VOL. XXV. NO. 70 The ObserverTHURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1993 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S U.S. leads aerial attack on Iraqi missile batteries UNITED NATIONS (AP)- Iraq "I think it's really sad that who so desire" to solve Ambassador Yoshio Hatano of on Wednesday condemned a people are resorting to military • Clinton support/ page 5 problems. Japan. U.S.-Ied aerial attack on its action. It's very uncivilized," Earlier Wednesday, an Arab It was not immediately clear if missile batteries as "very Hamdoon told reporters at U.N. Secunty Councll that Iraq source said the Baghdad gov­ the offer was made to try to uncivilized" and offered new Iraq's U.N. mission. must stop violating Gulf War ernment offered to stop raiding stave off the U.S.-led military concessions to the United Na­ Hamdoon's comments were cease-fire terms or face a former Iraqi navy base in attack on Iraq. tions. the Iraqi government's first of­ "serious consequences." Kuwait. Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Nizar ficial reaction to the raids, in U.S. sources said the deputy llamdoon, said his government which dozens of American and Baghdad has contended it was The source, speaking on American U.N. ambassador, rejected President Bush's allied aircraft targeted surface­ cooperating with the Security condition of anonymity, said Edward Walker Jr., delivered a charge that Baghdad had been to-air missiles in southern Iraq. Council and in a letter delivered Hamdoon had made the offer in letter Wednesday to Hatano re­ violating U.N. Security Council The attack finally put into ac­ Tuesday had offered "dialogue a telephone call to the president porting that an allied attack resolutions. tion words of warnings from the with the council and with all of the Security Council, was underway. Second American Iraq's ability is hurt in Somalia to retaliate MOGADISIIU, Somalia (AP) - tions. He said U.S. forces would is limited Stung by bold Somali attacks continue to step up their patrols that inflicted the first two and hunts for weapons. NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Sad­ American military casualties, "Because we have reduced dam Hussein's ability to retali­ U.S. forces killed one gunman the number of weapons on the ate militarily against an Allied Wednesday as edgy Marines street we have put some of air strike is extremely limited. patrolled lawless Mogadishu in these militia individuals out of But, as the 1990 invasion of tho hunt for weapons. business. They are no longer Kuwait showed, Saddam is ca­ A Somali sniper fired three able to extort on their security pable of anything and as often shots at a Marine patrol rackets," Hagee said. "It's still a as not flies in the face of ortho­ wounding a U.S. Navy medic dangerous place, but based on dox military thinking - usually Wednesday afternoon, less than when we came ashore a little with catastrophic results. a day after a Marine was killed over 30 days ago it is a much He has few military assets ca- in a firelight near the airport. safer place." News analysis Later. Marines searching for a The first Marines landed Dec. weapons cache inside a build­ 9 to start an international pable of penetrating the U.S.­ ing near the national theater operation to end two years of led allies' defenses in the Per­ shot to death a Somali who clan fighting and banditry and sian Gulf in order to hit their threatened them with a heavy get food to Somalia's famine­ naval and air forces, although machine gun. stricken people. Army Lt. Col. he could well lash out if he Automatic weapons fire Steve Ritter said more than feels he is cornered. crackled on the streets of the 33,000 soldiers from 20 nations One factor likely to inhibit capital Wednesday night. are in Somalia, including Baghdad is that any significant At checkpoints, Marines ap­ 22,000 Americans. attempt to retaliate against the peared more nervous and im­ Hagee said it was too early to allies risks escalating the con­ posed stricter security. Some tell if the attacks that inflicted frontation and provoking an directed anger at Somalis. the American casualties repre­ even heavier allied response. "A lot of people aren't going to sented any kind of organized Saddam retains sizeable arse­ like Somalis even though some resistance by the Somalis. nals of anti-aircraft missiles are innocent," said Lance Cpl. The Tuesday night ambush and, Western officials believe, Jesse De Guzman, 21. of San that killed Marine Pfc. Domingo possibly as many as 150 Scud­ Jose. Calif. "You start looking at Arroyo, 21, of Elizabeth, N.J., type surface-to-surface mis­ them differently. It just gets you and the sniper attack that siles. mad inside. but you have to wounded the medic followed Militarily, Saddam is in no po­ hold it in." the most ambitious American The Observer/ Rebecca Boucher sition to take on the Americans Marine Col. Michael Hagee effort to disarm Somalis in Mo­ The art of redecorating and their allies again after his forces were severely mauled in said at a news conference that gadishu. Pangborn freshman Kara Spak arranges her room for the new the 1991 GulfWar. the casualties would not cause Since Sunday, Marines have semester. Students often face the task of ingeniously storing newly For one thing, an Iraqi mili­ any changes in military opera- acquired belongings after Christmas break. see SOMALIA I page 4 tary response would expose the military and economic infras­ tructure the Iraqis have so Campus group will raise painstakingly - and proudly - rebuilt since Allied warplanes funds for Hispanic youths and missiles flattened it during the war. By ELIZABETH QUINLAN feeling of community" among But, faced with a worsening News Writer Hispanics in the city. economic squeeze because of 2 1/2 years of U.N. sanctions, the The Hispanic Law Student He saw other people running Iraqi leader may be seeking a Association (HLSA) of the Notre for charity in the marathon and diversion to rally Iraqis behind Dame Law School has estab­ resolved to make this his his beleaguered regime. lished a new "Hispanic Educa­ method for raising money. Saddam may also be hoping to tion Fund" to be donated to re­ Cancel plans to participate in gional charities that focus on the London Marathon, a major exploit divisions within the the educational problems facing international marathon, on wartime coalition that Bush Hispanic youths. April 18. stitched together to liberate Kuwait. The fund was initiated by HLSA hopes to raise major The Arab allies, in particular, HLSA president, Carlos Cancel, funding for the cause through fear that further pressure on who had become alarmed by a pledges and corporate spon­ Baghdad could lead to the New York Times article report­ sorship. In addition to their disintegration of Iraq, with its ing a 45 percent school dropout goal of raising $5,000-10,000 volatile ethnic mix. rate for Hispanics. One of the and dividing it among charities Saddam could try to knock aims of HLSA is to help alleviate in the cities of New York, Mi­ down some allied aircraft to ami, and Los Angeles, they some problems met by the His­ avenge the MiG-25 shot down panic community at large. hope to increase community awareness of the plight of His­ Dec. 27 by a U.S. F-16 over the Cancel got the idea for raising panic youth, Cancel said. "no-fly zone" imposed last Au­ The Observer/ Scott Mendenhall money after running in the New gust on southern Iraq. Budding talent York City Marathon in Cancel, who is from Brooklyn, His air defenses, which ac­ November. While competing, said he feels fortunate to have counted for nearly all the 41 al­ Notre Dame sophomores Erin O'Malley, Mike Kersey and Stacey Cancel wore a Puerto Rican flag had such opportunities. He lied warplanes lost in the Per­ Stewart audition yesterday for "The Heidi Chronicles," a play which and experienced "a tremendous .said, "I could've easily been one sian Gulf conflict, remain po­ the ND Communication and Theatre department will present. amount of support and a strong see FUNDS/ page 4 tent despite war damage. page 2 The Observer Thursday, January 14, 1993 INSIDE COLUMN Exploitation of with a chance \ of flurries and highs the mid 20s. Partly sunny Friday and Fisher story high in the lower 30s. hides 'truth' ' TEMPERATURES H L 21 18 While only some states 50 48 got snow over the 68 45 61 45 holidays, the entire nation 35 32 was blitzed by CBS, NBC, 38 34 61 30 and ABC. Maybe you were 31 30 as unfortunate as I was to 37 36 50 37 stumble on one of the 52 45 episodes between Very Fat Anna Marie 53 49 48 36 Men and the Luscious Tabor 35 28 Babes Who Love Them . 39 32 and the all-star line-up of Saint Mary 5 Editor 57 46 37 36 the weirdest people who have appeared on 48 41 44 42 Geraldo. Every channel, every headline, every 62 44 tip from the criminal's cell promised to give the 41 33 • 34 33 true account of Amy Fisher's crime of passion. •• WARM STATIONARY• • 52 37 Who cares? Apparently, most of America 43 42 does. This is the first time in my career that I've been ashamed of my association with the media. So a sixteen year-old girl from Long Island shoots the wife of her alleged middle-aged lover. Tell the story and get on with it.