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 ei In Celebration A PLAY BY DAVID STOREY JAN 31-FEB.3 TRUEBLOOD THEATRE 8PM CETA overhaul on way UNIVERSITY SHOWCASE PRODUCTIONS TICKETS.S2 AT PTP OFFICE IN THE MICHIGAN LEAGUE 7640450 (Continued from Page 1) 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. Government officials contend that VISIT American ATHEIST Museum Prides Creek Park Entrance RR 3, Petersburg, IN 47567 . SEND FOR FREE INFO CETA has been difficult to administer because it is large and decentralized and doubled in size within a few months in 1977. VIDEO TAPE MOVIES For Sale or Rent Recent movies, classics, & concerts RECYCLE LIGHT &SOUND t wer level 221 E. Liberty Plaza. 665-7685 HEALTH CARE IN THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA Campus & Overseas Course Undergrad. & Grad. Credit On-Campus Seminar July 2-13, 1979 Peoples Republic of Chino study tour July 30-Au. 20, 1979 Open Info Meeting: Thurs. 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