Soviets Warn Estonia Gang Members Relate Woes of Inner-City Life

The Observer _ VOL. XXIII NO. 119 THURSDAY , APRIL 5, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Soviets warn Estonia Resolution declared as invalid TALLINN, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Wednesday at a meeting in Mikhail Gorbachev told Estonia Moscow with Communist lead it must back off from its decla ers of Latvia, the third Baltic ration that it is an independent republic. country illegally occupied by the All three Baltic republics were Soviet Union, the president of forcibly annexed by the Soviet this Baltic republic said Union in 1940 following a se Wednesday. cret pact between Nazi Ger Estonia is cautiously follow many and the Soviet Union in ing the lead of its neighbor 1939. Lithuania, which declared inde The Latvian party will hold a pendence on March 11. Esto congress this weekend. It fol nian President Arnold Kuutel lows a congress in Lithuania in said Soviet President Gorbachev December and in Estonia in indicated he might react in the March at which their Baltic same tough manner. comrades decided to split with Ruutel, interviewed by Esto the main Communist Party. nian radio, quoted Gorbachev Tass, the official news as saying, “ When I heard of agency, said the discussion cen your resolution I was com tered on ways to increase pletely beside myself. You must Latvia’s sovereignly and in declare the resolution null and crease the role of the Latvian void. It is an invalid one.” Communist Party. It gave no AH Hholo “ It seems to me that I have to details. Bush visits Indiana introduce similar measures as Estonia’s declaration calling itself a sovereign but occupied Comedian Fred Travalena (left) gets a laugh from President Bush and Nancy Irsay during the those taken in Lithuania,” he President’s Indianapolis visit Tuesday. Bush was in town to attend an urban tree planting ceremony. quoted Gorbachev as saying. country came Friday and was Soviet soldiers occupied pub aimed at laying the groundwork lic buildings in Vilnius, the capi for a return to independence at tal of Lithuania, arrested some the end of a still-undefined Columnist speaks on workplace Lithuanian deserters and sent transition period. By KELLEY TUTHILL a distraction, and children are convoys through Vilnius as a Ruutel told Estonia's News Editor a pleasure, not a problem.” show of force. Gorbachev Supreme Soviet legislature a For most of the women in ordered Lithuanians to hand response to Gorbachev would As the work force changes, high-level jobs that consume over their weapons. be drafted Thursday and pre and includes more women, it is most of their time, there is a Soviet and Lithuanian offi sented next Monday to the na logical to expect the workplace “hidden cost of success”, cials said on Wednesday they tional parliament. to change as well, said Chicago according to Beck. She said were heartened by a Moscow Marju Lauristin, deputy Tribune columnist Joan Beck. that many sacrifice family life meeting between representa speaker of the Estonian “ It is true for m illions of us, and children, and that “half of tives of the republic and Supreme Soviet, said Estonia perhaps most of us, the these could-be CEOs” never Alexander Yakovlev, a top aide would not back off. workplace is still an marry or are divorced. to Gorbachev, that lasted more uncomfortable fit with the rest Beck suggested the following than three hours Tuesday She said she was optim isitic of our lives," she said. changes that would make the night. Moscow would prove willing to In her Wednesday lecture, work force a better place for Soviet Foreign Ministry discuss Estonia’s bid for inde “The Hole of the Family in Joan Beck women and their families: spokesman Yuri Gremitskikh pendence. “ In spite of this first Today’s Changing Workplace,” expectations of the past. •Flexible hours—she said on Wednesday called it “ a pos negative reaction, it is a con Beck presented problems “ Often, out of love, women do that this “small change” can itive sign” the two sides w ill be tact and every contact is needed confronting working women what they have traditionally make a big difference for able to resolve their confronta for negotiations,” she said. today and suggested some done and put their husband’s family life; tion. possiblitios for changing the career first,” said Beck. Many •Allowing two workers to Gorbachev said Saturday that Lauristin is a leader of the workplace. women, according to Beck, share one job, giving women Lithuania must renounce its Estonian People’s Front, the “In too many marriages shortchange their own careers more time to care for their declaration of independence be political movement that advo women have had to hold an for the benefit of their families; fore negotiations can begin on cates complete independence outside job and are still stuck husband’s. •Allowing women to do high- ending the dispute. from Moscow. with most of the traditional “Women are still making level work at home with Ruutel did not elaborate when work at home,” she said. career choices that hurt,” said computers and fax machines; asked by the radio interviewer On Tuesday, the 105-member Women have to work this Beck. Men do not pay the same • Permitting longer work what steps Gorbachev might Estonian Supreme Soviet “second shift" because many prices or make the same have in mind regarding Esto elected Edgar Savisaar, now men are unable or unwilling to choices as women do; “for them see BECK / page 4 nia. chairman of the People’s Front, break free of cultural Imen] marriage is an asset, not Gorbachev also spoke as the republic’s new premier. Gang members relate woes of inner-city life By PATRICK HEALY Membership in a gang is News Writer shown by colors, in their case black and blue, how they have their hats turned, and by ear Eight residents of Chicago’s rings and tattoos. They agreed Cabrini-Green Housing Projects that even without accessories and two brothers who work like colors or earrings, every there answered questions about one knows who’s in which gang the difficulty of life in the pro anyway. jects at a lecture on Tuesday. Most of the group had been The Cabrini-Green residents shot at least once. One of the candidly answered questions group, Darrell Webster, said about gangs, drugs, school, that he had almost died twice and violence that are part of from being shot, and in one in their daily life. Brothers Bill stance was shot four times. Tomes and Jim Fogarty ex The group said that not being plained their role in the young in a gang does not decrease the men’s’ lives and their experi possibility of being shot. They ences with them and others said many non-gang people are from the area. shot for being in the wrong The first topic of discussion place at the wrong time. They focused on gangs. All of the did point out that being in a men said that they were in a gang does give them a chance gang, some in the “Disciples” at retaliation. and the others in the “Black The Observer/ David Lee Residents from the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago visited campus yesterday. They spoke on, Disciples.” They said their see PROJECTS / page 4 gangs were not competitive. among other things, gangs, drugs, and violence as part of their every day existence on the streets. page 2 The Observer Thursday, April 5, 1990 I n s id e C o l u m n W e a t h e r American Forecast for noon, Thursday, April 5. Lines show high temperatures. system leaves time for growth A nineteen-year-old family friend walked Yesterday’s high: 46 into her first class at Yesterday’s low: 26 Cambridge University Nation’s high: 89 last fall and was (Presidio, Texas) given a corpse, minus Nation’s low: 16 the head. (Gunnison, Co.) As an English stu Forecast: Mostly cloudy and dent she did not have Alison Cocks cold today, with a high in the to complete an mid to upper 30s. Chance of undergraduate degree Editor-In-Chief flurries,.and tonight cloudy before beginning her and cold with a 30 percent three-year course in medicine. chance of light snow. 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