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Th a t c h er visits
Falkland
in surprise trip
By FRED CLARK
Associated Press Writer
STANLEY, Falkland Islands
Hundreds of tearful islanders
cheered British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher yesterday as
she began a surprise tour of this
South Atlantic colony, wrested
back from Argentina seven
months. ago.
While Thatcher toured Stanley's
fortified airfield and visited
British troops, Argentina
denounced her trip as a brazen
provocation. In London,
Thatcher's opposition accused her
of playing politics. No advance
announcement was made of the
visit.
The first British prime minister
to visit the Falklands in 150 years
of British rule arrived Saturday
after an 8,000-mile, 24-hour trip
from London.
The final leg was a perilous 13-
hour flight from Ascension Island
in the mid-Atlantic aboard an
unarmed Royal Air Force C-130
Hercules, a lmithering propeller
driven cargo plane refueled three
times in flight. It was escorted into
Stanley by,Phantom fighters.
Emerging from the plane in a
skirt, dark overcoat and pink
scarf, she declared: "I've come to
talk to the people here, to support
the armed forces and to pay
tribute to those who liberated the
islands."
Argentina seized the Falklands
last April 2 after a protracted
sovereignty dispute , Britain
regained the Falklands, called Las
Malvinas by Argentina, last June
14 after a war that left 255 Britons
and 712 Argentines dead.
Committee to screen for new student trustee
By ANNE McDONOUGH
Collegian Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Government
Executive Council last night decided to send
letters to seven student groups asking for
members to serve on the selection committee
to help pick a new student member of the
University Board of Trustees.
The committee will select three to five
University students to present to the governor
as a possible successor to present student
member Paul Bell. Bell's term expires June
30 but he must serve until the new trustee is
selected.
Letters will be sent to the presidents or
heads of organizations involved asking them
to select the most qualified person from within
their group to be on the committee. The
organizations include: the Undergraduate
Student Government, the Association of
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Islands
"You know what we all fought
for freedom and justice, which
are two sides of the same coin,"
Thatcher said in a speech
yesterday to the Falklands
Executive and Legislative
Councils
"You went through dramatic
experiences and we at home went
through agonizing experiences,"
she said. "We had total faith in
your wish to stand by everything
we believe in. And we also have
total faith in the courage, bravery
and skill of our armed forces.
"These things together brought
us a famous victory."
Word of Thatcher's arrival in
Stanley at about 5 p.m. Saturday,
reported in a . news flash on the
local radio station, spread quickly
among the population of 1,800
islanders.
Hundreds of well-wishers
greeted her as she rode, with her
husband, Denis, into town in the
converted London taxi used as an
official car by civil administrator
Sir Rex Hunt. Soldiers along the
route snapped to attention, while
residents, many with tears in their
eyes, shouted: "God bless you."
"Fantastic!" shouted islander
Giles Mercer as Thatcher signed
autographs. "I thought someone
was joking when they said she was
here." '
"The islanders are clearly very
pleased, honored and delighted,"
said Hunt's deputy, Reg Williams.
"They've been out on the streets in
quite considerable numbers."
After a briefing by Hunt and
military commissioner Maj. Gen.
David Thorne, Thatcher had
dinner and spent the night at
Government House.
Residence Hall Students, the Graduate
Students Association, the Council of Branch
Campus Student Governments, Black Caucus,
the University Scholars Program and Faculty
Senate.
Gov. Dick Thornburgh is not required to
chose a student, for the vacant position. But
state Secretary of Education Richard
Scanlon's letter directs Bell to form a
committee to select student candidates
Scanlon suggested guidelines and named Bell
a non-voting chairman of the committee.
Bell will present the council's plan for the
selection committee tomorrow. Scanlon has
the option of not approving the plan.
Although he did not know whether Scanlon
would approve the plan, Bell said, in the past
the secretary of education has followed the
students' suggestion.
Bell said he doesn't want the committee
entirely made up of student leaders who are
15 guards remain hostage in New York jai
Reporters attend negotiations
By RICK HAM PSON
Associated Press Writer
OSSINING, N.Y. Inmates
armed with mopsticks and clubs
held 15 guards captive yesterday at
the maximum-security prison once
known as Sing Sing, and face-to
face negotiations began later in the
night.
The talks began without
reporters present. But later in the
night, an ABC television network
reporter and crew were allowed
into the cellblock. Inmates had
demanded that reporters be
included in the talks
State corrections spokesman Lou
Ganim said yesterday that the
situation inside the prison was
"calm and the hostages are safe."
Sen. Ralph Marino, R-
Muttontown, who heads the state
Senate Committee on Crime and
Corrections, said he was optimistic
that the hostages would be released
one at a time "very shortly."
The senator, who was briefed by
prison officials, said the hostages
were being protected by a group of
prisoners he described as
"Muslims."
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher examines a mine field and a mine warning sign yesterday during her surprise
tour of the Falkland Islands. The mine fields are leftover reminders of the recent war with Argentina over the islands.
on Executive Council because they would
form too much of a clique and encourage
group thinking. Therefore, students
representing other interests will also be
chosen.
Bell will ask a representative from the
Office of Student Affairs to be a non-voting
member and to give information on
University policy.
USG President Leni Barch said a student
member of the Faculty Senate should be
chosen because they are familiar with
academic policy.
The council agreed that a University
scholar would represent the academic
interests of the University and a Black Caucus
member would represent the largest minority
group on campus.
An ARHS member on the committee would
represent the housing interests of students.
ARHS President Laura Cerar said the good
Marino said overcrowding "is
one of the big gripes. They are just
very uncomfortable in there." The
cellblock houses 618 inmates, each
in a one-inmate cell. .
The prisoners were also asking
for amnesty, he said, and "so far
that hasn't been resolved."
Earlier, Ganim denied that
overcrowding was a factor, saying
inmate "idleness" was more of a
reason.
The negotiations among five
inmates and members of a special
hostage negotiation team were
taking place over tables separated
by bars. The state's team,
established three years ago, had
not been tested until now.
Inmates took control of a 618-
man cellblock of Ossining
Correctional Facility at 7:40 p.m.
Saturday. No serious injuries were
reported, although one guard was
hurt by a blow to the head during
the takeover and was released
eight hours later. In return for the
release, authorities gave the
inmates prescription medication
for 15 to 20 prisoners.
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Ambulances stand near the entrance to the Ossining Correctional Facility yesterday. Inmates took control of a 618
man cellblock of the facility at 7:40 p.m. Saturday.
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communications between ARHS and the
Organization for Town Independent Students
makes it unneccessary for a member from
both organizations to be on the committee.
Bill Fracalossi, OTIS president, said an
ARHS representative would be more directly
affected by University housing policies.
Student leaders rather than students-at
large should be chosen for the committee
because "they are the people that are
interested, competent and motivated in
student affairs," said Paul Nicollian, USG
Senate working representative to the council
Once the committee is formed it will decide
specific criteria for the trustee selection.
Some suggested criteria for candidates are
the ability to grasp financial matters easily,
good communicative ability, open
mindedness, broad interests and good
academic standing.
Monday, Jan. 10, 1983
Vol. 83, No. 100 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
WASHINGTON A
government scientific panel
begins considering today whether
American women should be able
to use a three-month
contraceptive injection hailed as
an improvement over "the pill"
but reviled by some as a potential
cause of cancer.
A Food and Drug
Administration public inquiry
board will hear evidence on the
contraceptive Depo-Provera, then
take as long as it requires to make
a recommendation. FDA
Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes
Jr. will make the final ruling on
the drug's fate in the lucrative
American market.
Although Depo-Provera is
available as a contraceptive in 84
countries and used by 1.5 million
women worldwide, the decision
about its use in the United States is
expected to have international
repercussions.
Some nations that haven't
approved the drug's use cite the
FDA's reluctance to clear Depo-
Provera as a contraceptive.
U.S. population programs do not
supply the drug abroad, even in
countries that request it, because
the Agency for International
Development has a policy against
buying and distributing overseas
drugs not approved for sale in the
United States.
The question of the drug's use is
a hard-fought one. Consumer and
feminist groups are against it, and
government agencies and birth
control groups for it. Some of those
favoring use of Depo-Provera as a
contraceptive maintain it helps
prevent cancer.
At this week's hearings, the
Agency for International
Development will present two
studies that say the benefit-risk
ratio of Depo-Provera is
favorable. The World Health
Organization also backs the drug's
use as a contraceptive.
"I believe it to be safer than the
pill," said Dr. Allen Rosenfield, a
professor of obstetrics and
gynecology at Columbia
University who also is a board
member of International Planned
Parenthood.
"We have always felt this was a
highly safe and effective form of
contraception," added Dr.
Elizabeth Connell, an
international population expert
from Emory University in
Georgia who also is a consultant to
Depo-Provera's chief
manufacturer. "There is no
method that is more effective."
But the opposition is formidable
and has helped block approval of
the drug as a contraceptive twice
before.
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Birth
control
injection
examined
By BETTY ANNE WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
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