Adelman new arms control head
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Kenneth L. Adelman was
confirmed, 57-42,,as the nation's arms control
director yesterday after a long Senate fight
over President Reagan's strategic policies as
well as the young ambassador's competence
and credibility.,
Reagan pronounced himself "deeply
gratified" and declared "it's my earnest hope
that this , positive step will mark the beginning
of a new bipartisan consensus on the vital
issue of nuclear arms reductions."
The president, at an informal news
Pennsylvania police enter Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh after two state prison and barricaded themselves in a basement room. The hostages are
inmates armed with pistols took a guard and a civilian employee hostage at the reportedly.in good condition.
in Pittsburgh
take prison workers hostage
Armed
By LILLIAN SWANSON
Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH Two inmates armed with
pistols took a guard and a civilian employee
hostage yesterday at a state prison and
barricaded themselves in a basement room,
authorities said.
"They have made no specific demands or '
requests beyond food. That is being negotiated,"
said Thomas Seiverling, assistant superintendent
at Western Correctional Diagnostic and
Classification Center. "It's not a belligerent
situation."
the
daily
conference, said Adelman would head a
"reinvigorated" ArmS Control and
Disarmament Agency. And "If we are met
with reciprocal seriousness of purpose froni
the Soviet Union, 1983 can be a year of historic
importance in securing a more solid and
stable peace through arms reductions,"
Reagan said.
Adelman, in New York City, set he would
contact all members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee which opposed his
confirmation in an effort to meet "with
each one next week to seek their continued
counsel on arms control issues." He said that
when the panel first began examining him, "I
inmates
The hostages, identified by Seiverling as guard Coviello was serving a 10-to-20-year sentence
Daniel Kohut, 39, and data supervisor Kostas for robbery and aggravated assault from a
Mastros, 51, were seized about 8:30 a.m. The Lackawanna Couny conviction and a life
families of Kohut, a 15-year employee, and sentence for first-degree murder in Berks
Mastros, a 30-year employee, had been County, Robinson said.
contacted, Seiverling said. Henkel, recently convicted of a federal
The inmates pulled guns prior to or during a firearms violation, was scheduled to go on trial
strip search to be done in preparation to take the Monday for the May 1979 slaying of a woman
inmates to court appearances, Seiverling said. found dead in a hotel room near Greater
No injuries were reported„ , Pittsburgh International Airport.
Ken Robinson, a spokesman for the state Coviello and Henkel, who have two guns of an
Correction Bureau, said the hostage-takers were unknown caliber, "barricaded themselves in a
murder suspect Richard Henkel, 45, and Louis * back room in our identification section," under
Coviello, 26, a convicted murderer and robber. the administration building, Sieverling said.
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Black, white lifestyles differ
The numbers of minority faculty
and students at the University were
criticized by three black legislators
at a state House appropriations
hearing in Harrisburg earlier this
year. As of Fall Term 1982, black
students made up 2.5 percent of the
total University student
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enrollment; full-time black faculty
members made up 1.1 percent of the
entire University faculty.
Daily Collegian reporter Anne
McDonough talked to University
administrators and students about
minority social life at the
University. In Monday's issue,
Roosevelt Green, assistant to the
dean of the Graduate School for
minority affairs, will address
recruitment, retention and social
life of graduate minority students
believed in an energetic bipartisan
congressional role in foreign policy, and I still
do now more than ever."
Only Sen. Bob Packwood, who was in his
home state of Oregon attending a Republican
conference, did not vote on the nomination.
Forty-nine Republicans and 8 Democrats
supported Adelman; 38 Democrats and 4
Republicans, Charles M. Mathias of
Maryland, Larry Pressler of South Dakota,
Mark Andrews of North Dakota and Slade
Gorton of Washington, voted against him.
In Moscow, the official news agency Tass
said the outcome was the result of "fierce arm
twisting" by the White House. It called
Minorities struggle with social problems,
By ANNE McDONOUGH
Collegian Staff Writer
The point of disenchantment for
some University black students is
not the rural atmosphere of State
College but "the underlying social
environment that denies their
existence," said Larry Young,
director of the Paul Robeson
Cultural Center.
Few aspects of State College are
universally accepted as black, he
said.
"The overwhelming number of
stimuli are all white," Young said
Black students are forced to
accept this or constantly struggle
with the system that denies the
value of their existence, he said.
Adelman an "outright hawk and opponent of
measures to curb the'arms race."
In Geneva, U.S. strategic arms negotiator
Edward Rowny told AP Radio: "I'm happy.
Let's get down to business. Adelman and I
have known each other . . . and have a mutual
respect for each other. We can get together
and move forward."
Three Democratic senators with
presidential ambitions spoke against
Adelman in the closing hours of a three-day
debate over the nomination that capped three
months of deliberations in committee rooms
and corridors.
Top Soviet general:
USSR has no need
for missiles
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW The Soviet Union
has "no need" to put nu clear •
missiles in Cuba in retaliation for
U.S. deployment of new medium
range rockets in Europe later this
year, a top Soviet general says.
It was the clearest signal yet
from the Soviets that Cuba does
not figure in their threat to
retaliate for the planned
"Euromissile" deployment.
The comments were made by
Maj. Gen. Yuri V. Lebedev, a
military adviser to Soviet arms
control negotiators, in an•
interview with The Associated
Press.
Kremlin officials have warned
- - repeatedly they will put the United
States in an "analogous position"
if the American missiles are
stationed in Western Europe,
within a few minutes' striking
distance of Soviet territory.
These statements raised
speculation in the United States
that the Soviets were considering
deploying mid-range rockets in
Cuba.
Lebedev, dismissing that
possibility, did not make clear
exactly what the Soviets planned
to do if the U.S. missiles are
deployed. But he said one of the
retaliatory options available to
Soviet leaders would simply be
expanding their own intermediate
range nuclear forces in Europe.
"It's enough to deploy new
systems in Soviet territory," he
said.
He was asked if missiles would
be placed in Soviet-allied Cuba.
"There is no need to do it and I
have underlined that already," he
responded.
In 1962 the Soviets tried to install
missiles in Cuba, but pulled them
back in a nuclear showdown with
the United States.
The 55-year-old Lebedev, ruddy,
round-faced and black-haired, was
interviewed through an
interpreter at a Foreign Ministry
press center.
The interview was one of several
by government, military•and
academic figures who have been
unusually accessible to visiting
American reporters at a time
when the Soviet Union and the
United States are trying to
appreciation," he said.
One area of socialization to
develop could be fraternities and
sororities, Stewart said.
Greek organizations are ,
important at the University, he
said, and he has not seen the black
Young said he sees this as "an and white greek organizations
awesome responsibility for an 18- planning any activities together.
year-old," and black students have
the choice to assimilate or resist "Both black and while students
and face other types of struggles. aren't exercising their social
The cultural life at the University responsibility," he said.
for minorities raises the question of- Yvonne Kent, director of the
the University's responsibility to Undergraduate Student
provide a social life for students Government department of
versus the students' responsibility, minority affairs, said black greek
said James Stewart, director of the organizations play a special role in
Black Studies Program. black social life at the University.
"Students skiould develop new They give a sense of unity that
strategy to develop intercultural Please see BLACK, Page 12.
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influence public opinion on the
controversial question of nuclear
arms in Europe.
In the hour-long interview on the
nuclear arms race, the blunt-
speaking general, a longtime
commander of missile forces, also
described President Reagan's
proposed anti-missile system as
ultimately useless:
The United States, under a
NATO decision, plans to begin
deploying 572 new medium-range
missiles, with ranges of up to 1,500
miles, in five West European
countries late this year. The
Soviets have a similar number of
SS-20s and other intermediate-
range missiles targeted on
Western Europe.
The NATO decision calls for
installation of the missiles unless
the United States and Soviet Union
first negotiate an agreement
reducing medium-range nuclear
weapons in Europe. Those
negotiations, now 18 months old,
appear deadlocked.
Lebedev was asked what the
Soviet leadership meant when it
threatened to put the United States
in an "analogous position" if the
new missiles are deployed.
The general smiled, turning his
eyeglasses in his hand.
"Do you have any doubts we will
do it?" he asked.
Pressed on whether the threat
meant missiles would be placed
within close range of the United
States, he replied:
"First of all, you have to know
the getieral trend in Soviet policy
that not a single nuclear system
is deployed anywhere else, but in
Soviet territory. . .
"And now we can say
technological progress has
brought us to the point where we
don't have to have Soviet weapons
within 1,000 kilometers (620 miles)
of U.S. territory."
officials say
Kenneth L. Adelman
Cuba
`lt's enough to
deploy new
systems in Soviet
territory.'
—Maj. Gen.
Yuri V. Lebedev