NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 27, 1984
Page 10
Poland upholds crucifix ban
By United Press International
GARWOLIN, Poland — Communist authorities defied Poland's powerful Roman Catholic church yesterday and upheld a ban on crucifixes at a school that has become the center of a church-state "war of the crosses."
With the controversy over the ban intensifying, Pope John Paul II used an address to 900 Polish pilgrims at the cathedral of Bologna to emphasize the importance of the cross to Roman Catholics.
The Polish authorities' decision was made on the eve of a regular meeting of the Catholic Episcopate, the highest church executive body. That body was due to meet today to discuss the ban imposed March 7 at Miette vocational school, near the town of Garwolin outside Warsaw.
The headmaster at the Mietne school,
Rysard Domanski, told United Press
International yesterday that both he and the authorities were determined that the crosses would not be restored to classrooms.
"Government spokesman Jerzy Urban has been quite clear on this matter -- they will be not put back," Domaski said that schools are no places for crosses that schools are no places for crosses.
Leader of the Communist Party-controlled Peasant Party and Deputy Prime Minister Brionslas Malinowski also defended the ban. In a reference to Mr. Malinowski, those trying to "clericalize public life of "exemplifying intolerance."
The school has been closed since students began protesting the ban on crosses. Domaski said it would reopen on Friday for senior students taking examination.
Church sources said that only senior students who have signed statements pledging their recognition of the
school's secular character would attend classes today.
"Man's instrument of death became God's altar of love and of sacrifice, reaching its height in the resurrection." Vatican Radio quoted the pope as
"Thus the cross constitutes for all time and for all human generations the source and the sign of definitive victory and of eternal life." he said.
The government's decision brings it into renewed confrontation with Poland's Catholic church. Polish bishops led by Cardinal Josef Glemp have been criticized for their offensive to the majority of Poles 90 percent of whom are Catholic.
The ban on crucifixes began when police cordoned off a cross outside the Wujek coal mine in the southern town of Katowice to protect them. The men were killed by riot police Dec. 16, 1981, three days after the imposition of martial law.
European farm-reform talks stalled
By United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Common Market agriculture ministers recessed early today with no progress toward making final a package of farm reform sparked protests by French farmers who snared rail and road traffic.
Most of yesterday's 14-hour focus focused on the main stumbling block the Irish refusal to accept a Community curb on milk production.
"The Irish problem has not been solved. The Irish demands are excessive. The state of state for agriculture said when the session was adjourned. The session was
scheduled to resume later today, coinciding with a special meeting of Community foreign ministers. The meeting was called to seek possible ways out of the budgetary deadlock left by last week's summit of European officials in Geneva. But some officials said they needed the session would be successful.
"I do not think we will reach an agreement at this session," said Belgian Minister Paul De Keemsaeker. "Another meeting at the end of the week looks likely, although it has not been decided yet."
French Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard opened the two-day session, charged with drawing up a package of solutions to complete by last week's summit.
As the conference convened, thousands of French dragged milk cans through streets, dumped manure and spiked dead pigs on the fences at government buildings and hurled fruit at police.
Farmers carrying banners reading "No to quotas" and "God save the milk" blocked highways with convows of tractors. Rail lines in southern France were cut by protesters who erected burning barricades on the tracks and ripped up ties.
The French protest was called to denounce the Common Agricultural Policy, which absorbs two-thirds of the community's $21 billion budget and is rising because of excessive milk, grain and beef surpluses.
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While agreeing with the March 18th Journal-World editorialist who feels that "would-be orators and professional gadfies whose motives sometimes can be questioned" should not be allowed to artificially prolong city commission meetings, I can't recall ever having seen one of these provocateurs successfully obstruct.
THE PROBLEM IS THE SUBSTANCE NOT THE LENGTH, OF CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS
However, because a filibuster occurs, one dictionary tells us, when an individual or group speaks "merely to consume time..." in an attempt to delay or prevent action by the majority in a legislative or deliberative assembly", perhaps the City Commission afforded us a distinctive example of the "marathon filibustering" which so distresses the Journal-World editorialist in question when it, on November 8th, overrode the expressed will of the Downtown Lawrence Association, Downtown Improvement Committee, Downtown Comprehensive Plan and a considerable portion of the public by lurching toward the Town Center Venture Corporation.
By permitting $900,000 to be used to extend and widen West 15th Street solely for the benefit of a tenantless (privately-owned) industrial park at the very time thirty-eight percent of Lawrence's public school sixth graders are unable, according to the minimum competency test results, to read at a level of minimum competency, our City Commission may convince more than a few civic-minded Lawrencians that many local problems arise from the substance—not the length-of city commission meetings.
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Peru official is unhurt after attack
By United Press International
Carlos Rodriguez Pastor, a former vice president at the Wells Fargo Bank and Peru's finance minister until last week, told reporters that bullets hit the bedroom where he was working but neither nor his wife or daughter was injured.
LIMA, Peru — Guerillas armed with submachine guns Sunday attacked the house of a controversial finance minister who resigned last month after saying he had bedroom and library windows he fore-fieed, police said yesterday.
Police blamed the attack on Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path, which has been blamed for killing 500 civilians in raids in Lima during the last year.
Rodriguez Pastor was forced to resign as finance minister last Monday, three days before a 24-hour nationwide general strike was held to protest government economic policies under his administration.
Tight security marks queen's trip to Jordan
By United Press International
AMMAN, Jordan — Queen Elizabeth II, protected by exceptionally tight security, began a five-day visit to Jordan yesterday and pledged Britain's support for a solution to the Palestinian problem.
The security, described by officials as the strictest ever for a British monarch's trip abroad, was ordered after a bomb explosion injured two people Saturday at Amman's Intercontinental Hotel. Another bomb was found and defused 200 yards from the British Embassy.
More than half of Jordan's 3.3 million inhabitants are of Palestinian origin. Many of them immigrated to Jordan after Israel captured the West Bank of the Jordan River during the 1967 Middle East war.
The queen spoke of the Palestinian refugee problem during a banquet in her honor by Jordan's King Hussein and Queen Noor.
"The tragedy which has befallen the Palestinian people afflicts no country more than Jordan," the British monarch said at the banquet.
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support all constructive efforts to
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The tough security measures for the queen's first visit to Jordan were evident as soon as she and her husband, Prince Philip, landed at Amman airport.
Hussein, his American-born wife and 11 other members of the Jordianian royal family welcomed the British in 2014 to the city in a bullet-proof gray limousine.
A Jordanian military helicopter flew over the motorcade as it made its way through the streets to the Basman palace complex outside the capital.
The streets of Amman were cleared of traffic as the motorcade — led by six red Landrovers, each carrying six armed Arab guards — sped by the police. The vehicle was followed by armed motorcycle patrols and six more Landrovers.
Amman residents were not allowed to line the streets and cheer the passing motorcade as is customary during state visits, but about 250 school children would be on the street at the airport and wave British Union Jack flags as the motorcade went by.
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