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Music review - pages 6-7 VOL XIX, NO. 81 th~.: indt.·pt:n(.knt stud<:nt n<:wspap<:r s<:rving notr<: Jam<: and saint mary's MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1985 Chernenko in intensive care, British newspapers report Associated Press secretary of the Communist Party, Chernenko has been ailing during but would not necessarily assume the past four weeks. LONDON- British newspapers re the presidency a mainly ported yesterday that Soviet Presi ceremonial title. Indeed some The diplomat said he had no firm dent Konstantin Chernenko is being sources say Chernenko could con information about the exact nature treated in the intensive care unit of a tinue to hold this job while stepping of his illness. However, Chernenko private Kremlin hospital, and may down as effective leader," the news is widely thought to be suffering relinquish power because of paper said. from emphysema. According to The deterioratin~ health. Sunday Times, Chernenko's health Western diplomats contacted by has deteriorated sharply in the past The Associated Press in Moscow said week. The newspaper said they had not heard any such reports, Chernenko's doctors are looking although most said they believe the after him in the intensive care unit of 73-year-old Chernenko is ailing. a private Kremlin hospital, and that The Sunday Times quoted "his respiratory illness, including "unofficial reports" as saying emphysema, has now been compl Chernenko, who has not been seen icated by cardiac deficiencies." in public since Dec. 27, will become the first Soviet leader to step down "Observers reckon his illness is voluntarily. now irreversible and it is thought Another newspaper, The Express, that this view has been firmly ex carried a report that said Chernenko pressed by the doctor in charge of "has become so ill he may be forced the president, believed to be an out to resign." The newspapers did not standing Czechoslovak specialist," say what their sources were, or how The Sunday Times said. Despite they obtained their information. prolonged illnesses, Chernenko's The Sunday Times said the ruling two predecessors, Yuri Andropov Politburo already has approved a and Leonid Brezhnev, died in office. plan to replace Chernenko with 53- It said any such decision would be Rumors of their impending resigna year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, widely made at a meeting of the Communist tions also circulated in Moscow believed to rank second in the Party Central Committee next during the last months of their lives. Kremlin hierarchy. month. A senior Western diplomat in Chernenko succeeded Andropov "Under this plan, Gorbachev Moscow told AP on Friday that So as Communist Party general secre would take over the post of general viet officials have acknowledged tary on Feb. 13. 1984. Pope condemns abortion, divorce Shooting Pool The Observer/LeV Chapelsky Sophomore Mike Varlotta plays pool in the Planner Hall in visit to South American cities Foodsales room. Associated Press bishops in Venezuela to meet today altar covered with a gold handmade with the pontiff. carpet told a wildly cheering audi MARACAIBO, Venezuela- Latin John Paul has offered to mediate ence that religious teaching "should More report V()ting in 1984, music greeted Pope John Paul II as in the Central American conflicts, be present in all (schools), without he stepped off his plane yesterday in and Obando y Bravo has held fre distinction." this steamy South American oil cen quent talks with him about the tense says Census Bureau survey ter beside the Caribbean. Posters church-state relations in Nicaragua At the Mass in Caracas, the pontiff Associated Press the Census report still provides the read: "Our Sun Is More Radiant With and the four priests in the leftist gov said, "Remember, it is never legal to best picture of voting trends by sex, Your Presence." ernment. The church recently end a human life with abortion or WASHINGTON - An increase in race and region of the country, Earlier, he condemned abortion, suspended the four after they euthanasia." At least 500,000 people the number of voting women and O'Connell said. sterilization and divorce at a Mass in refused appeals to resign their posts. attended the Mass in an open field blacks in November helped push Among whites, 61.4 percent said the capital of Caracas before The pope, speaking from a large beneath a hillside shantytown. turnout up for the first time in two they voted, up from 60.9 percent. hundreds of thousands who decades, the Census Bureau re Among those of Spanish origin, 32.6 endured stifling heat in this ported yesterday. percent said they voted, up from nominally Roman Catholic country. The bureau reported that almost 29.9 percent. The bureau said the The bands at the Maracaibo air 60 percent of the 50,000 people it low turnout rate for Hispanics was port continued playing as the pontiff surveyed two weeks after the na due to a large proportion saying they walked through the crowds and into tional election said they had voted. were not citizens and therefore the "popemobile." Huge crowds of That is I percent more than in a were ineligible to vote. Venezuelans, Colombians and native similar survey conducted in Novem Turnout among men remained at Indians lined the flag-covered papal ber 1980. 59 percent. route, swelling past police barriers Sixty-one percent of women said Overall, 59.9 percent of those sur and armed soldiers to get closer to they voted, up two points from the veyed said they voted, compared him. previous election, while 55.8 per with 59.2 percent in 1980. In 1964, John Paul, the first pope to visit cent of blacks said they voted, up the first time Census conducted a Venezuela, received a similar greet from 50.5 percent in 1980. survey on voting behavior, 69.3 per ing Saturday when he arrived in The bureau projected that if cent said they voted. Caracas, the first stop on a four everyone who said they voted actu Voter turnout among the un· nation trip that will take him to ally did so, then 101.8 million employed jumped from 41 to 44 Ecuador, Peru and Trinidad-Tobago. people would have cast their ballots percent, but they still lagged far be The journey is the pontiff's sixth to last Nov. 6. hind people with jobs in getting to Latin America and his 25th abroad. But that is about 9 million more the polls. Jobholders voted at a 62 Vatican officials said Archbishop than the 92.6 million who voted in percent rate. Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua, the 'presidential election. Nicaragua, was among the prelates Martin O'Connell, a Census offi The turnout rose steadily with gathered in Maracaibo, a city of I cial, said, "People tend to overreport age. Only 36.7 percent of those ages million near the Colombian border, their voting behavior in the survey." 18 to 20 voted, compared to 72.1 for the pope's overnight stop. The overestimates usually run in percent for those 55 to 64. Among John Paul welcomed them during the range of 7 to 10 percent, said other age groups, the rates were: 21- an outdoor evening Mass, saying, O'Connell. Some are caused by fam 24, 43.5 percent; 25-34, 54.5 per "Greeting to the pastors of ily members misreporting whether cent; 35-44, 63.5 percent; 45-54, Nicaragua and El Salvador who are other adults in the household voted, 67.5 percent; 55-64, 72.1 percent; present here." Arturo Rivera Damas, Pope john Paull! listens to the national anthem of Venezuela as and some by people lying. 65-74, 71.8 percent; 75 and older, archbishop of San Salvador, and be arrives at the airport in Car~cas on Saturday. The Pope will tour But even with those distortions, 61.2 percent. Obando y Bravo were among several South American countrlesfor 11 days. Story above. The Observer Monday,January 28, 1985- page 2 In Brief ND/SMC have more at stake than a free MTV concert Keenan Revue ticket distribution wm She was a student not unlike other Saint Mary's stu take place tomorrow in the following locations: Saint Mary's dents in the mid-1940s. Her talent on the piano allowed Anne ()'Laughlin Auditorium box office at 4:00 and the Chautauqua ball her to work off one third of her tuition costs by playing room at Notre Dame at 4:30. There is a two-ticket maximum per for recitals. When she graduated from Saint Mary's in Monastyrski student. - The Obseroer 1946 as a history major, the College sent her to Colum bia University in New York to earn her master's degree Saint Mary's Editor under the condition of returning to her alma mater to teach history for a year. Following this she married and settled into her career of motherhood still filled with The first airdrops of food to famine victims in a dreams, ambitions and unrealized goals. And she was Because Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students are a remote area of Ethiopia were rated by a U.N. official yesterday as an my mother. concentration of prime candidates and none suspects "extraordinarily good performance." Kurt Jansson, U.N. assistant All her plans abruptly came to a halt when, in 1961, suspect he or she will get MS, students should be anx secretary-general for emergency operations, said British and West she was diagnosed as having Multiple Sclerosis. MS is a ious to help in the fight to discover the still unknown German aircraft dropped pallets of grain and other food.