The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCIII No. 32 The University of Connecticut Friday, October 20, 1989 Aftershocks rattle Calif., death estimate drops SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three strong aftershocks rattled Relief aid a jittery Northern California on Thursday, and rescuers who found fewer cars than feared pours into under a collapsed freeway said the World Series may have re- quake area duced the rush-hour traffic. Americans touched by scenes "Maybe we got lucky be- of devastation, of people left cause of the game," Oakland homeless by disaster, sent what police SgL Bob Crawford said. they could to earthquake vic- "Normally at 5 o'clock in the tims in Northern California on afternoon this area would be Thursday just one month after bumper-to-bumpcr. Maybe the shipping aid to those .n Hurri- World Series saved our lives.' cane Hugo's wake. Power and commuters re- Even Charleston, S.C., still reeling from last month's turned to much of downtown pounding by Hugo, sent a San Francisco as a tentative plane load of bottled drinking city tried to recover and regroup water. following Tuesday's earth- Private groups and officials quake, which claimed scores of sent search dogs and special lives and at least $2.87 billion equipment to hunt for sur- in damage. vivors, donated blood and Residents of the ravaged money and offered their exper- Marina district, furious at ini- tise. A Southern California tially being barred from their man donated a $15,000 sports homes, later lined up for 15- —UP! car he won in a radio contest. minute passes to fetch cloth- The first emergency relief supplies for San Francisco are loaded aboard a Charleston Wyoming remembered the ing, medicine, food and Air Force Base cargo plane as members of Charleston City Police Department wait help it received from California belongings. to board. The supplies including generators, men and water were sent by the mayor firefighters in the 1988 fires at At the 1-mile stretch of the of Charleston, saying that is what his city needed most after Hurricane Hugo hit. Yellowstone National Park. collapsed double-deck Interstate Gov. Mike Sullivan asked 880, the Nimitz Freeway in That could lower the death happening is that they are fatalities was made. emergency officials to help Oakland, workers cut holes in toll in the highway rubble — finding fewer vehicles under the Many people left work early wiih structural inspections and concrete and used cranes to pull estimated earlier at 253, bridge than they thought." to watch the third game of the search and rescue. out pancake-flat cars. Rescuers authorities said. Firefighter Dan Gctreu said World Scries, scheduled to start "While wc are few in number reported finding the cars as far "They are going lower, much he had walked the length of the at 5:30 p.m., and 60,000 peo- and they arc many, their needs apart as 60 feet, rather than lower in fact," Lisa Covington, fallen highway and estimated ple already were across die bay arc many, and wc stand ready to bumper-to-bumper as had been a spokeswoman for the Office no more than two dozen cars in San Francisco at Candlestick help in any way.'* Sullivan feared, Assistant Fire Chief Al of Emergency Services, said of were trapped. Park when the quake suuck at said. 5:04 p.m. Sigwart said. the estimates. "What's No new official estimate of The Wyoming Red Cross The World Scries will re- sent a mass feeding van to sume Tuesday al Candlestick California from Casper to join Park in San Francisco. Abortion bill heads to probable veto other Red Cross units deliver- Oakland Mayor Lionel Wil- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate sent Although the measure has become the object ing hot food door to door. President Bush on Thursday a bill permitting of intense effort by both sides of the abortion son said Thursday that only 85 federally financed abortions for poor women who issue, there was little Senate discussion of people were reported missing. Compiled from AP wire reports are victims of rape or incest, ignoring the abortion as it came to the floor. president's pledge to veto the measure. Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., said Bush's The bill, which has assumed symbolic promise of a veto was "unconscionable" and Concern over radon importance in the larger political war over the would "cause enormous additional suffering" for abortion issue, would ease an eight-year-old poor victims of rape or incest. restriction on circumstances in which Medicaid "The president has told us he will veto this bill prompts school bill will pay for a poor woman's abortion. because he won't accept langugage that allows HARTFORD (AP) — Every public school in the state would The Senate's 67-31 vote provided final poor rape and incest victims access to abortions," have to be tested for pollution by radon, a gas rising naturally from congressional passage of a spending bill in- he said. "I'm sorry the president of the United the ground and linked to lung cancer, under legislation proposed cluding the key provision on abortion, which the States, the most poweful man in the world, has yesterday by state Sen. Richard Blumcnthal, D-Slamford. House approved in a surprise vote last week. The chosen to veto this bill ... and thereby cause His bill, to be submitted to the 1990 General Assembly, would Senate previously had approved broadening enormous additional suffering for some of the carry no penalties, but die senator said that if it became law, courts federal funding for abortions, and its last vote world's most unfortunate and powerless victims. could compel compliance. was needed to send the bill to the White House. Medicaid restrictions in the law since 1981 Blumcnthal said he thought local officials would be eager to The measure would allow federal money to be permit federal money for abortions only in cases conduct the tests, which are inexpensive and would be paid for by spent on abortions for poor women who are where the life of the mother is endangered by her the state. victims of rape or incest and who "reported pregnancy. Medicaid financing for poor women's "Each day, our children may spend up to eight hours in basement promptly" to law enforcement or public health abortions has been restricted in one way or or first-floor classrooms where the levels of radon, a dangerous authorities. another since 1977. carcinogen, arc highest," he said, adding that radon is the second- leading cause of lung cancer in Connecticut. Blumcnthal, who is running for attorney general, said testing Pro-life group formed by students every school in the state would cost about $203,000 and that 75 By Michelle Kay politicians, and discussing their something to be thrown in a percent of that would be reimbursed by the federal government. Daily Campus Staff feelings about the abortion toilet," Metz said. Radon is a naturally occurring, invisible, odorless gas that Pro-life students organized issue. "How can you say (a fetus) produces radioactive particles as it breaks down. Those particles can the UConn Students for Life "I don't have a problem with is not a life when you know become trapped in human lungs and cause cancer. group last night in response to premarital sex or birth control, what it's going to be?" Amy He said his legislation would require a second lest for any school the formation of the UConn but I don't believe in abor- Anderson said. "Birth itself is a found above federal guidelines for radon. Steps to reduce radon National Organization for tion," said Metz. 'T don't think gift." pollution would be required for those schools found above the Women chapter. this country should become Metz said the purpose of the limits. At UConn, there has been a less sexually active, but I think group is not to antagonize pro- Blumcnthal said those steps could be as simple as increased big void on the pro-life end of people should realize the con- choice people. She said that the ventilation and rotating students in classrooms more often. the political scale, said Anne sequences of their actions." group will only act passively Senate President Pro Tern John B. Larson, D-Easl Hartford, who Metz, president of UConn Members took turns dis- to protest abortion. joined Blumenthal at die news conference, said it was Ume to focus Students for Life. Metz said cussing the roots of their be- "Most people in this group attention on schools, rather than almost exclusively on private she organized the support lief, but agreed with each other are pro-contraceptives," Metz homes, as is now done. group for pro-life students in- that they feel that a fetus is a said. And Senate Majority Leader Cornelius P. O'Leary, D-Windsor terested in lobbying for restric- human life at all stages of de- Melissa Santangclo said,"We Locks, who was also there, said Blumenthal's bill made sense tion — not abolition — of velopment and to abort it is don't think women who have because "our children may be the most susceptible to cancers abortions not deemed medically murder. abortions are evil." caused by radon because their smaller lung capacity and higher necessary, writing letters to "(Life) is definitely not See page 6 breathing rates can result in higher radiation doses." page 2 The Daily Campus, Friday, October 20, 1989 AROUND THE WORLD Soviet minister calls Yeltsin a liar MOSCOW (AP) — The which has seen him ousted interior minister on Thursday from his post as the called Boris N.