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i O B S E R V E R Thursday, January 19, 1995 • Vol. XXVI No. 68' THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Report: Kinder, Farmer charged with battery description of the events of October 16. came to the hearing well prepared and D isciplinary hearing According to DuLac, student policy intent of poking holes in the alleged vic and resident life guidebook, Kinder and tim’s story. If the panel exonerates enters second day Farmer could face disciplinary proba Kinder and Farmer, then they will con tion, suspension, or expulsion from the tinue their careers, both academic and due to testim ony University. athletic, without any mark on their DuLac also states that the principals records. By DAVE TYLER are not allowed to bring legal counsel to If they are disciplined, DuLac gives the News Editor the hearing. The Tribune reports that players the option to appeal to President Farmer Kinder the players are being represented by Malloy’s office or the office of residence The South Bend Tribune reported two female law students, termed “peer life within three days after being notified Wednesday that Notre Dame football federal regulations governing student student counsel” by DuLac. of the decision of the panel presiding players Randy Kinder and Robert privacy. University policy stipulates that the over the hearing. Farmer have been charged with battery The disciplinary hearing entered its second day Wednesday at an undis hearing remain closed to all except the The Tribune report says the panel by the Office of Student Affairs, and are principals, their peer student counsel, isn’t likely to hand down a decision until currently involved in a disciplinary hear closed campus site. According to the witnesses and other appropriate resi several days after the completion of the ing to address that charge. Tribune, the first day of the hearing dence life staff. hearing. No estimate was given as to A female student has alleged that Tuesday lasted more than eight hours. Neither the Office of Student Affairs or how long the hearing might last. Kinder and Farmer were involved in an The report went on to say that most dis Notre Dame security are required to Kinder and Farmer are both sopho incident at Grace Hall in the early hours ciplinary hearings take less than half report the incident to the St. Joseph’s mores and were heavily recruited by of October 16, shortly after Notre that time. The proceedings reportedly were County Prosecutor’s office without the Notre Dame’s football program. Kinder Dame’s loss to Brigham Young. full cooperation of the person alleging was Michigan’s high school player of the University officials are prohibited from extended by the lengthy testimony of the incident. commenting on the matter because of numerous witnesses and a detailed The Tribune reports that the players see REPORT/ page 4 ■ News Analysis Quake death toll mounting Little hope for success By P H. FERGUSON Associated Press Earthquake devastates of planned cease-fire KOBE, Japan Hundreds of thousands of Kobe, surrounding area By BRAD PRENDERGAST people jammed the main road Assistant News Editor out of Kobe today, some limp Chechens ing and in bandages as they The proposed cease-fire that picked past collapsed buildings Kobe 200 km " 5 . was scheduled to take effect and piles of rubble that were Port, which handles 12 percent last night in the war-torn reclaim homes and stores before a cata of Japan’s exports, dosed Russian region of Chechnya has strophic earthquake struck. SamShinkan%s^ \ except for emergency use. DETAIL little hope of succeeding, said The death toll neared 2,700. Ferry terminals also dosed. Igor Grazin, a faculty fellow at territory Thousands who stayed be hind huddled around campfires Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute By BARRY RENFREW Ashiya for International Studies. and caught water from broken Associated Press _________________________ Nishinomiya Grazin, a member of the for pipes, too terrified to go into mer. Soviet Union’s first demo GROZNY, Russia their homes. Hanshin Expressway Kyoto cratically elected Congress of Chechen fighters recaptured Many phone lines in the west major artery between ern port city were still down, People’s Deputies from 1989- Grozny’s train station and Osaka and Kobe Takarazuka jakatsuki 91, said that any cease-fire will were fighting for the central and friends and family strug collapsed in five places gled to find each other. People Quake only be temporary. market Wednesday in a push Lines for the epicenter “A cease-fire is not going to that was close to wiping out all left notes tacked to what was i high-speed trains solve anything,” he said. “It is gains made by the Russian left of their homes, telling each Osaka damaged at 36 extremely positive whenever a army in the last two weeks. other where they had taken places over a peaceful solution has a chance Chances of a cease-fire, shelter. length of about 56 The earthquake early Tues of being introduced, but in this scheduled for Wednesday Kansai Intl. Airport miles. At least case it is not a step toward per day triggered hundreds of fires, three months will night, appeared slim despite The newer of two area manent peace.” and many of them burned Wakayama • be needed for earlier Russian peace over airports sustained no The three-year quest by tures. In Moscow, President through the day and night. By repairs to track major damage. Chechens to gain independence Boris Yeltsin ruled out talks today, the wind-whipped fires and bridges. attracted the international spot with Chechen leader Dzhokhar had burned out. light in late December following Dudayev. In Grozny, the White smoke rose from the 25 miles rubble and blackened debris, a failed Russian invasion of the Chechen capital, defenders j Major fault lines capital city of Grozny. said they would never lay which extended for miles 25 km But according to Grazin, Rus down their arms. through the center of the city. Throughout Kobe, leaking gas sian President Boris Yeltsin has Russian artillery and rockets CASUALTIES: 3,021 dead and 14,572 injured, according to police. hissed from ruptured pipes, manipulated the media cover Nearly 900 people were missing. raising the threat of explosions. age in an attempt to preserve see CHECHENS/ page 4 the last remnants of his power. The devastation, hundreds of CITIES: Kobe, Takarazuka, Nishinomiya, Ashiya, Awaji “Third-, fourth-, and fifth rate The January 6 tongue-lashing aftershocks and lack of basic Island and Osaka had the most fatalities. soldiers have been sent to services sent hundreds of thou that Yeltsin gave defense minis GAS: Osaka Gas stopped supplies to 834,000 households in Kobe ter Pavel Grachev for his han Chechnya, ” he said. “The 2500 sands of people fleeing, many to casualties suffered by the Rus and part of Ashiya because of fears of damage to gas pipelines. dling of the conflict was an at the shelter of family and sian army so far have been due tempt to stifle rumors that friends. BUILDINGS: Almost 20,000 destroyed or damaged. Yeltsin was losing control of the to poor training.” Makoto Hiroiyama was send military. “There are 18 and 19 year- ing his wife, mother and child WATER: Supply to about 60,000 households was suspended. |J | olds fighting who don’t even out of town to stay with rela Yeltsin has complained to re ELECTRICITY: About 916,000 households were blacked out. porters that his military officers know how to put bullets in the tives. have not provided him with ac magazine of their Kalish- “It’s dangerous here, and AR curate reports from the battle- nikovs,” he added. there’s no water, ” he said. “It’s primitive level. Telephone ser More than 120,000 people front, but that simply is not Moreover, the native no place for my elderly mother vice, power, gas and train ser sought shelter Tuesday night. true, said Grazin. Chechens have a crucial advan and my child.” vice were still largely knocked In Kobe’s Suma district, tage that the Russians have not “He is clearly lying, ” Grazin The death toll from the out. 70,000 people were evacuated said. “All one needs to do is been able to overcome, he said. quake, the worst to strike a In Kobe, which had been a after gas leaked from cracked turn on the TV to find out what “The Chechens are in the Japanese city since 1923, thriving, cosmopolitan city of tanks in a nearby industrial Caucasian mountain region that exactly is happening. climbed to 2,679 by evening. A 1.4 million, people crouched area. “Yeltsin is completely in is their home. They know the teacher from Los Angeles, 24- around campfires and used At shelters, people blinked in land. For the Russians, this is charge of the military opera year-old Voni Lynn Wong, was water from ruptured pipes. the sooty daylight, waiting for tions in Chechnya, ” he added. unknown terrain. That, com among the victims. “It’s like hell here,” said food. A few wandered through But his control has come at a bined with that fact that the At least 14,572 people were Satoko Kawase, 26, who lives the rubble, poking at the smok price. In protest against the use Russian soldiers have never hurt. Nearly 900 people were on the city’s outskirts. “It’s like ing ruins of their former homes. of Russian forces, 25 of the top been explained what their mis still listed as missing, but hopes World War II again. ” “ I’m helpless. All I can do is generals in the Russian military sion is, has made the struggle faded of finding more victims Hundreds of aftershocks rat sit around the fire like this and have resigned, putting field op difficult, ” he said.

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