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(ttfltttwrtintt Hatlg GJampua Vol LXXXVI NO. 22 The University of Connecticut Thursday, October 7,1982 Sweden tightens security around mystery sub BERGA NAVAL BASE, Sweden The Kremlin, in its first ding a submarine salvage sel might try to ram through believe hiding in a channel (AP) - Forty Swedish vessels comment on the incident, said vessel and 10 helicopters.' nets and wires that have been three miles wide and 12 mil- and a fleet of helicopters tight- the sub saga may be a hoax "If the suspected sub- dropped .into Holms Bay. es long. ened their net on Wednesday designed to disrupt Scandina- marine tried to break out we which is 65 feet to 147 feet around a submarine believed vian-Soviet ties. might resort to more drastic deep. Swedish Adm. Christer to be a Soviet-bloc vessel The dramatic sub hunt near methods including sinking it," Surface ships are guarding Kierkegaard, in charge of the lurking near a top secret the Musko naval base 18 miles navy Capt. Cay Holmberg one end of the bay and a Swe- hunt, said "this time we are naval base. south of Stockholm is the said. dish submarine the other. The determined lo outlast it and The navy dropped seven most serious naval incident "Our goal is to force the bay is dotted with small force it up, not just send it off depth charges and threaten- since October 1981, when a submarine to surface undam- islands, and the submarine is with a slap in the bottom." ed to sink the sub if it tries to aged," said Holmberg, a break out of the Swedish "If the suspected veteran anti-submarine war trap. submarine tried to fare specialist. Naval officials speculated break out, we might "We mean business now. the unidentified vessel- resort to sinking it." — The vessel will be identified believed to be hiding in a nar- and then turned away. Our row, 12-mile-long channel in Swedish Navy Captain policy not to harm the crew waters south of Stockholm- Cay Holmberg. must not be interpreted as a might be a small, new spy sub, weakness," he added. possibly remote-controlled Soviet submarine U137 ran v Since the sub was first spot- and without a crew. aground close to the main ted Friday, 25 depth charges Sweden has refused to southern navy base at Karl- have been dropped. speculate on the nationality of skrona. Asked if the ship had been the intruder, but newspapers On Wednesday the navy damaged, Holmberg said, "It have said the vessel was be- deployed coast guard com- is possible." lieved to belong to a Warsaw mandos and army troops He did not say how the sub pact nation, perhaps the So- near the search zone to bol- might try to escape, but it was viet Union or Poland. ster the fleet of hunters, inclu- presumed he meant the ves- Cyanide-tainted Tylenol traced to student 'suicide9 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The body of a grad- A preliminary test at the time of his death uate student who died April 3, in what was found nothing unusual in the pills, but further ruled a suicide, contained cyanide and Extra- tests were done after the recent spate of strength Tylenol capsules found in his apart- Tylenol-related deaths in the Chicago area, ment also contained cyanide, police said Scafidi said. Wednesday. The lot number of the bottle was FE7603, Police Chief Inspector Frank Scafidi said with expiration date of June, 1983, he said. the bottle of capsules was found in a shoe in a closet of William Pascual's home. Scafidi said an envelope found with the The Swedish Navy has released depth charges to try to A preliminary test indicated cyanide was body contained a note addressed to his surface an unidentified submarine discovered near the found in Pascual's stomach and blood, Scafidi mother, which suggested that Pascual took Musko tunnel, an underground Swedish Navy "city" (UPI said at a news conference. his own life. photo). Co-op Board firms ten dollar deposit refund By Chris Schneider lK)ard's newly elected president said. Staff Writer Driscoll said, however, that the board has a "legal obligation" to return The UConn Co-op board of directors the 10 dollars to the students. decided last night to go ahead with The difference between the o|x>rat- their plans to give a ten-dollar deposit ing surplus and the total surplus is refund to students despite a request what the Co-op will return The board that the surplus money be given to the decided to send the is sue to commit- UConn Library. tee for further discussion The request that the money be given to the library was denied on the "Nobody really grounds that the deposit refund was knous exactly hoic already in the works. Steve Merlino. a board memlx-r. con- much the surplus is. " -• sidered the wording of the library pro- Al Driscoll, Co-op posal "intentionally vague." He said Boa rd of Directors that the students who drafted the peti- president tion to give the money to the library, which was signed by 2500 students, was not specific about what they wan- Ron Pape. former president of the ted the library to do with the money board, proposed that the issue be pre- Newly elected Co-op Board President Al Driscoll (c), board members One of the major factors hindering sented to the student body in referen- Jim Kann (r) and Cralg Lund (I) rejected proposals alternate to the discussion of the proposals was that dum form to "follow the will of the planned ten-dollar deposit refund. Ed Mierzwinski, UConnPirg director "nobody really knows exactly how stud- looks on (Charles Hisey photo). much the surplus is." Al Driscoll. the See page 3 Page2 Editorial (Conn ccticut latin, (Eattqnta Sank* Stan Sta* MM Thursday October 7,1982 Editor In Chief Jeff Denny Managing Editor John Berry Business Manager Evan Rokien Senior Writer Dave Krechevsky Office Manager Lois McLean News Joseph Tale Whiflng.Mark Almand.Ai Powell Sports Bob D'Aprite.Tom Restelli.Dona Gauruder Arts Cork) Van Kampen.Steve Hewins.Dan Davlson Features Jackie Rtzpatrlck. Carol Carangelo Wire Stephanie Rutty.Jean Cronin.Sue Waillonls Copy Lisa Stenza.Bob Brennon Advertising Diane Spiegel Ad Production Ann Urban Night Production Sue Dowden Classified Cheri O'Neil Photo Manoger Jack Wilson Production Randall Gort, Howard Urban. Mirella Poll if rone, Dennis DonovanJamie Speer.Loura Uliasz.Denlse Koch Jennie Putnam,Sue Klrwin,Jim Peron.Katfiy McKinney The right perspective 'HE'S ftEN -faEPPRAYER TO ENDTM! NR SfelKE. THANK YOU VEKY MUCH ft* JMWI*6 HlS TRANSMISSIONS. v^ollege sports and academics are supposed to go hand in hand. For many athletes, a football, basketball or soccer scholarship is the only way to Abortion: a ivoman's right to choose receive a college education. Some abuse this privilege. A scholarship for these By G.W. Lucas and just decision. The only real injustice in misguided athletes means only one thing--a chance the case was that a woman was forced to go to make the pros. They come to college only for the The question of abortion is a difficult one through legal proceedings in order to obtain athletics, placing academics in a secondary role. because it reflects a fundamental division in what was her right. Western Society's perceptionspf ethics, poli- Michael Lawlor of the Pro-Life (more ac- Athletes like John Pietak force us to put this in tics, and human rights. In America, at least, curately: anti-abortion) Council of Connec- perspective. The freshman came to UConn to play the issue will not be settled easily. Bijt the ticut was quoted in your paper as calling the soccer. He was given a scholarship, and had per- question of the lightness or wrongness of ruling "a sentence, not a decision." Imagine abortion was not the issue in the recent deci- that. Would it have been any lessof a sentenc- formed very well on the field, leading the team in sion in Milford Superior Court to throw out a ing to have forced a woman to go through an scoring through the first seven games. court order which had prevented a woman unwanted pregnancy? Mr. Lawlor's rhetoric Pietak also came here for academics. And when from obtaining an abortion. Earlier, the court has no place in any rational discussion about the two began to conflict with each other, he was had prohibited the woman from having an abortion. Quips like his disguise the issues. abortion because her boyfriend had wished It is possible that the question of abortion forced to make a choice. to raise the child. may ultimately, legally, be decided in the anti- He chose academics. The real question in this situation was abortionist's favor. Personally, I hope not. What opportunities for a pro career he gave up whether a woman has the right to self-de- But whenever the decision is made, whatever by quitting the soccer program no one can say. But termination and whether her right to exercise the final settlement may be, it must not be an option that was legally hers could be made by playing legal games with cases like that is no longer the issue. Pietak is going to get his abridged because she was pregnant. Abor- this one. There should never have been a college education. He plans to work the rest of the tion itself was not the issue; a higher court court order preventing the woman in ques- semester, and then return to school, either at a New had already determined that it is legal and it tion from having an abortion.