SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5,1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5,1965 THE MTCUTEAN DATTY A +-1\7U 1 13 "ul C. .e Council Approves Broader Church Contacts VATICAN CITY (P)-The Vati- can Ecumenical Council yesterday approved broader Roman Catholic contacts with all mankind. Pope PaulVI promptly gave a personal example by joining with non- Catholic Christian clergymen in the first interfaith service attend- ed by a pontiff. The action by the council re- flects the general liberalization of the Church hierarchy, a trend which has been determinedly op- posed by the entrenched Italian heirarchy, but supported by Amer- icans and most Europeans. As the council rushed toward its conclusion next Wednesday, the last controversies of the 3- year-old assembly faded into the background and a spirit of har- mony came to the fore. Pope Paul and the 2,300 council bishops went to the basilica of St. Paul outside the walls, the church where Pope John XXIII announced plans for the council in January 1959. There they joined in prayer with Protestant, Ortho- dox and Anglican observers to the council. First Interfaith Service Setting an example for similar services throughout the world, Pope Paul VI prayed Saturday night with non-Catholic Chris- tians in the first interfaith service ever attended by a pontiff. Pope Paul called the non- Catholic observers of the Vatican Ecumenical council, seated near him, "brothers, brothers and council fathers and the non-? friends in Christ." He declared Catholic observers would return the work of the Vatican Ecumeni- homeward. cal Council, now about to close, "Y o u r d e p a r t u r e produces had produced hope that the prob- around us a loneliness which we lem of Christian unity "can be did not know before the council solved-if not today, tomorrow. started and which now saddens Slowly, gradually, loyal, gener- us," he said. "We wish we could ously." have you with us always." He warned against haste in at- The Pope joined with the coun- tempting to reunite all the cil fathers and the observers in churches of Christianity. He said prayer after the council earlier the Roman Catholic Church was in the day approved broader Ro- "neither insensitive nor haughty" man Catholic contacts with all and was ready and willing to ask mankind. forgiveness for "some errors." Set an Example Expressed Sorrow A Roman Catholic theologian The Pope praised the work of said the service would undoubtedly the council in bringing Catholics set an example for similar inter- closer together in understanding. faith services around the world, He expressed sorrow that soon the with the bishops seeing here some- thing they can duplicate on their tabulation was not complete and return home. results will be announced Monday. ,Earlier, in the council session There had been controversy onl in St. Peter's, they ran through 11 these points, but now the ballotsj separate votes on the council's have been cast. modern world problems schema. Results were announced of five A final, over-all vote will be taken of the 11 votes taken Saturday. Monday. The closest was 2,103 to 131 on In one vote Saturday the bishops the schema's section on atheism. approved a dialogue with atheists, A group of conservative bishops, including Communists. In another objecting to the section of atheism vote they approved a statement because it did not specifically de- that the Catholic Church was nounce communism, had urged seeking a better world and "will- prelates to kill the entire schema. ingly recognized the contribution" These prelates also failed in stroyed the conservatives' last hope to get Pope Paul to shelve the decree. Message of Thanks With controversy now seeming- ly out of place, the non-Catholic Christian observers at the council addressed a message of thanks to the council. They said it was too soon to judge the lasting value of the council, but declared it was of interest to all churches because, despite divisions, they "remain above all united in the name of Christ." Council spokesmen said the reading of this message was greet- ed by wave after wave of applause -the longest ovation in the coun- cil since John opened it Oct. 11, 1962. made toward this end by other other ways. The printed texts of Christian churches. the council's religious liberty dec- Birth Control Vote larationwere distributed, a last Votes were also taken on the formality before promulgation of, birth control and nuclear warfare that declaration as a council de- sections in the schema, but ballot cree on Tuesday. Distribution de- DeGaulle Win Predicted World News Roundup *In French Election Fea Mor "Down, Boy Up, Back There - Down, Over Here --- Hold It-" In Viet Nam; Q CS Extra Precautions w To Be Taken as Red Anniversary Nears SAIGON MP-Security men ex-j pressed fear yesterday the bomb-j ing of the Hotel Metropole, a U.S. enlisted men's barracks in down- town Saigon, is but the beginning of a Viet Cong campaign -of terror and sabotage to mark a Red an- niversary.' Last Christmas Eve the Viet Cong hit the Brinks Hotel, a U.S. officers' billet, killing two Ameri- cans and wounding 107 persons. They rarely strike on the Dec. 20! anniversary date because of the: massive extra security precautions at that time. In view of the danger, other U.S. enlisted men may be assigned now, to guard duty to bolster American military policemen regularly post- ed at the dozens of major American installations scattered throughout Saigon. The anniversary is the fifth birthday Dec. 20 of the Viet Cong's Hanoi-backed political agency, the National Liberation Front. Thie predawn Metropole strike'-- killed 11 persons-two Americans,! a New Zealand artilleryman and A eight Vietnamese. Raiders Escaped of r /! R - t t " A Void Controversy Today1 Second Vote Possible If Race Close PARIS (M-President Charles de Gaulle's pride and prestige are on the line today in France's first popular presidential election in modern times. Despite predictions for gloomy, rainy weather over most of the country, a record turn- out is expected. The aloof 75-year-old president, seeking a second seven-year term, has told the voters their choice is between stability and chaos. He says he offers stability and that chaos would result from his de- feat. Five younger opponents from all. sections of the political spectrum have been critically dissecting de Gaulle's policies with sledge- hammer insistence for the past three weeks. The three principal opponents have said they would retain de Gaulle's strong executive constitution, and denied there was any danger of slipping back to the instability of the Fourth Republic. Force Runoff Election With no hope of winning an outright victory today the op- position candidates have been con- centrating their efforts on getting a collective 50 per cent of the vote to force a runoff election. They may be able to do it. Public opinion polls have come up with a variety of answers. One private poll gives de Gaulle 43 per- cent, another 49 per cent. A M- istry of Interior sounding gives de Gaulle 54 per cent. The one thing the polls had in common was that each found about 30 per cent of the voters undecided or unwilling to tell their choice. The outcome will depend on this ele- ment. Under the French system, any candidate getting a majority of all votes cast on the first round is elected. If de Gaulle fails to get the required 50 per sent-no one else has any chance of doing it-a second vote will be held Dec. 19 with only the two top can- didates on the ballot. When the campaign opened three weeks ago. de Gaulle was an overwhelming favorite to win eas- ily on the first try. Since then his percentage of the vote has slipped steadily in the polls as the other candidates became better known through addresses over national television and rdio networks. By The Associated Press During the Kashmir fighting in ADDI ABABA, Ethiopia - The September, Kosygin invited Shas- 36-nation Organization of African tri and Ayub to the Soviet central 36-atin Oganzaionof frianAsian city of Tashkent or any Unity drew up last night a secret Soviet city of their choice to dis- phodesian d egim eofPp e te rblcuss their differences. There is Ian Smith. some opinion here that Kosygin ister Ia mt.wl aepr ntemeig Conference chairman Kojo Bot- will take part mnthe meetmg. sio of Ghana announced a five- WASHINGTON - The prob- nation committee has been em- al ugtssinbtenPei powered to take "all possible dent Johnson and Secretary of means including the use of force Defense Robert S. McNamara to end the Southern Rhodesia within the next few days is ex- crisisE"gyn thecommittee are pected to determine whether the Gan , KEy. TNavy will get a second nuclear- a fina.omniu sse tpowered aircraft carrier.j t fenlcofm it-daycoeree Until recently, the outlook had the end of the two-day conference been bright for inclusion of a car-' said only that the OAU Council of rier in the Defense Department's Ministers had decided on "con- proposal for the fiscal 1967 budget. crete measures which will enable This optimism was based largely an end to be made to the illegal ion McNamara's statement to a Southern Rhodesian regime." congressional committee last win- No mention was made of any ter that he believed a request African military force being sent would be made to Congress for to Rhodesia's borders as had been authority to build another atomic- rumored early in the conference. engined carrier.. Doubt Exists MOSCOW - Indian acceptance But now there is doubt, based of an early January summit on Johnson's latest order to the meeting with Pakistan in Tash- federal agencies to economize in kent was delivered to Premier every way possible. Alexei N. Kosgyin yesterday in- McNamara and other adminis- formed sources said. The meet- tration officials have said repeat- ing would discuss the Kashmir edly that whatever is needed for dispute and other India-Pakistan the war in Viet Nam will be pro- differences. vided. But there is a question The informants said Indian whether a start on another nu- Ambassador Triloki N. Kaul de- clear-powered carrier could be, livered a message to Kosygin from justified as having immediate ef- Prime Minister Lal Bahadur fect on the Viet Nam war. It takes Shastri containing the acceptance. upward of two years to build a Reports from New Delhi said carrier and put it into commission. Shastri favors a meeting in the The Navy now is in position to first week of January. These re- demonstrate the value of a nuclear ports said the next step would be carrier in actual combat opera- to work out an acceptable date tion. The Enterprise took up sta- with President Mohammed Ayub tion last Thursday and began Khan of Pakistan. Pakistan has launching aircraft against targets called for an early meeting. in Viet Nam. NORTH SALEM, N.Y. - A mid-air sideswipe between two passenger liners sent an Eastern Airlines four-engine Constellation plummeting to the ground in northern Westchester County Sat- urday night. State Police at Fishkill, N.Y., said 40 of 52 people aboard had been found alive, but most were injured. The other plane, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 jet, landed 20 minutes later at Kennedy Airport with its left wing-tip missing, and with parts of the Eastern plane embedded in its fuselage. JOHNSON CITY, Tex. - A 60- page report on the vast Northeast power blackout Nov. 9, including recommendations on how to keep it from happening again, is on the way to President Johnson. Since U.S. and Canadian offi- cials already know what caused the blackout, chief interest in the report is likely to be in recom- mendations for preventing a re- currence. * * WASHINGTON - Campaign- ing for most of the 35 Senate seats at stake next year already is un- der way with Republicans given small chance of strengthening their lopsided minority position by much. GOP campaign strategists at the Capitol said Saturday they are hopeful of making a net gain of two or three seats in the 1966 races. They now have 32 sen- ators, contrasted with 68 Demo- crats. The Democratic margin already is the widest since the New Deal days of the 1930s. In the 1937-39 Congress, 75 of the 96 senators were Democrats. Authorities reported 72 Ameri- cans, three New Zealanders and about 100 Vietnamese were wound- ed. The small band of raiders es-I caped, apparently unhurt. "The attack on the Metropole billet may be just the first," said one source among Americans charged with helping Vietnamese security agents detect and combat such terrorist operations. Whatever the developments,' U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge denounced this latest in dozens of Saigon bombings as diabolical. 'Wanton Terrorism' "It was sheer wanton terrorism as was the killing and wounding of Vietnamese men, women and children who lived and worked nearby," said Lodge as U.S. Navy Seabees set about clearing away the rubble. A Vietnamese pedicab driver was blown to pieces. So were three! Vietnamese girls in the door of a bar across the street. Sgt. Virgil McGriff, Atlanta, Ga., testified to the force of the blast. Awakened in a nearby three-story billet by the gunfire, he seized his weapon, checked the door guard and raced to the roof. He was about to peer over when the bomb exploded. "The concussion threw me back 30 feet and I got a few cuts," he said. "But I'm all right now." The terrorists left behind on the sidewalk a claymore mine, a powerful timed device rigged to fire steel fragments like a shot- gun. Found hidden in an airline bag, it was timed to go off 15 minutes after detonation of the charge in the truck. But experts said the battery was a little too weak to fire it. In OAS Face-lifting RIO DE JANEIRO VP) - The, Organization of American States voted itself a face-lifting last week, but some members doubt whether new strength will ac- company the new look. In two weeks of meetings the foreign ministers of 19 countries drew up plans to streamline the organization but shied away from putting teeth into its charter. The only acrimonious debate of the meeting came over a clause assigning peacekeeping duties to the political council of the OAS. The fact that this was not a commitment but only a sugges- tion for further study by a com- mittee drafting amendments to the charter did not reduce the heat of the debate. Restructuring of Councils Recommended charter reforms call for annual meetings of the hemisphere's foreign ministers, a restructuring of the OAS' politi- cal, economic and social, and edu- cational councils, giving each equal status, and a reduction in the terms of office of the secretary- general. As the conference wound up its business many delegates privately expressed skepticism that the an- nual meetings will come off. Oth- ers predicted that if they do take place they won't accomplish much. The reorganization of the three councils elevates the non-politi- cal groups to the level of the po- litical one but it leaves the lat- ter with the same limited powers it's had all along. A U.S. suggestion that the sec-, retary-general and the council be given broader powers similar to those of their UN counterparts met with such negative reaction that it was never formally brought up. Reducing the secretary-general's term from 10 years to 5 will leave him just as powerless as incumb- ent Jose A. Mora who is little more than the highly paid ad- ministrator of the OAS Secretar- iat. Even though the conference was called to strengthen the OAS, del- egates were reluctant to take any step that could be deemed con- troversial. In fact they worked out a "consensus rule" under which no proposal would be adopted without unanimous approval. 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