Bomb Threat Shuts Down Casinos Ethiopia Invades Somalia

.,. Ambush, page VOL. XV, NO. 4 . an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary’s THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1980 In Poland Strikers claim victory GDANSK, Poland (AP)~ dented in the Soviet bloc. Polish strike leaders claimed The demand for free trade victory on their major demand-- unions appears to amount to a independent trade unions- in scrapping of Leninist-style gov negotiations yesterday. If true, ernment-controlled unions pre the agreement could signal the valent throughout the Soviet end of Poland’s worst labor bloc. The Gdansk workers crisis in a decade and give have rejected government of workers in a Soviet-bloc state fers of free elections within the their own unions for the first existing union structure, as well time ever. as of the right to strike. At about the same time in Reports of an agreement Moscow, the official Soviet came on the heels of reminders news agency issued a tough from Poland’s own leaders that commentary attacking “anti “ the world socialist power,” socialist” elements within the Soviet Union, loomed just Poland that it said were striving across the border. to push the Soviet ally “ off the In its dispatch yesterday, the socialist road.” Soviet news agency has accused But there was no overt sign the Western media of aggrava that Moscow was planning any ting the Polish crisis. It was intervention in the Polish crisis. part of a continuing campaign Polish government negotia to link the Polish unrest and Serious students fill the bookstore on their biannual pilgrimage in search of books of tors would not comment on the Western “interference.” wisdom. Despite the crowding and heat, they pursue their quest for knowledge with strikers’ victory claim. Strike [continued on page 4] dedication, [photo by Helen Odar ] leader Leszek Nalesa said no further negotiations would be held yesterday. “There is general agreement Demand $3 million between strikers and the gov ernment on forming free and independent trade unions,” Hndrzej Gwiazoa, one of the Bomb threat shuts down casinos workers’ negotiators, told re STATELINE, Nev. (AP)~ Casino were a typewritten note d eclined to leave their places at said was in a box on wheels, porters after emerging from Bomb squads sealed off a lakd* claiming it contained 1,000 gaming tables and slot ma was covered with blankets let closed-door talks with govern Tahoe gambling strip yesterday sticks of dynamite and report chines in neighboring casinos, tered “ IBM.” Police said it ment officials. and attached a long wire to a edly demanding $3 million and which operate 24 hours a day. apparently was slipped into the There was little detail avail blanket-covered “ explosive de a helicopter. Gov. Robert List early yester gambling hall by two men able on the reported agree vice” inside a casino while Several National Guard units day appealed to the extortion posing as computer techni ment, however. deciding whether to gamble on were put on alert Wednesday ists to send authorities more cians. If unions independent of the dismantling or detonating it. and thousands of people were instructions on what to do. About 3,000 persons were government are established, evacuated from a strip of high- When asked about midday evacuated Tuesday and hun analysts said, it could mean a Found with the device early rolling casinos along U.S. 50 yesterday if the payoff had been dreds more were ordered to loss of power for Poland’s Tuesday in a second-floor office about 40 miles south of Reno. made, Douglas County Sheriff leave Wednesday, authorities Communist Party - unprece of Harvey’s Resort Hotel- But some die-hard gamblers John Maple was evasive. said. Others were told to stay ' ‘We’ve held up to our end of inside their hotels, but away the bargain, and they haven’t from the side facing Harvey’s. said Maple, who confirmed that At the home of Harvey Gross, the object inside the casino was the casino’s owner, a shotgun- Ethiopia invades Somalia “ an explosive device.” toting guard stationed outside Bomb squad members Wed kept reporters at bay. nesday morning strung a wire Traffic was rerouted around from the device in the 12-story, the sealed-off zone, and author NAROBI, Kenya (AP) - eastern Ethiopia’s Ogaden desert to the north, where secessionists 250-room casino, one of five big ities offered to take gamblers Ethiopian infantry forces, backed region last year. At that time, in Eritrea province have waged a gambling halls in this commun and hotel guests away from the by combat aircraft invaded north regular Somali troops fought sporadic guerrilla campaign for ity. area in buses requisitioned western Somalia eajrly Wednes alongside ethnic Somali guerril more than a decade. Authorities at first said they from a local school district. day and fighting was in progress las who were seeking to unite the The United States does not would either dismantle or de The Nevada Highway Patrol along a 27-mile front; Somalia’s Ogaden with Somalia. support the Somali territorial tonate the device, but several said all non-local traffic into Defense Ministry claimed. Since then, the guerrillas have claim to the Ogaden, believing deadlines they mentioned Stateline was being turned the borders of nations should be passed with no such attempt. The announcement distribut continued a hit-run war against [continued on page 2] ed in neighboring Kenya by the Ethiopians, and Ethiopia has respected. ____ The device, which one source Somalia’s national news agency, charged Somalia was still infil said the invasion started shortly trating troops into the desolate before dawn when Ethiopian in region. Somalia has long claimed fantry units crossed the border the Ogaden region. Decision on female registration thiopian warplanes bombed at Earlier this month, Ethiopia five towns in the northwestern said its patience was wearing thin region of the African country. over fighting in the Ogaden. It poses problem for The Somalian claims could not accused Somalia of having regu by Mary Fran Callahan worry — for a variety of reasons. Teresa Phelps, who believes no be immediately confirmed by lar military forces ir the territory Senior Staff Reporter Attorney David Bent believes one should register for the draft, independent sources. and warned of possible retalia that the Court, comprised soley said if a decision to draft women In Washington, government tory action. All males born between 1960- of males, will never rule that were handed down, “a major officials were initially skeptical Western diplomatic sources in 1961 had to trek last month to women must register — simply breakthrough” would result in about the size of the military Mogadishu, the Somali capital, their local post offices in order to because of “the backgrounds the the area of equality. operation, saying reports of said recently there was evidence register for the draft. Next judges come from,” he ex “It would mean women are fighting had been received but of an Ethiopian army buildup at month, females of the same age plained. equal in aggression and physical nothing of the magnitude being Jijiga, a tank base located about could be following suit. Edward Murphy, a professor of strength,” she said. reported by Somalia. 60 miles west of the Ethiopia- The Supreme Court, in keep law, also gave an almost soci Phelps believes that such a The Somali ambassador to the Somalia border. ing with the Eighties’ feminism, ological answer as to why the decision could come with time, United States, Hbdullahi Ahmed The diplomats, however, will take a hard look in the near men-only registration policy but, she said, when she uses the Hddou, reported the invasion to doubted Ethiopia would cross future at whether or not draft shall stand. “Under the present word “time,” she is speaking in the State Department at midday the frontier to strike at possible registration for males only is climate,” Murphy said, “I think terms of decades. At present, Wednesday. rebel base camps inside Somali constitutional. the Court will be more than forcing women to register for the Ethiopia, with the aid of Soviet territory. Authorities on this subject, happy to let this issue cool.” draft could only open a prover advisers and Cuban troops, de The Soviet-backed regime in however, think 18- and 19-year- Offering a female perspective bial “can of worms.” feated Somalia in a war over Addis Ababa also has problems old women have no cause for on the subject, the Law School’s [continued on page 2\ News Briefs Thursday, August 28,1980 -page 2 by The Observer and The Associated Press Inside Thursday TllC FBI and state police in Sheridan, Ind. are expected to join the investigation for the theft of $360,000 worth of diamonds, $41,000 in cash and other valuable jewelry, Not yet time for coed dorms Hamilton County Sheriff s Lt. Richard J. Russell said yesterday. Russell did not release the victim’s name or the home’s Notre Dame to many, including myself, is just location, saying that to do so would be detrimental to the your basic all-American university. Like any other investigation, although he said the victim was prominent. The college or university in the country, Notre Dame Pam Degnan theft occurred Aug. 15 but was not publicly released until has its ups and downs —■ especially when it con yesterday, when the grandmother of the victim offered a $5,000 cerns the social life on campus. Now for those who times when I just sit back and think to myself that reward through a private investigator. Russell said the valuables have been around for awhile, you’re probably sick something, anything, has to be done to make life taken were kept in a safe with a combination lock.

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