El Independiente

              Pleased to meet you
A toddler hitches
a ride at Tucson
Meet Yourself.
The annual city-wide
festival ex-plores
the tradi-tional
and con- temporary
Southwest.
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By Dolores Rivas Bahti
El Independiente Statt
In the çyes of Judge lart l-1. Carrot, ii
wnitly a timpk case et smuggling - not
sanctuaty. Forget the politics. Forget about
the clerical collars.
This was just an ordinaty trial in U.S.
District Court.
To the defendants charged with
conspiracy and violation of U.S.
immigration law, the charges tnvolve
fundamental legal and constitutional issues.
U.S. courts have tried individual cases tn
the sanctuary network, but this one includes
a conspiracy charge against the leaders of the
sanctuary movement.
Before a gag order silenced trial attorneys
and other principals, defense attorney
William J. Risner said, 'There are
considerable facts to support John Fife and
Jim Corbett as key people in the nsovement.
"In terms of theory and initial
organization, the essence of the movetnent
emanated from Tucson," Risner said.
"Tucson is the heart of it."
The defendants are not pan of a criminal
conspiracy, Risner said, but they are
mentbers of an ecumenical group engaged tn
protective religious activity.
The court musi distinguish between the
two types of activity, lie said.
The court narrowed the scope of the case
by ruling that such vital defense issues as
First Amendment guarantees of freedom of
religion and association are tr'elevant, said
Risner, attorney for Mes att sanctuary
defendant Ramon Dagobert Quinones.
"If we could introduce the true facts
in the case, we'd witt 100 trials out of
100, "said Risner. The Il sanctuary
nuns, prtests and lay workers are being
prosecuted, he said, for activities that
the U.S. government has officially
regarded as heroic - like Swiss citizens
who smuggled Jews out of Hitler's
Germany.
This is the first time in American
history that the government has
acknowledged that informers and
infiltrators have gone into churches,
and the only known case where
recordings of church services have been
used in a criminal proceeding, he added.
(Continued on Page 7)
Mariachis jovenes
The mariachi band, Los Changuitos Feos,
enters its 22nd year of performing. crica
Mares, 7, is the youngest member of the
group.
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By Ron Palinatier
El Independiente Statt
As li members of the sanctuary movement went on trial accused
of smuggling Central Americans into the United States, another
group was claiming that sanctuary is just one thread, interwoven with
52 others in a united front that aims to undermine the U.S.
government.
The Rev. Kenneth G. Miles, pastor of the Christian Fellowship
Church, 4606 E. Pima St., and founder of the Coalition for Civil
Obedience, says sanctuary is only one of 53 movements in the united
front.
"It is an international thread, in fact it's a noose," Miles said.
The goal of the coalition - created in February - is to discredit
the sanctuary movement by linking the Rev. John M. Fife, pastor of
the Southside Presbyterian Church just north of South Tucson, to
organizations accused of supporting defiance of federal law.
Growing their own
Residents of a
South Tucson
apartment com-plex
for the elderly
are taking to the
garden and grow-ing
their own
vegetables, and
that beats wat-ching
television.
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Sanctuary judge: 'Simple case of smuggling'
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Photo b Dolores Rivas itahtí
Sanctuary defendant James A. Corbett smiles for the cameras outside the Federal Courthouse on East Broadway Boulevard.
The judge on the case later ruled thai photographs could not be taken within 100 yards of the building. Story, Page 7
'Sanctuary undermines U.S. government'
A report entitled "The War Called Peace, The Soviet Peace
Offensive," prepared by the Christian organization Western Goals in
1982, claims that 53 agencies are operating under the World Peace
Council, which "is conducting a major 'covert action' offensive in
Europe and America to prevent or delay implementation of U.S. and
NATO defense policies."
"These (the 53) groups work openly in close collaboration and
coordination with revolutionary and terrorist movements backed by
the U.S.S.R., its sateffites and client states and which they and the
WPC call 'national liberation movements'," the report states.
One of the organizations listed in the report .-.- the National
Council of Churches of Christ, which includes the Presbyterian
Church, USA, of which Fife's church is a member - voted to be a
sanctuary for Central Americans in March 1982.
(Continued on Page 6)
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Vol. 10, No. 2 November 1985