Financial aid - page 6 Tuesday, December 2 1986 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Reagan told Reagan reiterates by senators to get facts, he knew nothing of take initiative Contra connection Associated Press Associated Press Larry Speakes said the admin­ WASHINGTON - From istration “has raised no objec­ friend and foe alike, President WASHINGTON - President tion” to key figures in the case Reagan is getting the same ad­ Reagan ordered his National testifying before Congress. vice: take the initiative and get Security Council staff Monday However, he said information all the facts out about the not to conduct diplomatic, mil­ that constitutes advice to the tangled dealings by members itary or intelligence operations president “could come under of his administration that sent while a review board inves­ the claim of executive arms to Iran and money to Con- tigates the agency’s role in the privilege” and might be with­ tras. secret sale of arms to Iran and held. “He needs to get on top of it,” the diversion of profits to White House and congres­ Senate Republican Leader Bob Nicaraguan rebels. sional leaders debated a pro­ Dole of Kansas said on Sunday. Asserting that “I want all the posal from Senate Republican “It’s not going to go away.” facts to come out,” the presi­ Leader Bob Dole of Kansas for What steps Reagan takes dent also said he would wel­ the president to call Congress could determine whether he come appointment of a special back to town to form a comes out of this crisis able to prosecutor if recommended by Watergate-style investigative govern effectively or whether the Justice Department to in­ committee. the nation will watch another vestigate possible wrongdoing. president struggling to survive And he reiterated that he had Reagan said the idea was a controversy he allowed to get known nothing about the secret “under discussion and there’s out of control. transfer of up to $30 million tobeen no decision yet. But we Reagan was back at the the Nicaraguan rebels, known want to work with the White House after a Thanksgiv­ as Contras. In a statement to Congress." ing holiday at his California his press spokesman in ranch. He returned vowing to response to questions from At the White House, Reagan “do whatever we have to to get reporters, Reagan said: “You gave marching orders to the to the bottom of this.” can tell them flat out that I had review board composed of The Sunday interview shows no knowledge whatsoever of it Tower, former Democratic on the television networks until (Attorney General) Ed senator and onetime Secretary reflected the high degree of Meese briefed me on it Monday of State Edmund Muskie, and skepticism and concern among afternoon” - Nov. 24. Brent Scowcroft, who was na­ Republicans and Democrats Gripped in the gravest crisis tional security adviser in the about what has been disclosed of his administration, Reagan Ford administration. so far. met with a three-member And while most members of review board headed by former Promising full cooperation Congress were reluctant to Republican Sen. John Tower of from the White House and all speculate on who might have Texas he charged with the task agencies of the executive known more than they now are of investigating NSC staff branch, Reagan told the com­ admitting, two Republicans operations. mission: suggested that Vice President Meanwhile, the Senate Intel­ George Bush should have ligence Committee went be­ “ I want to assure you and the known. hind closed doors to begin its American people that I want all “I don’t know,” said Richard own investigation of the Iran- the facts to come out - about Lugar when asked if he thought Contra affair. learning of a possible transfer A committee member, Sen. of funds from the sale of arms Bush knew. “I presume he The Observer/Fred Dobie should have known,” the Re­ Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., said to Iran, to those fighting the publican senator from Indiana Huddling up former national security ad­ Sandinista government. added on “Meet the Press.” Senior Elizabeth Hoppe shares a coke and a smile with Mike viser Robert McFarlane tes­ And we’ll continue to share the Lugar is chairman of the Sen­ Lattanzi, a graduate student, in the newly-renovated Huddle. The tified under oath during the af­ actions we take and the infor­ ate Foreign Relations Commit­ new facilities, including an ice cream shop, ethnic food counters ternoon. mation we obtain with the tee. and the Huddle Deli, opened Monday in LaFortune. American people and the White House spokesman Congress.” Low student interest cancels Sikh terrorists kill total of 32 Hindus spring semester in Jerusalem Associated Press Hindu-dominated states of Commissioner Ved Marwah, Haryana and Kashmir next to who prohibited public gather­ Punjab, which has a Sikh ings for four days. By JOE MARKE Charles blames the low en­ NEW DELHI, India - Hindus Staff Reporter rollment on a variety of fac­ rioted and Prime Minister majority. Near Parliament, police tors. The main reason, she Rajiv Gandhi pledged “tough Shops were closed Monday hauled away 300 supporters of Lack of student interest is says, is that students aren’t and strong action ” against Sikh by general strikes in towns and the opposition Janata Party responsible for suspended aware of the program, terrorists Monday, the day cities throughout Punjab. who held a non-violent protest operation of the 1987 Spring which began only last Fall. after four gunmen pulled Clashes between Sikh and in violation of the ban. They semester of Notre Dame’s “I think what it takes with Hindus off a bus in Punjab and Hindu youths were reported in were released later. foreign study program in every program is students killed 24 of them. Jallundhar, but police said no The lower house of Parlia­ Jerusalem, according to coming back to say what a Police said Sikh militants serious injuries resulted. ment was adjourned briefly be­ Isabel Charles, director of good experience it was,” killed eight more people in Pun­ About 3,000 Hindus rioted and cause members shouted “We foreign study programs. said Charles. jab state Monday. threw stones on the edge of want action!” and demanded “ Only three students Another factor contribu­ Sikh extremists, who want in­ New Delhi. Police fired shots dismissal of Home Minister signed up. We need at least ting to the low enrollment dependence for Punjab, killed into the air and lobbed tear gas Buta Singh, the chief law en­ ten or more students to par­ may be fear of terrorism in 14 Hindus in a similar bus to scatter the crowds. forcement official. Gandhi appealed in Parlia­ ticipate in order to run the the area, Charles said. hijacking July 25. Officers said they arrested program,” she said. “There may be some con­ Paramilitary troops were or­ 100 people for trying to block ment for all Indians to “be Charles said the program cerned with terrorism, al­ dered to patrol New Delhi traffic on the main ring road careful and hold tempers will be reopened next Fall if though there has actually during a general strike called around the capital. down.” He said “ a concrete the minimum enrollment of for Tuesday by an opposition “There is a lot of tension in plan” of strong action had been ten students can be met. see ISRAEL, page 3 Hindu political party. Strikes the city, but we are keeping a devised to combat Sikh ex­ also were scheduled in the watch on things," said Police tremism, but did not elaborate. The Observer Tuesday, December 2 1986 - page 2 In Brief Technicolor in old movies The Student Senate has approved plans for issuing “I’m Driving” pins, entitling their bearers to free soda as long as they agree to abstain from alcoholic beverages. Off- makes some people see red Campus President Race Thoman said The Commons, the Senior Alumni Club, Bridget McGuire’s Filling Station and I can’t understand why so many people are Chips would most likely participate in the program.- The upset about this business of coloring black and Observer white films. Tripp Saint Mary’s economics professor Jerome McElroy was This new process will enable us to see classic Baltz a participant in the first “Interoceanic Workshop on the oldies like “It’s A Wonderful Life” in vibrant News Editor Sustainable Development of Small Islands,” held recently technicolor. It’s a miracle of modern technolo­ in Puerto Rico. The specialists’ areas of expertise included gy- economics, demographics, marine and terrestrial biology, I’m all for technology and progress. After all, and planning. Administrative observers from the U.S. technology and progress brought us color p Congress and the United Nations Development Program, movies in the first place. Imagine the initial as well as representatives from Malta, Yugoslavia, Japan, impression on the 1930’s audience of “Gone With and China were also present. - The Observer the Wind.” Color movies became the rage, black and whites became a sad remnant of the Murder U. A Hollywood film producer is turning the distant past. Purdue and Indiana campuses into sets for a new movie Why watch Jimmy Stewart wander through to be called “Murder U.” The low-budget effort, $1.5 mil­ drab, black and white Bedford Falls when you lion, will star Clint Walker. - The Observer could see Atlanta collapse in a fury of red and orange flames? Why see Humphrey Bogart say At Monday night’s meeting of the Saint Mary’s Board “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid” in the gray, un­ of Governance, Betsy Burke, vice president for academic colored setting of Casablanca? IZ - 2 - K I affairs and college relations, presented the results of the Those who protest the idea of colorization student government survey.