Tuesday, December 7, 1993 • Vol. XXVI No. 62 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S O'Connor: Our Lady against abortion Task force By JOSLIN WARREN of abortion." News Writer The pro-life and Mary move­ explores ment must be linked together The Blessed Mother Mary has for the pro-life movement to be foreseen a bleak future for our successful, O'Connor said. networking sinful country if abortion is allowed to continue, according "Mary carried around Jesus By ANALISE TAYLOR to Father Edward O'Connor, for nine months like any moth­ News Writer University theology professor er. In Mary's case it was not emeritus, and an expert on Our only her first born child but it A task force is currently Lady and the apparitions that was also Jesus Christ. While exploring the idea of allocating have been seen of her. she was thinking of that child it more computer cable fibers for O'Connor, who is heavily in­ was filling her with the holy networking systems similar to volved in the Mary movement spirit. During the nine months those now running through and the pro-life movement, ex­ there was a communion be­ campus, said David Horan, plained that many of those who tween mother and child of Student Government Liaison to have seen visions of Mary claim which there is no parallel with the Video/Fiber Utilization Task that she has said that "because an average mother." Force. of the sins of the world today, Mary helps mothers to be especially abortion, we are aware of the precious value STUDENT SENATE threatened with such chas­ they are carrying. The task force includes rep­ tisement the world has ever "When Mary looks down on resentatives from the Office of known." us she sees herself and Jesus. University Computing, She sees all of us as members Networking Services, WNDU­ "You'll lind that spiritual and of the body of her son," TV, and DeBartolo Media social movements aren't in har­ O'Connor said. Resources. mony with one another. Some O'Connor cited the claims of "The task force is considering are concerned with one thing visionaries in explaining Mary's the networking needs of stu­ and not the other," said strong hatred for abortion. dents which the fiber backbone O'Connor. One of the visionaries of may be able to meet," Horan "The spiritual movements and Medjugorje, the site where six said. social movements in the church young people have seen visions Future options for the task are running on two different of Mary every day for six years, force include making it possible planes. But these two move­ stated that when she asked for everyone to have a comput­ ments that seem so different Mary about abortions, "the er in each room or making it have a lot in common." Blessed Mother said there is no possible for freshman to have a According to O'Connor, Mary sin which can't be forgiven, but computer for all four years. and the fight against abortion for abortion you must do Educational broadcast media have strong ties. penance all your life." might also be an option for stu­ "If we want to stop abortion it And when she asked where dents for instruction in the Arts will not suffice to have good sci­ the aborted babies went after and Letters Core course and entific arguments about the fe­ they were killed, Mary said that other classes where film study tus and embryo. People are go­ "the babies are with her." The Observer/ Carolyn Wilkens is required, he said. ing to have abortions and no Father Edward O'Connor, University professor of theology emeritus, "The university is opposed to scientific argument is going to Other visionaries reported lectures yesterday on apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the entertainment cable for ideo­ stop it," O'Connor stated. "You that Mary showed them a mul­ debate over abortion. logical reasons," he said. must touch and convert their titude of babies that had been she and her husband are wounds of the Lord appeared Student senators voted on hearts and make them feel for killed in one day's abortions extremely devout. One day on her hands and feet." student body election dates. the baby that is invested in and stated that many were their statue of the Blessed The elections will take place them." meant to be saints and priests. Mother began to weep tears In a recording, of a confer­ Feb. 7. An information night Mary is the one we can turn According to O'Connor, Julia and soon those tears turned to ence in Pittsburgh, Kim stated for anyone interested in run­ to guide this conversion. Kim, a Korean woman who was blood. Following this event, that the statue cries "for the ning for office is scheduled for "She is the one that will turn orphaned in the Korean War, Kim began "suffering from the repentance of those who have 6 p.m., Thursday, in the Sorin people away from the practice converted to Catholicism and pains of the unborn and the been aborted." Room of LaFortune. White House defends use of U.S. plane by Aidid By TERENCE HUNT innocent lives. It has saved Associated Press them from a death by hunger." · Aidid had been the target of WASHINGTON an intense search after the President Clinton defended on deaths of Pakistani and Monday the use of a U.S. jet by American peacekeepers. After Mohamed Farrah Aidid, whose the deaths of the Americans, Somali forces were suspected Clinton reversed course, set a in the slaying of 24 Americans. March 31 deadline for the with­ drawal of Americans from Clinton said Robert Oakley, Somalia and agreed to drop the his special envoy to Somalia, manhunt. wanted to get Aidid to peace talks in Ethiopia last week and Asked how he would explain "had to make his decision on to the families of slain service­ the spur of the moment, with­ men why the United States was out much time to consider now helping Aidid, Clinton said, whether there were any other "I would tell them that they options." were over there fighting ulti­ With Aidid refusing the use of mately for a peace to take a U.N. plane, Oakley felt "he place .... That action was fun­ had to get the peace conference damentally successful; they going and so he thought it was achieved their objective. They the right thing to do, and I will arrested a lot of people." stand behind his decision," the He said that U.N. forces have president said. in custody "the people who we think are the most likely to Clinton spoke at a joint news have been seriously involved in conference with Spanish Prime the murder of the Pakistani sol­ Minister Felipe Gonzales after a diers and to have caused diffi­ two-hour meeting. culties for the Americans." Looking for a place in the quilt Gonzales interjected that the Saint Mary's sophomore Genevieve Barba, accompanied by Lonnie Ostrander, auditions for the February U.S. presence in Somalia "has An independent commission musical, "Quilters." The production is a woman's look at the early American pioneer experience. The its human cost but it has saved is investigating who was show will run from the Feb. 24-27 in Little Theater. tens of thousands of lives, of responsible, he said. ----------------------~~~~-~~ -~ -~ page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, December 7, 1993 INSIDE COLUMN NATION AT A GLANCE Can't breathe? Astronauts work to correct Hubble telescope's blurred vision SPACE CENTER, Houston With guidance and power systems restored on the Hubble's optical improvements Hubble, Endeavour's spacewalking repair crew focused The flawed mirror in Hubble delivers a blurry image to all of the craft's instruments. Kiss my on fixing the telescope's bad eyesight. "We've been up to Endeavour astronauts are to install two devices that place corrective mirrors in the bat twice, and the crew has hit two home runs," said Joe path of incoming light. These devices should cancel out most of the focusing error. Rothenberg, NASA's associate director of flight projects and images taken by the telescope should be sharper. Primary mirror for Hubble. "The first objective has been met: We can Manufacturing error is source of cigarette butt handle on-orbit servicing and we can handle contingen­ Hubble's poor images. The mirror was ground too flat at the edge, cies." On Monday, the space shuttle Endeavour and its and it can't focus an Recently, as I was enjoy-·-------­ crew of seven were in the sixth day of the 11-day flight, image correctly. ing a cigarette, a young setting spacewalk records each time they venture out of woman, stumbling toward the crew cabin. The bus-sized Hubble, 43-feet long, sits me while gasping for upright on a lazy-Suzan near the rear of the cargo bay. breath, pleaded, "Excuse The third day of repairs, beginning late Monday, was me, I can't breathe." reserved for installing a new multi-purpose camera - I panicked. Should I give actually three cameras for the detection of distant her the Heimlich maneu­ objects, and a planetary camera to make high-resolution ver? Should I administer studies of planets, galaxies and stars. Nicknamed "wilT­ mouth to mouth? What pic" for wide-field planetary camera, the instrument did she have for lunch? Jason Thomas includes lenses to compensate for the flaws created by Hope it wasn't onions or Asst. Viewpoint Ediror the telescope's misshapen main mirror.