NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, January 11, 1984
Page 12
United Press International
VATICAN CITY — William Wilson, who President Reagan appointed yesterday as ambassador to the Vatican, stands with Pope John Paul II in a 1981 photo taken at the Vatican. The United States yesterday re-established diplomatic relations with the Vatican after having broken relations in 1867.
U.S. restores ties with Vatican
WASHINGTON — The United States and the Vatican restored full diplomatic relations yesterday, ending a 116-year break. However, Protestant groups vowed to fight the move in Congress and in court.
By United Press International
President Reagan named William Wilson, a California businessman who is now his representative to the pope, to the his U. ambassador to the Vatican.
Wilson, a Catholic convert and longtime friend of the president's, must be confirmed by the Senate. He has been Reagan's envoy to Pope John Paul II since February 1981. A Los Angeles real estate dealer, he is a trusted adviser and a member of Reagan's informal "kitchen cabinet."
THE PLANNED simultaneous announcement of the upgrading in relations was instead made at the Vatican at 6 a.m. CST, five hours before the State Department issued an identical 55-word statement:
"The Holy See and the United States of America, desiring to develop the mutual friendly relations already existing, have decided by common will that the apostolic nuncumare at the level of apostolic nuncumare on the side of the Holy See and of embassy
on the side of the United States beginning today, Jan. 10, 1984."
But conservative and liberal Protestants were fiercely critical of the
TELEVISION EVANGELIST Jerry Falwell, head of the Moral Majority, said the move would "establish a precedent which we will regret later. How long before Mecca (the holy center of Islam) makes such a request?
"While I personally feel it is a bad precedent and am on record as opposing such formal ties with the Vatican, it is obvious that the Congress and most Americans favor this move and it will be done." Falwell said.
Meanwhile, The National Council of Burchue said an ambassador to any candidate in the country.
SAID REV. DEAN Kelley, head of the liberal liberty department of the 32-member Protestant and Orthodox organization, "That plot of land (Valiati) is a powerful sanctuary in the romantic interest were it not the headquarters of the Roman Catholic church."
But Bishop James Malone, of Youngstown, Ohio, president of the U.S. Catholic Conference, welcomed the action, saying, "It is not a religious issue, but a public policy question, which, happily, has now been addressed and settled in context." What should he do if there were
Wilson said at a news conference,
"What we are doing is recognizing,
diatomically, a sovereign state, just like any other sovereign state."
would be a serious challenge to the restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See.
"I have read carefully the First Amendment to our Constitution," said Wilson. "Although I am not a lawyer, I personally can't see that that stands in the way of the establishment of diplomatic relations."
The U.S. government has maintained relations with the Vatican since 1939 through a series of special presidential representatives. Congress closed the last U.S. Embassy in 1867 when patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi defeated the papal army and took temporary control of Rome, capital of the Papal States.
The Official Catholic Directory reported there were 51,207,579 Catholics in the state.
Congress cleared the way for diplomatic relations when it voted Nov. 18 to lift its ban on appropriations "for the leagation at Rome."
Pope John Paul II was expected to elevate Msgr. Pio Llaga, sent to Washington in December 1980 as apostolic delegate to the Roman Catholic Church of the United States, to the post of ambassador.
Indian police look for abducted boys
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Nearly 200 police officers searched the brush-covered Ganges River valley in eastern India yesterday for 11 boys that were hikapped and feared murdered as the victims of an escalating "caste war."
The abduction in the eastern state of Bihar was reported by three boys among a group of 14 who were kidnapped by a gang of pistol and spear-wielding men. The three later escaped.
The missing boys, believed to range in age from 12 to 16, were feared to have been dumped into the Ganges to drown, the survivors said.
"WE THREE WERE blindfolded and separated from the others who were beaten up and packed into a boat," said Nile Yaday, 12, "None of them is alive."
Yadav related his account of the Jan.
4 kidnapping to reporters who visited the village of Pipariya, 585 miles southeast of New Delhi, on Monday. He said that the boys had been abducted while gathering grass for village cattle along the Ganges banks
In the Bihar capital, Patna, state Home Commission Abhinamayi Singh said that about 200 military police were stationed in the river valley for the 11 missing boys.
Officials said that six men had been arrested in the kidnapping and more were being sought, but there was no confirmation the boys had been killed.
The kidnapping report surfaceen Saturday when a member of the Parliament of Prime Minister Indra Gandhi's ruling Congress party said that the children had been abducted in the aircar" on a 60-mile area of the river plain.
THE CASTE WAR involved escaping attacks and acts of revenge between members of two social divisions, or castes, in the Hindu hierarchy.
The fighting grew out of a long-standing feud, the origins of which were
Reporters from the domestic news agency, United News of India, and the independent Statesman newspaper of Pariyaya, ran the remote village of Piperiya Monday.
Bailram Rai, an adult witness, said that he had had in bushes when he had heard shots fired into the air and had fallen back on the men commanding the boys into a boat.
"We and our friends had gone to the marshy wastelands to collect wild grass for the cattle." 12-year-old Yadav recalled. "Suddenly, the gangsters appeared with guns, pistols, laths (sticks) and spears in their hands.
Yaday said that the boys had been herded into a small room.
"They fired a few shots in the air. Terrorized, we could not run away. The gangsters surrounded us and tied our hands. We also saw to it that we were blindfolded."
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