Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home: 50 Golden Years
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VOL. 26, NO. 28
FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAV, JULV 23, 1982
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Arch bishop John R. Roach, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, accompanied by Msgr. Daniel Hoye, NCCB general secretary, discussed tui tion tax credits and abortion with President Reagan a~ the White House last Friday. During a brief session, the leaders discussed the progress of tuition tax credit legislation, which Reagan backs, and the Hatch Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit abortion, which the president does not specifically back. Speaking to reporters outside the, White House, the archbishop said tuition tax credit legislation is "moving along very nicely'" and is among the president's top priorities. He said he is more concerned about the fate of the Hatch amendment than about the chances for tuition tax credits and added, "I think it's a more difficult kind of measure." 'Nevertheless, a day previously, in a filmed message to a Nation al Right to Life Committee con vention in Cherry Hill, N.J., the president had declared that he wants the Congress to debate abortion legislation soon. Reagan told the pro-lifers that "the time has come for Congress to face the national tragedy of
abortion, to fully discuss and debate on the House and Senate floors the heartbreaking dimen sions of this tragedy." In other convention activity, delegates heard speeches by leaders of pro-life movements and individuals who described, personal experiences; and attend ed an emotional closing rally. The convention also drew pickets, led by Bill Baird, Long Island, N.Y., abortion clinic owner, and a counterrally on the final day by groups favoring legalized abortion. Some 100 pro-choice groups, banded to gether under the slogan, "In Sup port of Women's Lives," said their counterrally drew some 5,000 to 10,000 particlpants. ,Convention officials said some 2,000 people took part in the three-day affair. But Dr. Jack Willke of Cin cinnati, president of the Nation al Right to Life Committee, said that number comparisons be tween the convention and pro choice rallies were "like com paring apples and oranges." "Our goal (at the convention) is not numbers, but to bring the leadership together for dialogue. Our rally is Jan. 22 in Washing ton," he said. Jan. 22 is the an niversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abor tion.
fled from poverty-stricken Haiti to enter the United States illeg ally. , McCarthy said resettling the detainees coul~ save the gov ernment millions of dollars. The WASHINGTON (NC) - El MRS director suggested that the Salvador, shoved off the front government "put that $25 million pages by new wars in the, Falk each year into Haiti so people lands, Lebanon and Iraq, is re wouldn't have to put two-by turning to the center of attention fours under their chins and pad again as the July 28 deadline dle up the Caribbean." nears for a second certification The Haitians who have come by the Reagan administration of to 'the United States, when re human rights progress there. leased, will be, considered appli The House, on a 399-1 vote cants for political asylum and July 13, approved and sent to will be on parole. If they violate the Senate legislation which that parole they can be detained would require the administration again; if their asylum applica to certify progress in the inves tions are refused they can be 'tigations of the murders of six deported. Americans including four Before being released the Hai Catholic churchwomen - before tians'must go through a medical any more military aid can be screening procedure, McCarthy sent to EI S'alvador. said. He said the detainees will A State Department official said later that the administra Tum to Page Fifteen
tion did not oppose the added requirement. Thomas O. Enders, assistan~ secretary of state for inter-American affairs, also pre dicted that the Salvadoran judge handling the case of the five ex National Guardsmen accused of the murders of the four women would set a trial date in August with the trial itself to follow in the fall. The U.S. Catholic Conference, public policy arm of the U.S. bishops, urged Congress to ap prove the added certification re quirement because of what it called the significant questions still remaining in the deaths of the Americans. The four women - Maryknoll Tum to Page Sixteen
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FOR 50 YEARS the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home of Fall River has joyously and quietly served New England. At a traditional Fourth of July picnic, from left, -Sisters Cor dis, Joseph and Imelda with patients Kenneth Carter, Lucien Arquin and Anita Dupont. A special section honoring the Hawthorne Dominicans on their 50th anniversary in the Fall River diocese begins on page 3. (Torchia Photo) ,
Haitian aid set
WASHINGTON (NC) - Vol untary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference Migra tion and Refugee Service, have begun the process of resettling HaiUan detainees despite the lack of clear assurances of fin ancial help from the U.S. govern ment. At a press conference last week John McCarthy, MRS ex ecutive director; Wells Klein, chairman of the Migration and Refugee Services Committee of the American ,Council of Volun tary Agencies; and Livingston Chrichlow, coordinator of the Cu ban-Haitian Program of Luther an Immigration and Refugee Services, said their agencies were working out the logistics of re settlement. About 1,800 Haitians have been detained, some for over a year, at camps in Puerto Rico and around the United States.
The 11 th Circuit Court of Ap-' peals in Atlanta July 13 upheld a ruling to release the detainees. Klein said it would, be "about two weeks before the first Hai tian leaves" detention but "we are working as fast as we possi- , bly can." , The agencies will submit pro posals to the government for funding, but "there is no com mitment," according to Klein. Although not specifically out lined, he said, the voluntary agencies have "a partnersh,ip with the government." "The coffers of the' churches are not that deep," he said, but "we have the necessary human resources." Whatever the cost of resettling the refugees, either to the church agencies or the taxp~yers, Klein and McCarthy said that it would be less than the money spent to detain all of the refugees who
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