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Convoys Move; Russians Stopped
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BERLIN—(UPI)—The U.S. Army today sent a convoy through the Soviet zone in a new demonstration of Western access rights and the Russians cleared it for Berlin in record time.
Twenty-four soldiers in 12 trucks passed through the Russian checkpoint on the western end of the 110-mile highway to Berlin without difficulty, an Army spokesman said.
American Military Police blocked a Russian military automobile in West Berlin and held it for 20 minutes in retaliation for East German harassment of American military sedans in East Berlin.
Russian border guards cleared the convoy in eight minutes and did not attempt to make the soldiers leave the trucks to be counted.
A U.S. Army spokesman said an MP patrol car cut off a Soviet sedan near the Army's Checkpoint Charlie and blocked its passage from 11:25 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Informed sources said the action was taken in retaliation for East German police interference with U.S. Army patrol cars in East Berlin.
The new Communist harassment of military traffic in East Berlin was disclosed as the U.S. Army sent a convoy to Berlin from the west in a demonstrations of western access rights.
The American MP sedan caught the Russian automobile at Askansischer Platz, about one half mile from Checkpoint Charlie on the East-West Berlin border, after what eyewitnesses described as a wild chase.
The American sedan cut off the Russian automobile, forced it to the curb and blocked its passage.
Two American MP's jumped from the patrol car and stood in front of the Russian automobile to prevent a Russian lieutenant colonel from leaving it, eyewitnesses said. There also was a Russian driver in the automobile.
After 20 minutes the Russian automobile was allowed to proceed, the Army spokesman said.
The Western allies regularly send military automobiles into East Berlin through the Friedrichstrasse crossing point for foreigners as a demonstration of the Western right of freedom of movement in East Berlin.
A Russian demand that soldiers dismount to be counted held up an American convoy for 48 hours last week and a British convoy for nine hours Wednesday.
The swift passage of today's U.S. convoy and four British convoys yesterday did not convince Western officials that the Russian interference with traffic was over.
East Berlin police recently have halted the automobiles without reason and blocked their passage.
They said the Russians might be laying off for a few days to start in again later.
On Tuesday the British will start an airlift of about 1,200 troops and their families between Berlin and England.
The four-day airlift will rotate infantry battalions.
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Today's convoy was sent to Berlin as part of a coordinated Western allied plan to run frequent convovs on the highway to see if the Soviets have started a deliberate campaign to harass the vital traffic.
KU Chemical Society Lists Three Guests
Leon Dorfman of the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Ill., will be the speaker for the season's first meeting of the KU section of the American Chemical Society Oct. 24. His talk, "Pulse Radiolysis—Fast Reaction Studies in Radiation Chemistry," will be at 7:30 p.m. in 122 Malott Hall.
Charles Marvin, Lawrence senior and UP co-chairman, said Sunday his party would debate Vox on any campus issues at any time.
With the All Student Council representative elections less than a month away, the two political parties are busy selecting candidates and writing platforms.
Tom Bornholdt, Topeka senior and Vox president issued the same challenge last night at a meeting of the Vox general assembly in the Kansas Union.
UP will announce its candidates at a party Sunday night from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Dine-a-Mite. Membership cards, which are necessary for admittance, will be sold at the door.
Other meetings of the KU section already scheduled are: Nov. 21—C. C. Cheng Midwestern Research Institute, Kansas City, "Recent Developments in Cancer Chemotherapy"; and Dec. 17—Prof. Glen Russell, Iowa State University, "Free Radical Reactions."
University Party and Vox Populi invited each other to debate this week.
Political Parties Ask for Debate
"We would prefer the debate to be in a freshman dormitory after next week." Bornholdt said.
The UP platform will be released by next Friday.
"I know," was his answer, "but my competitors did."
Ecumenical Council OK's Language Use
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VATICAN CITY — (UPI) — The Ecumenical Council today sent back for "further liberalization," a document authorizing the use of modern languages at Catholic weddings, funerals, baptisms and other sacraments.
As presented to the council today, the document placed only one restriction on the use of modern languages in the Catholic Sacraments. it provided that Latin must continue to be used for the "essential verbal formula" of the rite.
Many prelates of the council's "liberal" bloc had let it be known they would like to eliminate even his vestige of Latin, and allow all acraments to be entirely in the language of the people.
The vote on the document was 1,130 yes. 1,054 yes-with-reservations, and 30 no.
UNDER COUNCIL rules, prelates who vote yes with reservations are required to submit a written description of the change they wish made in the document before giving t final approval.
Council experts said that unquestionably, a very large percentage of the reservations were voiced by Bishops who want to eliminate Latin entirely from the administration of Catholic Sacraments.
They said the campaign for a large number of reservation votes had been quietly conducted by liberal Bishops from Western Europe in preparation for today's vote.
The document and the reservations now go back to the Council's liturgical commission, which will attempt to draft an amendment expressing the view represented by the largest number of reservations. This amendment will then be put to a vote, and like all proposals will require a two-third majority to carry.
EVEN THOUGH the unqualified yes votes today slightly outnumbered the reservations, they fell short of the necessary two-thirds for final approval of the document.
The Rev. Frederick McManus, a consultant to the Council's Liturgical Commission, said at a press briefing, "today's vote indicates many council fathers wish to allow the vernacular even in the central verbal formulas of the sacramas."
After voting, the fathers continued debate on a document defining the role of the laity in the church. Valerian Cardinal Gracias of Bombay, India, said church authorities sometimes act as if they don't want a collaboration from the laity. He said the hierarchy must learn that the layman "has a right to share in the universal mission of the church."
Bishop Michal Klepacz of Lodz, Poland, said that the church document was the place to define the precise relation between civil and religious authorities, due to the present situation in some countries "of encroachment of totalitarian states and the rights of the church."
The Bishop said that where "moral values are ignored and even suppressed" it is necessary to have a definition of the proper sphere of activity for church and state. He said that this relationship could be defined by one of two systems, either by concordat or by separation of church and state.
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