4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 14, 1984 Minister jailed for defying law IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and From AP and UPI CLAIRTON, Pa. - Declaring no ear- thly law can deter him from God's work, a Lutheran minister whose protests against blue-collar unem- ployment split his congregation was arrested at his altar and jailed yester- day for defying orders to step down as pastor. "I must obey God and not man," the Rev. Douglas Roth told Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Emil Narick in refusing to comply with a court order barring him from preaching at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Clairton. "I WILL not talk to courts that have corrupt decisions that interfere with religion," Roth said. After the 20-minute hearing, Narick fined Roth $1,200 and sent him off to a Pittsburgh jail to serve a 90-day sen- tence on civil contempt charges. MAP 'I will not talk to courts that have corrupt decisions that interfere with religion.' - Rev. Douglas Roth "He can purge himself at anytime," Narick said. "He has the key to the jailhouse in his pocket." NARICK SAID everyone must obey the law, adding that Roth would be freed if he promised to comply with the court order. "To do otherwise would make a mockery of the law," he said. "When you make announcements to the public about disobeying the law...you must accept the consequen- ces," referring to Roth's Sunday ser- mon in which he said "I am not called to appear before courts and judges." ROTH WAS suspended on Oct. 17 by Bishop Kenneth May of the West Virginia - Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church for sup- porting the Denominational Ministry Strategy: a controversial clergymen's activist group. Since his suspension, Roth has delivered a sermon every Sunday in defiance of May's order, but on Nov. 2 Narick upheld the bishop's action and ordered Roth to stop preaching. Roth ignored the judge's order and barricaded himself inside his former church Nov. 5, skipping a Friday hearing on a contempt of court citation. THE MINISTER had previously said it he were to be arrested for defying the cpirt order, he must be taken from his altar. Two Allegheny County sheriff's deputies arrested Roth yesterday mor- ning from the church. The minister first stirred controversy among his 190-member, blue-collar congregation bysupporting local ac- tivists who have sharply criticized U.S. Stell Corp., Mellon National Corp. and other Pittsburgh corporations over the decline of area steelmaking and resulting unemployment. Polis hum United Press International reports ;h government ac tan rights protesters cuses 4 RETAIL VIrs. 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't 3& t °^ f '4 ? 6 setback (Continued from Page 1) beforea discussion was actually finished. An attempt to bypass the for- malities was rejected. Members were told to become more familiar with the workings of MSA. The proposal will be reintroduced next week, some mem- bers said. In response to recent controversy over a Muslim Students Association forum, the Assembly voted to accept a recommendation by its Budget Priorities Committee that no funding for the forum be released until the Muslim group presents its receipts and they can be reviewed by the committee. The group had originally applied to MSA for funding to publicize an event entitled "The Heart of Palestine," but it was advertised as "Palestine: Racism and Zionism." That name change led some to question the nature of the forum and led BPC to its recommen- dation. If the group's receipts show that the money was spent on advertising a forum with a title different from the original one, the BPC and the Assembly might then vote not to release the $150 originally allotted to the forum, Kaplan said. A request from the Muslim Students Association that the $225 allotted to their group for future forums be used for last week's event was rejected. Correction The Budget Priorities Committee of the Michigan Student Assembly decided last weekend to recommend that MSA withhold funding for a con- troversial Muslim Students Association forum until the receipts can be examined. The Daily incorrectly said yesterday morning that the entire Assembly had approved that request. It was not approved until last night's meeting. WARSAW, Poland-Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said yesterday that human rights committees formed following the slaying of a pro- Solidarity priest are trying to promote anarchy in Poland. He warned that organizers may face prosecution because such groups are illegal. "The organizers of illegal-and I want to emphasize that-committees are striving for opening the road toward anarchy," he told a news conference. "They are violating the law saying that they want to defend it." Jacek Kuron, one of Poland's leading opposition figures, responded that such human rights organizations are illegal only under governments "based on lawlessness. "Organizing people in order to research acts of political terrorism and to inform public opinion about them is supported by law in a country where there is law, and by a government, if this government is based on law," he said in an interview. "But if a government is based on lawlessness," he said, "such activities are of course illegal and damaging for them." Kuron was a prominent ad-, viser to the outlawed Solidarity union. Urban's remarks were the strongest warning from Communist authorities since the political opposition renewed public activity following the death of, the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko last month. Lebanese eager to start talks BEIRUT, Lebanon-Lebanese leaders said yesterday they were eager to restart the suspended troop withdrawal negotiations with Israel, but again insisted that Israel first release four Shiite Moslem militiamen arrested last week. Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres was quoted by Israel Radio as saying he expects the talks to resume soon, but there was no sign from Israeli authorities in Lebanon that the militiamen were about the be released. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy met in Damascus with Syrian President Hafez Assad to discuss the Israeli-Lebanese impasse. Murphy's visit followed earlier stops in Israel and Lebanon. An Israeli patrol, meanwhile, pushed north of the front line in south Lebanon and came under mortar fire, Israel Radio said, but there were no injuries. The Lebanese position was discussed by Prime Minister Rashid Karami and Shiite Moslem leader Nabih Berri following a luncheon with President Amin Gemayel at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut. Reagan prepares to battle deficit WASHINGTON (UPI)-President Reagan, his anti-tax stand put to the test by a deteriorating fiscal outlook, will approach Congress "on a realistic basis" to reduce the federal deficit, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said yesterday. Speakes, in explaining a position stated by Reagan during the presidential campaign and after his re-election last week, left the door open for a com- promise similar to deals the president has accepted three times in the last four years. Describing Reagan as "strong-willed'' on the subject, Speakes said the president is committed to a "revenue-neutral" tax simplification plan-one that would generate no more money than the current system. OAS*discusses economic crisis: 4 14 4 4 , _ g l~du ~upwhIt V 3 . i MR' f &: i t . $ 4 % roa ast tri BRAZILIA, Brazil-Foreign ministers of the Organization of American States insisted in speech after speech yesterday that creditor and debtor nations must meet to resolve the huge economic problems they said are cur- bing Latin America's development and threatening its social stability. "We will formally invite the United States and other industrialized coun- tries for a meetings," said Foreign Minister Jose Augusto Vega Imbert of the Dominican Republic in announcing a meeting of the Cartagena Group in February. The group, compromising Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, seeks better repayment terms and conditions for an overall Latin American debt of more than $350 billion. Lasers allow arte treatment 14 e . f l ose I1 I MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-A laser that blasts fatty deposits with billionth-of-a-; second bursts of intense light may be able to clean out clogged arteries without damaging the patient's blood vessels, fulfilling a major research goal, doctors said yesterday. Treating hardening of the arteries without surgery has long been a medical aim, and doctors have experimented with using lasers for that pur- pose for several years. However, a major stumbling block has been figuring out a way to zap the clogs-known as plaque-without burning holes in the artery walls. The latest development, described at the annual scientific meeting of the American Heart Association, involves a device known as the excimer laser. 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