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61st Year, No. 54
Pope Paul VI Plans To Make Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
VATICAN CITY — (UPI) — Pope Paul VI closed the second session of the Ecumenical Council today with an announcement that he will make a historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the birthplace of Christianity.
The visit, planned for next month, will be the first time a pontiff has set foot on holy land soil since St. Peter left Palestine and established the papacy in Rome. Peter, Christ's apostle and the first Pope, died a martyr's death in the eternal city in 64 A.D.
It also will be the first time a Pope has left Italy since the time of Pius VII, who died in 1823. Pius VII was taken prisoner by Napoleon and carried to Fontainebleau, France.
He said the "practical implications" of the council's work will be decided by commissions after the great Roman Catholic meeting has drawn to a close.
The surprise announcement was made by Pope Paul at the end of a half-hour speech closing the council's 1963 session. In the Latin-language discourse, he ordered a simplifying and shortening of proposed decrees in hopes of completing the gathering next year.
Shortly before, Pope Paul had promulgated the first two final actions of the council — a decree on the form of public worship and another on modern communications media. They are the only two of the 17 documents up for council discussion that have been completed, although more are close to being finished.
The 2,150 councilmen from around the world cheered Pope Paul's announcement of his plan to visit Palestine.
"The conviction is strong in us that for the happy final conclusion of the council an intensification of prayer and work is necessary," the Pope said. "We have decided after mature reflection and not little prayer to make a pilgrimage in person to the land of our Lord Jesus."
"We desire in fact, God willing, to go to Palestine in the coming month of January to personally honor the sacred places where Christ was born, lived and died, and was resurrected into heaven.
"We will most humbly and briefly return there in a sign of prayer, penitence and renewal to offer the church to Christ, to call the separated (Protestant) brethren to its sacred and unique fold, to implore divine mercy on behalf of peace
U.S. Personnel Leave Viet Nam
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—(UPI)
Another 74 U.S. servicemen were due to leave South Viet Nam today in an operation that will withdraw 1,000 of the 16,500 U.S. troops here by the first of the year.
Another 220 men left yesterday Today's contingent was delayed because of engine trouble.
THE RETURNING soldiers and airmen, many of them veterans of combat against the communist guerillas while serving as advisers to Vietnamese government units, were thanked as they left by U.S. and Vietnamese officials.
Gen, Paul D. Harkins, commander of U.S. forces here, told the men they had done a difficult job well.
Both U.S. and Vietnamese officials agree that the withdrawal means the Vietnamese army has come along to the point where it can get along with less aid.
Maj. Gen. Tran Van Don, South Viet Nam's defense minister, gave them his "personal thanks" for their aid to his country, which was threatened with defeat by the communists before large-scale U.S. aid began to pour in here early last year.
among men — peace which shows these days again how weak and trembling it is".
Vatican sources said the pontiff would travel by plane — the first time a Pope has done so. John XXIII did some flying, but only before becoming pontiff.
Pope Pius VII, who was pontifex from 1800 until 1823, was exiled by Napoleon to Savona, Italy, and then in 1812 to Fontainbleau, France. After he signed an agreement with Napoleon, he was allowed to return to Rome in 1814.
From 1870, when the temporal power of the Popes was ended, the following pontiffs remained voluntary "prisoners of the Vatican" until the Laterna Fact was signed in 1929.
Since then, Popes have left the Vatican a number of times, but usually only for brief visits within a few miles of Rome. John XXIII made a 400 mile one-day round trip to the shrines of Loreto and Assisi in 1962. He travelled by train.
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Vatican sources said the pope would visit holy places in both Israel and Jordan.
Noting the "heavy, assiduous and protracted work" of the council, and that "other questions are still subject to further studies and discussions," the Pope said:
They said the pilgrimage would last "at least two or three days."
According to these sources, Pope Paul will travel by a special airplane —probably a chartered jetliner. Although the Pope has a private train, which has not been used in a century (Pope John used Italy's presidential special), there is no papal airplane.
Betancourt Orders Blockade of Cuba
On questions already dealt with by the council, he said, "we will see to it that these questions be subjected to a thorough and deeper reexamination so as to be able to present to the next session of the council schemata which are short and so worded that it will not be difficult to obtain judgment on certain fundamental propositions."
The pontiff's announcement that he would try to wind up the council next fall came as a surprise.
"We hope that the third session in the autumn of next year will bring them to completion."
Betancourt said he does not think the rest of Latin America will hesitate to act when it sees proof that the Castro regime is seeking to overthrow the Venezuelan government.
CARACAS — (UPI) — President Romulo Betancourt called last night for an air and naval blockade of Cuba to put a stop to the Castroite export of arms and revolution to other nations of the new world.
The president assured newsmen that the Venezuelan police are "acively searching" for U.S. Army Col. James K. Chenault, who was kidnapped from his home by Communist tommy-gunners a week ago today. He said he has "no official information" about Chenault's whereabouts or condition.
In Miami, a former Castroites who bought Belgian arms for the revolutionary regime in 1959, said he recognized one of the cached weapons which was displayed on television. Ex-Maj. Ricardo Lorie said he is willing to assist the OAS investigators if his help is wanted.
"CASTRO WAS angry because I had the Cuban emblem put on the weapons," he said. "Now I understand why."
There was no immediate reaction from the United States, which presumably would have to furnish most of the forces for such a blockade.
Lorie said each of the automatic rifles he bought in Belgium is tamped with the Cuban national umblem.
A few hours before Betancourt spoke, the Organization of American States had voted in Washington to appoint a special committee to investigate the Venezuelan charge.
At a news conference, Betancourt also urged the few Latin American nations which have not already done so to break relations with Premier Fidel Castro's revolutionary regime.
THE PRESIDENTS double-bar-celled attack on the Castronites was a sequel to last week's announcement that Venezuela has "definite and irrefutable proof" that arms found cached on a Venezuelan beach last month were smuggled in from Cuba for use by Communist terrorists in that country.
"We do not believe he will be physically hurt." Betancourt said. "The Communists, with the cooperation of news agencies, have achieved
the publicity they desired. They have achieved headlines."
THE CHENAULT kidnaping was part of the unsuccessful Red effort to sabotage Sunday's presidential election, which was won easily by Raul Leoni, nominee of Betancourt's Democratic Action Party. Under the Venezuelan constitution, Betancourt could not seek reelection.
The president said there are 200 to 400 communist terrorists in Venezuela's prisons — "political delinquents" caught with guns or bombs in their hands"—and 500 to 700 at large.
It will be fair and mild tomorrow. The high for tomorrow will be in the middle to the upper 50's. The low tonight will be in the middle 20's.
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ASC Approves JFK Memorial
Establishment of a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fund committee was approved unanimously last night by the All Student Council.
The motion to create the special committee was introduced by Ali Hassan, India sophomore and International Club representative.
The committee will accept donations to the fund from KU students and alumni. The type of memorial and its location will be decided later by the ASC, in collaboration with the University administration
"The late President emphasized education and started the Peace Corps, both of which gave new openings for young people," Hassan said. "It is fitting that students of this university preserve something as a token of appreciation to this man."
HASSAN SAID it would be better for the ASC to wait until funds have been collected before deciding on the type of memorial.
"It would be best that we set no goal," Mike Miner, Lawrence junior, said. "I would rather have the student body give what it wants to give, and when they are through donating, we should decide what to do with the money."
Also approved was a resolution by Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, to establish competition between organized living groups in donation of blood to the Douglas County Blood Center.
Appointed to serve on the special committee were John Stuckey, Pittsburg senior; Hassan; Reuben McCornack, Salina senior and student body president; Bill Brier, Overland Park junior; Nancy Lane, Hoisington senior, and Jon Alexiou, Shawnee Mission junior.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity will furnish a traveling trophy to the group which donates the largest proportionate amount of blood each year. The award will be made in the spring.
Brier's large men's residence hall district last month lacked eight votes of increasing to six representatives.
Two bills which would alter slightly the method of determining living district apportionment on the ASC were introduced by Brier. The legislation would allow all ballots cast to be used in determining the number of representatives a district receives on the council.
The bills, one of which is a constitutional amendment, will be considered at the next council meeting.
FIVE ITEMS CONCERNING ASC procedure were considered, and three of them were passed.
Approved were two amendments to the elections bill which will automatically remove any council member who is absent from four meetings and which will require that members who change districts resign from the council.
Brian Grace, Lawrence senior, who submitted the two elections bill amendments, said the existing law which allows representatives to continue on the ASC even though they change districts "is not compatible with the theory of representative democracy."
THE ASC REJECTED another amendment offered by Graee which would have scheduled council meetings weekly instead of every two weeks.
Sent back to the committee on committees and legislation for a recommendation was a proposed amendment by Peggy Conner, Sacramento, Calif., senior, requiring a majority vote of the elected council members on business instead of a majority of those present.
Marshall Crowther, Lawrence law student, was elected vice-chairman of the council. As vice-chairman, Crowther is automatically chairman of the committee on committees and legislation, which gives recommendations on all proposed bills.
OTHER CHAIRMEN APPOINTED last night were Sandra Garvey, St. Louis senior, secretarial committee; Charles Portwood, Shawnee Mission junior, finance and auditing committee; Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., sophomore, Athletic Seating Board, and Dick King, Kansas City sophomore, elections committee.
Death Rate Higher for Smokers
PORTLAND, Ore. — (UPI) — The death rate among a large group of cigarette smokers during a period of nearly three years was more than twice as high as the death rate among a similar group of nonsmokers, an American Cancer Society expert said today.
Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, pipe smoking director of the society's statistical research, reported new evidence in the relationship of cigarette smoking to death and disease in a paper delivered at the American Medical Association's 17th clinical meeting.
MATCHING 36,975 men over 40 who smoked a pack of cigarettes or more per day. With the same number of non-smokers, Hammond said 1,385 of the smokers died during the 34.3-month period. Only 662 of the non-smokers died.
Of the cigarette smokers, 110 died of lung cancer while only 12 of the non-smokers of that disease. Coronary artery disease killed 654 smokers and only 304 non-smokers.
Each man in one group was matched as closely as possible with a man in the other group as to age, race, size, residence (urban or rural), religion, education, marital status, drinking habits, nervous tension and many other factors.
HAMMOND SAID he was trying through this "matched pair analysis" to eliminate all possible non-smoking differences between subjects in view of suggestions that the link between cigarette smoking and death rates might be merely incidental.
Of his findings, he commented that "it is hard to escape the conclusion that this difference in number of deaths was due to the difference in smoking habits."
Hammond's report to the AMA meeting was based on a continuing study of 422,094 men between the ages of 40 and 89 who were enrolled by cancer society volunteer workers. The society said it is the broadest study over made on smoking in relation to death rates.
THE LATEST report by Hammond, a 51-year-old former cigarette smoker, came after the AMA's board of trustees formally proposed an intensive, long-range research program into the effects of smoking by the AMA's education and research foundation. port showed that:
- Fifty per cent more heavy cigarette smokers than non-smokers were hospitalized during a period of two years.
- Death rates are highest among men who began to smoke earliest.
- DEATH RATES increase with the degree of inhalation of smoke.
- Pipe and cigar smoking are "virtually innocuous" because these mokers seldom inhale.
ON THE DEGREE of inhalation, Hammond said the death rate of smokers who did not inhale was 1.64 times as high as the death rate of non-smokers but this figure rose to 2.22 in the case of smokers who inhaled deeply. The relationship between death rates and degree of inhalation increased with age.
Supporting the cancer society's campaign against teen-age smoking, Dr. Hammond reported that the earlier smoking is started, the greater the daily consumption and the deeper the inhaling.
Among men aged 40 to 49, Hammond said the death rate of those who began smoking before they were 15 was 1.8 times a high as those who started smoking after 25 and 2.9 times as high as those who never smoked regularly.
THE REPORT expanded earlier studies by providing data on men under 50 and over 70. Most of the men in earlier studies were between those ages.