-------~---- VOL. XXII, NO. 112 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Daley wins in landslide Ends brief era of black rule in Windy City Associated Press by far the biggest city in the first black mayor, to victory in nation to replace a black mayor 1983 and 1987. CHICAGO- Richard M. with a white. · The election was ordered by Daley won election Tuesday to the courts to fill the two years the mayor's office his father remaining in the second term held for 21 years, dashing chief of Washington, who died of a rival Timothy Evans' hope of heart attack in November 1987. extending the brief era of black Daley, 46, is a three-term leadership at City Hall. Cook County state's attorney. With 2,241 of 2,911 precincts Evans, 45, is a Democratic reporting, or 77 percent, unof­ South Side alderman who ficial results gave Daley skipped the primary to run on 511,791 votes, or 64 percent, to the Harold Washington Party 262,610 votes, or 33 percent for ticket. Vrdolyak, 51, is a former Evans. Republican Edward Democratic alderman who has Vrdolyak had 30,754 votes, or 4 not won elected office since his percent. party switch in 1987. Daley benefitted from a Analysts agreed that turnout strong turnout in the Richard Daley among black and white voters predominantly white South­ would be the critical factor. west and Northwest Side The victory also kept intact Whites make up about 48 per­ wards. Turnout in Evans' black a Democratic tradition in the cent of the voting population, strongholds on the South and nation's third-largest city blacks about 42 percent and West Sides, meanwhile, lagged dating back to 1931- including· Hispanics about 7 percent. as many as 10 percentage six straight terms captured by But the black community points behind, according to a the late Richard J. Daley, last that united· around Washington city elections official who of the big-city political bosses. appeared bitterly divided this declined to be identified. year between Sawyer and AP Photo Black turnout in recent elec­ Tom Leach, spokesman for Evans, who refused to endorse . Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev lays a wreath at the Lenin Statue tions has trailed white turnout the Chicago Board of Election each other. Monday in Havana where he is holding summit talks with Cuban Pres­ by 2 to 5 percentage points, and Commissioners, said the ident Fidel Castro. Evans' campaign strategists board's latest estimate was In the February primary, pegged his chances for an upset that 68 percent of the city's 1.56 Daley beat Sawyer by more victory on preventing that gap million registered voters than 100,000 votes, in large part from widening. turned out. That would be the because many black Evans Communists talk The victory by Daley, who third-highest turnout for a supporters stayed away from defeated Mayor Eugene Chicago municipal election, the polls. Gorbachev calls for more peace Sawyer in February's Demo­ below the numbers that carried Tuesday was Daley's second cratic primary, makes Chicago Harold Washington, the city's bid for the mayoralty. Associated Press Nicaragua's leftist govern­ ment as long as the United • HAVANA- Soviet President States continues to arm other Mikhail Gorbachev told the Central American countries. Speed IS key with debt relief Cuban legislature Tuesday that The issue remains a major sore Soviet-style reforms were not point in relations between Associated Press World Bank, said they recog­ work with the IMF to speed im­ a universal remedy for all com­ Washington and Moscow. nized the need for urgency in plementation of the new debt munist countries. In his speech, the Soviet WASHINGTON- The Bush addressing the debt crisis. relief program. In a 53-minute speech before leader spent considerable time administration's Third World Conable said that any delay Earlier, the top policy board the Cuban National Assembly, justifying the need for the debt initiative won key en­ "could be devastating in view of the IMF issued a com­ Gorbachev also proposed that reforms he has introduced in dorsements Tuesday from the of the expectancies which have munique endorsing the general a "zone of peace" be estab­ his own country. two international agencies ex­ been created" about the principles embodied in the debt lished in Latin America and the "Today only those can count pected to implement the strat­ prospect for a reduction in the program unveiled by Treasury Caribbean and renounced any on success who are marching egy. $1.3 trillion level of Third World Secretary Nicholas Brady. Soviet intention of establishing in step with the times, who are Both Michel Camdessus, the debt. The approval was seen as cri­ naval, air or missile bases in drawing the necessary conclu­ managing director of the 151- In a speech to the final ses­ tical since the administration the region. sions from the changes result­ nation International Monetary sion of the spring meetings of is counting · on most of the Gorbachev also reaffirmed ing from the fact that the world Fund, and Barber Conable, the IMF and the World Bank, financing for the debt relief that the Soviet Union will con­ president of the other global Conable said that the bank had scheme to come from the two tinue supplying weaponry to see CUBA I page 4 lending organization, the created a joint task force to lending agencies. • Sheen stresses social - awareness, heroes By NATHAN FITZGERALD spiritual growth." News Staff The personal heroes he noted ranged from Brian Last night, Martin Sheen Wilson to Mother Theresa. spoke to a full house about Wilson, a Vietnam veteran, his own heroes and the im­ lost both legs in 1987 trying port~nce of social aware­ to stop a train that was car­ ness in the United States, in rying American weapons the Cushing Auditorium, that would allegedly contrib­ Tuesday. ute to the deaths of 72,000 El Sheen opened with a mo­ Salvadorans and 29,000 ment of silence in Nicaraguans. remembrance of the assas­ Sheen acknowledged that sination of the Rev. Martin most heroes do not come Luther King,, Jr., 21 years from Park Avenue, Wall ago. Street or Malibu. Sheen offered his defini­ He asked the audience to The Observer I E.G. Bailey tion of a hero, saying "to me imagine a world without a hero is that person who ex­ heroes, concluding that Actor Martin Sheen, center, junior Tony Rice, left, and freshman Raghib Ismail emerge from the Morris tends themselves for the "alas, it's not possible, Inn Tuesday following a dinner there. Sheen invited Rice and Ismail to dinner prior to his speaking purpose of nurturing their engagement on campus Tuesday night. , own or another person's see SHEEN I page 4 ---~--- _, -~~-~---------------------- ________ -· -- ·- ----~-·-~~-~--- -·-- ~--- -- --- ---· page 2 The Observer Wednesday, April 5, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Whatever you do, don't U.S. efforts on Central American peace are welcome after the "lip service" of the Reagan years, and should be an example for the Cubans and Soviets, Costa Rican President Oscar name your kid John Arias said Tuesday. Arias, who met separately with President Bush and Vice President Quayle, endorsed the administration's plan for non-lethal aid to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, a plan "Hey John!" developed with bipartisan support in Congress. How many times have you heard this yelled 'Long have I out while you were walking down the quad? If Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be released you have heard it, you certainly have seen the suffered through the Wednesday and restrictions will be eased in the occupied West mass confusion that breaks out as every single pain of having the Bank and Gaza Strip for the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, John turns around and searches frantically to same name as about Israeli officials said. In the occupied lands, 10 Palestinians were see if they actually KNOW the persm1 scream­ reported wounded Tuesday in clashes between soldiers and stone­ ing their name. 300 billion other throwing Palestinians. I am well aware of this problem because I men ... ' am a member of that elite group of "Johns." John O'Brien Long have I suffered through the pain of having News Copy Editor NATIONAL BRIEFS the same name as about 300 billion other men, and I feel that now is the time someone speaks leads to fun phone conversations: out for the rights of Johns everywhere. Female Voice: Is John there? To begin with, there are those people who yell Me: This is him. The Alaska pipeline will remain open, said the Bush out one of my fellow Johns' names in public Voice: Hi, you don't know me, but I'm from administration Tuesday, but questions were raised as to whether without any remorse for the chaos they cause. LeMans and I wanted to know if you could go the Federal government has legal authority to prevent its closure. In addition, many of these people don't enun­ to my formal this Saturday. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the authority issue ciate, so it actually sounds like they are saying Me: I'm sorry, I can't. I'm going home this was "an open question." However, he said, "I don't honestly "Hey --on!" Thus, every Don, Ron, Juan, and weekend. believe anyone wants to close the pipeline." even Sean is forced to look like an idiot and Voice: Okay. -click- search the crowd for a familiar face. Then, you It wasn't until after I hung up that I realized are greeted by the impatient "I want THAT that I never asked which John she wanted.