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MONDAY, JUNE 4,1979 15 CENTS Pope attacks Polish Communists CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (API - Pope John Paul II came us to overcome the great moral threats against the fundamen- by time." he said earlier after celebrating Mass for a throng of to Poland's holiest shrine today, upbraided the Communist tal spheres of life and love " half a million in a field outside Gniezno. in western Poland. government for denying the late Pope Paul VI permission to the pope said that justice and peace can only be protected It was a direct challenge to Eastern Europe's Communist visit, and assailed what he called "the great moral threats" to through a respect "for the rights of peoples and of nations" and governments, telling them in effect that the faith of more than human rights. It was the second, time in two days he defied not be solved through "hatred, war and self-destruction." 50 million Roman Catholics in their countries was still strong Eastern Europe's Communist leaders. The pontiff, clad in glistening white robes and skull cap, despite official harassment and repression of their church. "He was the pope that did so much for the normalization of walked to a red-canopied platform looking out over a vast field When one man held up a banner in Czech saying, "Holy the life of the church in Poland, particularly with regard to the filled with the faithful as a choir sang hymns. Father, don't forget your children in Czechoslovakia," the pope present arrangement of the territories to the west and to the "Jasna Oora is. in fact, not only a place of pilgrimage for replied. "The pope can t forget about these children We can't north," John Paul II said of Paul VI, who sought twice to come Holes of the motherland and of the whole world but also the forget our brothers" to Poland but never received permission. nation's shrine. ' the pope told the thousands of Poles gathered Later, in his homily at the Gniezno cathedral, he identified "He was the pope of our millenium It was for the before him himself with all the Slavs of Eastern Europe and said he was millenium {of the Polish church in 1966) that he wanted to be "One must listen in this holy place in order to hear the speaking out on behalf "of those often forgotten nations and here as a pilgrim together with the sons and daughters of the beating of the heart of the nation in the heart of the mother." peoples." Polish nation." On Sunday the pope defied Eastern Europe's Communist In his outdoor address, the pope spoke at length of the On the third day of his historic pilgrimage to his Communist rulers and their long campaign to promote atheism and hailed importance of Polish culture and its close ties with Christian- homeland, the pontiff celebrated Mass at the Shrine of Mary at the Roman Catholics of the Soviet Bloc nations for preserving ity He said their culture had been decisive for the Poles the hilltop Jasna Gora Monastery, the symbol of Polish Catholi- their faith and unity throughout history, "more decisive even than material cism, and prayed: "Is it not Christ's will, is it not what the Holy Spirit power," and "from its beginnings. Polish culture bears very "Mother of the church, grant that the church may enjoy disposes, that this Polish pope, this Slav pope should at this clear Christian signs ' freedom and peace in fulfilling her saving mission and that to precise moment manifest the spiritual unity of Christian Eu- "It is still so today." he declared. "Christian inspiration this end she become mature with a new maturity of faith and rope?" the pontiff said as he celebrated Mass at the cathedral continues to be the chief source of the creativity of Polish inner unity. in Gniezno. Poland's first capital "I greet the Unity of Catho- artists Polish culture still flows with a broad stream of "Help us to overcome opposition asnd difficulties Help lics; I thank God that after 1.000 years it still lasts, untouched inspirations that have their source in the Gospel ' Pope John Paul II greets the faithful Gasoline Demonstrators sing, Public doubts there's real shortage march and go to jail NEW YORK (AP) - Americans say tion's top problems. they would cut back on driving significant- Seventy-four percent of the nation's Hundreds of anti-nuclear Limerick. Pa., after they On Saturday, as a prelude ly if the gasoline shortage were real, but drivers said they have experienced no dif- demonstrators marched, scaled a snow fence around the to Sunday's International Anti- they remain overwhelmingly convinced ficulties in getting gasoline in the past chanted and sang their way construction site of a Philadel- Nuclear Day. aproximately the shortage is just a profit-making ploy by month from nuclear power plant sites phia Electric nuclear power 30.000 persons participated in to jail during worldwide pro- plant. the oil companies, an Associated Press- Of those who have had trouble. 19 protests in 12 states, Canada, tests against atomic energy NBC News poll shows. percent reported being unable to find And consumer advocate the Netherlands and Japan This is not to say people are treating gasoline or spending time bunting for a The protests were general- Ralph Nader told a rally in The demonstrations were current energy problems as minor. In fact, station with a supply. Eleven percent said ly peaceful, but a woman was Boston "No country or civ- held three months after an ac- they now say energy concerns are just they have waited in line to fill up and 6 killed Sunday in Spain when a ilized society can tolerate a cident released a radioactive about as serious a national problem as the percent said they have been restricted in policeman fired his sub- form of energy so linked to cloud and shut down the Three rising cost of living. the amounts of gas they could buy at one machine gun into a crowd of potential disaster that an area Mile Island plant near Har- It's just that Americans are deeply station. anti-nuclear demonstrators thousands of square miles risburg, Pa. who started throwing rocks. suspicious of the major factors in the Asked what is the nation's top problem, could be rendered un- More than 600 persons were energy situation — the oil-producing coun- 32 percent named the cost of living, leav- One hundred demonstrat- inhabitable to future gener- arrested Sunday at a nuclear tries, the oil companies and the govern- ing it in the top spot it has held for many ors — many chanting "Two. ations." plant site near the Long Island ment.