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4-D Sunday, Dec. 8, 1985 The Philadelphia Inquirer News Quiz The week in cartoons Paul ConradLos Angeles Times Wayne StayskalTampa Tribune (rr Questions are based on news reports in The Inquirer in the last week, 1. An embarrassing entry was made in the Willingboro, N.J., police blotter last week. Explain. 2.

Some special guests made the Eagles' stunning fourth-quarter collapse last week even more humiliating. Who were the guests? 3. Robert C. McFarlane resigned as national security adviser. Who was named as his successor? 4.

A member of Mayor Goode's cabinet has resigned. Who? 5. The doctor who produced the controversial anti-abortion film The Silent Scream announced plans for a sequel. Who would be a subject of that film? 6. At a London auction, a bottle of wine was sold for $156,000, and a print was sold for $774,800.

Who was the wine bottled for, and who is the artist who produced the print? 7. An experimental treatment was described by a researcher as "the first new kind of approach to cancer in perhaps 20 or 30 years." How is the cancer treatment reported to work? TOMB9 HerblockThe Washington Post LurieU.S. News World Report p7 I tcA nrmtzfi, 11 cos rmrv rawer? 11 Racial tension is not limited to S.W. Phila. 8.

Joseph P. Kennedy 2d is running for the congressional seat once held by his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy. Who now holds the seat? 9. An inauspicious event occurred involving the panel studying problems in Philadelphia's Police Department.

What was it? 10. The South African government has proposed a new law concerning black rights. What would it do? 11. In the Philippines, 26 men were acquitted of all charges stemming from the assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. Widespread outrage over the verdicts was heightened by President Ferdinand E.

Marcos' decision to retain one of the defendants. Who? 12. After the verdict, who entered the presidential campaign as a candidate opposing Marcos? 13. George Brett of the Kansas City Royals had won all the big awards during his career, except one. Now he has won that one, too.

What prestigious awan did he win last week? 14. The British and U.S. governments signed a significant agreement. What is it? 15. What is "The Get to Know Us" Special? 16.

James M. Beggs, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has taken a leave of absence. Why? 17. For the fourth time in six years, Philadelphia residents face an increase this time 22.6 percent, on average for what vital service? a) electricity, b) gas, c) telephone service, d) water. 18.

Aniello Dellacroce died in New York at age 71. Name the organized-crime family of which he was reputedly the No. 2 man for nearly two decades. 19. Jim Hollins, a Philadelphia private-school teacher, accused Philadelphia police of falsely arresting him on May 14.

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Authorities said he shouted that his 12-year-old son had been beaten by black pupils, then swept papers off the principal's desk and threw the telephone at him. According to Assistant District Attorney Joe McGettigan, the parent, Craig N. Smith, 36, of Horrocks Street, returned later in the day and approached a group of mostly black pupils playing in the schoolyard. Said McGettigan: "He started kicking and slapping swinging with abandon. He threw one kid to the ground and kicked him in the groin.

Some of these kids were 2-foot-2." On Sept. 23, McGettigan said, Smith was convicted in Municipal Court of assaulting five children. A judge also found him guilty of ethnic intimidation, a charge written into law in 1982 to help authorities deal with racial harassment. McGettigan said Smith has appealed the conviction and will be retried in Common Pleas Court. Statewide, eastern Delaware County is second only to Philadelphia in the number of racial incidents reported last year, according to the state task force.

In April, real estate agencies in eastern Delaware County began to receive greetings cards in the mail. Among them were sympathy cards, such as the one received by the Century 21 office on Burmont Road in Drexel Hill that read, "Sorry to hear about your accident, you rotten bastards. Keep Iblacksl out of a white town. You all will pay." "It just came out of the blue," said the agency's Henry Goss. The mailings, which the Delaware County Board of Realtors satd continued until this fall, were all in the same vein and, apparently, in the same handwriting.

The FBI is investigating. "They were usually very short, cryptic messages threatening harm to the individual if they continue to sell to blacks in Yeadon," said Ralph M. Rosenberger, the board's executive vice president. "It's not always Yeadon it could be Upper Darby or Darby. It's just that this particular individual is targeting Yeadon.

CITY, from 1-D tor's Community Coordinating Com-; mittee. "We deal day in and day out with the kind of problem they're having -in Southwest Philadelphia," with the exception of any large demonstra- -tion, said Maximo Santiago a com-'munity services worker for the Com- mission on Human Relations. 'l, "To neutralize a situation, the whole ball game is leverage," Santi- ago said. "You need to get people with leverage in the community and prevail upon them to look for ways to incorporate new arrivals without let- ting the community get out of con- trol." In Philadelphia, whites and blacks 'v work together, go to school together, eat together, shop together, travel together and play sports together but seldom do they live together. This city of 1.69 million people (58 percent of them white and 38 percent black) has never been more residen-tially segregated, according to 1980 Census data.

A doctoral dissertation completed in September by Ira Goldstein of Temple University shows that only 12 of the city's 36S Census tracts are truly integrated, with blacks and whites living side-by-side in a high percentage of the blocks in the tract. Goldstein showed that other tracts that may appear integrated overall were actually segregated by blocks. Racial tension occurs most often along the fluctuating borders where primarily white areas abut those that are heavily black or, in an increasing number of cases, Hispanic or Asian. So far this year, the Commission on Human Relations has investigated nine incidents in which racial or ethnic tension rose when someone moved to an inhospitable neighborhood, according to commission executive director Leah White. She said there were 17 such cases last year, 14 in 1983 and nine in 1982.

Overall, 13 of the 49 incidents occurred in the Kensington-Fishtown area, eight in South Philadelphia, seven in Northeast Philadelphia, five in Southwest Philadelphia, five in Olney, three in Feltonville, two each in East Oak Lane and West Philadel rUKrttT "Sure, there's fear," said Rosen' berger. "One of my members a cou pie of years ago was firebombed. Like areas of Philadelphia where tensions have burst into the open many of the communities in eastern Delaware County show aging popula tions, decreasing employment and rising poverty. Urban analysts say this connection between economics and racial ten sion is no coincidence. "The thing all these areas have in common is that.

like Southwest Phil adelphia, they are lower-middle-class and working-class populations that have lived there a long time, and in some ways, the population is trapped, said William L. Yancey, a Temple University sociology profes sor and director or the university Institute for Public Policy Studies. A few years ago, Yancey said, the university did a study of racial atti tudes and "white flight" in a chang ing area of Logan. What it found was "just the opposite of what you would expect, he said. Whites who exhibited the most big otry were the ones planning to stay tne neighborhood.

"The people who were leaving the neighborhood were younger, more educated leaving behind an older, less educated population that is really caught there. That where you get racial trouble," he said. Yancey, who praised Goldstein's study, said other studies have found that fully integrated areas, such as sections of Mount Airy, tend to be middle-class neighborhoods where black income is equal to or greater than white income. Gratman, coordinator of the state task force's southeastern regional office, said he was convinced that the example of Mount Airy is proof that racial conflict need not last forever. "As long as Southwest Philadelphia is the exception to the rule, society has shown progress and we will continue to show progress," he said.

"It is my hope that incidents like Southwest Philadelphia happen further and further apart. And when they do come up, people will say, 'Who can remenber the last time this And no one can." ot.Cptu.uiu suuut me tuunut cur rent condition expressed recently by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of West Germany, one of the Vatican's highest-ranking officials. In a series of interviews with an Italian journalist, published in book form several months ago as the Ratzinger Report, the cardinal depicted the church as an institution wounded by internal dissension and destructive self-criticism. Cardinal Ratzinger is the head of the Vatican's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's official voice in matters of doctrine. Because of his position and because he is close to the Pope, the cardinal's views were expected to be given prominence during the synod's delibrations.

But whether those views had any impact on the synod "will be debated widely." Bishop Malone said. "The synod was not called to discuss Cardinal Ratzinger's phia, and one each in Logan, Over-brook Park, Roxborough and Frank-ford. Among the latest was the situation in Southwest Philadelphia. There, after a second demonstration by 200 whites on Nov. 21 outside the home of an interracial couple, Mayor Goode declared a two-week state of emergency, barring more than four people from gathering in public.

On he extended his order for another week "to ensure continuity of peace and harmony." Most of these 49 housing cases in the past four years, including the one in Southwest Philadelphia, did not escalate into violence. But that was small comfort to the victims and their families, 31 of whom were black, nine Hispanic and three of mixed race. The remaining cases involved Koreans, Pakistanis, Afghans and other Asians. "Violent or not, these kinds of things are acts of terrorism," said Richard B. Anliot, coordinator of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Civil Tension.

That task force, using its own records, counted 67 "tension incidents" in Pennsylvania during the past year including 19 in Philadelphia, 18 in Delaware County, six in Bucks County, three in Chester County and two in Montgomery County. Those cases involved a half dozen cross-burnings at the homes of blacks and interracial couples. Anliot and White said they were hesitant to draw conclusions about the level of racial tension in this area from their very different figures. The cases reflect only their own files, they said, and nothing more. "To some extent, these are the neighborhood or community versions of the international license for terrorism," said Anliot.

"It's a feeling of. 'Hey, here's a way to keep people out, or accomplish what we want to It doesnt have to be violence. It can be done without necessarily throwing a brick or committing a specifically unlawful act" In the case of Jung Kim, whose family of five moved to a corner rowhouse on Wellens Avenue in Olney on Aug. 13, the harassment be the teachings of Vatican (1 The church needs to take seriously the evidence that in the years since Vatican II, "many of our people have grown less firm in their belief," Bishop Malone said. He said the church also must ask itself: "Why has the vision of Pope John XXIII (who called Vatican II) and Vatican II been held with by some and set aside by others?" The synod's prescription for making the vision of the council better known is education.

Bishop Malone said. Several bishops. Including Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, have recommended that the church prepare a universal catechism, or handbook of doctrine, based on the teachings of the counciL In addition to giving the bishops a chance to tell the Pope what they thought about the general condition of the church, the synod also gave them a chance to male other bishops around the world awtre of their lo gan with a handball smacked repeatedly, night after night, against the exterior brick wall of his living room. Later, there were burglaries, windows smashed, car tires slashed and taunts, most of which Kim did not even report to authorities initially. "Many times I not call the police," he said last week.

"I want to be a good neighbor hope maybe they'll stop. But they never do." Kim, 37, an American citizen, said he has lived in this country for 10 years. But always, he said, "I am still a visitor here. I know it should not be, but I am always feeling that way." The police have since cleared the corner of the toughs who had congregated there, according to Shana-han, commander of the Civil Affairs Unit. The Kim house is under a periodic police watch.

"Nobody has got hurt," he said. Citywide, Shanahan said, the level of violence associated with racial tensions seems to have waned in recent years. "We have not had the violence we had 4-5-6 years ago," Shanahan said. "In areas that are known to be tension areas the Tasker area of South Philadelphia, the Southwest, others areas tensions are reduced. And I think the intervention agencies have to take a lot of the credit.

The violence level is down." But awful violence has occurred, on occasion, in Philadelphia and its larger metropolitan area, including southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey: the slayings of a black youth and white youth in Southwest Philadelphia in 1979 and 1980; the firebombing of a house occupied by blacks in Roslyn in 1981; the hit-and-run killing of a 7-year-old Hispanic boy in Camden in 1983 that police said was deliberate, the firebombing attack on the home of a Puerto Rican family in the city's Richmond section in 1984. Not included on the human relations commission's list were racially connected incidents that arose for reasons other than someone moving into a neighborhood. On Jan. 29, for instance, a white parent burst into the principal's office at the Gilbert Spruance School on Levick Street in the Oxford Circle cal Tmhlm The synod was "a very representative group," said Cardinal John Dear-den, the retired archbishop of Detroit "The things they have said do capture the condition of the church in their country." African and Asian bishops made sure that their colleagues from other parts of the world understood the significance of incorporating as much as possible of native cultures into Catholicism. Bishops from Latin American laid out their view of the church's role in ending political and economic oppression.

Bishops from communist countries talked about the difficulty of living under governments unfriendly to the church. Bisbops from Eastern Rite churches in union with Rome talked about the difficulty of preserving their identity in the face of the overwhelming domination of the Catholic Church by Roman Catholics. Bishops from the Unyted States and Western Europe talked about the Spirit of Vatican II emerges alive and well from synod SYNOD, from 1-D nism, "rapprochement with the positive aspects of secular culture" and commitment to justice, peace and human rights, he said. "I trust that this has laid to rest fervid expectations that the synod might undo the work of the council." the bishop said. That was never in the cards." Participants in the synod praised Vatican II lavishly, and one synod official.

Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium, referred to it several times as the Magna Carta of the church. But enthusiasm for the council did not keep the bishops from talking about problems facing the church, including diminished respect for church authority, sagging morale among priests, loss of a sense of the sacred and a decline in sexual morality. The bishops attributed those problems to cultural infipences operating on the church from outside, not to ualism. And bishops from all parts of the world talked about ways in which the responsibility for governing the church could be shared between the Pope and the bishops. Many bishops made it clear that they wanted greater local autonomy, both in their own dioceses and in their national bishops' conferences.

The international flavor of the synod, which drew 60 percent of its delegates from Third World countries, demonstrated that the church is entering "a new era," said Archbishop John May of St. Louis. "The whole picture of the church is changing," Archbishop May said. The average Catholic in the United States is going to become aware that he or she is part of "a cosmic process" of creating a new, worldwide Catholic identity, he said. The synod reflected lif.le of the.

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