The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 VoL LXXXIXNo.14 The University of Connecticut Wed., Sept 25, 1985 Search for survivors continues in Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP)—Thousands fled the city Tuesday, (earing disease from polluted water and decaying bodies. Others watcjed rescuers pull survivors from earthquake deb- ris that had imprisoned them for days, praying to see rel- atives. Workers dug and listened on ultra-sound equipment specially trained dogs sniffed and pawed in the desperate effort to find the estimated 1.500 people still buried before it is too late Cheers are raised for every victory, when someone who thought his trap was his grave is pulled to safety. Not even disaster can change fundamental human be- havior Teams digging through the rubble of an apartment building reached a 70- year- old womaa but she refused at first to come out because I am naked and people are going to think I have no shame' The latest official count put the death toll at 3.000 from the two major earthquakes that struck the heart of the city last Thursday and Friday. The city government said7.100 people were injured and600 remained in hospitals Mexico City—Red Cross volunteers stand with Mexican soldiers outside the fallen An estimated 300.000 are homeless, and only about half Benito Juarez Hospital. Officials believe there are hundreds of patients and doctors have found temporary shelter. The others huddle in parks and still alive under the rubble (UPI photo). streets or have left the city to seek help from friends and relatives outside the capital. Hurricane gathers strength UCEPI approves budget By Dave Clark on a 390-acre plot just north "Gloria' could hit East Coast Daily Campus Staff of the Storrs campus. Ground- MIAMI (\P)—Gloria a major hurricane pack- toward the northwest" Clark said late Tuesday. The board of directors of breaking is expected this ing winds near 130 mph. gathered strength The new path made it unlikely that Gloria would the proposed research park spring Tuesday as forecasters warned it could strike strike at the Bahamas or Florida he said near campus approved a The executive committee anv-where from the Carolinas to New lingland The greatest threat novv is from the Car- budget for next year and was formed from the 15- and said It needs our full respect"' olinas north to New England Clark said adding established an executive com- member board to deal with It's a very small storm but a very severe that the storm's course could change mittee at its meeting in Far- business that must be han- storm' said Gil ClarK. a forecaster with the The smaller they are the harder it is to pre- mington Monday. dled in the period between the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables. dict'" he said UCEPI. the University of monthly board meetings, ac- ' Everyone in the East Coast better be watch- Gloria which earlier Tuesday had maximum Connecticut Educational Pro- cording to UConn Vice Presi- ing out for this one." sustained winds of 125 mph grew steadily perties. Inc. is the non- profit dent for Finance and Admin- Last night it was moving toward the Ba- more powerful and be evening was a "verv corporation set up to manage istration Harry Hartley a hamas, but in the last 12 hours it's moved more dangerous"' storm producing winds near 150 the development of the re- board member. mph. the center said search park to be constructed See page 3 Casteen may support hunger week funding By Peter Corjulo A metanoia is defined in Daily Campus Staff University laws and by-laws UConn President John Cas- as a day set aside for campus- teen told a student ac^sory wide discussion of some group Monday that he is will- event of great social signi- ing to support fund-raising icance UConn for Africa efforts at UConn during organizers had hoped to set hunger week but would aside Oct 16 for lectures "want to get an idea of plans forums and discussions of before issuing a letter of various aspects of the hunger support". issue The last metanoia was Casteen made the com- held in 1980. and involved the ments during a meeting with issue of violence against representatives of UConn for women. Africa a new club formed to According to Casteen the coordinate hunger relief term has acquired negative efforts on ■ ampus and in the connotations as a result of state abuses during the Vietnam Th- group had met with War era At that time a Castcten to request a meta- metanoia involved the can- noia but were persuaded not cellation of all classes on the President Casteen, center, met with a student advisory board yesterday. Seated at to because of the amount of day it was held work involved and limited right is Jim ()' Rourke, chairman of Conn- PIRG. and at left is Debra Salan- Burns, execu- tine available See page 4 tive assistant to the president (Maria DeAngelis photo). \^" Inside Today: Weather Forecast: • Entertainment this morning rating the airwaves Cloudy with partial clearing in the See page 12. afternoon Highs in the 70 s • Preview of the annual UConn-Yale game See page 19 The Daily Campus. Wednesday September 25. 1985 Page 2 NEWS ROUNDUP Orders to sink may have come from minister PARIS (AP)—A French the Greenpeace affair, quoted newspaper said today that Bernard Tricot the civil ser- Charles Hernu. the defense vant who furnished the gov- minister who resigned over ernment's initial report on the revelations that French spies affair, as saying Le Monde's sanK the Rainbow Warrior on scenario was possible July 10. may have been given a The front-page article in /.e verbal order to neutralize' Monde came under a headline the Greenpeace ship. reading:' Who gave the order However, the article in the to neutralize the flagship of respected be Monde news- Greenpeace iuly It) ill the port paper said the alleged order oi Auckland?" was made without the know- The article said that then ledge of President Francois \rmy Chiei of Staff .leannou Mitterrand or Premier Laur- Lacaze and Gen Jean Saulnier. ent Fabius. chief of staff at the presiden- Le Monde reported that tial Elysee palace were Kept the order was given on the informed but the premi-'r political level bv Mr. Hernu and the president of the re- himseli. responding to a pre- public were not informed' ssing demand of Adm. Henri Fages.' at the time head of the Tricot's report Aug. 26 nuclear testing center at revealed that five agents were Mururoa in New Zealand on a sur- The article in Le Monde. veillance mission but cleared which has led the French France of any involvement in New England Aquarium staff members transfer an electric eel (in net) into their new press with revelations aljout the sinking. .Amazon exhibit (UPI photo). Plane crash site investigated Chinese shift in Politburo PEKING(AP)— Inatriumpn 1978 WEYERS CAVE. Va (AP)— The bodies of 14 Brunner identified the third victim from Con- lor top leader Deng Xiaoping The changes were made people killed when a commuter plane slammed necticut as Rich Mikovits 40. of Ridgefield a the Communist Party prom- during a full meeting oi the into a mountain and burned were carried down salesman for Brockway Plastics. John W. Pres- oted five younger |x>licy- party Central Committee in rugged trails Tuesday as investigators looked burg a vice president of Henson Airlines, iden- makers to the ruling Politburo Peking, it capped a series of for clues to the cause of the crash. tified the final Connecticut victim as Reilly on Tuesday, replacing old three meetings which Deng It's amazing how a plane that size can be Wilcox of Simsbury. revolutionaries with a new used to bring in newcomers to reduced to nothing." said state police Sgt RL The victims' bodies were placed in bags at the generation to guide China's continue market-oriented re- Bass, one of about 30 officers assisting National site Tuesday and stretcher teams carried them reform forms he i.lunched seven Transportation Safety Board investigators to the nearest road more than a mile away. But the scale of the transi- years ago. gathering pieces of the Henson Airlines Besch It appeared the plane came in straight or tion was less than diplomats State-run television 99. slightly descending..bulldozed the ground and and Chinese sources forecast showed the21t) Central Com- The plane, carrying 12 passengers and two broke apart" NTSB investigation team leader and there was no replace- mittee members shoving crew members, went down Monday morning on Patricia Goldman said Very little is intact" ment in the Politburo Stand- ba lois into a red box in The a flight from Baltimore to theShenandoah Valley She said some of the bodies were burned ing Committee for Marshal Ye Great Hall Of The People. Airport in this western Virginia community At an afternoon news conference Ms Gold- Jianying who retired last Although 10 ,>arty elders south of Harrisonburg The wreckage was spot- man said investigators had not been able to con- week. voluntarily resigned from the ted nearly nine hours later from a Marine firm reports that the pilot had trouble with The Standing Committee is Politburo Sept hi. only six helicopter. navigation equipment before the crash. Chinas top i>olicymaKing seats were filled one by a pre- The first ground team to reach the crash site She said investigators would listen to conver- b( >dy. vious alternate Vice Premie on Trayf<x)t Mountain didn't arrive until about 2 sations between traffic controllers at Leesburg Deng.