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October 4.1979
Pope appeals to all
America, Pope John Paul II told the American people Monday, is a free and generous land, but its youth are beured away from religion to the escapes of sexual pleasure, drugs, violence and indifference.
"I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape," he said.
That statement goes a long way in telling us about the pope's purpose in visiting the United States and about the source of his effect on the U.S. population—one-fourth of which are members of the Roman Catholic Church.
THE SEVEN-DAY, sk-city visit by John Paul has dominated the attention of the American people this week. Reaction to President Carter's address to the nation Monday night gained scarcely half the coverage that the pope's visit drew Tuesday in New York.
The reason for the attention is simple. Despite his recognition as the religious and spiritual leader of this community, he has shown himself to be an effective
spiritual conscience to the entire nation and the world.
In addition to being the prime advocate of the Catholic Church's strict moral doctrines, the pope has found himself in stirring in the nation's conscience.
He has asked to do more than that,
however. He has asked us to look at
both our individual and national
purpose.
"I come as one who already knows you and loves you," he said, "as one who wishes you to fulfill your noble destiny of service to the world."
JOIN PAUL'S plea for a return to love was more than condemnation of modern American mores. It was a plea to examine those mores.
Indeed, what John Paul has asked us—primarily the youth of this nation —is to at least look a little more inside into ourselfs and our country.
He came as the head of the world's Catholic Church. No doubt remains, however, that upon his departure, his words and influence will have reached far beyond America's 49 million Catholics.
Vacation, pay raises House's priorities
The U.S. of Representatives, long the home of cackpot conservation and malicious selfishness, has done it again. It has made it so that many agencies of the federal government temporarily without funds—funds that are needed to provide aid for the sick, injured or homeless.
The House has done this by failing to produce an acceptable bill that would allow federal agencies to temporarily continue spending into the new fiscal year while problems with the 1800 budget are being worked out. The only bill the House did manage to pass was an effort to selfish representative tackies unacceptable amendments on to the original proposal.
But the Senate found the house amendments too difficult to swallow and simply vetoed the bill, leaving dozens of federal employees to pay their employees or money end.
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Although Monday marked the beginning of the 1980 fiscal year, the 1980 budget is still far from completion - a relatively normal distribution of spending. What is known as a continuing resolution giving temporary spending authority to federal agencies. Without that authorization, the agencies, ranging from the Social Security administration and armed services, cannot spend their money.
THE HOUSE passed a continuing resolution last week, but insisted on an amendment authorizing a 5.3 percent pay increase for Congressmen and top federal employees in the House and Senate spending for abortions The House then adjourned for a long-week vacation.
House leaders hoped that their absence would force the Senate to pass the continuing resolution because the House would not be around to reach a compromise on the bill. Because of that, the money was needed so badly, the Senate would have no choice in the matter.
NOT ALL agencies will be hit immediately by the funding problem. Even though they may not have enough agencies still have funds left over from the last fiscal year that can tide them over for the next five years.
But many agencies do not. The Medicaid program, for example, has no money left and cannot issue any checks until it is too late. The federal funds for checks are scheduled to be mailed Oct. 10, but might have to be held if there is no money to back them up. That would create a pathetic situation in which the government has no power would not be able to pay its own servicemen.
Also threatened are 78,000 workmen's compensation checks, aid for the aged, blind and disabled, as well as expense vouchers from the company all scheduled to be mailed in early October.
AFTER VETOING the House's continuing resolution, the Senate acted quickly to try to get a new measure passed. The Senate Approval Act would have allowed the government originally intended to provide funding for the Federal Trade Commission and tacked on a continuing resolution to authorize spending. The Senate was to act on the resolution in order to satisfy the approval of the House on Tuesday.
The Senate spent most of Saturday and Monday in vain efforts to persuade the House to return from its vacations to pass a bill that would not. Not surprisingly, there was little response.
So now any work on the resolution may not come until Oct. 9, one day before the election. The state will be divided and if Congress stays on its recalcitrant high horse, it might take several days of thrashing in conference committees before any authorization can be
Meanwhile the spectre of Medicaid patients going without funds, along with thousands of disabled persons, looms darkly on the horizon—all because of a petty, misguided system that is more concerned with its own pay raises than with the welfare of the American people.
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Pope John Paul II's visit to the United States is a magnificent event. It is a chance for many of his Catholic followers to attend his last Mass, and he asks them to church. It is an expression of the likable pope that he wants to be more than a religious leader, too. He wants to be, and is, a kind man.
Profiteers cheapen pontiff's visit
Unfortunately, it is also an opportunity for Americans to reveal an irrational side of behavior by using the event to make a quick, decisive decision. This can increase opportunity to make a profit is one thing. To prostitute the visit of such a leader by an American would be humiliating and bummer stickers is quite another.
It is a practice that breaches the ethical codes that should govern all business actions. There are large companies and small independent groups from Boston to Des Moines that are dispensing "I got a bill" for the scripples or抄纸 or p公篷ebloomed button labels.
In the words of one who has cashed in on the pope bonanza, "It's the biggest thing since the smile button."
In addition to the hawkers, there are pending court cases in Philadelphia and New York. These cases Liberties Union and Madison Murray O'Hair are trying to make the point that the country should not be able to use public resources as many people as can see the pope.
IF YOU DIDN'T talk to Jimmy Carter was talking out of both sides of his mouth during his campaign for president in 1972, he has made it a little easier for you to see.
The lack of respect these instances so sharply define is a sad comment on our society.
This week Carter signed a bill to create a new department of Education. Its $4 billion budget does not seem to work into his overall plan to trim the size of the bureaucracy and cut some staff.
Oh, the creation of the new department was a campaign promise—he made it to the 1.8 million members of the National Education Association, whose support he received. He planted them, and needs now. But to the rest, he promised to cut the size of the government.
The new department will take many of its 18,000 workers from the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare, but the cost is still a burden on the taxpayers who must preside in president that he would exercise him in his mledge and restrain government spending.
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THE WINDFALL profits tax continues to hang over the head of the free enterprise system. Carter is still pushing for enactment of the tax on large oil companies' profits, and Congress is reportedly waiting until after the oil companies report their third-quarter earnings in mid-October so that it can use public办用虫 its advantage.
It's the very principle of the tax that is questionable. To tax a company beyond the normal limits is an abuse of the federal power to tax. It is unfair and county taxes are tax on money that could be used for exploration and research when it is so badly needed.
Consider the cost of Exxon's latest exploration effort. Exploring for oil off the New Jersey shore in the Baltimore Canyon, Exxon has estimated that $8 million on drilling and $343 to millions
THE CONDITION upon which Ted Kennedy will enter the 1980 presidential race is almost sure to occur. Kennedy said that after getting approval to run from his mother and wife, he would see how the state had handled a crisis, and then decide whether to challenge Carter.
Inasmuch as the state of the economy has scarcely improved for more than a decade, it is a pretty sure bet that Kennedy will see the need to face the president.
Republican campaign organizers would welcome the internal dissension in the Democratic organization. To them it would be worse than the military in the November election a year hence.
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IT IS a state of affairs when the owner and the general manager of a major league franchise cannot overcome the size of their own egos and feel compelled to pass the
kansas City Royals' owner Ewing Kauffman and general manager Joe Burke seem to have shoved the blame for the Royals' failure to win a four consecutive Western Series. He is also in charge of their manager Whitney Herzog. Herzog has the second-longest record of service one team in the American League (behind Baltimore's Earl Weaver) and has won six national crowns in his four years at the helm.
Kraffman and Burke are to blame for the Royals' failure this year. Herd needed at least a dozen players, but he can be counted on every time he goes to the mound—and a right-handed power hitter. He received neither and therefore fielded a consistently consistent 162-game schedule.
He got no help from Burke and no respect from Kauffman. It is a sad way to treat a fine manager and a loyal servant to the club. Oriole fans should be thankful that the front office did not see the need to hire another midweek years that he has had at Baltimore.
Royal fans will be sorry that the Royals' front office saw the need to do so.
Papal visit has political overtones
By PETER HEBBLETHWAITE N.Y. Times Special Features
OXFORD, England—Officially, Pope John Paul II's visit to the United States has no political implications—it is spiritual in tone and pastoral in purpose; but it would be naive to take these views at face value. The pope, on the one hand, would not accept such status. It may be a tiny state, but it allows the state to international affairs, to be a "transnational actor."
On his two previous journeys he faced formidable problems. In Mexico, everyone wondered if he would support the "theologians of liberation" or shore up Latin America's military dictators. He avoided the dilemma. He believed in the religion of theology while rejecting some of its Marxist methods, and the addressed tough words on human rights to the dictators.
POLAND POSED a comparable problem: Would his visit confer a blessing on the communist leader Edward Gierke or would it strengthen the dissidents' hands? Again, John Paul II showed *more subtle* than his commentators. He remained courteous and polite toward the regime, but he also emphasized the aspirations of many Poles for freedom and independence.
The visit to the United States is entirely different. His previous journeys have been to safely Catholic countries. He has always been a Catholic, and officially asthetic, these labels disguise the sociological reality. So, the American visit will be the pope's first serious brush with a pluralistic culture. This will likely be re-examined as he works in his symbolic language on which he could draw. Crestchauke stood for Mary. Auschwitz for reconciliation, and his being an Auschwitz slaughter glory. There are no comparable shrines in America.
JOIN PAIL is very keen on the natural law. It enables the reader to see what happens in nature, certain that he will have read the late John Courtney Murray's book "These Things We Hold." It shows the influence of natural-law thinking on the framers of the natural law.
He will not fail to point out that the Polish constitution of 3, 1790, a brief narrative of hope that was soon after so badly shocked him, had been a victory for his people.
A pluralistic society cannot exist without tolerance. I would therefore expect the pope to speak on religious liberty. In Poland, he deplored its absence and insisted that it is not a special privilege but a human right. Yet at the Paris Council (1826-60) he argued that the church had no business in declaring religious liberty if it did not also concede it.
BUT THE POFE will not simply flatten the American ideology. In his encyclical Redemperor Hormin ("The Redeemer of Mankind"), he criticized "consumers unrestraint in nature" and would have an immediate effect on gas-guzzling in the gas-uzsquazing oriented American society. He is in favor of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," provided the pursuit of the happiness of some does not lead to the misery of others, which is roughly the Third World's analysis of our
It could be argued that an emphasis on the political dimensions of the visit distorts its purpose. In a sense it does not.
The crucial ecclesiastical question will be how the pope reacts to the liberals in the American church. He has made it clear that he does not share in the "liberal agenda" for the church. He does not believe that reform on contraception, clerical cellbacy and the ordination of women are top priorities.
But he may find himself caught in a contradiction: "liberal" in international affairs, "conservative" in church affairs. But the political dimension cannot be waved away by any episcopal magic wand. In "Vaticanese," no one is accustomed to battle, but the euphomism for politics is "striving for justice and peace," and to that the pope is surely committed.
THERE IS AT least one event that will be political in any sense of the term: the encounter with President Carter. The idea of a pope—any pope in the White House is enough to make some old-fashioned WASPs tremble with apprehension if no rage. But who will gain from the meeting? On two vital points—the ratification of the strategic arms treaty and the acceptance support from a pope who has already spoken on these questions. But that may not help Mr. Carter all that much.
He has been dogged by bad luck. He came to the White House as a man with reasonable ability, who would work in the press, but to the president. He proclaimed his faith in human rights the world over. He tried to make his actions correspond with his words. But he failed.
This is speculation, but I can imagine many Americans feel that the highly moral approach to the presidency has been a failure and what is needed is a tough-minded pragmatist. The job of moralizing can be safely left to the pope, who is classically prepared to take on the task of being the conscience of the nations and better qualified to
Peter Hebeblewhite, author of "The Year of Three Popes," is a US civic affairs writer for the National Catholic Church. He also writes for The Times and Forbes.
To the Editor:
Energy audits needed more publicity
Your Story from Friday the energy audits to be conducted on 500 buildings in eastern Kansas does not reflect a typical situation that awaits that can slow conservation efforts.
While $12 million seems large, it is for three years, covers only a few potential sites. In all cases, the salaries of the auditors. All this process is business as usual under normal circumstances, but is the energy crisis not even publicity, only those institutions (which include health care, educational, and housing) on persons on an inside track were able to understand and respond in time to be chosen, leaving many small, needy institutions.
And what about Western Kansas? It is frequently overlooked though it is just as deserving of federal funds to insulate the threat of energy's spiraling costs.
But KU, with all its wealth, power and leadership, is draining this small fund to perform audits we could and should already have performed. Its acceptance of new tax money for materials and auditor's fees feels like an absurdity. We need, deeply and unified of our own state.
Soon we need to see that this is a small boat, and that we must concentrate on helping each other survive or we all will be lost at sea. The audits will be accented by
the KEO until the middle of October. Let's hope for more responses from the heartland.
Jim Mendecuh
1991
Anti-Nader charges shouldn't be scorned To the Editor:
Last Monday night I had the opportunity to present in the speech of Ralph Nader: "The War on Iraq," an article on Ralph Nader by John Eases. II was passed out, and III were passed out. The Review of the News is a weekly news magazine, and it is one of many publications of the John Ease series.
he became apparent long before Nader's speech started that the passing out of this information was distasteful to his supporters. It was not the case on ground on Nader, on his political movement, the public Interest Research Group in Washington, D.C., on his activities in amusing the Chevrolet Covair while at the same time stocking in stock in the Ford Motor Company.
It also focused on the activities of his Safety Systems Foundation and Public
He did not deny any of the charges. He did not threaten to sue the Review of the News Press for its failure to inform him he did was attempt to intimidate the students and others who had distributed the materials.
Safety Research Institute, which invested in the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. at the same time that another Nader spinoff began its campaign against the rival Firestone Rubber Co. This resulted in the 1978 recall of all Firestone 500 tires and, in turn, Firestone took full to about half of what it was and Goodydee noted that Nader had invested in wug up.
In the opinion of many knowledgeable individuals, Nader is a charitant and a fraud,
THESE ARE some of the things that were mentioned in the article passed out at the meeting. In the past, the paper was since early in his speech he pulled out a copy of the article and attempted to discern the word.
He was, of course, called in his bluff, as some students did go forward, whereupon he met the John Birch Society with an old lie that is frequently used to intimidate members of the John Birch Soci-
He challenged the people who had passed out the article to come forward. When they did not immediately do so, he then attempted to discredit them by suggesting that they did not have the courage to come forward and admit to passing out the information.
a phony who has collected millions of dollars which he holds under his own control in trust funds.
Nader apparently believes in academic freedom and freedom of speech for those who do not wish to speak or live and lies when his own record is exposed. Open-minded, honest students and faculty at the University of Kansas will look upon Ralph Nader with interest and concern.
E.A. Munyan, M.D.
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Kansan gets praise on news coverage
To the Editor:
I have been impressed with the Kavan's arrival on campus. However, the Oct. 2. second picture with picture and a disaster that occurred just a few hours before your paper hit the floor.
To me it demonstrates staff ability and existing news mechanics far above the reach of most student newspapers.
And isn't it a shame that it takes a spot news story to provoke this praise, when I also aware of the frequent editorial excerpts you achieve in normal daily coverage?
In any event, today it's kudos for the Kansan.
George Rasmussen Assistant professor, RTVF
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