European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Patch for science q. Haney d press we wanted something where we could actually participate actively ourselves says Karl. It was the most unpleasant one we could find because it was in the wet season in the Jungles of Panama with no housing or toilet facilities. But if we arc really As ardent As we think we Are. This would be he before sunup each morning Karl and his companions groped into the Jungle ravines by flashlight to hang up 15-ibot-Long mesh nets. Then once an hour they Ven tured Back out into the torrential Rains to identify weigh band and then free the captured Birds. It was very hard but very very pleasant and exhilarating says Karl who liked it Well enough to sign up for an Earth watch trip to Bermuda this fall to explore the Coral reefs. Or. Katherine Burnham 69, a retired psychologist from Peck skill n.y., has travelled the world As a tourist but she wanted to see the things that the bus Tours miss. So last year she went with an expedition to the Masai Mara game Reserve in Kenya to record the habits of the spotted Hyena. All night she sat in a truck watching and taking notes by Moonlight As the Mother animals Nur tured their had More Freedom to Sec what the area was really like at times when As a tourist you Are very carefully loaded and locked into one of the tourist she says and the doors arc closed to protect you from the animals and the animals from like Many Earth watch projects the Hyena study has been going on for several years. In Chile or. William Franklin of Iowa state University has been leading expeditions since 1973 to study guanacos a kind of Llama that roams the Andes. The animals Mark the boundaries of i hair Territo Ries with dung piles. For two years Earl match volunteers moved the heaps around to Sec if the guanacos would be confused about their domains. They weren t. Not All Earth watch projects arc quite this unsavoury though. When volunteers excavate roman artefacts in London this summer they will get two Breaks a Day for Tea and scones. Maybe i can become a the artful silence of Robert Drinan new York times All at the same instant Robert is what he is a technically skilled lawyer a congressman who can Fence a trap question and most of All a Jesuit who likes tomake an inquisitor squirm. Don t you have any better questions than that to ask me he wonders playfully doubling Back on a visitor s general curiosity about Church and slate trying to shift the Issue. The priest is sitting in shirtsleeves in the Capitol he has come to cherish his eyes seeking the initiative with a bitter Sweet gaze. Actually there arc wonderful questions to put to Drinan direct questions about the Pope and the congressman priest s forced retirement from politics. But Drinan has ruled them out having opted for the Priesthood Over the House of representatives in a situation created by the Vatican Drinan wants no part of the controversy surrounding his departure. He will go gently and he emphasizes hardly Back to his beloved Priesthood. We Don t go Back we Only go Forward he says most hell be right now is enigmatic speaking of the pain and Beauty of gathering with some constituent Well wishers Back Home in Massachusetts and quoting Dag Hammarskjold s diary Don t know what he Means half the time the priest says leafing through the late Diplomat s diary. Here he defines courage As the ability not to betray what is noblest in seems fascinated with Hammarskjold even As he pretends to turn him aside. Maybe i can become a Mystic like Hammarskjold he says his smile broaden aside from this current period of artful silence on what he really thinks happened to his political career Drinan seems satisfied with the Choice he made. The Choice was instantaneous and no Surprise according to friends like John Manilla. He was Drinan s first Campaign manager 10 years ago. When the priest became one of the few anti War activists to grow Broad roots in Multi Issue politics. This is tremendous loss to in country but his deep commitment to the Priesthood he a s been Clear says Manilla who recalled other gifted Jesu its quilling the order but never Bob some friends contend that the Vatican in re pm Pili find i that draws action from ideas. The Point is to live a cry for Justice and not just talk about it says sister Nancy Sylvester a lobbyist in Washington with network a Catholic group interested in social Justice legislation. We re in this historical real Ity and should get involved and his Community really did Call him Forth other friends offer Blunt speculation about the broader politics they suspect is behind the papal pressure. I have no doubt father Drinan s position in favor of committing abortion funds for the indigent was a big Factor in this says the Rev. Richard p. Mcbrien a professor at Boston College and chairman elect of the theology department at the University of notre Dame. The pro lifers politics Are right of Center and father Drinan has always been one of their targets Mcbrinn says adding that Drinan is a very significant Symbol especially with his medicaid abortion position encouraging roman catholics away from a monolithic position on the Issue. Drinan himself is silent on All this and beyond his playfully querulous dodging it is not Clear that he necessarily agrees with Mcbrinn s speculation. But Mcbrien says the speculation is inescapable for anyone who stud ies the politics of Church or slate. I think the Pope intended a Universal Impact he says but father Drinan was specifically in mind. That s Clear in the Liming of this order coming right before his deadline for filing for re election. They re not Drin in again b silent on ibis. He Tilky with some Pride of his congressional record on human right and social and criminal Justice and be is punning his final Seton months is i congressman in be he busiest. Bui he Don not Siy when is cd what is left for him to do. Don t of have any Good questions to ask he says smiling As he goes Forward not Buck with his Priesthood. 16. 1960 the stars and stripes Page 15
