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WORLD & NATION
12
Friday, October 13,1989
Bishops urge teaching chastitj
better than ‘illusion’ of safe sex
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catho
lic Church should drop its qualified support for
teaching about condoms in public schools as a
way of preventing AIDS, and should urge that
youngsters be taught chastity instead, a commit
tee of bishops said Thursday.
“There is no such thing as safe, or safer, sex.
That’s an illusion,” said Archbishop Roger Ma-
hony of Los Angeles, chairman of the Ad Hoc
Committee on the HIV Statement. HIV is the vi
rus that causes AIDS.
The committee’s draft statement revises an
earlier document released by the church’s 50-
member Administrative Board in December
1987, which said the church could tolerate public
schools’ providing information about condoms as
long as sexual abstinence outside of marriage was
presented as the “only morally correct and medi
cally sure way” to prevent AIDS.
The board’s document was criticized by some
conservative U.S. bishops who said it would be
misinterpreted as condoning sex outside mar
riage and artificial birth control. Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith, also chastised the ad
ministrative board for not consulting with the
Vatican.
In spring 1988, the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops decided to draw up a new
statement.
The revised statement — “Called to Compas
sion: A Response to the HI V-AIDS Crisis” — will
be presented to the conference at its fall meeting
Nov. 6-9 in Baltimore. The committee drafting
the statement was made up of Mahony, Cardinal
>h L. Bernardin of Chicago, Cardinal Ber-
F. Law of Boston, Archbishop William H.
Keeler of Baltimore and Bishop RaymodW.!*
sard of Savannah, Ga.
The wide-ranging statement also opposesuj
versal mandatory AIDS testing, calls forincra
ing federal funds for AIDS research, and i
nounces violence and discrimination agai;
AIDS victims as immoral.
“We are called to be a people of compassit
after the teachings of Jesus,” Mahony said.
Where the new statement differs fromtheet
Her document, titled “The Many Faces of AIDj
A Gospel Response,” is mainly in its standr
condom education in public schools, and
larger sense the role of Catholic bishops in pute
policy debates.
The first document approached condomedi
cation as the lesser of two evils in reducing ti;
risk of AIDS in students who are unlikely tort
main chaste.
Pre-flight crack discovered in disk
Size, nature of DC-10 engine disk fault remain undetermined
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal
safety investigators said Thursday
they had found a pre-flight crack in
the DC-10 engine disk recovered
from an Iowa corn field nearly three
months after the crash of United
Flight 232.
James Kolstad, acting chairman of
the National Transportation Safety
Board, said the precise “size, nature
and reason for the crack” were not
yet determined.
But he said investigators are
hopeful further examination of the
engine part will lead to a cause of the
July 19 crash that killed 112 of 296
people aboard as the plane was land
ing at the Sioux City, Iowa, airport.
“There has been no determin
ation on whether this crack was de
tectable before the accident, nor has
there been a determination whether
this crack is the point of origin of en-
After nearly three months of intensive searching .. .
we are hopeful this engine part will lead us to the
cause of the failure, so that we can ensure that an
accident such as this never happens again.”
— James Kolstad,
Acting chairman of the National Transportation
Safety Board
gine failure,” board spokesman Ted
Lopatkiewicz said.
However, he and Kolstad said
preliminary evidence indicates the
crack existed prior to the flight.
ngi
disintegrated in flight, severing hy
draulic lines and making the plane
almost impossible to steer. The craft
cartwheeled out of control as the pi
lots were trying to make an emer
gency landing.
The farmer who found the engine
part, Janice Sorenson, said Thurs
day engine builder General Electric
will pay her a reward of more than
$100,000.
Sorenson found the piece while
harvesting corn Tuesday with a com
bine near Alta, Iowa. GE had of
fered a $50,000 reward for the tita
nium fan disk from the rear
of the United Airlines jetliner ai(
several thousand dollars morel)
other parts attached to the disk,ii-
eluding fan blades, which were:
eluded in her discovery.
“After nearly three monthsofis
tensive searching ... we arehopet
this engine part will lead ustoti
cause of the failure, so that wee
ensure that an accident such as tij
never happens again,” Kolstad sa
in a telephone interview.
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He said the first examination
the engine part indicated a crack
the surface (that) emanates belli:
ially fore and aft and radially tom
the rim” of the disk.
The crack appears on the inter'
surface of the disk and does notpe:
etrate all the way through, investigi
tors said.
Appeals court frees man convicted
of killing Swedish Prime Minister
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — An appeals court on
Thursday freed a 42-year-oid career criminal convicted
of killing Prime Minister Olof Palme, ruling there
wasn’t enough evidence to blame him for the crime that
traumatized Sweden.
Prosecutors could appeal the court’s ruling to the Su
preme Court. But it would likely hear the appeal only if
it would be the basis of a legal precedent or if it were
considered a special case.
Christer Pettersson, who maintained his innocence
throughout his sensational trial, walked away from Kro-
noberg prison hours after the Svea Appeals Court
threw out his July conviction.
Prosecutor Joergen Almblad said the prosecution
would not decide whether to go to the Supreme Court
until the appeals court issues its formal written verdict,
which is due Nov. 2.
Prosecutors had charged that Pettersson, who has a
long criminal record and a history of drug and alcohol
abuse, gunned down the popular and dynamic Swedish
leader on a Stockholm street in 1986.
Pettersson had been sentenced to life in prison and
had been in solitary confinement since his arrest in De
cember.
Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson vowed to press
ahead with the hunt for Palme’s killer.
“I’m surprised,” Pettersson said following his release,
the national news agency TT said. “I never really be
lieved I would be acquitted, although I am innocent.”
T hursday’s ruling could dash any hopes authorities
have of bringing Palme’s killer to justice. It is the big
gest setback in a three-year investigation that critics
have said was bungled from the beginning.
Though it delayed releasing details of its decision un
til Nov. 2, the appeals court apparently found the pros
ecution’s circumstantial case too thin. Pettersson was
convicted even though no motive was established, no
weapon was found and no witnesses testified to seeing
the Swede fire five shots at Palme.
“Our present judgment is that the investigation into
ifficien
the case is insufficient for a conviction, which means
that Pettersson must be released immediately,” appeals
court president Birgitta Blom said.
The appe
shadowed by the July conviction. Although six lay ju
rors found him guilty, the two professional judges on
the eight-member panel voted for acquittal.
Palme, a four-term prime minister and prominent
international figure active in socialist causes and nu
clear disarmament, was shot from behind at close range
on Feb. 28, 1986, as he walked home from a late movie
in downtown Stockholm with his wife, Lisbeth.
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BERN, Switzerland (AP) — A
Swiss woman was kidnapped in
northern Lebanon Sunday, two days
after the abduction of two Swiss Red
Cross workers, the Foreign Ministry
said Thursday.
Ministry spokesman Clemens Bir-
rer said the part-time flight atten
dant was kidnapped by armed civil-
ians during a visit to the
Mediterranean port of Tripoli.
The woman’s name and age were
withheld at the request of her par
ents, Birrer said.
Her disappearance brings to 19
the number of Westerners missing
in Lebanon, including eight Ameri
cans. Most are believed captives of
Shiite Moslems loyal to Iran.
Birrer said the woman’s parents
asked authorities not to publicize the
case, but he confirmed the kidnap
ping after being asked to comment
on unattributed news reports.
Switzerland requested help from
Syria because Syrian troops control
much of northern Lebanon, he
added.
Last Friday, two Swiss Interna
tional Red Cross workers, Elio Erri-
quez and Emmanual Christen, were
abducted in southern Lebanon.
There have been no demands and
no claims of responsibility in the kid
nappings so far, and Birrer said
Swiss officials did not assume the
woman’s abduction was connected to
the most recent kidnappings.
Lebanese police said Monday that
Erriquez and Christen are being
held by radical Palestinian guerrillas
led by terrorist mastermind Abu Ni-
dal, whose group denied taking part.
PLO spokesmen last week accused
fidal’s
Abu Nidal’s group of the kidnap
pings, linking them to a Shiite Mos
lem militant, Mohammed Hariri,
who is serving a life sentence in Swit
zerland for hijacking an Air Afrique
jetliner in 1987 and killing a French
passenger.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-
Delta Airlines jet en route from
Dallas to Colorado Springs, Colo
made an emergency landing
Will Rogers World Airpoi
Thursday afternoon due to
bomb threat, the FBI said.
No bomb was found after at
hour-long search by the
homa City police bomb squad,ait
port spokesman Tom Mortoi
said.
“The bomb squads are [
away from the aircraft no#
Morton said.
The aircraft, a Boeing 737,«
taxied about 1,700 yards awa'
from the main terminal, whetf
the 97 passengers and five ere
members of Flight 846 evacuate
the plane using emergent'
chutes, Morton said.
There were no reports ofinji
ries.
The
jers were taken
passeng
the airport’s fire station, when
Longest-held of the Western hos
tages is Terry Anderson, chief Mid
dle East correspondent for the Asso
ciated Press, who was kidnapped
March 16, 1985.
the FBI and Oklahoma City
lice interviewed them.
Delta spokesman Neil Monr«
in Atlanta said the passenge:
would be allowed to reboard il*
aircraft, which was expected
take off at 8 p.m. CDT.
“These things do occur free
time to time because there an
people who, for some reason,:
these kinds of things,” he said
Morton said the airport's
traffic control tower notified a:
port security of the unschedulf ;
landing.
FBI spokesman Dan Vogel si
the bomb threat was called
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ment. He said the jet was otf
Ardmore in southern Oklahor
at the time and the decision#
made to land at Will Rogers.
Morton said the bomb thrf-
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threats were made against Dd
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