VOL. XXIII NO.5 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1989 . THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S PTL trial suspended, Bakker committed Associated Press "Mr. Bakker, I'm going to have to ask you to sit up, CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jim please," a deputy marshal said. Bakker was committed to a After the paperwork was mental institution in handcuffs completed, Bakker, bound hand and leg shackles Thursday and foot, was taken to Butner after a psychiatrist reported to spend his first night behind the TV evangelist was halluci­ bars since the PTL scandal nating and cowering in a fetal broke. The ,evangelist is ac­ position in his lawyer's office. cused of fleecing followers of U.S. District Judge Robert his evangelical empire. Potter suspended Bakker's He was lying in the back seat fraud trial and ordered him to of a marshal's car when he ar­ the Federal Correctional rived, and a marshal held him Institute in Butner for up to 60 on each side as he walked in a days for psychiatric evaluation slow, stooped shuffle into the to determine whether he is prison. competent to stand trial. Dr. Basil Jackson, a psychia­ "Please don't do this to me," trist who has been treating a sobbing, disheveled Bakker Bakker for nine months, told said as he was led from his the judge that Bakker began APPholo lawyer's office by U.S. marshals hallucinating Wednesday after to the courthouse for a former PTL executive testify­ Former PTL leader Jim Bakker is assisted from the Federal Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday by processing of the commitment ing against him collapsed on attorneys George Shaw (right) and Harold Bender (left). Bakker left the courthouse after his trial was order. He curled up in a fetal recessed for the day when witness Steve Nelson collapsed during cross-examination. Bakker himself position in the back seat. see BAKKER I page 5 collapsed Thursday and was placed under psychiatric care. University to build graduate Colombia needs U.S. aid student housing complex of subsurface oil well pumps. By SARAH VOIGT methods, seems an unlikely By MICHAEL SCHOLL Senior Staff Reporter NEWS ANALYSIS target for a kidnapping. His News Staff Fischer also serves on the disappearance is another Advisory Council for the College Father Robert Pelton, be used to help bring about tragic event that can be of Engineering. His son, Ken, is director of Notre Dame's change." added to the chaotic se­ Notre Dame is now in the a 1988 graduate of the Institute for Pastoral and Pelton, a Holy Cross priest, quence of crimes that have preliminary stages of develop­ University, and another son, Social Ministry, believes that was a missionary in plagued Colombia the last ing a 200-apartment housing David, graduated last May. A the United States should of­ Santiago for eight years and few months. complex for graduate students. daughter, Teresa, is currently a fer aid to President Virgilio has worked on Church mis­ According to Pelton, The proposed development, to senior at Notre Dame. Barco's crusade against the sions in Peru, Colombia and Colombia's economic prob­ be located north of the O'Hara­ According to Thomas Mason, drug barons in Colombia in Bolivia many times since lems are at the root of its Grace Graduate housing com­ the University's vice president the form of economic sanc­ then. This past summer drug situation. What Pelton plex, will be comprised of 33 for business affairs, Fischer tions and educational pro­ Pelton visited Medellin, refers to as, "the bad eco­ two-story units, with each unit will donate $5 million to the grams. where he spent some time nomic conditions and en­ containing six two bedroom estimated $12 million project. Pelton, who has visited with the family of his friend demic underdevelopment of apartments. A community cen­ The balance of the money South America 15 times in Alvaro Villa, who was kid­ third world countries" en­ ter will be included in the com­ needed for construction is the last five years, rejects di­ napped July 7 and has not able the drug barons to ma­ plex, which is designed to house scheduled to be raised through rect U.S. military interfer­ yet been released nipulate the peasants into approximately 400 students. loans that will be paid back ence as a viable way to fight growing crops of illegal According to a press release, with the rent money paid by the the powerful drug barons in Pelton suspects that his drugs. the complex will be partially students who will live in the Colombia. friend was kidnapped by Pelton said that the U.S. underwritten by Notre Dame complex. Pelton cites previous U.S. common delinquents. Pelton needs to -help the peasants alumnus Charles Fischer of Mason said that rents for the foreign policy blunders as explains, "I was very aware find other crops besides Fort Worth, Texas. Fischer re­ complex "would be competitive support for his stance. He of the violence when I was in drugs that they could grow ceived his engineering degree with rents charged for other said, "If you move in with Medellin. There are so many and still make a good liveli­ from Notre Dame in 1949 and apartments in the local area. n immediate military control, kidnapings going on now hood. This would undermine an M.B.A. from Stanford Rents for two bedroom apart­ all you get is greater vio­ that the authorities have the power of the drug University in 1952. ments near the Notre Dame lence. Some people would be stopped recording them. " barons and indirectly help He is currently president and campus average approximately happy to move in [to Villa, an agronomist who stop the flow of illegal drugs chairman of the board of the $450 a month. Colombia] with Marines. But has spent the last thirty into the U.S. Harbison- Fischer Manufact­ University President Father in reality, a long term edu­ years educating the peasants uring Company, which is the cation process is all that can about better agricultural see COLOMBIA 1 page 5 world's leading manufacturer see HOUSING I page 4 WORLD WAR II: 50 YEARS LATER 50 years later Germany reflects on the horrors of WW II Associated Press Jews shocked the world like no Polish countrymen Friday "The most important historical have used the anniversary for a other atrocity. evening by means of a huge lesson of Sept. 1, 1939, consists review of Nazi atrocities. FRANKFURT, West Germany Major events are scheduled television screen set up in Royal of never again letting fascism Special events included a con­ - World War II began 50 years for Friday in West Germany, Castle Square in Warsaw's old return." cert Thursday night jn Frank­ ago today. One of many events East Germany and Poland, in· city. In Hitler's native Austria, furt featuring violinist Anne­ marking the grim anniversary eluding an internationally Tass, the official Soviet news which he occupied and annexed Sophie Mutter and Polish com­ will be a concert in Warsaw, broadcast concert in Warsaw agency, said Thursday: "The in 1938 witho'ut firing a shot, poser Krzysztof Penderecki the first target of blitzkrieg, conducted by Leonard Bern­ sad jubilee - 50 years since the the popular tabloid Kurier is conducting his "Polish Re­ Adolf Hitler's fearsome stein. beginning of the most horrible running a daily series it calls quiem." "lightning war." Pope John Paul II used the and destructive of all wars - "Hitler's War." As a gesture of );OCOnciliation, The Soviet Union called the occasion to declare: "We have a requires that the world public the government said it was conflict "the most horrible and duty to learn from the past so not only learn the lessons of the "It scarcely ever happened in willing to return the Polish Em­ destructive of all wars." An ul­ that never again will there arise past anew, but also determine history that the responsibility bassy in Berlin, seized by the tra-conservative West German a set of factors capable of trig­ guidelines for the future." for a war was so clear," the Nazis in 1941, to Polish owner­ Cabinet minister said Germans gering a similar conflagration." Its commentary repeated So­ newspaper said Monday. "It ship. should not bear all the blame. In the statement issued last viet calls for a reduction of was, in the end, the work of one The far right in Germany has More than 50 million people weekend, he called the Nazi armed forces and weapons in man. It was Hitler's war." taken the opportunity to try to were killed in the war touched slaughter of Jews something Europe. Austria has claimed to be the shift some of the blame. off by the German invasion of "which will forever remain a Neues Deutschland, the offi­ dictator's first victim. T~o Waigel, the federal fi- Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. The shame for humanity." cial newspaper of East Ger­ News media, politicians and Nazi extermination of 6 million John Paul is to address his many's Communist Party, said: intellectuals in West Germany see WAR .pages page 2 The Observer Friday, September 1, 1989 NATIONAL BRIEFS Workers, punks and Oscar-winning actor Marlon Branda says he's made his last movie - and it's a dud. "It's horrible," he said of "The Freshman." "It's going to be a flop, but after this, I'm retiring. grandmas at the White Hen I'm so fed up. This picture, except for the Canadian crew, was an extremely unpleasant experience.