Black History Month:
cultural activities begin
the Michigan Daily-Friday, February 2 1979-Page 9
Nixon and Mitchell remain close friends
Don't worry if you missed the first
two campus activities observing
national Black History Month yester-
day. There are plenty more.
Following last night's kick-off speech
by Dr. Abdul Alim Shabazz at Trotter
House and an evening of soul food,
cinema, and disco at Alice Lloyd, the
Minority Student Affairs Committees of
the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA)
and University Activities Center
(UAC), with the cooperation of studen-
ts, faculty, and administration groups,
have planned a month of education, ex-
pression and celebration about history
of blacks.
For today: the first of the South
African Film Series movies,
"Africaner," will be shown at noon in
122 B, MLB by the Political Science and
Afro-American Studies Departments; a
mixer is planned for the Kuenzel Room
of the Union from 2 to 4 p.m.; and
another movie, "A Hero Ain't Nothin'
But A Sandwich," is'scheduled to run at
Alice Lloyd at 8 p.m.
Pope returns from
'triumphal journey'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Richard
Nixon had a lengthy, unannounced
reunion this week with John N. Mit-
chell, who served a 19-month prison
term for his part in the Watergate
cover-up. "They're still'good friends,"
said a mutual friend.
It was the first time the former
President had seen his former attorney
general, law partner and campaign
manager since Mitchell was released
Jan. 19 from a federal prison camp in
Alabama.
THEY MET Wednesday at a private
estate near Middleburg, Va., where
Nixon stayed during Chinese Vice
Premier Teng Hsiao-ping's visit to,
Washington. Nixon met Teng twice
during the three-day official visit, the
last time for nearly an hour at Teng's
guest quarters across Pennsylvania
Avenue from the White House.
The friend of Nixon and Mitchell, who
asked that he not be named, told a
reporter yesterday that the two met for
lunch at the Middleburg estate and
spent two to three hours together. Mit-
chell was accompanied by Mary Gore
Dean, a Maryland socialite and
frequent companion whom Mitchell is
rumored to be interested in marrying.
Speaking of Nixon and Mitchell, the
friend said: "The world doesn't know
they're still good friends."
NIXON HAD once suggested that
Mitchell shoulder full responsibility for
the Watergate cover-up, which drove
the President from office in the face of
threatened impeachment. But Mitchell
has never uttered a harsh word about
Nixon and refused to permit his defense
'The world doesn't know
they're still good friends.'
Nixon resigned the presidency in
August, 1974, his successor, Gerald
Ford, pardoned Nixon for any crimes
oldest and' last of the 25 Watergate
defendants to go to prison. He served 19
months of a 21/2- to eight-year prison
sentence for conspiracy, obstruction of
justice and lying under oath in connec-
tion with the Watergate cover-up.
Of the 19 months, five were spent on
medical furlough for two operations -
for replacing a section of abdominal ar-
tery and receiving a plastic hip socket.
Besides suffering ill health, Mitchell is
not only disbarred and unable to prac-
tice law but is said to be nearly broke.
The mutual friend said Mitchell
visited Nixon at San Clemente, Calif.,
at least twice before going to prison. He
said the two men recently had been in
frequent contact by telephone.
MITCHELL, formerly a leading
municipal bond specialist and senior
partner in Nixon's old Manhattan law
firm, was chairman of Nixon's election
campaign in 1968. He resigned as attor-
ney general to run Nixon's re-election
campaign in 1972, but quit that post as
the Watergate scandal began unfolding.
Nixon, who arrived in Washington
Sunday night for Teng's visit, returned
to California on a commercial airliner
Wednesday night.
ROME (Reuter) - A smiling, but ob-
viously tired, Pope John Paul II retur-
ned to Rome yesterday after a. trium-
phant 17,500-mile journey to the
Dominican Republic, Mexico and the
Bahamas that attracted the biggest
crowds ever to greet a pontiff.
During his flight the 58-year-old pon-
tiff showed little sign of being tired af-
ter his first trip abroad since his elec-
tion last October 16.
BUT DURING the welcome at
Fiumicino Airport by Italy's caretaker
Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, the
strain of the gruelling seven-day jour-
ney appeared to be catching 'up with
him.
Wearing the full-length white coat he
had on during his departure a week ago
and carrying a tasselled red papal hat,
the pope paused smiling at the top of the
gangway and then stood with his head
bowed as Mr. Andreotti spoke.
Andreotti spoke of the pope's "trium-
phal journey" and said Italians were
overjoyed at having him return.
SPEAKING SLOWLY, the pope said
that above all he felt gratitude to the
Virgin of Guadalupe, whose shrine he
visited during his trip, for sustaining
him and enabling him to fulfill his
mission successfully.
During a short speech, the pope
faltered several times.
He said he had warm memories of
"so many demonstrations of care,
devotion and affection during my
pilgrimage."~
rFrom the airport the pope drove
directly to Vatican City where he was
due to meet cardinals in the Consistory
Chamber.
FOLLOWING IN the footsteps of his
"spiritual father," Paul VI, John Paul
II seored an unprecedented success
during his long journey..
Three months after being elected,
John Paul II was treated like a
conquering hero in the Dominican
Republic and Mexico.
, Paul VI also made foreign journeys in
the 1960s - to the Holy Land, the United
States, India and elsewhere - but
Vatican officials who travelled with
both popes said the throngs in Mexico
were bigger than those who greeted,
Pope Paul.
POPE JOHN PAUL II used his
revered predecessor's encyclicals as
the basis for his own message, but there
was a marked contrast between the
robust, outgoing Polish pontiff and
the more intellectual and reflective
Pope Paul.
Because of , this, John Paul II
probably made a bigger impact than
Paul VI with much the same message.
Both popes appealed for urgently
needed social and political reforms in
the Third World, respect for human
rights and a better deal for millions of
landless peasants and underpaid
workers.
IN HIS LAST speech in Mexico, at
Monterrey, John Paul called for a more
just "new world order" and told Latin-
American workers it was "their fun-
damental human right to freely create
organizations to defend and promote
their interests."
John Paul's tour was marked by ex-
traordinary expressions of welcome
from cheering, chanting and waving
crowds.
It ended- with Mexicans flashing
mirrors in the sun in a farewell gesture
visible aboard the papal'airliner as it
took off for Nassau en route to Rome.
During his last stop, at Nassau in the'
Bahamas, the pope was feted by calyp-
so-singing children and heralded by'the
blast of a concha shell.
Mitchell
lawyers to do so.
"He was very loyal to the President,
and the President was not very loyal to
him," former Sen. Sam J. Ervin, (D-
N.C.), chairman of the Senate
Watergate committee, said recently of
Mitchell.
Nixon was named as an unindicted
co-conspirator by a federal grand jury
investigating Watergate. Soon after
he might have committed while in of-
fice.
THE 65-YEAR-OLD Mitchell was the
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problems are "pale in significance"
compared with the benefits CETA has
provided. But the government has been
unable to produce reliable estimates of
how much money has been stolen or
wasted.
A two-month study by theuAssociated.
Press last year found that
CETA-whichhas spent $37 billion sin-
ce 1973-has squandered hundreds of
millions of dollars a year on shoddy
management and fraud.
Thousands of people who don't meet
program qualifications have been hired
either intentionally or because of faulty
administration. People have been hired
through nepotism. Other CETA jobs
have been handed out as political
patronage, and many local governmen-
ts abused CETA funds by shifting
already employed city workers from
local to federal payrolls.
Since January 1978, the department
said, 67 people have been indicted on
charges involving CETA abuses, with
24 of them being convicted.
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Honors program, the request had never
been made."
According to Assistant Director of
Admissions Donald Swain, more
students submit AP exams to the
University of Michigan than to any
other school in the country.
In the 1978 freshman class, 1155
gtudents submitted 1749 exams for con-
sideration to the University.
In 1977, 82 per cent of the students
who submitted examinations to the
University received credit.
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