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(^y<v\.crkc Lev y-o-u-i. e ^ -e s Diamond Diplomacy See w hat the Scene critics had to say about ■ The Cuban national baseball team hosted the Monday the new movie ‘200 Cigarettes. Baltimore Orioles in the first major league game there in 40 years. MARCH 29, Scene • 10 Sports • 14 1999 O B S E R VER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint M ary’s VOL XXXII NO. 113 WW W.ND.EDU/-OBSERVER Kosovo Crisis NEWS NATO broadens airstrikesProfessor: Airstrikes Associated Press Escalation in Yugoslavia NATO broadened Its attacks on Yugoslavia on Sunday, the fifth day of airstrikes. The United States WASHINGTON and Britain have pledged more warplanes. A look at damage assessment to date: increase involvement The American and allied air armada broadened its attacks on Yugoslavia on TARGETS HIT By TIM LOGAN capitulate, what will be need Sunday to target Serb m ilitary forces in Hit in previous days News Editor ed is a greater presence to Kosovo, raising the risk to o Communications/ make sure that it doesn’t flare NATO pilots but also SEE ALSO * Aircralt/airports While the NATO airstrikes up again.” holding the promise of ■ Military compounds « "NATO calls CROATIA on Serb m ilitary targets in That greater presence exists more effective strikes ■ Weapons facilities Serb assault J s Budjanovcl Kosovo reached their fifth day in the form of 12,000 NATO against Serb ground F-117A stealth lighter jx , 'genocide"’ allegedly shot down , ’X , Sunday, the likelihood of an soldiers gathered in neighbor troops. President Clinton Kacarevo SOmlles^ Bataimca » extended air campaign, and ing Macedonia. Despite pres said “the continued bru p.5 , 4 Pancevo Sremclca 1 Belgrade possibly even ground involve sure from a number of sides, tality and repression of More bombing in ment, is growing, according to U.S. officials have stated that the Serb forces further underscores the need Belgrade area Sunday Gilburt Loescher, professor of they do not plan to use ground for NATO to persevere." government and international forces to stop the Serb offen The Pentagon announced that more relations. sive. American warplanes, including B-52 long- m The Pentagon’s announce These NATO peacekeepers range bombers, would be added to the near . t ment Sunday that it would in M acedonia w ould lik e ly be ly 200 already participating in Operation Kraljevo send more American war the first group to enforce a Allied Force. Spokesman Ken Bacon said planes to the Balkans escalat cease-fire if the Yugoslav between six and 12 planes would go, and ed U.S. involvement in the cri army halts its offensive in Britain announced it was sending 12 more sis and only fed talk of a pro Kosovo and the bombing cam Mount fighters and light bombers. Kursumlija Jaslrebac Kosovska tracted bombing campaign paign is stopped. As a fifth straight night of NATO bombing o Milrovica with the potential use of This force would likely not got under way, including cruise missile MONTtLNEGbK) Podujevo ground forces. Regardless of solve the problems on its own, strikes by B-52 bombers, the Pentagon and Danilovgrad z the outcome of the bombing, however, said Loescher, who NATO were officially mum on what brought KOSOVO Stalina a (s Podgorica there is a significant chance pointed to the extended down an Air Force F-117A stealth fighter- lakovti a I that NATO troops will be sent involvement of United Nations born her near the Yugoslav capital on Radanovd - . w in on the ground. peacekeepers in Bosnia. Saturday. A senior defense official, however, “It could be the beginning of “It will require a protracted said there are strong indications it was hit "0> ' H MACEDONIA A d ria tic Sntt Uidnj 'i- ■■ Refugees stream out ol Kosovo into a long-standing NATO involve NATO force in place over a by a surface-to-air missile, possibly the Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia, O Skopje alleging brutality by Serbs ment in Kosovo,” Loescher said Friday. “Even if bombing see BO M BING S / page 4 see KOSOVO / page 4 is effective and Milosevic does Hesburgh: Peacemaking On the catwalk is most ‘holy’ vocation By T IM LOGAN graduate Peace Studies News Editor Concentration, was student-run and featured presentations from a num Students can work for peace and ber of students on peace and justice justice at many levels, said Father issues. Theodore Hesburgh, president It was undergraduates who first emeritus of the University, Saturday approached Hesburgh about start in the keynote ing a nonviolence curriculum at address for this Notre Dame when he was president weekend’s peace of the University during the studies confer Vietnam War, he said. A group of ence. student leaders asked him about Hesburgh dis beginning classes on peace and, cussed the devel with some timely funding from Gulf opment of the Oil Corp., course offerings were concentration in soon initiated. At the time, few uni peace studies at Hesburgh versities taught about peace issues, Notre Dame and and the idea was a somewhat new urged students to do what they can one. to w ork for peace. “Twenty years [before Vietnam], "No matter what your age, no no one would’ve thought of a course matter where you are, you can pul in nonviolence,” he said. in a word for justice," he said. “ By Further donations from philan putting in that word for justice, thropist Joan Kroc, established the you’re a peacemaker. ” Joan B. Kroc Institute for Hesburgh encouraged students to International Peace Studies as a get involved and to work for peace permanent fixture at Notre Dame and justice in their lives and in the and paid for construction of the world around them. Hesburgh Center for International “Of all the various things you Studies. In 1983-84, the undergrad might do in life, peace — peace uate concentration in peace studies making, peacekeeping — has got to began. be the most exalted and most holy,” Now the peace studies concentra The Observer / Joe Stark he said. tion is one of the largest and most Students took to the runway Saturday night at a fashion show sponsored by the Black The conference, commemorating Cultural Arts Festival and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. the 15th anniversary of the under see HESBURGH / page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, March 29, 1999 INSIDE COLUMN U n in v ite d O utside the Dom e Guests >1 Compiled from ITW ire reports T ennis coach settles harrassm ent la w su it w ith fo rm e r players To the group of men who seem to believe, by virtue of the fact that they held Casino SYRACUSE, N.Y. guilty on two counts of verbal harass Night tickets, they had the right to enter my Syracuse University and head tennis ment. The first count was for giving room, lock out my roommates and myself, coach Jessie Dwire settled out of court what has been called the “GAP speech” fill the air with smoke, with two former tennis players to the team —where Dwire told players spread ashes and cig Thursday evening, ending a $762 mil they shop at Gap because “Girls Are arette butts on the lion sexual harassment lawsuit and Pathetic.” The second involved a con windowsills and in more than two years of controversy, versation w ith Ericson about oral sex. glasses and cans and allegations and debate. The panel found him innocent of to leave with our larg SU and Dwire settled with senior threatening scholarships and playing er-than-life cardboard Dacia Kornechuk, 1998 graduate time and forcing massages on players. cutout of the Pillsbury Kirsten Ericson and their parents, who able, confidential settlement agreement SU suspended Dwire, who began his Dough Boy: Who do filed the suit last spring. Jury selection that discontinues their court action,” tenure as head tennis coach in 1978, you think you are? for the trial was set to begin Monday in M orrow said. for three months without pay during Members of the Anne Marie Mattingly New York’s Southern District Federal Kornechuk and Ericson alleged in the the summer of 1997. lie still serves as McGlinn Hall com- Associate News Editor Courthouse. suit that Dwire harassed them verbally the tennis coach. munity invested Kevin Morrow, SU spokesperson, and physically, gave them unwanted William Dealy, attorney for the for countless hours to provide you with a good said late Thursday night the university massages, had inappropriate sexual mer players, told The Daily Orange in time. Our commissioners and other volun will issue an official statement to the discussions with team members and the fall that the women filed suit teers worked for months tp,organize tickets, Board of Trustees announcing the set threatened their scholarships and play against the school because the univer advertising, dealers, card tables, t-shirts tlement. Terms of the settlement will ing time. sity conducted a “sham” sexual harass and decorations. Our rector, assistant rec be undisclosed, he said. The two women filed a complaint in ment hearing by refusing to hear the tor and resident assistants all remained on “Dacia Kornechuk and Kirsten the university’s judicial system in the testimony of former players who came duty throughout the event to protect your Ericson and their respective parents spring of 1997. SU appointed a panel forward saying Dwire had also safety and well being. Our residents emp haVe entered into a m utually accept that heard the case and found Dwire harassed them. tied their rooms and their wallets so that you could attend parties and enjoy your selves.