European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes february Pope pleads with Marcos not to curtail human rights Manila a Pope John Paul ii told president Ferdinand Marcos tues Day that violation of human rights cannot be justified even in exceptional roman Catholic Church officials said the statement was the strongest pronouncement by John Paul to Date on the question of human in a fact Tobacc meeting at the Malaca Nang presidential Palace on the first Day of his six Day visit to the the Pope said Basic rights cannot be curtailed even for legitimate concern for the Security of a As demanded by the common social organization exists Only for the service of Man and for the Protection of his and it cannot claim to serve the common Good when human rights Are not the Pope told who has ruled the Philippines for 16 the last eight under martial Law which was lifted Only last in an apparent reference to the ending of martial Law and the announced plan to hold presidential elections in the Pope said recent initiatives that arc worthy of Praise augur Well for the future since they Manifest Confidence in the capacity of the people to assume their rightful share of responsibility in building a society that strives for peace and Justice and protects All human John Paul said the the Only roman Catholic nation in has a Spe Cial obligation to Bear witness to the values of its Christian culture before the from the the Pope went to the residence of the Vatican diplomatic repro where he is there a Young woman relative of a political prisoner surged through the crowd and reached Over the Heads of Security officers to hand the pontiff a it informed John Paul that 28 political detainees Are on a hunger strike to protest what they claimed was their in just continued detention despite the lifting of martial a religious group working to free Politi Cal prisoners claimed last saturday that the number of political prisoners still in jail has reached with at least two dozen on hunger strikes since martial Law was the Pope was welcomed to the Philippines by some million cheering people in route from the Airport to Manila Cathe where he told an Assembly of Bishops and the Church must indeed be attentive to the needs of the men and worn Central Europe forecast for wednesday mostly Cloudy to Cloudy skies with a Chance Tor Light Snow or Snow Plohs 33 39 lows 22 to Sunset wednesday Sunrise thursday Outlook Lor thursday Little temperatures slightly temperatures recorded tuesday 4am 4pm Fig f f m in of our she cannot be indifferent to the problems which they face or to the in justices they the Pope told the priests they have Assur ances of Nis prayers and encouragement As they seek new ways of furthering the gos Pel and promoting human then quoting from a speech he made in Mexico in january he said you Are priests and you Are not social or political leaders or officials of a temporal it was basically the same position the Pope has taken in Nis previous trips to latin America and Church workers have been in the forefront of the protests against Marcos authoritarian last nuns and seminarians led More than Young peo ple in an antigovernment hundreds of Church Bells pealed a Wel come As the Popes plane landed at Manila International an Airport crowd Esti mated at applauded As he left the plane and kissed philippine his and Cardinal Jaime sin of Manila headed the welcomes As the Pope began the 12day asian tour that will also take him to Guam and plus a Brief Stop on the Way Home at Ancho borrowing the words uttered by Pope Paul i during his 1970 visit to John Paul told the Airport crowd his journey was intended to show his respect and esteem for the whole of nearly plainclothes men directed by 32 generals guarded the Airport where a deranged bolivian Painter lunged at Pope Paul and stabbed him slightly when he visited Manila in As soon As John Paul stepped off his a italia dc10 jumbo he was surrounded by a Wall of Security three units of swat teams stood about 100 Yards More than jubilant filipinos lined the simile route from the Airport into the standing 10 or More deep to cheer the Pon Tiff As he Rode by on a Flower bedecked along the he passed a spectacular display of philippine ranging from a neighbourhood fiesta to children climbing greased arranged by the in route to the Pope stopped for three hours monday night in Paki where the Start of his first papal visit to Asia was marred by the explosion of a homemade grenade at a soccer stadium 15 minutes before he arrived to celebrate mass for a crowd of the explosion killed the Man who was bringing the grenade into the police and injured three other including a plainclothes Church officials said the Pope was not told of the incident before his appearance in the Staci Haig urges military Aid increase for Salvador Junta m Fig m m p u 46 34 38 37 43 34 43 30 34 30 34 34 36 f p m 4am 4pm 32 36 34 43 30 23 30 32 30 48 30 41 48 34 a mostly Cloudy Pearlly Cloudy 7th weather continued from Page i for the revolution and the with leftist of the government of Al Salva Percy Percy said that the soviet Union is indirectly involved in the arms shipments reaching communist countries unlike the United they do not put any restrictions on arms they provide to third theres no question about it in my Percy Percy said the time has come to to draw the line on communist intervention in the Western Jim the House democratic predicted bipartisan support for arms shipments to Al saying that the Region is of vital importance to the Security of the United Percy noted that american Church groups continue to be deeply troubled by the december murders in Al Salvador of four american official sources say the Fri has turned up evidence that Al Salvador Security forces May be implicated in the Percy said those deaths Are not being for gotten in the Rush to Aid the existing govern we will urge on the government of Al Salvador the necessity of carrying out a full he the Reagan administration is using Al where More than people have been killed in civil strife in 14 As a test of its Contention that the soviets Are supporting terrorism around the to rally support against what it says is soviet bloc military Aid for the the Reagan administration has sent an american diplomatic team to a former soviet ally that broke with Moscow under the late president Josip Broz five malaysians lose Appeal of death sentence Kuala Malaysia a five men sentenced to death for possessing firearms and ammunition under Malaysia Tough gun control Laws lost their appeals in Federal no execution Date has been since the internal Security and firearms act was passed in about 20 people have been the Law was intended to fight communist guerrilla activities and armed Navy gets of Rich on rules enforcement continued from Page i the head of the Atlantic Fleet train ing command rear Clinton who commands seven training Cen banned civilian clothes for the Young sailors in Navy apprentice he or dered Complete with a Navy held each Friday at the Norfolk naval Sta officers and enlisted men Are being told to follow haircut alcohol has been banned from All berthing spaces that House students and saluting of officers is being rear Joseph commander of the Norfolk naval base and the entire Norfolk military recently disciplined an officer who saluted him while remaining seated at a bus one hand still in his a Navy Captain was chastised because his insignia was worn improperly and his hair was too an enlisted Man wearing clothes More properly suited to a disco dance was ordered off the Frick was quoted in a base publication recently As personal performance and professionalism Are the attributes of any firs class Organiza he said he want looking for excessively Short id be delighted if everyone would just adhere to existing Frick Taylor said dress codes that have existed for years in the Navy Haven been enforced lately by the senior enlisted men and offi cers people Are beginning to wonder what has happened to the clearcut american he Navy cuffed continued from Page 1 train has been provided Only enough amphibious ships to lift a portion of my total Gordon chair Man of the said tuesdays hearing would be the first in a series on operational readiness of the armed there is no nor should there that the United states military forces can and will if need Humphrey the Public should and deserves to what measures must be taken to reduce risk in to in crease our ability to and thus to assure Protection of our vital interests and those or our Davis told the subcommittee that the United states has a three Ocean commit ment with far less than a two Ocean he said his Fleet is stretched to the limit merely to carry out its peacetime Obliga i simply must have additional experienced Petty officers to keep combat he train testified in recent the options available to our political leadership in the employment of military capability in support of political action have narrowed today i Lack the forces to simultaneously execute All our in response to train and Davis said the Fleet had lost this capacity in the Early 1970s and has not regained train said the Navy would need four air Craft carriers in the North Atlantic in the event of but has Only three available As things now of the seven carriers assigned to the at lactic he two Are in one is assigned to the Mediterranean and one is deployed to the Indian adequate forces fully combat ready to form the minimum number of Carrier Battle groups required for norwegian sea operations Are not available without a draw Down the Atlantic commander German police arrest leftists in Kaiserslautern Germany up police in three West German states tuesday swooped into extreme leftist haunts and made several authorities a spokesman for the Federal prosecutors office in Karlsruhe said the coordinated police action took place tuesday morning and was concentrated around the Southwest German town of eight members of the group were arrested following a bomb blast in spokesmen in Karlsruhe refused to con firm or deny reports saying police in Kai Berlin and the Central German state of Hessen made 10 arrests and searched 19 houses or other leftist haunts in their three of those arrested were reported facing charges for membership of a Crimi Nal group and support of terrorist Russ aviation official Dies Moscow up aviation Industry minister Vasiliy Kazakov died after a Seri Ous the Tass news Agency he was Kazakov was named to head the ministry on june after beginning his career As a craftsman at age 16 in a Moscow electrical