VOL. XXIII NO. 107 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1991 1 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Many U.S. troops to come home Thursday WASHINGTON (API - The change, which had been sched­ Bush administration said Tues­ uled for Tuesday. day it would steer clear of the Maj. Gen. Martin Brandtner, dvil strife that has hit Iraq fol­ the deputy director of opera­ lowing the Gulf War and tions for the Joint Staff, said warned Iraq's neighbors to do interviews with the first six U.S. the samfl. The Pentagon made POWs to be released indicated plans to weleomo home up to "they were treated well." 15,000 veterans of the war during the next week. The general said there was no President Bush hailed the reason to doubt Iraqi claims OPERATION troops as "American heroes" that they held no more allied DESERT STORM and said "home towns all prisoners. across America" will welcome At the State Department, them home soon. spokeswoman Margaret "Their magnificent victory in Tutwiler cautioned Iran and • Iraq in chaos/ page 6 the gulf has brought a renewed other outsiders to stay out of stmse in pride and confidence the civil strife that has affiicted you'd want to here at home," Bush said. "It's a dozen Iraqi cities. be on," Cheney said. contagious, it's all over our "The United States respects country. You can feel it every and believes in the territorial As for homecoming U.S. single minute." integrity of Iraq, and we do not troops, Pentagon military believe that other states should sources, speaking on condition White I louse spokesman Mar­ involve themselves in the inter­ of anonymity, said 4,400 mem­ lin Fitzwatnr said the adminis­ nal matters of Iraq, and that bers of the Army's XVIII Air­ tration welcomed the mlease of other states should refrain from borne Corps, including mem­ 35 American and allied prison­ interfering in Iraq's internal bers of the 82nd Airborne Divi­ ers of war to Hed Cross officials affairs," she said. sion, would be among the first in Baghdad. group returning on Thursday. Pentagon spokesman Pete Defense Secretary Dick Ch­ The sources said Bush was Williams said the POWs, of eney said "significant unrest" expected to welcome them at which 15 are Americans, will directed against President Sad­ Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, but White he flown out of Baghdad on dam Hussein has occurred in­ AP Photo House deputy spokesman Wednesday after an allied side Iraq, but that the United Joan Rathburn, right, the mother of Army Spec. Melissa Rathburn­ transport carries 294 Iraqi States and its coalition partners Nealy, hugs Susie Schmitt after watching a television broadcast about POWs back home. lie said poor won't get involved. see TROOPS I page 4 her daughter's release late Sunday in her Grand Rapids home. weather had delayed the ex- ''I'm not sure whose side St. Ed's wins Icebergs final PRESIDENT/ By CHRIS WILKINSON University administration's In terms of communication, VICE PRESIDENT VOTES News Writer "unreasonable attitudes to­ Lyons cited last semester's wards homosexuals." They said seminars on homosexuality as Kurt Mills/ St. Edward's Hall defeated that since the Catholic Church proof that the administration is Karen Slawner 72 Lyons Hall with a unanimous has recognized homosexuality working to dispel ignorance of judges' decision in Tuesday's within a celibate life is accept­ homosexuality. Michael Brooks/ finals of the Iceberg Debates. able in the Catholic faith, the The teams debated the idea University should do the same. Lyons questionfld the motives Chris Meyer 46 "that the University Adminis­ behind the fellowship goal of tration should officially recog­ The St. Edward's team said the club. In a brochure, they The Observer/Brendan Regan nize the Gay and Lesbian Club that 45.7 percent of Notre found references to the forma­ at Notre Dame." Dame's population has a nega­ tion of spousal relationships Mills/Siawner wins GSU's tive attitude towards homosex­ from contact within the club St. Edward's sister-brother uals. They argued that there setting. Lyons argued that the team of Catherine and Robert could be no change in the way Catholic Church was opposed to first campus-wide elections Pritchard held the affirmative students view homosexuality physical homosexual contact position, and Lyons team mem­ until the University officially and to support thfl formation of By MEREDITH improving day care, increasing bers Janessa Griffin and Eliza­ recognized their position. clubs that would foster such McCULLOUGH the level of stipends, work.ng beth Vida argued the negative contact was opposed to the News Writer with the administration to position. Lyons attacked the three moral teachings of the Church. Kurt Mills and Karen Slawner revise duLac, and developing a goals of the club. In terms of were electod president and ex­ woman's Cflnter, said Mills. Both sides stressed the three support, they argued that ho­ St. Edward's said that people t~eutive vice president of the Voicing graduate students' objectives of the Gay and Les­ mosexuals could find the sup­ need an outlflt in people with Graduate Student Union (GSU) nfleds is a primary concern. bian Club as published in the port they may need in estab­ whom they can identify. They for the 1991-1992 year Tuesday Chris MHyer expressed his club's literature: Support, Fel­ lished University programs, also cited a study that con- in the first campus-wide elec­ good wishfls for his opponents lowship and Communication. such as the Center for Social tions of this kind ever held. and recognized them as St. Edward's attacked the Concerns and Campus Ministry. see ICEBERGS I page 4 Of the 11 R ballots cast, the "experienced, capable candi­ Mills/Slawner ticket captured dates." 72 votes while the opposing According to current GSU ticket, Michael Brooks and President Arsene Balihuta, the Chris Meyer received 46 votes. turnout was encouraging con­ After hearing of the results sidering this was the first elec­ Slawner responded, "We are tion conducted among all grad­ both really glad we won and uatfl students. are very excited about what we Balihuta explained that in the havll planned for nllxt year." past, executive officers were ei­ She expressed a hope that ther chosen by the Graduate Brooks and Meyer would con­ Student Union Council (GSUC) tinue to work with the GSU by or volunteered their services on offering somll of the innovative their own. He hopes that such idllas that they presented dur­ democratic selection of GSU ing the campaign. leadership becomes a tradition. Slawner said that the team He realizes that while 118 plans to follow through with the votfls from about 1,400 students items mentioned in their may seem like "a low turnout statement of intent which was on general election terms, as a published earlier in The Ob­ start it is a success." He Sflrver. In this way they want to attributes this victory to intense incrHase the level in which publicity and an active current graduat11 students are involved GSUC. in the GSU. Mills and Slawner will offi­ The Observer/Nicole McGrath During their term they will cially begin their term of office Lunchtime in Lafortune focus on issues such as on March 20 at the final GSUC meeting of the year. Customers fill The Huddle in LaFortune at lunchtime in the last week before Spring Break commences. -----~-- ----- ------- -------------- ~--- page 2 The Observer Wednesday, March 6, 1991 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST: Cloudy, windy and colder today with a Boats, saints 50 percent chance of light rain show­ ers until noon. Highs in the lower are mysteries 40s early, falling through the 30s in to be pondered the afternoon. TEMPERATURES: City H L Athens 48 43 Atlanta 66 32 Maybe there are some Berlin 45 32 things in life that are just Boston 47 37 not meant to be Chicago 52 25 Dallas-Ft. Worth 96 48 understood by the human Denver 54 33 mind. Or, maybe it's just ------­ Detroit 50 23 Honolulu 79 67 that the pressure of Houston 84 52 midterm week tends to Amy Eckert Indianapolis 61 27 London 54 48 produce bizarre thoughts Los Angeles 62 54 in the minds of college Ad Design Mgr. Madrid 59 41 students. Lately, I've M1ami Beach 7 4 56 Moscow 39 16 found myself thinking more than usual about New Orleans 73 4 7 the great mysteries of life. New York 52 38 Paris 57 52 For one, how do they get those immense Philadelphia 57 35 boats, vans and pieces of farm equipment into Portland, Ore. 48 34 Rome 64 41 the middle of University Park Mall? This is a St. Louis 59 38 question that has puzzled me since my youth. San Franc1sco 58 48 There seems to be no conceivable way to South Bend 54 25 Tokyo 61 46 get them into the mall. Is it possible that the Washington. D.C. 61 39 UP Mall boat shows can actually defy the laws of physics as we understand them? My most recent theory is that they are taken there, every part is brought into the mall individually and then they are reassembled TODAY AT A GLANCE inside. The obvious drawback to this is that by the WORLD Loot found buried in Brazilian beach time they were taken apart and put back •RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Police unearthed nearly together, the show would be over. $6 million in cash stuffed in suitcases and buried on a A less mundane possibility is that these :J8~t~n ~g~~raR~-:"!~u'r~"us !ltne18 northeastern beach, and identified it as loot from Brazil's events take place outside of time and space.