, , . Space shuttle -page 3 VOL XVI, NO. 116 an independent srudent newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1982 EJ.Salvador Hesburgh to observe elections By VIC SCIULLI 30,000 Salvadorans have been killed now appears very likely that Duarte News Assistant by paramilitary death squads in the will not capture a majority for a con­ past two years. stituent assembly and that power University President Fr. Theodore The United States has contributed will pass to a new right wing govern­ Hesburgh will leave for El Salvador over S200 million in economic and ment. A rightist victory could this week at the request of Secretary military aid. Training programs have produce even more war for the al­ of State Alexander Haig to supervise been established in Georgia and ready ravaged nation. the government elections next Sun­ Nonh Carolina for training Sal· If Duarte's party win's the election day. Hesburgh will join vadoran army troop leaders, who are but an extremist on the right es­ representatives from other nations largely inexperienced in the type of tablishes himself as a political force, to monitor the election process in battle being fought by the rebels. the suspcion that Duarte and his the war-torn country. The struggle has caused a great government survive only at the suf­ The problems which have torn loss of confidence in the present ferance of the country's oligarchs apart El Salvador are not ·new. In government. There is very little will be confirmed for many in El Sal· I979, dictator General Carlos Hum­ hope that any major change will oc­ vador and the U.S. beno Romero established a military cur after the presidential elections. Canada and West Germany have civilian junta which immediately The United States is counting on a joined El Salvador's leftists in created a reform program that solid victory by President jose protesting the elections. The leftists nationalized the core of the banking Napoleon Duarte and his centrist industry and expropriated many of Christian Democrats. However, it See HESBURGH, page 5 the countries larger estates fur dis· tribution among the campesinos. Rightist death squads began the murdering of men and women El Salvador group plans suspected of sympathizing with the left. Among these "leftists" were Archbishop Oscar Romero and four for Solidarity week American religious who were assas· sinated for their work with the na· By FRANCES NOLAN "EI Salvador: Country in Crisis," a tion's poor. Rebel bands News Staff slide presentation, will be shown counterattacked, inflicting heavy tonight at 7 p.m. in P.E.'s Chapel damage on military and economic Lounge, at 9 p.m. in Cavanaugh's targets. The Notre Dame-Saint Mary's El Basement Study Lounge, and at II As a result, there has been a Salvador Solidarity Group has reor­ p.m. in Keenan's Basement. Tomor­ Fr. johann Baptist Metz, a professor of fundamental theology continuing struggle between the ganized and has proclaimed this row the same presentation will be from the Unir,ersity of Munster in West Germany, spoke atz rebels and the leftist armed forces, week El Salvador Solidarity Week. shown at II p.m. in Lyons' Chapel. "Discipleship in the Emerging Church" last night at the Library who have had very little success in Many activities are scheduled in or· Atulilorlum.(photo by Rachel Blount) crushing the rebellion. An estimated der to help educate students about On Thursday March 25, a proces­ the situation in El Salvador. sion will march to St. Stephen's The group is concerned with the Church in South Bend where a Mass Colloquium speakers elections that will take place on will be held in commemoration of March 28 in El Salvador. The elec· Archbishop Romero's assassination tions will choose a constituent as· in El Salvador two years ago. Libraries face new censorship sembly which will have the power Students from Notre Dame will to draft a constitution and name the meet at 4:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart dy TONI RUTHERFORD AND "Democracy is strengthened, not Nightly News, and 60 Minutes president. Church and students from Saint CINDY COLDIRON compromised, by dialogue with its covered the controversy. After the "It is very unlikely that there will Mary's will meet at the same time at News Staff unelected branch: the courts." 60 Minutes program which covered be elections as we know them and Holy Cross Dormitory. An attempt at library censorship the efforts of Williams and his group we want to be in solidarity with the The two groups will meet at High­ Ubrary book censorship is on the occurred last year at theW ashington Citizens for Decency to remove people of El Salvador as they are way 3I where they will proceed to rise, and two speakers appearing at County Ubrary in Arlington, Va., books, Russell said she received mail being tortured and repressed by St. joe's High School, a central loca­ Notre Dame's Library Auditorium where a group called the Citizens for from all over the country supporting their government," stated Mary Ann tion for all those interested, in the laM Monday belit:ve that the public Decency had tried to remove from the library's stand against this type of Fenwick, a member of the solidarity South Bend community, to join in. i~ unaware of the implications. its shelves a number of books that censorship. group. The group will then march to St. Mary Kathnine Russell, Director they considered unfit. Russell An official seven-member team Stephen's Church where they will of the Wa.,hington County Library in described how she fought the cen­ Russell urged all librarians to be from the U.S. chosen by the State attend the special Mass. Arlington. Va., dist·ussed her par· sorship threat. aware of their state laws regarding Department will observe the elec­ Students interested in going to ticular struAAk with library censor· the library's rights in this type of tions in El Salvador. Fr. Theodore Chicago on Saturday March 27 for a .,hip 10 bt·gin the colloquim entitled When some ofthe town's busines­ situation. She also recommends Hesburgh, president of the Univer­ national demonstration will leave at "Censorship and the Ubrary." john smen were arrested for selling close contact with the community sity of Notre Dame, will be one of 8 a.m. from the Main Circle. Any stu­ Robinson, attorney and visiting pornographic material, Rev. Tom because the support she received the members of this team of obser­ dent who would like more informa­ professor of philosophy at Notre Williams filed a complaint with the was very beneficial. vers. tion should call Paulita at 277·3283. Dame, followed Russell lecturing on library about some books he found the legal ramifications of censorship. objectional. He requested that these .... .. Russell said that the public cannot books be removed from the shelves. depend on the courts to stop censor· Russell refused to allow this sort of ship. "Whatever courts fail to do or censorship, stating that the ap­ not to do," ht· said, "it is up to us to proved library selection policy had convince our fellow citizens that the been followed in selecting the strength of the nation lies not in books. book h:arning hut in the free ex­ change of ideas." Williams then requested a list of He said that a democratic state has borrower's names to see if juveniles a special interest in its citizens being had asked for books by authors such educated and selt~governed. "If we as Sidney Sheldon or Harold Robins, are to remain politically free then two of the authors he objected to. our educational system must foster This request was also refused. The the development of critical skills library was then threatened with a where the students think for them· suit for supplying pornography to selves," remarked Robinson. juveniles. Although the suit was Stating that the most lasting les­ never filed, Russell said she received sons we teach children are not what some comfort from the Virginia law we assign them to read but our con­ exempting libraries from prosecu­ duct, Robinson said that a school tion. system that distorts human reason­ ing is, in the end, intolerant, critical, Russell credits her success to and unproductive. community support and help from Robinson said that it is the duty of the American Library Association. "I the local school board to see that a can't say enough about their help. tolerant educational system exists. They were on the phone anytime I It's not Florida, but the recent warm weather is Bend weather.(photo by Rachel Blount) He also noted that something good needed them and gave me a lot of a welcome relief from the usual dreary South might result from censorship. moral support." Nightline, NBC ewsBrie/§ Tuesday, March 23, 1982- page 2 By The Observer and The Associated Press A man described as "husky and very muscular" ac­ costed a Saint Mary's student in the area west ofFlanner Hall shortly after 1 am. Friday, March 12. lbe woman escaped to the nearby Blasting off into limbo security office when she struck him in the face after he grabbed her arm. The assailant was described as about 21 years old, six feet, two inches in height, 1 70 to 180 pounds, dark brown hair and beard, Just as it has done twice before, the space shuttle wearing a blue jacket and blue jeans. The victim said he did not Columbia blasted into space yesterday. The glamour of appear to be the "student type." -The Observer the launches is beginning to fade somewhat.