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w WAC holds initial meeting; discusses new dormitory , ■ by Don Schmid Members of the Advisory Coun aware of the progress of co cil suggested that the center in education at Notre Dame. It has Notre Dame’s Women Advisory clude multipurpose rooms that been really valuable for me in Council (WAC) had its opening could be used for “oversized finding out where the students meeting of the year yesterday television, dances, parties, and a stand, but the Council has also morning with Assistant Provost Sr snack bar,” Jones stated. been a delight to work with these John Miriam Jones. Another problem discussed at five yfears,” Jones commented. The WAC was set up five years yesterday’s meeting was the lack of Some of the past projects of the women faculty at the University. ago to establish a liaison between WAC have included an Alumni the women of Notre Dame and Jones noted that in recent years the Weekend and a speaker series. Jones, coordinator of co-education number of women faculty has at the University. The council has doubled, but she added that pro For the Alumni Weekend, 14 members, consisting of two gress is slow because hiring is left women graduates of Notre Dame representatives from each dorm up to individual departments, andwere invited back to discuss with and two representatives for off- sometimes the number of qualified the undergraduate women such campus students. women is small. problems as the conflicting de The opening meeting served to Another issue raised at the mands of motherhood and career. acquaint the Council’s six new meeting was that of the Home The alumni were asked to give their coming King and Queen election. insights and feelings about how to a , - “ members with the functions and procedures of the WAC. This Jones emphasized that the majority prepare for the modem roles of year’s co-chairpersons of the Coun of the council members felt this women today, Jones stated. cil are Michelle Kelly, from Farley aspect of Homecoming was imma Jones added that the co and Mary McCarthy, from Walsh. ture and “ high-schoolish.” education of Notre Dame has gone One of the major topics of Jones stated that as the number slowly, but positively. of women has grown at Notre discussion at the meeting was the “The first years were really Dame, it has become increasingly new womens’ dorm and the expan hard, because the women were difficult for her to maintain perso sion of student social space. made objects of curiosity by the nal relationships with all the wo According to Jones, the new dorm, national news media, but now the men, and this made the Advisory which was approved by the Board problems of the women are very Council necessary. of Trustees last spring, would similar to the mens’,” Jones “The Council is an extension of include a new student center for explained. social activities,_________ ; _______ my eyes and ears, and it keeps me XThe Observerindependent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. many's Vol. XIII, No. 20 ,- Monday, September 25, 1978 Looking as if it is about to go through the uprights, the hot-air balloon that floated lazily over the stadium Saturday, caught the gaze of the attending crowd. [Photo by Cate Magennis]. Somoza fights nation from invasion - - R iKm; ’ MANAGUA, Nicaragua [AP] - battle about two years ago. President Anastasio Somoza used There are still Marxists involved, :: H 1 1 -/IT " troops, tanks and warplanes to but there is no doubt they can no quell the latest and bloodiest longer control the movement,” uprising against his rule, but the said a foreign diplomat who agreed fight to oust him appears far from to give his views on the condition over. he not be identified. “This is only the beginning. I’m The Sandinista movement has leaving for Costa Rica just as fast been flooded with people from as I can,” said one rebellious all walks of life who support the resident of Esteli, a city whose guerrillas in their attack on the hold heart was pounded to dust during Somozaa and his family has had on week-long assault by the national this nation for 40 years. guard, Nicaragua’s 7,500-man Somoza has kept the guard loyal army. through liberal fringe benefits, Somoza said he unleashed his housing, medical care, and offering military forces on Esteli and three officers incentives that include other major cities to save the nation lucrative business deals. from communism, which he claims Businessmen accuse Somoza of is being imported by Cuban-trained being insatiably greedy, of mis Sandinista guerrillas. managing the economy and of “All went well “ with the student banners for the Michigan game, according to Frank But anyone who visited Esteli, fomenting a communist opposition Guilfoyle, special projects commissioner. For further details, turn to page 3. [Photo by Cate Leon, Masaya or Chinandega while merely by staying in office. Magennis]. they were in rebel hands found the Journalists, seeking to balance challenge to the strongman’s rule reports on Somoza, were hard- coming mostly from townspeople pressed in recent weeks to find armed with guns made to kill people on the street who had Vance completes Mideast tour rabbits rather than men. anything good to say about him. DAMASCUS, Syria [AP] - Secre said Vance had hoped only to Many Nicaraguans say the rather than risk offending the One Red Cross spokesman tary of State Cyrus R. Vance persuade Assad to soften his leaders of Saudi Arabia, who estimated 2,000 people may have United States is to blame for the completed his five-day Middle East opposition to the Camp David situation and believe Washington helped arrange the session with the died in Esteli alone, although firm tour yesterday by meeting with agreements so other Arab govern Syrian leader. figures have been impossible to still supports Somoza. Syrian President Hafez Assad and ments might find it easier to accept The U.S. Marines put Somoza’s In Jerusalem, meanwhile, the obtain. Red Cross spokesmen flew home without gaining the them. But senior Syrian sources father, Anastasio Sr., in power in Israeli Cabinet approved the Camp estimate more than 1,000 died in Arab support he sought for the said Assad told Vance it was earlier fighting in Leon, the 1930s after two decades of David accords, which are to be Camp David peace accords. impossible for Syria to change its submitted to Parliament for ratifi Chinandenga and Masaya, and thatAmerican intervention in In a brief airport statem ent position. cation later this week. 10,000 people may have fled the Nicaraguan affairs. before departing, Vance said his The meeting originally had been The subtlety of current American In KuwaifT the daily Al-Qabas country during the violence. five-hour meeting with Assad had set for Saturday but was put off pressure on Somoza to improve his newpaper reported that Assad and The nationwide rebellion was been “frank and exhaustive.” He because a meeting of Assad with human rights record has been lost Yasser Arafat, chairman of the spearheaded by the Sandinista said he agreed with Assad that other hard-line Arab leaders on most Nicaraguans. The United Palestine Liberation Organization, National Liberation Front, a group dialogue between Syria and the opposed to the current U.S. peace States has been reluctant to de plan to go to Saudi Arabia to brief named after a Nicaraguan rebel of United States should continueinitiative lasted longer than nounce Somoza publicly, saying Saudi leaders on last week’s anti- the 1930s. The group was formed because “of the shared hope of expected. Assad asked for the that rupturing relations would Camp David summit in Damascus. by a Cuban-trained Marxist, Carlos accomplishing a just peace in the postponement, and U.S. sources remove what little leverage Arafat and Libyan strongman Fonseca Amador, who was killed area.” said Vance considered cancelling Washington has in the matter. Moamar Khadafy had flown from by Somoza troops in a mountain Speaking privately, U.S. officials the trip but decided to come here [continued oe page 3] 2 the observer Monday, September 25, 1978 New York’s striking pressmen News Briefs__________ negotiate in Washington, DC NEW YORK, [AP] - Negotiations be moved and the publishers, after pressmen were ready to engage in ...... ■ - World aimed at ending a pressmen’s first rejecting the idea, agreed meaningful negotiations. strike that has closed New York’s Saturday. Theodore W. Kheel, advisor to three major newspapers for 46 days Jonathan Thompson, a spokes the 8500 members of other unions Kissinger talks on Mideastmove to Washington today. man for the Daily News said the idled by the strike called by 1550 Kenneth E. Moffett, a federal publishers had changed their pressmen, tried to induce both mediator, requested that the talks minds because they believed the sides yesterday to reach an accord that would get the New York WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger Times, Daily News, and New York said yesterday he is optimistic that Jordan and possibly Syria will Post back in publication. join in Mideast peace negotiations, despite theri public denuncia In a statement issued from his tions of the Camp David accords. Under questioning by reporters summer home in East Hampton, yesterday, Kissinger said he interprets criticism of the pact by Arab NY, Kheel noted that the Allied leaders as meant largely to build support among their people and Printing Trades Council, represen other ARab leaders, not indicative of the final outcome. He also ting nine unions idled by the said he expects Israel "very painfully” to make concessions on pressm en’s strike, had hired him to settlements that might stand in the way of a final peace agreement.