IRISH EXTRA - INSIDE FRIDAY-SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 1, 1986 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Nicaraguan Congresswoman says vice president religion and politics to speak here do mix in government By MARK PANKOWSKI News Editor By CINDY RAUCKHORST voting booth, for example,” she Accepting an invitation from Senior Staff Reporter added. a campus group, the vice pres­ “Religion and politics in ident of Nicaragua has agreed Louisiana Congresswoman modern America remain a to visit Notre Dame on Nov. 21 Corrine Claiborne “Lindy” complex and mixed pattern of to discuss the relationship be­ Boggs told a Notre Dame audi­ conflict and accommodation,” tween his government and the ence Thursday that religion she said. and politics do mix, despite Catholic Church. Boggs said she also is Sergio Ramirez-Mercado is constant questions about the troubled when a politician’s re­ nature of their relationship. scheduled to give a presenta­ ligious beliefs are called into tion entitled “Church and State “We Americans can breathe question because of an arms a sigh of relief that our system in Nicaragua” at 3 p.m. in the control or social programs Annenberg Auditorium of the of government under our con­ vote. stitution. is strong enough Snite Museum of Art. “Criticize them because of He will be accompanied by and resilient enough to accom­ how they voted and because of Carlos Tunnermann, ambassa­ modate political and religious their philosophies, but not be­ dor from Nicaragua to the movements without visiting cause of how they believe in undue principles, practices and United States. God,” she explained. laws,” she said at the Center Boggs became the first wo­ for Continuing Education. The Graduate Association man elected to Congress from Louisiana in March of 1972, for Latin America, a group of The 14-year House veteran after winning a special election eight Notre Dame graduate called to fill a vacancy left by students, extended an invita­ said U.S. churches and religi­ ous organizations are impor­ her husband, House Majority tion to Ramirez-Mercado on Leader Hale Boggs, who disap­ Sept. 25, according to Jurgen tant links in the political process because of the input peared after an apparent plane Brauer, the group’s spokesper­ they provide to government crash in Alaska. son. Co-sponsoring the presenta­ leaders. Hotly-debated issues such as school prayer and equal access tion is the South Bend Chapter “Many play that important role to the hilt,” she said. proposals, public observance of the Women’s International of religion and public aid to League for Peace and Boggs, a liberal democrat, said, however, that religious private schools challenge gov­ Freedom. leaders must respect the writ­ ernment officials most often ten and unwritten limits of today, Boggs said. Brauer said his group, whose their political participation. She said that although no goal is to promote community “As are most Americans, I church-state issue has excited awareness of Latin American am apprehensive about a greater public controversy issues, asked Ramirez- preacher or a priest or a rabbi Mercado to speak because of accompanying me into the see RELIGION, page 4 the “conflict between the Church and state in _ _ _ • The Observer Jlm Carroll Nicaragua.” L /a llip U S V ie W Color provided by Anheuser-Busch, Inc. “It’s a very pertinent issue - ‘Pink slips’ won’t be sent the church and state issue in The recently completed War Memorial, viewed just before its dedication from the Memorial Library, is one of several new see VP, page 6 additions under the Dome. home to some SMC parents ByPEGGY PROSSER it, she thinks she’s doing bet­ Staff Reporter ter than she actually is. This Waldheim denies he saw killings is very misleading to the stu­ Mid-semester deficiency dent,” Marcy said. notices will no longer be sent If a professor still chooses to the parents of juniors and not to send the notices home, or was asked to work for Soviets seniors at Saint Mary’s, ac­ he or she will not receive cording to Teresa Marcy, support from the College Associated Press The newspaper Thursday “Waldheim never took part the College’s assistant to the should a problem arise, uoted Christian as saying “ad- A secretary in Waldheim’s vice-president. Marcy added. VIENNA, Austria- President itional research” revealed the office later telephoned the AP The proposal to discon­ “If a professor doesn’t Kurt Waldheim said on president’s earlier statement with an English-language tinue mailing the deficiency send one, the administration Thursday he did not fight was incorrect. statement, saying, “With notices to parents of juniors won’t support a professor if Yugoslav partisans during a regard to the Kozara (area), and seniors was passed at a he or she is challenged for a Nazi operation and denied he But in a telephone conversa­ Dr. Waldheim’s service was meeting of the Academic grade,” Marcy said. was approached after the war tion with The Associated Press limited to the normal duties of Standards Committee, of The new policy is ex­ to work for Soviet intelligence, on Thursday, Christian said the a junior supply officer and did which Marcy is a member. plained in detail in a letter according to his spokesman. earlier statements by not involve any combat activ­ The proposal was also that has been mailed out to Gerold Christian, Waldheim that he was not in­ ity.” passed by the Academic Af­ students and their parents. Waldheim’s spokesman, made volved in the Kozara operation fairs Council and was ap­ Under the new system, a the comments after new alle­ “were not incorrect.” Waldheim’s recent cam­ proved by College President student’s parents will gations appeared in the U.S. “The war record was, paign for the presidency was William Hickey. receive a copy of the media about Waldheim’s activ­ however, supplemented after marred by allegations he was The notices, known to deficiency notices only if the ity in World War II. files and documents were involved in wartime atrocities Saint Mary’s students as student is on academic The Washington Post re­ found” and the information against partisans and Jews in “pink slips,” are sent to stu­ probation, Marcy said. ported Thursday that was made available to U.S. aut­ Yugoslavia and Greece, dents whose work at mid­ Otherwise, juniors and Waldheim acknowledged after horities in August, Christian in any way in actions against term is lacking in some way. seniors are expected to have months of denial that he had said. partisans or Jews,” Christian “A deficiency is a warning enough experience to evalu­ played a role in the brutal Nazi said. The spokesman said that there is still time to im­ ate their own performance, “pacification” operation that Christian, who said Waldheim “never got into prove,” said Marcy. according to Marcy. It will cost thousands of lives in Waldheim was in the Kozara physical contact with par­ Instructors will now be re­ be up to the student to share Yugoslavia. area for a short period, quoted tisans, because he performed a quired to send deficiency with her parents informa­ It said in a 13-page memo the president as saying he was subordinated activity” as a notices to appropriate stu­ tion about her academic sent to the Post in April that not directly involved in fighting supply officer. dents, whereas some had status. the former U.N. secretary- and did not witness mass kil­ previously chosen to not do The letter states that any general had denied he was in­ lings. Waldheim denied the so. This has created prob­ parent of a junior or senior volved in the 1942 operation to Waldheim “never was pres­ charges and maintained he was lems for students in the past, who wishes to receive copies remove all 80,000 residents, in­ ent during combat action,” the victim of a campaign to Marcy said. of deficiency notices must cluding 3,500 armed partisans, Christian said. “He was unfit deny him the presidency. He “If a student thinks she’s from Kozara, a mountainous for the front and never had a won the June 8 election with getting one and doesn’t get see SMC, page 4 region in Yugoslavia. rifle to shoot w ith .. nearly 54 percent of the vote. The Observer Friday-Saturday, October 31-November 1,1986, - page 2 College students too grown up In Brief for eighth-grade dating scene William Shannon , professor of history and journalism at Boston University and former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, gave a lecture yesterday titled “Two Views of The following events are true. Some names Irish Nationalism” to approximately fifty people in the and identities have been changed to protect the Memorial Library auditorium lounge. Shannon spoke of guilty. Margie the influence Irish-Americans had on the Irish quest for While relaxing on the tropical island of national identity during the nineteenth and early twentieth Jamaica, my mind was quickly brought back Kersten centuries. The lecture was sponsored by Notre Dame’s to the reality of South Bend when I first entered Saint Mary's Editor Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study the Junkanoo Lounge. Located in the beautiful of American Catholicism as one of its annual Hibernian six sta r Rose Hall Beach Hotel, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, was the lounge - the Jamaican version Series. -The Observer of the Senior Bar. As I sat with some friends, sipping on the special Rum punch, listening to Ten Notre Dame faculty members were recently in­ popular songs from the United States, I lookedig Uk'-Twgs 'Mvufcrinq- -m -• / £ yo u 'd stalled in endowed academic chairs.