1 a .. ;o •<.>r.o £' ' Z Ulc. € , r.. r~ I A.l VOL. XXIV NO. 2 THURSDAY I JANUARY 16, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Poll: Americans support strike if Iraq continues nuke build-up NEW YORK (AP) - Two­ thirds of Americans surveyed in • Gates on Iraq I page 6 an Associated Press poll said the United States should strike adults was taken Jan. 2-5 by Iraq militarily once again if it ICR Survey Research Group of continues to secretly develop Media, Pa. The margin of sam­ nuclear weapons. pling error was plus or minus 3 One year after Iraqi President percentage points. Saddam Hussein refused to give The poll found 65 percent ap­ in to international pressure to proval for President Bush's de­ withdraw forces from Kuwait, cision to go to war a year ago. he remains a formidable villain This approval rate was down in the eyes of most Americans, from 7 4 percent a week after the poll found. The uncovering the war began and 73 percent of his nuclear program after six months after bombing the war has left Americans began. suspicious and unsympathetic. However, the disapproval A 61 percent majority said rate, 25 percent, has not risen the United Nations should con­ significantly. Approval dropped tinue to punish Iraq by cutting because more people said they off trade until Iraq proves it has don't know their position or re­ halted nuclear weapons de­ fused to answer the question. velopment. Only 26 percent If high approval continues agreed with an alternative this election year, Bush could The Observer/Marguerite Schropp opinion that the trade embargo benefit politically, especially Welcome to Saint Mary's must stop because it makes in­ among men, who are a third nocent Iraqi civilians suffer. more likely than women to While on desk duty in Holy Cross Hall, Susan Cavanagh, a Saint Mary's junior, checks the i.d. of William The telephone poll of 1,004 back the decision to go to war. O'Rielly before admitting him into the dorm. Yugoslavia 'dies' after republics recognized BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Yugoslavia's dissolution. EC recognition, but have not yet that half of those who are - Yugoslavia, at least as it has • Recognition/ page 7 The government of Serbia, the received it. working receive a minimum been known to the world until largest republic, was silent. The Only Serbia and its small ally, wage. Macedonia, too, is poor. now, died Wednesday from • Bosnia I page 7 federal government it Montenegro, have refused to Serbia's deputy foreign minis­ wounds suffered in a bloody dominates protested that the EC apply for such recognition. ter, Dobrosav Veizovic, has said civil war. unanimous declaration was infringing on its rights. It But Serbs living in Croatia his republic does not intend to After the Soviet Union, it is Wednesday that Croatia and said it would continue its and other republics want to be fight over the issue of EC the. second Slav-dominated fed­ Slovenia were entitled to be re­ functions until a comprehensive included in the new Yugoslavia, recognition, but warned that it eration in a month to crumble garded as independent coun­ solution to the crisis is found. and last week those in Bosnia was "a serious blow to peace." at nearly an identical age - tries. However, the federal govern­ declared their own independent While Bosnia's mix of Slavic victim of a history of hard feel­ Despite varying degrees of ment is virtually powerless. republic. Muslims, Serbs and Croats has ings between its peoples and enthusiasm, from Britain's he­ After the EC decision, re­ What eventually will happen so far avoided open conflict, strivings for independence. sitancy to Germany's relish, the publics representing 7 million to Macedonia and Bosnia still there are disturbing signs it The name Yugoslavia will EC declaration amounted to a of Yugoslavia's 24 million peo­ must be thrashed out inside may be coming. About half its continue to be attached to the statement by Europe's most rich ple in the wealthiest parts of the Yugoslavia, and by the EC and population is armed. remnants of this country, but it and powerful that Yugoslavia no country were recognized as the United Nations. Doubts are even emerging will be a far different place. longer exists. new nations. Even if a new Yugoslavia about the intentions of Serbia's For months before the Such declarations are not Serbia, in an effort to inherit could incorporate all of Bosnia loyal ally, Montenegro. Its European Community's recog­ taken lightly. Once made, they the Yugoslav property and and Macedonia, it would be a premier is considering several nition of Croatia and Slovenia, it are not taken back. standing, has pushed the for­ far different place than the options for his republic, includ­ was obvious the Yugoslav "Yugoslavia is now in a state mation of what it calls a new previous federation. ing a plan to allow Montenegro federation, founded in 1918, of dissolution," said Belgian Yugoslavia - a smaller country Lost are Slovenia's export in­ to function as an independent would not hold. Thousands of foreign affairs spokesman excluding Croatia and Slovenia. dustries and Croatia's Adriatic country. people were killed in its death Johan Verbeke. It is unclear just what that coast that brought $2 billion a That would cast away the fi­ throes. Almost no one rose to dis­ would include. Two other re­ year in tourist trade. Bosnia has nal shadow of Yugoslavia, But the European Community agree - although the United publics, Macedonia and Bosnia­ 30 percent unemployment, and leaving Serbia alone, isolated delivered the fatal blow, with its States has yet to acknowledge Hercegovina, have applied for government figures indicate and landlocked. Holocaust memorial opens BERLIN (AP} - The villa where top Nazis plotted the • Demjanjuk I page 5 systematic extermination of 6 million Jews opens as a Some Germans, however, are Holocaust memorial this campaigning for a monument weekend, taking visitors down in the center of the German a trail of unspeakable suffering. capital, saying it would be more There already are memorials accessible than the villa on the to the Holocaust victims, far southern edge of Berlin. including the death camps The Wannsee memorial themselves. But Berliners call reminds visitors with affecting this the first "central memorial" photographs and text that that tries to give a complete Germans from all walks of life view of what happened at the aided Adolf Hitler's plans to hands of the Nazis. annihilate Jews. In giving the go-ahead for the "I say millions of culprits, memorial, to open Sunday at although that may be the Wannsee Villa conference somewhat exaggerated," said building, the city council said Kurt Schilde, 44, who works in on Oct. 17, 1990: "In Germany, the memorial's education there is still no central division. memorial in memory of the victims of the Holocaust." "But we want to make clear here that fascism could The council said the Wannsee function because, among others, the German police went The Observer/Sean Farnan Villa memorial, sponsored in Computers anyone? part by the Jewish community, along, the German army went will both recall the victims and along, the German railroad Salesman Jim Gardner describes to junior Chris Beaudet the various computer equipment available at the examine the culprits went along, the bureaucracy Notre Dame Computer Store. The store is located on the first floor of the Computer-Math building. responsible for the Holocaust. went along," he added. page2 Thursday, January 16, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST: Partly cloudy and very cold today with It's OK to act light snow toward evening. Snow showers likely like a kid now tonight. Lows in the middle teens and warming. and then TEMPERATURES: City H L Athens 54 37 Robert Lowell once A~anta 61 30 said, "If youth is a de­ Bertin 45 39 Boston 58 23 fect, it is one that we Calgary 30 12 outgrow too soon." Chicago 25 14 College plays a major Dallas-Ft. Worth 48 36 Denver 39 -05 role in this process, Honolulu 78 64 taking young minds and Houston 54 33 Rich Szabo fine-tuning them, ndianapolls 38 08 Sports Copy London 45 41 preparing them to find a Edjtor Los Angeles 70 44 comfortable niche in Miami Beach 79 56 New Orleans 49 38 society. Often, due to the many stresses New York 62 22 found in college, we forget that basically we Paris 41 36 are still young. We lose the youthful energy Philadelphia 66 25 Rome 54 30 that, if carefully harnessed, can push us to San Diego 63 46 San Francisco 64 46 even greater heights. Pressure It is alright for all adults to regress a little Saa111e 49 42 (t South Bend 30 14 every now and then and not take life so H L ~ ~ rn EZ3 ~ ~ ~ ~ Tokyo 54 54 seriously. It will cause too much stress. We HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Washlng1on. D.C. 65 24 can't have a generation of people with VIa Aaocllnd ::·.:. prematurely graying hair or nervous .. :· .. ·: conditions running things for the next thirty or forty years. Take, as an example, Peter Banning (Robin Williams) of the movie Hook. A small TODAY AT A GLANCE letdown as a film, it nonetheless makes an excellent campaign for being young at WORLD heart. Banning is a modern-day Lone Ranger, wielding a phone in a holster in Kenya permits first opposition rally Sharpton seeks U. S. Senate spot place of a six-shooter and hiding behind the •NAIROBI, Kenya - One month after legalizing multi­ •ALBANY, N.