Victory for Democracy Movement in Czech. Christian Militias Join
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VOL. XXIII NO. j)"9 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1989 ... THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Victory for democracy movement in Czech. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) Monday in which millions of - The Communist-controlled workers participated. Parliament on Wednesday Parliament also eliminated swiftly ended the party's 40- the Communists' leading posi- year monopoly on power in a . tion in the National Front, an fran tic effort to satisfy the de umbrella organization embrac mands of the growing pro ing all political parties and so democracy movement. cial groups allowed in A member of the ruling Com Czechoslovakia. four deputies munist Politburo said the first opposed the measure and 16 fn~e elections in four decades abstained. could be held within a year. Shortly after the historic votes, state TV showed Slovak The 309 deputies present actor Milan Knazko announcing voted unanimously to scrap word of the changes to a Article 4 of the constitution. packed National Theater in which ensured the leading role Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. of the Communist Party, and The entire audience, which in change Article 16. whieh man cluded prominent dissident Va dated that all education be clav Havel, rose to its feet in bas1~d on Marxism-Leninism. thunderous, minute-long ap The changes were among his plause. toric concessions the opposi Parliament also planned to tion won from the Communist consider creating a constitu government on Tuesday when tional court and a commission Premier Ladislav Adamec also to investigate allegations of promised to form a new gov police brutality in a crackdown ernment. including non-Com on protesters Nov. 17. AP Photo munists, by Sunday. The removal of the require They followed 11 straight ment that Marxism-Leninism be Popular choice for Prime Minister days of huge anti-government the guiding principle of educa- Popular choice for Indian Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh enters one of the many hurried demonstrations, which culmi meetings Wednesday in New Delphi where efforts to persuade him to contest for Prime Minister were nated in a two-hour strike on see CZECH. I page 6 continuing. Christian militias join general in opposing Syrian threat BEIHUT, Lebanon (API - Aoun claims Hrawi's election right-wing Christian political Bernard Bosson, said he was ciary since Lebanon became in Christian militias that have op by Parliament last week was force and also a foe of Aoun, "amazed at the flood of dependent of France in 1943. posed Gen. Michel Aoun said unconstitutional, says he won't pledged to confront any at masses" at the palace and de Wednesday they would join him accept a new peace plan until tempt to storm the 310-square clared: "This is like the people's Residents of Chtoura, an east in fighting the troops, tanks the Syrian "occupation army" mile Christian enclave north movement in Eastern Europe Lebanon market town on the and artillery Syria is massing leaves the country, and has re and east of Beirut. asking for democracy." Damascus-Beirut road, said around Lebanon's Christian en fused to turn over the shell-bat Thirty-three members of the France supports Hrawi, who Wednesday afternoon that dave. tered palace. French parliament met with is trying to strengthen his cen scores of 122mm and 133mm Elias llrawi, the new Chris Lebanon's largest Christian Aoun. In a show of support tral government and reunite the Syrian artillery pieces were tian president backed by Syria, militia, the Lebanese forces, that contradicted the official fractured military as part of an moving toward Beirut and the dismissed Aoun as army com said it would fight beside the French government stand, the effort to end the 14-year-old central mountains above mander Tuesday and ordered 20,000 Christian troops who legislators joined thousands of sectarian civil war, in which Baabda, followed by dozens of him to leave his command post followed Aoun through a six young men who have formed a more than 150,000 people have trucks filled with ammunition. in a bunker beneath the presi month artillery war with the human shield around the been killed. They said hundreds of empty dential palace in Baabda, east Syrians earlier this year. palace. Christians have dominated trucks were heading back to of BPirut. The Phalange Party, the main One of the lawmakers, the government, army and judi- ward Syria. Trebbe appointed as Missionary speaks on El Salvador By CHAD KERLIN ernment that would turn on its few Government vehicles. They associate director of IPSM News Writer own people. have since been raided several "Oppression is omnipresent in times by the National Police Special to the Observer theological studies degree program at the Catholic Rev. William Dexheimer, a El Salvador and this has not who led many students off Rev. Franeis Tebbe. Theological Union. He also Lutheran missionary forced out been a recent development; it blindfolded. They have O.F.M., director of continu serves as director of continu· of El Salvador last week for has been going on for some 'disappeared'," he added. ing education for the ing education and formation being a Christian, spoke can time," Moriarty explained. "In According to Dexheimer, Catholic Theological Union for his home community, the didly on the current reality of the police state of El Salvador, "disappeared" is a term used to in Chicago, has been ap Franciscan Province of St. the Church there in a lecture on death is commonplace," he describe the type of detention pointed associate director of John the Baptist in Cincin Wednesday. elaborated, both in speech and that people are subjected to . the Institute for Pastoral nati, Ohio. Before he began, however, on film. "This is the true face The government will arrest and Social Ministry. Before joining the faculty Steve Moriarty, a Notre Dame of Arena, not all the pomp and someone and then refuse to ac A member of the francis of the Catholic Theological alumnus and free-lance pho circumstance," he said. knowledge that they have even can order since 1968, Father Union, he had worked for tographer who spent much of Contrary to most popular re detained them, Dexheimer said. Tebbe was graduated from five years in the Archdiocese this year in El Salvador, gave a ports, most of the opposition is As far as the government is Duns Scotus College in of Boston's religious educa thirty- minute slideshow docu not coming from guerrillas but concerned, the people have Southfield, Michigan in 1971 tion office. He has also menting the recent election and from the more than seventy so simply disappeared. Very few and ordained a priest in worked in Catholic parishes focusing on the contemporary cial forces that operate within captives are released. 1975. During the same year. in Southfield, Michigan and or "underground" Church El Salvador, Dexheimer said. "Most of this is not even he obtained a master's de Albuquerque, New Mexico. there. He explained that these known here," Dexheimer said. gree from Saint Leonard Both talks focused on the forces include religious groups, "After a particularly heavy School of Theology in Cen Father Tebbe has pub atrocities being committed unions and peasant groups who night of bombing in San Sal terville, Ohio. In 1986, he re lished reviews and articles against the peoples of El Sal attempt peaceful means to vador on November 12 of this ceived a doctor of ministry on religious education in var• vador and on the relativ.e igno bring about change. Their ef year, the El Salvadorean presi degree from Andover New ious professional and schol rance of the rest of the world. forts go largely unacknowl dent went on air saying that arly journals. A member of Moriarty's lens captured edged by our government, he there had been no bombings. ton Theological School in added. Newton Centre, Mas several professional asso many horrifying scenes: scenes The U. S. Ambassador said the sachusetts His dissertation ciations of religious educa of carnage and death, the ends "It is not just a bunch of same. topic was "Mentoring as an of more than a few so-called guerrillas fighting the govern "After this, we felt we had to tors and church administra ment; it's real people like you Image: The Supervision of tors, he recently became sec "subversives." come forward and tell what Adult Religious Educators." These stills were contrasted and me," said Dexheimer. was really going on. It had all retary and treasurer of the "Students at the National Since 1985, Father Tebbe National Organization of with the glitter and celebration gone on too long," Dexheimer has directed continuing edu surrounding the election of the University demonstrated by set recalled. Speaking out against Continuing Education of ting up blockades outside the cation and the master of Roman Catholic Clergy. current Arena government ear lier this year: the same gov- university, and they torched a see LECTURE I page 3 page 2 The Observer Thursday, November 30, 1989 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Forecast for noon, Thursday, November 30. Read this before 50 Lines show high temperatures. 40 30 you slam on Arts & Letters If someone called -------- you worthless, what Yesterday's high: 28 would you do? Well, hopefully you Yesterday's low: 15 would assert yourself Florentine by examining the ac Hoelker Forecast: cusation and coming up with a defense and Assistant Today mostly sunny and refutation. That's News Editor what I did, but now warmer with a high of 41 . the original argument Tonight cooler with lows has escalated and I -------- fear it may be out of in the mid 30s. control. 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