WEDNESDAY , FEBRUARY 6, 1991 Page 1 1 . THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S · Allies pound Baghdad as Ira halts sales of fuel DIIAIIHAN. Saudi Arabia (AP) artillery drove 30 intruders Iraqi President Saddam the Iraqi defense of Kuwait. - Allill<l warplanes and the USS back into Kuwait after they Hussein. Giant Air Force B-52 bombers Missouri's mighty guns crossed into Saudi Arabia. But a "He's got to say, 'I'm going to struck Republican Guard shattf~red the morning peace news pool report from the front get out of Kuwait,' now, fast," positions in six raids, the from Baghdad to Kuwait's em­ said U.S. Marine officers gave a Bush said. command said. battled shores Tuesday. llard­ different aecount: Iraqi troops It said U.S. warplanes also prnssed Iraq banned sales of struck twice across the border, The U.S. chief executive said continued focusing on resupply lwating oil and otlwr fuel to its overrunning a Syrian position in he was sending the Pentagon's lines to the Iraqi troops in dtizens. who grew ever more one attack, being pushed back top leadership - Defense Sec­ Kuwait and southern Iraq, desperate under a mid-winter in the second. OPERATION retary Dick Cheney and Gen. striking a 25-truck convoy in siegn. Colin L. Powell - to the war one instance late Monday. Bri, Baghdad said 42S civilians Behind the scenes in Mideast DESERT STORM zone this week to assess how tish officers reported strikes on havn been killnd thus far in capitals, meanwhile, diplomats • Iraq cuts fuel I page 8 the U.S.-led offensive, now 20 an ammunition storage site what the official radio con­ and government leaders con­ • Ground war? I page 9 days old, is progressing. south of Baghdad, and a rail­ demned as "savage" bombing. ferred on Monday's bid by Ira­ • Terrorism I page 9 The U.S. command reported way junction and rail bridge in Up on the desert war front, nian President Hashemi Rafsan­ another 2,000-sortie day in the southeast Iraq, among other the Syrian contingent in Opera­ jani to mediate a Persian Gulf tive. In Washington, however, Desert Storm air war, and said targets. tion Dnsert Storm dashed with peace. President Bush said he had American warplanes took spe­ They said one-third of the key tlw Iraqis for the first time. The Soviets and Turks sig­ seen no Iranian peace plan and cial aim again at the dug-in Re­ bridges in Iraq have been de­ Ttw Saudi military said Syrian naled support for Iran's initia- saw nothing to negotiate with publican Guard, backbone of stroyed. Pope greets Walesa promising that church will defend freedom VATICAN CITY (AP) - In a of a Christian nation at the be­ when pregnancy is the result of meeting of Poland's two favorite ginning of its history." rape or incest. sons, Pope John Paul II greeted He hailed the role of Walesa Walesa has said he would sign Lech Walesa on Tuesday and and Solidarity, which was the the bill into law. It is now before told him the church stands first free labor movement in the the lower house, with a vote ready to defend Poland's new­ Soviet bloc. expected in April. found freedom. "The world must not forget Walesa met in the evening that it was the workers who with Italian Prime Minister Walesa, who first met with played the principal role in Giulio Andreotti, and both John Paul a decade ago as head overthrowing a system that was urged leaders in the Soviet of the fledgling Solidarity labor supposed to have defended Union's Baltic republics to move union, returned in a state visit them and identified with their cautiously in their quest for as the country's newly elected interests," John Paul said. independence. president. John Paul also raised the is­ Walesa said he wanted to sue of abortion now being de­ Andreotti said the indepen­ thank the pope and the church bated in Poland, telling Walesa dence movement "must move in for support in the struggle that the church defends human tune" with that of the interna­ against the former communist rights "from the moment of tional political scene "in order regime and that it was "not by conception until natural death." not to put into a crisis" the chance" that he chose the Vati­ Abortion was permitted and policies of Soviet President The Observer/J. Rock can for his first state visit. widely practiced under the Mikhail Gorbachev. Music and prayer John Paul, visibly pleased communists. But the Senate has Walesa added the Baltic A guitar player shares his talent at a charismatic prayer service. during an exchange of passed a law that would permit countries "must express them­ speeches, described the visit as abortions only in cases when a selves during these crises the "pilgrimage of the president woman's life is in danger or wisely and with gradualness." Moscow's Popov speaks at ND on Soviet condition By BETSY PUNSALAN Popov also came to discuss News Writer some of Moscow's problems with American authorities such as Secretary of State James Soviet Pn-1sident Gorbachev Baker, former Secretary of should ally himself and his State Henry Kissenger, and the Hightist Ctmter Coalition with mayors of New York City and democratic forces, Moscow City Los Angeles, he said. He also Coundl Chairman Gavriil Popov conducted business talks to said last night in Stepan Center. learn about the U.S. Medicare The lncture, titled "What's system and to discuss building Heally Going on in the Soviet industrial plants in Moscow. Union," was part of Notre Popov noted that his country Danw's Student Government has been led by the Rightist ledure series. Center Coalition, headed by Contradicting publicity circu­ Mikhail Gorbachev, since 1985 lating on Notre Dame's campus, and through the summer of Popov 11xplained that "I am not 1990. "At first, (Gorbachev) the 'mayor' of agreed with our (democratic Moscow-'mayors' do not exist forces) ... but in September, it in my country. I am the turned out that his conserva­ Chairman of City Council." tives didn't want to make any Popov, Hussia's leading liberal concessions. Gorbachev yielded frne-market economist, and his to pressure and cancelled his interprnter, prominent Soviet plans and tried to restore the journalist Boris Notkin, are in Rightist Center Coalition. the U.S. for a twofold purpose, "Though many issues have he said. been solved (under Gorbachev's ''I'd like to give America a G ·u p · The Observer/J. Rock leadership) ... this coalition has avn opov g1ves background on the political situation in the USSR with Boris Notkin interpreting at Stepan fuller notion of what happens failed to solve all of our center. in my country," Popov said, ex­ problems," Popov said. plaining that America's mass Popov illustrated five princi­ what problems to resolve dur­ other experiment on a country ing Soviet economy. According media does not give a "many­ ple differences between his ing Perestroika. According to which for the past 70 years has to Popov, Gorbachev is tolerant sided view of our President's own democratic policies and the pro-democratic Popov, gotten very tired of experi­ of a "variety of kinds of prop­ actions. That's why some those of Gorbachev and his Gorbachev and his conserva­ ments." erty, but (feels) the main and events in my country seem un­ conservatives. tives want to create a new so­ Secondly, Popov explained the dominant kind should be the expected and inexplicable." The first issue centers on cialism which would "make an- differing approaches to chang- · state one," adding that Gor- see POPOV/ page 4 ~oo t "< V"1~1.,rl<:~-' -.H::h:><=~nh<:>W page 2 · The Observer Wednesday, February 6, 1991 INSIDE COLUMN Best valentine is good enough to eat Early '80s men and------­ City H L Athens 43 28 women knew how to woo Atlanta 73 50 a valentine. Baghdad 50 31 Boston 64 41 Elaborate plans were Chicago 51 27 devised to make sure the Dallas-Ft.Worth 60 55 flowers arrived on Denver 52 26 Detroit 56 34 February 14 at precisely Honolulu 82 73 8 a.m., before that Houston 63 59 59ndianapolis 62 45 "significant other" heads Christine Walsh London 35 30 off to school or the office. Los Angeles 61 52 Dinner reservations were Asst. News Editor Madrid 48 34 Miami Beach 74 70 made for 7:30 p.m. (you Moscow 16 -04 New York 68 51 plan to show up fashionably at 7:45) in the 29 19 most socially correct restaurant in town. The 69 34 evening was capped off with a little dancing, 55 49 64 40 perhaps a bottle of champagne with fresh 46 25 strawberries (they're expensive this time of 62 44 San Francisco 61 50 year and low-cal too). and some sort of South Bend 51 36 jewelry (preferably rubies). Tokyo 52 37 What could be more perfect? Yes, we really Washington,D.C. 70 42 had it together in those carefree days of up­ turned polo collars, Tom Selleck mustaches and Love Connection. Where's the romance in all of this? Are these things really signs of our undying love TODAY AT A GLANCE and burning desire? Probably not, but if you don't give your honey something, you can be sure you will not have another SYR date as WORLD Italian liner, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot to death by a long as you live. hijacker and his body dumped into the Mediterranean Fear not, brave Romeos and Juliets.