. .Irish Miracle — page 10 VOL. XV, NO. 97 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary’s MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1981 Murday, Kenney Soviet discuss platform V, Congress Don Murday, a junior manage­ then we’ll have the support of the convenes ment major from Carroll Hall, is CLC, and that’s im portant to Fr. one of two announced candidates Van (W olvlear). In other areas, we MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet for next week’s Student Govern­ really don’t need the input of the Communist Party, already ment Student Body President elec­ CLC, we re mainly doing our proclaiming "major” foreign tion, along with running mate Tara homework and approaching them policy successes over the past five Kenney, In this two-part series, ourselves. years, is expected to focus its 26th Observer Executive News Editor Q: Your platform mentions the Communist Party Congress Tom Jackman interviews Murday creation o f a "student complaint opening here Monday on relations and Kenney, and, next week, his bureau. ” W hat w o u ld th a t be, and with the West, informed sources opponent Patrick Borchers. how would it differ from Om­ here said. budsman? The two-week long Congress is A; Well, I think it would be bet­ being viewed by many analysts as a ter to have a direct line to Security. barometer of long-term Soviet Maybe we’ll just redefine OBUD, strategy plans. President Leonid I. but I know that at the Student Brezhnev’s speech to the opening Senate meeting, there were com ­ session Is considered his most im­ plaints brought up by people about portant policy address since the Security. What we should do is set last Soviet congress in 1976. up a bureau in which people can Plans for Brezhnev’s speech approach students. I would know were being closely guarded, but Murday /Kenney who to approach only because I’ve Western diplomats said they ex­ been involved, but if you were just pected the address to contain a student on the street, I’m sure several new foreign policy, in­ Q: Wbat is your vision o f Stu­ you wouldn’t think of going to itiatives. dent Government as it would Dean Roc met with a complaint These could include laying the work at peak efficiency? What (about Security). groundwork for an improved can it really accomplish? Q: But that’s who they answer dialogue w ith the United States A: Well, there are two different to. despite current problems, perhaps areas In w hich the student govern­ A: That’s right, but you or I even leading to an eventual ment deals; the area that deals w ith wouldn’t know that. But if we set meeting between Brezhnev and the University, and the area that up a bureau which would handle is i President Reagan o r other Western deals w ith students as a whole. The See Q & A, page 3 The McCandless-Holy Cross booth was one o f the busier spots at leaders, they said. Some observers (Student) Senate w ould address M ardi Gras during the fin a l hours o f what may be the last festival. anticipated a slightly more flexible issues w hich the students can take 3 approach by Brezhnev to resolving care of themselves, such as ven­ the controversy over Soviet ding, and security, issues w hich military intervention in Afghanis­ they can do research on (such as For children under 10 tan, but t no change in basic policy meal plans) and areas in w hich toward the central Asian nations they can approach the Administra­ was expected. tion, with the research and the Auto accidents are No.l killerState television broadcast film o f background, and have their arriving foreign Communist homework done. I found that’s the By ROBERT LOCKE safety seats that just strap to a car's leaders, including Fidel Castro of best way to handle the Administra­ And it w ould probably save more AP Science Writer regular scats. Cuba and Polish party chief Stanis- tion around here, is to go in there kids.” Hunt is president of the law Kania. It also broadcast footage well versed in your area, know He said safety seats should be LOS ANGELES (A P ) — About American Trauma Society, an or of foreign Communist leaders what you’re talking about, and be used anytime a youngster is travel­ 1,200 American children die in car ganization of physicians who laying wreaths at the Lenin ready for anything they can come ing in a moving car, beginning with accidents every year. A San Fran- specialize in treatment of severe mausoleum on Red Square ad­ back at you with, because as you the first ride home from the hospi­ cisco doctor says more than 80 injuries. The society recently jacent to the Kremlin. know, they’ll try to put you off or tal and lasting to about age 4. percent of those deaths could be sponsored a San Francisco cduca- If the hazards and remedies arc Red Square and the surrounding shoo you aside. But if you can pin prevented with safety seats that tional conference on young vie so w e ll known, why don’t all area were decorated w ith enor­ them down, and have the answers cost as little as $30. tims of auto accidents. parents put their children in safety mous pictures of Lenin and to their questions, they begin to lis­ “This is now the major cause of Hunt noted that Tennessee seats? Brezhnev, and patriotic music ten to you. So in areas like that, I death and disability among passed a law in 1977 that requires T guess it’s mostly the same blared from loudspeakers on think the Senate w ill be the viable children under 10 years old - it’s safety seats for children under 4 reason adults don’t wear seat adjoining streets. source for the students to ap­ greater than cancer, greater than years old — with the exception of Some 4,000 Soviet party mem­ proach. belts,” Hunt said. "They never anything else, ” Dr. Thomas Hunt o f children held by passengers, believe it can happen to them, so bers and nearly 100 foreign Com In other areas, such as party the University of California at San ------------------------------------------------------ room guidelines, rules, the student See KILLER ,page 3 See SOVIET, page 4 Francisco said center, there are things which MONDA The most common injuries are l should be discussed by the Univer­ to the head and spine, Hunt said, S S sity as a whole, including faculty, and thousands of children are ............. including rectors and ad­ injured or killed each year in sud- No suspects ministrators. den stops that don’t even involve Q: You think the faculty should crashes. Hunt said the state has about 30 be brought in to this? Holding a child in your lap percent compliance and "since St. Michael's A: Just for the ir input. Also, be­ burglarized provides almost no protection, he that time there have been 76 cause I think they’re in favor o f said. A sudden stop from 30 mph children killed in auto accidents — what we have to say. You’d be imparts so much forward motion only one was (confirmed to be) in By DAVID SARPHIE person used a key to get in, o r he surprised the number of faculty to an unrestrained body that “ a a safety seat. ” But o f the 14 Staff Reporter stayed in the building after the members who know what's going child effectively weighs 300 children killed in car crashes in close of business, or he came in on around here, that know the pounds at that time. Nobody can Tennessee last year, 13 had been Notre Dame Security has no through a skylight ” problems. They, and also the rec­ hold him. ” held by passengers. suspects in the Friday morning Terry said the door found open tors I feel are very important, and Ripped from a mother’s arms, a The Tennessee legislature is burglary of the St. Michael’s on the southeast side of the plant also the administrators. I think all baby “acts like a missile” ... hitting considering a bill to remove that Laundry Service. An undetermined was probably used as an exit route. the issues that we bring to the CLC whatever is ahead of him. The loophole. Rhode Island has amount of money was taken from "The bolt lock on that door was are not ones w hich are going to be crushing force (of a dashboard or adopted a similar bill without the the laundry, which serves the male pulled out from the lock’ posi­ debated on, but rather to gather in­ windshield) on a child’s body or exception. dorms on the N otre Dame campus. tion," he explained. “There was no put into the areas. I think the Uni­ brain w o uld be the same as if the Hunt said some car seats on the According to director of indication that it was done from versity is in favor of a student child fell from a three story build- market are good enough that their Security Glenn Terry, an employee the outside. ” center, it’s just a matter of time ing, ” Hunt said. use could save 1,000 young lives a of the laundry found the southeast Terry noted that a security of­ before we get one. I think the Uni­ The tragedy is that so many of year. But many are far from adc- door of the plant open, when he ficer had checked the laundry at versity wants to look at the whole the deaths and injuries are so easily quate, he warned, urging con- arrived for w o rk at 5 a.m.