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r First-rate day O- ACCENT: Rome’s nightlife Partly sunny and mild Thursday, highs near 45. A 30 percent chance of snow showers Friday, with temper SPECIAL: 1988 Football Section atures in the upper 20s. Moroe DAME 6PLLECT10N i- & '"’s p e c i a l collections V// / V h e s b u r g h l i b r a r y IN 4 6 5 5 6 NOTRE DAME THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1989 VOL. XXII, NO. 68 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s National Champions! Holtz puts Irish over the top Team, Holtz in ’88 with 8th national title greeted at By MARTY STRASEN Hurricanes 31-30 on Oct. 15, White House Sports Editor received the remaining 1 1/2 votes. Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz.-Someone “This football team is what WASHINGTON - President once told Lou Holtz that Notre Notre Dame spirit is all about,” Reagan met with the champi Dame is supposed to be on top Holtz said. “There may be onship Notre Dame football when it comes to football. more talented teams, but there team Wednesday in one of the Now, three years after taking won’t be any that typify the last public events of his eight over as head coach of the Fight Notre Dame spirit better than years in the White House. ing Irish, Holtz has put them this one.” “The INF treaty and George there. In addition to beating Miami Bush’s election were impor “It’s important for Notre when it was No. 1, Notre Dame tant, but having the Fighting Dame to be on top, and I say beat Southern Cal 27-10 when Irish win the national champi that because that’s what some the Trojans were No. 2 and onship is in a class by itself,” body told me,” Holtz said after West Virginia when the Moun Reagan said. In return for Notre Dame’s 34-21 drubbing of taineers were No. 3 coming into the sentimental tribute Reagan West Virginia in the Sunkist the Fiesta Bowl. The Irish received a sweater once pre Fiesta Bowl gave the Irish their opened the 1988 season with a sented to- who else? -George eighth national championship. 19-17 triumph over Michigan, Gipp. “There are just some people which finished the season Reagan, whose role as Notre who are supposed to be on top, ranked fourth. Dame star Gipp in the movie and people get the impression “I’m so happy for our “ Knute Rockne, All- that Notre Dame should be players,” Holtz said. “It’s American” gave him his first good, ” Holtz continued. “This really a dream to win the na big break in the movie career is an outstanding football tional championship. I dreamt that helped propel him to the team .” about winning it, but I never presidency, told the players: The Fighting Irish are back thought I’d be a part of some “I can’t help thinking that on top, even though many said thing like this as a head coac- somewhere a long way off this team was a year away h .” there’s a fellow with a big grin from a shot at the national Holtz joins the list of Irish and a lot of pride in his school, championship. coaches that includes Knute and he might be thinking to The 1988 Irish completed the Rockne, Elmer Layden, Frank himself that maybe you won first 12-0 season in Notre Dame Leahy, Ara Parseghian and another one for the Gipper.” history and were nearly a unan Dan Devine-all winners of na The line was a paraphrase of imous choice as national cham tional titles at Notre Dame. one spoken by Pat O'Brien as pions. Notre Dame received 58 For the seniors, being No. 1 The Observer / Suzanne Poch Rockne in the movie, invoking 1/2 votes out of a possible 60 in marks the end of a long climb Freshman Lou LaGrange joined the thousands of other Irish fans who the memory of Gipp after his the Associated Press poll. from the days of Gerry Faust, stormed the field at Tempe, Arizona’s Sun Devil Stadium after the Notre death to inspire the team to vic- Miami, which lost its No. 1 Dame Fightin' Irish beat West Virginia to claim the coveted national see CHAMPS, page 8 ranking when the Irish beat the championship title. see REAGAN, page 8 ND junior struck by car and killed By REGIS COCCIA The driver of the car, Senior Staff Reporter Deborah Gomes, 23, of South Easton was charged with two Celebrations after the Fiesta counts of vehicular homicide, Bowl turned to grief Jan. 2 when Hurley said. Gomes, who knew a Notre Dame junior and his both Macrina and Charis, was friend died after they were hit not under the influence of alco by a car outside their homes in hol, he said. South Easton, Mass. A police officer estimated Richard Macrina, a Grace Gomes was going about 45 Hall junior finance major and miles per hour, the speed limit Donald Charis, both 20, were on the unlighted street, Hurley killed crossing the street be said. The case has not gone to tween their houses when a car court yet, he said. hit them at about 8:30 p.m., A double funeral was held Easton Deputy Police Chief Friday, Jan. 6 for Macrina and Kenneth Hurley said. Charis, who were longtime They had been watching the friends, Hurley said. They Notre Dame-West Virginia were buried beside each other. football game on television at A funeral Mass was con- Macrina’s house, he said. celebrated at Macrina’s Macrina was taken by am parish, Holy Cross Church, by bulance to Goddard Memorial Grace Hall Rector Father Hospital and Charis was taken Gerald Lardner and Father President Reagan rears back to pass a football pre of the White House. Behind Reagan is Irish head Wilfred Borden, chaplain of the sented to him by the Notre Dame football team Wed to Cardinal Cushing General coach Lou Holtz. Reagan invited the national football Hospital. Both were nesday during honor ceremonies in the Rose Garden champions to the White House. (Story, above right) pronounced dead on arrival. see MACRINA, page 4 page 2 The Observer Thursday, January 19, 1989 IN BRIEF INSIDE COLUMN Irish, Bush both No. 1 South African President Botha suffered a stroke at home Wednesday, but was “clear-minded” and might ap point a Cabinet member as acting president, his office in year of transition said. Botha, who turned 73 on Jan. 12, was in stable con dition at No. 2 Military Hospital in the Cape Town suburb The year 1988 is over - finally. The new year, of Wynberg after suffering a mild stroke, his office said. 1989, is a year of transition. Matt According to South Africa’s Constitution, the president One transition became evident in Tempe, can appoint a Cabinet minister to fill in for him tempo Arizona, on a cloudy day in early January. TheGallagher rarily. If the president is incapacitated, the Cabinet can Notre Dame football team is back where it elect one of its members as acting president. Botha has belongs - on the top of the heap in the world of Assistant News Editor refused to comment on his possible retirement.-Associ collegiate football. Notre Dame won its first ated Press national championship in eleven years, largely through the work of Coach Lou Holtz. Notre Dame will most likely be the pre-season favor ite to repeat as national champions in the 1989 Contracts have been awardedfor the repaving of football season. U.S. Route 31 from south of the South Bend bypass to Wednesday’s meeting at the White House be <D Lakeville, and also for the “Michigan Strip,” the section tween the football team and President Ronald of U.S. Route 33 from 1.5 miles north of the St. Joseph Reagan foreshadows another important transi River bridge to the Indiana/Michigan border. Signal tion taking place in 1989. On Friday afternoon, modernization on McKinley Avenue from Logan Street to George Bush will be sworn in as the forty-first Division Street is also planned for the spring and summer president of the United States, signaling the end of 1989. -The Observer of Reagan’s eight-year tenure in that office. The team’s visit Wednesday with Reagan is a fitting conclusion to the Reagan years. Since 1981, when he visited Notre Dame with actor TWO Super Bowl tickets and some Watergate Pat O’Brien to receive an honorary degree, memorabilia, but not the cash that was stolen from his Reagan has been closely tied to the University. car, were returned to North Carolina Secretary of State These ties were most evident during Reagan’s Rufus Edmisten. Edmisten considers the tickets and campus visit last March, to witness ceremonies statesmen as James Baker (chief-of-staff, Trea memorabilia to be far more valuable than the money. dedicating a stamp to Knute Rockne. sury secretary, and now secretary-of-state- Someone entered Edmisten’s unlocked, state-owned Chev George Bush is not Ronald Reagan. When he designee), to clowns such as James Watt rolet in Raleigh Saturday and stole a briefcase, a raincoat takes office on Friday, Bush will be facing the (Interior). Bush’s choices for Cabinet positions and $500 to $700. Edmisten reported the theft to police. awesome task of leading America into the 1990s. have been for the most part long-time Wash But on Monday morning, Edmisten found that all the items Indeed, in a sense the 1990s are already upon ington veterans such as Baker, John Tower except the money had been placed in the back seat of his us, for the 1980s were most certainly the Reagan (Defense), and Jack Kemp (HUD).