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...vote. But they cannot kill us all." Unable to land its helicopter in Perquin because of fighting in the area, Murtha's party looked down to see long lines of voters waiting patiently to cast their ballots. In the departmental capital of San Miguel, Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame and a U.S. observer, happened upon a funeral cortege. A mother was burying her soldier son, whose face had been sliced away by a guerrilla machete. There was no priest there, so Hesburgh offered the last rites. And to the mother, who was going...
...official U.S. observer contingent: Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Congressmen John Murtha and Robert Livingston, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Everett Briggs, University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, former University of California President Clark Kerr and Pollsters Richard Scammon and Howard Penniman...
...President Nixon asked for and received the resignation of the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, as chairman in 1972 because he supported school busing to attain racial integration...
...Congress set up the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, a 16-member panel led by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, to review the current laws and to recommend changes. In its report, delivered last March, the commission recommended raising the number of legal immigrants and refugees admitted to the U.S. and granting amnesty to most illegal aliens already here. Yet the panel also advised imposing sanctions against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, and adopting a reliable means of identifying persons eligible to work in the U.S. A Reagan Administration task force...
...trouble started in 1955 when Ruth Crowley, the original Ann Landers, died, and the Chicago Sun-Times ran a contest to find a successor; Eppie won by loading her sample answers with expert advice from such stellar sources as Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Sister Pauline volunteered to help answer the backlog of 5,000 letters...