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THE BANNERGRAPHIC June 30,1908

Squabbling Soviets Communist conference reveals discord in ruling party

MOSCOW (AP) The Communist Party’s first conference in 47 years, though far from the wideopen battles of Western conventions, is exposing discord rarely seen since the turbulent decade after the Bolshevik Revolution. For two nights in a row, Soviet television viewers have seen members of their nation’s only political party disagree with one another and with Mikhail S. Gorbachev. ONLY SELECTED segments of the conference are being shown on television and foreign and most Soviet reporters are barred from the conference hall. But accounts in the state-run media and comments from delegates make clear this is not a routine Kremlin gathering of tame, stone-faced delegates applauding and voting in unison. The squabbles and splits over everything from the economy and ethnic issues to the press and politics signal the kind of break

Steelworker tells Gorbachev perestroika isn’t working

MOSCOW (AP) critique of the Soviet reform program, a steelworker told the Communist Party conference today that three years after it was launched his town still doesn’t have meat and consumer goods have vanished. Veniamin A. Yarin, a middleaged mill operator at a huge industrial complex in the Ural Mountains, told his 5,000 fellow delegates at the extraordinary gathering that despite promises to reward workers for increased

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with vestiges of the Stalinist past that Gorbachev advocated in his keynote address Tuesday. IN THE EARLY 19205, internal party battles were fierce and obvious. But Josef Stalin took the fighting behind tightly shut doors, then eliminated it in a gruesome wave of show trials and executions. When Nikita S. Khrushchev denounced Stalin in 1956, he did so in a “secret speech” that still has not been published in the Soviet Union. Even the new Soviet openness has not fully penetrated the infighting in the party leadership. In November, Boris N. Yeltsin was fired from his job as Moscow party chief for attacking the slow pace of reform. His speech remains unpublished. Gorbachev made it clear Tuesday that his drive for “glasnost,” or openness, should not become weighted in favor of liberals. WHEN ACTOR Mikhail

productivity the government has cut housing subsidies. AND ALTHOUGH Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s program of “perestroika,” or restructuring, is supposed to provide incentives by making enterprises operate on their own finances, the government still takes his factory’s profits, Yarin said. “Workers are asking straight out; ‘Where is the ‘perestroika?’” he said. “For example, in stores, the way it was before with food products is the way it still is. On top of that, they have introduced rationing for sugar. There wasn’t any meat, and we still don’t have any. Consumer goods have vanished completely.”

Lefebvre consecrates four bishops despite Vatican order; causes schism

ECONE, Switzerland (AP) Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre today defied the Vatican and consecrated four bishops of his traditionalist movement, provoking the first major split in the Roman Catholic Church since 1870. “WE ARE CONVINCED we are following the call of God,” the French-bom Lefebvre told about 10,000 supporters in a half-hour homily before the ceremony.

Ulyanov complained to the conference on Wednesday that the state-run media have become a combative force, Gorbachev peered over from his perch on the dais to interrupt. “In die past, there was a monopoly chi die media by one group of people, and we know what that has brought about,” the Soviet leader said. “Now we see mother group, acting very gradually, wants to use die (Hess as a national rostrum ... We want die pluralism erf views.” In a 3V£-hour keynote speech, Gorbachev lambasted conservative' apparatchiks for blocking change and outlined plans for redistributing political power so the party is no longer involved in the day-to-day business of governing. BUT HE MADE clear it was not too late for opponents to climb on the bandwagon of reform. In the 15 minutes allotted to them, delegates have taken a much

Addressing the third day of the conference Gorbachev called to assess his reform program and set a course for the future, the steelworker from the city of Nizhny Tagil, 900 miles east of Moscow, demanded that top officials be held accountable for the failure of programs under their control. DIRECTING HIS remarks to the top Soviet leadership, whose members were sitting behind him on a dais in the Kremlin’s Palme of Congresses, Yarin said, “It’s high time the Central Committee should apply its power.” In his speech, broadcast by Soviet television from die closed conference hall, Yarin said, “People tell us straight out we

The prelate accused the church of accepting “modernism, liberalism, communism, Zionism” and said the changes are “not Catholic.” Lefebvre said the pope sent him a car Wednesday night to take him to Rome. He said he was surprised at this effort to make him cancel the elevation. Today, the rebel prelate placed his hands over each of the new bishops to complete the consecrations. They highlighted a festive ceremony in a tent on a vast meadow in front of the traditionalist seminary in this Swiss hamlet surrounded by vineyards and Alpine peaks.” IN ROME, A statement read by Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said the consecrations constituted a schismatic act carried out against the wishes of the pope. A schism is a formal rupture with the Holy See. “This is not a schism, we are not schismatic,” Lefebvre said. “There is no question at all of this. On the contrary, we are here to manifest our attachment to die church of all times.” Rome has followed a course of “grave errors” since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in 1962-65 that was “about to destroy the church,” Lefebvre said. He said he had to go ahead with the consecrations because “we have tried everything to make Rome return to the traditions, but it was in vain.” ‘'THIS IS AN operation of survival of the tradition,” and signing an accord with the Vatican would have been “operation suicide,” Lefebvre said.

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more strident stance for or against economic reform, political change and the increasing outspokenness of the Soviet press. There has been no hint of a split in the Politburo or criticism by name of the party leadership. Bid Gorbachev’s proposals came under fire right after they were unveiled. Economist Leonid Abalkin, a noted reformer, labeled as undemocratic the suggestion that local Communist chiefs should head local governing councils. ABALKIN EVEN uttered the once-unthinkable phrase “multiparty system” as Ire asked whether one-party rule could guarantee unfettered political debate. Hun passage of his speech was not televised. But word of it got to reporters, prompting party officials to read the relevant passage to reporters.

don’t know what issues individual members of the Politburo are responsible for. ” The exact duties of individual Politburo members are not announced, although each of the 13 members of the ruling body are understood to be assigned specific areas of responsibility. YARIN SAID ALL people should be given reports on “how things are going, who must be thanked for successes and who must be made accountable for failures.” Gorbachev, who was among those listening to Yarin, has complained repeatedly that tire entrenched bureaucracy is stalling his reform drive.

Papal retaliation is swift

VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican today announced the excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and four bishops he consecrated. A statement read by Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro cited church law for the excommunications, noting the prohibition on consecrating bishops without papal approval. The statement, made shortly after Lefebvre carried out the consecrations in Econe, Switzerland, said it was a schismatic act carried out expressly against die

About 180 traditionalist priests and 150 seminarians were among the faithful assembled under bright sunshine after a night of ram. Econe is die birthplace of Lefebvre’s Si. Pius X Fraternity, founded in 1910 for clerics opposed to the Second Vatican Council, whose reforms included modernizing the liturgy. Lefebvre continues to celebrate Mass in Latin, dismissing the “bastard rites” in the vernacular that took its place. Named after a pope who condemned “modernist” trends in the church in a 1907 encyclical, Lefebvre’s movement claims to have millions of sympathizers. LEFEBEVRE, 82, says his age makes the consecrations urgent to ensure continuity of the fraternity’s struggle against “self-destructive trends.”

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Dought hurts many while lucky few can reap profits WASHINGTON (AP) Prices of grain and soybeans jumped sharply this month, a bittersweet reminder that drought can deal a stacked deck to farmers those whose crops survive can rake in their winnings as others leave the game broke. Overall, prices farmers got for raw products rose 3.7 percent from May, a jump that carried the overall index up 6.9 percent from a year ago, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. Higher prices for soybeans, com and wheat contributed most to the June increase, the department’s Agricultural Statistics Board said. Lower prices for cattle and peaches partly offset the rise in other commodities. “Most grain prices moved up sharply in June, reflecting the widespread drought,” the report said. “The average soybean price was at the highest level since May of 1977 and the fifth highest on record. Com and wheat also moved up sharply to the highest levels since August of 1985 and May of 1984, respectively.” Consumer food prices are expected to rise 3 percent to 5 percent this year, compared with a 4.2 percent average increase in 1987. Before the drought took hold, USDA was predicting a 1988 food price hike of 2 percent to 4 percent. No forecast has been made by the department for 1989.

wishes of the pope. A schism is a formal rupture with the Holy See. Earlier this week, Lefebvre’s traditionalist movement challenged the excommunications, claiming that church law permits such ordinations in an “emergency.” The Vatican said the only “necessity” in the case was raised by Lefebvre “to conserve an attitude of division in the Catholic Church, despite the offers of communion and concessions made by the Holy Father John Paul 13.”

Church law allows only bishops to perform ordinations so, Lefebvre says, the fraternity would be “orphaned” unless he consecrates new bishops before dying. Lefebvre, in a recent magazine interview, dismissed excommunication as “worthless” and said it will not slow him in pushing for a “true renewal of the church.” “These events will strengthen our unity,” he was quoted in the conservative French weekly Figaro-Magazine. “In 10 years, one will see that I have defended the last bastion of faith.” THE FOUR NEWLY consecrated bishops were Richard Williamson, 48, English-born head of the Ridgefield, Conn., seminary; Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, 43, secretary general of the fraternity; Alfonso de Galarreta, 31, Spanishbom head of the seminary in Argentina; and Bernard Fellay, 30, administrator of the Fraternity, a Swiss. The Vatican did not immediately excommunicate Brazilian prelate Antonio de Castro Mayer, bishop of Campos and Lefebvre’s assistant in

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MARCEL LEFEBVRE Schismatic archbishop the rites. The Vatican said his role was unclear. De Castro Mayer, 84, is not a fraternity member but has formally associated himself with Lefebvre’s crusade against the Vatican. THREE WEEKS AGO, the pope exhorted Lefebvre in a personal letter “from a paternal heart” to renounce the consecrations, which would “bring a new wound” to the church. The pontiff warned the consecrations “could only appear as a schismatic act.” The last split in the church occurred when the Old Catholics broke with the Vatican because they opposed the doctrine of papal infallibility proclaimed at the First Vatican Council in 1870. Defying earlier Vatican sanctions, Lefebvre has ordained about 220 traditionalist priests, including 16 on Wednesday. That ceremony drew at least 7,000 sympathizers to Econe. ‘THE CANCER OF liberalism is spreading in the Church” since the Second Vatican Council, Lefebvre said in his homily Wednesday. “Join the fight against liberalism, that false notion of freedom,” he said. “And be prepared to suffer persecution. Whatever you may be told, you will remain Catholic.”