University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Moderate Islamic leaders start summit amid security
CASABLANCA, Morocco — Moderate Islamic leaders from the Middle East, Asia and Africa defied a boycott by radical heads of state and opened a three-day Muslim summit yesterday amid unprecedented security measures.
security measures. The fourth summit in the Islamic Organization Conference's 14-year history started at the virtually sealed-off royal palace of King Hassan II amid traditional Moroccan pageantry.
The venue was changed at the last minute — without explanation — from a Casablanca hotel.
As the conference opened, moderate Islamic leaders tried for unity on key issues, but Moroccan officials were visibly disappointed that not all 45 conference members were represented at the highest level.
Only 15 Islamic presidents and seven monarchs arrived for the talks.
Hundreds attend Marine's funeral
QUINCY, Mass. — Marine Cpl. Edward Gargano, the 258th American to die since United State forces entered Lebanon in 1982, was buried yesterday with full military honors in a ceremony attended by hundreds of friends and dignitaries.
of friends and dignitaries:
"Several months ago, 250 soldiers were killed where Eddie died," said the Rev. George F. Carlson, pastor of St. Boniface Church during Gargano's youth "We feel anger, but we're proud."
More than 600 people, including Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and U.S. Marine Corps dignitaries, attended the ceremonies in the Germantown section of this community south of Boston.
Army Pvt. Robert Gargano, 20, who accompanied his brother's coffin hope a military transport, led family members into the church.
Mother Teresa suspects postal fraud
CALCUTTA, India — Noble Peace Prize-winner Mother Teresa suspects that postal employees are helping a bogus charity steals sent from around the world to help her work with the poor, officials said yesterday.
Police and postal authorities, acting on Mother Teresa's suspicions, referred the matter to the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation and Interpol — the international agency that coordinates police work in different countries.
Authorities suspect mailmen removed checks from letters sent to the Calcutta headquarters of the charities run by the Roman Catholic nun's religious order, the Missionaries of Charity.
Abduction was no hoax, official says
STUTTGART. West Germany — A U.S. Army spokesman yesterday dismissed news stories that suggested an American soldier who said he had been kidnapped by West German anti-nuclear protesters had actually been staging an elaborate hoax.
actually been staging an escape now. The soldier, Spec. 4 Liam T. Fowler, 21, of Port Orange, Fla., was under observation in the U.S. Army hospital in Stuttgart and was said to be in fairly good condition.
West German police were investigating his story of being kidnapped Friday by anti-nuclear protesters who hijacked his automobile.
Local news reports speculated the kidnapping may have been a hoax surprised Maj. Anthony Maravola, spokesman for the Pershing missile unit to which Fowler belongs.
Cranston and Hart refuse protection
WASHINGTON — Presidential candidates Alan Cranston and Gary Hart have turned down Secret Service protection during the primary campaign, but the other six top Democratic contenders have accepted it, a spokesman said yesterday.
Spokesman Jack Smith gave no reason why Sens. Cranston of California and Hart of Colorado had turned down the offer.
Agents are now traveling with former Vice President Walter Mondale. Sens. John Glenn of Ohio and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Sen. George McGovern, and were to join Florida Gov. Rubin Askew yesterday.
A congressional committee recommends protection for candidates to the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service.
Suspect might not take polygraph
DALLAS — Lawyers for Lenell Geter, who charged that his armed robbery conviction resulted from racism and sloppy police work, hedged yesterday on whether the young black engineer from South Carolina would take a polygraph test.
Geter, 26, an engineer working at a suburban electronics plant, was convicted in 1982 of robbing a Kentucky Fried Chicken stand in the nearby town of Balch Springs and sentenced to life in prison.
District Attorney Henry Wade said when Geter was released on an appeal bond last month that armed robbery charges would be dropped if Geter passed a lie-detector test. He set yesterday as the deadline.
If Geter does not take the test, he will be retried this spring.
Former Beatle fined on dope charge
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of marijuana and were each fined $100 following a raid on the private home where they were vacationing.
The couple, who arrived on the island Friday for a vacation, were in a private home in St. James Parish Sunday when police, acting on a tip, raided the house.
McCartney appeared in court with his wife early yesterday and pleaded guilty to possession of 10 grams of marijuana. His wife admitted possessing seven grams of the drug.
The McCartneys were staying with two of their daughters at a residence known as Porters house on the west coast of Barbados.
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Today, the weather will be fair across most of the nation.
Tonight will be cloudy and cold with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with the high around 10.
Shultz, Gromyko to meet in Stockholm
By United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrived yesterday for a meeting seen as a last-ditch opportunity to improve East-West relations.
Diplomats said they hoped the meeting, and the opportunity it afforded for contacts among foreign ministers, to arm the challin in East-West relations.
Along with foreign ministers from 33 other nations, they were in Stockholm to attend the opening today of the conference on European disarmament, the only remaining point of contact between the opposing power blocs in Europe.
The two men were scheduled to meet privately tomorrow for the first time since their last storm encounter in Madrid four months ago.
The NATO ministers meet over dinner yesterday night to agree on a package of proposals they will jointly support at the conference. It included:
- Having East and West bloc nations exchange information on military plans and organization.
- Extension beyond the current 21 days of notification of military exercises in border regions.
*Use of mandatory observers from the opposite side at military exercises;
In Washington, President Reagan gave an address televised in Europe and the United States, promising to meet Moscow halfway in the quest for peace and saying it was imperative that countries reopen a dialogue to avoid war.
- Improvements in communication among the participating states.
Swedish Prime Minister Olf Palme met separately with Shultz and Gromyko. He said afterward that he saw no hope for a rapid thaw in superpower relations but predicted there could be "some cautious melting."
Earlier, Palme told reporters he saw little hope that the Stockholm meeting would bring about a restoration of the Geneva arms talks that broke down last November when the Soviet Union walked out to protest the U.S. deployment of cruise and Pershing-2 missiles in western Europe.
BUT HE ADDED that the Stockholm meeting could have a very useful message.
Shultz, however, said it was his profound hope that Moscow would soon resume talks on limiting climate change and strategic nu clear weapons.
Shultz, who said he was coming here "ready to go to work," acknowledged that the Stockholm conference was no match for the Nintendo's negotiations between the superpowers.
Gromyko said on arriving in Stockholm that the Soviet iron stood ready to create a positive climate at the meeting.
Polish cardinal arrives to talk with pope
Bv United Press International
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Jozef Glemirrad received Sunday for three days of talks with Pope John Paul II amid signs that Poland and the Holy See are close to establishing full diplomatic relations.
The Polish primate told reporters that negotiations to upgrade relations were "going well," but he declined to
give specifies about when an accord might be reached.
Glemp spent the day at the Polish College, just outside the Vatican, preparing for his meeting with the pontif. They were scheduled to meet today for a day-long session.
The Polish government said last summer that it was considering full diplomatic relations with the tiny city-state, and the pontif made his
approval clear in an address to the Vatican diplomatic corps Saturday.
"THE HOLY SEE would be happy to see other ambassadors here, especially coming from nations that have a centuries-old tradition in this connection and above all those nations that considered Catholic," the pope said.
Because of its overwhelmingly Catholic population and the special relationship developed between local church
and Communist authorities, Poland is already on the best terms with the Vatican of any country in the Soviet Union. There are presently exchange special envoys.
The Vatican has established or upgraded diplomatic relations with many countries since John Paul's election to St. Peter's church in 1978. See upgraded relations with the United States to full ambassadorial level
Hussein to ask for PLO's help to gain Israeli-occupied lands
By United Press International
AMMAN, Jordan — King Hussein,
addressing the first session of Parli-
ment in 16 years, vowed yesterday to
gain Israel-occupied lands for Palesti-
tinian Arabs by coordinating efforts
with guerrilla chief Yasser Arafat.
"The land will be freed and the Arab people of Palestine will return home to exercise their right of self-assertion." Hussein said to defeaming aplause.
organization to help "perform our duty to Jerusalem, Palestine and its people."
"No matter how long their ordeal lasts, the occupation will end." Hussien said of the 1 million Palestinians living in Gaza after Israel won in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war
Hussein said he would pursue talks with Arafat for a mutually agreeable strategy for a peaceful return of the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem.
THE PLO CHAIRMAN is expected in Amman this week to begin talks on joint action with Hussein, who has called for U.N., Soviet and American participation in a Middle East settlement.
The 48-year-old monarch, standing before a throne in Parliament Hall,
passes her daughter in front of her.
Hussein did not threaten military action against Israel, but said that formation of a civilian security force in Iranian armed forces were top priorities.
Hussein suggested he would attempt to overcome Syria's opposition to peace talks and bring Egypt back into the Arab fold.
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FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT THE "PRO-CHOICE" POSITION
Another rabbit "pro choice" group, the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), was recently quite candid about its priorities. Before New York Mayor Edward Koch signed into law a bill requiring bars, restaurants and liquor stores to post a sign warning pregnant women that alcohol can damage unborn children. NOW chapter President Barbara Rochman, in a letter to Mayor Koch, admitted that "we (the members of NOW) are most uneasy about the step that this legislation takes toward protecting the unborn at the expense of women's freedom."
And what inspired the bill which NOW's myopic members found so disqueting? Here is the Department of Health and Human Services answer to that question:
Because NOW is not interested in reality, it can easily ignore the stillborn, premature, mentally retarded and physically deformed children who are so, frequently the victims of a pregnant woman's drinking habits. This willingness to fantasize is an integral part of the "pro-choice" position.
"One of the most common causes of fetal damage is alcohol, which drinkers rarely recognize for what it is—a powerful drug. The more a pregnant woman drinks the greater her risk of giving birth to an abnormal baby. Birth defects resulting from drinking during pregnancy are known as fetal alcohol syndrome."
Consider for a moment the gyrations of an organization, the Religious Coalition of Abortion Rights (RCAR) in Kansas, which exists "to encourage and coordinate support for safeguarding the legal option of abortion; for ensuring the right of individuals to make decisions in accordance with their consciences; and for opposing efforts to deny the right of conscience through constitutional amendment or federal and state legislation." Eight local clergymen—Reverend Dr. Jack Bremer of the United Methodist Church and the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, Reverend Gary Bryant of the United Church of Christ, Reverend Bill Hemmen, Jr. of the Centenary United Methodist Church, Reverend Homer Henderson of the United Church of Christ and United Methodist Church, Reverend Dr. Paul Messina of the First Presbyterian Church, Reverend Timothy Miller, Ph.D. of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and K.J.'s Department of Religious Studies, Robert L. Shelton Ph.D. of the United Methodist Church and K.J.'s Department of Religious Studies, and James Wooelfel, Ph.D. of the Unitarian Universalist Association and K.J.'s Dept. of Religious Studies—are members of the RCAR.
Studies—are members of the profession.
By maintaining that it "is pro-choice, not pro-abortion," RCAR understandably tries to distance itself from the bloody abortion procedure which, since the Supreme Court's revolutionary 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, has been used to kill over ten million helpless babies. RCAR considers the abortion controversy a religious issue because "Religious groups hold diverse and conflicting" opinions about when life begins while "Anti-clause groups are attempting to translate one conviction—the belief that personhood begins at the moment of conception—into law."
RCAR's exercise in obfuscation is designed to circumvent the long-recognized fact that, in the words of Walker Percy, an M.D. and novelist:
"The onset of individual life is not a dogma of the church but a fact of science. How much more convenient if we lived in the thirteenth century, when no one knew anything about microbiology and arguments about the onset of life were legitimate."
Today, in the words of John T. Noonan, Jr.:
Any "pro-choice" entity—whether it be the American Civil Liberties Union with its ridiculous claim that life begins at birth, or NOW with its frenzied objections to the transmission of information designed to protect the child, or RCAR with its spineless classification of abortion as a genuine expression of religious sentiment—which supports this gross misuse of power is studiously ignoring the fact that, in the words of University of California Professor of Law David W. Loussell, "even if the Court had intended by its Roe and Doe rationale to exclude the unborn . . . from all legal protection . . . (there exists) no legal principle which would justify, let alone require, passive submission to such a breach of our moral tradition and commitment."
Today, in the words of John T. Holloman, "There are no laws which regulate the suffering of the aborted like those sparing pain to dying animals. There is nothing like the requirement that consciousness must be destroyed by 'rapid and effective' methods as it is for cattle; nothing regulating the use of the vacuum pump the way the decompression chamber for dogs is regulated; nothing like the safeguard extended even to newborn kittens that only a humane mode of death may be employed . . . The Supreme Court has acted as if it believed that its own flat could alter reality and as if the human fetus is not alive."
While discussing prenatal medicine George Will notes that "The most humane of sciences, medicine, can now treat as patients who the law says lack an essential human attribute: rights. (Because) Mothers can kill any fetus that medicine can treat."
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