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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1978)
‘Old friend’ says pope will take liberal view By JAS SAUND Of the Emerald Visiting Sociology Prof. Mikola Kozakiewicz has worked with Pope Johr Paul II and says the new pontiff will be a humanist, more liberal than his predeces sors on birth control and will take a mor< realistic attitude when dealing with the communist governments. Kodakiewicz has known 50-year-old Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla for at least two decades and considers the new pope his good friend; ; both of them were active in Poland s family planning program. Wojtyla, a little-known archibishop of Krakow, is the 263rd successor to the Throne of St. Peter and the first non-Italian to lead the 700 million-member church. The last non-Italian pope was Dutchman Adran VI, who reigned in 1522-1523. The 111 cardinal-electors, meeting for the second time in two months to select a pontiff, made their decision in the second dav of voting in their secret Sistine Chapel conclave. It came on what was apparently the seventh or eighth ballot. The new pope was born in Wadowice, Poland, on May 18, 1920. The son of a chemical factory worker, he studied philosophy and theology at the seminary in Krakow. After his ordination he traveled to Rome and earned a doctorate in philosophy at the Angelicum College in 1948. His return to Poland coincided with the rise of the communist government and he was forced to work under severe restric tions as a parish assistant in Krakow. There, he earned a reputation as a flexible prelate, and he has since developed a close working relationship with Polish gov ernment officials. Wojtyla's relations with the Communist government have been businesslike ac cording to Kozakiewicz, and in the church meetings he urged there will be no head on clash with the ruling Communist party. It is not the church’s place toteach un believers," Wojtyla once said. "Let us avoid any spirit of monopolizing and moralizing.” Wojtyla was named a cardinal in 1967. Kozakiewicz contends his elevation was a move to temper the influence of Poland’s arch-conservative, outspoken primate, 76-year-old Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. The new pope has always stood in the shadow of more famous and controversial Wyszynski, he says. Like Kozakiewicz, Pope John Paul II is a sociologist and has published a widely read book “Love and Responsibility.” He feels it is one's responsibility to enjoy sex. “He is a progressive person for a country like Poland and represents the progressive wing of the Catholic church who happens to believe that sexual pleasure is a gift of God," says Kozakiewicz. “The book was an act of revolution and a revelation at the same time, especially for an orthodox society like Polish.” Wojtyla also has spoken out forcefully on poverty and hunger in the Third World— a position that undoubtedly brought him support in the conclave from the growing number of cardinals from developing coun tries. Wojtyla, the youngest man to assume the papacy in this century, has widely traveled around the world, lecturing as far as the United States and Australia on problems of ehtics and church morals. Besides Latin and Polish, he is fluent in English, Italian, French and German. Kozakiewicz is teaching this term at the University as a Ful bright scholar. He is here by a joint invitation of the political science department, the Russian and East Euro pean studies center and the sociology de partment. He teaches sociology when in Poland and is a member of non-communist small Polish Peasants party. Mlkolaj Kozakiewicz ‘Cone-Breeden Eight’ object to property rezoning By CATHERINE SIEGNER Of the Emerald Even if they have to go back to court again, members of People to Preserve Agricultural Lands (PPAL) intend to fight to keep 390 acres of farmland on Eugene's NE boundary free from commercial and residential development. Four of the original “Cone Breeden Eight” held a press con _2mu Cultural Forum EMU Cultural Forum and Double Tee proudly present a superb evening of Jazz with: Aim! 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Eight members of PPAL then filed suit challenging the action on pro cedural grounds. ‘We objected to the simultane ous zoning and annexation pro cedure,” says PPAL member Cynthia Wooten. “There was no orderly conversion of the property from county agricultural zoning to commercial and residential.” The group went through two hearings before the state Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) to determine if it had standing to appeal the zoning decision. Standing granted, six more hearings were conducted on the issue across the state, and in June, 1978, LCDC said the city had not shown a need for residen tial zoning in the Cone-Breeden area, and that Goal 14 of LCDC's guidelines, which provides for the protection of prime agricultural lands, had not been “adequately addressed.” Agricultural land may seem plentiful in Eugene, but it is not in the state as a whole,” Wooten says. “Only one-half of one per cent of the total land area in Oregon is Class I soil. Only 2.8 percent is Class II." Classes I and II identify the top two grades of agricultural soils. PPAL is asking the Planning Commission for a delay in con sideration of the most recent zon ing request so that LCDC's order may be received. LCDC followed up its oral ruling on Cone Breeden with a written order out lining steps the city must take to comply With state regulations. 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LCDC has upheld the light in dustrial zoning for 120 acres of the Cone-Breeden property. Rumors have circulated that the U.S. Bureau of Land Manage ment plans to build headquarters on the parcel. The Planning Commission will take up the controversial zoning issue at 7:30 p.m. in the Eugene City Council chambers. PPAL will base its next move on what hap pens at the meet meeting. We aren’t professionals at land-use planning,' Wooten says. We don't even know as much as the Planning Commission, but it seems strange that we are in the position of having to pay out of our own pockets to preserve open spaces and farmland for the city of Eugene.”
