Cartoon contest - page 10 VOL XVIII, NO. 22 thl" im.kpl"ndl"nt :-.tuul"nt new:-.papt-r :-crYing notre dame and saint mary's MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1983 Cease-fire agreement announced by Syrians in Lebanese civil war Associated Press dent Amin Gemayel in Beirut. Bandar said, "This is the beginning BEIRUT, Lebanon - A cease-fire of the road for Arab solidarity an d for agreement aimed at halting the freeing Lebanon from Israeli oc­ Lebanese civil war took effect Mon­ cupation." He called the pact "a his­ day morning, and authorities toric achievement that guarantees reported that gunfire halted in ob­ the establishment of a balanced rule servance ofthe truce. in Lebanon." The agreement had been an­ Christian neighborhoods in east nounced Sunday night by Saudi and Beirut came under heavy shelling Syrian officials, hours after a yesterday from the Druse and renewed attack near U.S. Marine Syrian-controlled mountains positions at Beirut Airport. Four overlooking the capital, the state Marines were wounded during the radio said. day. Marine spokesman Maj. Robert The cease-fire accord, which took Jordan said mortar rounds and effect at 6 a.m. today ( 11 p.m. yester­ rocket-propelled grenades hit the day), was announced in Damascus, perimeter of the Marine base in west where Syrian Foreign Minister Beirut about 45 minutes after the Abdui-Halim Khaddam told a news truce was supposed to have taken conference, "An agreement has hold at 7:30p.m. -12:30p.m.South been reached for a cease-fire in Bend time. Lebanon, ending the war and start­ Another Marine spokesman, War­ ing a national dialogue. What was ac­ rant Officer Charles Rowe, said one hieved is great." Marine was slightly wounded in the "We appeal to all our Lebanese nighttime barrage as he and the brothers to go beyond the other men again went on their highe The Observer/Thorn Bradley bloodshed and the hatred in order to state alert, diving into bunkers and start the building of Lebanon," he Brief festivities residents conducted their campus-wide raid on foxholes. Members of the "Boxer Bandits" proudly display their Friday, and celebrated afterwards with some of their said. As the shells fell, the battleship answer to the annual panty raid. The Breen-Phillips "victims." _Druse leader WalidJumblalt, who New Jersey patrolled offshore in a attended talks with Khaddam and show ofU.'>. naval might. others, said he had ordered his State radio said U.S. presidential militiamen to stop firing at 6 a.m. envoy Robert C. Mcfarlane told Student Senate plans to provide Monday. Lebanese President .Amin Gemayel Khaddam said, "We appeal to all earlier that all parties had agreed to a our Lebanese brothers to go beyond truce, and President Reagan's · na­ laundry service option for women the bloodshed and the hatred in or­ tional security adviser, William der to restart the building of Clark, told reporters in New York By SUSAN SAKER said that if enough interest is shown Bertino is send ing letters to all Lebanon." that an agreement would be an­ News Staff in the next two weeks, a more per­ women on campus explaining the Lebanon's latest civil war began nounced in D.amascus. manent system will be extended to option of laundry service from St. Sept. 4 with the withdrawal oflsraeli Reports of an accord to end hos­ One of the last bastions of a male­ all women. Michael's. This letter stresses that troops from the mountains tilities between the Lebanese army dominated campus will soon disap­ "This will all be done on a trial the service is strictly optional, but overlooking Beirut to a new defense and Syrian-backed militias have per­ pear when St Michael's Laundry basis and although the service is op­ that enough interest must be shown line further to the south. Syrian­ sisted in Beirut for days. But Syria opens it doors to Notre Dame tional, we need to see a substantial in the next few weeks for the backed Druse, reportedly aided by reportedly had blocked a cease-fire women. interest by women for the service," program to be implemented. Ber­ Palestinian guerrillas, battled fierce­ by making new demands on the In response to recent complaints said Bertino. If over the next few tino also plans to pub licize the op­ ly with Christian militiamen and Lebanese government. regarding the Uni versity's male­ weeks enough women use St. Mic­ tion of women's laundry service by Lebanese army troops in the moun­ One of the Marines wounded only laundry service, the Student hael's laundry service, then laundry posting signs in the women's dorms. tains and on the capital's outskirts. around noon Sunday was shot in the Senate is working on a plan that bags will be issued to those women Response to the proposed plan is Khaddam and Saudi Prince Bandar arm by a sniper east of Beirut airport, would give all women on campus who want the service and laundry difficult to predict. Dorothy Ann Bin Sultan refused to provide details Jordan said. The terminal adjoins the regular access to St. Michael's pick-up schedules will be set up for David, president of Badin Hall of the agreement at the Damascus southern slums where the Shite laundry. The new system would ex­ women's dorm as in men's dorms. believes that women may appreciate news conference, saying they would Amal militia has been fighting the tend laundry service to women on a Women customers will be billed the service, but that the plan must be be disclosed later by Lebanese Presi- Lebanese army for three days. purely optional basis. according to the amount of laundry . approached properly if a women's Currently, a small number of serviced and will be able to pay by laundry service is to begin. women bring their laundry to St. cash, check, or charge the bill to Bertino hopes that successful im­ Michael's and pay the exact amount their accounts. No initial fee will be plementation of his proposal will al­ either by cash or by charging the bill charged, as is done with the men's leviate the complaints of "sexism" to their account. Rob Bertino, stu­ laundry service. that have risen in recent years dent senator in charge of the plan, To inform women of this plan, among the women of the University. Irish terrorists escape from prison Associated Press bedlam" at the 900-inmate jail smuggled into the jail, and a later outside Belfast, site ofthe 1981 Irish search turned up 20 rounds of am­ BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Republican Army hunger strike and munition. Thirty-eight IRA guerrillas armed home to some of Northern Ireland's As the truck sped off through the with smuggled weapons shot their most-hardened convicted bombers acres of prison grounds, a guard way out of top-security Maze prison and killers. noticed a bogus guard at the wheel yesterday in the biggest jailbreak in All roads leading from the prison and swung his car in front of the British history. They killed one were blocked, and police sealed off main gate, said the government guard and wounded six others, au­ the M1 motorway, a major four-lane spokesman. thorities said. turnpike near the Maze, creating Inmates clashed with prison of­ Army helicopters and scores of huge traffic jams in both directions. ficers at the blocked gate, but policemen with tracker dogs A spokesman for the Northern managed to flee on foot. Many swarmed around the countryside, Ireland Office said the escapees - stopped motorists out for a Sunday recapturing 11 prisoners within all convicted Provisional Irish drive on the quiet country lanes hours. But 27 were still at large late Republican Army guerrillas from a around the prison, hijacked the cars yesterday, police said, and were segregated cellblock - produced and kept going. believed headed for the Irish border handguns, overpowered guards and Some of the escapees were The Observer/Thorn Bradley or the safety of West Belfast's seized a food truck for a getaway. recaptured within hours in the open nationalist enclaves. The prisoners, some wearing countryside and others while trying Flanner banner Prisoners stopped motorists and guard's uniforms and others wearing to swim a river to safety. Following Saturday's loss to Miami, members of Planner Hall hijacked cars "all over the place" to just underpants, jumped in the back Police and British troops through- expressed their displeasure with Football Coach Gerry Faust. Game stories in Sports, page 12. make their getaway, an officer said. of the truck. The prisoners had hand­ see BELFAST page 4 He said the escape created "total guns and other weapons apparently The Observer Monday, September 26, 1983 - page 2 Outside the gates of paradise War is at best barbarism ... Its glory is all moon­ Travelers stranded by a sudden grounding of Con­ shine. It is only those who have neitherfired a shot nor tinental Airlines swampt·d other airlines yesterday while officials of heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry the Tcxas-haM·d carrier worked out plans to get some of the planes aloud for blood, mvre vengeance, more desolation. Vic Sciulli back in the air. Contint·ntal, which has lost $109 million so far this War is hell. Assistant News Editor year- $-!00 million over the last four years- and is S650 million in debt, annoned Saturday it is filing for reorganizatin under Chapter 1 1 Attributed to a graduation addt·ess Inside Monday of tht· federal bankruptcy laws. Formerly the nation's eighth-largest at the Michigan Militmy Academy airline, Continental is the second major airline to go to bankruptc,y (june 1, 1879) court.