Preacher carries cross onto Mall
By BILL KRAFTSOW
Collegian Staff Writer
He wears a jacket bearing the likeness of a
bleeding Jesus on his back. And if that fails to
draw students' attention, he hopes that the large
cross he carries will draw more than just a look.
Yesterday marked the arrival of Michael
Woroniecki, a new preacher, to the University.
Woroniecki, 28, is a former "rowdy" football
player from Central Michigan University who
tore up his knee in a spring game and lost his
girlfriend the same day. Those events led to
despair and a desire to become serious about
God, according to a pamphlet he distributes.
At that point in his life he was "born again," he
said.
Woroniecki said he became disenchanted with
the church and its organization system, and
began a search for a true approach to Jesus that
eventually led to his disgust for all organized
religion.
He spent two years at the Melodyland School of
Theology in Anaheim, Calif., where he again
became disenchanted with the "system," he
said. From Melodyland, the young preacher
entered the Fuller Theology Seminary in
Pasadena, Calif., where he received a master's
degree in theology and divinity.
Woroniecki said he found Fuller to be worse
than Melodyland because the preachers there
seemed more professional and the value of the
dollar more evident.
Yesterday afternoon, Woroniecki and his wife,
Leslie, who, like her husband, is a former
Catholic, preached their beliefs to passersby
along Pollock Road. The couple, who for the past
two years has been traveling around the country,
has turned preaching into a family affair.
Students witnessed the Woronieckis' 2-year-old
daughter, Sarah, carrying a sign while their 3-
month-old daughter, Mercy, manned a baby
stroller with another sign attached.
Many students ignored the preaching family,
but some expressed annoyance.
Lintz Rivera (3rd-general arts) said the "Jesus
on the back (of the jacket) could be interpreted
as sacrilegious. The cross is OK but a picture like
that, no way."
Bryan Newman (10th-business logistics) said
"the preachers argue and don't listen to
students.!'
Michael Woroniecki promised University
Police Services officers about noon that he would
use discretion in his preaching. However, not
long after he had been told by a police supervisor
to "tune down or go to the foot of the mall,"
Waroniecki shouted to three men walking past
him that, "I'm not here. Take the easy way out.
Just ignore me."
The Woronieckis have been arrested for
disturbing the peace several times during their
travels.
Their most difficult times occurred at the •
University of Southern California campus where
Woroniecki got into a confrontation with
homosexual students, he said.
Reagan announces Marines' return
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON President
Reagan said last night that
American Marines will re-enter
Beirut within hours to take up a
peacekeeping mission that will last
until the Lebanese government is
in full control and "able to
preserve order."
Reagan told a White House news
conference the Marines will return
President Reagan
the
daily
With cross in hand and daughter Sarah by his side, Michael Woroniecki prepares to preach to students
along Pollock Road between Willard and Schwab buildings. Woroniecki and his family arrived at the
University yesterday.
this morning to the Beirut mission
from which they were withdrawn
on Sept. 10, and "I can't tell you
what the time element will be" on
the duration of their stay.
"The Lebanese government will
be the ones to tell us when they feel
that they're in charge, and we can
go home," Reagan said. He said he
believes all Israeli and Syrian
forces will be withdrawn
"rapidly," with the U.S., French
and Italian peacekeeping
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contingent back on the job.
He said the Marines will go
ashore today when Israeli forces
are withdrawn to a line south of the
Beirut airport. Reagan said Syria
also has said it is willing to pull
back its forces.
On other points, Reagan:
• Said he "never has had any
thought" of undermining the
Israeli government of Prime
Minister Menachem Begin because
of its resistence to his Middle East
peace proposals. He said he does
not believe the Israelis are trying
to undermine his plan, despite their
rejection of his call for a
Palestinian autonomy under
Jordanian supervision on the West
Bank and in the Gaza Strip.
Reagan said he thinks both sides in
the Middle East are trying to stake
out negotiating positions.
• Once again defended his
economic program, saying that
there are signs of recovery soon,
and blaming the Democrats for
persistent problems of recession
and unemployment. "We still have
a long way to go but together we
pulled America back from the
brink of disaster," he said.
Reagan was asked what he would
do if new fighting should erupt, and
embroil American forces in
Lebanon. He said he does not
expect that, then declined to
discuss further a question he called
hypothetical.
In what has become a news
conference pattern, Reagan began
with a prepared statement
defending his economic program
and blaming the Democrats for
recession and unemployment. He
said inflation has been cut in half,
interest rates are declining,, and
"there are other signs that we're
heading toward a good recovery."
The president acknowledged that
there is a long way to go, with
economic indicators pointing to a
continuing slump and with
unemployment at 9.8 percent. But
he said "we're better off than we
were."
He urged Congress to act before
its campaign recess on economic
bills including appropriations to fit
his budget, a constitutional
amendment to require balanced
budgets in the long-term future and
the administration job training bill.
The president also:
• Insisted that the Justice
Department is going to court in an
effort to overturn existing school
busing orders on a case-by-case
basis only in instances where the
local communities involved are
trying to get the orders changed. In
many cases, he said, it is the black
community that is taking a
leadership role in seeking the
changes.
'The Lebanese government will be the
ones to tell us when they feel that they're
in charge and we can go home.' •
Asked why his administration is
moving to counter desegregation
orders obtained under prior
administrations, Reagan said,
"Well, I suppose it's because
there's been so much court
ordering and some of it seems to be
a violation of the rights of the
community, of the school board
and so forth."
• Said adminstration sanctions
aimed at countering Soviet
involvement in Poland and
elsewhere are successful because
they have given the Soviets "a
pretty good understanding . . .
where we stand."
"The Soviet Union, which has
been expanding over the years .
they haven't expanded an extra
Troops set for
return today
By The Associated Press
A dispute over the Israeli
presence at the Beirut airport was
resolved yesterday and the 1,200
U.S. Marines assigned to the
Beirut peace force will begin their
delayed landing today, according
to reports in Tel Aviv and the
Lebanese capital.
The Israeli government,
meanwhile, approved a full-scale
judicial inquiry into the massacre
of hundreds of Palestinians in west
Beirut. The PLO's chief of staff
Brig. Saad Sayel, code-named Abu
Walid was reported ambushed
and killed in eastern Lebanon.
President Reagan told a news
conference in Washington last
night that the Marines would enter
Beirut today after the Israelis
withdraw to a line south of the
airport.
He said the U.S. troops will stay
until the Lebanese government is
"able to preserve order." But he
added, "I can't tell you what the
time element will be . . . The
Lebanese government will be the
ones to tell us when they feel that
they are in charge."
Reagan said he believes all
Syrian and Israeli forces will
leave Lebanon "rapidly"
following the full deployment of
the foreign peacekeepers, who
oversaw the PLO evacuation from
Beirut earlier this month.
Israeli troops and armor
evacuated the Beirut harbor
yesterday, as demanded by the
United States, France and Italy,
which are supplying more than
3,000 peacekeepers at the
Lebanese government's request.
The Israelis still were in the
airport and in parts of east Beirut
The United States has said the
Marines, originally scheduled to
land last Sunday, will not deploy
until Israel withdraws from both
halves of the city.
Diplomatic sources in Beirut
said yesterday that Israel was
insisting on keeping a civilian air
traffic controller at the airport
even after the Marines land
U.S. diplomatic sources in Tel
Aviv reported later, however, that
the dispute was resolved, and the
square inch since we got here," the
president said.
• Ruled out a tax increase next
year "unless there's a palace coup
and I'm overtaken or overthrown."
• Disputed contentions that
many of the budget cuts he has
pushed through Congress have
been particularly harmful to poor
people while the middle class gets
a tax reduction.
"In a number of instances, those
cases have nothing to do with our
budget cuts," he said, citing
reports of people suffering from
losing benefits. Instead, he
suggested, bureaucratic error is
often responsible for truly needy
people losing government benefits
He said the decrease in the rate
of inflation, coupled with rising
—President Reagan
wages and benefits, has resulted in
people at the povery level having
"about $6OO more in purchasing
power" per year than they would
have had if inflation had continued
unabated.
• Said a pending sale of F-16
fighters to Israel "is still on tap"
even though no formal notification
of the sale has been sent to
Congress. Referring to strife in
Lebanon, the president said,
"Frankly, in the climate of things
going on, we didn't think it was the
time to do it."
• Declined to comment on the
National Football League players'
strike beyond saying "it doesn't
seem there was the consideration
for the fans that there could have
been and should have been."
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1982
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Israeli military command said its
troops would leave west Beirut,
including the international
airport, today. Details of the
reported resolution were not
immediately available.
Washington officials said they
were operating under the
assumption that the withdrawal
from east Beirut also will be
finished today.
"We are expecting the
Americans in the next 48 hours.
We told them they could land at
the airport. If the Lebanese
government agreed, it was OK
with us," said Lt. Col. Yaacov
Perez, deputy spokesman at the
Israeli military headquarters in
Baabda, five miles east of Beirut.
Lebanese government sources,
the American sources in Israel,
Lebanon's state-run radio and the
privately owned "Voice of
Lebanon" station all said the U.S
Marine contingent would begin
landing today.
About . 100 Israeli soldiers, along
with armored personnel carriers,
jeeps and trucks, rolled out of the
Beirut harbor area yesterday
morning. One Israeli soldier threw
a green smoke bomb at a group of
Lebanese. Asked where they were
going, one Israeli soldier said:
"Home, I hope."
Israel's presence at the port was
an embarrassment to the French
and Italians, who, while insisting
on a total Israeli withdrawal,
landed their troops at the harbor
following a request by President
Amin Gemayel, Bashir's brother.
The Italians have already
landed 1,170 men and the French
1,080. Maj. Jean-Claude Villevielle
of the French peacekeeping force
said 482 troops serving with the
U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon
would arrive in Beirut today to
join the multinational force
French paratrooopers and
Italian infantrymen took up
positions in and around the Sabra
and Chatilla refugee camps to help
the Lebanese army prevent more
bloodshed in the aftermath of the
Sept. 16-18 massacre of hundreds
of men, women and children in the
camps.
• All 2,000 Livingston, La.,
residents are evacuated as a 101-
car freight train derails causing
explosions and a fire Page 6
• Democrat Mel Hodes, can
didate for the 34th District state
Senate seat, criticizes Gov.
Thornburgh for not fulfilling
campaign promises Page 14
• The men's soccer team in
jures its NCAA tournament
chances by losing 4.1 to Division
II Alderson-Rroaddus Page 10
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Cloudy today with perhaps a
few sunny intervals and clearing
later this afternoon. The high will
be 66. Clear and cool ,tonight
with patchy fog forming towards
morning and a low of 50. Mostly
sunny and warm tomorrow with a
high near 74.
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• The University Park Airport
will receive $367,433 from the
Federal Aviation Administration
for the construction of a rescue
and snow removal building
• The Association of Resi
dence Hall Students votes to
recommend the first•come/first
served system for obtaining
dorm Contracts, but the 11th line
system ranks a close second
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