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STMS RHXi Mark JefF Sonia United Press Internaiii Gunmen Pope says pidgin English mass United Press International MOUNT HAGEN, Papua New Guinea — Pope John Paul II brushed off death threats Tuesday and rode in an open (Set Involved and Gave jfvn with the 4 th Utmual Jester ms® ■joD. ?Ha<Jrioal Qri Wo jymmm Tu99 ler6 . Singers Student Committee members medalists. Uppeieers ^ Pick up info at StucUni Proqrams Office front <&<&l of of the M$C, Madrigal Dinners is one of the most exciting Christmas Programs at Texas A&M and you can make this year the best year yet! Non-Students welcome to audition. m pickup truck to celebrate mass church through the presence of in pidgin English before the'bishop of Rome, the succes- 180,000 people, Including sor>of Saint Peter,” John Paul spear-toting, painted tribes- said in his sermon Tuesday, men. ' Church officials estimated At the mass in llie Waghi Val- that 180,000 people attended ley. Stone Age tribesmen took the three-hour mass on a communion in paint and feath- muddy golf course, many of ers beside youths in red T-shirts them traveling for days through with “Mi Likim Pop” (I love the jungle and forest to reach the pope) printed on them in pid- mountainous provincial capital, gin English. Many walked for Throughout the pope’s trip, days to get there. which took him earlier to “The church in Papiia New Alaska and South Korea and Guinea, 100 years after its be- will wind up with stops in the ginning, solemnly celebrates to- 5Solomon Islands on Wednesday day its unity with the universal ’and Thailand on Thursday, Harry ears gon spirit, put /ate con BEIRUT napped an American i :alled Tu man from outside his hoi vhere he Moslem west Beirut In :ity wher amid a new outburst of fijj elebralec between militiamen and laryofhis eminent troops in the he In cer the capital. tVashingte Benjamin Weir, a Pres erved 10 rian minister from Salt md near City who has lived in Ltfe kesident, since 1953, and his wife,Ci lence, had just left their house in md died, Beirut’s Manara neighboii [rdasher when three gunmenconfn bounty pc them, police said. tf the free Weir’s wife struggled i Early in the gunmen but they sir bpTrum ruary. ,■ their There was no immediatt John Paul has praised the diver sity of dif ferent peoples. A dozen of the tribesmen formed an honor guard at the steps to the altar where the her aside and forced himlpendence, pope, in a gold and while chasu- white Peugeot automobilt >articipalc hie, celebrated mass under a | ice sa j t |. Weir’s wife tin pov. Chri thatched roof. nearby police station ando kief gra\ Missionaries and church dig- j or help. Military wi Hilaries sat on benches bor- Weir, 60, was the liing the rowed from the local Anglican American abducted sincel) k ho serve « church but most of the worship- an d Shiite Moslem mid ieryofficei pers stood or squatted on the se j ze d control of the ap | Later, muddy fairway. Moslem western sector in] House lur One clan of tribesmen set out for Mount Hagen with priest on April 1. carrying an inan d for ransom and no 18-loot cross 310 miles from immediately claimed rest Wabag. bility for abducting the Despite persistent reports of tam missionary, a plot to assassinate the pope President Amin Get and a toy pistol fired at the pon- held talks with former tiff in Seoul, South Korea, John c| enl Suleiman Franjieb Paul rode through Mount Ha- could not persuade himto gen standing on an open plat- his representative, Abdi form on a white pickup truck. u, join Prime Mi The pope prepared for his Rashid Karami’s new Cal trip to Papua New Guinea by Franjieb told reporten. studying pidgin English, a lan guage of English and German words grafted onto Melanesian grammar and syntax. Pidgin developed as a local tongue because more than 700 distinct languages, 40 percent of those in the world, are spo ken in the country. The twin-engine Fokker 28 carrying the pope across the Owen Stanley ranges to the val ley look off from Port Moresby with a malfunction in its auxil iary power unit. Fire engines had been placed on standby at the airport in case of emergency hut were not needed. The jet was flown back to Port Moresby for repairs and Hodges, returned in time to pick up the papal party. dent Reag ala comn iependeiu vents in V The me as in the I ion of Co ie Truim highlight lathering ouse cha llections 1 tan Danie Bent’s only u United Pi Weir, a Utah native whej up in Berkeley, Cal., isap in The Presbyterian (U.S.A.). His wife, alsoaf sionary, has been with I 31 years in Lebanon. Thel pie have three daughters A son. 1 QUEB ^ snouting W In California, a reprei ns? 1 w ^ r live of Weir’s church tth™ w [ lt 1 with him last Novembersacir .T minister was committedtoif a -' .. 1 1I . 1 ' mg the Lebanese peopled® 11 ^ the danger in Beirut. 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