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~.!l4~t 1842· IQ92 -Q8· ---1%1--- SESQUICENTENNIAl Saint Marx's Colleg~ eObserver NOTRE DAME•INOIANA VOL. XXIV NO. 109 rtJ b · l 08] WEDNESDAY , MARCH 4, 1992 \ THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Alumni wins Bush sweeps three Iceberg Tuesday primaries Debate final (AP) - Paul Tsongas won Maryland's presidential primary • One eager voter I page 4 By COLLEEN KNIGHT Tuesday night and Bill Clinton Mmnesota, Washmgton, Idaho News Writer countered in Georgia as and American Samoa. Democratic rivals battled coast­ Overall, the night's results Alumni Hall defeated St. Ed­ to-coast for frorit-runner pointed to a continuing, con­ ward's Hall by a margin of four credentials. President Bush tentious string of primaries as to one in the Iceberg Debates swept three Republican pri­ Democrats pick an opponent for final round by arguing that an maries, but Patrick Buchanan Bush in the fall. The party held increased emphasis on vowed to press his conservative caucuses in Minnesota, Idaho research at the University of challenge. and Washington state during Notre Dame will be beneficial the evening. to its undergraduate program: Bush said his triple-header The Democratic also-rans, victory in Georgia, Maryland Sen. Bob Kerrey and Sen. Tom Alumni took the negative po­ and Colorado meant he was Harkin, spoke bravely of stay­ sition on the resolution, "The "well on our way to the nomi­ ing alive in the race, despite University of Notre Dame's nation." He added he was poor showings in all the pri­ move to a national Catholic re­ "committed. to regaining" the mary states. "This is still a search university will be detri­ support of Republican voters completely wide open race," mental to Notre Dame's under­ who deserted him for Kerrey said, and Harkin said graduate program." Buchanan. the campaign " is really just Freshman Sean Dempsey and Bush was getting well over 60 starting." junior Hugh McGowan spoke percent of the vote in Georgia, for Alumni, while freshman Maryland and Colorado. Clinton's victory was a long E.L. Chaffee and senior Ron Buchanan's best performance time coming for the candidate Severino spoke for St. Ed's. was 37 percent in Georgia. who loomed large before a They presented their positions series of controversies stalled on the resolution before five Tsongas dubbed himself the his campaign in January. He judges. "breakthrough kid" for his hoped to parlay his win into Maryland triumph, the first for success next week in several In taking the negative any Democrat outside his home southern states, and wasted no position, Alumni's team empha­ region. "They said that I was a time in attacking Tsongas as an sized that research improves regional candidate. They're advocate of "a refined version learning because as professors right: North, South, East and of 1980s style trickle-down conduct their research, they in­ West." economics." crease the amount of knowl­ Clinton's Georgia win was his Tsongas, too, pointed his edge made available to their first of the primary season, but campaign southward. Arriving students. it lacked drama, coming in his in South Carolina, which votes Alumni also argued that southern stronghold. He had on Saturday, he said he was Notre Dame's long--term goal of almost 60 percent of the total best able to win Republican and establishing itself as a national 'How's my stock doing?'· vote and claimed a large major­ independent votes, adding, "I'm research university will attract ity among blacks. not going to pander to them. It's better faculty and create a An unidentified student reads over the Wall Street Journal in the ND Law School Library. The Democratic list of states not going to be an endless see ALUMNI I page 7 voting included caucuses in series of giveaways." Ravry, Coyle elected Bush, Yeltsin announce first summit WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi­ United States could offer Yeltsin dent Bush announced Tuesday in economic aid. that he and Russian President The summit will take place '92-93 HPC co-chairs Boris Yeltsin will hold their first less than a month before the formal summit meeting June 16 Democrats select their candi­ By BECKY BARNES Council. "I don't like it," he in Washington. They'll try to date for a challenge to Bush in News Writer continued. use the two-day meeting to a campaig-n in which hard times Other members cited the establish new momentum at home look like the dominant Hall Presidents' Council (HPC) changing role of HPC from a toward eliminating additional issue. tmanimously elected Marianne "bulletin board" to a body that thousands of strategic nuclear That left open the question of Ravry and Jason Coyle co­ represents the students on warheads. whether Bush would feel able to chairpersons for next year's campus and the administra­ In the post-Cold War era, offer a substantial commitment council and discussed the pos­ tion's lack of response to rec­ agreements to reduce nuclear of U.S. foreig-n aid during a po­ sibility of enlarging the role of og-nize this shift. "This organi­ arsenals have been easier to litical challenge at home. HPC at the University during zation has really matured ... in achieve than U.S. commitments Yet, U.S. observers of events Tuesday night's meeting. its ability to do serious policy for massive financial assistance Boris Yeltsin in the former Soviet Union sug­ Ravry, currently president of making work," said Delevan. to help Russia stabilize its At the June meeting, the two gested that economic aid would Walsh Hall, and Coyle, Keenan Council members expressed foundering economy. leaders are expected to try to have to be a priority topic. Hall president, said they would concern that the administration That could prove even likelier move toward agreement on the "We're going to have to be attempt to "normalize rela­ does not consult the group be­ for a summit taking place in the broad disarmament goals each heavily engaged in the reform tions" with the media in their fore making policy changes. "I midst of a presidential has recently outlined. effort," said Gabriel Schoenfeld, tenure and attempt to give next think this would be a good body campaig-n. Yeltsin and other leaders of a senior analyst at the Center year's incoming presidents a to consult before they're going Bush said he and Yeltsin former Soviet republics are for Strategic and International better overview of HPC policies to make a decision," said Coyle. would "get into the nuclear and scheduled to meet in Kiev on Studies. and procedures. Ravery and "We're definitely in touch with military questions. and then the March 20. U.S. officials are . Schoenfeld said that in the Coyle ran unopposed. the students." joint efforts in support of re­ hoping the leaders of Russia, nuclear area the United States Members cited the resolution form in Russia." Ukraine, Belarus and Kaza­ has "a very clear idea of what A sub-committee of the Collo­ concerning the removal of Speculation in the capital was khstan - the four states with our policy is and is now trying quy 2000 committee "Mission, washing machines in Washing­ that Bush would press the Sen­ strategic nuclear weapons - to get the Russians and every­ Opportunities and Challenges" ton Hall as an example where ate to ratify the pending will pledge to adhere to the re­ one else to proceed." also questioned HPC. Col. Dave they heard no response from Strategic Arms Reduction ductions in the pending START But, he added, "With eco­ Woods, Director of Support the administration. "It's frus­ Treaty (START) before the June agreement. nomics there's so many unpre­ Services and member of the trating when we go to work to summit and that he and Yeltsin The republics' leaders have dictable things that could hap­ committee, said that their draft a resolution and we hear would formally set a subse­ generally agreed that the new pen between now and June." group focuses on communica­ nothing back," said one mem­ quent goal of reducing each na­ Commonwealth of Independent Bruce Parrott, director of tion and asked how the Council ber. tion's arsenal to 2,500 to 4,500 States should exercise joint Russian area studies at Johns feels it is represented on cam­ Pasquerilla East Co-President such warheads. control over nuclear weapons . Hopkins University said that, by pus. Adrienne Speyer agreed that Bush and Yeltsin emphasized If the four republics sign a mid-June, "we'll have a better Rich Delevan, co-president of "HPC is heard of, not heard their mutual friendship and re­ START pledge, said a Senate fix on popular attitudes toward Planner Hall, responded that he from." spect after a three-hour meet­ source, the Bush administration Yeltsin's economic reforms and has been told by Student Affairs Woods responded that the ing at Camp David, Md., on Feb. would probably press the whether people are going to put Assistant Vice-President of University, especially President 1. But the Russian president Senate to ratify the treaty, up with them. The stocks and Residence Life Bill Kirk that Father Edward Malloy, is inter­ also cautioned that, "if the which calls for reducing· strate­ supplies that people were resolutions that come from HPC ested in student opinion, and reform in Russia goes under, gic nuclear forces to 8,000 to relying on to carry them have no value unless they are that their presence at the meet- the Cold War is going to turn 9,000 warheads each. through will have pretty much also passed by the Campus Life see HPC I page 6 into a hot war." Less clear was what the run out." page2 Wednesday, March 4, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST: Tradition just Unes separate high temperature zones for the· day.

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