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Battalion/Page 5B
February 24, 1982
Religious violence raises
questions across country
United Press International
With the recent deaths of reli
gious clergy in west Texas and
the general increase of violence
against religious figures and
churches nationwide, experts
are wondering what is causing
the brutality and how it can be
stopped.
“There is a lot of thought on
this, everybody is asking, why
are these people being mur
dered, but who to follow, I don’t
know,” said Father Joseph
Tabone, vicar of the diocese of
Amarillo.
Recent violence against reli
gious figures in west Texas has
been chilling.
Sister Tadea Benz, 76, was
found dead in her room at an
Amarillo convent late last Octo
ber. She had been raped, strang
led and beaten. An Amarillo
teenager was charged with mur
der in the case and is currently
awaiting trial.
The Rev. Patrick Ryan, 49,
priest of a Denver City Catholic
church, was missing for Christ
mas Mass last December. Police
found his nude body in an Odes
sa motel room. He had been
bound, gagged and beaten to
death.
Ryan’s replacement, Father
Thomas Vazheparampil, told
police he had been threatened
by a telephone call in Lamesa,
where he lived before moving to
Denver City. After his arrival in
Denver City, Vazheparampil re
ceived threatening mail.
In addition to those acts of
violence, it is not unusual to have
churches broken into for the
purpose of robbery and vandal
ism — not only in Texas, but
around the country. Ministers
attempting to protect church
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oickvouro worker Jimmy Mims had given
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and ll» f" m g er °f his right hand. A meat
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sliced them off.
■ “I thought that was the end of
it ” Mims, reflecting on the
trauma of six years ago.
1 But Mims benefittecl from re
cent breakthroughs in the intri
cate process of microsurgery.
| Today, the truck driver en-
Jys 75 percent use of both fin
gers and has regained enough
Hrength in his right hand to
Handle tractortrailers.
I Last September, 5-year-old
Jonathan Angst got his left arm
too close to a corn sillage blower
l,|while tagging along with his
father at their McVeytown, Pa.,
farm.
Jonathan’s mother, Susan
Angst, explained: “Our little boy
1 was watching to see what his dad
’was doing, and my husband
didn’t realize he was around,
ams I The next thing he knew
' Jonathan came around the side
of the (corn-blower) and said:
‘Baddy, I lost my arm.’”
| Two months later, following
16 hours of surgery and the pas
sing of a series of infections,
young Angst is working toward
Recovering full use of his sewn-
on arm.
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Mims and Angst were treated
at the Raymond M. Curtis Hand
Center in Baltimore’s Union
Memorial Hospital — a place in
the vanguard of the science of
sewing appendages back into
place. There are similar facilities
in San Francisco, New York,
Philadelphia, Louisville and
Durham, N.C.
Dr. Raymond Curtis is the
founder and head of the center,
which has performed about
1,200 operations each year since
1975.
Special emphasis is placed on
restoring the “pinching grip” of
a patient’s hand, Curtis said,
even it means amputating a pa
tient’s toe and replanting it on
the hand. The theory is that a
person can do without a toe, but
not without a “thumb.”
Curtis learned the technique
of tying micro-sutures, drilling
holes in bones and other ex
acting tasks involved in the re
planting process from Dr. Sterl
ing Bunnell. It was Bunnell who
established the Army’s hand
centers during World War II.
In Bunnell’s day, the chances
of “replanting” a finger or hand
were 10 percent. Today they are
75 percent, chiefly because of
the work of Curtis and other
doctors like him in the United
States and the People’s Republic
of China.
Contemporary micro
surgeons know enough to get
rid of badly damaged tissue and
bone before trying to put appen
dages back on. They know the
importance of “packing” se
vered members in sterile gauze
and then ice so they keep until
they may be replanted.
Those breakthroughs pro
vide new hope for the thousands
of Americans whose appen
dages are cut off each year. Yet
problems persist.
Too often, for example, the
veins and arteries are properly
reattached and blood flows nor
mally only to stop once it reaches
the capillary network.
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HOUSTON — All the contes
tants in the Miss Texas Princess
Pageant lost.
And the man who promised
fame to the 11 potential beauties
has been indicted for felony
theft for taking $50 from each of
the women, officials said
Monday.
Frank John Baptist Bagley,
28, of Corono Del Mar, Calif.,
was indicted by a grand jury
Monday for receiving the
pageant fees in January, but fail
ing to stage the Feb. 7 contest as
promised.
According to the indictment,
Bagley did not produce a photo
graphic portfolio of each en
trant in return for the $50 they
paid him.
Assistant District Attorney
Harvey Hudson said 11 contes
tants filed complaints, but many
other young women were bilked
in the deal. The woman had re
sponded to Bagley’s newspaper
advertisement for the statewide
contest.
The ads said the contest was
sanctioned by the Miss America
Princess Pageant, which turned
out to be a one-man operation
staffed by Bagley, the prosecu
tor said.
The responding females, who
ranged in age from infancy to
the early 20s, were put through
photo sessions in January. Up to
75 females were photographed
in one day in three different sets
of clothing, officials said.
But, Hudson said, the man
left town before the pageant was
to begin. Many of the entrants’
mothers have dealt with legiti
mate pageants and did not be
come suspicious until they real
ized the contest would not be
staged, Hudson said.
property frequently are beaten
up by the assailents.
A Dallas psychiatrist says
attackers of religious figures can
be motivated by a host of
psychological reasons, but peo
ple who make unprovoked
attacks generally feel helpless.
“There are a lot of religious
figures who are attacked be
cause they dare to say things that
people don’t want to hear ab
out,” said Dr. Myron Weiner,
professor of clinical psychiatry
at the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Dallas.
“But we’re probably not talking
about that motivation in these
cases.
“I think a person who would
beat up a priest would not pick a
fight in a bar. They’re not going
to pick on someone who’s a big,
burly cop. Generally a person
who makes an unprovoked
attack feels very helpless and is
trying to assert that he or she is
potent, that he or she can have
some strong influence on some
one or something. When you
attack someone who doesn’t
fight back, you feel very potent
while taking a very minimal
risk.”
Weiner said the fact that these
people are readily identifiable as
religious figures makes them
more vulnerable. And Father
Tabone agrees.
“Any people who become a
kind of group or clan get atten
tion, whether it’s positive di-
negative,” Tabone said. “Any
one who lumps himself in a
group receives it.”
There are several other possi
ble psychological motivation?
for attacks on clergymen, Wein
er said.
“Priests and nuns and other
religious folks frequently sym
bolize parents,” he said. “The
common denominator here is a
person who would want to strike
out against a very harsh reli
gious upbringing. It may not
have been really harsh, it may
have just been interpreted that
way.”
In addition, Weiner said
attackers of clergymen may feel
oppressed by their particular re
ligion.
“There could be people who
feel their religion has crushed
their individuality, their oppor
tunity, their capacity for joy ih
life,” he said. “And the people
attack someone who symbolizes
the religion,” he said.
“I imagine this would happe^
in religions which emphasize a
great deal of self-denial and selfw
control, where there’s a lot of
shoulds and musts and nots. Itj
those circumstances the people
might get pretty intense an<t
pretty angry.” %
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