University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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l8945 gtoups. ti; ? Arlene appgax, 1' abortion Wet; it. fall; sailed pi e Senate Judiciai,i wepted her views: gm 11a tall mails; 'e'. personal abhv fie 31-yeamldmc' 1? :ctvrnzttee mail 3 2.2 Fad an abcr. La -. re: ipersom s. 1: m1 he! at; 5 1'2; 5 possmie ta: storied Curr; H 3W5, them; .- 'T a ACTE. 301'? '1 9S O'JPOTiT: i o a a:lj'ia Clan lllUl' t I T .. tr: :'i.' $1.7 wemw ; or. rifle ' Be Debhakam MXes in Utah Axed n early October, President Reagan made his long- awaited decision on where to put the controversial MX in- tercontinental missiles. He decided to drop the Carter idea of shuttling 200 MX missiles among 4,600 covered launching pads in isolated desert areas of Nevada and Utah. Instead, Reagan decided to place about 100 in existing sites where Minuteman and Titan rockets are currently based. While the decision was applauded by those who were against such a massive project invading the quiet desert areas of Utah and Nevada, and by economists who shuddered at the cost lsome estimates reached $100 billionl, not to mention the en- vironmentalists who feared that the region's water supply could not sup- port such an influx of people and technology. it nevertheless received some criticism. The Denver Post wondered editorially if Americans had perhaps been the itvictims of a propaganda campaign calculated to stoke fears since it had been stressed in earlier months that the Soviet strike capability could easily wipe out the existing missile sites, and that an elaborate guess-where-they-are strategy was re- quired to ride out such an attack. Columnist Joseph Kraft wrote that, while he supported the decision, since he had never believed in lkeven the remote possibility of a Soviet at- tackf' the alternative Reagan plan would only lead to a iidestructive debate? since as a candidate Reagan had campaigned forcefully on the need to tlclose the window of strategic vulnerabilityll opened by the Soviet arms build-up. liEveryone has to wonder if Reagan . . . knows what he's doing, wrote Kraft. It was a long and bitter campaign and it ended without doing much to resolve any of the problems which had caused it to be waged in the first place: on Sun. Oct. 3. 1981. the IRA called off the hunger strike which had been going on among its members im- prisoned in the Maze Prison in Belfast. The seven-month fast had left 10 dead and in its early months had calls ed worldwide attention to the IRAs demands for political prisoner status in the Maze. By political status. the IRA meant that its incarcerated members should be exempt from prison work and not have to wear prison Clothes: should have lost parole time restored and be allowed to associate more freely as well as get more mail and visits. The Thatcher government steadfastly refuse ed to accede to such demands but vaguely promised some improvement in conditions if the strike was called off . V End of a bitter campaign In announcing its decision the IRA blamed the llCatholic hierarchy, aided and abetted by the Irish establishment, for the failure of the campaign. The church had worn down the resistance of the strikers relatives and the establishment had not stood up to the British in the matter, the lRAls Richard McAuley said. Thus. while the conservative government in Britain had won the battle. it seemed the war was far from over. Some commentators claimed that the hunger strike had helped the IRA raise a lot of money. especially in the US. It was fully expected that the IRAs efforts to end British rule in Northern Ireland would simply find new expression in the near future l9

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Dun... Mon!- n Tuesday, October 5, 1981, Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, was assassinated. Sadat and several of his highest government officials were at- tacked by a group of men wearing military uniforms during a military parade in a Cairo suburb. As several jets overhead roared by in precise for mation, one of the trucks with troops passing by suddenly halted in front of the presidents reviewing stand and out tumbled the assassins, firing machine guns and throwing hand grenades and other incendiary devices. Within seconds the mission was accomplished: at the height of a parade designed to show off the might power and security of Egypt against attack by her enemies, the countryls leadership was instantly reduced to a confused pile of bodies writhing under a heap of overturned chairs. For several hours the official word from Cairo was that the President had been wounded but was not in a iilife- threatening situation. But slowly the news began to filter out. One by one the major American TV networks, led by CBS, and the international wire services relayed the somber message, still officially denied, from a number of usually highly reliable sources: Sadat had not survived. The networks, which began reporting the attack on the morning news shows, stayed on the air until early afternoon, pre-empting all scheduled programming until the of- ficial announcements were made. Just before noon Denver time, Egyptian Vice-President Hosni Mubarak went on Egyptian TV to advise his nation of the tragedy and announce various cabinet decisions. A state of emergen- cy for one year was declared. Shortly after, President Reagan appeared on the White House north steps to make a short, eloquent speech about the slain leader, whom he regarded as a personal friend, although they had on- ly met for the first time two months earlier when Sadat had paid him a visit in Washington. As the President was citing Sadatls courage, statesman- ship and foresight, no doubt he was remembering the kindness and con- cern the now dead leader had shown towards him after Reagan himself had been on the receiving end of an assassin's gunfire. In Israel, Prime Minister Begin said that Sadat had been murdered by the uenemies of peacefl but vowed that the Camp David peace process 4,: would continue, iias President Sadat would have wished? While the Western democracies mourned the loss of the former self- confessed hater of Israel who had, in the last five years, dared to stand up for peace in the Middle East, many of his former allies in the Arab world openly rejoiced at his death. Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy warned that future Egyptian leaders who followed Sadatls traitorous policies would meet the same fate. Sadafs murder led most com- mentators to worry about the whole balance of power in the Middle East. Would his successors pursue peace with Israel at the expense of peace with other Arab countries as he had done? Was Camp David in jeopardy? Should the Saudis now be allowed to have those AWAC planes they wanted to buy, or would that make the area even more unstable? It seemed as if Reagan would, in the months to come, have to face in the Middle East an even greater threat of Soviet destabilization than he was at the time monitoring in Poland. But it was former President Jimmy Carter who, only hours after Sadatis passing, summed up what the Egyptian leader had meant to him and the world: of the hundred or so world leaders he had met in his time in public office, said Carter, Anwar Sadat was the greatest. horror. ciliation among peoples? SOME OPINION S ON SADATiS DEATH ttHis death today, an act of infamy, cowardly infamy, fills us with America has lost a close friend, the world has lost a great statesman and mankind has lost a champion of peace? - President Reagan ttThe world has lost one of the best among us? - French President Francois Mitterand ttI pray to omnipotent God that he will want to give peace to this man of peace and carry to completion his noble vision of recon- - Pope J ohn Paul II ttSadat was one of the great personalities of this century? - Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky tttHei abandoned the deep internal problems of his country to devote himself to external affairs, and he paid for it? - Exiled former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr tiWe certainly donit mourn the death of Anwar Sadat? - Chairman of the US. J ewish Defense League Meir J olovitz. uIt was Camp David that killed Sadat? - Lebanese Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan ttWe shake the hand that fired the bullets? - PLO high-ranking leader Salah Khalaf 21