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XXI, NO. 39 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1986 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Gorbachev charges ‘misrepresentation’ in summit account Associated Press cussed abolition of all nuclear arms during the summit but MOSCOW - Soviet leader never proposed more than the Mikhail Gorbachev accused elimination of all ballistic mis­ the White House yesterday of siles in 10 years. “gross misrepresentation” in Gorbachev’s statement was its accounts of the Reykjavik the latest in a series of efforts summit, but he said the super­ to counter U.S. accounts of powers could still work out what the superpowers tenta­ their problems. tively agreed to before they A member of the Soviet sum­ reached a stalemate at the mit delegation, meanwhile, summit over the U.S. Strategic reiterated Soviet claims that Defense Initiative, or “Star President Reagan had agreedW ars.” in principle to a proposal to Gorbachev said the eliminate all Soviet and U.S. proposals included an initial 50 nuclear weapons in 10 years. percent cut in strategic nuclear The Reagan administration weapons, elimination of all has disputed the claim. White medium-range missiles in House spokesman Larry Europe, a ban on the testing of Speakes said yesterday in space weapons and a nuclear Washington that Reagan dis­ test ban. Ex-airman arrested in espionage attempt Associated Press and offered information about the Air Force program, accor­ The Observer/Joe Vitacco SAN FRANCISCO - A dis­ ding to a sworn statement by World Series study gruntled former Air Force man an FBI agent filed in federal was arrested yesterday and court. Sophomores (front row, left to right) Kevin and Jeff Pearson in a St. Edward’s Hall room. charged with trying to deliver Davies provided “detailed Bryan and Pat Dunne enjoy the seventh game The students watched the New York Mets beat secrets about an Air Force verbal information” about the of the World Series along with freshmen (back the Boston Red Sox by a score of 8-5. reconnaissance program to the program as well as a “hand row, left to right) Jason Cegielski, Ted Healy Soviet Union, authorities said. drawing depicting various Allen John Davies of San aspects” of the program , ac­ Jose, a naturalized American cording to the statement by Sociologist discusses Nicaraguan autonomycitizen who works for Ford Agent Roger Edstrom. Aerospace and Communica­ He said much of the informa­ By JIM RILEY The region is occupied by different languages and differ­tions Corp., was arrested by tion Davies provided was clas­ Assistant News Editor several ethnic groups, all of ent phenotypes, according to FBI agents in Palo Alto, south sified as secret, according to which are distinct from each Vilas. of San Francisco, said U.S. At­ Air Force Maj. Boyd Lease, Greater self-rule for parts of other and not integrated into This reductionist approach torney Joseph Russoniello. director of the reconnaissance Nicaragua and the current po­the rest of the country, accor­ was the main problem during The charge is punishable by program . litical strength of those groups ding to Vilas. The region’s iso­ the early years of the revolu­ up to life in prison. in power were discussed by lation is partly due to geogra­ tion, the problem which kept On Sept. 22, Davies met with Davies, 33, said he had Carlos Vilas, speaking Monday phy and is complicated by the the people of the coast from an undercover agent who posedworked on the reconnaissance night in the Memorial Library contras who attack transporta­ relating peacefully with the as a representative of the So­ program while in the Air Force Auditorium. tion as part of their struggle, government. viet consulate in San Francisco in 1983 and 1984, the agent said. said Vilas. Many people from the coast Vilas, an Argentine were relocated by the govern­ sociologist who has lived in ment away from areas that Nicaragua since 1980, outlined would be the scenes of battles Grace Hall debates begin the problems the peoples of the with the contras and into Atlantic coast region of 4 \ rigidly-structured towns, said Nicaragua as the revolutionary Vilas. with topic of gays at ND (Sandinista) government has These relocations and the tried to install its system of rule government’s policies stifled By GREG LUCAS McKenna, assistant rector in that region. the groups’ cultures and News Staff of Grace Hall, designed the At first, the government tried caused dissatisfaction with the tournament based on the to force the coast people into revolutionary government, ac­ Official recognition of the popularity that public the revolution, said Vilas. But cording to Vilas. group Gays and Lesbians at debate receives in Ireland. now the government realizes Notre Dame and Saint “ The beauty of debate,” that it has to adapt the revolu­ Recently, the revolutionary Mary’s will be the first topic said McKenna, “is that both tion to meet the needs of the government has acknowledged of discussion in Grace Hall’s sides are presented and the various ethnic peoples of the Carlos Vilas its mistakes and have taken debate tournament tonight issue is left up to the audi­ coast, Vilas said. two major steps, Vilas said. at 9 in the pit at Grace Hall. ence.” Vilas said the coast people The problem the government First, they are setting free The tournam ent is a single All interested students are have felt caught in the middle, has faced is that revolutionary coast people who are caught elimination contest among encouraged to come and lis­ not being Sandinistas but nottheories paid no attention to fighting the government. teams of four from the ten ten and contribute at the being contras either. Their ethnicity in Latin America, Second, they have undertaken floors of Grace Hall and will debates. “ People who sit in neutrality has been violated by Vilas said. an autonomy project. feature nine topical debates their rooms and gripe about both sides, said Vilas. There was a reduction of the “The government on nine different nights. the system are now being coast communities to their eco­ formed the National Autonomy Participants will practice given a forum,” said The coast region “ . .is a nomic status, said Vilas. There Commission for broad discus­ a formal debate format McKenna. very large part of the country also was a cultural reduction sion of autonomy,” Vilas said. which will be followed by A member of the faculty with a very small population, of the various ethnic groups. “This has been difficult since questions and comments who is knowledgeable on the but with large problems caused These groups “ were reduced to there is little history of self- from the audience. by ethnic diversity,’’ said just the symbolic aspects of Native Irishman Joe see DEBATE, page 3 Vilas. their ethnicity” such as their see SPEECH, page 3 The Observer Tuesday, October 28, 1986 - page 2 In Brief Sharing of cultures more valuable than money exchange in Jamaica The University of Notre Dame Academic Council named Irie. its 1986-87 executive committee at its meeting October 15. Don shifted the little white cigarette between Ex-officio members are Provost Timothy O’Meara, Asso­ his lips as if it were a cigar. The knife in his ciate Provost Father Edward Malloy, and Chairman of hands dug deeper into the piece of lignum vitaeTripp the Faculty Senate Jean Pec. Elected to the executive he was carving. Baltz committee were Francis Castellino, dean of the College Irie. Yah, mahn. of Science; Fernand Dutile, professor of law, Michael Et- Don stood in the hot midday sun, carving anNews Editor zel, chairm an and professor of the m arketing departm ent; eagle out of the iron-like wood that comes from Roger Schmitz, dean of the College of Engineering and the national tree of Jamaica. Behind him was Kathleen Mass Weigert, associate director for social anal­ his store, a one-room hut over a dirt floor. In­ . ... rio f>rro b /e» t/ ysis at the Center for Social Concerns. Appointed by Uni­ side, thatch bags and boxes hung over shelves versity President Father Theodore Hesburgh were Mi­ where mahogany birds and turtles sat. chael Loux, dean of the College of Arts and L etters; Father Easy, mahn, easy. Thomas Blantz, chairman and associate professor of his­ Don’s specialty was jewelry. Items cut from WA tory; and Douglas Wurth, Student Government academic mother of pearl and sea shells lay on a towel commissioner. - The Observer draped over a table in the center of his store. Don peeled back a sheet covering the finest of his wares: earrings and bracelets shaped from rare black coral. Jamaican divers plunge deep Of Interest below the surface of the Carribean to recover this precious material. Easy, shorty, whatta goin’ ahn? Three lectures on “The ‘Moral Nation’: Don wanted to sell me some of his goods. I Humanitarianism and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1980’s” was interested in buying some jewelry for a m h/SMlKT will be given from today to Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the close friend. I wanted something from Jam aica. Room 100 of the Center for Continuing Education. Don wanted my some of my cash. at the top of a hill. We met her younger relative “Humanitarianism, Vulnerability, and Discretion” will be Don’ want the mother of pearl? Lis’n, I give Ricky, whose skill at dominoes angered the discussed today by Henry Shue, senior research associate you ah package deal. No problem. older players. We met Asien and his very small at the University of Maryland’s Center for Philosophy and Don and his friends came down from Barrettfriend Greg, who almost dropped off a porch Public Policy.

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