Shriver Lauds Peace Corps

.. Reagan — page 4 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1981 an independent student newspaper serving noire dame and saint mary's V O L XV, NO. 113 20th Anniversary Shriver lauds Peace Corps By DAVID RICKABAUGH thousand. He attributed the the Peace Corps, Lorct Miller Ruppe, Senior Staff Reporter downturn to the change in attitude Peace Corps Director Designate, of society which resulted from Rev. Theodore Hesburgh C S C., and Former Director of the Peace “events such as Viet Nam, OPEC, and Walter Langford, Former Chilean Corps Sargent Shriver gave the the Ayatollah. Training Director. keynote address for the two-day “I am however, more In the welcoming address former Peace Corps/University of Notre knowledgeable and pleased about director Celeste said, "this is a time Dame 20th Anniversary Celebration the Peace Corps now, than in I960.” to reflect where we’ve been, and to last night in the Library Auditorium. Shriver stated that in foricgn look down the road to where we The celebration pays tribute to policy too much emphasis is placed ought to be going. What this nation the alliance between the university on a strong military and having needs is som ething m ore than and the Peace Corps since the third world governments on "our military strength, the Peace Corps formation of the agency. side." offers this.” Sargent Shriver served as the first "We must concentrate on Events marking the anniversary director of the Peace Corps and for preventing war. It has been sug will continue today with a 2 p.m. mally announced in a com m ence gested that a program be organized lecture at the Center for Continuing ment address in June, 1961, that the utilizing Peace Corps alumnae, I Education entitled, "A Look at Chile University would administer the propose that this project begin with Then and Now,” a 3:45 p.m. address, Chilean Peace Corps Project. a pursuit in our homeland by "The Challenges of the 80 s,” by Ms One month later, a training protesting nuclear war. Ruppe, and a 5 p.m. Mass for the program for 51 young men and Also present at the address were memory of deceased Peace Corps women began at Notre Dame under Richard Celeste, Former Director of volunteers in the Library Lounge. the direction of Walter Langford, professor of modern languages. In cluded in the first group were nine Notre Dame and three Saint Mary’s College graduate. Shriver’s address, "What does the Peace Corps do for a changing society?," commented on the present position of the Peace Corps and the possible role of the program in the future. The 1972 Dem ocratic Vice- Lobkow icz K ollek W aldheim Presidential candidate said that since 1966 federal allocations for the project decreased from 114 mil Sargent Shriver, former Peace Corps Director, was the keynote lion dollars to 95 million dollars and Honorary degrees for speaker last night in the library auditorium. the number of volunteers decreased from thirteen thousand to six Waldheim and others ND grad Dr Kurt Waldheim, secretary general of the United Nations since January 1972, will be among those receiving honorary degrees from the University of Notre Dame at the University’s 136th Commence Duarte leads Sament Exercises, May 17. Previously announced as commencement speaker is President Ronald W. Reagan who will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree By JEFF CHOPPIN ganization of the junta meant what Duarte is a m em ber of the Chris from the University. Staff Reporter two of the more reform-minded tian Democratics. He formed the Waldheim was born in 1918 in a small town near Vienna and Jose Napoleon Duarte, 1948 members were demoted and offered party in El Salvador in 1962. The graduated from the University of Vienna in 1944 as a Doctor of Notre Dame graduate, was selected o th er jobs in the governm ent. origins of the party trace back to Jurisprudence. He then joined his country’s diplomatic service, hold president of the ruling The power of the junta fell to two post World War 2 Europe. It started ing postions as director general of political affairs in the Ministry of military/civilian junta in El Salvador rightists, Duarte and Jamie A. Gutier in Germany and Italy, and then Foreign Affairs, head of the Political Departm ent West, and federal in December, 1980. Since that time, rez, who became vice president in spread to Latin America. minister of Foreign Affairs. He was Austria’s perm anent representative the violence and internal strife of the sole control of the military. Many The party has progressively to the U. N. from 1964 to 1968 and from 1970 to 1971. country have escalated and fallen people contend, however, tha the shifted to the right in El Salvador. In As U. N. secretary general, Waldheim has addressed crises such as real power lies with Defense Minis civil strife in Northern Ireland, the entry of the People’s Republic of under international scrutiny. See DUARTE, page 3 For Duarte, who majored in civil ter Garcia. China into the U. N., the conflict between South Africa and Namibia, engineering, this was the second the Middle East entanglement, and the threat to the minority Bihari time that he has been chosen presi population in Bangladesh. dent. In 1972, he won the popular Others receiving degrees are: election easily over the 65-year-old Alden W. Clausen, a long-time executive with Bank of America, who government backed candidate, but last fall became president of the World Bank which is charged with the military nullified the result. making development loans to have-not nations. Clausen joined Bank Duarte was then imprisoned and General Prog of America in 1949, held a series of vice presidential postions, and tortured by the military. He lost two became president and chief executive officer in 1970 — a post he held until his appointment to the World Bank last fall. fingers and had a bone broken in the land and Lincoln tunnels. By DAN LE DUG Rene J. Dubos, a distinguished microbiologist and experimental back of his neck. He went into exile After 39 years of work and ac Sews Staff pathologist, won worldwide fame as the discoverer of the first com tivity, Lewis decided fishing and mercially produced antibiotic. A humanist and environmentalist as traveling weren’t enough to keep WEDNESDAY Lawrence Lewis was dressed like well as a scientist, Dubos has written more than two dozen books, him busy. “There was a serious con any other student on campus — a includingSoH u m a n an A n im al which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969. cern on my wife’s part, ” he added, Notre Dame jacket, khaki pants and Teddy Kollek has been mayor of Jerusalem since 1965. Prior to that “that I had been so active that just » FOCUS hiking boots. He carried a spiral Kollek had been an Israeli minister to the United Stales and a ranking quitting and going fishing wouldn’t notebook that had mimeographed official in Premier David Ben Gurion’s government. He is co-author of be enough.” after he was freed. He returned to El assignment sheets sticking out of it. several books on Jerusalem, includingjems«/ew;City of Mandkind Salvador in March, 1980 when he He transferred into Notre Dame’s To keep busy, he tried work as a and Pilgrims to the Holy Land. His adroit handling of the Christian, consultant. “But I began to realize replaced a civilian who had resigned General Program of Liberal Studies Jewish and Islamic cultures in the Holy City has earned him wide trying to fire Defense Minister Jose last fall. N otre Dame accepted 60 two things, if I was going to stay at it 1 praise. Guillermo Garcia. credits from Brooklyn Polytechnic was going to have to work at it Nicholas Lobkowicz, a former Notre Dame associate professor of After the slayings of four mis Institute giving him junior status. steady. The second thing that oc philosophy, is the president of the University of Munich. He joined the sionaries last D ecem ber 2, the But, there was something a little uncurred to me was that if I did it faculty there in 1967, and served as professor, rector, and dean of the United States applied pressure to the usual about those credits — they steady, then, in essence, it didn’t School of Arts and Letters before assuming the presidency in 1976. An junta to restructure itself The dated from the 1930s. make any sense to retire. expert on Marxism, he has published numerous articles and books on military then named Duarte, who Larry Lewis is 65 years old. “I started to look at what would be philosophy, ethics and political thought. was supported by the United States, Lewis retired from the Port Aut a transitional device, and it came to Pat O’Brien has starred in 1 10 motion pictures, most notably as as Duarte had replaced a civilian in hority of New York and New Jersey me that possibly schooling would be Knute Rockne in the 1940 Warner Bros, filmKnute Rockne - A ll the junta who had resigned trying in 1979. He had served as manager president of the junta. The reor of tunnels, responsible for the Hol See LEWIS, page 5 See DEGREES, page 3 News Brie fs Wednesday, March 25, 1981 — page 2 by The Observer and The Associated Press Robert E. WTute,former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, will deliver a lecture tomorrow on “The Crisis in El Salvador and All My Administrators American Foreign Policy” at Saint Mary’s College.

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