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    Pope encourages Polish crowds
said continued demonstrations could delay the
end of martial law, which was partially lifted in '
December after a year in force.
CZESTOCHOWA, Poland - Pope John Paul II Urban also hinted that the churchi not
honored Poland’s holiest shrine yesterday and keeping its part of the bargain. He sa
proclaimed the revered Black Madonna icon a authorities “expec *
symbol of his countrymen’s quest for freedom. the religious aspect of the visit to this devoutly
“As children of God, we cannot be slaves,” he Roman Catholic nation.
shouldSinTdriSg 5 S' 18 Sh ° Ulder ‘ to ' - proteste, but UrbLTold reporters in Warsaw the
\t a prayer service later, he appealed for calm, government views the developments “with
apparently departing from his text because of seriousness” and holds the church partial y
la P rge antiiovernment demonstrations on the , responsible. “We wish that the actions of the
first three nights of his visit to Poland - and church orderlies were more determined, he
perhaps mindful of a new government warning. said, and “the government will dra
P “Leave this place peacefully and contemplate appropriate conclusions (concerning) church
what I told vou,” the pope urged his listeners. “I state relations.” ... ~
do hope no one will disturb your contemplation.” There was still no word on when Hie pope would
“WiTshouldn’t destroy and should not be meet with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, or a _y
Hpstroved ” he said. indication of why arrangements were not set for
The crowd of 400,000 dispersed without the meeting, which had been widely expected to
• occur this weekend.
At the morning Mass, John Paul declared, In Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity
“Our divine adoption brings with it the heritage was born and Walesa lives his parish priest and
of freedom ” He'stood beneath a canopy out of adviser, the Rev. Henryk Jankowski, said
the pelting rain, clad in gold vestments trimmed Walesa still “knows nothing. We are waiting,
withered Many in the throng raised their fingers The government said it agreed to the meeting on
inthe V-for-victory sign of the banned Solidarity the basis that it would be private and limited to
labor movement and sang tlie patriotic hymn ‘
u/Hft watphpQ fivpr Poland n At th© midpoint of John Paul s eight day
Solidarity banners were raised above the sea of pilgrimage to his homeland, the second since he
rapt faces at the end of the two-hour morning assumed the papacy in 1978, he celebrated Mass
Mass Only one Solidarity banner was in evidence on the hill of Jasna Gora (Mountain of L'ght)-
mass, uniy one ounum iiy monastery there houses the portrait of the
al Th! demonstrations on previous nights ' Black Madonna, the spiritual heart anfl symbol of
the nation, which was brought to Poland*
Warsaw Communist Party headquarters that years ago. ' . .
was the biggest protest since martial law was The pope’s evening plea for calm was part of
HliarpH rfp g p n 1981 dissertation on Christian forgiveness included in
outpourings of emotion in the streets, . the Jasna Gora Appeal service, a special feature
nrnhablv promoted in part by the pope’s repeated' of pilgrimages to the monastery.
referenceTto’freedomhnd iLcrTtiSm ofum "To fo ? ive do» not— resign tn>m ruth
rnuntrv’s communist rulers, brought a warning and justice, John Paul declared. Hatrea is a
frornthe government after the morning Mass at destructive force. We shouldn t destroy and
the Jasna g Gora shrine. Spokesman Jerzy Urban should not be destroyed. We should always avoid •
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
PSU to join in drafting discrimination plan
~... >- i ■ < . • • ) . . . ~ . • And University Counsel Delbert Office of Civil Rights in 1978. According to
bv PHIL GUTIS " Lincoln University and Cheyney State community colleges must be included in M cQuaide told the trustees that, to his the regulations, the Department of
Writer ■ University; drafting the state plan. kmwtedge no appeal on the judge’s order Education ordered several states to:
• i tolS^fourStMeiaS 81 * lights office that said its would -or should -be filed. , Commit themselves to “the goal of
In comphance with a federal court order g nc l ud i n e Penn State and its conclusion about the state-related Oswald, who will retire June 30, organizing and operating the system and
against the state the University has agreed •'“ ® participate in universities and community colleges was instructed the University to “cooperate and insitutions of higher education in a manner
to participate in the formulation of a state £ . t , P “unjustified ” The state cited two reasons participate as fully as possible, but at the that promises realistically to overcome the
wide plan aimed at eliminating tormmg me siai P appropriation and court precedent - that it same time to watch out for issues of effects of past discrimination and
discrimination m Pennsylvania s higher - filed by safd established the state-related schools institutional economy and integrity," segregation.”
wwieSierfate'will ultimately submit a the National Association for the and community colleges as separate from McQuaide said. • Strengthen the role of traditional black
single proposal to the-federal Office of Civil Advancement of Colored Persons’legal the state-owned and-run system g “We need to be alert,” McQuaide said,.“to institutions.
Rights each institution that has agreed to defense and educational funds-the education. Trl be aware of what impact (the judge’s order) Fliminate “educationally
cooperate is also drafting a plan that will be question of whether to include the four state- At t ? month however University will have on our educational programs and unneccessary program duplication” in
forwarded to the civil rilhu ottloe . . S to fhelame geographic area.
The University’s plan, while containing in a state plan has been ’ V. T . p att had reC ently issued a Drafted by a team of administrators
oi'av^SfeXstatethatthe
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state’s traditionally black institutions-r University and Penn State - and the the state s plan. v
Challenger:
Shuttle crew completes 2nd of two deliveries
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -
Four alumni of the astronaut class
of '7B and one “steely-eyed
veteran” completed the second of
two satellite deliveries yesterday
and turned their attention to
scientific and medical experiments
aboard space shuttle Flight Seven.
In the technocratic jargon of
space, the chief flight director
boasted: “We have absolutely no
anomalies.” _ -
Sally Ride and her four male
companions were in a happy mood
after releasing a $37.5 million
satellite that will provide television
and telephone communication for
Indonesia and some of its 15,677
islands. NASA was paid $ll million
for the delivery. -
At the end of the day, the five
astronauts and Mission Control did
a comic routine straight out of the
old television series “The
Waltons,” passing out "good
nights” to one another, including
“Good night, John-Boy.” It wound
up with astronaut John Fabian
sending a good night wish, to his
wife, Donna; a disguised voice
using Jimmy Durante’s shtick of
"Good night, Mrs. Calabash,
wherever you are,” and Sally Ride
asking “Who was that masked
man?” straight out of the Lone
Ranger.
These exchanges were followed
by the recorded sound of crickets
chirping.
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“Everything was great today,”
said flight director Tommy
Holloway in Houston. “We’re just
perking along.”
.From their radio station 184
miles high, the astronauts beamed
down a popular Billy Joel tune
“She’s Always a Woman to Me”
perhaps to even things for Ride who
was the only one not to receive
Father’s Day greetings from the
ground for the “dads on board.”
The men on the flight have 10
children among them. Ride is
matried to astronaut Steven
Hawley, and has no children.
The shuttle crew did some
sightseeing as the ship passed over
central Mexico. “It sure is clear,”
said Ride, the first American
woman to enjoy such a perspective.
Mission control asked if
Challenger’s supply of film will last
until the ship returns to Cape
Canaveral Friday at 6:53 a.m.
EDT. “Not a chance,” said the 32-
year-old astrophysicist. “I think
we’ll use it up (today).”
The astronauts also modeled for
the television cameras. Ride, Rick
Hauck, Fabian and Dr. Norman
Thagard all were wearing blue T
shirts depicting the shuttle and the
letters TFNG, along with the slogan
"We Deliver.”
Mission Control explained the
initials stand for “thirty-five new
guys,” a reference to the astronaut
class formed in 1978. The 1978 group
.was the first astronauts chosen
specifically to fly the shuttle craft.
Please see related story, Page
Collegian
the threshold of discord.”
He said he spoke “to those who suffered and
cause suffering. My words are clumsy because I
can’t talk about them loudly. I am a son of this
nation. Therefore, I feel very deeply about its
aspirations of justice and social solidarity.”
It was his second call for calm since arriving in
this troubled land. Near the end of an open-air
Mass in Warsaw Friday, he took the microphone
to say he hoped Poles would behave “calmly
wherever the pilgrim pope goes.”
There was no text of yesterday evening’s
address, and officials said there would be none
until this morning indicating a substantial
alteration at the last minute.
It was the most religious day of the pontiff’s
Polish visit. But at the morning Mass he
continued the political tone of his first days’
remarks, which criticized the regime and called
for restoration of the independent labor
movement born in the heady summer of 1980 and
squelched under martial law.
Many feel the pope’s first return home in 1979
inspired the summer of discontent that swept
Poland the following year
In his homily honoring the shrine’s 600th year,
the pope said, “Freedom is given to man by God
as a measure of his dignity. At the same time,
however, it is given to him as a task. In fact,
people can use freedom well or badly. Through it
they can build or destroy.”
The pontiff traced Poland’s troubled past, in
which Roman Catholicism has been entwined
with opposition to political oppression, both
foreign and domestic.
“The painful experiences of history have
sharpened our sensitivity in the field of
fundamental rights of man and of the nation,
particularly the right to freedom, to be
sovereign, to have freedom of conscience and
religion and the right to human work respected,”
he said.
Today, John Paul will begin a potentially
difficult leg of his visit that will take him to three
strongholds of discontented workers.
Lock Haven residents get •>
reassurance from Corman
By S.A. MILLER
Collegian Staff Writer
All is not lost in Lock Haven.
Lock Haven citizens who may
have been affected by toxic
chemicals from the Drake
Chemical Co. didn’t get the
preliminary health screenings
they had hoped for. Instead, they
received reassurance from state
Sen. J. Doyle Corman that the
State Department of Health will
continue to study whether the need
for such screenings exists.
Several weeks ago, state Rep.
Russell Letterman, D-Centre
County, proposed a $120,000
amendment to an $B2 million
deficiency spending bill to begin
the preliminary health screening
of 2,000 former employees and
nearby residents of Drake.
The amendment passed the
state House and Senate easily, but
before Gov. Richard Thornburgh
approved the bill, he deleted the
amendment without consulting
either Letterman or Corman, R-
Centre County, who guided the
amendment through the Senate.
Thornburgh gave three reasons
for “blue-lining” the amendment:
the lack of evidence that dioxin
exists at Lock Haven; the
possiblity that the Centers for
Disease Control would perform
the screening; and the fact that
the money would have to be spent
by June 30, thd end of the fiscal
year.
Lock Haven citizens are asking
for the health screenings to
determine whether a myriad of
health problems are the result of
exposure to toxic chemicals
Monday, June 20, 1983
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Take my resume, please
Wiliam R. Romig, 25, yesterday asks passersby in Newark, Del. lo JJ*' J' 8 " BU !JS
to prospective employers. The unemployed industrial engineer handed out 500 ;
resumes and said the cost of the venture was low. He even got a few job leads.;
‘Unless you live
with it, you can’t
know the extent of
the problem.’
—state Rep. Russell
Letterman, D-Centre
County
other than dioxin manufactured
at the now-closed Drake plant.
Citizens complain of skin rashes,
respiratory ailments, high rates of
bladder cancer and birth defects.
Bladder cancer is linked to
contact with the chemical Beta
naphthylamine (BNA), which was
manufactured at the Drake site
from 1947 to 1962. The effects of
BNA surfaced about 15 years after
exposure.
In a May 5 letter to Letterman,
officials of the Centers for Disease
Control have already said they
would not perform the screenings
They reaffirmed that position at
an Environmental Protection
Agency public meeting in Lock
Haven on May 24.
The CDC letter was in response
to Letterman’s request that they
do the screenings as part of their
work in conjunction with the EPA
on Superfund sites.
In response to Thornburgh’s
statement that the money would
have to be spent by June 30,
Letterman'said he had already
begun spending the funds “15 days
Please see LOCK, Page 16.
' See related story, Page 14.
inside
• R. Dean Mills, vice chair of the ‘
Department of Communications
at California State University at
Fullerton, has been named
director of the University's
School of Journalism. Page 2
« Jan Stephenson repeated as
champion by sinking a 10-foot
downhill putt at the $200,000
Lady Keystone Open in Hershey
yesterday Page 9
• Former employees of the
American Color and Chemical
Corp. in Lock Haven are
protesting today at 10 a.m.,
partly because none of their
families will receive health
screening for possible exposure
to toxic chemicals Page 14
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weather
Today will be mostly cloudy and
muggy with a few afternoon and
evening thundershowers. The
high will be 78. Foggy with a
lingering shower tonight and a
low of 60. Tomorrow afternoon
will be sunny and pleasant and
the high will be 83.
Today's sunshine scale is 2.
Tomorrow’s sunshine scale will
be 6. —by Jim Kosarik