‘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
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erate their objections of rezoning
the property, included on
tonight’s Planning Commission
agenda.
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nexed the acreage to the city and
zoned it commercial and residen
tial in February, 1977. 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
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yet arrived in Eugene.
“A delay is necessary because
the property owners and city
planning staff want the Planning
Commission to decide the zoning
question before the city even re
ceives the final order from
LCDC,” PPAL’s press statement
said. ‘The commission will clearly
run the risk of compounding and
repeating errors of the past.’’
Should the Planning Commis
sion again zone 260 acres of the
Cone-Breeden property R-1 (or
single family residential), 10
acres C-1 (for a shopping center
to serve the area) and the remain
ing 120 acres light industrial,
PPAL plans to appeal once more.
“If the commission throws cau
tion to the wind and chooses to
proceed, we maintain and will re
quest that the remaining 270
acres be placed in a city agricul
tural zone,” according to the
statement.
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.”