European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 29, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 3 lutherans to gather in Catholic Church by Kosem any Sawyer staff writer More than boo american Luther ans Are expected to gather in Worms West German. Sunday for a Reform alien sunday service in the historic Catholic Cathedral where 467 years ago Martin Luther stood before emperor Charles v and refused to recant his beliefs. The Observance of protestant re formation Day is the first such service for the nearly 1,000-year-old St. Pc of s Cathedral where Luther delivered his now famous Here i stand i can do no other said the Rev. Alan rider chairman of the lutheran coordinating committee Europe. American lutherans have held a com Munion service on reformation week end in protestant sanctuaries in either Worms or nearby pc scr since 1962. This year s service in the Catholic Cathedral came about not As a break through in Catholic protestant relations bul because someone ventured la ask. With last year s service drawing about 750 americans from All Over Central Europe and signs that this year s crowd would be even larger service coordinators sought a Sanctuary Large enough to accommodate the crowd rider said. The Sites of pre Vious services the Trinity lutheran Church in Worms and the newer lutheran memorial Church in Speyer were Loo Small. When the Rev. Eckhart Wolff the Cathedral Provost was approached about having the service at St. Peters he agreed. They the lutherans said they wanted to connect with the roots of the reformation movement Wolff said. Reformation Day is no More a sign of protest bul More a remembrance of the roots and the sources from which they come. Therefore i agreed and will Greet them at the be ginning of the service la incr uttered his famous line on april 18, ij2i, in the Bishop s Palace a Wing of the Church that was destroyed by the French later that Cen Tury. In its place is Cash ural Park where a plaque Marks the spot Luther is believed to have stood before the emperor princes and Bishops of Ger Many during the diet of Worms. At the diet Luther who had been excommunicated by the Pope in Jan uary of hat year was Given a Chance to recant his writings which contradicted Catholic doctrines. After Luther spent a Day pondering the Deci Sion he old the Assembly he could not violate his conscience which was bound by the word of god. Luther s Defiance led to the edict of Worms in which the Assembly outlawed his writings. Wolff said he is hopeful that the service will increase Unity Between the churches but acknowledged that the Way is Steep and  when asked what he thought Luther would think of the lutheran service in the Cathedral Wolff said he thought it would please him. Rider agreed saying Luther never wanted to be lutheran. He was forced out of the roman Catholic Church. He always said nobody should be called lutheran but Christian after Jesus Christ. I think he would be pleased. But who knows it s a differ in Century christians observe reformation Day on oct. 31, the anniversary of the Day in 1517 that Luther posted his 93 theses on the door of a Church in Wittenberg now part of East Ger Many. The sunday preceding re formation Day is considered reformation sunday. After Wolff offers his greetings at the service the Rev. Guido Mark cons of san Antonio vice president of the lutheran Church Missouri Synod will deliver the Sermon. Choirs from Many lutheran churches will provide the music for the 3 . Service. The is. Peter s Dom was begun by Charlemagne and completed in 1018. The Cathedral is said to rank with the cathedrals of pc scr and Mainz As one of the finest romanesque churches on the Rhine River. Is. Peter s Cathedral in Worms will be the site of sunday s lutheran service. Charges won f be filed in police training incidents Boston a Massachusetts attorney general strongly criticized training practices at a regional police Academy Friday but said he planned no prosecutions for incidents in which 16 cadets were hospitalized following rigorous training. Attorney general James Shannon concluded that the incidents at the Academy at Agawam resulted from a massive failure in the method of training police  however Shannon added i have concluded based upon the facts now known to me and upon the Circum stances As they now stand that no criminal prosecution is appropriate in this  cadets at Agawam said they underwent 10 hours of push ups laps and other exercise on a few cups of water during their first Day of training in mid septem Ber. Several cadets reported Brown urine and abdominal pains during the week one Cadet collapsed from heat stroke on the first Day. One of the hospitalized cadets Timothy Shepard of pills Field became comatose and had to undergo a liver transplant in late september. He emerged from the coma two weeks after his collapse from heat stroke but remained in serious condition Friday at a Pitts Burgh Hospital. A slate Public health report concluded that All 50 cadets in class 12 suffered dehydration and muscle fiber breakdown from strenuous exercise coupled with insufficient water intake. Shannon said there is no criminal statute that fairly fits. The facts and conduct Here at Issue and that none of the instructors acted with the Ingeni Llinat any Cadet be seriously injured or  the attorney general s investigation was requested by North Adams mayor John Barrett Iii last month. The investigation was later widened to include a look into allegations of financial and hiring improprieties at the Massachusetts criminal Justice training Council which runs the state s five regional police academies including Agawam. At a statehouse news conference Shannon recommended the abolition of the criminal Justice training Council and a Complete revamping of training proce dures but he did not offer his own plan. Shannon one of 23 members of the training Council said he took responsibility for his own role in a Chain of command that ignored warnings of trouble. For example Shannon said there have been 12 ambulance Calls to the Agawam Academy in the past four years. That should have indicated a problem he said. Czechs break up rally with clubs water Cannon Prague Czechoslovakia a about  people defied authorities by rallying in historic Wenceslas Square on Friday then shouted Shari in and Gestapo at police w to cleared them with clubs and water Cannon. Powerful jews of water slashed indiscriminately into the crowd knocking some people Over and sending Oil tors fleeing Down Side streets. The state news Agency ctr said 87 people were arrested Western journalists saw police beating some of the demonstrators with clubs and plainclothes officers twisted the arms of others while leading them to police buses. Hundreds of police some with dogs on leashes swarmed through the Plaza 10 disperse the thousands of All Ages who assembled on the 70th anniversary of czechoslovak Independence to demand Reform and greater Freedom. Police fired tear Gas into a crowd of several Hundred people watching from the Steps of the National museum Over looking the Square which stretches for a of a mile in Central Prague. A Cloud of tear Gas billowed under a huge official poster on the museum pro claiming seventy Pearsall Power in the czechoslovak socialist Republic be Longs to the working  ctr said the disturbances Only involved about 2,000 people but said icy also spread to the nearby old town  Early evening police trucks had moved off win Ceslas Square into nearby Side streets. There was a heavy presence of uniformed police throughout the City Center. Friday s crowd defied a week of warn Ings from the communist authorities not to attend the rally called by the charter 77 human rights organization and four other Independent groups. The rally followed what dissident sources described As the most extensive roundups of dissidents in recent years in which at least 70 were detained. In Washington slate department spokesman Phyllis Oakley said the detentions show that Czechoslovakia has far to go to Bridge the chasm Between the current practices of the authorities and the democratic ideals upon which the country was  current party leaders Pui in Power by the Kremlin after 1968, have indicated they won t adopt the sweeping reforms Beins promoted in the soviet Union by president Mikhail s. Gorbachev