Notre Dame Speech Recalls Hhe Gipper' SOUTH BEND, Ind
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The Daily Register Monmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 103 NO. 269 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, MAY 18,1981 20 CENTS Notre Dame speech recalls Hhe Gipper' SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Greeted warm- "The West won't contain communism; it'U ing miracle cures for which there are no known ly as "the Gipper" but protected heavily as the transcend communism," be said. "It won't diseases." '' president, Ronald Reagan was back st Notre bother to dismiss or denounce it. It will dismiss "Today, 34 congressional committees add Dame reminiscing about the role that gave him it as some bizarre chapter hi human history almost 80 subcommittees have jurisdiction over hl» big break in pictures and reciting the theme* whose last pages even now are being written.'' 438 separate laws affecting education at the that carried him to the White House. Four years ago at Notre Dame, then-Presi- college level alone," he said. "Almost every Nostalgia marked the day and extremely dent Carter had a different message about com- aspect of campus life is now regulated — hiring,' tight security surrounded the president yester- munism, saying: "We are now free of that firing, promotions, physical plant, construction, day as Reagan chose the university's 130th com- inordinate fear of communism which once led us record-keeping, fund-raising, and to some ex mancamant for his first public appearance out- to embrace any dictator who joined us in our tent curriculum and educational programs." , side Washington since he was shot in an as- fear." But he promised that "something Is being sassination attempt seven weeks ago today. The done" and offered some advice for the gradu- trip lasted slightly more than six hours, ending Reagan lectured the audience briefly on a ates: "Don't let today's doom-cryers add back In Washington before dark. government that be says has grown to the point cynics persuade you that the best is past, that For Reagan, It was a return to the campus of "filing things that aren't broken and Invent- from here on it's aU downhill." that be has said "has a very secure place in my heart." It was In South Bend that the Notre Dame football legend of Knute Rockne and George Glpp grew - a legend that, back in 1M0, was to be the turning pout of Reagan's movie career. The president, wearing a protective vest beneath lite academic robe, shared a platform at the Notre Dame Athletic and Convocation Cen- ter Arena with Pat O'Brien, who in the movie "Knute Rockne — All-American" played Rockne, the coach to Reagan's Glpp, the half- back who died of pneumonia. Also on the platform were U.N. Secretary- General Kurt Waldheun; former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, who instead of an THE 01PPER AND COACH — President Ronald Reagan, right, and motion picture actor, honorary degree received a special university Pat O'Brien, ambraca at they appeared together yastarday at commencement exercises medal; Jersualem Mayor Teddy Kolek and at at Notre Dame University, South Band, Ind. They appeared together In the movie "Knute least one black-gowned Secret Service agent. Rockna, All-Amarlcan" In 1940. Yesterday they received honorary degrees. "If I don't watch out, this may turn out to be lass a commencement than a warm bath In nostalgic memories," Reagan said. "Win one for the Gipper," be said at one point, weaving into his speech the most famous Hospital probing Une from his af movies. Reagan, playing Glpp on his deathbed, told his coach: "Someday, when things arc tough, maybe you can ask the boys to go In there and wui Just once for the Gipper." The coach, eight yean later with his Notre Dame team on the childbirth death PRISONERS DISPLAYED — Metln Aksoy and Semsi Aydln, accused mem- verge of defeat at the hands of Army, brought the players to life by calling on them at halftime bers of Turkey's Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Squad, hold guns as RED BANK - Rlvervlew Hospital officials police parade them before reporters yesterday. Mehmet All Aoca, the man are conducting so investigation of the death of to "win one for the Gipper." And they did. After O'Brien, whom Reagan had not seen accused of trying to kill Pope John Paul 11, claims to be a member of the same 10-year-old Cheryl CasoU Pesce, who died dur- group The two above will be charged with the slaying of two American ing childbirth Friday al the hospital, acoonttag since taking office, received bte honorary degree, Reagan gave the 81-year-old actor a serviceman and three American military technicians in separate Incidents In to Charies OUver, RlvervieWs director of public Turkey In 1979. Information. presidential bear hug "Anytime there Is any Incident such as this, Reagan's citation for an honorary doctor of we conduct an inve»tlg«tion about what may law degree said in part: "His vision now, w have occurred, and an incident report is filed," then, (when he was governor of California) has a OUver said last night simplicity about It.... He asks direct questions. Can we nave batter government but less govern- Pope continuing Mrs. Peace, of 12 Asbury Ave., Farmingdale, died after undergoing a cesarean operation, ment? ... He invites us to share the greater role officiate said. She gave birth to a daughter, In creating the future out of the best of the Melissa Sue, woo is reported In healthy condi- past." tion. The athletic center, which seats 12,900, was his improvement OUver said that hospital officiate are ex- HUed with 1,977 graduates, parents, friends and members of the academic community. Metal pected to discuss the case today, and that they ROME (AP) - Pope John Paul II cele- Czestochowa, the most famous icon of Po- are awaiting a report from County Medical detectors were used to make sure no one brought in weapons. brated his 61st birthday in an intensive care land, where the future pope was born Karol Examiner Stanley M. Becker on the matter. ward today, but his doctors said be was Wojtyla in Krakow on May 18,1920. Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Paul Security precautions also forced the gradu- recovering weU enough from his gunshot In his intensive care room, the pontiff Chalet noted that preliminary findings of an ates to abandon a campus tradition of bringing wounds to be moved to a normal hospital rose from his bed and sat in an armchair autopsy conducted by Becker showed that Mrs. firecrackers and champagne to the ceremony. room, perhaps later hi the day. yesterday for the first time since s gunman Pesce died as the result of pulmonary and The popping of corks and firecrackers sounds pumped at least two bullets into him cerebral edema. Chalet said that the state medi- too much like pistols. "He is Improving slowly. It looks like Wednesday in St. Peter's Square, hospital cal examlners's office is in the process of com- The crowd of several hundred that greeted he wlU be all right," Dr. Giancarlo officials said. Wearing a white stole over pleting toxological tests In the case. Reagan as he stepped off Air Force One at CutigUonl, one of the pontiff's physicians, his hospital gown, be celebrated Mass. "There's no indication at this point that Mlchiana Airport was kept at least 100 feet said In a telephone interview yesterday. But a medical bulletin yesterday eve- there is any reason for us to look into the away, behind two metal fences. "Maybe he can go to the regular room on ning said the pontiff was still running a matter," the assistant prosecutor said. A noisy demonstration protesting U.S. sup- Monday." slight fever. An earlier bulletin reported his Oliver said that hospital personnel could not port for the military-civilian junta In El "He is a really good patient, very coop- temperature at about 100.4 degrees. recall a case of a mother dying in childbirth at Salvador - "No draft, no war; U.S. Out of El erative," CastlgUoni said. In a brief, tape-recorded message broad- Salvador," the protesters shouted — was kept cast by loudspeaker at noon yesterday to Riverview, where 2,000 babies are delivered Some of the Vatican's most powerful each year. well away from the president on campus. 15,000 people In the cobblestones square, Reagan was given a robust, two-minute ova- cardinals and bishops planned to honor the and by radio to millions more in Italy and "When something like this happen*, It's pope's birthday at a Mass In St. Peter's difficult on everybody; the nurses, doctors, and tion as be walked Into the arena. abroad, the pope said be had pardoned his Basilica, the largest church in Christen- attacker. administrators aU share in the grief of the "We welcome the president of the United dom. The dean of the College of Cardinals, family," said OUver. States back to health," said the Rev. Theodore Italian Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, was to OUver said that the delivery had seemed to "I pray for that brother of ours who M. Hesburgh, the university president who preside at the morning Mass. snot me, and whom I have sincerely par- be going along routinely, until complications greeted Reagan. "We welcome the president of The pontiffs fellow patients planned to arose. A respiratory therapist responded im- doned," the pontiff said in a slightly slurred CHERYL CASOLA PESCE toe United States back to the body of Us people, celebrate a second Man for the same but steady voice. mediately to her problems, he said.