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Sunny, Cool Clear and ACCENT: Peace movement reps visit ND cool today, high 65 to 70. Clear and very cool tonight with the low near 45. Sunny and pleas ant Thursday with the high in VIEWPOINT: An intellectual potpourri the lower 70s. VOL. XXII, NO. 7 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1987 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Death of priest ruled a suicide By CHRIS BEDNARSKI found Rasmussen’s body in the News Editor basement, said Kilgore. Rasmussen, a member of the The death of a priest who Notre Dame faculty since 1979, taught theology at Notre Dame left a note in a sealed envelope was ruled a suicide late Monaddressed to a friend, McMeel day night by Deputy County said. The note asked that Ras Coroner James McMeel. m ussen’s body be crem ated “ in Father Niels Rasmussen, 53, the event anything happened to was found dead in the basehim,” McMeel said. ment of his home at 602 West Police, however, are not Parkovash St. Monday around treating this as a suicide note, 4 p.m., said Lieut. Rick Kil he added. gore, public information offi University President Father cer for the South Bend Police. Edward Malloy will celebrate An associate professor of the a memorial Mass for Rasmus ology, Rasmussen died of a sen Friday at 10 a.m. in Sacred single, self-inflicted gunshot Heart Church. wound to the chest, McMeel A prayer service will be held said. for Rasmussen at 4:15 today in McMeel estimated the time the Library Auditorium of death as sometime Saturday Lounge. afternoon. Rasmussen, a native of Den Investigators still do not mark, was ordained a know why Rasmussen killed Dominican priest by the bishop himself, Kilgore said. of Copenhagen in 1963. He received his doctorate in theol The body was found by an ogy from the Institut other professor of theology, Cataholique de Paris in 1978, who had gone to the house after traveling to Catholic Univer Rasmussen had failed to attend sity in Washington D C. the fol the formal opening of school lowing year, where he taught mass Sunday morning or his for a year before coming to Monday classes, Kilgore said. Notre Dame as an assistant After finding the door locked, professor. M ob s c e n e ObserverSusy Hernandez the other professor obtained a In 1983, Rasmussen, an ex Hordes of freshmen and upperclassmen packed Stepan Center for the annual Notre key to the house from a neigh pert in Latin liturgies, became Dame activities night Tuesday trying to get a sampling of the many organizations under the bor, entered the house, and an associate professor. dome. Malloy, pope to meet Iraquis claim more hits later this month as gulf war continues By MATT GALLAGHER director of residence life. They Associated Press Iran reported retaliatory emirate in the central gulf. raids on military and indus News Staff will be presenting the Pope Later reports said at least with a folio describing educa trial targets in Iraq. two shoulder-fired rockets University President Father tion at Notre Dame, Malloy MANAMA, Bahrain In Washington, the State hit the ship, causing no Edward “Monk” Malloy will said. Rockets fired by an Iranian Department said the U.N. casualties among the 37 meet with Pope John Paul II speedboat started a fire on Security Council should crew members but starting Sept. 12, 1987, in New Orleans The morning session of the a Spanish supertanker Tues draft sanctions unless Iran a fire in the engine room. to discuss Catholic higher edu meeting, organized by the Na day, and Iraq said its planes agrees to a cease-fire by the Crewmen put out the fire, cation. tional Catholic Educational As hit four ships and Iranian in end of the week. and the tanker continued The meeting, at Xavier Uni sociation, will stress primary dustrial targets. Iran Soviet officials urged that down the gulf loaded with 2.1 versity, will highlight the and secondary education in claimed it shot down three diplomacy be given more million barrels of Saudi Pope’s stay in New Orleans, America. The evening session raiding aircraft. time. crude oil, according to the part of his visit to the southern will present American higher A convoy of U.S. Navy “Soviet-Americafl radio reports and Spanish of United States next week. Pope education. The Pope will view warships and two reflagged cooperation is not only pos ficials. John Paul will meet with rep a short video presentation, Kuwaiti tankers arrived sible, it is necessary these It was the second report in resentatives of all of the Cath hear several brief addresses, safely in the emirate’s days,” said Vladimir two days of an attack on a olic colleges and universities of and be presented with written waters. Kuwait and Iraq, Petrovsky, a deputy foreign ship by Iranian speedboats the United States. statements from each school, which has been at war with minister. in apparent retaliation for “ Each city (on the Pope’s according to Malloy. Iran since September 1980, Dispatches from Iran’s Iraq’s renewed air raids. trip) is highlighting a different are neighbors at the head of news agency quoted Prime Gunfire from a speedboat aspect of Catholic life,” Malloy Malloy, who has had the op the Persian Gulf. Minister Hussein Musavi as raked a Kuwaiti container said. “New Orleans has two portunity to see Pope John Paul The ships started up the saying Iran would make its ship early Monday off the themes: one is the Black Cath II before in Rome, expressed gulf Saturday, the day after position clear soon on the Se United Arab Emirates in the olic experience, and the other his excitement at the possibil raids were renewed in the curity Council truce resolu southern Gulf. No casualties is Catholic education.” ity of representing Notre Dame waterway after a six-week tion of July 20. Iraq has were reported. Along with Malloy, the Notre at this program. lull. The only incident re agreed to observe the resolu The convoy’s arrival at Dame delegation will include “I think,” Malloy stated, “ if ported during the 550-mile tion if Iran does. Kuwait was reported by Rev. David Tyson, vice- you look at Catholic higher edu trip was the rescue of a Radio monitors said the sources close to the Kuwait president for student affairs; cation, the vast bulk of institu downed Iraqi pilot. 300,078-ton Spanish super Oil Tanker Co., owners of the Dr. Robert Gordon, vice- tions in the world exist in the Iraq reported air raids tanker Munguia sent a 81,283-ton Surf City and president for advanced United States . and we think Tuesday on four ships in the distress signal when at 79,999 ton Chesapeake City. studies; James Murphy, asso that’s what we’re celebrating, gulf and five industrial and tacked by one or two Iranian They are among 11 tankers ciate vice-president for Univer and this will be our opportunity oil targets in its air w ar on speedboats 55 miles north given U.S. registration so sity relations, and Ann Firth, to do it.” Iran’s economy. east of Bahrain, an island the Navy can protect them. page 2 The Observer Wednesday, September 2, 1987 In Brief The Emerald City of Oz: a real awakening The garbage barge is finally being emptied. The burning of the nation’s best-known trash began today after “Oh dear God, another day of differential one-ton bales from the garbage barge Mobro were broken equations and behavior management. .” Mark apart and inspected by workers in masks and white suits. And so I stumbled out of bed (fell, actually - r s Environmental inspectors from the city and state probed it’s a loft) and dragged myself out the door toMcLaughlin v Ty the garbage with tiny rakes but found little more than face another day of insane classes, no alcohol, paper, cardboard, wood and typical commercial garbage. and not enough women. Sigh. Projects Manager The barge left New York March 22 with com m ercial y a ste But as I walked across North Quad out to the from New York City and neighboring Nassau County^pn used garage they call the Aero Building, the Long Island. It toured six states and three countries before Stonehenge fountain just went berserk. The finally returning to New York at the beginning of the sum water just kept spouting higher and higher, AQir mer and remained on the barge while local officials argued sucking me, Cavanaugh, and most of the over what to do with the waste. - Associated Press campus with it. I floated as if I were flying. I saw Father Miceli riding by on a bicycle. “Fat A tree lover with a history of arrests and mental her Miceli! Father Miceli!” I screamed. But to problems shot a man trimming hedges in a neighbor’s no avail. yard Tuesday, and held police at bay for nine hours before I woke up in a very strange place. All these being apprehended. Police threw percussion grenades and little people were dancing, cavorting, and doing tear gas into the home of the alleged gunman, John Rohm, somersaults around me, singing “It’s dead! It’s poverty 41, and then entered the house, arresting Rohm without dead!” I saw the remains of Stonehenge lying incident. Police said Rohm was a former teacher in the atop the remains of a brown brick building, Indianapolis Catholic schools. The incident began when with strange vapors and slimes oozing out.