Tank Sale Proposed ND Alumnus Killed to Arabs by Bush in Airplane Crash
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XXII, NO. 79 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1989 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Tank sale to Arabs Pay raise proposed by Bush rejected by Associated Press Senate in tanks and 100 Harpoon anti WASHINGTON- The Bush ship missiles. administration has opened If Bush follows through, the 95-5 vote arms-sale talks with Congress proposed Arab sales would Associated Press that potentially include ship seem sure to touch off a battle WASHINGTON- The Senate with congressional supporters ping 35 Abrams tanks, consid on Thursday night voted to of Israel, which is concerned ered the world’s best, to Saudi reject a proposed 51 percent that sophisticated weapons in Arabia and 40 sophisticated congressional pay raise, but Arab hands could be turned FA-18 jet fighters to the United Speaker Jim Wright said the Arab Emirates, congressional against Israel in a Mideast con House would let it take effect and other sources said flict. next week and then vote to The list is classified; a copy Thursday. reduce it to “ a decent raise” of Other Arab states would be was obtained by The Associ 30 percent. inline for U.S. armaments un ated Press. The Senate voted 95-5 to der the proposal, made in the Charles Redman, the State reject the raise for Congress next to the last day of the Department spokesman, and other top federal officials, Reagan administration and declined to identify the weap and to change the law to elim ons under consideration for now the focus of discussions be inate current procedures which tween the Bush White House sale. He stressed that the docu allow a pay increase to take ef ment did not amount to a “sale and Congress. fect without a vote. plan,” but rather to the admin The vote against the pay in istration’s “best estimate” of Also proposed: 200 Abrams crease was lopsided but largely other countries’ weapons tanks, seven multiple-launched symbolic, since both chambers needs. battlefield rocket systems and must vote to block it. House 1,500 Tow anti-tank missiles for “Each item has to be procedures make it easier to Kuwait; 40 Maverick air-to- reviewed by this administra protect a pay raise in that ground missiles with an infra tion,” Redman said. chamber, and Wright, D- red guidance system and Congress has the power to Texas, continued as the main electronic warfare gear for block a purchase, but only if a target of opponents as he majority of both the Senate and Bahrain; 24 F-16 jet fighters, maneuvered to protect most of 100 Mavericks and 100 the House reject a formal The Observer / Donald Pan the raise. White House notification of in Three amigos Sidewinder air-to-air missiles But Wright said Thursday a for Morocco, and seven of the tended sale. Sorin Hall residents (left to right) Dan Barrett, Pat Souter and Chris battlefield rocket systems for Balcezak venture across Main Quad in the cold afternoon air Thursday. see RAISE, page 7 Saudi Arabia. see ARMS, page 4 A light snow that dusted campus signified the end of the recent warm Greece would get 60 M48 winter weather. Government ND alumnus killed urged to take in airplane crash control of Observer Staff Report Nellis graduated from Notre insolvent S&Ls A Notre Dame alumnus was Dame and received his com one of the 19 people killed in mission through the Air Force Associated Press the recent crash of an Air ROTC unit in 1983. He was as signed as an Air Force WASHINGTON- The General Force transport plane on Tues day. navigator to K.I. Sawyer Air Accounting Office Thursday Captain Joseph Nellis was a Force Base in Michigan. urged the U.S. government, crew m em ber of the KC 135 He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. after agreement is reached Normal Nellis of Granger, IN. later this year on an savings which crashed just south of Dyess Air Force Base in Texas. and loan bailout and reform He died Tuesday of injuries see NELLIS, page 7 package, to promptly take con received in the crash. trol of the 350 remaining insol vent, but still open, institutions. Meanwhile, President Bush Donnelly elected as new held a private, hour-long meeting to discuss the S&L problem. The meeting was at Observer Editor-In-Chief tended by Chief of Staff John By MARK Sununu, Treasury Secretary MCLAUGHLIN Nicholas Brady, Budget Direc Senior Staff Reporter tor Richard Darman and rep By a majority vote of the resentatives of five bank and general board, The Obser S&L groups, said Frederick ver named Chris Donnelly Webber, president of the U.S. as editor-in-chief-for 1989-90. League of Savings Institutions, “The Observer has come who attended the meeting. a long way since my fresh man year,” said Donnelly, Chris Donnelly Bush, at the White House a junior philosophy major has held the posts of assis meeting, did not reveal any from South Bend, Indiana. tant production manager preference among the many “I have every expectation and assistant Viewpoint options for addressing the S&L that The Observer will con editor. Donnelly has served crisis, according to partici tinue to serve the campus as managing editor for the pants. community and keep im past year. Bush “was there to learn Danny boy and girl APPh0,° proving.” Donnelly will assume his from us and he’s a good lis- Vice President Dan Quayle gives young Cecile Durand a lift Wednesday at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela. Quayle, on his first inter Donnelly started working duties as editor-in-chief SEE S&L, page 4 national trip as vice president, attended the inauguration of Venezuela’s for The Observer his fresh after spring break, succeed President-elect Carlos Andres Perez. man year as layout staff. He ing senior Chris Murphy. page 2 The Observer Friday, February 3, 1989 OF INTEREST INSIDE COLUMN Chicago Bulls ticketsare available at the LaFortune Notre Dame shows Information Desk for the Feb. 7 game against the Charlotte Hornets at 7:30 p.m. Tickets open to all interested parties. Discount with student ID.- The Observer its lack of diversity Applications for summer hall manager and/or Notre Dame has no class. Mark assistant manager are now available in the Office of Stu All right, some people here do. But certainly dent Residences, 311 Administration Building. They must the percentage is no higher than anywhere else McLaughlin be turned in by March 15.- The Observer in the world. I was rather disappointed with the response The governor’s officeof Indiana offers a one-year to the S I column printed here earlier this week. News Editor fellowship in state government to ten graduating students Letters to the editor are fine. Letters to the from Indiana. A current Governor’s Fellow (ND ’88) will author are fine. Calls to the author’s home con be at the Notre Dame Career and Placement conference sisting of obscene remarks that make the OooooOOH/ i o o k ., room to discuss details of the program on Feb. 7 from 12-5 Jimmy Johnson calls sound friendly are not fine. IT's A V ru u u u id p.m.- The Observer The author of the S-I column committed a Mortal Notre Dame Sin: not only having an opinion that is not of the majority, but going so far as to express it. However, unlike all those All Saint Mary’s studentsrunning for student body phone callers, the author had the guts to attach or class offices for the 1989-90 school year must attend one her name to what she wrote. I can respect the mandatory election meeting on either Mon. or Wed., 7 letter writers even if I disagree with them. p.m., 304 Haggar College Center. All members on your But anonymous phone callers are con ticket must attend - The Observer temptible. will be held tomorrow at The International Festival Notre Dame is fairly good at harassment. 7:30 p.m. at Washington Hall. Tickets will be honored until Witness the plight of homosexuals, who endure 7:25 p.m., after which admittance will be on a first-come, constant abuse and instant referral to ‘man first-serve basis.- The Observer datory counseling’ upon discovery. Witness the Druids, a group of students trying to stir up the has an opening for one Northern Ireland seminar campus for An Tostal, only to be pelted with female student participant. This one credit course involves garbage by residents of several dorms. Witness four meetings and an eight day trip to Northern Ireland an act of love between two people turn into over spring break. If you are interested call 239-7862 or instant expulsion. 239-6444.- The Observer Harassment goes hand-in-hand with image come here?” Well, if Notre Dame bothered to consciousness here. The administration has send freshmen a copy of Du Lac and the Honor their holy grails: no alcohol, no sex, no drugs,Code before they asked for the $200 deposit, I Women’s Care CenterPhone-A-Thon to be held next token gestures to liberal theology and probably would have known better. week seeks volunteers. All interested should contact Kevin minorities, nothing even vaguely controversial. Sure, this place is Catholic. So’s St. Joe High. Belton at the Women’s Care Center at 232-7781.- The Ob What other school claims the whole world as But this place calls itself a university.