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get in touch with me from the
outset to obtain a peaceful solu
tion to the dispute.
“That same night a representa
tive of the constitutional forces
(rebels) came to my residence and
asked me to seek a peaceful solu
tion. He said that if the junta
U.S. Intervention
Meets Criticism
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican
Republic — Intervention by the
U.S. and other foreign powers in
the Dominican civil war is “unjus
tified and partisan,” officers and
members of the nation’s leading
Catholic organizations have declar
ed.
The U.S. forces dispatched to
this West Indian country after
fighting began in April have been
reinforced since by contingents of
troops from various Latin Ameri
can nations serving under the Or
ganization of American States.
The Catholic leaders spoke in a
statement on Dominican political
problems issued after a meeting
here of representatives of the Le
gion of Mary, the Young Catholic
Students organization, Young
Women’s Catholic Action and oth
er Church associations. The meet
ing was attended by priest advis
ors.
The underlying causes of the
conflict between the rebels and
the military junta, the statement
said, are “an obsolete economic
. , . system that forces the people
to live in misery, corruption in
government and a systematic oppo
sition to democratic methods.”
The immediate cause, it added,
was “the violation of the popular
will” by the 1963 coup d’etat which
overthrew the government elect
ed by the people in 1962.
THE STATEMENT called for the
“abolition of militarism to cut na
tional expenses and end militar
ism’s bad political influence.” It
urged adoption of a number of re
forms, particularly the redistribu
tion of land to the landless.
It condemned the efforts of the
conservative Christian Reaffirma
tion, saying it is “using religion
as a pretext to cover political
aims” and that it is unjust in la
beling as communists those who
fight for social justice.
Calling for an end to the con
flict, the statement denounced “the
numerous violations of human
dignity” by both sides.
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forces stopped their fire he would
be able to save the lives of 20
policemen held hostage by rebels.”
THE NUNCIO said he put this
man in immediate contact with a
representative of the other side.
“Thus on the very day of my
arrival both sides asked me to seek
an end to the fighting. The next
day the OAS cabled me at length
to ask the same thing.”
The archbishop said that in sub
sequent attempts to arrange a
ceasefire he had the full coopera
tion of the American ambassador,
W. Tapley Bennet, Jr., whom he
described as “a wonderful gentle
man, self-sacrificing and devoted.”
Archbishop Clarizio also paid
tribute to the priests who remain
ed in Santo Domingo under fire.
“They remained there to help peo
ple in danger. They had been of
fered every opportunity to leave,
but they preferred to stay to bring
spiritual comfort, food and medi
cine. When calm returns, the
whole world will realize what is
owed to them.”
He also expressed thanks to
Catholic Relief Services—National
Catholic Welfare Conference, U.S.
Catholic relief organization, and
to its emissary, Father James
Clark, assistant to the director of
the NCWC Latin America Bureau,
whom it sent at his request. He
thanked Msgr. Alfred A. Schneider
of Green Bay, Wis., the priest who
heads CRS throughout Latin
America; and to the local Catho
lic charities organizations which
distributed more than seven mil
lion pounds of relief supplies dur
ing the first month of the revolt.
Smithfield Mosses
The following schedule of Mass
es is now in effect at St. Ann’s
Church, Smithfield: Sundays, 8:00
and 10:00 a.m.; Holydays, 6:45 a.m.
and 8:00 p.m.
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MISS DIANNE FURR, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Furr,
Jr., of Concord, will leave this
month with PRAM’s first student
contingent — 10 students from
North Carolina — for a Summer’s
work in Ecuador. They will return
after ten weeks to tell all who
will listen of what they saw, heard
and learned.
Asheville Knights
Elect New Officers
The St. Lawrence Council, No.
1695, of the Knights of Columbus
in Asheville announces the elec
tion of the following officers for
the new year: William S. Grem
bowicz, Grand Knight; George
Kica, Deputy Grand Knight;
Thomas Kane, Chancellor; Col. Al
len Machesney, Advocate; Carl
Byrd, Trustee; Frank B. Davis,
Treasurer; John Vincent, Record
er; Fred Pape, Warden; Tony La
face, Inside Guard; and Norman
Mello, Outside Guard.
The election was held on June 8
in the Laurentine Hall, where the
exemplification of the first degree
will be held this Sunday (June
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Sacred Heart Girl Joins
Delegation to Ecuador
Summer spells new opportuni
ties and excitement for most of
this nation’s College students but
for Dianne Furr, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter L. Furr, Jr., of
Concord, it presents an entirely
new experience, complete with all
the excitement and mystery that
travel has in store for young
Americans abroad.
A rising Sophomore at Sacred
Heart College in Belmont, Dianne
Furr and eight other students
from Davidson, Queens, University
of North Carolina in Charlotte
and Sacred Heart College will
spend two months in Ecuador in
the interest of PRAM, The Proj
ect of the Americas, a young peo
ple’s organization which has been
established to create a new Ameri
can conscience and to improve the
relations within our hemisphere
through better cultural under
standing. The distinctive feature
of this organization is that it is
solely dedicated to the exchange
of ideas through personal experi
ence and personal contact.
FRED EHLERS, a 19-year-old
native of Ecuador and a Richard
son Scholar at Davidson College,
was the originator of the new in
ter-Americas student exchange pro
gram as The Project of the Ameri
cas or PRAM. Ehlers maintains
that “Government programs touch
either the upper class or the low
est level with aid but never the
great body, the middle classes, and
the big National High Schools.”
“My image of the United States
was so drastically changed in so
short a time,” Ehlers mused, “that
I wished others to know.”
At Sacred Heart College Miss
Furr is the Editor for Echoes (the
College Newspaper) for next yea,
President of the PRAM chapter!
Sacred Heart College, she it ,
joring in Journalism and minor
in Spanish. She made the Dei
list during her Freshman year,
Raleigh Anniversary
The parishioners of Sacred Rq
Cathedral honored their pastor,
Rev. John F. Roueche, V.F., on
thirty-second anniversary of his
dination, June 11. An old fashi
ed ice cream social followed
evening Mass, and various si
concerning the assignments a
good works of Monsignor Rou«
were presented.
Wendell Installation
Father Gordon Kendall was
stalled as pastor of St. Euga
Church, Wendell, at eight o’clt
Monday evening, June 14, by
Rev. John F. Roueche, Dean1
Raleigh.
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