VOL. XXIII NO. 43 THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 1, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S a • • I I I Soviets announce new i i I " i t • , fl!ffi program for economy .., ~ ., MOSCOW (AP) The republic's natural resources 1 " ' Russian parliament voted and other assets, including Wednesday to start a 500-day state institutions and transition to a market economy construction projects, Tass ' on Thursday, putting it on a reported. collision course with President It said the legislation was Mikhail S. Gorbachev and the intended to "lay the foundations national legislature. for the republic's economic sovereignty." The bill says the Gorbachev and the Supreme Russian government has the Soviet legislature agreed Oct. right to accredit foreign firms 19 on a compromise economic and control imports and exports rescue plan that is slower and from its territory. less radical than the 500-day plan. The parliament voted 155 to nine with two abstentions to Russia, the largest of the 15 begin implementing the 500- Soviet republics, has declared day plan on Thursday, but it did sovereignty from the central not approve any specific steps. Soviet government. It claims It had previously approved the the right to put its own plan on Sept. 11. economic reform plan into Ivan Silaev, the republic's effect on its territory, which prime minister, told parliament covers two-thirds of the Soviet that a series of proposed laws land mass. would be drafted within the Prisoners' day celebration next three weeks. It is unclear who will be obeyed 5 thousand people rallied in the ?enter of Moscow two days ago in support of political prisoner's day. if the Russian government. led "Really, all this means is they People carrymg old Russ1an Emp1re flags and portraits of Lenin's face blanked out are shown. by Gorbachev's leading political have started the clock ticking rival, Boris N. Yeltsin, gives and underlined their economic orders that determination to go ahead" At least 24 die in Indian violence as contradict the national with the 500-day plan, said government. Shod Muladzhanov, a political Hindu fundamentalists storm shrine Already, the central gov­ commentator for the ernment has warned bank newspaper Moskovskaya AYODHYA, India (AP) - the rioters. At least two of the confidence scheduled for Nov. officials they will be fired if Pravda. Thousands of Hindu fundamen­ injured died Wednesday, doc­ 7. they carry out a new Russian talists failed in a new attempt tors said. Singh's attempts to ride the republic law creating "I spent the whole day here W1~dnesday to storm an ancient Press Trust of India said at religious and political crisis re­ independent banks, according asking people what concrete shrine daimcd by Moslems, and least 22 other people were ceived another setback to Deputy Russian Premier steps they planned to take, and at least 24 more people died in killed in street battles between Wednesday, when the deputy Gennady Filshin. no one could give me an viohmce sparkPd by the dispute. Hindus and Moslems in four minister for sports, Bhakta answer," he added, gesturing A government minister re­ widely separated cities. Charan Das, resigned to protest The Russian parliament also from a balcony overlooking the signed to protest Prime Minister the police action at Ayodhya. challenged the Kremlin by parliament's marble meeting V P. Singh's attempts to block In Washington, State Das, a Hindu, accused Singh claiming control over the hall. construction of a Hindu temple Department spokeswoman in his resignation letter of "lack on the disputPd site, deepening Margaret Tutwiler said the of foresightedness" in tackling the crisis in his beleaguered administration is "very dis­ the crisis. coalition. tressed by the violence and loss Armed paramilitary troops of life and we hope that this The dispute also triggered vi­ bloeked about 5,000 Hindus crisis can be averted without olence in neighboring from attempting to re-enter the further bloodshed." Bangladesh, an Islamic nation, mosque in Ayodhya, which has The dispute has killed at least where Moslem mobs attacked been the center of a decades-old 170 people in the past eight temples and Hindu shops and dispute between India's Hindu days and pushed Singh's 11- homes after hearing of the sit­ majority and Moslem minority. month-old government to the uation in Ayodhya. Authorities verge of collapse. The Hindu clamped curfews in the capital Hindu fundamentalists broke fundamentalist Bharatiya Dhaka and the port city of .-. through police cordons on Janata Party withdrew support Chittagong to curb rioting. Tuesday and chipped away from the governing coalition In Ayodhya, volunteers of the bricks and bits of plaster from last month to protest govern­ fundamentalist World Hindu the one-story mosque, which ment policy on the temple pro­ Council said they would make they want to replace with a ject. another attempt to storm the temple. mosque on Thursday. Officials - At least five Hindus were The desertion left Singh without said they had information that killed and 20 injured when po­ a majority in Parliament, but he hundreds of Hindus would try lice opened fire to throw back has said he will win a vote of to enter the town at night. Sale of 'cause' T-shirts raise money for accident victim; new version now for sale By ANN MARIE HARTMAN In addition to the sales on campus outlets. News Writer campus, an 800 number was The Bookstore, Alumni established to take phone Association, Information Desk, orders. 4000 more shirts were and the Hockey ProShop will The story of the "T-shirt with sold this way raising the total be selling the shirts and a eause" which surrounded the to nearly $100,000. "The sup­ featuring the short-sleeved Notre Dame-Miami football port of the Notre Dame com­ version with the final 29-20 game is not over. munity has been overwhelm­ score on the front. 1-800-345- ing," said Joe Cassidy, Notre 5027 is still taking orders for The game commemorative Dame director of student activ­ the T-shirt, as well. shirt. created by the Notre ities, Dame student body to raise For those still interested in In addition to the T-shirts, money for a hit and run victim buying a "Cause" T-shirt, they watch for order forms that will graduate student, sold out be­ will be on sale "until the soon hit campus for the fore kickoff on October 20. bottom falls out and the "Cause" sweatshirt that bears AP Photo About 20,000 T-shirts were demand no longer exists," says the original T-shirt design. bf}Ught in a span of two weeks, Cassidy. Cassidy hopes that by This pre-pay, pre-order option creating nearly $85,000 in the end of the week both long is open only to students and Palestinian family gives the victory salute in an expression of profit. All of this will be donated and short sleeve versions of the faculty of Notre Dame and St. defiance after their home was completely destroyed by Israeli to the victim. shirt will be available at all on Mary's. soldiers Tuesday, in the West Bank town of Sinjil. 1"""'-----~------~----------------o----------- -~--- --- ~-- --- ---- ----------~- - --------- page 2 The Observer Thursday, November 1, 1990 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER ND must learn 50 to live in a Yesterday's high: 7 4 glass house Yesterday's low: 50 Nation's high: 93 (Coolidge, Ariz.) Returning to Notre Nation's low: 1 3 Dame as a junior, I (Pinedale, Wyo.) thought I knew a fair amount about the Forecast: character of this in­ Mostly sunny and warm stitution. But more Thursday. Highs in the than once this year middle 70s. Mostly clear news commentaries and milder Thursday night. Lows from the concerning Notre K hi W I h Dame have surprised at een e S upper 40s to about 50. Partly sunny and m~ver the summer. Asst. Viewpoint Editor FRONTS: continued warm Friday. when the steroids issue surfaced, one media Highs from the lower to person commented that when you live in a • • • middle 70s . COLD• • WARM STATIONARY• • glass house, you have to expect a few stones ©1990 Accu-Weather, Inc. hurled your way. He went on to call Notre Pressure Dame the "quintessential glass house." (f) []] More recently, the media has made com­ ® ~" ~ ~ rn SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY ments similar to the line that opened a HIGH LOW Chicago Tribune article following the Stan- Via Associated Press GraphicsNet , ford game, "The Irish are mere mortals." Perhaps these comments are just sensa­ tionalized news lead-ins, yet they may give rise to some interesting reflections on our part with respect to our public and private identity. OF INTEREST Why do those who deliver such news about us to the public seem to delight in any "The Nuts and Bolts of Applying to Graduate Senior Father-Daughter Registration in opportunity to criticize us? Lou Holtz said School," a workshop for seniors, at 4:30 p.m., today in the Haggar Game Room is 6-8 p.m. tonight. Please have all table in a press conference that to get the number Notre Dame Room in LaFortune. assignments turned in. one ranking we have to win consistently and convincingly, implying that perhaps we are judged on a different, more difficult stan­ Take Back the Night March-A candlelight University Computing Open House­ dard than other teams. procession to bear witness to the fact that people do not feel University Computing invites ND/SMC faculty, students and So, even in our achievements, it seems our safe walking alone. Meet in front of O'Shaughnessy Hall at 8 staff to an open house featuring the nine computer clusters.