NO}/. I Seepage 5 Today is the last day to give blood Connecticut Satin tikunpua Serving Storrs Since 1896 Volume LXXXIII No. 45 STORRS, CONNECTICUT Thursday, November 1.1979 DC-10 crash kills 74 in Mexico MEXICO CITY (UPI)—A are on runway 23-left. That Bodies and debris from the Mexico City airport. vived. including five Western Airlines DC-10, en- runway is closed to traffic. the white and red jetliner, Western Airlines officials Americans. One man who veloped in fog and flying on The correct one is 23-right." which flew from Los Angeles in Mexico, in what they said survived the initial crash instruments, landed on the The plane's last tran- with 75 passengers and 13 were "final figures" said 72 died later at a hospital. wrong runway, plowed into a smission before it hit 23-left crew, were scattered for passengers died, including Also killed were an string of buildings and was "OK." hundreds of yards around 26 U.S. citizens, and 16 sur- Eastern Airline employee crashed in flames, killing 74 working in a building flat- people. tened by the plane and the A transcript of the last driver of a truck hit bv the radio contact between the plane at the top of runway airport control tower and the 23-left. Western airline of- aircraft, obtained by the ficials said. capital's Channel 2 Thirty people were in- television station, showed jured—some of them on the the pilot. Capt. Charles ground, including ground Gilbert, was warned away r-.*# personnel and neighborhood from the wrong runway only residents hit by debris. moments before the crash. The pilot. Capt. Charles The tower radioed to the Gilbert, was not among plane. "The approach lights the survivors. WHUS Propane tanks may appear investigated on fee bill at Life Sciences By ENMcLENNAN By MARY ELLEN KELLY „ ..iversity Fire Depar- A $2.00 fee to support tment personnel were sent to WHUS may be added to the the Life Sciences complex fee bill if students respond earlv Wednesday evening to investigate a possible positively to a campus-wide MEXICO CITY—A piece of a Western Airlines DC-10 remained intact after crashing in survey handed out at the In- pre-dawn darkness Wednesday with 89 persons aboard [UPI Wirephoto]. propane gas leak inside the ter-Area Resident Council building. (IARC) meeting Wednesday. Using fume detectors, "Dropping WHUS would firemen traced the leak to a open up a lot of new things to Disasters leave Fee forum relief valve located on a FSSO because we'd have propane ** '; at the rear of more funds," Dave Lasnick, to be held tht building.Burton Booker, IARC president said. victims stranded assistant director of Public "WHUS has no way of Safety, said. "The relief CAMPO.Colo. (UPI)— The Frats Council will knowing from year to year PORT MAYACA, Fla. valve was expelling exc «.» Rescuers maneu vered sponsor an open how much FSSO's going to (UPI)—An earthen power gas as a result of a build-up snowplows Wed- discussion on fees in the give them. If they are added company dam burst without of pressure inside the tank." nesday through 12-foot drifts Russell C lounge tonight to the fee bill they can make warning Wednesday, loosing Booker said. dumped in an eastern at 6:30 p.m. Student long-term plans," Lasnick a flood wave that washed a "That would be a normal Colorado blizzard to reach Trustee Steve Donen and said. railroad train from its tracks, situation in the case of a full dozens of stranded people, IARC President David "What we're trying to do innundated hundreds of tank. When sun shines on including two who died in Lasnick will lead the is make ourselves financially homes and forced at least the tank, the gas expands their stalled car. discussion and answer independent," Dennis Ricci. I 000 people to seek shelter and the excess pressure The two victims, who any questions. All mem- WHUS station manager en higher ground. causes the valve to open and authorities said died either bers of the University said. "We handle our own Dozens of people were relieve the pressure of carbon monoxide community are invited to business and we'd like to rescued by helicopters and buildup." Booker said. poisoning or exposure, were attend the meeting. handle our own finances," boats from the roofs of barns, found by workers digging Ricci said. houses and cars in a 60 through the drifts on U.S. According to Ricci. WHUS square mile area around 287 five miles south of Cam- takes up to 25 per cent of northeast Lake Okeechobee, po. SUNNY... FSSO's budget. If a WHUS about 100 miles northwest of Not far away, crews Mostly sunny today. Highs around 60. Fair fee was added to the bill, the Miami. reached a Continental tonight. Lows 35 to 40. The chance of rain is 10 percent amount of funding it gets Authorities said there Trailways bus and rescued through tonight. Winds becoming southerly 10 to 15 mph from FSSO will be cut. The were no reports of deaths or 16 persons stranded over- Thursday and Thursday night. $2.00 fee will equal the serious injuries. night. A 16-year-old girl amount of funding the "The water is still rising stranded on the bus said the station gets now from FSSO. and spreading into new areas passengers kept their spirits INSIDE... "The purpose of the sur- and we don't expect it to up by praying and singing vey is to determine how crest until around 6 p.m.," religious songs. Chuck Alcksinas has begun practicing with the UConn much student support we said Ellie Waters, the com- A massive storm system have," Ricci said. It will not munications chief of the basketball team. See page 16. buried a broad area from be determined if WHUS will Okeechobee County Civil De- Nebraska and South Dakota A $450 tuition increase is under consideration at the be added to the fee bill until fense. "The reservoir is 15 to Colorado in deep snow UConn law school. Sec page 6. all the results from the sur- feet deep and we expect it to and sent tornadoes and vey have been compiled. drain all the way down to deadly winds raging to the Ricci said. ground level." south of the snow. Page 2 The Connecticut Daily Campus, Thursday, November 1,1979 > In our opinion £SG£S£&» A sensible move in troubled times At a time when UConn's budget is being cut 2.25 percent and a $480 dormitory increase next year becomes more of a reality, the Associated Student Commissaries proposal to discontinue the kitchen employees linen service is a wise and welcome move. If the proposal is adopted. ASC could save $20,000 by allocating kitchen employees $50 to purchase their own uniforms and then require them to launder the uniforms themselves. An outside agency currently supplies and cleans the uniforms at a cost of $30,000 a year. K It is not unreasonable to ask chefs and other kitchen per- ST0> LAUGHING—HIS IS SBVQUSr sonnel to wash their own uniforms, especially since half of them do it now anyway. And it does not make sense for the ASC to continue paying for the complete service when it is only being half-used. , The mean computer ASC's proposal is sensible and economical. The student- run commissaries should adopt it immediately. Connecticut we probably all know Dailo. damnufl By ART BUCHWALD hadn't had one, they were thinking of WASHINGTON—The beauty of com- canceling my policy anyway. SERVING STORRS SINCE 1896 puters, so the advertisements tell us, is that Once someone crashed into the back of they make life easier for all of us. Don't you my wife's car and she said we ought to believe it. notify the insurance company. MARY MESSINA I have been corresponding with two "Are you crazy?" I yelled. "That's EDITOR IN CHIEF computers who work for my insurance exactly what Adolph would like. He's been firm—the company that advertises on waiting years to get us. One call from me KENKOEPPER MARK BECKER television during football games and shows and he'll hit the cancelation letter button MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MA NA GER a man's house being blown down and five just like that! no one will ever give us auto seconds later the agent for the company insurance again." building him a new one. "Who is Adolph?" my wife wanted to These two computers whom I've dubbed know. Let's keep Halloween Adolph and Dave are as different as day "He's a Nazi computer who escaped to and night. If you were captured, Adolph Argentina at the end of-the war. Then he would be the one who hit you over the head was shipped to the United States under all year long with a truncheon, and Dave would be the another name and got a job spitting out one who offered you a cigarette. threatening letters to poor helpless people It's now the day after Halloween when ghosts and Adolph is one mean computer. He wants like us. He's responsible for the deaths of witches go into hiding for another year, and masks and to cancel my automobile insurance. He's more auto insurance policies than any costumes are carefully packed away and forgotten. But really mad at me and I figured out why. I've computer in the country." hopefully the spirit of the holiday will remain never put in a claim for an accident, and "Why do we pay premiums if we can't throughout the year.