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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 VoL LXXXIXNo. 51 The University of Connecticut Friday, Nov. 15, 1985 Fowl Play Police revealed Monday Man confessed to radio theft By Matt Cookson radio," said Sergeant Joe Klewicki said "Apparently he Daily Campus Staff Klewicki, who was in charge of threw it in the woods when he A man turned himself in at the investigation Mclvor is saw me returning to my Troop-C barracks Oct 24 scheduled to appear in Rock- vehicle" in connection with the theft of ville Superior Court on Nov. Klewicki said he thought a police radio at Carriage 26. the removal of the radio was a House apartments on Sept 3, The radio was taken from college prank "Apparently state police revealed Mon- Klewickf s patrol car while he somebody put him up to day. was looking into a parking doing something and before Kenneth Mclvor, of problem at Carriage House he could return it to my car, Sprague Hall was charged Apartments. he got caught So he did the with criminal trespass, a The radio, valued at $1,500, most foolish thing he could class-C misdemeanor. The was turned in to the Storrs and chucked the radio," he maximum penalty is three post office on Sept 9, and did said months in jail and a $500 fine not receive any major After the radio was stolen, Mclvor was not charged with damage "The radio was out in state police set up safety larceny. "He had no intent to the dampness, so it had to be checks at the corner of Hunt- permanently deprive us of our sent out and repaired," See page 3 Volcano buries four towns Two children watch Canada geese swoop down on Mirror Lake yesterday. BOGOTA Columbia (AP)—A volcano that One of them, Edeliberto Nieto, told IRCN had been rumbling to life for months erupted radio: "We heard a frightening noise, and then a early Thursday, melting its snowcap and send- blast of wind hit us and we saw fire falling from ing down torrents ot mud that buried four sleep- the sky. It was horrible so horrible! My wife was ing towns and may have killed more than killed My mother was killed. My little girl who 20,000 people would have been four years old tomorrow died. Blazing volcanic ash cascaded into the Andes One of my sisters was killed and one of my valleys. Lava began flowing from the cone little nephews" Thursday afternooa He said there was so much fiery ash in the The Langunilla River became a rushing wall of street that it "burned my feet" mud that destroyed at least 85 percent of Ambulances and rescue workers had trouble Armero, a coffee-farming town of 50,000 people reaching the town because the avalanche des- 30 miles from the Nevado del Ruiz volcano and troyed the highway and five bridges leading to it 105 miles northwest of Bogota Caracol radio said quoting Civil Defense "Armero doesn't exist anymore," Red Cross workers. rescue worker Fernando Duque said in an inter- "Some of the bodies had been under mud for view from the scene onTodelar radio. six hours when we dug them out., and we The three other towns, on a mountain river weren't even able to tell if they were men or between the volcano and Armero, had a total womea They were just a mass of gray," population of about 20,000. Duque said Caracol radio said the ash fall was so heavy at There was no late accurate count on the 1 p.m. Thursday that "it looked like it was night number of bodies recovered time" It quoted national university geologists as "The mass of mud is up to five yards high in saying the lava flow had begun. They did not say some areas Some people were able to escape how large the flow was or give its direction and climb over walls that weren' t covered by the A Civil Defense spokesman, Maj. Hugo Ardila, avalanche and were rescued with the help of told a noon news conference in Bogota that ropes and horses," said Paul Ramirez, a reporter After trying out her own duck calL. about 10,000 people had been found alive in for Todelar who was among the first to reach the Armero up to that time scene Suicide prevention group educates campus students By Chuck Li nd berg Reilly, another member of the suicide attempts by teens and Daily Campus Staff group. All of the group" s mem- young adults every 24 hours, Suicide has become the bers have attended lectures 13 of which are successful. second leading cause of death by professionals on suicide He also said that although among people ages 15 to 24, and now pass the information women attempt suicide three said a member of the Students on to other people on cam- to four times more than men for Suicide Prevention group. pus. do, men are three times more "Suicide may be the leading 'We hope that more RAs successful in their attempts cause of deaths for that age will use these talks as part of because they use more lethal group because many accidents the educations programs they methods. and one car accident may have to present each semes- Reilly said the major signs actually have been suicides," ter," Grebel said to look for in people who may Joe Grebel, a member of the According to Grebel there be suicidal are: drastic per- group, said is an average of one suicide sonality changes; deep dep- The group has been giving attempt per week at UConn ression; withdrawal from talks to students in dorms and one successful suicide family and friends; drop in ...the girl decides to leave the geese to their own play since early this semester on per semester. He said that grades; drop in participating (photos by Usa Hanson). suicide prevention, said Sheila nationwide there are 1.000 See page 3 . • "\/" Inside Today: Weather Forecast: • Vietnam veteran's offspring struggles with war's aftermath. Cool breezy and sunny today with See page 10. partly clear skies continuing through- • Is Opus' nose unveiled? See page 13. out the weekend Temperatures will be in the low 40s Page 2 The Daily Campus, Friday, November 15. 1985 ALMANAC STATE NATION WORLD University offers Troops begin arrests Credit crunch delayed bomb making course after coup attempt WEST HAVEN (AP)—A University of New Haven WASHINGTON (AP)—The government's latest fis- UNDATED (AP)—Liberian government troops on professor will teach a course next year on how to cal mess was temporarily cleaned up Thursday after Thursday began arresting suspected supporters of a make a crude nuclear bomb in an attempt to the House gave final congressional approval to thwarted coup and an opposition political party's "increase public awareness of nuclear weapons and interim legislation raising federal borrowing headquarters burned down, residents reported from their effect" authority—the national debt limit—to $1.9 trillion the Liberian capital, Monrovia The course, "Introduction to Nuclear Weapons," With no debate and only about two dozen mem- Residents said Liberia's borders- and airports will rely on information already made public in bers present, the House on a voice vote approved remained closed two days after the coup attempt but various publications, according to professor Richard the legislation that postpones a credit crunch Gen Samuel K. Doe's administration said fighting had Morrison, who will teach the class. through Dec. 6 by raising the government's $1,824 ended and most of the rebels had been killed or cap- "Anyone who can get their hands on an ency- trillion line of credit by $80 billion It now goes to the tured No final numbers were given clopedia and some plutonium can find out without White House for President Reagan's expected Doe ordered stores and businesses to return to taking my class how to put together a bomb Making a signature normal operations immediately, according to crude bomb is very, very easy," he said The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote Liberian radio reports monitored Thursday by the He described his course Thursday as a technical Wednesday night British Broadcasting Corp. course geared for non- technical students and will Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole R-Kan., said include instruciton on how a nuclear bomb is made the action would " relieve the president of any burden The broadcasts, by Monrovia's private Christian But he said the instruction he will give won't enable while he was at the summit" next week with Soviet radio station Elwa, also announced that Army com- just anyone to construct a bomb. leader Mikhail Gorbachev. mander Gen Maurice Zeze had been fired and would " I could stand in front of a class and tell you how to Without action the government would have been be replaced by Gea Rudolf Kolaco, ambassador to construct an automobile" he said as an example in default The president had ordered federal agen- India "You could understand how to build an automobile cies to stop issuing new checks starting Friday if Con- Opposition politicians and other Liberians have but you would have to find the parts" and have the gress had not increased the debt limit been arrested in a crackdown on people suspected of technical skilL Attached to the legislation is an extension until supporting the attempted coup, according to Mon- Air Force Lt CoL Don Brownlee a Defense Depart- Dec 15 of the 16-cent-a-pack federal tax on cigaret- rovia residents, who spoke on condition they not be ment spokesman in Washington, said his agency had tes.

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