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New Pope promises 'ministry of love' will mark reign
Vatican City (AP)-Pope John Paul II
promised Tuesday that a "ministry of
love" would mark his reign as the 264 pon
tiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
The former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of
Krakow, Poland, also took a trip outside
Vatican walls on his first full day as leader
of the world's 700 million Catholics.
In a televised sermon delivered under.
Michelangelo's fresco "The Last Judg
ment " in the Sistine Chapel, the pope
pledged to carry on the church reforms
launched by the Second Vatican Council of
1962-65 and to follow the guidelines laid
down by Paul VI and John Paul I.
Vatican officials, meanwhile, announced
that John Paul would preside at a Mass at
his installation on Sunday. The announce
ment made no mention of a coronation,
implying that he would continue the
pattern of John Paul I, who refused to be
crowned the temporal ruler of the church.
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From WarsawPolish Communist lead
er Edward Gierek sent a message to the
pope, saying his election "fills Poland with
great satisfaction" and that he was "con
vinced that further development of rela
tions between Poland and the Apostolic
See" would come about.
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A Polish government spokesman,
Kazimierz Kakol, said passport restrictions
would be eased to allow a "large number"
of Poles to travel to Rome for the instal
lation. He did not say how many visas
would be granted. Poles normally have to
wait three to four weeks to obtain a travel
visa.
In his first papal sermon, the 58-year-old
pontiff warned that the "general
criteria of loyalty to the Vatican Council"
must not affect loyalty to the basic
doctrinal truths of the church.
Civil suit loses
Washington (AP)-Two policemen
accused of using excessive force in shooting
to death a fleeing burglary suspect lost an
appeal to the Supreme Court Monday to
block a civil damage suit against them. The
two officers, John Moats and Robert J.
Rockwell of Omaha had won their
case before a jury which dismissed the suit.
But the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
last May 30 ordered a new trial.
Without comment, the Supreme Court
allowed the order for the new trial to
stand. The appeals court held that under
the circumstances of the case the police
appeared to use excessive force when they
shot and killed Roy Lee Landrum early in
the morning of Aug. 15, 1975. The officers
said they saw Landrum climbing out of a
window of a service station and they said
he refused to halt when they ordered him
to stop.
Landrum died on Nov. 7, 1975, from a
gunshot wound in the back. His mother,
Leslie Landrum, sued the policemen for $4
million.
While the appeals court ordered a new
trial in the suit, it said the officers could
offer as a defense that they acted in good
faith when they fired at Landrum.
To prove good faith, the court contin
ued, the officers would have to show that
they believed either that Landrum used or
threatened to use deadly force in commit
ting the burglary, or that there was a sub
stantial risk he would cause death or seri
ous harm to someone else if he were not
stopped.
Lawyers for the two men argued that
the appeals court ruling had "created tur
moil within the federal court system"
because it ran directly counter to other
appeals court rulings that have upheld the
right of police to fire at fleeing suspects.
Drinking deaths
Washington (AP)-An estimated 10 mil
lion Americans are problem drinkers or
alcoholics, and drinking may be to blame
for as many as 205,000 deaths a year, fed
eral health officials reported Tuesday.
The risk of death from disease,
or violence is two to six times greater for
the problem drinker than for the popula
tion at large, the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism said in its
third special report to Congress.
But the acting director of the institute
said the report also has good news, includ
ing statistics showing a decline in deaths
from cirrhosis of the liver, a drop in per
capita alcohol consumption and a rise in
the number of alcohol treatment programs.
"As a nation, we seem to be getting a
handle on the problem," said Loran D.
Archer, the acting director.
The report estimated that drinking
problems cost society about $43 billion in
1975 in lost production, medical bills,
accidents and other expenses.
Alcohol may be involved in up to one
third of all suicides, half of all murders,
half of all traffic deaths and a fourth of
all other accidental deaths, the report said.
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