Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-4-1986 The BG News April 4, 1986 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 4, 1986" (1986). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4511. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4511 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Foreign students bring ethnic flavor, pg. 9 THE BG NEWS Vol. 68 Issue 104 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, April 4,1986 Applications exceed 8,600 by JuUe Faublc and this may contribute to the staff reporter increase in applications, he said. Hie University has received HE SAID financial aid cuts more applications for fall se- may also make the lower tuition mester than ever before, said of state-supported schools more John Martin, director of admis- attractive. sions. More than 8,600 applications There also has been an in- were received before the March crease in the percentage of out- 21 deadline, he said. This num- of-state and minority students ber is approximately 800 more applying to the University be- than last year. cause of more programming in the admissions office intended to Because of the 15,000 student reach these students, Martin ceiling on Bowling Green's en- said. rollment, there are only 3,000 spaces available for incoming Last July. Clarence Terry was freshmen next fall, about 300 appointed the newly-created po- fewer openings than the year sition of director of minority before, he said. recruitment to increase mi- nority awareness of Bowling Other residential, state-sup- Green, he said. ported institutions, such as Ohio The greater number of appli- State University and Miami Uni- cations and the fewer available versity, have also seen a rise in spaces in the freshman class freshman applications despite a have led the University to raise decrease in the number of high admissions requirements school graduates in Ohio, Martin slightly, Martin said. BG News/Jim Sakola said. "I expect to have a better Fountains Again this spring. Here, BGSCI plumbers Dick Leady, left, and John Head, Generally, more students go quality freshman class as mea- After being inactive for the past four years, the fountains in perform maintenance repairs on the fountains. Neither of the away to colleges when there is a sured by high school require- front of the Administration Building are going to operate again men knew why the fountains were inactive for so long. period of higher employment ments and test scores," he said. Airplane bombing blamed on known terrorist BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Palestin- Middle East terrorist organizations." 727 as it was approaching the airport parked at the Malta airport. national events. ians who know the dark world of Arab It holds him responsible for 60 attacks Wednesday at Athens, Greece, hurtling terrorism say the TWA aircraft bomb- in the past eight years in which hun- four Americans to their death. Just after Christinas, terrorists be- THE UNITED States accused Libyan ing is the latest work of Abu Nidal, the dreds of people have been slaughtered, Terrorists doing Abu Nidal's bidding lieved to be Abu Nidal's followers at- leader Moammar Khadafy of harbor- elusive mastermind whose followers many of them innocent bystanders. have bombed andmurdered from Am- tacked passengers at the Rome and ing Abu Nidal and cut economic ties have spread blood across three conti- Abu Nidal has used many names for man to Islamabad, Vienna to London. Vienna airports. Twenty people were with his regime after the airport mas- nents. his group. Officials of Syrian-backed He first gained notoriety in 1974 when killed, including five Americans and sacres. The latest chapter in U.S.-LI- The Israelis have blamed Abu Nidal, Palestinian organizations that also op- his men attacked a Pan Am jet in Rome four terrorists, and more than 110 peo- byan relations was a naval conflict last a code name that means "father of pose Arafat say the Arab Revolution- with incendiary bombs, killing 30 pas- ple were wounded. week in the Gulf of Sidra. struggle," for 103 terrorist attacks ary Cells, which claimed responsibility sengers. since he split with Yasser Arafat's for planting the bomb of the TWA jet, is ADU Nidal was blamed for the hijack- Interpol, the international police or- On June 3, 1982, Abu Nidal claimed mainstream Fatah Palestinian guerril- the latest one. These officials spoke on ing of an Egyptian airliner last Novem- ganization, posted worldwide wanted responsibility for the attempted assas- las in 1974. condition of anonymity. ber in which60 people were killed, most notices for him after the Rome and sination in London of Israeli Ambassa- The U.S. State Department says his of them when Egyptian commandos Vienna attacks. dor Shlomo Argov, who was crippled group is "among the most dangerous THE BOMB blew a hole in the Boeing stormed aboard while the jet was His actions have precipitated inter- for life. City to expand downtown parking Sign up by Zora Johnson essary for the expansion from a group of will add 47 more spaces will be imple- tinue to serve merchants and their staff reporter downtown businessmen, Hoffman said. mented in about three years, Hoffman customers. Some of the houses along Prospect Street said. "The city has to invest in the downtown deadline Construction of 98 new parking spaces will have to be purchased to complete the The cost of the first phase will be about to keep it viable," he said. "In places downtown could begin as early as July or project. $740,000, with the second phase costing where the downtown has simply decayed, August, according to one city official. about $122,000, he said. the first thing that happens is that malls slated The increase will be the first phase of a "The city has a joint public and private are built with plenty of parking and the long-range plan designed to add 145 park- partnership with a group of downtown "There will be no increase in meter people go there." ing spaces to a downtown lot, said Wes businessmen and we will purchase the rates to pay for the work," Hoffman said. The deadline for register- Hoffman, city administrator. property from the group as it is required "The money borrowed for the project will BUT THE project is not a direct result ing to vote in the upcoming to build the lot," be said. be paid back by meter revenues, commit- of the proposed construction of the Wood- primary elections is Monday, The spaces will be added to Lot 2 which The city has not bought any property ments by downtown merchants and local land Mall in Center Township, he said. April 7. lies south of East Wooster Street and east yet, he said. tax monies." "The timing of this project is largely The May 6 primaries will of Smith Prospect Street. Hoffman said the expansion is nec- coincidental, he said. "This is not a select party representatives THE SECOND phase of the plan which essary if the downtown area is to con- reaction or response to the mall." for governor, U.S. Senate and The city will purchase property nec- House members, state court justice and county auditor for the November general elec- ■V1 ^a*aaal Four blacks killed tion. APPLICATIONS for regis- tration can be filled out at the *JBaaaaaaT Wood County Board of Elec- tions Office, located on the in racial attacks fifth floor of the County Office Building in back of the court- V JOHANNESBURG, South Af- IN DURBAN, a conference of house. The office will be open rica (AP)-White and black 420 delegates began talks on a Saturday from 8:30 a.m.- leaders in Natal Province yes- proposal to combine the white 12:30 p.m. and Monday from terday began debating a propo- Natal Province government 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. sal to create the nation's first with that of the Kwa-Zulu black To qualify for registering, 1 racially-integrated regional homeland, made up of 25 sec- one must be a resident of the government. tions of land scattered across state of Ohio and use Wood H -*/ 1 Meanwhile, police headquar- Natal. County as a permanent ad- ■ Thirty-one organizations, in- dress. ters said four blacks died in racial attacks around the coun- cluding Natal's main business try, including two black youths groups, attended the opening If residents have moved to f killed in street battles with po- session of the talks. another precinct or changed lice patrols in the black town- their name, the elections of- - J fice must be informed about ship of Vosloorus, southeast of Militant anti-apartheid groups Johannesburg. boycotted the gathering, saying the change. A court had imposed harsh the plan implied recognition of Students opting to vote ab- restrictions on a funeral for a the white-led government's pol- sentee in their home county ^^^ H^jU suspected black nationalist icy of granting political rights to must contact their county ■ blacks only in tribal homelands. board of elections office guerrilla shot by police last week. In other news, government They need to inform the office officials said restrictions on about what party they want to a •• « • «_ BG News/Jim YouU Roving security vehicles Bred black activist Winnie Mandela vote for, the reason they are Jury selection finished repeated barrages of tear gas were still in force.