European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Terracotta trooper centuries old chinese Cavalryman and his saddled resurrecting the Empero by John Roderick associated press a pottery army is emerging from the ancient Earth at since the year 210 it has stood vigilant guard before the Tomb of chivas first unifying Chin Shih excavations have uncovered about of the life size Terra Cotta armed with real which Chin had created As an Imperial bodyguard to protect him from harm after peasant Well diggers came across the subterranean army in 1974 to the East of the still unopened grave of the emperor which is located in a Low Mound of this capital of Many chinese the spirit army is divided into three pits the main Force of another of on the flank and a Headquarters staff of the along with their horses and were placed in underground roofed Over with beams and the discovery after years of silent Vigil has been hailed As one of the Archeo logical events of the comparable to the opening of the Tomb of the egyptian in the it throws new and important Light on the physical appearance and military dispositions of the Brief but extraordinary Chin which lasted from 221 to 207 and it reflects a renewed interest in the arts and cultural an interest generally suppressed during the 196676 Rule of the communist party extremists when fanatic red guards of the cultural revolution destroyed Many religious and cultural the first clues to the pottery army appeared Between 1932 and when the figures of five kneeling servants were dug up near the emperors no one that such a huge underground army waited to be the first emperor was Only 38 when he conquered the last of the quarrelling states of China and brought them under his single he connected the various Walls built up to that time into the great which continues to As Tonish the modern he believed he had established a dynasty that would last a thousand it passed into history in four years after his death at the age of while he lived he thought in the same grandiose he conscripted an army of to build his it too has crumbled into but foundations that survive indicate it was of staggering the same army built his whose treasures can Otho Only be guessed chins Short Rule has fascinated chinese historians for the present Day communist rulers of China Are no the late party Mao identified himself with the first he and his followers found much in the legalist system of the Day which resembled but since his death in at the end of a period of chaos not unlike that of the last Days of the maos contribution to China has undergone a drastic reap Prai 20 centuries Down the corridors of the Lon dead Chin emperor also has been Cut Down to More human though the people at the top now reject the claims of both Chin and Mao to quasi divine they recognize their vital contributions to both ancient and modern chinese the pottery army they that China s greatness rests not on the feats of any single individual but on the collective efforts of workers and peas chinese they was the product of the skilled hands of Many unknown artisans and artists like those who turned out these thousands of despite the bad odor into which the Chin emperor has the present leadership is treating the pottery army As a discovery of National and it has erected an enormous Structure the size of two football Fields Over the main creating a museum of work in the spirit legions were in a vast under ground chamber roofed Over with beams and paved with it was covered by a layer of built four years before the death of the it is believed to have been destroyed by fire four years charred beams Point to this most of the Clay figures were crushed when the roof but Many withstood the weight of time and and stand proudly their eyes firmly fixed in the on the Alert for a possible archaeologists who unearthed the first figures were struck by the eerie impression they made As they thrust upward from the ground like men resurrected for a final accounting to the excavations indicate that the soldiers of the main Force were lined up facing eastward in three ranks of 70 each As a Vanguard with 38 columns behind infantry and bowmen alternated with chariots and they were flanked on either Side and at the rear by a team of lookouts facing South and this was the disposition of chins army in his teams of students and peasants Are undertaking the meticulous and painstaking Job of removing the salvaging the cleaning them and reassembling much of the work is by hand in a process so demanding that tooth brushes and air sprays Are essential As you enter the museum Ordinary visitors Are admitted to galleries along four sides the first rank of pits with about a thousand figures strikes the As the ranks recede into the distance there Are fewer visible though most of the dig has yet to be the estimate of soldiers in this pit is based on the comparative density of those already the figures in the on the flanks and in the rear Are taller than the rank and wearing putters archaeologists uncovering part of an army of men and horses buried 210 and armoured hair pulled Back in a Bun and bows and arrows in they clearly Are the no two look some Are others Wear beards or their expressions vary As some others Many looking straight Clear eyed and pit with its or so was found about 65 feet above pit 1 and is made up chiefly of chariots and the striking Force of the discovered in it has a Vanguard of infantrymen and a Center of kneeling pit the Headquarters is North of the West Ern part of pit 1 and has slightly More than 60 a fourth pit is each of the thousands of figures is an original work of not produced from though their variety of facial expression and weaponry Are the legs and bodies seem More tubular than this is not True of the which Are gracefully nor of men in kneeling the faces Are startlingly sharply defined and expressively in some of the soldiers the tilt of the or the gestures of the arms and reflects strength and All the figures were painted in Bright col some of which survived the centuries of the armory of weapons found on the pieces would alone be the Pride and Joy of any they include Bent Dagger axes and other implements of Many of them Are in mint itself an Aston Ishing thing for Metal years old and buried in the one Bronze sword still is Sharp and tests show it has the hardness of medium evidence of the advanced skill in metallurgy of the Chin Bronze arrowheads testify to the existence of bows and arrows whose Wood has Long ago deteriorated into though the emperors Tomb has yet to be sex the ancient historian Sima Qian has left us a description of its to make the burial he workmen dam med three underground Rivers with Bronze and installed Cross bows set to Loose their arrows the moment anyone the Yangtze and yellow Rivers and the Pacific Ocean were reproduced in miniature with Quick Silver and made to flow flickering shadows were thrown by whale Oil lamps on the roof grass and Trees were planted to deceive the casual the mausoleum itself has a Wall four Miles the emperor built a Highway Between the mausoleum and the Chin ancestral Temple 30 Miles the on Texas size of two football Fields harbours excavations of ancient pottery Page 14 the stars and stripes by Lee Kelly Cox news service the moral majority is marching on Texas from the Panhandle to the its leaders Are organizing committees through out the state and starting to Monitor Bills profiled for the upcoming 67th of the states 24 congressional seven a partially organized under the groups pro family and pro Godlove Samerica the other 17 Are expected to have chairmen and 10 member committees by the tentative Date for a statewide meeting in said Fred state director of the moral majority of Texas state Headquarters Are in the moral founded in 1979 by Tele vision evangelist Jerry Falwell of belongs to the confederation of so called new groups that claim credit for ousting a num Ber of prominent liberals in the 4 about ministers and four million laymen throughout the United states Are on moral majority mailing spokesmen moral majority was introduced in Texas in when Falwell hosted a luncheon at an Austin hotel at tended by More than 70 pastors throughout the but it Only really got going in Texas in said the 54yearold who became state director were kind of like in an exhibition game prior to the regular we want to get go fearing people be Hind what they agree or disagree were not trying to put our nose in other Peoples business but to inform people on moral his Job is to organize like minded individuals who support mandatory prayer in Public schools and a Strong military and oppose pornography and other issues that erode the values of he starting in Spring Mason plans to publish a monthly statewide newspaper or newsletter promoting moral majority to chairmen have been appointed and commit tees Are being organized in the fort san Rio Grande Valley and Austin chairman for the Austin area equivalent to the lot congressional District is the Bill pastor of the Independent South Austin Baptist Mason also is earmarking Bills in the Texas legislature that promote or oppose the groups principles and will use his communication network to try to ensure their passage or he will accomplish he by telephoning District who in turn will Alert that districts 10 member who will notify individuals to bom Bard their representatives and senators with Telephone letters and so Mason said he has made Only a cursory Survey of the Bills profiled for the session starting but one Bill introduced by Republican Walter Mengden of calling for a period of silent prayer or medi tation in Public is sure to get moral majority masons Only objection to the Bill i that it in t Strong he moral majority backs reentry of voluntary prayer in Public schools said not Mason the group does not support the recitation of a pre scribed prayer in the classroom and possibly a prayer that might offend a particular denominations beliefs but wants schools to set aside the time to allow each group to say its own prayer i believe buddhists should be Able to Pray in or atheists or catholics or jews or anybody Mason a retired army major who moved to Texas three years worked As a Volunteer in 1972 to help elect Jesse who has sponsored  Bills and amendments in to Mason moral majority has not taken official positions on some controversial issues expected to come before the such As wiretapping and nuclear waste Mason commented on some other controversial subjects v budgets Are like we should All live within our v the Constitution of the United states Doest say women have the right to abort a somebody interprets All this and we dont interpret it that but it is a Law of the we oppose it As a Law but Well conform with we support open government and open we believe people have the right to know except in areas that Are detrimental tour country we  give we sympathize with the fact that homosexuals Are sick and need to straighten up their we oppose the sin of homosexuality but we dont oppose the but we Are not going to support any legislation that gives a special class special the individual has the same recourse to the courts to seek redress if fired because of sexual orientation As anyone january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 15