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VOL. XXIII NO. 30 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6,1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Bakker is convicted Faces 120 yrs. and $5 mil. fine Associated Press called “lifetime partnerships,” at his Heritage USA religious CHARLOTTE, N.C.— PTL retreat. evangelist Jim Bakker was con “The message is you can’t lie victed Thursday of using his to the people and use television television show to defraud fol and the mails to get them to lowers of $3.7 million, money send you money,” said prosecu the jury foreman said corrupted tor Deborah Smith. “It doesn’t a minister who started out to matter who you are or how well do good. known you are, you simply “He was called by God. But can’t do it.” eventually the money became Defense lawyer George C. too much for him,” said fore Davis said the verdict would be man Ricky Hill, who said during apoealed. jury selection that he was a Prosecutors said Bakker di Christian. “We kept looking for verted $3.7 million in ministry something from the defense funds for personal use while and we never saw it.” knowing PTL was in financial Bakker faces a maximum trouble. He used money from sentence of 120 years in prison PTL for vacation homes in Cali and $5 million in fines. The U.S. fornia and Florida, a lakefront District Court jury convicted parsonage, a houseboat, Rolls- Taking her chances The Observer/E.G. Bailey him of all 24 counts in the in Royce and Mercedes cars and dictment, which charged he Cornell Wrisby is surrounded by sprinklers as she walks in front of Fieldhouse Mall. oversold lodging guarantees, see BAKKER / page 4 East Germans scramble to ride freedom trains to West Associated Press prevent the throngs from boarding the trains had caused HOF, West Germany— Thou the delays. sands of East German refugees East Germans seeking to in Communist-owned trains board the trains jammed West that were locked up to bar ern embassies, swam rivers and compatriots from joining the lined railroad tracks in at least exodus arrived in Hof early four East bloc nations Wednes Thursday after a delay-plagued day. journey through Czechoslovakia On Tuesday, East Germany’s and their homeland. hard-line leaders had for the Thousands of East Germans second time in less than a week chanting “We want out!” had agreed to allow safe passage to flocked to train stations and the West for thousands of lined tracks in their homeland would-be emigres who had in hopes of joining their compa massed at the West German triots aboard what could be the Embassy in Prague. last freedom trains to the West. The first of eight trains that West German journalists said had left Prague late Wednesday they heard unconfirmed reports arrived in this border town at of serious injuries when East 5:50 a.m. It was believed to be German authorities stopped carrying at least 1,000 people. some East Germans from get East Berlin on Tuesday said it ting aboard the trains. would allow one more exodus Western diplomats in Prague, of disillusioned citizens, then the Czechoslovakian capital, suspended visa-free travel to AP Photo had speculated that attempts East German refugees crowd to get warm soup after arriving in Hof, West Germany via a special train from by East German authorities to see REFUGEE / page 4 Prague. Seniors hosts fathers at SMC Priest calls for academic freedom at Catholic schools By CHRISTINE GILL Saint Mary’s Editor Schedule of Events By PAUL PEARSON a lawsuit against Catholic Uni Friday News Staff versity when a District of 7 p.m. Cocktail hour, Union Station. Columbia Superior Court ruled The seventh annual Senior 8 p.m. Dinner. Catholic higher education will that the terms for his tenure- Father/Daughter Weekend is 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Dance. benefit from greater academic ship had not been violated. scheduled to take place this freedom, Father Charles Curran In his lecture, sponsored by weekend at Saint M ary’s Col- Saturday said at a lecture Thursday. the Department of Theology, lege. 8:30 a.m. Golf Tournament, Burke Golf Course Notre Dame. Curran said “We have nothing Curran defended academic The event, titled “Father 8:45 a.m. 5K Run & Nature Walk, Angela Athletic Facility. to fear from discussion and freedom by saying that all Knows Best,” brings to 9 a.m. Tennis Tournament, Angela Athletic Facility. reason” in his lecture titled Catholics must, bear witness to gether seniors and their fa 11:15 a.m. Speaker, University President Father Edward Malloy, “Academic Freedom in Catholic the fact that, “Faith and reason thers for various activities. Little Theatre Moreau Hall. Higher Education.” cannot contradict one another.” Tonight's festivities kick off 1-6 p.m. Alumni/Senior Club, Notre Dame. Faculty invited. He also explained that aca He said, “A free Catholic the weekend with a dinner 9 p.m.-midnight. Casino night. demic freedom for Catholic academy will help the credibility dance at Union Station, a higher education will be of the Church’s teaching office.” new addition to the program Sunday “ultimately good for the “People will be able to respect this year. 9-10:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Clubhouse. Church.” it (the Church) because it is Over 600 fathers and 10:30 a.m. Celebration of the Liturgy, Church of Loretto. Curran is currently a visiting willing to listen to others,” said daughters will be participat Firestone Professor at the Uni Curran. ing in the weekend event, Kari Milford, Senior Fa these are in our lives,” Mil versity of Southern California’s Curran said he wondered why which includes athletic con ther/Daughter Weekend ford said. School of Religion. the Church would, “...invest tests, a talk by Notre Dame committee chairperson, is She said she is extremely In 1986, he was stripped of their resources in Catholic uni President Father Edward looking forward to a pleased with the turnout and his professorship at Catholic versities if they are not good Malloy, and a mass closing successful and special the “time sacrifice for fa University by Vatican officials for the Church.” the weekend on Sunday weekend. “I’d like to stress thers and the daughters who for his liberal teachings on hu In regards to an upcoming morning. how important events like have worked so hard.” . man sexuality. Earlier this year, Curran lost see CURRAN / page 4 page 2 The Observer Friday, October 6, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Attack of the killer plague The Dalai Lama says everyone has what it takes to win a Nobel Peace Prize. “In my case, I make more effort or more at tempt to develop these good qualities, so I got this prize. But ev eryone has the capability,” said the exiled spiritual and political at Notre Dame leader of Tibet Thursday while in Newport Beach, Calif, for a con ference. The Dalai Lama was awarded the prize in i989. I ’ve got THE PLAGUE. At least, that’s what I told the doctor at the I often wonder what infirmary. Much to her amusement, I might add. professors must Personally, I thought it was a remarkably ac Twenty relatives of “disappeared” people and political curate self-diagnosis, since Kleenex has been think with all of these prisoners stormed the Costa Rican Embassy in San Salvador and making a killing on this campus in the past few plague cases sitting seized 19 hostages Thursday to protest against Salvadoran Presi weeks. in their classrooms.’ dent Alfredo Cristiani’s rightist government. I knew I was in trouble when my voice was not at its usual level during the Purdue game. All of a sudden the irritating tickle at the back of my Alison Cocks NATIONAL BRIEFS throat and the slight nasal congestion that I’d Production Manager been choosing to ignore combined to impair my Pregnant girls no longer need parental consent before having usual spirit. I was left to stare in mute admira Before I knew it I was in the presence of one an abortion in Florida, thanks to the state Supreme Court. The tion at Purdue’s Internationally Famous Golden of the quacks employed by the infirmary listen court struck down the law on Thursday in Tallahassee, just five Girl in all her sequined Spandex glory. ing to her chuckle over my self-diagnosis as she days before lawmakers were to consider restricting access to Sure enough, in the car on the way home the asked me if I had experienced any other strange abortions. The split decision said Florida's constitutional guaran serious hacking started. My traveling compan ailments. tee of privacy outweighed the 1988 statute requiring consent of a ions complained that the drive home seemed Well, doctor, to tell you the truth, we were parent, guardian or judge for a minor’s abortion. three times longer than the one going there, and thinking of starting a leper colony when THE I was forced to admit to myself that it wasn’t PLAGUE blows over. Armed with a shotgun and a handgun a 15-year-old boy entirely due to the traffic, but was partially This doctor knew what she was doing, though. took a high school drama class hostage Thursday in Anaheim, thanks to me, sitting crammed in the corner of She realized that there is nothing anyone can do Calif, and shot one student in the face before being talked into the car, docilely coughing up my lungs and to relieve the symptoms of THE PLAGUE, that surrendering, police said.