...... --------------------------------------------------------------------~---- --- j ACCENT: The 'new' Chicago I ~~~~9~:.::,~o~..O':!rm•• ·r--~~Ql '--==========================================: today, with highs In the low rl...V_I_E_W_P_O_IN_T_:_U_s_h_e_rs __ n_o_t_d_o_i n____;;g~j;._o_b _____ ______,j. ~~~~:~~~v '":.:,owwaS: 11:-r VOL. XXI, NO. 22 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1987 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Reagan defends U.S. attack on Iranian mine-laying Associated Press gulf toward Bahrain "because The Pentagon said three Reagan also insisted, of lies" and declared: "The it had been seen loading Iranians were killed and two however, that the United States U.S. shall receive a proper WASHINGTON - U.S. mili­ suspect devices" before were listed as missing in the had not entered a shooting war response for this abominable tary forces had shadowed the leaving an Iranian port. attack, while 26 Iranians were with Iran, and White House and act." Iranian ship they attacked "It was no accident" that rescued, four of them wounded. Pentagon spokesman said the Pentagon sources reported Monday night for days, waiting U.S. helicopters from the It said a Navy boarding party crewmen of the Iranian vessel U.S. military bases around the for conclusive evidence the frigate USS Jarrett were flying found 10 mines aboard the Iran would be returned to Iran. globe had been reminded to vessel was laying underwater near the Iranian ship Monday Ajr, a 1,662-ton amphibious lan­ At the same time, Iranian maintain an alert for terrorist mines, Pentagon officials said night, using infrared sensors to ding craft. leaders dismissed the U.S. ac­ activity, and tensions in the Tuesday. monitor its activities, one offi­ President Reagan, mean­ count of the incident and vowed gulf itself remained high. The officials, who requested cial added. time, defended the U.S. attack revenge. anonymity, said the vessel Iran "When we caught them in the on the ship as clearly "aut­ Iranian President Ali An unidentified Iranian Ajr had been tracked by radar act, we had the evidence we horized by law" because the Khamenei, appearing at the hovercraft closed within on& and by air for several days as needed and we moved in," he vessel was sowing mines in in­ United Nations, described the it steamed through the central said. ternational waters. American account as a "pack see ATI ACK, page 4 Nicaragua to try partial cease-fire Associated Press country and concentrate troops in designated areas. MANAGUA, Nicaragua It said the actions were uni­ President Daniel Ortega said lateral and would allow the Na­ Tuesday the government would tional Reconciliation Commis­ start a partial truce and sion and other peace withdraw troops to designated commissions in these regions areas to open the way to a total "to explore the willingness of cease-fire with U.S.-supported the counterrevolutionary Contra rebels. chiefs to accept the cease-fire, "We are working on concrete and if this is positive, to ar­ actions to make known the first range the procedures for car­ zones where the cease-fire will rying it out." be declared," Ortega said. He The announcements were the said the locations of the desig­ latest in a series of actions to nated areas would be an­ comply with a Central Ameri­ nounced but did not specify a can peace plan Ortega and the timetable. presidents of El Salvador, Hon­ The leftist government also duras, Costa Rica and announced that Radio Catolica, Guatemala signed on Aug. 7. the Roman Catholic Church Creation of the Reconcilia­ radio station, could reopen im­ tion Commission was one of the mediately. commitments in their agree­ A communique read by ment. presidential spokesman On Sunday, the government Manuel Espinoza said that to announced that the opposition achieve "an effective cease­ newspaper La Prensa would be A set-up fire" Ortega had decided to allowed to resume publication Students get the ACC~ready for University Pres· day of activities surrounding the Inauguration. postpone offensive military after a shutdown of more than ldent Edward A. "Monk" Malloy's Inauguration See the special Inauguration Section Inside. operations in part of the a year. Mass. The Mass Ia scheduled to kick off a long Drug-seeking gunman Malloy inauguration scheduled robs Holy Cross House Special to The Observer yesterday with a 6 p.m. dinner An outdoor academic By JIM RILEY usually left open, Johnson said. in the South Dining Hall for procession, composed News Editor The intruder approached the For the first time in its 145- out-of-town guests arriving primarily of Notre Dame fac­ nurses station upstairs and year history, the University of that day. The dinner was fol­ ulty and students, and heads Notre Dame Security was asked the nurses about a per­ Notre Dame will inaugurate lowed by a performance of of learned societies, will move still investigating Tuesday an son who supposedly was a ter­ a president. Notre Dame choral, or­ from the mall of the Hesburgh armed robbery at Holy Cross minally ill patient there, said Father Edward Malloy, chestral and organ music in Library to the ACC arena at House which occurred late Johnson. C.S.C., will be formally in­ ·Sacred Heart Church. 2:15 p.m. for the inaugural Monday, according to Phil The man was told that no pa­ stalled as the University's six­ Today's inauguration academic convocation. Johnson, assistant director of tient by that name was in teenth president in events include a 10 a.m. Mass About 175 persons were in­ Security. residence at the house, and he ceremonies scheduled to celebrated by Father Malloy vited to attend the inaugura­ Johnson said the intruder was escorted to the door, begin at 3 p.m. this afternoon in the arena of the JACC. The tion as representatives of uni­ stole a small amount of nar­ Johnson said. in the Joyce Athletic and Con­ homilist will be Father versities, colleges and cotics from the nurses station The intruder then pulled out vocation Center. Thomas Oddo, president of learned societies. South Bend at the house, located at the a small handgun, ordered the The 46-year-old theologian,· the University of Portland Mayor Roger Parent and Bis­ edge of the Notre Dame nurse to go back upstairs, and who assumed office June 1, (Oregon). hop John D'Arcy ·of Fort campus on Douglas Road. demanded narcotics. was preceded in the Notre Following the Mass, the Wayne-South Bend were ex­ Retired Holy Cross priests, Johnson said the intruder Dame presidency by 15 Holy chairman of the University's pected to participate in the some of whom require nursing then fled the building, taking a Cross priests, including Fa­ Board of Trustees and the procession. care, reside at the house. small bottle of narcotics. ther Theodore Hesburgh, who president and chief operating Malloy's inauguration con­ No one was injured and noth­ served 35 years. All of Mal­ officer of the Coca-Cola Com­ vocation is scheduled to open ing else was taken, Johnson Johnson described the loy's predecessors, however, pany, Donald Keough, will with remarks by Patrick said. suspect as a black male in his took office without the tradi­ speak at a luncheon for more Cooke, president of the Notre The man entered the house late 30s or early 40s. He was tional academic ritual. than 1,500 inaugural partici­ at approximately 9:35 p.m. light-complected with several Inaugural activities began pants in the ACC Fieldhouse. through an a door that is acne scars. page 2 The Observer Wednesday, September 23, 1987 In Brief Throwing dining hall food Elizabeth Saunders, of Oak Park, Illinois, has won just turns my stomach the $500 first prize in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Com­ petition at Notre Dame Law School. Saunders, a 1984 Notre For the past two years the staff of University Dame graduate and currently a Dean's List student in the Food Service at Notre Dame has put the Kevin Law School, won for her essay "Copyright Protection for "thanks" in my Thanksgiving and the eats in Compilations of Fact: Does the Originality Standard Allow my Easter. Recently they have made my life Becker e Protection On the Basis of Industrial Collection?'' The on a diet a lot better. And before I decided to Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition is sponsored an­ drop a little burlap, they made all of my meals Editor-in-Chief nually by the American Society of Composers, Authors, exciting and speciaL and Publishers in memory of ASCAP's first General Coun­ But I guess to call anything the dining hall sel who died in 1936. The award originated in 1938. does for Notre Dame students "special" is to go out on a limb these days. Bill Hickey, director of University Food Ser­ vices, has recently cancelled all Food Services special events for the remainder of this semes­ ter in the wake of a major food fight after the Of Interest \ Michigan game. And instead of taking the can­ cellations as a sign of Hickey's legitimate dis­ appointment, some students think having the Students and staff attending the Inauguration picnics and special nights taken away is a little­ Ceremony at 2 p.m. today are asked to follow these in­ disguised blessing. structions. Those approaching from the north side of Some students have asked what else they campus are asked to walk between Decio and the Snite could do to have Hickey remove some other (down Old Juniper Road), avoiding the library mall. "undesirable" aspects of the dining hall oper­ Please do not walk down Juniper Road. Proceed around ~tion. Maybe we can get rid of the tofu and the west side of the football stadium, and enter the Joyce meatloaf and stirfry, etc.