VOL. XXIII NO. 46 TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 6, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • Marines order first reserves Pentagon may send more units by year's end WASIIINGTON (AP)- The All of the more than 34,000 but President Bush has not Marine Corps is ordering the reserves from all the armed ruled out the use of force to first call-up of reservists for services already called to active oust Iraq from occupied combat roles in the Persian Gulf duty for Operation Desert Kuwait. crisis, a Pentagon source said Shield are being used in sup­ The Pentagon has been under Friday. port roles such as truck driving, pressure from some congres­ The Marine call-up is rela­ water purification and military sional leaders to use combat tively small and will not add intelligence. The Marines had reserves. Defense Secretary substantially to the U.S. combat accounted for only 200 of the Dick Cheney had resisted using capabilities in the gulf. How­ 34,000 total. them, saying the 180-day max­ ever, the Pentagon is consider­ The Murine infantrymen be­ imum period of activation for ing calling major Army reserve ing called up will be among ap­ reserves was too short to make combat units to active duty, proximately 800 reservists in u good use of them, even though possibly before year's end. variety of military jobs being some Army three-brigade divi­ The Marines will cull up indi­ ordered to report for active sions were designed with one vidual infantrymen from vari­ duty later this week, the source brigade a reserve brigade. ous units around the country, said. Such divisions now in Saudi not entire units, the source The source declined to say Arabia took an active duty bri­ said. how many of the 800 are in gade from elsewhere in the The New York Times reported combat roles. Army, rather than the so-called Monday that the Pentagon al­ Use of reserves in combat "round-out" brigades, when ready has decided to put major jobs is politically sensitive be­ they let for the Persian Gulf. AIDS victims deserve respect AP Photo rnserve combat units on active cause it can be viewed as Congressional concern was duty. Maj. Doug llart, a Pen­ putting the country on a erased earlier this month when Easte~n ~entucky native Belinda Mason, a member of the national tagon spokesman, said he was wartime footing. No shots have Congress, shortly before ad­ ~omm1ss1on ?n AIDS addresses members of the Kentucky House unaware of any such decision been fired in the confrontation journing, doubled the limit on 1~ Frankfurt In February. Since her appointment to the commis­ and that no combat units had with Iraq, other than warnings active duty service for combat SIOn, Mason has. made more than 50 visits to clinics, churches reserves to 360 days. a~d schools, urgmg her audiences to respect the rights if those bnen activated. shots across the bows of ships, With AIDS. Prostitutes can be 'addicted to lifestyle,' says Washington By ANNA MARIE TABOR the prostitute that is often con­ parlor owners, those who make However, Washington said children, both boys and girls, Assistant Saint Mary's Editor veyed on a television or movie movies, substances, protection, that given a chance to do some­ involved in prostitution. screen. While a naive viewer and health care." thing else, some prostitutes Judging from the past, may believe that her "prince In addition to the safety and wouldn't choose another pro­ Washington doesn't sec the charming" will rescue her from disease risks of prostitution and fession since "some people can elimination of prostitution as a the streets as Edward did to control others have over get addicted to that lifestyle, not realistic goal. She identified "We have this fascination Vivian (Pretty Woman), Wash­ finances, Washington said with hookers, whores, and knowing what the next 30 many pr()stitutes as having "a ington said that prostitution is prostitutes are "in jeopardy minutes or hour will be like." belief of little human value" or loose women," said Patricia illegal, dangerous, and with law officials-they are Washington in her lecture yes­ "needing a man in their lives." "(prostitutes) are more likely to often encouraged to be infor­ Around the world, many In answer to the question of tt~rday. wind up dead." mants." Worldwide, there are women are forced into prosti­ In her lecture. "International offering alternative jobs, Furthermore, the "hooker "literally millions of women tution to survive. Washington Washington stated the difficulty Prostitution: The Economics of with a heart of gold" and the working in a clandestine fash­ Sex." Washington, director of asked, "What happens (during is to "convince a woman to hooker who is out to save the ion." war) when men are killed? decide to work for minimum Minority International and world are myths, according to Washington described pros­ Nontraditional Student Life, What do women do to survive? wage at MeDonald's rather than Washington. "There is a signif­ titution as merely an exchange They don't pick up a machete, turn a couple of tricks." said that "prostitution is one of icant number of women who of money for sexual favors and the hottest topics now," they use what is at hand." are selling themselves not be­ "a transaction that does not in­ She cautioned against in­ Moviegoers who have seen cause it's glamorous but be­ volve emotion. It is cold and Total Hecall or Pretty Woman Washington traced the evo­ volvement in prostitution since cause of economic necessity. clinical." Prostitutes work ei­ lution of prostitution from the "once you have been identified can attest to this statement, she "(Prostitution) is u lucrative ther full- or part-time "because addnd. initial "laissez-faire" attitude to as a prostitute, it's hard to get business. The majority of the of limited opportunities or be­ the current "white, black, and out of that. You are already in­ Washington dispelled the money they make goes to cause (other) jobs are unavail­ "glamorous and glittery" life of brown slave trade." There is volved with elements of the un­ pimps, madames, massage able." also an increasing number of derworld." Arturo discusses fictional themes By PATRICK The predominant literary ously engrossed with European NINNEMAN theme, according to Arias, that surrealism and also Marxism. conflicted with social realism News Writer was the avant-garde, surrealist Arias said that these writers position that literature created "pushed for a literary synthesis Arturo Arias, an award win­ its own universe, and needed that incorporated cultural iden­ ning author and a professor at no overt social relevance. tity and also reshaped literary the University of California, San Arias said that the rise of form." The incorporation of Francisco, spoke Monday on communism further heightened identity would satisfy social re­ the conflict between imagi­ the struggle between the two alism, while reshaping literary native and experimental fiction themes, for communists at­ form would approach a surre­ and socially realistic literary tacked surreal writing as mere alistic style of literature. fiction in the twentieth century. bourgeois decadence. Stalin's Arias focused on Central Amer­ Soviet regime, according to This synthesis continued into ican and Caribbean authors, Arias, argued that all art the 1960's and 70's, according and their development of these "should enlighten and uplift the to Arias. lie noted that propo­ divergent themes. masses. Art should push the nents of surrealism wanted fic­ Arias said that for Central masses toward revolution." tion that required an active, America, and also for the Arias mentioned that surreal­ participatory reader, rather world, the 1920's saw the be­ ist literature failed to spark the than a complacent acceptor of ginnings of this interesting con­ masses, for it's language and any text's ideas. Social realists flict. Mexico underwent a revo­ style often were too compli­ wanted literature that appeared lution in the years following cated to be accessible to the av­ relevant and accessible to all World War I. This upheaval erage reader. readers, rather than an elite sparked many Mexican journal­ few. Moscow says 'No!' AP Photo ists to turn towards fiction as a Two individuals, according to reflective forum for social Arias, began to combine these Arias said much of Latin Approximately 154 pounds of narcotics and various kinds of commentary. Arias said that two themes of fiction writing American fiction during the weaponry were confiscated from dope pushers and their clients in "many saw fiction as a vehicle into a cohesive unit. These 1980's moved further towards Moscow Wednesday. The seizure took place on October 24 and of reality, a mirror of culture writers were Alejo Carpentier surrealism for it "viewed reality was the result of a series of operations by the drug fighting squad and history." He called this de­ of Cuba, and Miguel Asturias of in terms of possible avenues for of the Moscow Interior Ministry Department. velopment social realism. Mexico. Both were simultane- society to go." page 2 The Observer Tuesday, November 6, 1990 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Forecast for noon, Tuesday, Nov. 6. Stereotypes Lines show high temperatures. lead to 30 Yesterday's high: 55 distorted views Yesterday's low: 39 Nation's high: 86(Fort It's halftime of Meyers, Fla.) Monday night foot­ Nation's low: 8(Sioux ball's game the Falls,S.D.) Cleveland Browns and the Denver Broncos. Forecast: Partly cloudy ABC runs a promo­ today with scattered tional spot for its showers. Highs in the series, "Coach," in lower to mid 40's. which the three . Tonight, continued coaches discuss which Alicia Reale cloudy with lows on the team will win the Business Copy Editor 30's.