-------- ... Irish vs. Trojans -pages 9 -12 .................VOLXV N0.68 an indr-pendent student newspa~r serving .notre...................... dame and saint mary's FRIDAY•. DECEMBER'·. 1980 Hesburgh suggests Grasso quits ; cites new immigration law poor health By Louis Breaux HARTFORD* Conn. (AP)-­ economic and cultural well-being Gov. Ella Grasso, declaring of the U.S. They bring renewed University President Father that her battle with cancer had commitment not just to hard robbed her of the stamin:, Theodore Hesburgh, who heads work, savings and investments, needed for the job, yesterday the national Select Commission announced ''with a heavy on Immigration and Refugee but to those of values of freedom, heart'' that she was resigning Policy, recently said in a report to equality, and family shared by at the end of the year. Congress report that immigration many Americans." Mrs. Grasso, first electea to laws need to be tightened. Nevertheless, Fr. Hesburgh the state chief executive post in Recently, the Commission does not believe that there will 1974, was the nation's first submitted its second semi-annual ever be a return to the nearly woman to be elected governor report to Congress, and in it, Fr. unlimited migration of earlier without having had her hus­ Hesburgh expressed his and the times. He said, "we will continue band precede her in office. Commission's views on immigra­ to be a nation which welcomes The 61-year-old Democrat was tion policy in the letter of trans­ immigrants. But we cannot be released from Hartford Hospit­ mission. The report also gave the single refuge for all of the al earlier this week after comp- · some of the conclusions of the people who flee persecution or leting the frrst phase of chemo­ Commission's findings. seek opportunity." therapy for liver cancer. Fr. Hesburgh said in the letter, The Commission has made Mrs. Grasso met with her "In recent months we have substantial progress in answering successor, Lt. Gov. William received a large number ofletters some of the questions before it. O'Neill, and other state leaders 'from people who complain that In regards to the illegal aliens before releasing her announce­ immigration is out of control' ... already in the country, the ment to reponers. by permitting our laws to be Commissionn recommends a "It tok a lot of courage and flouted, we bring immigration program to legalize them. In guts to do what she did,'' said policy as a whole into disrespect The biggest threat of today's assigt;ment is frostbite and writer's cramp. State Democratic Chairman and, ... undermine the respect for (continued on page 15) (photo by Tim McKeogh) ] ames FitzgPrald. law, the foundation of a free The only other current female society." governor is Dixy Lee Ray of It has been estimated that at Washington. Since she was least two-and-one-half times the To FBI defea~ed in recent elections, legally allowed number of there will be no women govern­ immigrants (300,000) will enter ors in office after ] anuary. Mrs. Grasso, the daughrer of the country this year alone Civiletti issues guidelines Italian immigrants, entered because of special exceptions statewide politics in 1958 when built into the law. she ran for secretary of state, a Also, the immigrations laws WASHINGTON (AP)- The where that "is,necessary to obtain confidential sources and its launching of criminal investiga­ post she held until 1970. are inequitable. There are certain JusticeDepartmentissuedguide­ information or evidence for Known as a social and fiscal tions of individuals and organiza­ areas where almost nobody lines yesterday for FBI investiga­ paramount prosecutive pur­ conservative, she often has comes from; and ot\ler areas tions which would in some cases poses, to establish and maintain tions. Webster said they are been at odds with feninists on where large numbers are allowed allow informants to participate credibility or cover with persons consistent with a proposed FBI such issues as funding abort­ in from every year. in crimes and would widen the associated with criminal activity charter still awaiting congres­ ions for poor women. "Immigration laws are second bureau's authority to follow and under investigation, or to prevent sional action but tht they are In a one-sentence letter to only to tax laws in complexity," photograph certain Americans. or avoid the danger of death or more detailed than the charter Secretary of the State Barbara Fr. Hesburgh said. Most of the The guidelines were issued by serious bodily injury" and where and will remain in effect even if B. Kennelly, Mrs. Grasso, who blame for U.S.'s inability to cope Attorney General Benjamin these needs outweigh the the charter is not passed. He said never lost an election in a • with illegal immigration is levelled Civiletti, who told a news con­ seriousness of the crime involved. additional guidelines to cover political career spanning ~~ on the current immigration ference at FBI headquarters that As an example, Heymann said undercover operations are still policy. There are an estimated they pull together policies and if the government found an being prepared. (continued on page 4) 500,000 illegal aliens crossing practices which previously had informant was going to be asked into the U.S. annually in addition been scattered in various to help steal a car to go to a to the legally accepted government manuals and policy location where he would be AtSMC immigrants. statements but had never been given instructions on how to kill Although the Commission presented in such detail in one a government witness, "we've agrees that immigration policy place. got to let him steal the car and Convicts discuss prison life needs change, they do not The guidelines say that an FBI not tell the informant to stay consider completely stopping informant in a criminal case shall home and let the government By Cathy Domanico legal immigration. In his letter be warned that his work for the witness take his chances." Fr. Hesburgh stated, "The world FBI will not protect him from FBI director William H. In order to bring an "offbeat" reality to what he called a "sheltered" and the U.S. will be a much prosecution for federal, state or Webster gave another example Saint Mary's College, Michael McKee, Chairman of Sociology, poorer place is legal immigration local crimes except under speci­ after the news conference from Anthropology, and Social Work at Saint Mary's moderated an is cut back because we failed to fied circumstances. the case of Gary Thomas Rowe, a informal question and answer period last night, with prisoners gain control over illegal FBI informant inside the Ku currently serving time for various crimes. migration." Klux Klan in the South during The four prisoners, one of which was a former ND graduate and Fr. Hesburgh also stated, "Our Friday the 1960s. Rowe currently faces ND Law School graduate, had volunteered their time to speak to the immigration policy must be charges in Alabama that he was group. They came as educators, emphasizing what it was like to be the responsible... We must respond involved in the 1965 slaying of person "on the other side". as a nation, with a vision of Viola Liuzza, a civil rights The prisoners who had earned enough merits to be included in the freedom and progress, to a . demonstrator from Detroit. Indiana State Work Release Progam also discussed prison conditions 'portion' of the world's striving, Webster said, "We would not and rehabilitation. aspiring, and oppressed peoples." Assistant Attorney General have allowed Rowe to fire at All four of the men appeared to have very negative feelings toward "We must also be responsible Philip B. Heymann, head of the Liuzzo, but we might have the prison system. Although they all agreed that they deserved to be to our own people, expecially criminal division, said that under allowed him to fire in the air." punished for their crimes, the prisonors thought that prison and the our poor and those who have the guidelines "there is a direct Civiletti said that if the FBI had entire system "stinks". It is a bitter place that degrades the human suffered the sting of oppression and complete prohibition on an informant whose help was being; in prison, nobody seems to care, they said. in this country. We must be violence by informants, on an necessary to prosecute five As one man stated, "You make what you want out of prison If you consistent in what we say and do informant instigating a crime and murderers but who had also associate with bitter, negative people, you become bitter and in matters concerning immigra­ on the types of activities that are defrauded someone of $10,000, negative.'' According to this prisoner, you can "swing either way''. tion and refugees." forbidden to law enforcement by the bureau would not have to This particular man made the best out of the situation and went to Fr. Hesburgh believes that the Constitution or laws." · immediately cease using the in­ school earning an assocciates degree in electronics. legal migration is an integral, According to the guidelines, . formant and turn him over to the Another prisoner was not as fortunate. He also tried to get an inherited aspect of the US. He the federal government will not · police for the fraud education but was denied several times. He believes the system is very. said," .. .legal immigrants make a immediately stop an informant The new guidelines cover the strong contribution to the from joining in criminal conduct FBrs use of informants and (clJittiltlled 011 page 3) NewsBrieb Friday, December 5, 1980- page 2 ====~~========*===~~================================ by The Observer and The Associated Press Inside Friday To bolster its lagging sales, chrysler corp., announced an unusual plan to gtve buyers of most 1981 Y es,Notre Dame.