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In view of the tension, all private cars have been banned from Poznan streets starting today and gasoline sta tions, cinemas, theaters and other- places of entertainment were closed, the radio said. Warsaw was quiet Sunday but au thorities took no chances and kept ex tra security patrols on the streets. Hundreds of Warsaw residents strol led in downtown parks on the unsea sonably warm day. The arrests in Poznan took place Saturday after crowds “provoked by pamphlets urging them to assemble” gathered around Mickiewicza Square, the radio said. Hostile shouts were heard and 194 people were arrested, including many high-school pupils, university stu dents and unemployed youths, it said. Courts handed out punishment to 162 people but the radio gave no further details. Poles apparently did not heed the underground’s call to douse lights in their homes for 15 minutes Saturday in a symbolic protest and also ignored a plea to litter the gutters with news papers — censored under martial law. Authorities also imposed new re strictions, including a stiffer curfew than in other parts of Poland, on the port of Gdansk after Jan. 30 rioting in which 14 people were injured and 205 were arrested. Pope’s visit to Moslems canceled due to threat United Press International LAGOS, Nigeria—Pope John Paul jil’s appeal to Moslem leaders for reli gious tolerance was abruptly canceled and the pontiff was rushed out of northern Nigeria because of a secur ity threat, Vatican officials said. The meeting with Moslem leaders | was to have been a key event in the five-day visit to Nigeria by the pope, who was nearly assassinated by a Tur kish gunman in St. Peter’s square last May. Vatican officials hustled the pope out of Kaduna, in the overwhelming ly Moslem north of Nigeria, after hearing word Sunday of an unidenti fied tl Vat, according to two of the offici; Is, who asked not to be named. The pope had planned to appeal to the Moslem leaders “to join hands in the name of God” and become a “spearhead” for religious freedom and tolerance. Instead he made his address to re gional government officials in the VIP lounge at the Kaduna Airport, .vmle Vatican officials hovered ner vously waiting for the pontiff to leave for Lagos. Matching the Soviets weapon for weapon ‘U.S. needs security’ photo by Jane Hollingsworth Left flank! March! In preparation for the Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans, on Feb. 21, Lawrence Barnard commands the Fish Drill Team at Spence Park. Barnard, who was chosen as commander of the drill team by his fellow team members, is a freshman marketing major from Sacramento, Calif. Priest gunned down United Press International GUATEMALA CITY — Hooded gunmen killed an American Catholic missionary with a spray of sub machine gun fire, days after another member of his Christian Brothers order filed a protest against the army. James Arnold Miller, 37, of Cus ter, Wis., died immediately Saturday in the hail of bullets fired from a speeding car outside his church school in Huehuetenango, a provin cial capital 130 northwest of Guate mala City, co-workers said. Miller, whose body was to be re turned to the United State today, was the third U.S. churchman killed in Guatemala in less that seven months. Another Christian Brothers mis sionary said a member of the Catholic order last week filed a complaint at the local army post because an Indian attending the school was drafted de spite a student exemption. The American, who asked to re main anonymous, speculated Miller’s assassination by the hooded gunmen may have been ordered because of the complaint, hut conceded he had no evidence. “We’re all confused about why they killed him,” the American missionary said. “He wasn’t involved in any kind of politics. He just worked with the Indians.” Huehuetenango Bishop Victor Hugo Martinez, who held a Sunday mass for the slain brother, said the church had received no threats be fore the killing and no group took responsibility. Miller, who was hit by six bullets from submachine guns, had worked in Nicaragua for eight years before going to Guatemala in January 1981. staff photo by John Ryan Dr. J. Malon Southerland, left, assistant to the president, greets Peter Osnos, national editor to the Washington Post, Saturday at the SCONA 27 conference as Loyd Neal, a sophomore finance major from Corpus Christi looks on. Council to consider reorganization proposal by Johna Jo Maurer Battalion Staff The United States is determined to stop Soviet expansion and match the Soviet Union militarily — no matter what it takes, the national editor and former Moscow correspondent of the ■Washington Post said Saturday. Peter Osnos gave the final speech of the 27th Student Conference on National Affairs in the Memorial Stu dent Center. “It is crazy — when you think ab out it very long — that the United States has the capacity to destroy the Soviet Union many times over ... and still feel threatened,” he said. The United States must find a way to feel secure, he said. At present, there are no meaning ful voices of influence in this country arguing against the defense buildup oradvocatingthat we search for a new form of detente with the Soviets, Osnos said. “It is full throttle ahead until — and there is no way of knowing when and how it will happen — we can de- dare that the threat has been con tained,” he said. If coming on strong to the Soviets makes President Reagan, his adminis tration and the American people feel confident again, then perhaps the United States will be better prepared to accept the inescapable realities of Soviet power, Osnos said. He said that the Kremlin knows, as the Americans do, that no matter how long we huff and puff, the Soviet house will not fall down. Osnos said the USSR is un doubtedly a strong and unyielding adversary. He said that to believe the USSR has no restraints on what it is ready and able to do is to believe the United States will inevitably have to stop the Soviets or risk immediate destruction. “Wherever we can find it, we must search for reasonable alternatives to that choice,” he said. The problem areas of Soviet- American relations are becoming worse, Osnos said. Americans are hobbled by a combination of pre judice, ignorance and antagonism for Soviet ideology. “We are baffled by the Russians; we can’t abide their methods, there fore we despise them.” Osnos said Reagan’s policy of “un remitting hostility” toward the Soviets is the easiest policy to adopt in dealing with an enemy as far removed from the United States as Russia. However, Osnos said consistency is a problem, as evidenced by Reagan’s lifting of the grain embargo imposed by former President Jimmy Carter on the grounds that it discriminated against U.S. farmers. “Even for a man of Reagan’s deep ly held beliefs, the virtues of consis tency are outweighed by the necessi ties of domestic politics,” he said. by Jane G. Brust and Johna Jo Maurer Battalion Staff Another MSC Council reorganiza tion, to be proposed tonight, could have the council absorb the MSC Di rectorate and thus increase the re sponsibility of the council president. Council members will meet in the 216T MSC at 7:30. Rather than one council vice presi dent of programs overseeing activi ties of the 19 MSC committees (which comprise the directorate) and MSC special projects committees, four council vice presidents of programs would oversee the committees. Committees would be divided into areas of education, culture, entertain ment and recreation, and each group would be assigned to one vice presi dent. The four vice presidents would take on the combined responsibilities of present directorate programs coor dinators and the vice president of programs. The council president would take on the responsibility of the present vice president of programs in that he would meet regularly with the four proposed vice presidents of programs and the directorate committee chair men to discuss committee and project activities. Specifically, the proposal would alleviate the positions of the seven di rectorate programs coordinators, and increase the number of council vice presidents of programs from one to four. Council President Doug Dedeker and Vice President of Programs Craig Hanks developed the proposal after evaluating the relationships between the vice president and the program coordinators. Dedeker said coordinators often had been bypassed in communica tions from directorate committee chairmen to the vice president of programs. To that end, the functions of the vice president and the coordi nators were often confused. The proposed reorganization com bines those functions for four vice presidents and thus alleviates that confusion, Dedeker said. Inasmuch as the council president would oversee the vice presidents and the committee chairmen, the prop osed structure would give him more direct involvement with program ming, he said. That particular point has met with some disapproval. “I would question if the president can do all that plus what he does already,” said Kirk Kelley, council vice president of student develop ment. At present, the president is pritnar- ily an administrator for all council vice presidents. Kelley expressed concern about the reorganization proposal because, he said, the council needs to strive for stability and give the changes made a year ago a chance to work. During the fall 1980 semester, council members approved a controv- ef-sial reorganization structure that has provided for six vice presidents — for development, finance, opera tions, programs, public relations and student development — and 17 assis tants known as directors and coordi nators. The main point of controversy among council members was the in crease in personnel within the struc ture. Originally there were 19 council officers, and the reorganization cal led for 24. See MSC page 14 Money needed to bring Magna Carta by Jean Kiser Battalion Reporter The Magna Carta Committee does not have the $ 14,750 needed to bring the 13th century document to Texas A&M University, but committee Chairman J. Wayne Stark says he’s not worried. ‘T’m sure the University will find the money,” said Stark, special assis tant to the University president. Stark works for the cultural development of the University community. It will cost $800 to have the docu ment at a special showing and dinner Feb. 27 and $3,500 a day for the dis play, which is scheduled for Feb. 28 through March 2. The Magna Carta is to be displayed on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center. Stark said he hoped the money could be raised internally through donations and partial funding from the cities of Bryan and College Sta tion. As of late last week, donations had totaled about $5,000. In addition, Stark said the Texas Commission for the Humanities approved a grant re quest for $1,650 for the project. But $8,100 is still needed to bring the Magna Carfa to the University. Last week, the Magna Carta com mittee asked the Bryan City Council for $4,000 to assist it in bringing the exhibit to the area. Council member Ron Blatchley said the council turned down the re quest because it did not think the city could pay for it with taxpayers’ dol lars. The council already has allocated a specific amount of its budget to the arts council for such projects, he said. Thursday, the committee asked the College Station City Council for $4,000. The Council tabled the re quest until a special workshop session Wednesday. “I feel like I approached both city councils in a very naive way,” Stark said. More preparation should have gone into the presentations to the councils to tell them what it was all about before asking for money, he ’ said. Dr. David C. Ruesink. committee member and extension sociologist, and the Rev. Robert B. Greene, ex ecutive director of the Magna Carta in America Foundation, decided to try to bring the document to Texas A&M during a conference in Pennsylvania last September. 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