Show Vol 78 No 223 Logan Utah 66 pages 4 sections Sunday September 20 1987 75 cents Pope- ends IJ§ tour attacks abortion DETROIT (UPI) Pope John Paid nine-cit- y II ended his y tour of the United States Saturday night with an impassioned attack on abortion in America warning there can be no true freedom or lasting peace until "you guarantee the rightto life" The “ultimate test" of America's greatness he said is to "respect every human person especially the weakest and most defenseless ones those yet unborn" The pope made the remarks at 10-da- Detroit Metropolitan Airport before leaving for Edmonton Alberta at 8:46 pm EDT ending a whirlwind trip marked by disappointing crowds and John Paurs unyielding stance on issues that have estranged American Catholics He goes Sunday to the remote trading post of Fort Simpson in Canada's Northwest Territories where 3000 Eskimos and Indians await him on the banks of the Mackenzie River His visit to Fort Simpson three years ago was thwarted by fog and he vowed to return He held a brief private meeting with Vice President George Bush at the airport before leaving Bush an Episcopalian told the pope "You have not only preached but listened to heartfelt and often painful dissent Yet you have infused your moral authority with love and your challenging spirit with Joy" The ponuffs airport remarks were by far his strongest attack on the nation's abortion laws Earlier Saturday police arrested 20 demonstrators harassing patients at a Detroit abortion clinic "If you want equal Justice for all and true freedom and luting peace then America defend life" ne said "All the great causes that are yours today will have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the right to life and protect foe human person" The pontiff read a list of social anti-aborti- on concerns including feeding the poor promoting the "true advancement" of women securing the rights of minorities and pursuing disarmament “while guaranteeing legitimate defense" and said: ‘‘All this will suceed only if respect for life and its protection by the law is granted to every human being from conception until natural death John Paul said he takes with him See POPE on page 2 - US takes credit for arms treaty WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan took credit Saturday for making the Soviet Union "come around" to US proposals to eliminate medium-rang- e missiles and press toward agreements banning nuclear tests and e nuclear halving the number of weapons long-rang- Related story on page 2 In his weekly radio speech from Camp David Md — an amalgam of issues ranging from arms talks to the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork and budget reform — Reagan called the tentative missile accord "a truly historic treaty" he hopes to sign this fall at a US summit with Soviet header Mikhail Gorbachev At the same time as the superpowers agreed on a phased elimination of the European-base- d missiles Reagan said they agreed to work toward a nuclear test ban treaty and a 50 percent reduction in intercontinental ballistic missiles "I'm proud that these were American pro- posals which the Soviets have come around to accept" Reagan said "But I made it dear to the Soviet foreign minister that I will not sacrifice our Strategic Defense Initiative pro- gram" Reagan boasted that even as he and the Soviets announced the missile accord Friday the United States began work on six "promising technologies" for oeveloping a space-base- a e defense against missiles "Nor will we let up on insistence on better Soviet performance on human rights and regional conflicts like Afghanistan Our agenda is both peace and freedom and when I meet Mr Gorbanchev again later this year this la the agenda I will pursue" Reagan said Both US and Soviet officials said the medium-rang- e missile agreement was made possible in part by the Kremlin'a softening of its opposition to the SDI program popularly known as "Star Wars" long-rang- 1 -- Jim JohmonHerald Journal Warm pnnilQh cnuuyn for a swim ‘ Warm fall weather with sunny skies encouraged one feathered swimmer to take to the water at First Dam Saturday Cache Valley residents could catch an eyeful of changing leaves in the canyons and ' un ' the hillsides as warm weather-lingerForecasters say the outlook Is for more of the same generally fair skies through Thursday with highs in the upper 70s in northern Utah along s South African consul visits Logan By Cindy Yurth staff writer Most Americans if they know anything about South Africa at all think of it as "a country burning with black and white people hunting each other" said South African Chris Liebenberg during an interview with The Herald Journal Thursday Liebenberg whose consulate in Beverly Hills serves 12 Western states visits those states from time to time to provide some counterpoint to what he says is a "totally distorted" image of South Africa provided by the media Liebenberg said he gets angry at all the negative publicity about South Africa when the past two years have witnessed the most sweeping reforms in the country’s history including integration of public areas and transit abolition of the “pass law" that restricted movement for blacks and most recently an Vice-Cons- ul invitation for blacks to elect' their own repre- -' sentatives to help frame a constitution What frustrates him even more however is Just plain ignorance he said y “People come to the consulate and ask for visas to other countries even Libya" he said "Then they’re mad when ' we can't give it to them” j One time he did a television interview and "the reporter talked to me for 29 minutes then asked where I was from" he said "I turned around and walked out" Liebenberg acknowledged his country still has "problems 'rbut said criticism from foe US is hard to take after living in Southern California and witnessing the treatment of minorities there He recounted one incident in which the consulate sponsored a trip to South Africa for a black American student It's true he said that in the lobby ot the Carlton hotel in South Africa a man tried to order wine from the student thinking him a waiter "But then he returned to California and on the wav to the consulate he was driving around trying to find the place and he was stopped by police and searched" Liebenberg said because the police were suspicious of a black driving around a Beverly Hills neighborhood The diplomat said the major misconception in the US is that the conflict in South Africa is a issue "It’s a matter of the Soviet Union using the left in our country to weaken our government" he said "If the Soviet Union is gone tomorrow our problems will be less" He accused the media both internal and external of capitalizing on the "emotional issue" of apartheid while ignoring some of the black-and-whi- te recent changes "Last week the government announced blacks SeeS AFRICA on page 2 After five days of testimony Bork promises to uphold law - WASHINGTON (UPI) Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork completing five extraordinary days of testimony promised Saturday to uphold the law and not carry out a personal political or social agenda that critics fear will roll back decades of advances in women’s and civil rights Bork who completed a marathon appearance at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing said he would interpret the law not make it — a path he said would make both con- servatives and liberals unhappy And the conservative jurist whose nomination is facing unprecedented opposition disputed critics who charge he is a right-win- g Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork idealogue who would seek to established Supreme Court rulings such as the right to abortion and a ban on school prayer "I am a jurist who believes his role is to Interpret urn law and not to make it" a weary Bork told the committee in a closing statement after 85 hours of testimony "If the members of the committee are looking as you've said you are for predictability it is certainly predictable overturn that I will adhere to my judicial philosophy as I’ve described it in these hearings and elsewhere" Bork said that following his own Judicial philosophy might lead to decisions that both conservatives and liberals dislike But he told the rare weekend hearing "It will not be because of some personal political agenda of my own It will not be a desire to set a social agenda for the nation It will be because the result in my considered judgment is required by law" Bork repeatedly said he respected precedent and had no intention of carrying out a personal agenda once he got to foe court "As I've described many times here there are a number of important precedents that are today so woven into foe fabric of our system that to change or alter them would be in my view unthinkable" And despite his critics Bork defended is record on civil rights and women saying that his five years as a federal appeals court Judge has shown "not only a full sensitivity toward minorities and women but a consistent record favoring the interests of minorities and women" Sen Joseph Biden chairman of the panel expected to vote on the nomination in early October promised to make sure that Bork's nomination did not die in committee but would be sent to the full Senate for debate Biden who announced his opposition to Bork shortly after he was nominated told him: "I find you're not a racist not insensitive I find you to be a very bright man who has a view of the Constitution (that) is different than mine" Biden said later his closing statement did not Indicate he was softening his view of Bork who left the hearings without taking questions from reporters President Reagan who telephoned Bork shortly after the nearingi to commend Urn on his presentation told the judge "you demonstrated yet again your qualifications to serve on the highest court" However Ralph Ness of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights said "There Is no question the nomination of Judge Bork is in serious trouble It was in serious trouble at the beginning of the week and it ii in even more serious trouble" D-D- el |