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U.S. Military Advisers
Sent To Honduras Border
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Rev. Joseph Elridge,
head of the Washington Office on Latin America
(WOLA), protested the sending of 21 U.S. military
advisers to Honduras to bolster security along the
border with El Salvador.
There are more than 50 U.S. military advisers
already aiding the Salvadoran armed forces in their
campaign against leftist guerrillas. The U.S.
Salvadoran and Honduran governments say the
guerrillas are using a no man’s land along the border,
Los Bolsones, to regroup.
Close to 1,000 Salvadoran soldiers crossed the
border in mid-July with the consent of Honduras and
raided towns and Salvadoran refugee camps in the
area.
The head of WOLA, an ecumenical group
monitoring human rights in Latin America, said “the
real threat to Honduras’ sovereignty seems to come
not from the armed opposition groups in El Salvador
but from its government troops.”
The U.S. advisers, the Department of Defense said,
include five Army mobile training teams and three Air
Force teams. The State Department said that they
were sent under a military assistance program that has
been in existence for at least 10 years. Their duties
include intelligence gathering, arms interdiction along
the border and air patrol maintenance.
Mr. Elridge said that “it is shockingly ironic that
the advisers are sent to Honduras three months before
the elections to transfer power from the military to
the civilains ... for should these elections fail to bring
reform and meaningful change, a peaceful resolution
to the growing tensions may be impossible.”
“To compound the tragedy, the refugees are being
harassed by Salvadoran and Honduran troops, and by
the (Salvadoran) paramilitary organization, Orden,”
Mr. Elridge said.
Veteran Latin American diplomats had said
previously that as part of a plan drawn up late last
year “an anti-insurgency iron triangle” was
established by the military of El Salvador, Guatemala
and Honduras to contain the spread of guerrilla
activity in Central America and to contain the leftist
Sandinista government which came to power in 1979
in Nicaragua.
The anti-insurgency plan includes harassment of
the Salvadoran refugees and people who help them on
the grounds that relief supplies and funds may end up
in the hands of guerrillas, diplomatic sources
observed.
Canine Corps Guards
Sleeping Pope
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC) - While Pope
John Paul II sleeps at his summer residence in
Castelgandolfo, his privacy is guarded by Furia, Emin,
Ulaf, Kimbo, Gabor and Franz.
The protectors are not members of the Swiss
Guards, but the canine corps of German shepherds
trained by the Italian police force to patrol the 12
acres of grounds at the papal residence from dusk to
dawn.
“A German shepherd can hear the ticking of a
watch from 15 meters (about 50 feet) away,” said one
of the dog’s trainers.
The trainer said that the dogs leave the villa
grounds at about 6:30 a.m., around the time that
Pope John Paul wakes up.
Quinn Urges Action
Against Cableporn
SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - Expressing concern
about the use of cable television to show
pronographic films, Archbishop John R. Quinn of
San Francisco has asked the U.S. attorney general to
enforce federal regulations banning the interstate
transportation and mailing of obscene material.
“It is my hope that with the determined effort to
enforce existing regulations, the tide of pornography
may be stemmed,” Archbishop Quinn wrote in a
letter to Attorney General William French Smith in
early August.
The archbishop, former president of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops, assured Smith of his
support for the attorney general’s enforcement of
regulations limiting the distribution of obscene
material.
“We both know well the deleterious effect
pornography has on the social fabric and also the fact
that it is big business and thus is a very powerful force
in contemporary life,” Archbishop Quinn said. “I
would ask you to do all in your power as attorney
general to assist in combating this evil by encouraging
the U.S. attorney to strictly enforce any and all
federal laws which would prevent this abuse from
spreading.”
About two weeks before Archbishop Quinn wrote
to the attorney general, Daily Variety, the
entertainment industry newspaper, had reported that
K-Pay Entertainment, a Century City firm, had begun
production of films for pay TV featuring frontal
nudity and “simulated sex.”
Killed In Lithuania
NEW YORK (NC) -- A Catholic priest who once
signed a letter to the communist government of
Lithuania asking for an end to religious restrictions
was “fatally wounded” in Lithuania by unknown
assailants recently, according to the New York-based
Lithuanian Information Center.
The center identified the murdered man as Father
Leonas Mazeika, 63, a parish priest in Pamusis,
Lithuania, and said his death on Aug. 8 was confirmed
by sources inside Lithuania.
“No known motive has been established for the
slaying. Robbery is considered unlikely, as the parish
is a small one,” said a press statement issued by the
information center.
“Father Mazeika was one of 118 priests of the
Diocese of Panavezys who, in March 1979, signed a
letter addressed to the presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR in support of a
statement made by the Catholic Committee for the
Defense of Believers’ Rights calling for a revocation of
the Regulations for Religious Associations,” said the
statement.
“The regulauons restrict the rights of believers, in
contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Helsinki Final Accords and the Soviet
Constitution,” it added.
The statement said the killing was the second
murder of a priest by unknown assailants within 10
months. On Oct. 10,1980, Father Leonas Sapoka of
the Diocese of Telsiai died after five hours of beatings,
it added.
Amarillo Bishop Calls Neutron Bomb Policy
“Anti-Life,” Urges Catholics To Leave Plant
PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, September 3,1981
BY TERRY GOODMAN
AMARILLO, Texas
(NC) - Bishop .L. T.
Matthiesen of Amarillo - in
whose diocese assembly of
U.S. nuclear weapons is
completed - has criticized
the Reagan administrat
ion’s decision to go ahead
with production of the
neutron bomb as
“anti-life” and urged
Catholic employees of
armament plants to
consider resigning from
their jobs.
In his criticism Bishop
Matthiesen joined the rants
of other Catholic
individuals and
organizations opposing the
neutron bomb, which kills
people with massive doses
of radiation while
supposedly causing
minimum damage to
property.
Pantex, the plant where
finishing touches are put on
nuclear weapons, is located
in the Amarillo Diocese.
Bishop Matthiesen said
he had a moral
responsibility to respond to
the build-up of nuclear
weapons. In a 1980
Christmas homily he urged
people to pray for the day
when nuclear weapons
would be dismantled and
criticized suggestions that
the nuclear MX missile
system be located in the
Texas Panhandle. The
system would take 149,000
acres of farm land out of
production, displace 1,400
families, use up substantial
amounts of water, cost
billions and bring about
immense destruction if
used, he said.
In his latest statement,
released Aug. 21, he
remarked that “the
announcement of the
decision to produce and
stockpile neutron warheads
is the latest in a series of
tragic anti-life positions
taken by our government.”
“The matter is of
immediate concern to us
who live next door to
Pantex,” he added.
He called for peaceful
uses of nuclear power and
criticized the pattern of the
arms build-up.
The U.S. military thinks
it must meet enemy
advances in arms
technology and capability
with further U.S. arms
development, the bishop
said, “No matter that the
enemy must then, perforce,
respond with a further
advance of its own. No
matter that we already have
the capability of destroying
each other many times over
and that soon other nations
of this imperiled planet will
possess the same awesome
power,” he said.
Just, as God warned the
people of ancient Israel, the
military use of the horse
did not provide safety, so
nuclear weapons cannot
save people, he said.
“Enough of this greater
and greater destructive
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capability. Let us stop this
madness,” Bishop
Matthiesen said, proposing
peaceful uses of nuclear
energy for the production
of food, fiber, clothing,
shelter and transportation.
‘‘We beg our
administration to stop
accelerating the arms race.
We beg our military to use
common sense and
moderation in our defense
posture,” he said. Finally,
he urged those engaged in
the weapons industry to
reassess their roles: “We
urge individuals in the
production and stockpiling
of nuclear bombs to
consider what they are
doing, to resign from such
activities and to seek
employment in peaceful
pursuits,” he said.
“Let us educate
ourselves on nuclear
armament. Let us support
those who are calling for an
end to the arms race. Let us
join men and women
everywhere in prayer that
peace may reign,” he said.
The Reagan
administration’s
announcement to go ahead
with neutron bomb
production also has been
criticized by the
Conference of Major
Superiors of Men, the
National Coalition of
American Nuns, the
National Federation of
Priests’ Councils, the
National Assembly of
Women Religious and
others.
In a homily marking the
anniversary of the dropping
of the atomic bomb,
Coadjutor Bishop Michael
J. Murphy of Erie, Pa.,
linked the neutron bomb to
the atomic bombing of
Japanese cities. “What
frightful progress we have
WCC Condemns
Neulron Bomb
DRESDEN, East
Germany (NC) - The World
Council of Churches asked
the United States and the
Soviet Union to enter
serious disarmament
negotiations and
condemned the neutron
bomb.
The resolution was
announced Aug. 24 at the
annual conference of the
WCC’s Central Committee,
attended by Protestant,
Anglican and Orthodox
representatives from more
than 100 countries.
The resolution criticized
new weapons of mass
destruction, especially the
neutron bomb, which it
called a “monstrous threat
because it makes the use of
atomic weapons more
likely.”
made. In 36 years we might
have banned the bomb.
Instead we have perfected
it,” he said.
Archbishop John R.
Roach of St. Paul-Minneap-
olis, president of the
National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, also
questioned the use of the
neutron bomb.
“Before proceeding with
this decision we should ask
what is gained by
contributing to the
conviction that nuclear war
under any circumstance
could be a rational policy
choice or a justifiable moral
course,’’ Archbishop
Roach said.
The Carter administrat
ion in 1977 decided to
develop neutron warheads
but later deferred their
production.
Archbishop John R.
Quinn of San Francisco,
Archbishop Roach’s
predecessor as head of the
NCCB, in 1978 warned of
the dangers of the neutron
bomb.
HAPPY CESAR - United Farm Workers of
America President Cesar Chavez gives a victory sign
on the picket line at Bertuccio Farms in Holister,
Calif., after the California Agricultural Labor
Relations Board ruled that farm unions can send
organizers onto private property during a strike to
talk with workers. Chavez was arrested twice in one
week for entering Bertuccio fields.
Ex-Mental Patient Ministers
To His Fellow “Survivors”
BY SHANNON FLYNN
CINCINNATI (NC) -
Michael Weaver says he’s
had it with “normal.”
“For an ex-mental
patient ‘normal’ is very
confusing. It’s a religion in
our society. The ex-mental
patient needs to be able to
strive toward his potential,
his uniqueness,” Weaver
said in an interview with
the Catholic Telegraph,
newspaper of the
Cincinnati Archdiocese.
His convictions led to
the formation of a self-help
group called Survivors,
which he organized because
he feels that ex-mental
patients need support
without condescension.
Weaver, a convert to
Catholicism, has lived for
12 years with what he calls
the “hidden handicap” of
mental illness.
He has been working
full-time with Survivors,
which meets once a week
and is trying to establish a
national network of
ex-mental patients who are
“making it.”
Weaver said he is
hesitant to reveal his
reasons for this dedication.
A mentally ill person must
be cautious a bout
appearing overly religious,
he warned.
“I see this work as part
of being Christian - to try
to love the people who
need it the most. And right
now I’d say the most
rejected people in our
world are ex-mental
patients and the poor. ”
Weaver said being told
that he was mentally ill hit
him especially hard. “It was
my worst fear. I’d invested
everything in my mind, my
education. It seemed that
everything I had trusted in
was no longer there. My
whole definition of what I
was crumbled.”
It would take him 10
years to regain confidence
in his ability to think and
reason, he said.
He found that he’d
“bought into” the attitudes
of people around him: that
a mentally ill person could
not think, handle stress or
understand life. He said he
realizes now that he didn’t
lose his ability to think, but
that he has a very real
illness which is kept in
check by medication he
must take every day.
“Some people argue
that there is no such thing
as mental illness. But I
disagree. Something is an
illness if it is treatable by
the medical model.”
Diagnosed as
schizophrenic, Weaver
compared his stabilized
condition to that of a
diabetic who must rely on
insulin. But, he added, that
is not the way society views
the mentally ill.
“You’re fired from your
job as soon as you have a
breakdown and even after
you are stabilized you
don’t get hired back. Most
employers won’t even hire
someone if they have a
psychiatric history,” he
continued.
Weaver, a member of the
attitudinal barriers
committee of Cincinnati’s
International Year of the
Disabled task force, has
tried to remedy this by
speaking to employers in
the city. He suggests that
employers hire ex-mental
patients and expect as
much from them as anyone
else.
A person with mental
illness encounters subtle
forms of prejudice in
almost every aspect of life,
Weaver continued. Friends
and family have difficulty
acting naturally, parents
often suffer guilt,
professionals are
patronizing.
“All sorts of cruelties
are justified under the guise
of being kind,” he said.
Perhaps the most
debilitating prejudice, he
said, comes from within the
ex-patient who must
overcome his own shame.
“The mentally ill person
must learn to accept his
own uniqueness, his own
aberrations. The biggest
battle is for confidence and
self-respect. Anyone who is
going to overcome
mental illness must arrive at
it 90 percent on his own.”
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