Jacksonville Journal Courier (Newspaper) - October 22, 1978, Jacksonville, Illinois John Paul II jokes with CITY Pope John Paul II startled aides Saturday by plunging into a crowd of 2,000 shaking exchanging quips and telling them he would like to visit Russia they'll let new pope spent the eve of his investiture as the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and first Polish pontiff in history in an unprecedented session with journalists accredited to the Vatican much to the dismay of Vatican former Cardinal Karol 58, archbishop of Krakow before his election last Monday as the 264th successor to the throne of Peter will be officially invested with the title in a simple outdoor mass Sunday in St. Peter's estimated 3,000 Poles flew to Italy on special charter flights to join world leaders and other pilgrims at the new pope met with the journalists in the Vatican's Hall of Blessings and delivered a brief address in French on the difficulties of reporting on the Roman Catholic the white-haired former archbishop rose from his chair on a raised dais in the front of the hall and began to move among the reporters crowding close to see press the Rev. Romeo and ceremonial rushed to the pope's side to try to get him to return to his pontifical They but only for a the white-clad pope got up once more and plunged into the crowd startling ceremonial officials even more by joking something no pope has done in modern you like to visit your native one reporter they'll let John Paul II he as pope continue his favorite sport of they'll let ne smiling toward the retreating ceremonial if he would like to visit the pontiff paused a second and they'll let the the pope moved through the tightly packed throng asking questions of his laughing at the and even slapping one journalist on the previous meetings between popes and reporters have taken the Form of an audience at which the pope gives an address and briefly greets selected individual journalists before leaving the his address he acknowledged that coverage of Vatican and Roman Catholic church affairs was is difficult to present the true face of the church said 58-year-old events are always difficult to interpret and because in the first place they are nearly always It is enough to leave out one incident accidentally or to minimize or overstress to present a false picture or He said the agencies employing the assembled journalists you often and above all for the more than 700 Polish Americans from around the United States gathered at Kennedy Airport to fly to Journal 26NO. 42 OCTOBER 22. 1978 PAGES AND Hundreds of guerrillas plunged a butcher knife into his abdomen in front of the prime minister's house Saturday in the ancient Japanese ritual of harakiri to protest a visit by a top Chinese official to sign the new Sino-Japanese friendship said Akio 31, took a taxicab to the front of the prime minister's residence across the street from Japan's parliament pulled the knife and stabbed himself in the stomach I was overpowered by police and rushed to a hospital where doctors said he would identified him as a member of Nippon one of 88 right-wing splinter organizations under police surveillance as possible troublemakers during the visit of Chinese Vice Premier Teng starting A force of 65,000 police have been mobilized to guard Teng during his largely ceremonial visit will set the seal on a huge new economic in which Japan will swap modern industrial machinery for vast quantities of Chinese coal and crude Rhodesia Rhodesian raiders blasted 12 black nationalist guerrilla camps and killed an estimated 1,500 guerrillas deep inside Zambia last the military announced The reported death toll made it the bloodiest operation by the Rhodesians in the six-year-old guerrilla forces also struck bases in the military but casualties there were not It said that during the raids into Zambia the Rhodesians clashed briefly with Zambian communique said the raiders reported 500 guerrillas killed strikes Thursday on three major insurgent bases and nine satellite camps in but that Zambian estimates put the toll at more than 1,500. the highest reported death toll was in a raid last November against insurgent camps in when the Rhodesian military reported killing 1,200 military said all Rhodesian troops and warplanes had been pulled out of both Minister Ian in South on a stopover on his way home from the United said he was not in advance of the have an arrangement with the security forces that they must defend the country and the whenever it is to indulge in defensive raids against terrorist We believe this is a decision for the for the military chiefs to white prime minister has accepted a proposal to convene talks involving all parties to the Rhodesian but Joshua head of the Zimbabwe African People's Union told reporters at a news conference Saturday in that such talks are now out of the round of SALT talks may not resolve rightist fanatic Akio 38, is taken to a hospital after he attempted to commit in front of the Prime Minister's Official Residence on the eve of a visit to Japan by Chinese Vice Premier Teng tries to make political hay out of trip to farm Carter opened a day's campaigning for Democrats in the farm states of Kansas and Minnesota Saturday by signing a allowing China to buy U.S. farm products under loan signed the farm and stumped for local candidates in Kansas before heading for Minneapolis to campaign and sign a waterway toll levying upkeep taxes on commercial users of navigable president listed the gains he said his administration has provided farmers in a Wichita campaign speech on behalf of former Rep. a Democrat seeking a seat in the and state House Speaker John who is challenging Republican Gov. Robert farm people of this country were in when he took Carter signed the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, designed to increase foreign sales of American farm since his term he have been substantial improvements for told the Kansas farm leaders assembled for the signing ceremony that he favors the trade because greater emphasis ought to be placed on can give short-term loans not he the importance of opening trade doors to Carter the past we have lost this tremendous market One of four people in the world live in contains three major the most significant of which grants China status meaning Peking is eligible for up to billion in guaranteed loans for agricultural purchases from U.S. also allows the Commodity Credit Corp. to provide loans to foreign nations for particular types of farm Four issues remained unresolved as Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance arrived in Moscow Saturday for a new round of negotiations on a treaty limiting U.S. ana Soviet strategic have no assurance we can clean all of them up at this a senior American official told reporters during Vance's flight his Key advisers seemed to share the view that the talks Sunday and Monday may not settle the differences between the two sides and High Saturday at 4 p.m. Low Friday 40 for Jacksonville and Continued unseasonably warm Sunday with highs in the low 80s. Clear and warm Sunday night with low in the upper 40s. Skies Today October 22 23 and Pollux are seen well north of the moon through the next few the moon will appear nearer the Twins as it moves through their part of the sky on its orbit around the today's Journal the treaty that has eluded them for six could end up at dead center for some said one arms specialist who asked not to be said there was little chance of reaching final agreement on terms of a treaty during this At he there cou Id be an understanding on treaty limiting long-range bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles would be a milestone in arms control and a major boost to four issues in dispute kind of limitations to be imposed on the American cruise a weapon assigned a major role in arsenal of the 1980s. of restricting the kinds and sizes of new missile systems during the life of the until 1985. There is tentative agreement to allow each side to set up one new land-based and one timing for phasing out about 250 Russian bombers ana total number of such weapons must be reduced to 2,250 under the The United having about 2,050 does not have to cut specific way the Russians will the treaty to base their Backfire bombers beyond easy striking distance of the United States and to limit their inquiry taking up months in - The Justice Department had no immediate comment Saturday on reports a federal grand jury has extended the investigation of Bert Lance's financial affairs to his eight months as President Carter's budget very a department official said but refused to confirm or deny the Los Angeles Times said the grand jury has begun - investigating Lance's private cial transactions during his missing from Va. - Coast Guard officials held out little hope Saturday for 11 crew members missing from the cutter which with an Argentinian freighter on Chesapeake Bay and sank in located the crumpled ship in 57 feet of water near the mouth of the Potomac River and reported no signs of John commander of the Port a Coast Guard cutter assisting the said there were no air pockets on the submerged vessel and the 11 missing men could not have survived the Friday night are no there are no he muttered to a throng of reporters on deck of the Port divers said there is no one alive inside the Officer 1st Class Roger E. of Newport one of 18 men who did survive the said he was below decks when his captain sounded a collision raced to the bridge just in time to see the collision with the Santa Cruz a 521-foot, coal-laden freighter bound for Buenos said the 125-foot Cuyahoga was struck on the starboard side and heeled 50 touching off a as men on deck tried to rescue their comrades But the ship sank three to four minutes after impact and the men below apparently went down with 18 survivors swam through chilly waters and climbed utility vessel that had floated wasn't cold at all until we got on the Santa Cruz and held a Then I realized how many people were said Wild before boarding a plane to Newport News with the other survivors for a Coast Guard crew members were injured in the Parade 22 on Bridge months as director of the Office of Management and the newspaper the inquiry had covered only Lance's bank dealings before he joined the Carter the Times quoted close to the as saying the grand jury has begun to examine what Lance played in a hidden 1977 sale of securities pledged as loan newspaper said the grand jury is also investigating whetner Lance helped get questionable loans and credit extensions from Georgia banks for his relatives while he was budget senior Justice Department official had previously indicated the investigation was broadening by saying the inquiry is and continuing to who declined to be said a decision on whether to indict Lance is weeks a civil complaint last the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Comptroller of the Currency accused Lance of fraud in approving hundreds of thousands of dollars in overdrafts from Georgia banks he had 27-33 studying - Israeli and West German scholars say there is a growing awareness in both countries that the murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany must be studied to draw lessons so that such an atrocity does not happen scholars and teachers from West Germany and the United participating in this week's first International Conference on Lessons of the said a major obstacle to teaching such lessons is silence produced either or Chaim Schatzker of the School of Education of the Hebrew University in children of the survivors know nothing about it because their parents won't talk about 36, a West German who works for the United told the conference that he and his generation had learned to be when they discovered parents lying about or hiding the past from own a wartime SS had claimed to Weibgen that he had not known of the Nazi death Weibgen said he learned that probably was a my parents ceased to be gods to but and I was restored the power to be Weibgen said the deep-rooted emotions in Israel have hampered objective research and emotion has been the motive and content of teaching about the Holocaust until Schatzker Philippines World chess officials hope to lure former world chess champion Bobby Fischer out of retirement with an offer of about million in prize money for a match with recognized champion Anatoly They hope to get the American wizard to play again with this rnost lucrative offer in the history of the The site of the match has not been hopes Alaska Former Gov. Walter J. hopes of returning to office apparently have been ended by an Alaska Supreme Court decision reversing a lower court and upholding the state's Aug. 22 gubernatorial lost the Republican primary by 98 votes to incumbent Gov. Jay and challenged the charging the state Supreme in a unanimous decision late Friday ruled the including discovery of 247 uncounted ballots in a closet a month after the had caused bias in the The court irregularities were random in their Slim dealt bad Texas in the guise of the federal has dealt poker great Amarillo Slim a tough hand indictments charging him and four other men with gambling conspiracy former world champion poker whose real name is Thomas Austin Preston surrendered to the U.S. marshal in El last week after the indictments were cleaner caused LOUIS Sulfuric fumes which evacuated 40 children from an elementary school with nausea and minor throat and lung irritation Friday have been attributed to a drain spokesman said most of the students were treated and and 11 kept overnight for more were released Saturday morning and those that remained were reported in good A hospital spokesman said none of the injuries appeared to be
