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Pope John Paul II
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalans laid a giant welcome mat of rose petals and colored wood shavings along a parade route yesterday in preparation for the arrival of Pope John Paul II, his first visit to Central America in 13 years.
"Welcome, Filgrim of Peace," read posters strung on lamposts.
The pope last visited Guatemala in March, 1983, when the country was under military dictatorship. Today, it remains the only Central American nation still engaged in civil war, and many
"The pope's visit is a message of peace. All of us in Guatemala desire peace," said Ana Maria Saenz de Davila, 49, a mother of four who joined hundreds of others to help decorate the pope's mobile route.
Guatemalans hope the pope's presence will spur efforts to end the 35-year conflict, the longest in Central America.
The Associated Press
Pope sends message of peace
Rising at dawn, the volunteers laced the cathedral gates with palm
The pope's tour is being viewed as a mission of peace after decades of violence and civil war. He was to spend yesterday and today in Guatemala, visit Nicaragua tomorrow and El Salvador on Thursday, before heading to Venezuela.
The Roman Catholic Church long has been fighting inroads by Protestant evangelical groups across Central America, and the pope is ex-
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"We hope this was nothing more than an isolated incident," said Rodolfo Mendoza, Interior Minister. Officials gave no sign of any changes in the papal visit as result of the attack.
The pope was to be welcomed yesterday by newly elected President Alvaro Arzu, and was to tour Guatemala City, stopping outside the cathedral to address the faithful.
The mood was festive, although about 4,000 police and security forces were on heightened alert following an attack Sunday on Arzu.
fronds and strung garlands of red, pink and white flowers on an outdoor altar erected for Mass today.
Authorities said Arzu and his wife were riding horses on a rural road when a man drove his pickup truck toward them, knocked a bodyguard off his horse and struck two security vehicles before troops shot him dead. A motive for the attack was not given.
Pope John Paul II arrived in Guatemala Monday for a seven-day tour of Central America
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accords that ended civil wars in both countries in the 1980s. And some were unsure whether the pope could help Guatemala's peace process.
A woman arranging flowers atop an altar on a football field yesterday said she believed the pope was coming at an historic moment.
"The pope's visit is going to revitalize the Catholic faith and help contribute to peace in Guatemala," Damaris de Ranero said.
Guatemala's leftist rebels have announced a cease-fire for the pope's visit — the third cease-fire since November.
3 EL SALVADOR: Feb. 8; Celebrate Mass, meet with president, visit San Salvador cathedral
4 VENEZUELA: Feb. 9-11; Celebrate Mass, meet with social, political, cultural leaders, meet with local youth
GUATEMALA: Feb. 5-7; Celebrate Mass, visit with president, prayer service in Equipus Basilica
Tensions remain high in Nicaragua, the scene of recent church bombings, and in El Salvador, despite
pected to remind the flock of the faith that dates to the Spanish colonization.
"The pope's visit is a tremendously happy moment, but we don't really know how much good it's going to do," said Efrain Laroj, plucking garbage from the field where the altar was being completed.
2 NICARAGUA: Feb. 7; Celebrate Mass, vsp with president, tour Managua cathedral
Not even the threat of jail has persuaded the 15 year old to visit the father she says deserted her family in a bitter divorce battle.
Visit dad or go to jail, judges say
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — She gets straight A's and swims like a champion, but Galatea Kapsimalis is a lot like other teen-agers when it comes to being told what to do.
The threat came from the same court that in July ordered a 12-year-old girl jailed for refusing to visit her father. That girl was released a day later pending the outcome of an appeal that could determine how far Illinois judges may go in trying to resolve visitation disputes.
The two cases have caught the attention of family law experts nationwide.
"Ordering children to obey their parents...is, except in rare circumstances, no business of the court," said Benjamin Wolf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the appellate case and is watching the Kapsimalis dispute. He called the judges' decisions in both cases an intrusion of the families' privacy.
Galatea agrees.
"It's definitely not fair," said the teen-age, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook. "We have our rights. He can't force us to see our father."
Judge Robert C. Lorz in Joliet, Ill., has indicated he will await the appeals court ruling before deciding whether to send Galatea and her 14-year-old brother, Peter, to jail. Lorz held the youngsters in contempt of court on June 27.
"If it comes down to seeing him or going to jail, we'll go to jail." Galatea said.
Jailing children in such cases is almost unheard
"I can't imagine that we would even dream of treating adults that way — forcing them to spend time with someone they don't want to spend time with," Becker said.
of, said Mary Becker, a University of Chicago law professor.
Kostas Kapsimalis is seeking to divorce his wife, Bess, after nearly 15 years of marriage.
Since moving out of the family home and filing for divorce in 1994, Kostas Kapsimalis said he had seen his children just twice outside court, despite court orders granting him regular visits. Even then, he said, his children wore headphones and imposed his
phones and ignored him. He said he thought his wife brainwashed them.
"I do love my children," he said. "I do miss them very, very much."
Kostas Kapsalmis said that seeking a contempt ruling against his children was a last resort.
"I don't want them to be punished," he said. "I honestly didn't think it would ever reach this point."
"I've always said if they wish to see their father they can," she said. "You can't force them."
Bess Kapsimalis said that her children, both excellent students and competitive swimmers, have been too busy to see their father on scheduled visitation days and his efforts to find them in contempt have only increased their bitterness.
The youngsters are equally angry with the judge, who was red-faced and screaming when he issued
the contempt ruling, Bess Kapsimalis said.
Lorz and his colleague Judge Ludwig Kuhar — who sent 12-year-old Heidi Nussbaum to jail in July — won't discuss the cases.
Ben Mackoff, a Chicago lawyer who recently retired as presiding judge of Cook County's domestic relations court, said it was debatable whether Illinois law even allowed judges to hold children in contempt in custody disputes. That's a question the state appeals court will answer in the Nussbaum case.
In that case, Kuhar ordered.
Heidi, of suburban Lisle, Ill., jailed indefinitely for defying a court order that she make a month-long visit to her father in North Carolina. Heidi's mother Kathy Marshall appealed, and the appeals court halted the punishment pending its ruling.
The children recently began meeting with their father in Illinois, under the supervision of a psychologist.
Mackoff said he understands the pressures that may have led to both decisions.
"You're between a rock and a hard place out there. You don't want it to appear that the court order has no validity," he said. "What do you do to kids who come before you and thumb their noses at you?"
But Mackoff said that under the circumstances, the use of jail time might very well be counterproductive.
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