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VOL. XXIII NO. 4 THURSDAY , AUGUST 31, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Moldavian leaders mollify minorities Associated Press force of social and the political system. MOSCOW — Leaders of Krummins said he listened to Moldavia tried to placate a live radio broadcast of the outraged minorities Wednesday Central Committee meeting in by considering a watered-down Riga, the Latvian capital. version of legislation to make The clause is virtually identi Moldavian the official language cal to one in the Soviet consti in the ethnically diverse south tution that has put an effective ern republic. ban on alternative parties for 3 At the urging of President 70 years, Krummins said. Mikhail Gorbachev, reports Several small political parties said, the Moldavians were lean have cropped in recent months, ing toward the compromise in most of them in Latvia and the an effort to stop strikes by eth other two Baltic republics, nic Russians and others op Lithuania and Estonia. posed to the pending language law. Moldavia’s Communist Party Non-Moldavians were re chief, Semen Grossu, suggested ported on strike at 200 busi the language compromise to nesses and industries in the the legislature Wednesday after small republic next to Romania. speaking with Gorbachev on the The official news agency Tass telephone, Tass said. said rail workers in several ci ties joined the walkout Grossu did not say whether AP Photo Wednesday. Gorbachev suggested the com Protesters gather in the Moldavian capital Kishinev on Tuesday as their parliament considers a Under the original proposal, promise although, but that is controversial language law. Moldavian would be the only of widely believed to be the case, ficial language. The compro Vasily Nestase of the pro- mise would make it the lan Moldavian People’s front said guage of officials and docu by telephone from the repub Bush calls for aid to <*ug countries ments, but Russian would be lic’s capital, Kishinev. the everyday tongue for contact Moldavia now has no lan guage law. Russian tradition ready been increased by the made on changing plans for fu among ethnic groups. Associated Press ally has been the tongue for fact that we have given ture aid to that country. In the restive Baltic republics, government affairs and is Colombia $65 million” to help it “The fundamental issues of the Latvian Communist Party indicated willingness commonly used in commerce, WASHINGTON — The drug fight the “total w ar” declared the strategy, Kennebunkport Wednesday to accept competing which upsets native control strategy President Bush by the drug traffickers there. did not change,” one of the political parties, activist re Moldavians. will present next week will call However, the $65 million is sources said, noting that the fi ported. Gorbachev has repeat for $250 million to $260 million coming out of a discretionary nal strategy had gone to the edly voiced opposition to multi in economic and military aid fund available for fiscal 1989, printer before the meeting took The compromise would cut a ple political parties. for the three principal cocaine which ends Sept. 30. The strat place. The source declined to be part of the bill that would have Ianic Krummins, deputy edi producing countries egy covers fiscal 1990. named publically. made Moldavian the language tor of Atmoda, the Latvian Colombia, Peru and Bolivian - Scowcroft had not intended of communication among People’s Front newspaper, said an administrative source said to add the $64 million onto Colombia has suffered nu Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, the Central Committee ex Wednesday. next year’s budget, said the merous bombings by drug Bulgarians, and other ethnic pressed support for elimination Earlier, sources had said the source, who spoke on condition traffickers since Colombian groups in the republic. a clause in the republic’s con aid figure could hit $300 mil of anonymity. President Virgilio Barco im The initial law goes farther stitution that defines the lion, and national security ad President Bush met with his posed emergency regulations 1 than the language laws in a Communist Party as the leading viser Brent Scowscroft indi top lieutenants in the drug war and 1/2 weeks ago that allow number of other republics. cated Tuesday that the figure Tuesday at his vacation home for the immediate resumption would be even higher than that. in Kennebunkport, Maine, to of extraditions of alleged drug When asked about the re discuss the strategy, but trafficker to the United ported $300 million figure for sources said Wednesday that States for trial. the Andean countries, the focus of the meeting was Last Friday, Bush announced Scowcroft said, “That figure, I Colombia, not the strategy, and think you can assume, has al that no specific decision were see DRUG / page 5. ND offers creative writing M.A. option By KELLEY TUTHILL Dame has several important Dame faculty in 1975. Senior Staff Reporter publications and that several Matthias, professor of other faculty are active English, is a poet and critic The University’s writers who could also whose book “Places, Poems” Department of English will contribute,” Buttigieg said in is forthcoming this year offer a creative writing a press release. form Aquila Press and option in its M.A. program “We agreed that while a Swallow Press. He joined the starting next fall. creative writing option is in Notre Dame faculty in 1967. Joseph Buttigieg, creasingly the norm for O’Rourke, associate professor and chairman of English graduate programs, professor of English, is a English, said that the it had great potential at novelist and critic whose proposal to establish a Notre Dame for making us most recent book, “Criminal creative writing program more prominent in a field Tendencies,” was published was conceived during a where we already excel," two years ago by E.P. recent evaluation of the said Buttigieg. Dutton, Inc. He joined the English department’s The three faculty Notre Dame faculty in 1981. graduate program. members now teaching Percival Everett, Presently brochures are creative writing courses at associate professor of being printed and will be Notre Dame are Sonia English and former director sent out to various Gemes, John Matthias and of the creative writing pro universities, said William William O’Rourke. gram at the University of O’Rourke, associate Gernes, associate Kentucky in Lexington, professor of English. professor of English, is a joined the Notre Dame O'Rourke serves as the novelist and poet whose faculty this Fall. Everett is director of the creative most recent book, a the author of several works writing program. collection of poems entitled of fiction including “How the The Observer/ E.G. Bailey “We noticed that each of “Women at Forty," was pub West Was Won,” a collection Concentration the three faculty who are the lished last year by the of short stories forthcoming principal teachers of University of Notre Dame Saint Mary's student Gail Kelly studies her script for the play creative writing at Notre Press. She joined the Notre see ENGLISH/ page 4 “Tartuffe.” Auditions will continue tonight. page The Observer Thursday, August 31, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Notre Dame is not a President Bush, who hasn’t had any luck fishing on his summer vacation in Kennebunkport, Maine, jokingly asked a mail - oriented school newspaper Wednesday to stop running a “no-fish” logo chroni cling his rod-and-reel failures. The Portland Press Herald’s My sister received an impressive amount of graphic consists of a circle with a line drawn through a bluefish, mail this summer. similar to the “Ghostbusters” logo. Bush, whose hook has come Pardon me if I A high school senior with enviable SAT scores, sound egotistical, up empty for 13 days in a row, said he planned to call the news- she has found herself on the mailing list of any ■ per’s editor. “I think they should knock off that advertisement,” college anyone has ever heard of and then some. but I feel I’m worth e said during a presentation by the Chamber of-Commerce for I was thinking of buying her a wheelbarrow to this seaside resort and neighboring Kennebunk. Press Herald the extra twenty use to bring it in the house each morning. Executive Editor John K. Murphy said that wasn’t going to be cents.’ Personally, I no longer have to worry about enough to stop the graphic, which the paper plans to keep running receiving junk mail from every college I’ve never as long as Bush’s luck stays poor. heard of. In fact, I don’t have to worry about Alison Cocks receiving mail from any colleges anymore; not Production Manager even the one I attend. Wednesday in Medellin and Authorities imposed a curfew It struck me as amusing that the admissions some sort of address for me that worked. The nine other cities in Columbia in the heart of cocaine country to try committee of the University of Woolamaloo, lo mail began to travel non-stop to my doorstep to halt violence by drug barons stung by Colombia’s crackdown on cated in the back end of nowhere would take the without being routed through Yorkshire. narcotics. Also Wednesday, the U.S. government ordered families time and trouble to put together a large, elabo However, it was hardly clear sailing from of its embassy staff to leave Colombia, a spokesman said. The rate collection of brochures intended to convince there. I did not allow for a common American order apparently was given because of fears of attacks by drug her to forego Georgetown in favor of a ‘broad, paranoia: the idea that if one is sending some traffickers.