party as the candidate for mankind has lost a champion But hard-line Arabs reacted agreement between personalities," she said. "Different president in elections in of peace ... In a world filled with joy, firing rifles in the governments can pursue agreements with a greater or about two months. In the in- with hatred, he was a man of air in Lebanon to celebrate lesser degree of laxity." terim, the government will hope." the death of the man who SEE PAGE 3 be headed by the speaker of Reagan said the signed the peace treaty with assassination was an act of Israel. The Palestine "cowardly infamy . Liberation Organization's Anti-nuclear physician Today, the people of the security chief. Abu lyad, United States join with the said he would "shake the people of Egypt and all those hand of he who pulled the describes possitile attack who long for a better world trigger." By John Beckett physician, told 25 people streets would be impassible, Staff Writer Wednesday. and the remaining doctors There is no effective and nurses would be over- Discrimination suit "If a bomb was dropped on whelmed," he said. response to a nuclear any city, there would be no weapons attack. Dr. Jack "Plasma and antibiotic sup- communications system, no plies would be exhausted." dropped by prof Hughes, a New Haven sewage or water system, the "There is no adequate way to prepare for something of By M. James Almand this magnitude," he said, Staff Writer and it would completely Dr. Marcia Lieberman, who in 1973 failed in a sexual disrupt our society. The only discrimination suit against the University and appealed the thing we could do would be state court's decision to the United States District Court, to give people narcotics to has discontinued her action due to bancruptcy. relieve their suffering - and As a result, the District Court has ordered a legal notice to even those supplies wouldn't be circulated among UConn faculty stating that remaining last." class action suits will be dismissed unless resumed by any According to Hughes, the individual claiming similar discrimination by Nov. 2. 1981. arms race is leading to a very According to University Counsel John McKenna. Lieber- dangerous situa'ion and ef- man filed her suit in response to the University's refusal to forts must be made to stop grant her tenure. it s continuation. Lieberman has been active in women's rights issues on "The situation becomes campus during her employment and claimed that the more dangerous as more University's action was a sort of retaliation for this activism. nuclear weapons are McKenna said. He denied this claim, citing the lower produced - the fact that they court's decision. exist will tend to justify their "Lieberman's tenure refusal," McKenna said, "was the being used." Hughes said. result of mediocre feedback concerning her teaching •♦tv. , -:F .:.. "If you look at this as if it abilities. It was in the interests of the student body." were an epidemic, the only Dr. Elsie Fetterman, according to the legal notice, was solution is the application of denied the right to intervene in the case to assert her own preventive medicine - ban claims of discrimination by the University. Dr. Jack Hughes, a Connecticut physician, spoke about the further production of the hazards of a build-up of nuclear weapons (Jim Lofink photo). SEE PAGE 2 SEE PAGE 2 p 2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Wednesday, October 7,1981 «9« •c Fraternities raise money for March of Dimes ... discrimination UConn fraternities raised $3,100 this more participation and enthusiam on FROM PAGE ONE said, and Fetterman was weekend for the March of Dimes. $900 campuses for raising money."' he said. The dismissed. Her claim that more than last year, according to Warren five-day series of events originated in the According to McKenna, in she was fired by the Univer- Sullivan. Itcrfraternity Council president. I930's. The main event of Derby Day is the March. 1981, the University sity because of her sex was One fraternity, four sororities and three team competition to steal derbies off the discovered that Fetterman denied by both the court and area residence councils donated $250 heads of fraternity members. was holding dual teaching McKenna. collected from students. $3,000 raised at jobs at UConn and the "Dr. Fetterman, in signing Saturday's Bccrfcst co-sponsored by the The Alphi Phi Omega fraternity raised $20 University of Massachusetts a contract, had pledged 100 Board of Governors, and $400 charged to for the United Way this weekend by selling and had thus broken her con- percent support to this in- teams of fraternity members that competed hot air balloons at Saturday's football tract with UConn. stitution," McKenna said. in Derby Day Saturday. Sullivan said. game, according to Michelle Mahoney. the The University considers "Her actions did not per' Derby Day's purpose was to "encourage service fraternity's secretary. such action "in essence a mit such support, and she resignation," McKenna was released," he said. "There is no discrimination involved here. Unless she is Weather some sort of divinity, she Cloudy and windy today, tonight and does not deserve to be a ... nuclear Thursday, with scattered showers, highs 55 to 60 and lows University payroll when tonight 40 to 45. Northwest wind 20 to 30 miles an hour she's working for someone tonight. else." FROM PAGE ONE level woul d create a huge weapons and dismantel hole in the ground, and all existing ones," he said. the particles would be Hughes' speech, the first of radioactive. a series of talks and events "Millions of particles would sponsored by the Caravan be sucked up by the, blast's for Survival, a campus fireball - these particles organization, emphasized would basically be the stem the effects a nuclear blast of the mushroom cloud," would have on one specific Hughes said, "The particles area. He used New Haven would then settle - this is the as a model. fallout." "A one megaton bomb (the average size of a Soviet The important thing, Dr. nuclear weapon) exploded Hughes said, was to inform 800 feet above downtown people about the effects of a New Haven would kill over nuclear war so that a lobby 80 percent of the people in a would form to call for a scale- three-mile radius, and winds down of nuclear weapons of 300 mph would destroy stockpiling.