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Soviets gain new religious freedo
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet leg
islature formally ended decades of
religious repression on Wednesday,
passing a law on freedom of con
science at a time when Soviets are
flocking to churches in record num
bers.
“Our people suffered to get this
law,” said Mikhail Kulakov, a leader
of the Soviet Union’s Seventh Day
Adventists, who have been perse
cuted for evangelical activities.
The law forbids the government
from interfering with religious activ
ities, improves the legal status of reli
gious organizations and gives Soviet
citizens the right to study religion in
homes and in private schools.
The Soviet constitution has long
guaranteed freedom of worship, but
in the past the Communist Party’s
ideological opposition to religion as
Decades of repression end,
religious activity flourishes
the “opiate of the masses” made that
guarantee hollow.
In practice, the government dis
couraged religious services, closed
churches and synagogues, impris
oned religious leaders and preached
atheism.
“The most important thing for us
is not only that the law is passed, but
that it begins to work,” Adolph
Shayevich, Moscow’s chief rabbi
said.
Peter Reddaway, an expert on So
viet religion at George Washington
University in Washington, said in a
telephone interview “there is reason
for optimism the law will be re
spected.”
He noted that official tolerance
for religion has increased since Pres
ident Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to
power in 1985. Gorbachev’s mother
is a practicing member of the Rus
sian Orthodox Church, and last year
he acknowledged he was baptized as
a child.
“The authorities have been loos
ening restrictions for a couple of
years, and now they’re putting it in
writing,” Reddaway said.
He said Western experts estimate
that a quarter of the 285 million So
viet people practice religion,
number is rising fast.
Among signs of religious re I
are increasing numbers of sei
ans and the reopening of chin I
that were used as storehouses
rages and even factories.
Three years ago, Gorbachei; •*'»
talks with the head of the Rib J.J
Orthodox Church, the first 5
meeting in more than 40 yean I
December, he met Pope John Pan WA
at the Vatican. nt E
Bibles are no longer confiscats Si
Soviet borders, holiday churchsi e-yt
ices are shown on television andt ;rea
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On Sunday, a Divine Litun
held in the Kremlin’s Uspensl
thedral, the First full service ahlond
in Russia’s most importantcatheif
since 1918.
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Fitzwater: / would expect a downward impact
Bush pushes 5 million barrels of oil onto market
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claiming there was
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justification” for the
recent fun-up in oil and gasoline prices, an
nounced Wednesday that President Bush had
decided to sell 5 million barrels of crude oil
from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The decision to tap the nation’s oil reserve
was announced by White House spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater.
Fitzwater said the decision to put 5 million
barrels on the market was a “test” and the
president would take “additional steps to sta
bilize energy prices."
T he reserve contains 590 million barrels of
crude oil.
Fitzwater said Bush was taking the action to
head off “those who might seek profit by sub
verting the sanctions” against Iraq.
"There is sufficient oil to meet current
needs,” Fitzwater said. “Oil markets have sim
ply not taken into account additional produc
tion coming on stream.”
Industry experts have estimated that pro
duction in other countries has restored about
two-thirds of the 4.8 million daily barrels of oil
production removed from world markets by
Iraq’s takeover of Kuwait on Aug. 2 and the
world embargo against Iraqi-Kuwaiti oil.
Fitzwater quoted Bush as saying there was
“no justification for the intensive and unwar
ranted speculation in oil futures” that has
driven the price to about $39 a barrel in the
United States.
Fitzwater said this was the first time that the
oil reserves, which have been held in salt do
mes along the Texas and Louisiana coasts,
have been tapped for usage since they were
established in 1975.
He offered no estimate of how much prices
would decline as a result of the sales, but he
did say, “I would expect it would haveadown
ward impact."
"Should the oil situation deteriorate," Fin
water said, the president is “prepared to bring
additional oil on the market” from there
serve.
While insisting there is no oil shonageir
the United States “at this time,” Fitzwater said,
“this test is to make sure the system works.”
“Frankly, there is no way to justify” pricein-
creases that sent oil soaring from $24 a barrel
to $39 a barrel over the past week, he said.
“We need to make it clear that we do hate
oil available to put on the market,” Fitzwater
said.
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Vatican issues new rules for Catholic universities
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope
John Paul II issued rules for the
world’s Catholic universities Tues
day, a compromise document that
instructed schools to uphold official
doctrine but dropped proposals to
give bishops wide powers.
The long-awaited document
pleased many U.S. Catholic educa
tors, who had protested earlier
drafts that would have given bishops
a say in hiring and firing of theology
teachers. The final document as
signs bishops a watchdog role in pro
tecting the universities’ Catholic
identity.
American officials w'ere surprised,
however, by the pope’s stipulation
that a majority of a university’s tea
chers be Catholic — a decree Vatican
officials acknowledged will be diffi
cult to carry out in certain countries.
Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the
Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic
Education, said finding a Catholic-
majority faculty in nations like Japan
and Indonesia might be impossible.
“This should be considered a
principle, something that should be
put into effect as much as we can,”
he said.
The 49-page document, drawn up
over 10 years and issued in the form
of a constitution, upheld the right of
academic freedom and indepen
dence. But it also stressed that stu
dents and teachers, particularly
theologians, must not stray from of
ficial church teaching.
“All Catholic teachers are to be
faithful to, and all other teachers are
to respect, Catholic doctrine and
morals in their research and lei
ing,” it said.
American Catholic educators j
complained that earlier
threatened to undermine acadei
freedom and give the church T
archy too much control.
Sister Alice Gallin of Washinpl
D.C., executive director of the A|
ciation of Catholic Colleges andl
zersities, said she did not believe IH be
U.S. system would have tomakei
jor changes to comply with
church’s new policy.
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Hatchett said. He questi:
whether the Western forces!
hold up much longer in Sii
Arabia.
He also noted Saudi Arati;
not like Vietnam, where sol
could go to the cities forac
sion from the situation.
“There are no bar gir
Riyadh,” he said of Saudi Aral):
capital city.
Hatchett predicted Amerio (SUi
would grow tired of a standi The
and tell the government to eii
resolve the situation or bring' Tex
soldiers home.
“Americans’ initial response
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait) was uring
go over there and kick butt,'I y""
said.
But as the ordeal has gone]
he said the United States nasttj
ized it can’t do that yet. Alliiii
do is what it said its purpose |q' ur
being there was — to deter anr
tack on Saudi Arabia.
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ment officials — authorized]
not — suggest the situation will
handled by use of force.
Hatchett said the United S®!
has the fire power to I
people, but it doesn’t
troops necessary to push Hussl
out.
Hussein, however, hasi
clear the two sides either nej
tiate or go to war.
Hatchett said he favors i
United States’ face-saving
drawal and advocates
tions.
“(Negotiating) is not a
idea,” he said. But he said
press hasn’t entertained the id
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rah,” he said
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about the possibility <
‘The cost of war is too hot! ons
dous,” he said.
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world solve its problems on
own terms and not force Wes
democracy on it, he said,
would allow the Arab world
achieve the unity and self-esif ible,’
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