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Friday, September 16, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 15 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Clinton to Haiti's leaders: 'Your time is up' By TERENCE HUNT Associated Press Aristide WASHINGTON In a terse ultimatum from the Oval Office, President Clinton awaits told Haiti's military leaders Thursday night, "Your time is • • up. Leave now or we will force Invasion you from power." Against a chorus of opposi By PIERRE-YVES GLASS tion, Clinton used a prime time Associated Press address to build his case for an American invasion of Haiti to A virulent anti-American expel a military regime that - "'~ during his days as a leftist stole power and stands accused 1' Blue Ridge Class: ·. parish priest, exiled Haitian of 3,000 political murders. Amphibious Co.mmand Ship President Jean-Bertrand Aristide now must rely on the "We must act," Clinton said •g* I I*!!' II United States to get him back from the Oval Office. USS Mt. Whitney (LCC 20) home. But he said that the United States' mission in Haiti would For most of his three years be "limited and specific" to in exile, he strenuously object "remove the dictators from ed to the idea of being restored power and restore Haiti's legit to power by an American inva imate democratically elected sion force. government." He said U. S. No doubt he will return with forces would help train a civil mixed feelings about being ian police force, but he would borne home by Washington's not get involved in rebuilding troops. Haiti. Some Americans also have Clinton said the "vast majority mixed feelings about Aristide, of our troops will come home in based on the darker moments months, not years." Upwards of in his remarkable, turbulent 20,000 U.S. forces were mobi rise to power. lized for the invasion. Aristide, 41, was born into a The president sought to ex farming family in Port Salut, plain why American lives on the southwestern coast. should be risked to restore de He moved with his mother to posed President Jean-Bertrand Port-au-Prince as a child when Aristide after three years in ex his father died. ile. He noted that than 20 na He became a prize pupil in a tions have pledged to contribute Catholic school run by Salesian to a police force. monks, where he developed a Americans overwhelmingly deep feeling for Haiti's poor oppose and invasion, according and repressed. to polls, and there is wide As a Salesian brother in the spread opposition in Congress late 1980s, he lived among among Republicans and Port-au-Prince slum dwellers, Democrats alike. The White who became his army of House acknowledged Clinton ardent followers. They viewed couldn't turn around public AP/Wm. J. Castello him as a prophet; he survived opinion with one speech. those actions that I believe will In a CBS interview, Cedras said, tactical decision, whether they several assassination attempts. "I assure you that no presi best protect our national secu "I will fight with my people and think it has any chance," a contributing to his aura. dent makes decisions like this rity interests." I am prepared to die." source said, insisting on He was among the bold few one without deep thought and Administration sources said anonymity. in Haiti who denounced the prayer," the president said. Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, leader one final option is to dispatch In Washington and in the Duvalier family dictatorship "But it is my job as president of the military Junta, cautioned an emissary to try to persuade and the generals who replaced the United States not to invade. Cedras to leave. "It's strictly a and commander in chief to take see HAITI I page 4 it in 1986. NO grad takes reigns in Panama (PRO) candidate, took office General Omar Torrijos Herrera. Inherits slew of September 1 after defeating Noriega took over Panama after three other presidential candi Torrijos was killed in a plane domestic problems dates in the May election. crash. By KATIE MURPHY These elections marked the "The PRO image became very Associate News Editor first free, democratic voting in bad because of the association Panama since the American in with Noriega," said Father For years, as a member of the vasion in 1989. That military Ernest Bartell, executive direc self-proclaimed "Notre Dame operation resulted in the arrest tor of the Kellogg Institute for Gang," Double Domer Ernesto of then-dictator General International Studies and one of Perez Balladares, NO '67 and Manuel Antonio Noriega and Balladares' former economics '69, has participated in annual the designation of Guillermo professors. reunions with his closest Endara as the n~w president of Noriega was convicted in the friends from Notre Dame. Two Panama. Endara's term expired United States of eight counts of weeks ago, the college friends this year. drug trafficking, money laun gathered once again, this time One of Perez Balladares' most dering, and racketeering. He is in Perez Balladares' home formidable obstacles during his currently serving a 40-year country of Panama. campaign was his party affilia sentence. What some people ceived the most votes with over Housing and Urban But the 1994 reunion was dif tion. Noriega was also a PRO forget, however, is that Perez 30 percent of the electorate. In Development Secretary Henry ferent from any of the others. president, and his corrupt and Balladares did not follow his inaugural speech, the new Cisneros attended the inaugu In addition to reminiscing and oppressive leadership methods Noriega blindly, said Bartell. president reaffirmed the major ration. Cisneros is a former catching up with each other, have not fallen far from the "Perez Balladares had a points of his campaign. University trustee. the members of the Notre Dame minds of the Panamanian peo falling-out with Noriega at one "He gave a wonderful speech," The issues of poverty, eco Gang witnessed the in ple. But during the election time and packed up his family said Bartell. "It was more of a nomic development, educa auguration of Perez Balladares, Perez Balladares consistently and went to Spain for a year," state of the union address than tional reform, and the necessity one of their own, as the new downplayed his relationship Bartell said. a victory speech." of eliminating corrupt and ille President of Panama. with Noriega and drew himself Despite widespread suspicion United States Secretary of the gal practices from the govern Perez Balladares, a closer in the eyes of the public of his association with the PRO Interior Bruce Babbitt, a 1960 ment highlighted President Democratic Revolutionary Party to the founder of the PRO, party, Perez Balladares re- Notre Dame alumnus, and see PANAMA I page 4 page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Friday, September 16, 1994 • IMSHlE COLUMN • Wmn.D AT A GLANCE Empty wallet, Discovery captures satellite, radar works after all CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. such a rendezvous without radar Space shuttle Discovery's astro An astronaut's .. life preserver" in the 13-year history of the shut nauts sidled up to a satellite An astronaut who accidentally drifts out of reach of handholds or tethers has quite a greedy soul ... problem. In empty space there's nothing to push against; a stranded or injured tle program. Discovery had loaded with valuable data and astronaut would not be able to return to safety alone. trailed Spartan by as much as 65 Space shunle Discovery astronauts are testing a new jet pack called SAFER. The plucked it from orbit Thursday, backpack-mounted daVJCe has 24 n~rogen gas thrusters that can fire to stop an miles in orbit. During its flight, two days after it was set free to astronaut tumbling out of control. Spartan aimed its two telescopes C'est Ia vie study the sun. Commander at the sun's corona. or outer Richard Richards steered atmosphere, to gather informa "The absence of Discovery to within 35 feet of the tion about solar wind. The mea money is the root of all sun-gazing satellite, Spartan. surements coincided with obser evil," a very wise person Then astronaut Susan Helms vations by Ulysses, the first once said. snatched the gleaming. 2,800- spacecraft to be put into orbit Perhaps that person pound spacecraft with the shut around the sun's poles. It was was familiar with the tle's mechanical arm. "We've got launched from Discovery four lifestyle of a typical col a Spartan," Richards told Mission years ago and reached the south lege student. For most ControL About 1 1/2 hours later, pole this week. Researchers want of us. the dollar becomes Helms tucked the boxy satellite to better understand solar wind, into Discovery's cargo bay for the in part because of its Earthly con more precious as early PATil CARSON as mid-September. trip home. It took a little longer sequences: The charged particles Saint Mary's Accent than expected to lock Spartan in streaming from the sun at 1.5 Editor Indeed, some of our place. The shuttle's radar- used million mph can disrupt radio desperate peers have to chase the satellite down - had communications and electrical already arrived at the point of digging deep failed when Spartan was put into power. The $14 million Spartan is into their pockets only to fmd useless balls of orbit on Tuesday and initially due to return to Earth with lint. As the year progresses. I have finally gave less-than-accurate mea Discovery on Monday. NASA come to realize what dad meant when he surements Thursday. But it plans to fly the satellite again in a said, "Patti, when will you ever learn the ended up working "marvelous year when Ulysses crosses the value of a dollar?" Well, this is for you dad.