Aziz to Attend U.N. to Discuss Weapons

-----------~~ MONDAY , MARCH 2, 1992 VOL XX • THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S NBC contract to provide money for fellowships By JULIE BARRETT Assistant News Editor The University of Notre Dame will commit $1 million a year for the next five years from the proceeds of its televi sion contract with NBC to en dow doctoral fellowships in its graduate school, according to Father William Beauchamp, ex ecutive vice president at Notre Dame. Father Beauchamp "All the extra money over and ceive financial aid, according to above what (Notre Dame) Beauchamp. would normally get for TV if we Through its four divisions, did not have the NBC contract humanities, social sciences, will be used for fellowships for science and engineering, the graduate students and scholar graduate school offers 36 mas ships for undergraduates," ter's and 23 doctoral degrees. Beauchamp said. Where the money will go and who will receive the fellowships The money will be put lnto an will be decided by the graduate endowment for the graduate school, according to school and the interest earned Beauchamp. from that will go toward fel lowships for qualified students, Beauchamp also stated that Beauchamp explained. the undergraduate school will receive a "multiple amount" of "In order to recruit top-notch the money that the graduate graduate students, we must school is receiving from the provide financial aid for them 1he Observer/Marguerite Schropp NBC contract. Although to be able to attend Notre Beauchamp is not sure at the Down on the corner Dame," Beauchamp said. time how much this "amount" will be, he said it will go toward Flanner junior Luke Conway sits outside on the fieldhouse cornerstone enjoying the recent warm More than half the graduate an endowment for scholarships weather that has swept through South Bend. students at the University re- for undergraduate students. Aziz to attend U.N. IRA claims to discuss weapons responsibility NICOSIA. Cyprus (AP) - Iraqi tions imposed after the August for bombs Deputy Prime Minister Tariq 1990 invasion of Kuwait will LONDON (AP) - Police on Aziz said he would head a dele remain in force until Iraq com Sunday defused an IRA bomb ~;ation to the United Nations plies with the disarmament at a train station, the third dis that will explain Baghdad's ef provisions. covered in this capital in 48 forts to implement Security Aziz's announcement followed hours. Two other devices Council resolutions demanding an earlier INA report that planted by the outlawed group that Iraq eliminate its mass de Saddam Hussein had met exploded on Friday and struction weapons. Saturday with military and Saturday, injuring 29 people. government leaders to discuss The Irish Republican Army • Saudi politics I page 4 the latest developments. • US Navy/ page 4 claimed responsibility Sunday INA, monitored in Nicosia, for planting all the bombs as it l'he move appeared to be quoted Aziz as saying that Iraq continued its campaign to end aimed at averting a potentially has carried out all its commit British rule in Northern serious confrontation with the ments under the cease-fire res Ireland. United Nations over Saddam olution, which obliges it to co In a statement from Belfast, Hussein's latest defiance of operate with U.N. inspectors in the IRA said it wanted to force Security Council resolutions. getting rid of its weapons of the issue onto the political Aziz. speaking on Iraq's state mass destruction. agenda ahead of the election, run television, did not say when But Aziz added that "the U.N. which must be held by July, the delegation would arrive in inspection teams always cre and vowed to continue the New York. ated things that were far from campaign of violence on the The development came as the truth, under open and clear British mainland before the U.N. pressure on Iraq mounted pressure from America," ac election. amid fresh allegations that cording to INA. But Home Secretary Kenneth Baghdad was hindering U.N. · The refusal by Saddam's gov Baker, the Cabinet minister re inspectors assigned to locate ernment to begin scrapping sponsible for law and order, and eliminate Iraq's chemical, Scud missile manufacturing fa maintained that the IRA would biological and nuclear weapons cilities by Friday drew a strong not disrupt the electoral pro programs as well as long-range warning from the Security cess. missiles. Council that continued defiance "An election is a time when A U.N. team assigned to de would bring "serious conse there is a clash of ideas, of stroy Iraqi missile production quences." policies and of arguments. It equipment reported Saturday has nothing to do with bombs that it was unable to perform U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. and bullets," Baker told London its mission because of obstacles Pickering, president of the IS Weekend Television News. caused by the Iraqis. nation council for February, Earlier Sunday, a bomb found The official Iraqi News refused to rule out a military in· a north London train station Agency said Sunday that the strike to force compliance. was defused hours before thou government decided to send the Aziz said the Iraqi foreign sands of fans were expected to delegation including Aziz in re ministry has already stated that arrive for a soccer match, a sponse to a Feb. 22 statement Iraq would allow the Security Scotland Yard spokesman said. by the Security Council Council to make sure that it The Observer/Denise Martin The bomb was spotted by a accusing Iraq of failing to was not producing any banned Speaking out British citizen at 9:20 a.m. at comply with its Gulf War cease weapons, "provided this be British Rail's White Hart Lane fire resolution. done without provocation and Judith Johns, 'CEO of Howard Brown Memorial Clinic and Saint station. A telephone warning The cease-fire resolution without infringement of Iraq's Mary's graduate of '66, spoke to parents and students during Saint Mary's Sophomore Parents Weekend. was received about an hour states that U.N. economic sane- later, police said. ------------------ page 2 The Observer Monday, March 2, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN Budget flights fORECAST: Mostly sunny today offer more than with near-record high in the low 60s. Low near 40 . .economy TEMPERATURES: H L 63 37 Spring break is the 71 39 Austin 75 48 time for fun and heavy se Barcelona 57 45 dation in the sun. It's Baton Rouge 79 62 Bismarck 70 27 coming soon and most Boise 66 40 look forward to it, unless Boston 40 10 they're scheduled for Columbia, S.C. 73 34 Columbus 61 28 dental surgery. 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On HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT CLOUDY my last low budget excursion, the in-flight selection was Mickey Rourkes' critically :,:.:;: ·::::::: ·.;:·:·: acclaimed "Wild Orchid," which after editing took care of about twenty minutes. With so much time on my hands, I thought it was a lovely time for a chat with my neighbor, TODAY AT AGLANCE and I was fortunate enough to have been seated next to a man with breath like a collie. I didn't violated. Philadelphia may stare into the abyss of recall them serving braunschweiger cheese, but WORLD bankruptcy, but that's no deterrent to filers of 4,200 I thought for sure those oxygen masks would lawsuits pending against the destitute city. This month, drop down and allow me to resume breathing a state appeals court upheld a $4.3 million jury award normally. I tried to be subtle in turning the other Police Raid Largest Underworld against New York City and its transit system for a 29- way, but I think he grew tired of conversing with S~ndicate As New Law Takes Effect year-old mugger left paralyzed when a police officer the back of my head. • OKVD=Some 2,500 police raided offices of Japan's shot him. The mugger was fleecing an elderly man in a Once all the green smoke cleared from my largest underworld syndicate on Sunday, the day a subway. Until fairly recently, cities couldn't be held section of the cabin, I figured I'd just let the wide-ranging anti-gangster law took effect. An official accountable for axle-bending potholes, sickeningly time drift away by reclining back and taking in of the Osaka state police said 65 people were arrested inept public hospitals or brutal police. But after about some of their musical delights. It was quite a during the raids on 109 locations connected with the 1960, states began passing laws that let people take treat considering my selections ranged from 30,000-member Yamaguchi-gumi gang.

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