.----------------------.-----------------------------------------------------r~---------------------------------------------- - ----- VOL. XXIII NO. 21 MONDAY , SEPTEMBER 24, 1990 .THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND students to attend conference on environment By DAVID KINNEY around the world to organize dents ... and decision makers." It others. Billy Bragg and other corporation. Students should News Writer the future of the student will also allow students to shrug bands will perform during the have a say in what is done with movement. off the image of apathy and conference. the money that they invest in Members of Notre Dame's The objective of the confer­ aimlessness with which they In addition, the Student their institutions, according to Environmental Action Club ence is not only to educate, but are often associated, she added. Environmental Action Coalition Denham. (EACJ plan to participate in a also to diversify the student ef­ The two-day conference will (SEAC). sponsor of the event, Direct action is vital after the national conference which fort. According to a press re­ feature many student-led work­ will launch a campaign to conference; groups are encour­ hopPs to develop better student lease, it will equip students shops on organizing environ­ establish corporate environ­ aged to participate in letter awanmnss of environmental is­ with effective tactics for action mental groups and action. Also mental accountability. The writing campaigns, to boycott suns. and help participants create to be featured are several group plans to use job boycotts, jobs of companies who are not CATALYST. the National change at the campus level. speakers, including Ralph divestment campaigns, and environmentally sound, and to Studnnt Environmental "Students are key to these en­ Nader, environmental advocate; direct action to affect corporate support Congressional bills that Conference, will be held on vironmental movements," said Helen Caldicott of Physicians behavior. help the environment. October 5-7 at the University of Helen Denham, CATALYST For Social Responsibility; The conference also plans to ND students hope to gain ed­ Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. committee member. "A gather­ Robert Redford, actor; Cesar address the issue of maintain­ ucation and awareness of envi- Its aim is to bring together ing of 3000 students will have a Chavez, President of the United ing the environmental account­ thousands of students from dramatic influence on both stu- Farm Workers; and several ability of the university as a see EAC I page 4 Iraq threatens oil fields and Israel IRAQ (APJ-Iraq on Sunday to try to force it to give up threatened to destroy Middle Kuwait, Iraq said: "We will East oil fields and attack never allow anybody, Israel if other nations tried to whomever he may be, to force it from Kuwait. strangle the people of Iraq At the same time, Iraq without having himself apparently sought to improve strangled." relations with France, admitting that its soldiers had raided the French see GULF I page 4 ambassador's residence in Kuwait 10 days ago. It apol­ ogized for the incursion, Gas prices which sparked a wave of retaliatory expulsions and increased tensions between soar to Iraq and European nations. Iraq also said it would not attend the U.N. General record high Assembly session which opens LOS ANGELES (AP) -­ Monday because its delegation Gasoline prices have hit an was not being allowed to all-time high in the wake of travel to New York on Iraqi the Persian Gulf crisis, with Airways. The airline has no the average pump price landing rights because of the jumping 2.91 cents per gallon U.N. trade embargo. in two weeks, an industry Foreign women and analyst said Sunday. children wrenched from their "The new high doesn't take husbands and fathers flew into account inflation, but home on the last U.S.­ even so, it's significant," said chartered flight from Trilby Lundberg, who Baghdad. publishes the Lundberg Letter. In Washington, top finance She said her latest twice­ officials from the world's monthly survey of 18,500 wealthiest nations met for a gasoline stations nationwide second day, seeking to forge a showed motorists were paying united front against threats to an average of 138.35 cents the global economy stemming per gallon. The survey was Moving wall from the gulf crisis. They met Joanne Koren, center, wipes her eyes as a candle is lit during the first day of the Vietnam Veteran with mixed success. see GAS I page 4 Memorial "Moving Wall" in Greenville, S.C., Thursday. Koren's son is now in the Middle East. In warning other nations not Government report calls for better ND to hold conference ways of avoiding teen pregnancy on church gatherings By JESSICA been an emphasis of tho WASIIINGTON (API -The contraception, and medical babies not planned or ZIEMBROWSKI RENEW program, aeeording fnderal government spent services, including abortion, welcomed," the report said. News Writer to Father Robert Pelton, host more than $21.5 billion last the report said. "It places a heavy burden on of the conforenee and ynar on welfare programs for "We can no longer let our families and communities and Invigoration of Catholic director of Notre Dame's families started by ttwn-agers. youth stumble into parenting, contributes to our country's parish life will be the subject Institute for Pastoral and aer.ording to a report released a course that should be em­ unconscionably high rates of of discussion at a Notre Dame Social Ministry. HENEW is a Sunday. barked on only when one is low birthweight and neonatal conference, titled "Toward a twelve year-old, nationwide The amount is $1.7 billion ready, willing and able to be­ mortality," it said. Small Christian Community parish renewal project. higher than for 1988 - partly come a parent," the report The most alarming Model of Church in U.S. because of inflation and said. increases in teen-age parishes." Pelton hopes that the expansion of Medicaid pregnancies are occurring The conference, running m1;1eting will accomplish a benefits, but also due to an The costs of teen-age preg­ among 15 to 17 year olds, the from September 30 to "consensus statement increase in births to teen­ nancies go far beyond those of report said. October 3. will focus on addressed to the Catholic agers, said the Center for public support, the report After a downward trend in existing parochial structures bishops of the U.S. on the Population Options report. said. births among this age group and the prospect of changing appropriate role of the small Thn figures illustrate the "Too-early childbearing from 1970 into the mid 1980s, church gatherings to those faith communities." nned for greater efforts to often impoverishes ... the lives the rate began increasing. It where members pray, study Notre Dame plans to host prevent teen-age pregnancies of girls brought too soon into jumped from 30.6 per 1,000 scripture, and commit and facilitate a national - including sex education, the rigors and responsibilities teen-agers in 1986 to 33.8 in themselves to service together consultation that will follow family planning counseling, of motherhood, of boys bewil­ 1988, according to the on a larger scale. support for delaying sexual dered and unable to parent National Center for Health activity, access to and provide adequately, of Statistics. Such experimentation has see CHURCH I page 6 page 2 The Observer Monday, September 24, 1990 r--------------------·-··-·-- INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Forecast for noon, Monday, Sept 24. Lines show high temperatures. Roadtripping: 80 a learning Yesterday's high: 53 experience? Yesterday's low: 47 Nation's high: 100 (Yuma, AZ) On the road again, I Nation's low: 2 3 just can't wait to get (Wisdom, MT) on the road again ... Forecast: Mostly Ahh. what a wicked sunny today. Warmer, web we weave when with highs in the upper we commence to 60s. Clear tonight and roadtrippin.' The cool, with a low in the Irish went to East upper 40's. Mostly Lansing this weekend John O'Brien sunny tomorrow. and won big-on the 90 field and off. I, as an Managing Editor upstanding member of the University media, decided it was my FRONTS: job to file a report from an exotic place. As that was not possible, I settled for • • • COLD WARM STATIONARY• • MSU. From this trip, I acquired a plethora, • • ©1990 Accu-Weather, Inc. no-a myriad, no-make that a cornucopia Pressure of knowledge. A First, my colleagues on this roadtrip pro­ ® © ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ RAIN vided me with the most useful knowledge. HIGH LOW SHOWERS T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT CLOUDY CLOUDY With this being the Year of Women and all, VIa Associated Press GraphicsNet I decided to venture north with five -count 'em FIVE-young ladies. When they can­ celled out, I was stuck with 5 ND chicks. The old saying says, "When in Rome, do OF INTEREST as Romans do." While none of these ladies were actually Roman, I decided to spend the Freshmen Registers will be distributed Jack Herer, environmental activist and author of a roadtrip being just "one of the girls." Thus, September 25, 26 and 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the book on the potential of cannabis and hemp as renewable, before I left, I learned all the words to "I Information Desk in LaFortune Student Center. non-polluting sources of energy for transportation and Am Woman" by Helen Reddy, bought some industry, will give a talk in the Multi-Purpose Room of the "coolers," and even got some of those esc today at 7:30p.m. Leprechaun face tattoos for the big game. I spent Friday night in a room at the Memorial Service to be held for Liz Baer and CSC Mexico Project meeting tonight at 7 p.m.