Saddam Expects Attack from U.S. in Near Future (AP) - Saddam Hussein Said Before Embarking on Hostilities
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---------------- ~------- ---------- ~~ I VOL. XXIII NO. 42 WEDNESDAY I OCTOBER 31,1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Saddam expects attack from U.S. in near future (AP) - Saddam Hussein said before embarking on hostilities. there is no timetable for ac Tuesday that Iraq was making He refused to comment publicly tion." final preparations for war and on a report the United States Fitzwater sought to dampen expected an attack within days plans to discuss a timetable fears that fighting was immi by the United States and its al with U.S. allies for a military nent. "The attitude at the lies. A U.S. senator said offensive. meeting was play it down - be President Bush's "patience is Secretary of State James calm." he said. wearing thin." Baker on Saturday will begin a The United States has more In the Persian Gulf, 10 weeklong visit to Arab and than 200,000 troops in the gulf American sailors died when a European countries to consult region and has announced steam pipe ruptured in the on future steps in the gulf, offi plans to send at least 100,000 boiler room of the USS Iwo cials said. The visit will include more. It is the largest U.S. mili Jima. And in Saudi Arabia, a a meeting with Soviet Foreign tary deployment since the Marine was killed in an acci Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Vietnam War. dent while driving in the desert. Asked about the potential for Saddam summoned his mili · Bush discussed possible mili a U.S. military strike, White tary commanders to a meeting tary action against Iraq in a House spokesman Marlin in Baghdad to complete meeting with congressional Fitzwater said: "As these things "preparations for urban war leaders on the gulf crisis. but he unfold. of course, there are fare and necessary measures to told them he could not guar always scenarios for action that antee he would consult them have to be considered ... but see GULF I page 6 McCormick: Church should offer support to individuals deciding to be homosexual By KATE MANUEL supreme" and He gives us the sexuality often lead to stereo News Writer capacity to love after his exam typing because there is a reduc ple. tion of the whole person to the While the moral statement of "private parts," according to the Church maintains that ho •Christ's followers are a con McCormick. mosexuality is non-normative, tinuation of his presence and "When we say that gay is the pastoral policy of the must change the social struc good, we are implying that it is Church should be one that both tures to expand the capacity for good precisely because it is respects an individual's judg individuals to love. gay," said McCormick, who also ment before God to be homo •The power of sin often re applied the same objection to sexual and supports an individ veals itself in sex. saying that heterosexuality is ual who has made that judg •It has been, and remains, good precisely because it is ment. according to Richard the Church's conviction that the heterosexuality. McCormick, S.J. sexual expression of love offers Other problematic ambigui Tough to focus AP PI10ID McCormick, the John A. the best opportunity for growth ties in the term homosexuality, O'Brien Professor of Christian in male/female relationships. according to McCormick, in Navy Commander Dennis Rowley of Chesapeake, Va., finds pho Ethics, began Tuesday's lecture. •However, if an individual is clude the homosexual individ tography to be a tough trade, especially when making the attempt "Perspectives on Homosexuality irreversably homosexual and is ual's "ranking" on the Kinsey while wearing a gas mask. and the Church," by saying, not called to "celibacy for the scale, whether the individual is "We're really grasping for a kingdom," sexual expression engaged in overt acts or has pastoral position in answer to can take another, homosexual psychic inclinations, whether this question - how should the form. The decision to be homo the person accepts the homo ND will host 3-day church respond to the sexual is one made by an indi sexual condition or is trying to homosexual individual and the vidual before God; the church change or control it, and homosexual community." should respect and support the whether the individual is en Cuba symposium McCormick's own recommen judgment, rather than condemn gaged in casual contacts or has dation for pastoral policy in it. enduring relationships. cludes the following six state The very term The term "morality" presents By PATRICK HEALY coming "diametrically op ments from his book "The Crit "homosexuality" poses the ·first a second obstacle to presenting News Writer posed" to it in economic theory. ical Calling: Reflections on obstacle to developing such a a pastoral position, according Citizens in Cuba are aware of Moral Dilemmas Since Vatican pastoral position, according to to McCormick. In light of the recent potential CAUSA. and the symposium will II": McCormick. He said, "There is McCormick distinguished two for political, economic, and le be broadcast live over Radio •The power of sin in the no such thing as homosexuality. different aspects of morality - gal reform in Cuba, the Cuban Marti, he said. world affects the behavior of There are only homosexual American Union of Student The symposium will begin individuals. individuals, more or less." Advocates (CAUSA) has orga with a reception Thursday •Christ is the "liberator Abstractions such as homo- see CHURCH/ page 6 nized a symposium to be held at evening at the Morris Inn. The the Notre Dame Law School addresses, which begin on Nov. t-:{ to discuss that coun Friday, will be highlighted by try's present and future status. Suarez and Luis Aguilar, a pro The symposium, fessor of government at "Constitutionalism in Cuba: Its Georgetown, who will discuss Prncedent, llistory, and his book, "Reflections on the Hecommendations for the Future of Cuba." Future." will feature addresses by many prominent figures in Saturday's addresses will in the Cuban-American commu clude "The Restoration of nity, including Xavier Suarez, Justice in Cuba" by Luis mayor of Miami, and Rolando Figueroa, a former professor of Bonachea, the director of Radio Homan law at the Havana Law Marti. School. The symposium will lleribnrto Lopez Alberola, the conclude with a celebration presid1mt of CAUSA, said that liturgy by Bishop Augustine the symposium is an attempt to Roman from the Archdiocese of start anticipating the challenges Miami. Cuba will face as it emerges Roman is famous for negoti from its present political ating the release of hostages syst11m. during the Atlanta prison riots Lop11z Alberola said he be in 1987, and according to Lopez ~ lieves ehanges are inevitable in Alberola, is considered "the J Cuba because of the dire condi religious leader of Cuban AP P1101D tion of the economy and the people in exile." Happy to be home strong likelihood that the Soviet All lectures will be held in the An unidentified French citizen flashes the "V" sign upon his arrival at Roissy Airport in France Tuesday. Union will discontinue all courtroom on the second floor He was among hundreds of hostages released after three months under Saddam Hussein's control. subsidies to a nation that is be- of the Notre Dame Law School. page 2 The Observer Wednesday, October 31, 1990 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Forecast for noon, Wednesday, Oct. 31. Make the most Lines show high temperatures. of your time at Notre Dame Yesterday's High: 72 Sitting on a flimsy Yesterday's low: 47 folding chair on the Nation's High: 97 lawn of an alumnus (Borrego Springs, Calif.) of Notre Dame, I Nation's low: 1 7 looked around at all (Big Piney, Wyo.) the contrived faces of soon-to-be Notre Forecast: Dame students, as Mostly sunny and very they looked around in Scott Brutocao mild today with a high of apparent wonder 70 to 75. Clear and mild about why they came Asst. Sports Editor tonight with a low of 40 to to a cookout for high 45. Sunny and mild school students that had been accepted to Thursday with a high in our university. the mid 70's. It was four years ago, and I was among the wonderers. My fellow high school se niors made artificial conversation, said how excited they were to be there, and how the Pr9SSure food was so pleasant. ®© I got out of my flimsy chair and walked HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY over to where a couple of Notre Dame se niors were standing idly with their hands in their pockets. "Excuse me, but how much sleep do you get at Notre Dame?" I asked, thinking it OF INTEREST would be a scandalously insufficient The Graduate Student Union in cooperation Junior/Senior Pre-Law and Pre-Med Students are amount. "Five or six hours?" with the Student Union Board will host a Halloween Party invited to visit the law and medical schools at the Univ. of "Oh, usually seven," said one senior. for the children of Notre Dame faculty, staff and gradu- Michigan on Nov. 2. The number of spots is limited so Great, I thought. That was worrying me. ate students today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at sign-ups will be on a first come, first serve basis. "How about workload?" I asked, not Theodore's, second floor of LaFortune Student Center. Registration will be at 201 Main Building today. The trip bothering to consider that it might differ Refreshments, activities and Halloween Surprises will be is sponsored by SARG at no cost to those attending.