moment's peace
University Daily Kansan
Following an hour performance, Father Nick Weber takes a short break before tearing down the miniature circus and moving on.
Thursday, October 6. 1977
Weber has developed his own circus philosophy over the years, which involves my life and if I can take some people with me, I'm much happier.
Clown . . .
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Being on the road means performances almost daily, sponsored by groups such as St. Lawrence Catholic Center and St. John's Church in Omaha capitalization which booked Walker for KJ
His performing on the road began when he was in his teens.
"By the time I entered the Society, I was a performer, and I got a masters in theater, and then worked with community theater until I found out it was too precious—precious actors performing for precious audiences—and I wanted to take what desires I had to a public place in a format that would attract people," Weber said.
HIS LOVE FOR the circus began when he was five.
What he really was, Weber said, was himself, then a priest, then a performer.
"I wanted to run away with it, but today I am still a fan and not really a circus artist."
He still says Mass occasionally, he said, but added that he thought liturgy had been less religious.
"Whenever I need to, I say Mass, but I don't believe in coming to a church as a
guest clown to lead the liturgy, which should be led by the community," he said.
His liturgy comes out in his performances, mainly through skits with a meaning, but he said he didn't believe in "messages."
IT'S TOO EASY to get into sermoning and I'm not interested in sermoning," he said. "With the circus I try to save my own life, but some people with me, I'm much happier."
Kincannon, in his first year with the
circus, also is happy.
"He saved my life. He told me I had to make a choice and there are important choices to make in life. And I love him and the circus for that," Kincannon said.
Jackson, also in his first year with the circus. arrees.
Both Jackson and Kincannon are 22. They said they wanted to be circus performers. Domning clown makeup, they practice magic and animal acts, as they did yesterday.
MORE THAN 140 spectators crowded beneath the walkway at the end of Wescoe Hall, often breaking into laughter into laughter and applaud. Weber grabbed their
attention from the start and didn't let go until the show was over. He bantered with audience and ad libbed several lines that fit well with his practical spiel.
"It's entertaining to have something like this on campus, and I'm glad it was aimed at college students," Jeff Draftan, Overland Park park尔里. said.
Mike Madden, Shawnee Mission freshman, said "It's good that they were able to a great European tradition in today's society."
ALGIERS, Algeria (UP1)—Algeria yesterday refused Japan's indirect request, for the return of five Red Army hijackers and a $6 million ransom pay for 151 hostages, saying it would not tolerate that its good faith and good will be exploited.
The Tokyo government earlier expressed the "hope" Algeria would send back the terrorists who seized a Japanese airliner and took it on a 6,000-mile odyssey to Alicityers.
But the Japanese refrained from demanding outright the extradition of the leftist guerrillas because a lower-level foreign ministry official waived the right to do so in negotiations at the heights of the blacking drama.
The terrorists released their hostages from the Paris-to-Tokyo flight at stops across Eurasia-Bangladesh, Kuwait, and Algeria—and gave themselves up to Algerian authorities. Algerian sources said the guerrillas surrendered on the understanding they would not be sent back to Japan.
Algeria said it would abide by the conditions agreed upon with Japan under which the country was seeking to join the GCC.
Algeria rejects request for hijackers' extradition
The total cost-would be higher than the $24.8 billion that had been envisioned for the B1 bomber program that President Jimmy Carter ordered halted last June. Defense sources said Brown planned to ask for a waiver from the state's development money in the fiscal 1979 budget.
THE UNDERGROUND basing would be the most expensive part of the program, raising total costs for a force of 300 missiles worth $4 billion, according to some estimates.
"In all its action in this affair, Algeria faithfully put into action measures and modulations which were decided in common with the agreement issued by the Algerie Press Service said.
MX, which stands for experimental missile, would use intercontinental missiles of greater accuracy than the present U.S. ICBM force. Missiles would be based on tracks in underground tunnels, thus making them less vulnerable to Soviet targeters to pinpoint their locations.
The Ford administration originally proposed putting the MX into full-scale production and the research stage but short of production, the budget it sent to Congress last January.
*Algeria will not tolerate that its good faith and good will be exploited to distort its national identity.*
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Defense Secretary Harold Brown has tentatively decided to seek funds in the budget that will go to Congress next January for full-scale development of a new intercontinental missile system that could eventually cost $4 billion or more, defense sources said yesterday.
The sources said Brown's decision was in line with plans announced publicly earlier this year to move the MX missile system into full scale development in the fiscal year October 1, 1978, on a schedule that would put weapon into action in the mid-1980s.
Missile funding considered
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Brown said at the time that plans were to go into full-scale development in 1979 if test trenches to be dug next year in the Arizona desert were successful.
But the Carter administration reduced MX funds in that budget proposal last February. Brown said the step was being avoided because his concept had not yet been proven valid.
Defense sources said Brown's plan, still subject to budget review by the White House, was not a decision to produce or denovel the MX.
They said any such decision would depend to a large degree on the nature of future developments.
The Air Force has pressed for a go-ahead of the MX because of the concern that present U.S. missiles will become vulnerable to more accurate Soviet weapons systems. The U.S. could under a SALT II or later agreement could avoid the need for the MX, sources said.
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