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’ope condemns death penalty
luring visit to U.S. heartland
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Pope John
jl II brought his campaign against
aital punishment to a death-penal-
state in America’s heartland
sday, urg-
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protecting itself
thout definitive-
denying crimi-
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ring a Mass at the TYans World
me on the final day of his visit to
nericas.
“frenew the appeal I made most
enily at Christmas for a consen-
s to end the death penalty, which
)Oth cruel and unnecessary.”
The message may have had par-
lilar relevance in Missouri, where
ie state Supreme Court, without ex-
anation, postponed an execution
rat Ivas to have taken place while
Jpope was in town. Papal
okesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls
lied the delay “a mockery.” On
n.I3, a killer was executed by in-
tion in Missouri.
Addressing the largest crowd of
is30 hour visit to the United States,
is Ifth to the U.S. mainland, the
ope also lashed out against abor-
,on, euthanasia and assisted sui-
ide, and declared that “the dignity
if human life must never be taken
away, even in the case of someone
who has done great evil.”
He also invited Roman Catholics
separated from their faith to return
to the church, even if there are “ob
stacles to Eucharistic participation,”
a reference to divorce and remar
riage.
And he called on his flock to end
racism. Racism is “a plague which
your bishops have called one of the
most persistent and destructive evils
of the nation,” the stooped, 78-year-
old pontiff said, his voice hoarse and
his words slurred.
Later Wednesday, John Paul was
to meet with civil rights pioneer Rosa
Parks, the black seamstress whose
refusal to give up her seat on a seg
regated bus in 1955 led to the Mont
gomery, Ala., bus boycott.
The pontiff also was scheduled to
deliver an evening prayer service at
the Cathedral Basilica and meet with
Vice President Al Gore before leav
ing for Rome Wednesday night.
More than 100,000 people filled
the seats of the TYans World Dome
and a convention center adjacent to
the football stadium, where the
pope’s image was projected on giant
TV screens with running captions of
his homily. One thousand priests cel
ebrated Mass with the pope.
The faithful came for blessings,
cures or just a glimpse of the man
credited with hastening the fall of
Communism and lessening religious
restrictions in Cuba.
Ida Costa, a cancer-stricken 77-
year-old woman from Little Rock,
Ark., looked for a miracle cure from
the pope: “I’ll get the blessings God
wants to shower upon me in his
presence.”
Linda Mary DeLonais of Spring-
field, Ill., was a forest ranger when
she saw the pope in Denver in 1993.
“Part of the pope’s final blessing was
a prayer for vocations,” she recalled.
She since has become a nun.
The pope’s condemnation of the
death penalty brought mixed reac
tions from those at the Mass.
“I don’t know. I guess we’ve all
got a right to live, but I don’t know,
especially when they take someone
else’s life,” said William Walker of
Alton, Ill.
“As a Catholic, it’s easy to be
against abortion,” said Douglas Mar
shall of St. Louis. But as for sparing
the life of an evil person, “that’s the
thing. It all boils down to a matter of
forgiveness. Are you willing to for
give an evil person?”
The pope arrived in St. Louis
Thesday after five triumphant days
in Mexico. He met with President
Clinton and attended a youth rally
where he got rock-star treatment
from the crowd of 20,000. His mes
sage: that Americans should use
their freedoms responsibly and
strive for a higher moral standard.
“It was exciting for the pope to go
back and start his pilgrimage in Mex
ico, to close the gap between Mexi
co and the United States,” Rosalia
Vazquez, 21, said in St. Louis.
Ranchers support environmentalists’
fight against Air Force training missions
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Jation will fight plans by
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who lives on a ranch
about 40 miles north of
Roby. “Are you telling me
that after all these years of
quiet, this has to be the
year when it’s absolutely
necessary to have planes
start flying overhead? I’ve
heard those bomber
planes and they’re loud.”
The Air Force an
nounced plans last year to
inact a Realistic Bomber
Training Initiative, which
could have B-l and B-52
bombers flying sorties,
some as low as 300 feet, in
either West Texas or north
eastern New Mexico as
early as October 2001.
West Texas counties that
would be subject to the
training missions include;
Borden, Dawson, Fisher,
Garza, Kent, Lynn, Scurry
and Stonewall.
HERA has threatened a
lawsuit, hiring attorney
Frank Bond to lead litiga
tion, if the Air Force goes
through with the plan.
Bond successfully pre
vented such missions from
being flown over some ar
eas of New Mexico last
year. The HEPA represents
the interests of ranchers,
farmers and businessmen
in West Texas.
“Low-level bomber
training could cause seri
ous health effects and en
danger the livestock and
lives of the residences in
these eight West Texas
counties,” Bond said.
“This proposed Realistic
Bomber T-aining Initiative
would be disastrous for
the local economies caus
ing a decrease in land val
ue, loss of tax revenue for
schools, loss of livelihoods
and wipe out hunting leas
es. And we all know that
the military has a poor
record when it comes to
protecting the environ
ment.”
The Air Force said it
will consider such con
cerns as it prepares an en
vironmental impact state
ment that is required
before it can implement
the bomber initiative. The
final statement is due in
April 1999.
Air Force officials have
declined to comment on
environmental issues until
the impact statement is
finished, but Dyess
spokesman Maj. John
Boyle said flying the mis
sions in West Texas would
be more effective for train
ing.
“Now we have to fly to
Utah, do part of the train
ing, then fly somewhere
else to do other training,”
Boyle said.
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Gov. Bush: Republican party could
capitalize on my rising national profile
USTIN, Texas (AP) — Noting
Ahe attention he has drawn as an un-
ri • jj. ^declared presidential candidate, Re-
>pini A l p U bii ca n Gov. George W. Bush urged
Texas legislators to
use the national
spotlight to show
the nation how
limited, bipartisan
government solves
problems.
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— unlike a week
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said state House and Senate mem
bers could capitalize on his rising na
tional profile.
“I have been asked about it. You
have been asked about it. You didn’t
ask for it — but it is here anyway.
And we can either view it as a dis
traction, or seize it as an opportuni
ty to show the world what limited
and constructive government looks
like.”
Bush noted that the nation’s sec
ond-largest state, with the world’s
llth-largest economy, runs well with
a Legislature that meets only 140
days every other year.
He said Texas’ short lawmaking
period focuses the attention of all
participants because it “requires us
to put aside posturing and politics
and find common ground.
“We sometimes disagree, but we
do so agreeably,” he said.
The first Texas governor re-elect
ed to consecutive four-year terms.
Bush praised lawmakers for changes
enacted during his first term. The
state’s welfare rolls have been
trimmed by half, more than 340,000,
to the lowest level in a decade, he
said.
Bush, the son of former President
George W. Bush, is considered an
early front-runner for the 2000 GOP
nomination.
Other possible candidates are for
mer Vice President Dan Quayle, mil
lionaire businessman Steve Forbes,
former cabinet secretary Elizabeth
Dole, former Tennessee Gov. Lamar
Alexander and activist Gary Bauer.
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