o.i> (Ejmttrrttrut iatlg (Sampita Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXVIII NO. 102 STORRS, CONNECTICUT WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26. 1975 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS King Faisal assassinated BEIRUT- (UPI) Saudi Khalid underwent heart surgery sacred cities of Mecca and monarch was wounded and Washington said the 31-year-old Arabi's King Faisal, spiritual in Cleveland, Ohio, three years Medina. hospitalized. Then. a .issassin was son of King Faisal's leader of the world's 600 million ago. t c a r - c h o k c d .innounccr half brother. Prince Musaid. The nephew walked the Moslems and master of the Faisal was killed while holding broadcast the news that Faisal Mideast's largest oil fields, was court in his Palace to mark the length of the hall apparently had died. Immediately all radio They said in 1966 he studied assassinated Tuesday as he sat on mniversary of the birth of intended to greet the seated King stations switched to readings of English at San Francisco State a golden chair in the mirrored Prophet Mohammed the with the customary kiss on both the Koran and thousands of College, and the following year hall of his palace by a deranged founder of the Islamic religion checks. Instead, he pulled a Saudis. (Tying and spreading he enrolled in a course in member of his own family. whose 600 million followers revolver from beneath his their arms in Uriel, surged into mechanical engineering at the Faisal, 68, died of wounds revered Faisal as their spiritual flowing robe and fired. the streets of Riyadh. University of Colorado at after his American-educated leader and custodian of the At first Radio Riyadh said the Diplomatic sources in Boulder. nephew, Prince Faisal bin Musaed bin Abdcl Aziz, shot him down with three bullets fired at point blank range during a holy Moslem ceremony, th e official saudi Arabian Riyadh Death leaves Mideast unchanged radio said. The radio said the assassin, a By D.M. MOSLF.Y Mideast relations, said the death "visibly active" in government, David G. Edcns, an associate former student in Britain and at Associate News Editor of King Faisal, who was Keed said, but will probably professor of economics who the Universities of California and The death Tuesday of the assassinated by an allegedly "very much try to continue the served as a consultant to the Colorado during the 1960's, was Saudi Arabian monarch will not deranged nephew, "adds more policies of the highly respected .Saudi Arabian government in the "mentally unsound" and acted significantly change relationships uncertainty to the Arub world," Faisal." 1960's, called the late Faisal "a alone. between the oil-rich Persian Gulf but added that "in the short run The king's younger brother, nation and the United States and there probably won't be any big This continuity will be a key very strong personality," adding Crown Prince Khalid, 62, was Israel, according to a U Conn changes." factor in determining how I here are forces in the country quickly chosen by family expert on the Middle East. important Faisal's death will be- which want to change the members and high officials to Howard A. Reed, a professor The successor to Faisal, Crown on relationships between absolute monarchv which rule. succeed faisal, the radio said. of history specializing in modern Prince Khalid, has not been Mideast countries, Reed said. Continued on Page 7 2,000 students fast to aid world hungry By STEVEN HULL about 500 commuters to fast. News Editor How much will be donated will not Aboul 2000 students in Associated be known for two weeks, when the Student Commissary (ASC) dormitories checks from the 60 ASC dormitory fasted for all or part of Tuesday, saving kitchens arc received and processed. The aboul $3,000 that will be used to aid amount each dormitory will contribute starving persons throughout the world, depends on the cost of the meals served according to fast chairman William Brennan. Tuesday and the number of students who fasted. The last Committee also received S278 in contributions from Hilltop ASC coordinator Kent Banning said Council, commuters, non-ASC Tuesday about $2.25 per student would dormitories and faculty members. be available if the student skipped all Although Brennan predicted Sunday three meals. But Brennan said a majority 2,500 students would fast, he said the of the students planned on missing two low turnout was due mainly to a poor meals. showing by commuters. The Fast There were two reports of students Committee received S49 in who had signed up to last, but tried to contributions from about 45 fasting eat anyway. Giles Mercier, chef in commuters. Brennan said he expected Hollistcr B, said many students, who were supposed to be fasting, ate hamburgers for lunch. Metanoia Schedule A random survey of 10 ASC 10 a.m. G. W. SazamaJ dormitories indicated that support for Department of Economics, "Hunger* the fast was widespread. A majority of in America," Commons 310. the stewards and stewardesses contacted 1:15 p.m. Seminars in S.U. 306.! said about half of the dormitory 3:30 p.m. Panel discussions in '■ residents missed each meal. Commons 310. The highest turnout appeared to be in 7:30 p.m. G. S. Borestrom.; the Intentional Democratic Community Michigan State University, "Hungry! (IDC) where about 100 of the 120 Planet," S. U. Ballroom. residents fasted for all or part of the day. Troops and civilians flee Hue SAIGON (UPI) A rear guard of dodged North Vietnamese fire along a thousands of government troops and body-littered six-mile route to the civilians scrambled for safety Tuesday harbor and many swam to boats waiting under Communist gunfire and swam to to carry them to Da Nang, 50 miles to boats in a desperate struggle to escape the south. the fallen city of Hue. Those who reached Da Nang, the only remaining government bastion in the [See related stories on Page 8] northern third of the country, told U.S. and South Vietnamese officials many refugees drowning in the scramble said they were readying the largest airlift to reach boats waiting offshore because in history in a plan to carry 10,000 of shallow water and sandbars. refugees a day from Da Nang to Government troops arriving in Da Camramh Bay, 185 miles northeast of Nang with all their gear and artillery Saigon. were immediately sent to the front lines, READY, SET, PULL: Chuck Fisher bites his lip and bears down as he leads Thousands of South Vietnamese where Communist troops launched two Russell B to victory Tuesday in the first night of Intramural Tug-O-War action. soldiers and civilians who were among minor attacks only five miles from the Russell B, last year's National League champion, defeated Goodyear B in two out the unfortunate last to leave Htfe refugee-swollen city. t>f three tugs. (Photo by Buzz Kanter.) .-, . OPINION conferred with any Daily Campus member But all that time, effort and careful planning resulted in only a 15-line proposal regarding his feeling toward the function-and Hot air that shocked and angered many of his fellow responsiveness of the paper. Gerald Sazama, an associate professor oi senators, who can only recommend, and not But Sazama's biggest prohlem is that he economics, has proposed to create what enact, such a proposal. appears to have misread the First Amendment amounts to a new constitution lor the Daily They weren't upset because Sazama put in of the Constitution. His proposal suggests that Campus. We're flattered that this member of all that lime and effort because they knew editors be chosen by either the student body the University Senate could take lime out he didn't. They weren't upset because Sazama or the student government. from his husy schedule to make such a did his homework because they knew he He ignores almost 200 years of proposal to the Senate Monday. didn't. Constitutional history vigorously supporting Surely he must have put in a lot o! time, Rather, they were upset because Sazama the freedom of the press to censure the effort and thought to produce a constitution was waiting the Senate's time. government, not to be censored by it. The lor a daily that employs more than 100 David Ivry, acting director of planning, press is the watchdog ol government. students annually and operates on a SI00,000 said, "There have been so many inaccuracies Government is not the watchdog of the press. yearly budget. It must have taken weeks to presented that I think it would bore the And if Sazama seeks more "independence" pore through the current Daily Campus Senate to continue debate." for the student paper, he should take off his constitution as well as other documents that Ivry said, "There is a magnificently free blinkers and ask himself: have molded the Campus over the past 78 press as far as the Daily Campus is Can access of expression be guaranteed by 1 years. concerned.* putting a political gtoup in charge of the This new constitution, taking much ol Ivry was not speaking from instinct. He was paper? What would prevent a candidate for S.i/.ima's Tree lime, must surely purport to he speaking from sometimes bitter experience. the board from making campaign promises to better than the one the Daily Campus has As chairman of the cooperative bookstore influence or censor editorial policy? been operating under since April 90, 1<)72. committee, Ivry tried to ram a massive report The Daily Campus is not averse to any The current constitution was the past the editors and into print.