North Trial Postponed Until Friday by Rehnquist Hungary Opts For

Slush abounds ACCENT: Streisand album review Snow, sleet and freezing rain Monday, changing to rain by afternoon. High in the 30s. Rain will change to light snow, VIEWPOINT: Anything for the team ending around midnight. the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Protesters Hungary opts for storm U.S. multiparty system building in Associated Press on Hungarian radio late Satur day and due for full broadcast BUDAPEST, Hungary- Hun Sunday evening. Pakistan gary’s ruling Communist The system is expected to be Associated Press Party has moved toward legal under a new constitution ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - sharing power with other poli to be written next year. Police fired on hundreds of tical groups by becoming the Grosz said he expected the protesters who stormed a U.S. first Eastern European constitution to require new par government office Sunday, to country to endorse a multi ties to operate “on a socialist demand the United States ban party system. basis.” a novel they consider offensive Party leader Karoly Grosz “If they do not accept the to Moslems. announced after a two-day constitution, then they cannot At least five people died and meeting of the Central Com operate legally,” he said. He 65 were injured, doctors said. mittee that the policy-making did not elaborate. Police repeatedly fired semi body had decided a multiparty No date has been announced automatic weapons, rifles and system was the only way tofor multiparty local or national shotguns at charging guarantee political pluralism parliamentary elections, but protesters who yelled in Hungary. both are due by the end of 1990. “American dogs!” and hurled He also indicated the party Grosz’s remarks indicated rocks and bricks during three had revised its view of the 1956 that dozens of political move hours of fierce clashes. anti-Soviet revolt to acknowlments, many of which have The rioting erupted when edge the uprising started with begun in recent months, will be more than 2,000 fundamen good intentions but went sour. allowed to participate. talists tried to march to the A multiparty system would Unlike alternative parties in U.S. information Center to Two-step The Observer/Donald Pan “certainly provide an opportuEast Germany, Czechos demand the United States ban nity for alliances” and partici lovakia and Poland, Hungary’s “Satanic Verses,” a novel by Saint Mary’s junior Kathy Panos (left) dances with a client at the Logan pation by groups the Commu groups are independent of the Salman Rushdie. Center Valentine’s Day Dance Friday. Volunteers from Notre Dame and nists would not be able to Communists. Saint Mary's interact with mentally handicapped people from the South mobilize on their own, Grosz see HUNGARY page 6 see RIOT page 7 Bend area. said in an interview excerpted North trial postponed until Friday by Rehnquist Associated Press North’s trial from Monday’s classified material. district court enter an addi A jury in the case was selec scheduled start until Friday, If the proposal is approved tional protective order pre ted Thursday and returns to WASHINGTON- The chief when the full Supreme Court is by the judge handling the case, venting the release of classified court Monday morning. justice on Sunday ordered a scheduled to consider the de U.S. District Judge Gerhard information vital to U.S. na delay in the start of Oliver partment’s objections to the Gesell, the Justice Department tional security interests,” the Walsh, whose office is North’s Iran-Contra trial, but planned release of classified will ask the Supreme Court to Justice Department said in a prosecuting North, had op the independent prosecutor material by North’s defense. lift the stay so that the North statement. posed the Justice Department’s and Justice Department later Hours later, Attorney Gen trial may proceed, according to Rehnquist on Sunday or efforts to delay the trial and agreed on a plan aimed at let eral Dick Thornburgh and in statements issued by the de dered “that the trial proceed wanted to proceed immedi ting the trial go ahead. dependent counsel Lawrence partment and Walsh. ings in United States versus ately with opening arguments, Chief Justice William Walsh agreed to a proposal that Walsh and the department Oliver North. be stayed” saying that national security Rehnquist granted a Justice would impose more stringent filed a sealed motion with pending consideration by the concerns had been amply ad Department request to delay safeguards on North’s use of Gesell ‘ ‘which requests that the full Supreme Court on Friday. dressed. Meeting for candidates for student government set By BRIDGET ident, and a forty-five dollar GOEYVAERTS spending limit for the senate. News Staff •There is no limit as to the number of posters, but the size Campaigning will begin at is limited to ll inches by 17 12:01 a.m., Feb. 20, for those inches. students running for positions •Posters will be restricted as student body class officers from certain areas such as and off-campus commissioner. trees and classrooms, and the All students interested in tearing down of other candi running for office must attend dates’ posters' is strictly a mandatory meeting sched prohibited. uled for Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the LaFortune Student Center. Any rule violations will be Any full-time Notre Dame dealt with by a three-member undergraduate in good aca panel within the student gov demic standing (with a GPA of ernment. 2.0 or better) may run in the “The turn out at the first elections. election information meeting The election date is set for was by far less than last Feb. 27. Students must present years,” said head Ombudsman ID’s, and may vote in their ownJohn Wilson, who is in charge residence halls. Students of the elections. studying abroad may also vote. The rules for campaining are “There are few interested in the same as last year: running for student body pres •There is a one-hundred and ident, but we expect more to Acoustic Kings twenty-five dollar spending come to the meeting on the Sean and the Sun Kings, a campus band, plays at• ularly features campus and local bands during the limit for the student body pres 14th.” the Alumni Senior Club, Friday night. The Club reg- weekend. page 2 The Observer Monday, February 13, 1989 INSIDE COLUMN IN BRIEF John Burke has been named Oustanding Alumnus of ‘Soul Food Cookin’ ’ the Year by the Notre Dame chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, a national association of accountants. In 1986 he was elected chairman of the executive committee of Grant reinforces stereotypes Thornton. As chairman of the firm’s board of directors, he is responsible for its national policies and procedures. Last Thursday the dining halls decided to Burke has been active in a number of professional and make a contribution to the Year of Cultural Tim civic groups, including the Economic Development Coun Diversity with “Soul Food Cookin’.” cil of Greater Kansas City, the Business Council of the While a videotape of Martin Luther King Jr. O’Keefe Nelson Gallery and the American Heart Association. He played in the corner of South Dining Hall, so- is a former president of the Missouri Society of CPAs and called authentic black dishes such as catfish, a past member of the council of AICPA. -The Observer ribs, and best of all, watermelon were served. Assistant News Editor The incredible crassness of this is amazing. The University of Notre Dame has received the At a time when Notre Dame is trying to make first installment of a $75,000 commitment from the USX the campus more diverse, it shows just how far Foundation, Inc. in support of its new Center for Sensor we still have to go. Materials. “We are grateful for this gift and gratified by One of President Malloy’s goals when he took the USX Foundation’s recognition of the importance of office was to increase minority enrollment. this unique center,” said University President Father Ed Even though the campus is still overwhelm ward Malloy. Notre Dame’s Center for Sensor Materials ingly white, he has made some progress in this involves University scientists from a variety of disciplines area. Just bringing more minorities into the in research which contributes to the newly emerging sen school is not enough, however, to solve the prob sor technologies. Its initial concentration is the develop lem and make the campus racially harmonious. ment of metal oxide semiconducting materials for poten For that to happen, there has to be interaction tial use as gas sensors. -The Observer between different groups of people, who learn from one another, and learn to respect one an Barry Lopez, 1966 Notre Dame graduate and author of other’s differences-and that isn’t happening. several books, essays, and articles on natural history, has Look around the dining hall right now, or look been appointed visiting W. Harold and Martha Welch Pro at the Huddle the next time you’re walking fessor of American Studies at the University of Notre through LaFortune Student Center. In general, Dame for the fall 1989 semester by Professor Timothy the white people sit together, the black people O’Meara, University provost. Lopez has published several sit together, and so forth. There are exceptions, aDle. Even I, one of those white middle-class essays and articles in a variety of journals including Notre of course, but it’s amazing how we segregate students from a Catholic background, get Dame Magazine, and six books, the most recent of which ourselves. surprised sometimes. is entitled Arctic Dreams.

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