Baseball team to get a taste of the majors back page (fkmwttimt IBattg Qlampua Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXVII No. 109 The University of Connecticut Wednesday. April 11,1984 l—c Senate calls for end 100 miles Soviets claim US. Olympics to UJS.-funded mines HONDURAS WASHINGTON (AP)—The over with and go on to the policy unfair Senate Tuesday passed a next thing." ELv^. Caribbean non-binding resolution calling Pressler voted for the com- SALVADOR Sea MOSCOW (AP)—The for an end to the use of CIA promise, although he said. Soviet Union charged Tues- funds to assist in the mining of "The administration has left NICARAGUA day that U.S. groups opposing Nicaraguan ports. us who supported the admin- Soviet participation in the istration package of aid to El \ The vote was 84-12. Puerto Conrrto- 1984 Summer Olympics are The Republican leadership Salvador and Nicaraguan sO. Managua "terrorists" and accused a agreed to support the meas- guerrillas in a difficult pos- Puerto Sandno El Bluff State Department spokesman ition." ure in return for Sen. Edward \ of lying when he said the M. Kennedy's agreement to As part of the agreement. Reagan administration defer a companion proposal Senate Majority Leader N>^ doesn't sanction the groups. demanding that the adminis- Howard Baker Jr. agreed to The charges came one day tration reverse its decision to vote for the Kennedy resolu- Pacific Ocean COSTA after the Soviet National remove its Central American tion on mining and Kennedy HCA Olympic Committee reques- policies from World Court agreed to put off the matter of ted an emergency meeting of jurisdiction for two years. the World Court action until the International Olympic after a 10-day congressional Committee to discuss its com- Sen. Larry Pressler. R-S.D.. Easter recess that starts Reported mining of Nicaraguan ports (UPI). plaints about the Los said the compromise was Friday. Angeles Games. outlined to Republican sen- Soviet sports officials say ators by Kenneth Dam. dep- the United States is requiring uty secretary of state, at a Shuttle crew rescues broken satellite Soviet athletes to apply for closed-d(K>r meeting before CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. ushers in an era of space- was sent into orbit in 1980 to visas in violation of the Olym- the vote. (AP)—Shouting "we got it." craft salvage. study the sun. pic charter, which says official Challenger's astronauts pluc- Dramatic as it was, the job Challenger was 300 miles delegations only have to show "I think they want to liq- ked the costly Solar Max satel- won't be complete until two above the Indian Ocean when their Olympic cards to enter uidate the political damage," lite from space Tuesday and astronauts venture into the mission specialist Terry Hart the host country. Pressler said. "The thing is not set it in the shuttle's cargo bay open cargo bay Wednesday extended the shuttle's cargo The Soviets also have com- working, so they want to get it for an overhaul in orbit that to repair the satellite, which crane and caught a pin on the plaints about the U.S. groups side of the slowly spinning that plan demonstrations to satellite. oppose Soviet participation in Victory for Mondale in Pennsylvania He snagged it on the first the Olympics, and a group PHILADELPHIA (AP) projected that Mondale had tion for national nominating try, saving a mission that that has said it will try to per- Walter F. Mondale rolled to a won, and handily. In the early delegates. looked like a failure only two suade Communist-bloc ath- "very strong win" over a fad- count, he had 50 percent of The Rev. Jesse Jackson days earlier when astronaut letes to defect during the ing Gary Hart in the Penns- the vote to 42 percent for apparently was winning in George Nelson flew himself Games. ylvania primary Tuesday Hart. Philadelphia and hoped for a over to it but was unable to The Soviet statement night and took convincing A Mondale victory would strong third-place showing dock with it. issued Monday demanded the control of the Democratic ratify earlier industrial state statewide that would under- Hart gingerly locked the United States take steps to presidential race at its mid- results in Illinois and New score his still-increasing clout satellite into a special cradle. prevent such activities. way point. York- and leave Hart even within the party. President Reagan expressed White House spokesman The television networks all further behind in the competi- Mondale claimed victory his delight. "Bob I understand Larry Speakes said in Wash- and said, "I'm encouraged to that the satellite you have on ington that the Reagan ad- believe that what I have been board would cost us about ministration will uphold its saying about where I would $200 million to build at today's guarantee to respect the take the country, the differen- ..prices," he told commander Olympic charter. State De- ces as the public perceives ,,Robert L Crippen. "If you partment spokesman John them, is helping me gain .can't fix it up there would you Hughes said all accredited momentum toward the nom- mind bringing it back?" Soviet athletes will be allowed ination." That's precisely what the "unhindered entry." He called it "a very strong back-up plan is. He said the United States win." Nelson and fellow astro- "will take whatever steps are CBS News said its poll of naut James D. van Hoften, necessary to safeguard the voters as they left the election known to their colleagues as securtity of all" Olympic par- places indicated Mondale "Pinky" and "Ox," will climb ticipants. He also said the trailed Jackson in Philadel- into bulky space suits Wed- Reagan administration in no phia and Hart in its suburbs, nesday and go into the cargo way sanctions the ant i -Soviet but led elsewhere. bay to accomplish in six hours groups, but that their activ- The returns, from 7 percent what they had planned for 12 ities are protected by First of the state's 9,560 pre- earlier in the mission. Amendment free-speech cincts, were: They will replace a control guarantees. See page 6 Sec page 6 See page 14 Inside: • Puerto Rican Center is a home away from home' • Former state Agricul page 10 ture Commissioner H. Earl Waterman found guilty of larceny in bogus sand • Sixties activists remin- deals/page 8 isce/page I I Cloudy with a chance of showers today, highs 45- • Drunk driving tests 50. Cloudy tonight, lows Former Vice President Walter Mondale (Charles Hisey • What to wear in Hart- in the 30s Variably ruled constitutional/ page ford/page 1 3 photo) 9 cloudy tomorrow. Page 2 Editorial Editor in Chief Rosemary Hames Managing Editor '. Susaiine Dowden Connecticut Business Manager Ilene Feldman Assistant Managing Editor John Paradis Office Manager Lois McLean Advertising Manager Liz Gracia News Brian Dion. Erica Joseph, Liz Hayes Daily Assignments |ohn Yearwood. Thomas Barone Sports Bob D'Aprlle, Dana Gauruder, Kim Harmon Arts Emilia Dubicki. Neil Jones, Carrie Bramen Features Doug Clement, Dianne Gubin Campus Wire Andrea Williams, Scott Stickles. Laura Lovely Copy Aimee Hartnett. Greg Barden Serving Storrs since 1896 Photography Manager Charles Hisey Photography George Edwards. Larry Clay Brownstein Vol. LXXXVI1 No. 109 Wednesday, April 11, 1984 Aaron Spicker «Commentai^*,,^M,lil>i,,"l"^li~lilil1" Coops noncosmetic books By Doug Clement Features Editor I know someone who loves to read books. He buys them sporadically and incessantly, and places them neatly on his bookshelf, according to author. He saves them, and treasures them to read on rainy days. Actually he's become quite a collector and this person is very proud of the works he has assembled. Like most collectors he loves to show off his collection of books. Like a new dog-owner he sayfi, "Look here is Sartre, I bought him yesterday." Being such a collector, my friend has purchased books in a great many bookstores from Storrs Connecticut to New York, and even Atlanta, Georgia. One of his treasures is a small paper- back edition of J.D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam Carpen- ters. He does't value the book necessarily because of its author and contents, although they are a factor, but he holds it so highly because no where on the bright yellow cover is there a price tag or even the remnants of one. MKE mm MOW It) FIGHT R* MMMP m^-wit^tf \mwwKttKmcto% "Look," he said holding the book and smiling, "this one's per- fectly clean." To indulge him I agree and inquire why that is so special. ■Commentciryt r- The question just sets him off. "Look at these," he said, pulling out some volumes of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. "I bought these at the Coop." Indoor air pollution strikes "e^e books were a mess. Two of them had complete price tags By Maxwell Glen and Cody Shearer pasted across the otherwise picturesque scenes on the front WASHINGTON—Spring may have come none too soon this year, according to Peter Preuss, cover, and the others had the smudged remains of tags that he director of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's health and science division. had attempted to peel off. A preliminary study of indoor air pollution by the Oak Ridge Laboratorty suggests that sub- "The Coop uses price tags that don't peel off," he says, "and stances regulated by the Clean Air Act are turning up at more dangerous levels inside test homes they stick right on the front cover. These were a steal so I bought than outside.
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