The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCII No. 116 The University of Connecticut Friday, April 21,1989 director resigns By Angi Carter Daily Campus Staff After serving for three months as director of the Afro- American Cultural Center, Ronald D. W. Powell has re- signed for "personal reasons." Powell said he could not be as effective as he would like to be without resolving his personal problems. "It is my fervent hope that my absence won't cause a re- versal," he said. "The center is headed in the right direction," said Powell. "And as I have always said, it is because of the students. There are a number of students who can keep it on track." Above: An honor guard carries the casket containing According to Milton Wrob- one of the 47 sailors killed on the USS Iowa. Below: Battleship tragedy leski, fiscal manager of Student The American flag flies at half mast on the stern of a Activities and Union Programs ship at Virginia's Norfolk Naval Base (UPI photo). and chair-person of the search hits Conn, family committee for the position of HARTFORD (AP) — At least one sailor from Connecticut director, a new search for was among the 47 sailors killed in the explosion aboard the USS candidates will begin soon. The Iowa, while seven others with Connecticut ties who were aboard starting date of the search has the ill-fated battleship were safe, members of Connecticut's not yet been determined, how- congressional delegation said Thursday. ever. Otis Moses, 23, of Bridgeport died in the fiery explosion that Assistant Director of the ripped through a huge gun turret as the battleship was on A.A.C.C., Sylvester Kent maneuvers in Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico on Wednesday, Butler said the students made a said his father, the Rev. James Moses, pastor of the Unity Mission strong effort to bring a director Pentecostal Church in Bridgeport. here. "I hope they don't feel "I'm not bitter at all," the elder Moses said. "We're not a their work was in vain. I hope family to be biuer about things. We're a family that believes that they exert the same effort again if God has taken Otis, then God has some better things for him. " when the search proceedings Moses said the family was praying for their lost son, one of begin," he added. six children, and for all the families who also lost loved ones Butler's term as assistant di- aboard the battleship. Moses said he was proud of his son's rector ends in May, at which military service and recognized the danger of duty aboard the time both positions will be battleship. vacant."Currcntly the paper- Otis Moses was hoping to attend college on the GI bill after work is in for the search for an leaving the Navy, then buy a home and build his life as a civilian, assistant director," said Wrob- his father said. Otis Moses would have been 24 in June. leski. "Right now I don't know The other seven Connecticut sailors aboard were identified by who will fill in during the in- the offices of U.S. Reps. John G. Rowland. R-Conn, and Barbara terim." B. Kcnnclly, D-Conn, as: Wrobleski said the last —Lt. Timothy Blackic, 40, a native of Florida whose parents search committee had a bal- live in Vcrnon. anced mixture of student and —Chief Petty Officer Paul Crossley, 24, of West Hartford. faculty members. As in previ- —Allan Orton of Newtown, age and rank unavailable. ous searches, the Black Student —Petty Officer Edward Peck, 23, of West Hartford. Association has been asked to —William G. Rice of Bristol, age and rank unavailable. provide a student representative —Raymond Ruberio of New Britain, age and rank unavailable. See page 3 —Richard S. Whittakcr of Branford, age and rank unavailable. Today in Former student arrested on cocaine charges The Daily Campus By Charles Pickett seizure of cocaine at UConn." SPORTS The Daily Campus At 12:53 a.m. on April The Dallas Cowboys have The UConn Police Depart- 17th, Mieczkowski was ended weeks of NFL draft ment made what may be the stopped by UConn police for speculation by signing largest seizure of cocaine ever passing through a stop sign at quarterback Troy Aikman at UConn Monday, resulting in the intersection of North to a rookie-record six-year, the arrest of a former student Eaglevillc and Hunting Lodge SI 1.2 million contract. Road. and the confiscation of 29 See back page packets of cocaine, with an es- Sgt. Armstrong said arresting officer Colonesc ob- Dan Donigan UConn's timated street value of $3,000. throe lime All-America Arrested yesterday was for- served Mieczkowski was be- mer UConn student James having erratically. He adminis- forward has signed a pro- Mieczkowski, 20, of 308 Dug tered a field sobriety test and fessional record contract Road, South Glastonbury on determined that Mieczkowski with ihe Boston Bolts the felony charge of illegal was possibly under the influ- of ihe American Soccer possession of cocaine with in- ence of drugs or alcohol. He League. tent to sell. Mieczkowski was was arrested for driving while See page 17 a fourth semester liberal arts intoxicated. NEWS student, before he left UConn During booking procedures, in December. a search of Mieczkowski's per- College tuitions arc in- Police confiscated 28 packets of what they believe UConn Del. Sgt. Armstrong son turned up approximately a creasing across the slate. to be cocaine from the car of James Mieczkowski, a said, "To the best of my half ounce of what police bc- See page 3 former UConn student (Charles Pickett photo). knowledge, it is the largest See page 6 AROUND THE WORLD Artillery pounds refugees BANGKOK. Thailand (AP) — Thai sources said Thursday that Vietnamese-backed forces have been pounding Khmer Rouge refugee camps near the Cambodian border with heavy artillery fire, but the secretive guerrilla organization has refused to allow evacuation of its wounded. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the shelling had caused many casualties, and the refugees had been driven deeper into Thailand. As many as 4,(KK) shells fired from inside Cambodia crashed into a wide area along Thailand's eastern Trat province on Monday and Tuesday, and more landed the following day, the military and other sources said on condition of anonymity. The area was reported quiet on Thursday. "They just covered the whole area with shells," one source said. They said the areas struck included the U.N.-aidcd camp of Ta Luan, which housed about 6,000 refugees, and Kaichc, a nearby camp where the Khmer Rouge have not allowed Western access but where 10,000 or more civilians were believed held. Thousands of the refugees sought shelter deeper inside Thailand, including about 2,000 who fled from Kaichc to Ta Luan, sources said. Ta Luan is a few miles inside Thailand. The sources quoted the fleeing Cambodians as saying they witnessed others killed or wounded, but no overall count was possible. In Ta Luan, at least several wounded people, some seriously hurt, were inside houses and underground shelters. Some evidently were moved there from a camp hospital because there were no shelters near the hospital, souaes said. Thai military sources said more than 100 houses in Braunau, Austria: Austrian police drag off a man screaming anti-Jewish and pro-Hitler phrases Ta Luan were destroyed. Other sources said the after he tried to approch the house where the German dictator was born 100 years ago today artillery and rocket rounds carved craters there and (Reuter photo). outside die camp. Students protest 1,500 students march for democracy in China BEIJING (AP) — About 1,500 The protests were prompted by from several universities marched across the country students braved a daylong downpour the death Saturday of Hu Yaobang, for hours under heavy rain to Students chained themselves inside a college and marched for democracy in the an outspoken reformer who was Tiananmen Square, the symbolic administration building in Ohio and marched by the capital Thursday, and authorities ousted as Communist Party chief in center of Chinese political life. hundreds across other U.S. campuses Thursday as part threatened "harsh measures" to 1987. Hu was accused of "The blood of our classmates will of a nationwide call for improvements for black crush four days of dissent. encouraging liberal ideas and failing not be shed in vain," said one students. About 1,000 students marched in to crack down on the 1986-87 student leader. "Since the time of The protests, loosely organized as National Black the central Chinese city of Nanjing, student demonstrators. the first emperor 2,000 years ago Student Action Day, were intended to publicize and students in Tianjin, a port city The Beijing city government China has been living under a demands for black studies requirements, more black cast of Beijing, plastered posters on issued regulations that restricted dictatorship. It is time for this to faculty members and other remedies to what students walls. Other marches were also commemoration activities for Hu to end." say are persistent patterns of discrimination. reported in Shanghai, Wuhan and inside universities, businesses and In Ohio, about 150 College of Woostcr students — Hcfci, but details were sketchy. factories. Soviets may have most of them white — occupied the campus Nationally televised news led The regulations also said "rioters administration building, Galpin Hall, before 7 a.m. with a stern warning that the and other lawbreakers would be used nerve gas and chained themselves inside, refusing to admit protests, the biggest since the pro- dealt with severely, according to the MOSCOW (AP) — Highly administrators.