4—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 10, 1981 O'Connor testifies to Senate By MIKE SHANAHAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Sandra Day O'Connor said yesterday she personally opposes abortion, but would not let those views shade her opinioris as a Supreme Court justice. "Personal views and philosphies" should not be allowed to affect a justice's judgments "as much as that is possi ble" on the facts or constitutionality of cases before the court, she told the Sen ate Judiciary Committee. "My own view in the area of abortion is that I am opposed to it as a matter of birth control or otherwise," she said. "The subject of abortion is a valid one in my view for legislative action subject to constitutional restraints or limitation." O'Connor, the first woman nominated to the Supreme Court, drew praise from .. ... . . • . . . . . ..... •.- .• . . • " • • ••• . -'. • '.. ••: - .... • • • '• . . • •. • •• •••. •• . •:' ' • • .-: •-.•-. :-- -. , '.. •• - • ..... •: . '-• .• . 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PIENCIAK Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) An explosion and fire at a generating station knocked out power to much of lower Manhattan yes terday, trapping office workers in eleva tors, snarling traffic, closing findncial markets and creating transit chaos for homebound commuters. Traffic lights went out, telephones went over to emergency power, 4nd cars jammed intersections where traffic lights were out, creating paralyzing street gridlock. Traffic control agents were dispatched, and some private citi zens stepped in to direct traffic to help solve the giant tieup. Paul Cohen, a Traffic Department con trol agent standing in the middle of that intersection, said that with traffic lights out "people just do what they want. It's bedlam over here. There are a lot of tempers." "I've been sitting here for about one hour," said Rolando Reys as he listened to the radio in his idling sports car at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Streetn about 6 p.m.. Flashlights 'and candles lighted the way down darkened stairwells for work ers trapped in skyscrapers. Many people were drinking beer on the street. But there were few bars open; many closed because they were without power and electric cash registers would not work. Telephone service was switched to emergency power, but dial tones were slow in coming. Lines of people at down town phone booths stretched 20 deep. Subways slowed to a crawl with signal lights affected. Bus stops were jammed with displaced subway riders. At the scene of the fire, Con Ed spokes man Marty Gitten said, "This station is obviously going to be out for a while . . . It could be as simple as turning a switch =News briefs Parents sue Toyota for poor car design FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) —A jury has ordered Toyota Motor Co. to pay more than $5 million in damages to the parents of three sisters killed when their Toyota was hit from behind and burst into flames. The parents of Wendy, 15, Pamela, 18, and Denise Moll, 25, had sought $165 million in the 1979 suit, $55 million for each daughter. "What do you want me to tell you. It wasn't enough," said Sheldon Schlesing er, attorney for Betty and Wayne Moll of Longwood, after the verdict was read in Broward Circuit Court. The Molls' doctor testified in the month-long trial that the couple will need psychiatric treatment for some time because of their loss. The Molls have two other daughters. In his closing arguments, Schlesinger called the case "the grossest example of most members of both parties at the opening of three days of confirmation hearings before the 18-member commit tee. "You are among friends," said Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., one of 10 committee members to either declare or imply in advance of O'Connor's testimony that they would vote for her confirmation. While her confirmation by both the committee and the full Senate appears a foregone conclusion, O'Connor faces some tenacious questioning especially on abortion and the role of federal judi ciary from conservative members of the panel. "Our questioning must be tough and direct," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R lowa, asserting that he would like to see Supreme Court nominees "committed to Sandra Day O'Connor (but) it's really impossible to put an exact time on it." , An eyewitness said he heard two explo sions, but Con Ed said it has not yet detemined that there was a blast. "The system is stable," said Lawrehce Kleinman, a Con Edison spokesman. Cars, buses, trucks and people back up on New York's Avenue of the America's at 26th Street yesterday after an explosion at the East River generating station caused a major power failure, also outing traffic signals. corporate indifference that has ever been brought into a courtroom." He claimed the fuel system was de signed so that the gas cap popped off when the 1973 Toyota Corona was struck from behind on June 16, 1979 by an Oldsmobile traveling at 38 mph. The Toyota was sandwiched between the Olds and another car on a rain-slick stretch of highway. Its gas tank spewed fuel that fed a crash-induced fire. The sisters were trapped inside and would have survived if there had been no fire, the attorney said. W. German students plan peace march BONN, West Germany (AP) —The West German government yesterday for mally opposed plans by the Social Demo cratic Party's youth wing for a "peace demonstration" during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. Government spokesman Kurt Becker said the cabinet adopted a resolution She says personal views will not shade her oppose the permissiveness which has fostered disrespect for society's laws." Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., who has waged a campaign of restoring Ameri can family life by urging an end to legalized abortions and discouraging pregnancy among teen-agers, told O'Connor he questions whether Presi dent Reagan knew of her true views and record on abortion before nominating her to the court. If Reagan did not know about those matters, Denton said, "Certain questions with respect to your credibility are ap parent." O'Connor told the committee she be lieves her public career as an Arizona assistant attorney general, legislator and state appeals court judge qualified her to take the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the retirement of Potter Stewart. In both a brief opening statement and in answer to questions from the commit tee chairman, Sen. Strom Thurmond, R- S.C., O'Connor repeatedly declared her belief in limited role for government in general, and in particular, sharp re straints on powers of federal judges. "In carrying out the judical function, I believe in the exercise of judicial re straint," she said. "I do not believe it is the function of the judiciaiy to step in and change the law because the times or social mores have changed." O'Connor said most cases before the Supreme Court should be decided on more narrow issues than constitutional questions. Anti-abortion organization have fo cused on votes O'Connor cast as a mem ber of the Arizona • Senate and Thurmond's opening series of questions covered her voting record on that sub ject. Why did she oppose putting the Arizona Legislature on record as recommending that Congress approve a constitutitional amendment reversing the 1973 Supreme Court decision that generally allows abortions in the first three months of pregnancy? asorphoto "We don't anticipate' any kind of black out. The problem is contained within th 6 area that has been affected." All police in lower Manhattan pre cincts were held on overtime and all task force members from other boroughs were dispatched to Manhattan. Twenty condemning Sunday's planned demon stration in Berlin as "false and damag ing" to German-American relations. Becker said Chancellor Helmut Schmidt would made a statement about the Haig visit , and the planned demon stration during today's debate in the Bundestag, or lower house of parliament. Haig is scheduled to arrive in the western sector of Berlin on Sunday from Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Former Chancellor Willi Brandt, the Social Democratic Party's chairman and a former mayor of West Berlin, joined in opposing the demonstration, saying "re sponsibility for Berlin and German- American relations demands" its cancellation. But Willi Pieczyk, leader of the young socialists, said in a television interview his organization still planned to go ahead with the demonstration despite fears it might turn to violence. West Berlin officials have decided against banning the rally, and the Social Democratic leadership has not ordered ':—':.: ~...A. . s i: c: . ~...t. i, ..,,..„ . .... „ . 0n.... Rt. , T i 4 r „omit Protesting the nomination of Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court, anti-abortion demonstrators march at a parade outside of the Dirkson Senate office building in Washington, D.C. The Senate Judiciary Committee started O'Connors' confirmation hearings yesterday. "I was not sure at that time that we had given the proper amount of reflec tion or consideration to what action, if any, was apprOpriate by way of a consti tutional amendment," she said. "Amendments to the Constitution are very serious matters and should be un dertaken only after•a great deal of study and thought." Why did she vote in 1970 to set aside hook-and-ladders were dispatched to res cue those trapped. Mayor Edward I. Koch said at a news conference that the city was bearing up well under the problems, which affected only the southeastern quarter of Manhat tan. John Mulligan, a Fire Department spokesman, said there were widespread reports of people trapped in elevators. He also said that officials from the Ma cy's department store at Herald Square said that its emergency lighting had failed as well. Deputy Fire Chief John Fogarty, one of the officers in command at the scene of the fire, which burned for 2 1 / 2 hours before being put out, said: "We're not sure what caused the explosion or explo- sions." The Transit Authority said all subway signals between Times Square and South Ferry automatically switched to danger warnings and all lines in both directions were affected. Thousands of workers trekked across the Brooklyn Bridge in a scene remi niscent of the sub Way strike in April, 1980. The TA said there would be delays on all lines in both directions until the situa tion is resolved. City Hall and the Board of Elections reported power out. But other office workers reported they still had lights. Kleinman said initial reports indicated that 52,150 customers were affected. He defined a customer as ranging from a small grocery store to a skyscraper, depending on billing. Kleinman said the fire at the East 14th Street generating station had in turn knocked out two substations, at Leonard Street and West 38th Street. In addition to downtown, the outage touched the West Side up to 42nd Street. its members from participating. Pieczyk said the rally was directed against the arms race between the Unit ed States and the Soviet Union, not against Haig or the United States. Victim of amnesia falls in love twice CHICAGO. (AP) When Larry Krusinski leaves the hospital for the first time in a year, he will go home to a wife he can't remember marrying, but a woman who cared so deeply for him that he fell in love with her twice. Krusinski is suffering from amnesia the aftermath of head injuries suffered in a car accident that almost killed him. The ordeal began one evening in Sep tember 1980 when Krusinski's car smashed into a tree. Krusinski, then 28, arrived at the hospital in a coma. A priest gave him last rites. Doctors were not certain he would survive. But his wife was. on abortion issue opinions as justice `r 0 74 < 0 , t ` , 'YLOI ! ) 46 ; • ' 1 ;••."• : :!•,: . 4i4 . :.,i ) , ' , ,: i.!:, ,f i,;• , ' , - .•:..:1.,' ' , •• , .if ''•.:• • legislation that would make abortion a felony in Arizona? She believed at the time that the bill was too "sweeping," O'Connor replied, adding that she would have supported a less stringent anti-abortion measure. Why did she support another bill abor tion foes say would have encouraged abortions because its intent was to en courage to the dissemination of birth Poland: GDANSK, Poland (AP) Solidar ity's powerful Warsaw branch pro posed free elections in Poland yesterday in a draft resolution that put the independent union on a new collision course with the communist regime. The delegates to the union's first national congress tried to sidestep another challenge to the government a measure that would remove wording from the union charter ac knowledging the leading role of the Communist Party. But the congress faced a procedu ral fight over the issue, and Gdansk delegate Lech Sobieszek worked fu riously to put it back on the meet ing's alfeady packed agenda. Meanwhile, the. Polish Communist Party paper, Trybuna Ludu, said the support Solidarity expressed for free union activists throughout the Soviet bloc was "an attempt to interfere in the socio-political life of friendly (communist) countries." Union news filtered WARSAW, Poland (AP) Most Poles are getting a filtered view of Solidarity's first national congress in Gdansk. This is because government-run television and radio refused the in dependent union's demand for edito rial control over the domestic news; reports about the congress, or that the crews be composed entirely of union members. So skeleton reports on national television, sparse radio broadcasts, reports written in government news papers and Solidarity bulletins are the main sources of information open to the average Pole. "See, this is all we could show you," commented one disgruntled Polish TV journalist, directing the camera to scenes of camera crews For .10 anxious days, Mrs. Krusinski waited for signs that would give her hope. His eyes opened. His hands started moving. But when he looked into her eyes he saw a stranger. He didn't recognize the woman he had•married three years ear lier. "I didn't realize I wasn't going to be remembered," she said. "I kept trying to show him pictures. He didn't remember them. He really didn't know what he looked like. He hadn't seen a mirror." Still, Mrs. Krusinski wasn't frightened. She visited him almost every day, bring ing him pizzas, telling him funny stories and saying again and again that she loved him. Throughout the long days of waiting, she said, "He was real honest. He didn't remember me. But he really seemed to like me. He trusted me right 'away." And then one special day, after she told her husband she loved him, he repeated the words to her. Ne.ii 'Tercet (,) Ipia ;esti '7l , ss" srkii s , 51 4 s tIFE Free elections proposed SENATE: , DORI ROBE o'coNWOR control information in Arizona? "The best way to avoid having people who were seeking an abortion is to enable people not to become pregnant unwitting ly or without the intention of doing so," O'Connor said. O'Connor was accompanied at the hearing by her husband and three sons as well as by more than two dozen support ers from Arizona. "In plain language, the message is a call for changes in the existing social structures in other countries of realistic socialism, a call for creation of similar organisms as Solidarity, and a readinegs to coop erate in such changes," the paper said. The Soviet news agency Tass charged "openly anti-Soviet materi al" was being circulated at the con gress. The congress issued a series of defiant resolutions Tuesday, propos ing a national referendum on union and government plans for worker self-management, and giving sup port to free union activists else where in the Soviet bloc. The draft resolution on elections offered by the Warsaw branch stated there should be an unlimited number of candidates for seats in Parliament and at local government councils, and that they should be elected by secret ballot. lounging in vans outside the back door of the congress hall. Radio reports have been terse. The 3 p.m. radio newscast of the third day of the congress consisted of: "The Solidarity delegates are continuing their congress today. The discussion is about various issues." The congress' own newspaper, a one-page bulletin written in English on one side and Polish on the other, appeared three days late. No one knows why it took so long to reach the Western reporters who have descended on Gdansk. The Communist Party paper in Gdansk, Glos Wybrzeza, appeared Wednesday with a blank spot where censors, cut out a report on Solidari ty's expression of support to free trade union movements throughout the Soviet bloc. Trading stops early because of blackout NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices ; edged upward yesterday before a fire at an electrical transformer in lower Man hattan blacked out much of New York's financial district and stopped trading 30 minutes early. The New York exchanges, which open„ at 10 a.m., usually close at 4 p.m. Over= • the-counter trading was not affected. But trading on some regional exchanges was either suspended or interrupted because prices of NYSE and Amex-listed issues, many of which are traded on regional exchanges, could not be accurately de termined. The Pacific Stock Exchange suspended business for 30 minutes The Dow Jones average of 30 industri als, which fell 10.56 points Tuesday to a 15-month low, rose 2.76 points yesterday to close at 853.88. It had gained nearly 7 points earlier in the day. Police arrest 208 striking teachers By CHRIS ROBERTS Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) More than 200 picketing teachers , were arrested yesterday as their strike forced officials to call off the start of classes for the city's 213,000 public school pupils. The teachers were charged with violat ing a court-ordered limit on the number of pickets at the school administration building. A policeman at the scene said 208 teachers were arrested. They were held in a courtroom in City Hall awaiting arraignment. The arrests came in the second day of a strike by the Philadephia Federation of Teachers to protest layoffs of 3,500 school employees and a wage freeze which they claim violate their contract. The teac:.ers had been scheduled to report to work Tuesday to prepare for the start of school today. But Superintendent Michael Marcase said yesterday that classes would not begin as scheduled. "To enable us to conduct classes, in my opinion, would require at least 50 percent of the staff, supplemented by administra tors and supervisory personnel," Mar case said in a statement. Early in the strike school district offi cials said fewer than 3 percent of PFT members had reported for work. Marcase said the decision whether to begin classes would be made on a day-to day basis. However, he said early child hood programs such as day care were operating. State Mediator Edward Feehan met with'both sides in the dispute but he said there was no progress toward settling the strike. The strike is the fifth by Philadelphia teachers since 1970, when teachers won the right to strike in Pennsylvania. The 21,000-member PFT includes 13,000 tea chers; the rest of its members are non teaching school employees. . .. •Ii: ~....--- ..l . - . * ii-! .4 ,4 0 :"-•;='. ___ , , ~,,, .' 4 -:--- it l y api;j::: ~..c. :6; . 7 , • ,: 411 1 - :ky '- • - *';*. NlLl*,t7: ',..' N ` **, ' • '.. 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Because our writers and photgraphers follow him from one event to another, reporting on his activities. He's usually where the action is. And so is The Weekly Collegian. The Weekly is a newspaper that highlights seven days of exciting campus news, sports, and features every academic week. /74. P " The school board said the layoffs and a decision not to pay a 10 percent pay hike in the teachers' contract were needed to make up a $223 million shortfall. The board also plans to increase classes from 33 to 36 pupils and to end daily preparation periods for junior high and elementary school teachers. The arrests began shortly before 8 yesterday morning about an hour after the injunction was read to about 300 pickets at the administration building. The injunction was issued after teach ers and school officials agreed out of court to a limit of four pickets at any entrance to any school building. Police and sheriff's deputies yesterday escorted administrative staff into the Board of Education building. There was pushing and scattered shouts of "scab" as the employees pased the pickets. Members of the police civil affairs unit instructed the pickets to separate them selves into those willing to be arrested and those willing to carry on their activ ities across the street from the adminis tration building. Once inside the buses, the strikers placed their placards in the windows, drawing cheers from their colleagues. One police officer, who declined to be identified, said 208 pickets were ar rested. Plainclothes police and sheriff's dep uties, meanwhile, escorted other school district employees, mostly members of the administrative staff, into the admin istration building. There was some minor pushing and shoving and scattered hollering of "scab" as the workers entered. As the buses carrying the pickets drove off, those inside sang and chanted "Soli darity Forever" to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," stomping their feet in rhythm. e . p . f ,i 19;17,, . 1- «CC i s, 4 4 4... et 4 : l l l4'`l' ot l ' • ** 414.' sqt, • 7rel`:> ifjVce Vir," " 0 -ys lo t ' • **l #: . • It's the perfect way to keep in touch with the things you enjoyed as a student, that you'll love to read about as an alumnus. (Just wait until we cover this football season!) To subscribe, simply clip the ..:,Collegian r - I Subscribe today I Mail to: I 126 Carnegie Building LUniversity Park, PA 16802 Photo by M. B. 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