condiik iianapt PM V Texas A&M m m W • The Battalion Vol. 83 No. 10 CJSPS 045360 14 pages College Station, Texas Monday, September 14, 1987 wheel may have (r# ruck Guerrero mtU river was unconsa. . i emoved from ihej to the hospital h his fourth year on >uei rero is in third \RT standing: Joint ZsZilti Crews thwart ind runnerupMkr ■i rero won the firs reer this season at dded another vie nower, God of might. Heaven and larth are full of your glory. Ho- anna in the highest. Blessed is he /ho comes in the name of the Lord, iosanna in the highest. Hosanna in he highest. Umbrellas open — not for the ain, but from the hot Texas sun. efforts make Mass success mishaps at site An old Spanish woman, weak and sick from the heat, refuses to leave her roadside chair. Several Red Cross workers try to convince her to accept help. A guardsman ap proaches with a green canvas stretcher. She will not go. The first aid volunteers and the guardsman leave. Her relatives fan her with a picture-fan of the pope. Small children play with rocks at their parents’ feet. The rocks line a small, newly built road with a thin, asphalt coating. Two birds circle overhead. An usher asks people to close their umbrellas because they block the view behind them. They ask a man to remove his ten-gallon hat for the same reason. Secret Service helicopters fly low over the crowd, as do dragonflies. Red and blue lights flash in the distance. He has arrived. The ushers join hands along both sides of the road. Secret Servicemen ride by in a four-wheel, all-terrain vehicle. “I can see him,” someone farther ahead shouts. “There he is.” Flags, banners and pennants start to wave. The “popemobile” slowly passes by. The windows are slightly tinted, so his white clothing appears gray. The sky has begun to clear. Only a few white, puffy clouds are left. He follows a looping road through another part of the crowd. One of the ushers thanks the crowd for being so well-behaved. Gina Dallel of San Antonio is at a free water booth near the road. She is sitting on several cases of distilled water jugs for a better look. The pope is going to come around again. Halfway around the loop, the po pemobile speeds up. This time he passes by rather quickly. Blink and you would have missed him. The motorcade proceeds to the al ter, which is flanked by huge color ful decorations. Time passes as ushers and police try to regain control of the crowd. They have overflowed into the road for a better view. The temperature is rising quickly. The crowd chants, “El Papa.” The procession up the many steps to the altar begins. The pope has changed into a bright green vest ment. The Mass proceeds. See Crowd, page 14 Photo by Lee Schexnaider Pope John Paul II passes through the crowd before the papal Mass in San Antonio on Sunday. The crowd was estimated at 300,000 for the service. Tourists crazy over papal keepsakes By Elisa Hutchins Staff Writer SAN ANTONIO — Pope John Paul II visited San Antonio Sunday to increase religious awareness and reunite alienated Catholics to the church, but the atmosphere in the city and at the Mass was more like a fiesta than a church service. Visitors bought almost anything with the pope’s picture on it. About 300,000 people from 26 ethnic groups made the pilgrimage to the Mass site and were greeted along the way by vendors selling ev erything from hats and T-shirts to pennants and buttons. Some ven dors even took pictures of customers with a life-size cardboard replica of the pope. Deborah Konecny, a San Antonio resident, set up a family-operated jewelry stand on Potranco Road, the main road to the site, on Sept. 10. Unfortunately, Konecny said, the $10, limited-edition pope-and Texas-shaped necklaces didn’t sell as well as expected because of a low turnout. About 500,000 were expected to attend the Mass. Other, less expensive items, like $3 H.E.B. grocery store bus tokens, were saved as mementos by some tourists. Fans adorned with the pope’s image, which were used to ease the 94-degree heat, and free souvenir Mass programs also were popular items. The sagging Texas economy pre vented many people from coming to San Antonio to participate in the his torical event, while many of the ones who did come were content to see the pope and sign their names in al bums at the San Fernando Cather- dral instead of attending the Mass. The two albums, witJn more than 30,000 signatures, were blessed by the pope, church volunteer Sylvia Salazar said. Dolores Gonzales, who signed her name to one of the albums, said, “I came here to sign my name because I am not going to go to the Mass, and this way, I can be involved. Instead See Souvenirs, page 14 300,000 attend San Antonio papal Mass SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Pope ohn Paul II, feted with mariachis, a Stetson and a longhorn steer, greeted the largest crowds of his cur- ent U.S. tour Sunday with plaudits or Texans’ spirit. In the first visit a pope has ever nade to Texas, the pontiff cruised )ast the Alamo in his Popemobile af- er | calling the state a symbol of America’s “founding moral prin- :iples” and urging citizens of all aces to work together. Late Sunday afternoon, a :heering crowd of about 325,000 ined city streets as the papal motor- :ade wended toward San Fernando Cathedral past the former Catholic mission, renowned in film and lore as the cradle of Texas liberty. From there, thunderous applause and cheers of “Viva El Papa” fol lowed him to Our Lady of Guada lupe Church in one of San Antonio’s oorest neighborhoods, where he lessed a yarn mural created by Bexar County inmates depicting him, six of the city’s poorest His panic churches and the Lady of Gua dalupe, Mexico’s patron saint. Earlier at a hot, sunny outdoor Mass attended by an estimated 300,000 people — 200,000 fewer than predicted — the pontiff saluted those who have worked “on behalf of suffering brothers and sisters ar riving from” Latin America. “Your history registers a meeting of cultures, indigenous and immi grant, sometimes marked by ten sions and conflicts, yet constantly moving toward reconciliation and harmony,” the pope, garbed in green robes symbolic of hope and growth, told worshipers at a 144- acre site. “People of different races and lan guages, colors and customs, have come to this land to make it their home . . . You are thus a symbol and a kind of laboratory testing Ameri ca’s commitment to her founding moral principles and human values,” he said. The Hispanic-American commu nity, as expected, was the focal point of the pope’s 23-hour stop in San Antonio, the fourth sojourn on a nine-city, 10-day U.S. tour that be gan Thursday. The pope’s Sunday Mass was the only one he will cele brate this trip. At Kelly Air Force Base, the pope arrived at 10:01 a.m. CDT and was greeted by San Antonio Archbishop Patrick Flores, the nation’s first His panic archbishop, along with Gov. Bill Clements and Mayor Henry Cis neros and their wives. A seven-member local mariachi group wearing sombreros and ma roon costumes greeted the pontiff Soviet official: Summit meeting depends on outcome of U.S. visit WASHINGTON (AP) — Soviet Foreign Min ster Eduard A. Shevardnadze said Sunday a de- ision on another superpower summit meeting lepends on the outcome of his talks this week dth President Reagan and Secretary of State ieorge P. Shultz. “We have come here in order to roll up our leaves and work,” Shevardnadze said on his arri- al from Moscow. The white-haired Soviet official brought with iim a letter for Reagan from Soviet leader Mik- Ul ! I iail S. Gorbachev and “a degree of optimism.” , , In a brief airport news conference, Shevard- !0j adze added, “I would say cautious optimism, laybe.” \/OI IT not di sc l° se th 6 contents of Gorba- y U UI hev's letter to Reagan, but said in Russian « irough an interpreter, “As for the summit, ev- 3USine$^ w iH depend on the results of our work ere.” OOmh ^agan and Gorbachev agreed at their first I Ik/i iceting in Geneva in November 1985 to hold accessive summits the next two years in Wash- igton and in Moscow. I * r- n lt Instead, they met last October in Reykjavik, | O^O-ZC^ 13 ™ 1 ’ anc * Gorbachev has not responded to the resident’s invitation to visit the United States tiskyear. odvem Last April during a visit by Shultz to Moscow, Gorbachev said “Generally, without reason, I do not go anywhere, particularly America.” Reagan administration officials have not pressed the Soviet leader for a response, but an ticipated it might come during the talks to be held with Shevardnadze Tuesday through Thursday. The Soviet foreign minister said the two sides had made “very substantial progress” on a treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles. But he tempered the positive remark by saying “a great deal of work also remains.” Shevardnadze said differences remained over warheads. On top of that, he said, procedures for verifying destruction of the U.S. and Soviet weapons as well as the pace still must be resolved. “The warheads are a serious question,” he said. However, Shevardnadze also declared, “We have come in a businesslike spirit and in a work ing spirit and with a degree of optimism.” Similarly, Shultz said in a CBS television inter view that despite a public squabble, there was really little difference between the two sides on how to implement the nearly completed U.S.-So viet treaty to eliminate intermediate-range ballis tic missiles as well as cruise missiles in Europe and the Soviet Union. But officials on both sides seemed to go out of their way to lower expectations of any break through in the three days of talks Shevardnadze will hold here. Veteran Soviet negotiator Viktor P. Karpov hinted in an interview with the Soviet news agency Tass on Saturday that Shevardnadze would take a rigid stance in the final phase of the treaty negotiations. Karpov said if the United States refused to in clude the U.S. warheads on West German Per shing 1-A missiles in the pact, the Soviets might withdraw their offer to eliminate 130 missiles in the same general range of 315 to 565 miles. That would still mean the scrapping of U.S. and Soviet missiles that can fly up to 3,125 miles. Presidential adviser Edward L. Rowny last week accused the Soviets of holding cuts in strat egic forces “hostage to demands that we abort our hope for protection against a ballistic missile threat.” Likewise, other Reagan administration offi cials warned against expecting dramatic devel opments or a date for a visit to Washington visit by Gorbachev during Shevardnadze’s talks here. Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne L. Ridg- way told reporters Friday, “This is not a meeting about a summit.” with what band leader Manuel Vega described as “happy Mexican mu sic.” Two children received papal kisses after they presented him with yellow and red roses that are unoffi cial symbols of the Lone Star State and now the nation’s official flower. While the pope and Flores toured the Mass site in the bullet-proof Po pemobile, musicians played and sang hymns from the hastily re paired altar whose 12-story towers S led in high winds Thursday t. “We are making history today,” Flores told the crowd. “In 20 centu ries of Christianity, this is the first time we are so beautifully blessed with the successor to Peter, John Paul II. “We had a litde tragedy here that destroyed part of the decorations, some towers that had been con structed immediately behind the al tar. The towers collapsed, but the church of Texas is standing.” Medical workers treated about 500 people for heat-related prob lems at first aid stations ringing the Mass site as the heat index sizzled above the century mark by early af- See Pope, page 14 Pat Robertson tops Iowa OOP’s straw poll AMES, Iowa (AP) — Tele vision evangelist Pat Robertson gave his backers an emotional charge with a call for “moral strength” and won an easy victory in a straw poll of activists who gathered to listen to seven GOP presidential hopefuls. Robertson got a third of the votes in the straw poll Saturday at the state GOP’s “Cavalcade of Stars,” outdistancing Senate Re publican Leader Bob Dole and Vice President George Bush. For mer Secretary of State Alexander Haig was the only candidate who did not attend the state GOP’s “Cavalcade of Stars.” “I was surprised and I was im pressed,” said Iowa Republican Chairman Michael Mahaffey. “They (Robertson backers) were able to marshal their forces.” George Wittgraf, Bush’s Iowa campaign manager, said, “He is a serious candidate and this is an other indication of the serious ness of his candidacy.” Dole spokesman Steve Roberts added, “He (Robertson) got a lot / of respect tonight from the other candidates. He’s a force to be reckoned with.” Most polls have shown Bush and Dole locked in a close race in Iowa with the other candidates trailing far behind. While Bush leads in most national polls, Dole has built a strong organization in Iowa, which holds an important early test of the candidates’ ambi tions with its Feb. 8 precinct cau cuses. Robertson got 33.6 percent of the votes, compared to Dole’s 24.9 percent and Bush’s 22.4 per cent. Rep. Jack Kemp of New York was favored by 13.5 percent while former Delaware Gov. Pierre du Pont got support from 4.1 percent. Haig and little-known candi dates Ben Fernandez and Kate Heslop were under 1 percent. Roughly 4,200 ballots were cast, though GOP officials said 5,700 tickets were sold for the event. tease