North Quad Blackout Dims Lights but Not Student Pranks by CUFF STEVENS Blackout to a Short in the Electrical Approximately 6:30 A.M
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---~----------~-~ I Libya - page 4 VOL XX, NO. 128 MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1986 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's North Quad blackout dims lights but not student pranks By CUFF STEVENS blackout to a short In the electrical approximately 6:30 a.m. yesterady. CopyEdttor feeder line running between Farley Hall resident Anne Marie Cavanaugh Hall and LaFortune. He O'Brien said that the crowd of stu The lights went out in several said the short triggered a power dents who gathered on the quad North Quad buildings late Saturday plant breaker that shut down the af when the power went out was night, but the quad lit up with stu fected buildings' power. "wild." dents' fireworks and a bonfire, wit After the short was determined, "There was a lot of firecrackers nesses said. power was turned on for every af going off," said Breen-Phillips Hall Power failed at approximately fected building except LaFortune so resident Leslie Heidenreich. A II :30 p.m., according to Director of that Its line could be repaired, Delee bonfire was also started on the quad, Utilities John Delee. said. according to Heidenreich. Cavanaugh Hall, Breen-Phlllips "We didn't want to turn it back on Although Cavanaugh Hall's semi Hall, Farley Hall, Zahm Hall, until we found where the problem formal was put in the dark, the· dan LaFortune Stuf1ent Center, Student was," he said. cing continued in the hallways, said Health Center and the Administra He said electricity was restored rector Father Matthew Miceli. tion Building lost power during the approximately one and a half hours "The SYR continued upstairs with failure, according to Delee. later to every building · except Delee attributed the cause of the LaFortune, which regained power at see DARK, page 3 Titan 34D explosion investigated huge toxic cloud of rocket propel highly classified KH-11 photo recon lants over the Santa Barbara County naissance satellite or a new, VANDENBERG Calif. · The Air coast. previously unknown spy satellite, Force: has appointed a missile group The cloud drifted out to sea, the analysts Paul Stares and Jeffrey Ric commander to head an investigation Air Force said, and the nearby com helson said Friday. into an explosion that destroyed a munity of Lompoc was not endan Stares Is a military space expert at Titan 34D rocket and its classified gered. Fifty-eight people were the Brookings Institution in Was payload, believed to be a spy treated at the base hospital for skin hington, and Richelson is a military satellite, Friday. and eye irritations, and three were reconnaissance expert at American It was the second failed Titan 340 admitted. University In Washington. launch in a row. A rocket carrying a Col. Lee Heinz, commander of the KH·ll spy satellite exploded just 6595th Missile Test Group, was Friday's explosion, coupled with after liftoff Aug.. 28. named president of the panel inves the grounding of the space shuttle Italian salesmanship The rocket was barely off the tilo:atlng the explosion. fleet after January's Challenger dis Rebecca Hetland, Len Profenna, and Fred Pugllano (left to ground when it blew up in a fireball Although the Air Force said the aster, imperils the U.S. military spy right) officers of the Itt/tan Club, sell t-shirts and canole Friday at that showered the seaside launch payload was classified, the Titan al satellite program, Stares and Richel the Fieldhouse Mall. pad with flaming debris and spread a most certainly carried either a sonsaid. - Relatives c-ondemn United States for death of Kilburn in Lebanon we had, and now we have found that, "c:xecutc:d" by the Arab Revolution Instead, we hit a hornet's nest. I ary Cells to avenge the U.S. attack APTOS, Calif. - Family members of shudder to think about what will against Ubya earlier In the wc:ek. Peter Kilburn, an American hostage happen," said Repetto, 56, of San Ammerman said Kilburn's body killed in apparent retaliation for the Jose, Calif. arrived about noon and was taken to U.S. air raid on Ubya condemned She and other members of the Kil an undisclosed location for a foren yesterday the U.S. government for burn family gathered here at the sic examination. the attack and said it would escalate home of Tim Kilburn, Kilburn's nep The body wa'i flown aboard a U.S. violence In the area. hew, to call upon the world to join Air Force C-141 transport plane "I don't think Peter will be the them in a day of prayer April 25. from the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base In only one that will be sacrificed," said Kilburn's body was flown to West Germany, where: it had arrived Jeanne Repetto, Peter Kilburn's Andrews Air Force Base near Was Saturday from the Middle: East, said sister-in-law, in an interview. hington yesterday, said Bruce Am Master Sgt. Dave McMahon, a U.S. Repetto compared the U.S. air raid merman, a State Department military spokesman at the base, nc:ar -- .. ,.......J' on Ubya to throwing a bomb out a spokesman. Frankfurt . window to kill a pest. His body was discovered with Kilburn, of San Francisco, wa.'i A.Prnoto ·--------~-----------A U.S. helicopter takes offfrom Lebanon Saturday amid uncon- "By throwing the bomb out the those of two Britons in Lebanon's librarian at the American University window, we've blown out the win central mountains Thursday, along finned reports it was carrying the remains of slain American see KILBURN, page 4 hostage Peter Kilburn. dow, breaking whatever protection with a note saying they had been CBS Sunday morning news anchor to address students ByDAVIDT.LEE Red Smith Lecture Series since its journalistic experiences in three returned to his native land this News Staff inception four years ago, said, books, the latest of which Is the year after leaving in 1925. "Kurait Is considered to be one of best-seller "On the Road with The Red Smith Lecture: Series, Charles Kuralt, anchor of the the best, if not the best, stylists of Charles Kuralt." sponsored by Coca-Cola USA, CBS news program "Sunday Mor· all of broadcasting." After covering stories about began In 1982 "to honor certain nlng." will give his thoughts on Schmuhl added,"Much of his Latin America, Africa, and Viet journalists for the high standards print and broadcast journalism work reveals an abiding concern nam, Kuralt began his "On the that they hold (and) to recognize: tomorrow as part of the Red for American history, literature, Road" series In 1967.. He writing accomplishments In jour Smith Lecture: Series. and democratic values. That con graduated from the University of nalism," said Schmuhl, adding Described as "the laureate of cern, and the engaging way he North Carolina, where: he served that visiting lecturers "provide: the common man" by Time presents It, makes him a most ap· as editor of the Dally Tar Heel, their reflections on American magazine, Kuralt Is best known proprlate lecturer " for the beforejoiningCBSln 1957. journalism or some: of Its for his "On the: Road" series series. Kuralt will arrive at Notre problems." which covers the everyday Kuralt's work has earned him, Dame directly from the: Soviet Past lecturers have: included aspect~ of American life. in addition to two Emmy Awards, Union, where he Is covering a American Studies professor a Broadca.'iter of the Year award Charles Kuralt concert performed by pianist seeKURALT, page3 Robert Schmuhl, chairman of the in 1983. He has recounted his Vladimir Horowitz, who The Observer Monday, April 21, 1986 - page 2 In Brief 'Good ole days' can be found in future as well as in past Expensive fingers. lloyd's of London has agreed to "Well, when I was growing up, I had to walk six miles insure the hands of magician Doug Henning for $3 million, or to school in blizzard conditions. You know, a loaf of $300,000 a finger. "A magician is oniy as good as his hands," Henning bread was oniy a nickel--ah, the good-ole days." Scoff said. "Without them there would be no illusions. I'd be like a dancer Most everyone knows a relative or old family friend without feet." Henning's publicist, Michael Levine, said the in who is known to make statements like the one above. Bearby surance policy is the largest of its kind. He said Henning practices They sit back and reflect on when they were younger, finger exercises up to eight hours a day to keep his fingers nimble. making comparisons to the current craziness of our VIewpoint Editor world and say "When I was growing up, I could have never gotten away with ... " As I grew older, I noticed the "good ole day" stories returned home over Christmas break, I was told of mar were being told by younger and younger people. riages, new-born babies, divorces, and even death, not Lately, I have been kidding my older brother about of people older than myself, but happening to people Of Interest beginning the "I remember when" stage. He can speak who I regularly saw in the high school hallways. of a walk to school as an exaggerated four miles, al I listened in amazement as I was told an old teacher though he can still say this in a joking manner. was engaged to a girl I once had a crush on. Amazement I thought I had some time before falling into this trap turned to amusement as two girls I knew before college The Tri-Military Presidential Review of making comparisons to the "younger" generation.