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Show 'hr centuries, both ill the1 mission of the church and in the hearts of his followers For without the story of Easter there would be no sanction for Christianity Christians Worldwide Rejoice At Basic Message of Easter By Bruce Buursma Chicago Tribune Writer It is the day of faith, the season of rekindled hope and light for millions of spiritual pilgrims. In Christian churches throughout the world Sunday, in countless tongues, the re frain rings out: "Christ is risen' Christ is risen indeed! The Easter story, now nearly 2,000 ears old and forever buffeted by the cynics, remains the central enduring theme of the Christian religion at once That Jesus of Nazareth If Christ U not risen." wrote St Paul in his first letter to the church at Corinth, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain " The account of the Resurrection, although no one witnessed the event itself, is recorded in all four of the New Testament gospels And it is a story, with a few minor exceptions, remarkably similar in detail in each true man and true God was martyred on a cross to redeem the world ... and was resurrected from the grave to bring a new and profound meaning to his life and to others It is a message that has survived of the narratives Whatever other differences there leal lain ..till the church and faith may lie. one thing j.-- certain, no'es Merrill Tenney, a professor of graduate theological studies at Wheaton College, an evangelical school in Wheaton, 111 "The t 'mb was empty ; there was no body there Jesus did what he said he would do " There is, however, marked dis agreement among biblical scholars over the nature of the resurrection, and its implications for those who embrace the Christian faith Some theologians regard the story as absolute historical fact, that Jesus's hody was restored and transformed by a simple act of God Others consider the resurrection an allegor- I r .... fact or potent svm fiiblic.il scholar s w ouM do the place of the Kcsui r ctioi: as tfn key element that establishes order and hoH in Christian life ct, whi-Mie- 1vol. few "The resurrection is the promise life," says Wheaton s Tenney And not only lift in the future, fmt new life here and now It means that, as a ( hristian, death holds no terror for me It is simply a tranution to and a hotter one " another world of See Page Column 1 ha Salt Lake City, Utah Sunday Morning Vol. 223, No. 5 Hailed By Pope Mass Poland Asks Talks Willi Union Group Ushers In Easter - VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II, shedding purple robes for mourning and donning joyful vestments of white and gold, celebrated the resurrection of Jesus in a candle-li- t midnight Mass ushering in Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian year. A drizzling rain gave way to clear skies and stars shone down on St. Peters Square as the Easter Vigil service ended. Divine Grace Symbol In the splendor of St. Peters Basilica, the pope lit a long white candle and blessed the new fire, a symbol of divine grace, at the start of the three-hou- r service. John Paul led a procession of cardinals and bishops through the darkened basilica. He paused to light the smaller candles of others in the procession, who in turn helped light the candles held by 12,000 faithful in the congregation. The hour of the victory of Christ over death is the greatest hour in his history, the pope said in a homily in Italian. Lumen Cristo, the deacon said in Christ the light of the world" .Iatin and floodlights were turned on in the nave of the church, the largest in Christendom. Gregorian chants echoed through the basilica. The smell of melting wax filled the air. When the choir burst into the joyful bell of strains of the Gloria, the n St. Peters began to ring, proclaiming Christs resurrection. The bells in Romes 500 churches, silent since Holy Thursday, chimed in soon after. The pope baptized and gave First Communion to 20 people ranging in age from 8 to 52. Tens of thousands of tourists and faithful are in Rome for the climax of Holy Week prayers, services and processions. Tour buses jammed the streets as the faithful gathered for the service at St. Peters Basilica, the largest church in Christendom. Special Easter Program The Vatican radio broadcast a special Easter program on the plight of the survivors of the Nov. 23 earthquake in southern Italy. In many of the ruined villages in the mountains east of Naples, the faithful went to Good Friday services outside, near the rubble of destroyed churches. Hundreds of young people in the province of Potenza marched seven miles Saturday from the town of Bella to Muro Lucano, where a cathedral collapsed during the quake, the report said. Since the quake, which killed more than 2,700 people, villagers have been conducting church services in tents, in metal huts or in the open air. On Easter morning, the Polish-bopope will conduct an open air Mass in St. Peters Square and deliver the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing, To the City of Rome and the World. The Mass and the blessing will be broadcast live on television in 28 countries in Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Far East. Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-- 2 Page Amusement Arts Business Classified Com. Carrier Editorials Foreign Page Lifestyle National 5 Obituaries 14 Regional A-- ll Sports H-- 2 2 Star Gazer Washington AND MORE . , . Additional national and international news in G section; color comics; Home and Parade magazines; TV Week; J.C. Penney section section; ZCMI and Erast Home Center section. 19, 1981 Frice Seventy - Five Cents Trade Accord Stirs Soviet Disapproval Holy Day Three-Ho- ur April By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Writer The Polish Poland government Saturday proposed substantive new talks with the independent Solidarity trade union federation. A detailed agenda proposed by the government for the talks was published in all Warsaw newspapers as Poles Easter holiday began a three-dabreak. The initiative marks a significant new attempt to involve Solidarity in tackling the countrys economic and polititical crisis. The government proposal covered most outstanding problems, from chronic food shortages to the unions access to the news media, but highlighted Polands desperate economic plight. The most significant problem now is how to stop the deterioration of the economic situation and ensure proper living standards for the people, it said. No date was set for the talks. But it is believed they may begin following a session of the Communist Party Central Committee next weekend. The session is also likely to set the date for a party congress and consider changes in the Politburo. WARSAW, y Rank-and-fil- Associated Press Laserphoto Chirping Eggs WASHINGTON Kirsten Davidson holds a chirping egg she found in an Easter egg hunt for the blind here Saturday. Pioneers of The Telephone America inven- - ted the special e Communist Party members have demanded the removal politi-nian- s from the Politburo of hard-lin- e whom they consider as obstacles to reform. The leadership is, however, anxious to avoid the appearance of disunity at the top at a time when the Kremlin is deeply disturbed at the trend of events in Poland. The Easter weekend provided a welcome break for Poles, 90 percent of egg so the blind children can also participate in the traditional event. Each egg that the children found could be turned in for prize money. See Page 2, Column 5 Throngs of Christian Pilgrims Gather T o Celebrate Christs Resurrection By Arthur Max Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Christian faithful celebrate Christs resurrection at the cave revered as his tomb Easter Sunday, capping a colorful Holy Week of devotions for the tens of thousands who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Monsignor Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti, celebrates a Pontifical High Mass at sunrise after a procession from the patriarchate to the centuries-ol- d Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the heart of Jerusalems Old City. Rich Religious Awakening The Holy Week pilgrimage, beginning last week with a Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City gates, has been a rich religious awakening for some. I feel I can die now. Ive seen everything. Im satisfied, said Virginia Barger of New York City, one of an estimated 20,000 pilgrims who walked the Via Dolorosa, the Way of the Cross, on Good Friday. I did nothing but shed tears as long as Ive been here just picturing what our Lord went through, what he suffered and how they crucified him with all the blood running down his face from the thorns, Mrs. Barger said in a quavering voice. Protestants, who cannot conduct their own services in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre because of a arrangement sharing the massive structure among the Latin and Eastern Orthodox churches, celebrate Easter Sunday outside the walls of the Old City at the Garden Tomb. Some Protestants believe the hill under the Garden Tomb is the original Calvary where Christ was nailed to the cross. But most scholars accept as authentic the traditional site of Golgotha under the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, identified in 325 A.D. by the Roman Empress Helena. Eastern churches celebrate Palm Sunday as the Catholic Church concludes its Holy Week, and Jews mark the first day of the eight-da- y Passover holiday remembering the Exodus from Egypt by the ancient Israelites and symbolizing Jewish freedom. In the Galilee city of Nazareth, where skull-shape- d Todays Chuckle Woman buying fertilizer: only scent it comes Is this the in?" Jesus grew up, nearly 20,000 Christian Arabs say they are muting their festivities this year in solidarity with the mourning Arabs of a neighboring village, Kfar Yassif . Two village Arabs were killed last week in a feud with another village resulting from a squabble at a soccer match. Nazareth Arabs said Israeli police could have prevented the violence. Hold Candlelight Mass A dawn candlelight Mass, the Blessing of the Fire, at the marble mausoleum covering Christs tomb attracted about 500 pilgrims Saturday. The ceremony celebrates the light Jesus shed on the world. An unusual pilgrimage by a lay ministry from Brea, Calif., drew a wide following on Good Friday. The group brought their semiprofessional Passion play to the Via Dolorosa, and claimed to have seen a miracle. Moments before the group walked up the Street of Sorrows Christs Passion, an Arab boy with a badly cut hand left a trail of blood drops on the narrow footpath. Discovering the wet blood, the pilgrims cried tearfully that it was Christs blood sent from heaven, whether or not it had come from a human hand. Officials Try to Ignore Solidarity Movement By Kevin Klose Washington Post Writer The Soviet Union Saturday indicated disapproval of Polands agreement to recognize Rural Solidarity and continued to publicly ignore the rapidly growing reform movement MOSCOW Russian Threat Mounting, Voters Believe By J. Roy Bardsley The Soviet Union poses a much greater threat to world peace now than four years ago. This, at least, is the consensus of nearly two out of every three Utahns who are concerned that Rus- sian military ac- tivities might explode into war. The invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet pressure on Poland have apparently precipitated worries of war, according to Utahns interviewed in an exclusive statewide survey sponsored by The Salt Lake Tribune. Here is the question presented to over 600 Utah adults in all sectors of the state e in interviews: a moment, the Soviet for Consider, Union and the threat to peace. Would you sajr you are more or less worried about these matters now than you were four years ago?" And, here is the response pattern. 64 More concerned over peace 6 Less concerced 29 About same (volunteered) 1 Undecided face-to-fac- wufun the Polish Communist Party. In a brief Warsaw dispatch, the official Tass press agency reported that the government has agreed to the certification of the new union for Polands 3.5 million private farmers, a major concession that Moscow cannot find to its liking. The carefully worded dispatch implied that in agreeing to the new union's legal status, the Polish government was only doing so as part of its attempts three weeks ago to head off a crippling national strike. Noting that the official Polish news agency PAP had transmitted a statement by the Polish gomemment," Tass said that from the statement it follows that an agreement was signed on March 30. Under the agreement, the founding of a trade union of individual peasants is now recognized. Tass sought to salvage something for its Soviet public, who are members of unions strictly subordinated to party control, by adding that the agreement included a statement by farmers union activists which recognizes the role of the Polish Communist Party as the guiding force in the building of socialism. Seen from here, this formulation leaves Moscow open to claim at some later date, if it wishes, that either the party under Stanislaw Kanias direction failed to preserve its position as guiding force, or that the agreement was coerced from the authorities by the independent trade union federation Solidarity under threat of a strike. Tass did not report Fridays agreement in Bydgoszcz for the rural union to be registered by May 10. Meanwhile, the Kremlins spokesman Leonid Zamyatin Saturday night spoke on Soviet television of increased e counterrevolution in Poland and Page 2, Column 6 as-Se- Kcvmit Safely Home After 100 few volunteered that a tougher policy toward the Soviet Union under a new president and secretary of state might affect the chances of war or peace, but most just seemed to think that Soviet actions have made the world more volatile. Those most concerned about the possibility of another war are young adults who are prime prospects for the armed forces. Women, too, are more worried about war than men, which is the traditional pattern found in most research. Here are comparisons between the attitudes of age groups and sexes: (Read across) xf- A Men Women 18-2- 9 30-445-5- 60 4 years of age.. 61 66 76 60 58 years or over ....62 7 6 32 28 3 21 11 29 36 35 6 3 This poll was conducted by Bardsley and Haslacher, an independent and impartial research organization. The maximum standard error range on a sample of 600 cases is 4.0, plus or minus, from results which would accrue from a complete census of adults in the state. Frognapping Miss SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) and San Piggy was fit to be hog-tie- d Antonio citizens were hopping mad. Kermit the Frog had been kidnapped and police, fearing the worst, said he might even have croaked. I'm just heartsick about dear Kerrn, wailed Miss Piggy in a statement published by the San Antonio Express and News. Why would anyone want to hurt the poor darling? she moped. But by Saturday, the shaggy green version of the worlds most famous frog was safely back at San Antonio's Witte Museum, slightly worse for wear with a broken right foot and broken right arm. Kermit, the affable star of 'The and The Muppet Muppet Movie had been on display at the Show museum's front entrance column, hanging by wires. Museum officials reported him missing Friday night. And what brilliant piece of detective work led to the frogs freedom? Some people came back from vacation and he was just sitting in their front said the dispatcher, who deyard, clined to give her name. We dont know why someone would take him." W-l-- A-2- E-l-- 0, D-l-- A-1- A-5- Sunday's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Showers and possible thundershowers Highs 60 Sunday. Lows in the mid-40- s. to 65. Light winds. Weather details on Page Court Allows L.A. to End Mandatory School Busing A federal LOS ANGELES (AP) appeals court said Saturday that mandatory busing in Los Angeles public schools could end Monday, overruling a federal district judge who had ordered the busing to continue. The ruling came on a split decision by a three-judg- e panel of the Dth U S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel. The court ruled that state courts, which have been considering a Los Angeles schools desegregation suit for 18 years, still have jurisdiction in the case. The panel overturned a temporary restraining order issued late Friday by U S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashi-ma- , who told the school board that dismantling the mandatory busing program would constitute deliberate segregation. . .Our actions should in no way be construed as endorsing or condoning the most recent action of the Los Angeles Unified School District in terminating the existing school busing program in the middle of the current school semester, said a majority opinion by two of the three judges. Attorneys for the school board and (he National Association for the Ad . vancement of Colored People had argued for more than two hours during the afternoon, presenting their arguments on the dismantling of mandatory reassignment and transportation. A member of the boards majority, lawyer Tom Bartman, had been sent to Washington to be ready to seek the intervention of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist should the appellate challenge have failed. anti-busin- g A meeting of key administrators and staff members had been called to consider changes in bus and class schedules and notification of teachers and parents, if necessary. The district had announced March 16 it would switch from mandatory busing, under which 23,000 of its 529,000 pupils were reassigned, to a voluntary plan for the rest of the school year. Most of those in the mandatory program, plus 30,000 students being voluntarily bused, chose to finish the year in the same schools they have been attending since September. About 7,300 students chose to return to their neighborhood schools Monday after the week-lonEaster break, but Tashima ordered they continue to be : bused. g That decision came after the state Supreme Court ended 18 years of legal battles by upholding a ruling that mandatory busing was illegal under Proposition 1, an amendment to the state constitution that said busing could be ordered only if intentional segregation could be proved. Tashima's decision came in a new suit brought Wednesday by the Nation-- . ' al Association for the Advancement W Colored People in an attempt to block the dismantling of the program. |
