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United Press International
Millions of Christians around the
[world celebrated Easter Sunday, mark
ing the holiest day of their year with
I processions and services from the sacred
sites of Jersualem to Soviet churches
where KGB agents mingled with
worshippers.
In the officially atheist Soviet Union,
Russian Orthodox believers celebrated
at the country’s 7,500 churches, braving
the leaden glare of uniformed police
and KGB agents to attend services.
Churches overflowed. Young people
[stood shoulder to shoulder with the “ba-
bushki” — old women — the last of a
generation brought up to believe offi-
rially in Jesus Christ. Absent were the
middle-aged, whose jobs might be jeop
ardized by religious observance.
Although Soviet officials discourage
religious faith, the government esti
mates there are about 30 million Chris
tians in the country.
Worldwide, there are nearly 1 billion
Christians, most of them Roman Catho
lic. Protestanism is the second largest de
nomination, followed by the Eastern Or
thodox— Greeks, Armenians, Egyptian
Coptics, Ethiopians and Russians.
This year, Easter Sunday climaxed an
infrequent overlap of the Eastern and
Western Christian holy weeks. Accord
ing to the Bible, Christ was crucified on
Good Friday and rose two days later on
Easter Sunday, the holiest day on the
Christian calendar.
In contrast to the Soviet attitude to
ward Easter, communist officials in
Hungary gave unprecedented publicity
to the holiday, reflecting the recent de
velopment in church-state relations.
In Northern Ireland, Easter obser
vances poured from the churches onto
the street.
In the towns of Belfast, Londonderry
and Crosmaglen, uniformed members
of the outlawed Irish Republican Army,
fighting for Irish independence from
British rule, paraded to commemorate
the 1916 Easter rising against British
rule in Dublin.
British troops and Northern Irish po
lice looked on while members of Sinn
Fein, the IRA’s political arm, read a
statement warning that attacks against
security forces in border areas of North
ern Ireland will be stepped up.
In Jerusalem, Christianity’s holiest
city, thousands of Christians flocked to
churches and holy sites as bells rang out
to mark the day. There was heightened
security but authorities said there were
no serious incidents.
Eastern Orthodox Christians as well
as Roman Catholics conducted separate
services in the rotunda of Jerusalem’s
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where
many Christians believe Christ died and
was buried.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul
II wished the world a happy Easier in 45
languages Sunday and appealed for an
end to terrorism, torture, abortion and
man’s “feverish preparation” for war.
The pope spoke to 300,000 people
who jammed St. Peter’s Square for
Christianity’s most important holiday.
He said the world was beset by ever
growing contrasts between war and
peace, wealth and hunger, human rights
and oppression, hope and despair and
life-seeking forces vs. abortion and eu
thanasia.
“Open to Him Qesus) the doors of
this our difficult modern age, this civili
zation of growing contrasts in which
there fight the ardent desire for peace
and the feverish preparation of destruc
tive means of war,” the pope said.
The crowd, so big it spilled out of the
square and into nearby streets, stood in
bright sunshine waving yellow and white
papal flags and banners signifying their
home countries while the pope cele
brated mass at an outdoor altar.
Floating over the square were thou
sands of bright blue balloons, released
by peace demonstrators who had
marched to the Vatican to support legis
lation that would require immediate Ital
ian aid to famine-stricken nations.
Later, John Paul delivered his tradi
tional “Urbi et Orbi” (To the City and
the World) blessing and address and
ceremonially closed the special “holy
year” he proclaimed in 1983 to com
memorate the 1,950th anniversary of
the Crucifixion.
Wearing gold robes to signify Chris
tian joy at the resurrection, the pope de
cried the battle between “wealth that
comes from material and technical pro
gress, and extreme poverty and penury
paid for with the deaths through hunger
or thirst of millions of children and of
men and women.”
Also in battle are “the universal desire
for the dignity of man and for his rights,
and the violation of the same rights to
the point of brutal forms of arrogance
and violence, of oppression of con
sciences, of torture and terrorism,” the
pope said.
Following ins address, John Paul
wished the world a happy Easter in 45
languages, including Korean, Swahili,
Arabic, Hebrew, Maltese and his own
native Polish.
Murder trial begins today
in prison employees’ killings
United Press International
EDINBURG — Testimony
begins Monday in the third
murder trial of former state
penitentiary inmate Eroy
Brown, who has admitted kill
ing two prison employees but
said he acted in self defense.
District Judge Darrell Hester
of Brownsville scheduled testi
mony to begin at 9:15 a.m. be
fore an all-Hispanicjury that he
impaneled last Thursday, then
recessed for the Easter week
end.
Walker County District At
torney Frank Blazek, hobbling
on crutches with a recent leg in
jury, will prosecute the case.
State Sen. Craig Washington,
D-Houston, against will defend
Brown.
Brown, 32, of Waco, will be
tried for killing Texas Depart
ment of Corrections farm man
ager Billy Max Moore.
Moore was drowned and
TDC Ellis Unit Warden Wallace
Pack was shot to death on April
4, 1981, but Brown said he at
tacked the men in self defense
because they were driving him
toward “the bottoms” area of
the prison and he feared he
would be tortured.
At the end of his second capi
tal murder trial in Pack’s death,
a Galveston jury, which in
cluded four blacks, acquitted
Brown in late 1982. His first
trial in Pack’s death had ended
in a hungjury.
Blazek has decided not to
seek the death penalty in the
Moore killing because of the
outcome of the Pack trial and
the expense involved in capital
murder trial, but has indicated
he may present new evidence in
the Moore killing.
Washington, who agreed to
moving the trial to Edinburg on
a change of venue, said it did
not matter that there were no
blacks on the 70-member panel
from which the six men and six
women jurors were selected.
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Wappenschaw.
That’s Scottish for “weapons
how,” and this summer, Texas
will have its own wap-
lenschaw of intellectual weap-
ps — the faculty.
nriHpnts J The A Sg‘ e Wappenschaw is a
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who wertln hearing presentations by se-
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dual' ^eheldonjune 10 through 14,
tid despite the low attendance
kord of the previous years,
jeople in Liberal Arts Continu-
|g Education expect more peo-
|le to come.
Annie Ruth Taylor, coordi-
jator of the 1984 Aggie Wap-
pnschaw, says this year’s pro-
im will include 18 informal
Presentations covering topics
tch as the impact of modern
dmology on education and
ledicine, computer use, art
riticism, writing and solving
mystery stories, quilting, the se
crets of violin making and an
update of foreign policy. A
question and answer session will
follow each presentation.
Taylor, who has coordinated
Wappenschaw since October
1982, says the program is not all
work, by any means.
“It’s a very stimulating four-
day party,” Taylor said. “You
get into some really stimulating
discussions and thoughts, but
it’s very relaxing and easy to
swallow.”
Taylor said that besides the
presentations, this year’s Wap
penschaw will also include
guided tours of the campus, the
Texas A&M University Press,
the Cyclotron building, and the
Nuclear Science Center.
A backyard barbecue will be
held at Taylor’s house, and
there will also be a wine and
cheese party at the Messina Hof
winery (located a few miles
north of College Station).
Wappenschaw has been
highly praised by those who
have attended — but that’s the
problem, Taylor said. Only
eight people showed up last
year.
“We’re not too successful in
terms of attendance,” Taylor
said, “but this year, we expect
about 30 people. The people
who came the first two years
loved it.”
Those who attend the Wap
penschaw have their choice of
staying in the Memorial Student
Center Hotel or a Commons
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When rich, eccentric Edwina Cutwater died,
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But the guru goofed.
And Edwina’s soul has
accidentally taken over
the entire right side
of her lawyer,
Roger Cobb.
He still controls
what’s left.
Now, Edwina and Roger
are living together—
in the same body.
He’s losing his job.
He’s losing his girlfriend.
And he just can’t seem to get
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