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Pope urges authorities
to assist handicapped
United Press International
TROIS RIVIERES, Quebec —
Pope John Paul II, cheered by thou
sands of Canadians, urged govern
ments Monday to cut arms spending
to help the handicapped and
plunged into a sensitive local politi
cal issue by defending the rights of
Indians and Eskimos.
Traveling through Canada by lim
ousine and train, the pope struck out
against discrimination by calling for
increased medical aid for the hand
icapped and legislation to guarantee
the political power of Canada’s na
tive population.
John Paul’s remarks came on the
second day of his trip to Canada,
during which he spoke to the hand
icapped in Quebec City, traveled 25
miles by limousine to Sainte-Anne-
de-Beaupre, then took a special 10-
car train to the industrial city of
Trois Rivieres.
The day’s most emotional mo
ment came when the pope met about
500 handicapped patients at Quebec
City’s Francois Charon rehabilitation
center. Many were in wheelchairs
and John Paul placed his hand on
the foreheads of some, embraced
others and kissed one elderly woman
patient on the cheek.
“If only we were to devote a small
part of the arms race budget to this
task, we could make huge progress
and ease the fate of many suffering
people,” he said.
“We must provide training, suita
ble employment with a just wage,
promotion opportunities and secu
rity to spare the handicapped trau
matic experiences,” he said, adding
that such programs require “the aid
of public authorities.”
The pope then boarded a black
limousine and was driven to what
Canadians considered the most po
litically charged stop of John Paul’s
12-day tour — a meeting with lead
ers of Canada’s Indians and Eskimos
at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre.
The Indians and Eskimos have
been vocal in pressing for political
self-determination. Canada’s Parlia
ment is studying the question before
drawing up legislation.
John Paul’s defense of native
rights, delivered in French, English,
and seven native dialects, put him
squarely in the middle of the issue.
“I know that the relations between
native people and white people are
often strained and tainted with prej
udice,” he said.
He said Indians and Eskimos were
among the poorest members of so
ciety and that their recognition by
the government was “late in com-
ing.”
Government action on native
rights was “evident in some pieces of
legislation, open of course to further
progress and in the increased recog
nition of your own decision-making
power,” the pope said.
The Indians and Eskimos showed
their appreciation by giving the
pope examples of native
craftmanship, including a deerskin
jacket and a red- and black-feath
ered headdress.
Moved by the gesture, John Paul
took an unscheduled walk through
the crowd of about 8,000, much to
the consternation of his security
men.
The pope’s trip from Sainte-
Anne-de-Beaupre to Trois Rivieres
in a specially outfitted train was
highlighted by thousands of well-
wishers who lined the route waving
banners and climbing atop cars and
tractors to get a glimpse of him.
During the journey, John Paul ate
a meal that started with Italian-style
prosciutto ham and melon and
ended with a strawberry tart dessert
and coffee.
At the Cap-de-la-Madeleine
church near Trois Rivieres, the pope
celebrated an outdoor mass ded
icated to the Virgin Mary before
about 50,000 gathered under a driv
ing rain. His sermon dealt with the
religious significance of Mary.
The pope’s tour of Canada, his
23rd international trip since becom
ing pope in 1978, began Sunday in
Queoec City.
Director begins job of promoting
theater arts - a ‘well kept secret’
By DEENA ELLIOTT
Reporter
Theater Arts on the Texas
A&M campus has been a “well-
kept secret,” says Dr. Roger
Schultz, who is starting his first
year here as the new director of
theater arts.
Schultz is in charge of publiciz
ing and promoting all produc
tions, recruiting students into the
program and serving as business
manager for the Aggie Players —
the production company for
Texas A&M theater arts.
Schultz said the goal for the
ater arts is to establish a first-rate
program by presenting the cam
pus and community with quality
entertainment and offering stu
dents quality training.
Schultz said a few problems the
program faces is a lack of visibility
throughout the state and nation.
More students need to know
Texas A&M has a theater arts
program, he said.
The lack of its own theater also
presents problems, he said. Al
though theater arts has the use of
three theaters, the expenses be
fore production — rental of stor
age space, salaries paid to Rudder
employees and vehicle rentals for
transportation for costumes, sce
nic units and props —would be
avoided if the theater arts pro
gram had its own theater.
“As the program grows, it will
become less of a problem,”
Schultz said.
Schultz said the program will
have a chance to shape its own
destiny with Texas A&M’s appro
val of the new Department of
Speech Communication and The
ater Arts.
Theater arts presently is under
the Department of English, which
is one of the three largest depart
ments on campus. Being a small
part of a large department is not
as advantageous as becoming rec
ognized as another department in
the College of Liberal Arts,
Schultz said.
Schultz said he was attracted to
Texas A&M because it is a quality
school and is making a commit
ment to liberal arts education.
Texas A&M’s theater arts pro
gram has “imaginative, intelli
gent, industrious students ded
icated to what they are doing,” he
said.
Schultz said the theater is “the
ultimate form of rhetoric and
fine art,” and emphasized the im
portance of a strong theater arts
program.
“Theater takes music, dance,
literature, architecture, sculpture
and graphic art and combines
them in a single, complex and col
laborative art form, which in turn
expresses politics, religion, psy
chology, sociology, history, etc.,”
he said.
Schultz has made his career the
theater and believes “one isn’t in
the theater, the theater is in him.”
Schultz quoted Cervantes in ex
pressing the art of theater:
“Nothing, in fact, more truly por
trays us as we are and as we could
be than the play and the players.”
Schultz has been at the Univer
sity of Houston at Clear Lake City
since 1982 as an associate profes
sor and chairman of the theater
program. Schultz was assistant
professor of theater with tenure
at the University of Minnesota in
Duluth from 1970-1982. During
that time, he was a graduate tea
ching assistant from 1977-1980 at
the University of California in
Santa Barbara.
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Soviets say “Star Wars” accord
to avert an arms race up to U.S.
United Press International
MOSCOW — The United States
holds the key to a “quick and funda
mental accord” to avert an arms race
in space between Moscow and Wash
ington, the Kremlin’s chief adviser
on space weaponry said Tuesday.
Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show
broadcast from Moscow, Yevgeny
Velikhov, vice president of the So
viet Academy of Sciences, said it is
up to the United States to take the
initiative in so called “Star Wars”
talks.
“The Soviet Union hopes that
talks will be conducted aimed at spe
cifically preventing the arms race in
outer space,” said Velikhov said.
“The problem as I see it is the
United States.
“From the position of principle, I
believe there exists a good possibilty
for quick and fundamental accord.”
Velikhov, who in his capacity at
the academy advises the Kremlin on
space weapons, said the Soviets will
maintain a moratorium on testing
space weapons as long as the United
States also does so.
“The moratorium was announced
by the Soviet Union unilaterally and
the Soviet Union is abiding by that
moratorium until the U.S. starts test
ing of anti-satellite weapons,” he
said.
The Soviets proposed talks last
June to prevent an arms race in
space, but refused to attend as long
as the United States insisted on com
bining the “Star Wars” talks with ne
gotiations on the reduction of inter
continental missiles.
The Soviet Union suspended Ge
neva talks on intermediate and strat
egic nuclear missiles late last year in
response to the deployment of 572
U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 missiles
in five European nations.
Asked which side has the edge in
developing space weaponry, Velik
hov said: “From the point of view of
science we cannot know what is be
ing done in military laboratories. Yet
the level of laser technology and
space technology is more or less
equal for both sides.”
Velhikov said it was highly un
likely that either side would gain an
advantage in an arms race in space
and a “treaty would make sure that
there will be no breakthrough.”
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WASHINGTON — President
Reagan set aside partisan differ
ences for a few minutes Tuesday to
praise the late Hubert Humphrey —
the embodiment of. liberal Demo
cratic politics who the president once
campaigned for and the mentor of
his opponent for the White House.
In a Rose Garden ceremony, be
fore a gathering of prominent Min
nesotans and political luminaries
from both parties, Reagan presented
a congressional gold medal to the
former vice president’s widow, Mu
riel Humphrey Brown.
Her son accepted the medal “for
the people that Hubert Humphrey
represented — the people who live
in Minnesota, the people from all
walks of life and all circumstances of
need.”
Reagan shook hands with the
front row of relatives and family
friends, including Joan Mondale,
wife of the president’s opponent,
Walter Mondale, who cut his politi
cal teeth in Humphrey’s campaigns
for mayor of Minneapolis and for
the Senate.
Mondale later succeeded Hum
phrey in the Senate when Hum
phrey was selected as President
Johnson’s running mate in 1964.
Mondale and his running mate,
Geraldine Ferraro, were invited but
declined to attend, citing campaign
commitments in Chicago and To
ledo, Ohio, respectively.
“We are here to honor one of
American political history’s great
happy warriors,” Reagan said.
“Tnere was in Hubert Humphrey a
great joy of life and truly buoyant
civility. He was robust and energetic.
He loved the battle. He was warm
and affectionate. He was hearty and
spirited and he was nothing if not ef
fusive. When he spoke the words
poured out of him.
“Some said he was deeply, endles
sly articulate. T hen there were oth
ers who said he was downright gar
rulous,” Reagan quipped.
“His passing left Washington a
lesser place,” Reagan said. “He left a
big silence behind him. He was a fine
man, a patriot.”
Brown thanked Reagan for “that
most beautiful message.” Her late
husband, she said, “was one man
who made a great change in the life
of our country.”
Hubert “Skip” Humphrey III, at
torney general of Minnesota, said his
father, had he been there, would
have protested “the fuss. But pri
vately he would have thoroughly en
joyed the limelight and the attention
being given to him today.”
The gold medal, authorized by
Congress in 1979, a year and a half
after he died of cancer, reads, in
part, “He cared.”
Humphrey served in the Senate
23 years, rising to assistant Demo
cratic leader and then, in 1965, to
vice president under Lyndon John
son, where he languished ineffecti
vely defending a Vietnam policy he
had come to oppose.
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