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REPUBLIC CITY Ag THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1987 Hart presidential candidacy makes inroads in Babbitt territory Party Lines Babbitt hires WFC for presidential run Babbitt has hired WFC Advertising of Phoenix to handle his presidential advertising campaign. WFC last worked with Babbitt in 1976, when he first ran for public office and was elected state attorney general. Other political campaigns waged by WFC include the election of Margaret "she's not a yes man" Hance as mayor of Phoenix in 1975, Democrat Tony Mason's 719-vote loss to then-Rep. Eldon Rudd in the 1976 4th Congressional District race and an unsuccessful initiative effort in 1980 to enact a tough bottle-deposit law in Arizona. The firm will focus its early advertising efforts on Iowa, which will hold the nation's first presidential caucus Feb.

8, and New Hampshire, which holds the first presidential primary Feb. 16. CNN to air Babbitt interview 3 times A Cable News Network interview with Babbitt, one of several Democrats, running for president, will air three times Sunday. Newsmaker Sunday, CNN's version of Meet the Press, will air at 7:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Airline fires worker for Mecham joke An employee of America West Airlines found that it is no laughing matter to joke about Gov. Evan Mecham. He was fired. JA rizona may be regarded as Bruce Babbitt 4H teH'tory among presidential politicos, but don't dismiss former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado.

rAt receptions in Tucson and Phoenix on Monday, day Hart formally declared his presidential Candidacy, several Arizona political leaders turned out nil-support of the Democratic front-runner. them were former U.S. Rep. Jim McNulty of Tucson; former Tucson City Council member Tom Volgy, who left the council in order to run for mayor of Tucson this fall; Phoenix City Councilman Paul Johnson; John Ahem, a former director of the Residential Utility Consumer Office; and Mohave County Supervisor Jack Rose. State Rep, Debbie McCune; a west Phoenix Democrat, attended the reception in Phoenix at the home of attorney Dick Mahoney, Hart's chief Bpeechwriter, and his wife, former television-news, anchor Mary Jo West.

McCune said she hasn't decided yet whether to support Hart or Babbitt, a former governor of Arizona. Knee trouble keeps Goldwater off fete One notable person was missing last week at a national dinner to honor Barry Goldwater: Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was being recognized by the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in San Francisco, the city in which he was nominated for president 23 years ago, as the man who put the conservative It seems Loren Johnson, a customer-service representative, told a joke over the plane's public-address system while Flight 526 was en route to; Tucson from Phoenix on April 3. I Martin J. Whalen, senior vice president of America1 West, said Johnson's conduct was "seriously below the' standard of professionalism" the airline expects of its; employees.

"If he wants to tell jokes in his own house, that's up to him," Whalen said. What Johnson, a 5-month employee of America West, considered a joke was, in Whalen's view, "an attack ridiculing the governor of our home state, with religious and racial overtones." 4 Whalen said Johnson, who could not be reached for comment, had told passengers that Mecham was planning to rescind Easter because he didn't like the idea of colored eggs. Quote of the week "If we had to pay as we go to buy a car, we would all be walking." Burton Barr, former House majority leader and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate, commenting at an economic-forecast meeting about the cash-basis philosophy of Mecham, a Pontiac dealer, for state -spending. Republic staffers Joe Colo. Don Harris and Keven Ann WiMey contributed lo this report.

movement on the map. The 400 or so in attendance didn't know Goldwater was absent until it was announced that because of upcoming knee surgery, doctors told him to stay off his feet In a phone hookup, he admitted that as he gets older, he's listening more to what the doctors tell him. Barry Goldwater and his son, Barry III, were present to accept a Goldwater Family Tribute from Norman Coliver, chairman of the Western Jewish History Center, Grubb ad precedes Mecham's talk Moments before Gov. Evan Mecham went on live television Wednesday marking his 100th day in office, there was a commercial break. Just a coincidence, but it appeared that the address by Mecham, a Pontiac auto dealer for more than 30 years, was sponsored by Lou Grubb Chevrolet Cross ts5P)1 Saturday, April 18, 1987 Continued from Al The Via Dolorosa, or "Way of Sorrow," Is said to follow the path of Jesus, who bore a cross across Jerusalem to his execution.

The path starts at Antonia Fortress near St Stephen's Gate and ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the ancient hill called Calvary, or Golgotha In Aramaic. However, some pilgrims who believe different accounts start retracing the 14 Stations of the Cross at Jaffa Gate. THE VALLEY A "trial budget" unveiled by Phoenix City Manager Marvin Andrews suggests, among other proposals, that residents get a 50-cent increase in their monthly garbage bills and that businesses pay $50 a year for sales-tax licenses. 1 East Valley officials express disappointment that new freeways are not being built more quickly in their area. B1.

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hope to clean up. It was incorrectly reported on Page B2 Friday that Senate Bill 1074, which would allow the state attorney general to intercede on behalf of non-union workers in labor disputes, had passed both the House and Senate. The bill still needs Senate approval. The sixth annual Rite of Spring concert to benefit the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra will take place April 26 at 2 p.m. in Biltmore Fashion Park.

A caption on Page D15 in Friday's Life Leisure section contained an incorrect date for the event. whose father allegedly tried to sell her should be returned a to her stepmother in New Jersey, despite the impassioned appeals of an aunt and uncle that the child should remain in their custody. A 10. Jim and Tammy Bakker received nearly $1.6 million in pay and bonuses from the PTL television ministry last year and an additional $640,000 the last three' months, a newspaper reports. B6.

Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo raiders gather to celebrate the 45th anniversary of their bombing mission, but frail health prevents the man who led the historic air strike from joining the party. D44. POLITICS Brent Scowcroft, a former White House national-security ad- -viser, warns that a Soviet offer to eliminate shorter- and medium-range missiles in Europe is a bad deal. A 12.

THE WORLD An eruption possibly caused by snowmelt flowing into craters kills two tourists and injures seven on Sicily's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest volcano. CI. President Hafez Assad of Syria offers to end a 4-year-old feud with Yasser Arafat if the PLO chief will break with Egypt, Palestinian officials report. C3. Opposition government critics are suggesting that taxpayers' money has been used to support "a Ferdinand Marcos style of living" for Canada's first family.

Jim Fox'6 column, C4. HOWARD MoCOMASKnighl-Ridder Graphic Network THE STATE A Department of Corrections official resigns amid charges that he had sexual relations with a female inmate while on the job. B1. Fearing a possible rabies outbreak, Cochise County officals may begin a quarantine of domestic animals. B1.

Transportation officials deny reports that brand-new truck scales were darrlaged by being left exposed to the elements and say they will be installed at a port of entry near the California line. B1. THE NATION Reports of Soviet scientists' developing a material that can conduct electricity indefinitely when cooled to minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit appear to have been misleading, a physicist says. A7. San Carlos, is suing a 7-year-old boy for up to $13,000, claiming he was at fault in a collision between his bicycle and a city truck.

A8. A small plane crashes into a house and explodes, killing the pilot. Of the six people in the house, two are hurt, including one who is blown out of the shower. A8. A judge in Fort Lauderdale, rules that a 4-year-old girl praise the devotion of these pilgrims who go to such lengths to memorialize the suffering of the man and God that they worship as their spiritual savior.

But as a scholar and expert on the historical geography of Jerusalem at the oldest Roman Catholic graduate school in the Holy Land, he has a different view: If they're trying to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, he says, the pilgrims are going the wrong way. The traditional route, Murphy-O'Connor said in an interview conducted in the streets of the Old City, begins near the city's eastern edge, where the Antonia Fortress, renamed by King Herod the Great after his Roman patron, Marc Antony, once stood. According to tradition, this is the place where Pilate condemned Jesus to death. What is much more likely, the priest said, is that Pilate judged Jesus from a platform in front of what had been Herod's palace, which was near the Jaffa Gate on the western extremity of the Old City. That would mean that Jesus had to take a totally different route to the site of the Crucifixion and burial, now marked by the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

From a devotional point of view, Murphy-O'Connor stressed, it's "completely irrelevant" that the traditional route may run in the wrong direction. "It's the same sort of experience, for a pilgrim whether he comes from east to west or west to east," he said. But he added, "If you're talking for the record or you're talking historically, then I think you have to' stay as close to the truth as you can get at the moment." The truth is that there is no hard archaeological evidence to support either route, said Murphy-O'Connor, who has lived in and studied Jerusalem ever since he came here as a graduate student 25 years ago. And tradition has varied through the centuries. "The whole question is, 'Where was said the priest, a professor of historical geography at Jerusalem's Ecole Biblique and author of The Holy Land: An Archeological Guide.

Based on records about the customs of the time, Murphy-O'Connor said, Pilate must have been at the palace, which served as the residence of the Roman procurators when they traveled to Jerusalem from their normal headquarters in Caesarea, on the Mediterranean. The practice symbolized "the transition from the local power to Roman power," he explained. The popular route from the Antonia Fortress may have its roots in another devotional parade that dates from the fifth or sixth century, starting at what is said to be the Garden of Gethsemane, east of Jerusalem, through that side of the city to the church. Jesus' route through the Old City is not the only aspect of the Crucifixion in which history and archaeology are in conflict with devotional tradition, Murphy-O'Connor said. Although there is nothing implausible about the general story of the Crucifixion, he THE ECONOMY Arizona's unemployment rate decreased in March, to 7.5 percent from 7.8 percent in February.

C6. Chrysler Chairman Iacocca received more than $20.5 million in cash and stock in 1986, making him by far the best paid of last year's best-paid Three auto industry executive. C6. At least six people are nailed to crosses, and thousands of religious zealots flog themselves in the Philippines in an annual Good Friday ritual that the Roman Catholic Church calls "very ridiculous." C5. Whether the events traditionally depicted at each station actually occurred is sheer speculation, Murphy-O'Connor said.

"You don't get every station in every gospel," the priest explained. "So you're putting together four different accounts. I mean, Jesus may only have fallen once, but three gospels say it. So you get three falls. That's the problem." Modern tourists frequently are put off by what they see as the extraordinary commercialism attached to religious sites in Jerusalem.

A "Fifth Station Souvenir Shop" along the Via Dolorosa, for example, sells T-shirts as well as religious mementos. But Murphy-O'Connor said Christianity has been commercialized here "right from the beginning." The city's entire Armenian quarter, for instance, was built in medieval times just to cater to pilgrims. Commercialism has its historic value, the priest added. For example, what is believed to have been, the original tomb of Christ was destroyed by an Egyptian conqueror in 1009, and it is only because of early commercialism that it is known what what tomb looked like. "Pilgrims of the sixth century brought back to Europe oil from the sacred lamps and water from the Jordan in little silver flasks, about 6 inches in diameter" and the flasks were etched with a tiny replica of the tomb, Murphy-O'Connor said.

Some are still preserved. Also, those early visitors "were able to buy in Jerusalem stone models of the tomb, and a lot of them are floating around Europe. That's how, archaeologically, we can reconstruct what the tomb looked like at the time of Christ," the priest said. Unfortunately, Murphy-O'Connor, pointed out, the current replica of the tomb on display in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is much larger and more garish than the original. "Admirers of the (current) tomb call it a hideous kiosk, which is a very accurate description," he said.

added, some of the details apparently have been "prettied up." He explained it this way: "The problem with the Way of the Cross is that as you very often see it represented, especially in Catholic churches, you have a Jesus who is absolutely impeccable: His hair perfectly cut and combed, his beard perfectly trimmed, not a stain on any of his garments. He has a dinky little cross slung over his shoulder and he's sauntering along. "But this, I think, is part of the. dominant Catholic attitude to avoid any contact with the reality of the humanity of Jesus." The reality, the priest said, was much more grim than this common depiction. It is known, for example, that historically, those condemned to crucifixion had a wooden beam strapped to their outstretched arms.

"What that means is you can't walk down this sort of street," the priest said, indicating one of the Old City's typically narrow passageways. "All you can do is shuffle sideways." It was "part of the game" for bystanders along the route to strike at the victim's kidneys and genitals, and because the prisoner was struggling along sideways, he had difficulty seeing potholes or steps in the route. With his arms strapped to the crossbeam, he could not protect his face when be fell. "This was really conceived as torture," Murphy-O'Connor said. Nor was Calvary, he said, the lonely hilltop that it is so often depicted, but a stone outcropping at the corner of an abandoned rock quarry.

It was European Christians, who had devised their own "Way of the Cross" devotions at home, who brought to Jerusalem the tradition of 14 "stations," or stops, along the route, Murphy-O'Connor said. The Via Dolorosa at the time had only seven. But even in the 15th century, he said with a laugh, "Jerusalem would do anything to keep tourists happy." New stations were added, so today the route has 14. EDITORIAL OPINION Just when Phoenix Suns fans seemed to have something to cheer about, three purrent players and two former players are indicted on drug charges, and a grand jury is investigating links to gambling activities. Editorial, A22 1 LIFE LEISURE Rita Dove, an associate professor at Arizona State University, has a Pulitzer Prize for poetry but her mom still has the poem about the rabbit with the floppy ears that her daughter wrote in third grade.

1. I. It AP BOMBS IN SEOUL Homemade bombs, mostly bottles filled with gasoline, explode near riot police in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. RELIGION Such bombs and rocks reportedly have been hurled by anti-government demonstrators across the nation. Battle-clad riot police line up at Korea University, where thousands of students have been fighting authorities in protests over a government freeze on election reforms.

A 15. Jesus Christ had to be healthy and muscular, not the meek and mild-looking man he often has been depicted as being, a Valley physician says. D1. 'Republic' switchboard closing for Easter The Arizona Republic switchboard will close today at 5 p.m. and remain closed Easter Sunday.

The switchboard will reopen Monday at 6 a.m. Departments on duty may be reached by dialing directly. Their numbers are listed below. SPORTS Ted Higuera strikes out 12 as the unbeaten Milwaukee Brewers beat the Texas Rangers, 10-2. F1.

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