The Berkeley Gazette from Berkeley, California • 1

'NWW NORTH EAST BAY SERVING BERKELEY FOR 100 YEARS 25 Cf MTS PR COPY 30 PCH MONTH Berkeley California Tuesday May 91978 101st Year No 215 a it 'H '-A ialiaii tragedy 0 0 Rumford eased out? Albany track tax See stories dead front doorstep 24 hours a day Christian Democrat headquarters on nearby Piazza del Gesu Jesus Square had been surrounded by submachine gun-toting soldiers preventing scores of curious Romans from approaching the 15th century palace during the 7 2-week drama House co-op to ask city for seed funds ROMAN CROWD GATHERS ON THE STREET WHERE MORO'S 1 1 UC study reveals connected to race By ELEANOR EDWARDS BERKELEY A $35 million cooperative housing development for 60 mixed-income families adjacent to the University Avenue co-op is being proposed by a group of Berkeley residents who plan to ask the city council for $100000 tonight to get the project off the ground According to Irving Rautenberg chairman of the University Avende Housing Cooperative the group first needs financial help from the city in order to secure additional funding from state federal and private sources Everything hinges on whether we get some initial funds from the -city Other people are looking for the city to show its good faith Rautenberg said this week The housing co-op backers are fighting an uphill battle for city support however because City Man-ager Elijah Rogers already has recommended to the council that the group's request be demed The co-op sponsors have proposed that the $100 000 come from federal community development funds available to the city but Rogers said the request was received after the deadline for applying for community development funds The council could still approve the application by routinely amending the community development grant application but a report on the co-op proposal by the citys housing department has described the project as somewhat vague and not thoroughly developed Rautenberg and other supporters of the proposal disagree with that assessment noting that the proposal has gotten as far as it has through volunteer efforts Part of the $100000 requested from the city on page 4 does offer a direction for future improvement The problem isnt aspirations" she says Its knowing how to achieve them getting information about what it takes In fact she says the universitys two-year-old Partnership Program ah attempt to get just that kind of information to poor and minority iumor high school students was launched anticipation of the results of this study The study found that black high school graduates finish in the top 1216 percent of their class at only one-third the rate of white students and that high academic standing rose statistically perfectly according to Ms Haycock along with Poor minority students stand even less of a chance of admission than poor whites the study showed By law UC is supposed to admit only the top 125 percent of the states high school giaduates the state colleges are to take only the top third Regardless of grades however any person 18 years or older may enroll in a free two-year community college gnd transfer later to a four-year campus if he does well The commission study wrns ordered by the Legislature to determine if its 1974 mandate to Increase minority enrollment in four-year colleges was being carried out In concluding it was not being carried out the study reported that (Turn to Page 4 Col 5) ROME (AP) The body of kidnapped former Premier Aldo Moro wrapped a blanket and dumped the back seat of a parked car was found today the heart of Rome ending tragically an ordeal that traumatized Italy and transfixed the attention of the world Police said the red Renault holding the 61-year-old Moros body was parked on the Via Caetam between the party headquarters of the Italian Communists and Moros own Christian Democrats The discovery came after police headquarters received an anonymous telephone call saying a bomb had been placed a car parked on Via Caetam It as not clear how he was killed police said The body was loaded into an ambulance and taken away It was found at 1 10 8 30 am EDT and police immediately blocked off the area along the narrow street of 14th and 15th century palaces The Via Caetam leads into Via Botteghe Oscure site of Communist Party headquarters two blocks from Piazza Venezia the busiest intersection Rome Moro president of the ruling Christian Democrat Party and fivetime former premier had been kidnapped March 16 a Rome street ambush that killed his five police bodyguards Last Friday his Red Brigade cap-tors issued the last of a series of messages saying they wei carrying out" a death verdict against him because the Christian Democrats had refused to negotiate their demand for the release of 13 jailed terronsts in exchange for Moros life During Moros 54-day captivity the Marxist urban guerrillas had de-livered "communiques to the new media saying Moio generally regarded asthis nations most influential political leader had been "sentenced to death at a peoples trial on grounds that his Christian Democrats had taken anti-proletanan stands during their three decades as Italys ruling party Moro himself wrote a stream of letters to political leaders urging them to bargain with his captors Italy's interior minister Francesco Cossiga one of Moro's Christian Democrat proteges was one of the first to arrive at the scene after police and bomb experts opened the doors of the parked Renault Since the kidnapping the area had been one of the most heavily guarded neighborhoods of Rome The Communist Party recently installed floodlights and closed-circuit television cameras scanning its JUAN CORONA More AP photo BODY WAS FOUND grades income family income But those academic performances did not match the desires of those students Black students surveyed said they wanted four-year college degrees in higher percentages than whites In addition counseling information on colleges was received by higher percentages of minority students than of w'hite students A small surprise in the studys findings is the amazing rate at which Asian high school students outperformed every other racial group Thirty-nine percent of the Asians surveyed finished in the top 12 Vz percent of their classes compared to 16 5 percent of the whites 6 6 percent of the Filipinos 5 0 percent of the blacks and 47 percent of the Chicanos Asians outnumbered blacks in the total UC eligibility pool" made up of that top 126 percent by almost four to one The study also showed a gap between men and women terms of academic standing the UC eligibility pool is 53 percent women Interestingly enrollment at the University continues to favor men by about a 54-46 ratio a number that is slowly equalizing over the years The highest education aspirations also belonged to the Asian students of whom 74 percent said they planned to earn at least a bachelor degree The comparable figure for 1 blacks was 63 percent for whites 48 percent UC President David Saxon in an introductory letter with the study said it is disturbing because the findings substantiate many of our fears about the status of educational opportunity in the Slate of California The disparity between aspirations and results for black and Chicano students indicates that secondary (Turn to Page 4 Col 4) about energy dont you believe it the governor told several hundred persons at the University of California here Monday night "People who endorse the building of nuclear power plants misread the temperament of the state Brown delivered his familiar message on the need for alternative energy sources which he characterized as "one of the crucial issues of our time in a brief intioduction to an address by Amory Lovins spring regents lecturer at the college of engineering According to Brown "California By DAVE CHEIT BERKELEY Its still a sad fact of life: Academic achievement is directly related to the race and income of the student A University of California study released today puts that generally-accepted notion into scientific fact for the first time It also indicates that the aspirations and counseling of poor and minority students are equal to or greater tnan their more advantaged counterparts but the disparity of achievement remains The survey covered some 4000 California students who graduated from high school in the 1974-75 academic year Survey coordinator Kati Haycock says that while it makes few surprising conclusions it i ALDO MORO would be used to make a detailed professional feasibility study of the proposal According to Erna Harris another member of the housing co-op group the proposal meets many of the citys objectives for the federal community development funds including improving housing and neighborhoods and providing jobs Despite several criticisms of the project in the report by the city housing department the report (Turn to Page 4 Col 1) Nine hostages released as robber gives up TORRANCE (AP) A gunman surrendered today 13 hours after taking nine hostages following an aborted jewelry store robbery The man identified by police as William John Dwyer walked out of the store about 7:20 am with his hands up and walked over to waiting police He was taken to an unidentified location The surrender came two hours after he released the last of his hostages a pair of sisters from nearby Redondo Beach At about 5:30 am one of a pair of Redondo Beach sisters walked from the store where William John Dwyer 28 had been barricaded since about 6 pm Monday Mary Patton 21 was released fust and her sister Joy 19 was freed about 45 minutes later Both worked at a dress shop near the jewelry store situated in a shopping center (Turn to Page 4 Col 6) His cuirent court-appointed lawyer Alan Exelrod said a counselor told Corona of the decision and said Coiona was "very happy Corona a labor contractor who recruited transients and supplied them to growers in the Feather and Yuba River valleys was taken into custody after a search of his Yuba City home turned up an assortment of edged weapons After his arrest Corona was described by his priest as "an exemplary father and a fine Christian who neither smoked nor drank It was learned later that he had been a mental patient years before suffering irom paranoid schizophrenia wind development and waste reduction is cheaper more diverse and gives a faster return on the investment than hard energy technology such as nuclear power plants and oil pipelines he aaded In a brief interview after Lovins lecture Gov Brown denied that he is using the energy issue and antinuclear power sentiment as a vehicle to the White House in 1980 "Carter should be looking toward Massachusetts not California the governor said adding response to a question that he is "encouraged (Turn to Page 4 Col 6) College enrollment of minorities drops Lawyer hit Corona wins new trial bid SAN FRANCISCO '(AP) Despite a legislative mandatg to increase minority enrollments the number of blacks enrolled at the University of California and state universities and colleges has "significantly decreased over the past five years a state education agency has reported The report Monday from the California Postsecondary Education Commission coincided with the release of another study from UC Berkeley which concluded that too few minority students are enrolled because too few meet entrance requirements The two-year UC study said the poorer the home a high school graduate comes from the smaller the chances of being qualified to enroll at one of the nine UC campuses or the 19 state university and college campuses INDEX Action Man 3 Area News 2 3 Classified I8-28 Comics 9 Coming Events 2 Crossword 18 Food Pages 14 15 Horoscope Kid Bits 8 Opinion Page 8 Sports 8 Sylvia Porter 5 TV-Entertainment 13 Vistas Hi 12 Vital Statistics 28 Weather 2 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Accusing his lawyer of being more interested selling a book than in defending his client the state Court of Appeal has granted convicted mass killer Juan Corona a new trial However the court said Monday in its 71 page decision that circumstantial evidence of Coronas guilt in the machete hacking deaths of 25 transient farm workers was overwhelming and suggested that his only defense is insanity It said defense lawyer Richard Hawk was gross neglect of his basic duty for not offering an insanity defense Corona now 41 was convicted in 1973 and is serving a life sentence at Soledad State Prison such as new energy-efficient appliance and building codes are "putting the plug in the tub instead of pouring more energy into it Lovins a consultant physicist and author of several books including Soft Energy Paths echoed Browns remarks in his own talk He said it is "economically unworkable to increase monolithic energy supplies in response to demand because of the costly side effects such as nuclear danger regional conflicts environmental damage and job displacement Soft energy such as solar and Brown backs benign energy systems BERKELEY In keeping with present opposition to nuclear power 1 Gov Brown says he believes the state will become an energy center capable of maintaining a high quality of life through benign energy systems compatible with our lifestyles How well California succeeds in meeting its energy needs through alternative resouices depends on the "political will and the publics willingness to focus on the available technology according to the governor "When you hear cries of alarm has pioneered an energy path of its own by telling the fedetal government well try something else beside nuclear power plants and that has stimulated dialogue all over the country Brown said the state can develop the energy it needs through the use of renewable resources such as the sun the wind and waste conversion and through energy conservation According to the governor the state experienced high economic growth last year while the energy growth was less than one-half that of the previous 10 years State policies -n-.