The Daily Collegian Friday Oct. 10. 1980
News briefs
Leftists execute ambassador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador
(UPI) Leftist guerrillas executed
the South African ambassador to El
Salvadoi whom they kidnapped near
ly one year ago because his govern
ment refused their demands, a guer
rilla communique said yesterday.
Ambassador Archibald Dunn was
abducted by members of the leftist
Popular Liberation Forces in San
Salvador Nov. 28, 1979.
In exchange for Dunn's release, the
guerrillas demanded a $2O million
ransom from the South African
government and publication of a lef
tist manifesto in 102 newspapers
around the world.
The communique issued by the
guerrillas said Dunn, 61, was ex-
Mt. St. Helens spouts steam
VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI)
Volcanic Mount St. Helens blew a
billowing steam plume containing a
small amount of ash to 16,000 feet
yesterday in its strongest activity in
two months.
"We're calling it a steam emission
at this point," said Joyce Routson,
spokeswoman for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
She said the steam burst coincided
with a light earthquake at 9:10 a.m.
which registered a little higher
than 2.0 on the Richter scale as
well as a period of harmonic tremors,
Syrian-Soviet pact 'dangerous'
TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) Prime
Minister Menachem Begin yesterday
called the Syrian-Soviet friendship
pact "a very dangerous develop
ment" for the Middle East as well the
world and said Israel would consult
with Washington about its
consequences.
Begin also said Israel' took a "very
serious view" of Jordan's involve
ment in the Iraqi-Iranian war and
urged the United States to cancel its
sale of advanced tanks to Amman.
, Syria 'and the Soviet Union signed
the friendship treaty, in Moscew
Wednesday and Begin told reporters
it was "a very dangerous develop
ment which is directed first against
Israel, but concerns also the whole
free world.
"I am convinced that this treaty in
cludes also a secret pact, a military
one. Israel will consult about the re
cent development with the United
States and I myself intend to speak
about it with President Caiter when I
Funeral ,00i.loe' - ue's.'Md . "' ger
ABILENE, Texas ( UPI) A local
funeral home is suing Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co. for $311,000 for
listing the funeral home in the Yellow
Pages under "Frozen Foods -
Wholesale."
Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home, which
filed suit Wednesday in state district
court, is seeking $50,000 in damages
for mental anguish, $36,000 for loss of
revenue, $25,000 for aggravation of a
medical condition and $200,000 in ex
emplary damages.
One of the firm's owners, John
Hamil, said the funeral home had
U.S.-Taiwan ties
PEKING (UPD• China, in its
sharpest attack against the United
States in months, accused
Washington yesterday of "diplomatic
betrayal" over the sensitive Taiwan
issue and warned Sino-American ties
were being undermined.
The latest storm was over an agree
ment between the United States and
Taiwan to grant limited diplomatic
privileges and immunities to the
"unofficial" representatives of each
country.
Diplomatic sources said China's
angry outburst underscored that Pek
ing would not tolerate many more
Washington "indiscretions" over
Taiwan without taking some type of
retaliatory action.
Washington depicted the agree
ment with Taiwan as "really a minor
matter," but China said it effectively
raised relations again to an "official"
level and reintroduced a "two-China"
policy on the part of the United States
something Peking has said it would
never accept.
The United States was "disregar
ding the principles of international
Nations agree on arms treaty
GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI)
Negotiators from 72 nations yester
day agreed on the terms of an arms
control treaty designed to protect
civilian populations and targets from
non-nuclear horror weapons.
The treaty, along with three pro
tocols on different types of
"inhumane" conventional weapons,
will be opened for signature in six
months after endorsement by the
U.N. General Assembly.
It represents a partly successful
outcome of the U.N. "conference on
excessively injurious conventional
weapons" which began last year
partly successful because the original
aim was to ban the use of such arms
against combatants in a war as well
as civilians.
Third World and neutral nations
went on the record as deploring the
ecuted because the Pretoria govern
ment refused to give hi to the rebels'
demands. The communique did not
specify when or where the diplomat
was killed.
El Salvador's ruling military
civilian junta broke diplomatic rela
tions with South Africa because of its
policy of apartheid two days before
the diplomat's abduction, com
plicating Pretoria's ability to meet
the guerrilla demands.
Last week,. Dunn's relatives
published a newspaper advertise
ment pleading with his captors for the
diplomat's release because the fami
ly "has been drained of its resources
and cannot meet the demands."
vibrations that indicate movement of
molten rock underground.
The steam plume, which was blown
to the east and visible for miles on a
crystal clear October day, contained
little ash. But it kicked up some
previously fallen ash in the volcano's
2-mile-wide crater, and the grit was
blown by low-level winds to the west.
It was not expected to reach any
populated areas, officials said.
The U.S. Geological Survey notified
its scientists on the mountain's slopes
about the emission, but did not order
any of the teams out of the area.
visit the United States in about four
weeks."
Israeli sources said the treaty "in
fact is nothing else but a defense trea
ty" that put the Soviets in a position
to once again gain a foothold in the
Middle East following Egypt's ouster
of nearly 20,000 Soviet advisers in Ju
ly 1972.
"It is now possible for the Soviets to
strengthen their military presence in
Syria and they have, especially now,
the possibility of putting bases in
Syria," one source said.
About 6,000-Soviet advisers are now
based in Syria.
Begin said the willingness of Jor
dan's King Hussein to resupply Iraq
with weaponry from the Jordanian
Red Sea port of Aqaba "is very bad
and very dangerous.
"It's only the beginning," Begin
said. "He ( Hussein) should stop doing
it. This may cause the conflagration
to spread."
received numerous crank and harass
ing telephone calls since the
telephone book was published in
March.
"Some guy even called and asked
what meat was on special for the day
at the funeral home," Hamil said.
He said the funeral home had been
"held up to public ridicule" since the
misplaced listing appeared.
The suit claims Southwest Bell did
not proofread the Yellow Pages direc
tory prior to publication. Hamil said
he paid for the funeral home ad to be
listed under "Funeral Directors."
irk Chinese
law, and betraying the tenets of
Sino-U.S. establishment of rela
tions," the official Communist Party
newspaper People's Daily said in a
front-page editorial.
"This inadvisable move has
distressed the Chinese poeple," it
said. "It is bound to be detrimental to
continuing the developing of relations.
between China and the United
States."
The newspaper, reflecting the feel
ings of China's leadership, did not
elaborate on what form a setback in
relations could take.
It was the most severe attack on the.
United States in several months.
Since the two countries restored
full diplomatic ties in January 1979,
the speed of developing ties has sur
prised both countries.
President Carter recently signed
major agreements covering direct
air links between the two countries, a
major textile agreement and a shipp
ing and maritime accord. He
characterized them as another major
step forward in ties.
inability of the major powers to agree
on a comprehensive ban.ln reply, the
United States, Soviet Union, France,
Canada, the Netherlands and others
said "it is a miracle" that so much
had been achieved.
Completion of the treaty came
when the - Soviet Union accepted U.S.
demands that there be a total ban on
using all types of incendiary weapons
against civilians and civilian targets
or against military installations
located in populated areas.
The Soviets held out to the last for a
ban just on such flame weapons as
napalm rather than on all incendiary
arms including firebombs composed
of any sort of chemical designed to
produce flame and heat.
Besides the protocol on incendiary
weapons, the two other protocols
cover fragmentation weapons.
Deaf man may face murder trial
Lawyers say training Lang to speak could take years
CHICAGO (AP) For 15 years, Donald Lang has
been trapped in a legal maze of courtrooms, jails and
psychiatric facilities : Never in that time has he uttered
a word to indicate he knows his future is at stake.
He can't. A 35-. year-old deaf with limited sign
language training, rejected by the public schools, Lang
cannot speak or communicate effectively.
But Lang's advocates will soon learn whether he will
stand trial on charges of murdering a prostitute in 1971,
as Circuit Judge Joseph Schneider is expected to rule
on the issue within a few weeks.
The subject of a book and a television movie, "Dum
my," Lang• has already waited most of his adult years
for lawyers, doctors and judges to decide about his life.
He was first charged in the 1965 stabbing death of a
prostitute, but the case was dismissed in 1971 because
of questions about his competency, because some
witnesses were dead, and some evidence had been lost.
Lang was released, and five months later, 'another
prostitute was fatally stabbed. He was convicted of her
murder in 1972, but the Illinois Appellate Court ruled in
1975 that he should be retried once he can aid in his
defense. •
He has had some training since then, but Ken Flet-
Egg transplant may help women conceive
WASHINGTON (UPI) Government
scientists yesterday reported develop
iment of an egg transplant procedure
that may provide an alternative to test
tube fertilization for women unable to
conceive because of blocked Fallopian
tubes.
The procedure may be particularly
suitable for women who have had their
The Bettmann Archive
. "°:
~,
cher, a public defender, said, "We can't prepare a
defense, obviously. You've got a man here who most
likely has no concept of what it means to be held for
trial or what it means to be in prison."
Lang's attorneys say the indictment should be
dismissed because Lang has been denied his constitu
tional right to a speedy trial. Even if he can be,taught
to communicate, Fletcher says, it might take three to
five years. That would put the trial 12 to 15 years after
Lang's arrest.
"Our position is that at this time, whether or not
Donald Lang can be made fit is a moot question," said
Fletcher. "No matter what we do is too little, too late."
Experts have tried to determine if Lang can ever
learn enough to help with his defense.
Two psychologists and two psychiatrists
. have told
the court that Lang cannot understand enough to com:
municate with his lawyers and know what is happening
at his trial. But a doctor hired by Lang's brother con
tends that with three to five years of intensive work.,
Lang could stand trial.
Even if Lang can be taught sign language, Don Paull,
another public defender, said "he will have passed a
critical stage in development that he will never be able
tubes tied surgically as a voluntary
sterilization measure and who later
decide they want to bear children.
Doctors at the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development
developed the new technique. It has been
tested successfully in monkeys, but doc
tors said it must be evaluated fu -ther
before it can be tried with humans. Even
: A
w comes
if the new procedure works for women,
the doctors said, it would be useful only
in those whose tubes are unobstructed
near the uterus.
Fallopian tube blockage is the most
common cause of infertility in women. It
has been estimated that hundreds of
thousands, and perhaps millions, of
American women have blocked tubes.
, s•
to explain things verbally that happened to him when
he was non-verbal."
Lang does make his wants known, and what he wants
is to go home. But almost everyone involved agrees
that home is not the place for Donald Lang. His mother
is dead, his father is ill, and other relatives can't care
for him.
"He puts three fingers in front of his face, like bars,
and shakes his head. . .meaning he doesn't want to be
in jail," Paull said. "He makes movement with his
fingers in front of his mouth. . .like the talking of
lawyers 'and judges. He's tired of them.
"We're not recommending that he hit the streets, "
said Paull, who argues the former dock worker should r
be put in a training facility
Mark Epstein, attorney for Lang's brother, Julius,
agrees supervision is needed. "We're hoping that the
state will come forward and say, "We'll take over the
training.' "
He says Lang needs daily sign language training and
should be given a year to see how he progresses.And o
Epstein says Lang should stand trial: "Either his in
nocence has to be established or the truth has to come
out to show he paid his debt."
Surgery to repair the tubes is effective
about half the time, the institute said.
In those cases where the tubes cannot
be opened, the only current hope for
pregnancy is the test-tube baby techni
que where an egg is fertilized in a
laboratory dish. with the resulting em
bryo implanted in the uterus. This pro
cedure has not yet been successful in the
United States.
©l9BO Beer Brewed b
BEIM
MEM
Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis
'`~ . , z pz ... .
Exec Council forming committee
on football game seating problem
By DAVID MEDZEtIAN
Daily Collegian Staf Writer
The Undergraduate Student Government Executive Council
last night decided to form a committee to help the athletic
department with p/oblems concerning student seating at foot
ball games.
Fran Kenawell: Association of Residence Hall Students
president, said Spoke to Bud Meredith, athletic department
business managei, about student seating, and Meredith asked
for student help h solving recentproblems.
"Evidently ; Oley had a lot of trouble with the
freshman/sophcinore section getting them into the game
and finding then seats," he said.
Kenawell saic'Meredith has asked that a group of about 20 to
25 student voluiteers meet with Meredith to "help get people
in, and help pple get seats.
Kenawell sa . the problem is caused by the students and not
by ticket sales/because "they don't oversell tickets in fact,
they undersell"
In other latiness, Jim Kripitz, coordinator of USG's Fort
Lauderdale trip over spring break, presented plans for the trip
to the council. Kripitz said the theme of the trip will be "a
family reunion," since it involves not only the University Park
campus but also "18 or the 19 branch campuses are working
with us."
Dean discusses funding program
By HEIDI BEELER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Fiscal difficulties are the biggest rxio
blem of the College of Human Devebp
ment, the dean of the college :aid
yesterday:
"It's (the financial problem) a jery
delicate issue. It's a very emotioolly
laden issue," Dean Evan G. Pattnall
said.
The funding program was one problem
covered at a college faculty rreeting
yesterday, during which faculty
members discussed the. colleges sur
vival and developmental issuts, Pat
tishall said.
To fund programs, the colleg , , will try
to.. d t pVelop a system to sill more
research to private orgaizations
withoUt conflicting with acafemic in
tegrity' and ethics, PattiAill said.
Faculty should search for adqtional fun
ding ideas, he said.
`;lndustry is looking at rearch in a
broader spectrum and can hp us," said
Dan Lago, professor of indvidual and
family studies.
Pattishall said the linkpetween in
dustry and health proble4s is always
- -it. Industry , ',tf tc kr-
*•< ''o*
i • WO
Trul Yours delivers Balloon
bouuets for birthday or any oc
casiins.
Becuse love comes
Fror the heart.
Balloons over I
Happy Valley
Make someone's
Birthday extra
Special!
250 E. Beaver Ave:.
across from Penn Towers
about significant health hazards and is
willing to pay for this research, he said.
Foreign countries will buy research,
said Edward V. Ellis, associate dean for
Continuing Education and Com
monwealth campuses. Saudi Arabia, for
example, is interested in the field of
communicative development, he said.
Another issue is recruiting and retain
ing minority students, Ellis said.
The college is also hoping to reach peo
ple who are not of normal college age but
who would like to continue their studies
at the university level, Ellis said.
The college hopes to utilize the minori
ty taleni found in areas other than ghet
tos, Pattishall said. He said many pro
mising people are not discovered
because many universities forget about
this resource.
Retention of minority students is just
as important as recruiting them, Pat
tishall said.
The problems found in students who
drop out of school are usually exag
gerated versions of the problems other
students on campus have, he said. Help
ing students with problems not only aids
the students, but helps the faculty to
ALPHA GAMMA DELTA WISHES TO ANNOUNCE
THEIR FABULOUS FALL PLEDGES .
Elizabeth L. Cleek Robin Elizabeth Sullivan
yo l erster Rebecca Thompson
g Georgeann Turkovich
•Karen Marie Miklos , Terrie Whittington .... .
Welcome to our circle of friendship!
‘P-4
— l4l I hi-
aiL t.ii
On Saturday hear
Doing your favorites by: Grateful Dead,
Jefferson Airplane, Steely Dan. Doors
and our own.
Starts at 9:30 fit rt
3 PQl'.66
The Press Box is at I) - )X
129 S. Pugh St. across
from the parking garage The Original State College Sports Bar •
9 WEST
17 , " "
bare? 0
Kripitz said students would be lodged four per room, and
there will be no separation of roommates by sex.
The price of the trip ranges from $264 to $304, depending on
the student's choice of four hotels. Kripitz said the fee includes
air transportation out of Philadelphia, lodging for six nights
and several keg parties. He said parties are now scheduled
before leaving Philadelphia, during the flight and on arrival in
Florida. •
"This is only the beginning of keg parties," he said.
Kripitz said students will receive a $lO discount on reserva
tions made with $4O deposits by Dec. 3.
All Penn State students will get a $l5 reduction off of the
basic price of the trip because Penn State students will depart
a day later than other schools. Kripitz said this is because
finals at Penn State are later than at other colleges. The trip is
scheduled to leave on Monday evening, March 2 the last day
of finals for Winter Term. 1
The council'also heard a report by Ted Szklenski, president
of Academic Assembly, on the workshop session concerning
the proposed University calendar change from terms to
semesters.
Szklenski said the academic workshop will be held at 7 p.m.
on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the HUB main lounge. Non
academic workshops on the calendar change are scheduled for
Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 20 and 21.
ateitl 4 ,6
understand the difficulties of students in
general, he said.
Another issue the faculty faces is im
proving the level of instruction, Pat
tishall said. The supervision and evalua
tion of teaching assistants should be
upgraded, and universities in general do
not do enough of this, he said.
Cubans resettled in Ark.
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP (AP)
The last flight of Cuban refugees
from this resettlement camp left for
Fort Chaffee; Ark., yesterday, leav
ing only about 400 refugees here.
With the 147 Cubans who were on
the flight from Harrisburg Interna
tional Airport, a total of 1,977 were
transferred to the consolidated camp
at Fort Chaffee, a government
spokesman said.
"Several hundred Cubans remain
at Fort Indiantown Gap, but are ex
pected to be sponsored and the camp
closed by Oct. 15," said Carl White, a
spokesman .for the federal Cuban-
Haitian Task Force.
Those left behind are awaiting the
arrival of sponsors, or are suspected
lawbreakers or juveniles without
sponsors.
At one point, the camp housed some
.19,000 displaced Cubans.
The Gap is one of three resettle
ment sites opened to Cubans who
began arriving earlier this year in
Florida as part of the Freedom
Flotilla.
I=l2E
the Buffalo Chipkickers
225 E. Foster
Saturday 11 - 1980
All are welcome
W 9
for people wilo
Our Microelectronics Program at General Electric has immediate career openings
for top electrical engineering BS and'MS graduates.
We,'re committed to joining the leaders in the microelectronics industry, and as part
of that program, we're spending SIOO million to build an ultra sophisticated new GE
Microelectronics Center dt Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Right now, we're looking for key people to fill positions at the Center as well as at
other General Electric microelectronics facilities)
Technical recruiters will be on campus Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14-15, to
conduct interviews. Contact your campus Placement Office for the exact time and place.
Specific microelectronics openings at General Electric exist in:l - 1 Integrated Circuit •
Design LI VLSI Device Structure Design f 7 VLSI Process Development f 1 Integrated Circuit
Application Engineering L 1 Integrated System Architecture r 1 Integrated Circuit
Software Design
Advanced Microelectronics Operations
General Electric
An Equal Opporlunay Employer M F I
CONSERVE WATER
On the full-sized Chevrolets, the front
brake pipe may come into contact with
the left front edge of the engine oil pan. If
Zeta Psi
General Motors orders recall
DETROIT (UPI) General Motors
Corp. yesterday ordered the recall of
62,500 1980 and 1981 passenger cars to
check for safety-related defects that
could result in partial loss of braking or
under-the-hood fires.
GM said there are• no reports of in
juries arising from the defects.
Involved are 24,700 1980 full-sized
Chevrolet models equipped with 3.8-liter
V-6 engines, 25,400 1981 X-car compacts
with 2.8-liter V-6 engines and power
steering, and 12,400 diesel engine
Oldsmobile Toronados.
with
The Daily Collegian Friday Oct. 10, 1980--:,
that happens, the brake pipe could wear
through with possible loss of front brak
ing action.
GM said rear brakes will continue to
function and the brake warning light on
the instrument panel will alert the
operator to the condition. The brake pipe'
will be repositioned or replaced if re
quired, GM said.
The 1981 Citation, Phoenix, Omega
and Skylark X-car models will be ex
amined to determine if power steering
hoses are routed correctly. On some
models, the hose may have been placed
too close to the exhaust manifold, caus
ing a hydraulic leak and making an
under-the-hood fire possible.
1 / 4 --t• • • i•
10:00p.m.