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The Record Newspaper 28 October 1982

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"It's good to be out of gaol," said WA Columban Father Gore when released on bail last week and before a new damning suspicion of murder surfaced against his accuser Lieutenant Gallo in a dramatic turn of events. (See story box below.) Father Gore was In a direct on-air inter- and a visiting bishop and released at 5 pm on view with Father Brian 98 priests said Mass for T uesday, October 19. Morrison on the 6PR Father Gore. The day before he was Howard Sattler pro- "The cell was about 4 due to start a four -day gramme, Father Gore des- metres square, just bars how for three days and walls, with mats on the retreat. Instead, the cribed t housands of people floor," Father Gore said. bishop was obliged to wended their way down "We were treated well and deliver him for impri- from the mountains, and people from the surroundsonment by the in the plaza, before 7000 ing towns brought us our authorities. people, Bishop Fortich food so we did not have to

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eat prison rations. We had good food but we were still locked up. "Our church lawyer was St Joachim is back in his position of honour in front of the Victoria Park church and Bishop excellent in court and it is Healy is pictured dedicating the statue last Sunday after a confirmation ceremony. The largely because of him that former statue was tumbled off its mount by vandals and smashed. At right is Father Micallef we are able to get bail. He who this week leaves to become head of the Paulist Fathers in Australia. knew where he was going, he knew his facts and was able to outwit the govern- having another Church- because without support ment prosecutor who was Military Liaison commit- from the people in Austratee meeting on Monday lia it could be very difficult trying to block bail." The first charge against October 25 and I think for us. Father Gore was that there will be a lot of things "Your support will be a Lieutenant Gallo had exposed there. (See box help to my six Filipino associates who are in much found a grenade and five below. bullets in the priest's "With local community greater danger thanI am.I support here and support can be deported but much house. Asked why the second from Australia and other more can happen to them VATICAN CITY: The "whole man" and more serious charge of places the bishop and we if they are put in prison." inciting rebellion had been are very grateful the people F ather Morrison told and not just organs and tissues must laid only now, Father Gore in Australia have taken up Father Gore that his be the ultimate concern of scientific the cudgels. remarks were being transsaid: "If we were inciting to "We have received tele- mitted in a nationwide experimentation, Pope John Paul rebellion in 1979, 1980 or grams telling us of nation- Australian network and said last Saturday. 1981 why were we not wide support in Australia. were being channelled As a result, said the pope, some types of experiments picked up then? Why did The Australian Embassy directly to the Minister for aimed at curing chromosomal defects should be fosrepresentative came down Foreign Affairs Mr Tony they wait until 1982? tered, but "experimental manipulations of the human "It is a fabrication and I here for a few days and Street. embryo" must be condemned. took a interest keen in the "We are committed to believe the purpose of their The pope's words came in a talk given to 40 interna"pushing the case is to dis- proceedings and has been a carry on," said Father tional experts meeting in Rome at a week-long conferGore, "whatever the ence on biological credit me publicly and put great help. experimentation. the people in fear of being "We still have a long way risks. Thank you for your In his 15-minute, English-language address the ponpeople and hope I go to support and keep hanging tiff praised associated with the priest experimentation on animals and on and the Church's pro- will continue to support us in there." artificially-cultivated human tissues which can lead to gramme. the cure of diseases related to chromosomal defects. Lieutenant Gallo, the officer who "It is propaganda rather The pope lauded those "who have endeavoured to than an airtight case -establish, with full respect for man's dignity and freeto claimed find a grenade and which they do not have dom, guidelines and limits for experiments concerning and which in a proper bullets at Father Gore's house man. court we will be able to dis- "has always had a bad record. This "But," he said, "I condemn, in the most explicit and prove. The military are not time he can't escape. formal way, experimental manipulations of the human He an is evil no showing their cards but embryo, since the human being, from conception to doubt they are monitoring man," said Bishop Fortich in an death, cannot be exploited for any purpose whatt he situation very interview with The Daily News on soever." arefully. c The pope called man "the ultimate object of scientific Tuesday. "At the same time we are research, the whole man, spirit and body, even if the Telling how Lieutenant Gallo is being questioned taking precautions for our immediate object is its organs and tissues. own safety because in on suspicion of murder Bishop Fortich said: "He will "Animals are at the service of man and can hence be be arrested soon and charged with murder. He is a c ourt yesterday it was 100 the object of experimentation," the pope added, sadist." points for us and zero for Bishop Fortich said the questioning of Lieutenant "Nevertheless, they must be treated as creatures of God them." Gallo followed the discovery of the body of Carlos which are destined to serve man's good, but not to be recent the Asked about Orchida, the brother of the bishop's driver, buried in abused by him." discovery of a body sus"Decreasing experimentation of animals, which has a military compound. pected of being a military progressively been made ever less necessary, corresHe had been tortured and died of a fractured skull Father victim force „task ponds to the plan and well-being of all creation." and broken ribs. W Gore said: The pope also told the scientists that he was praying Lieu tenant Gallo's case surfaced during Monday's "We believe there are still that God would "direct the application of scientific Church -Military Liaison meeting attended by be 3000 bodies to of number a research to the production of new food supplies, since peasants in a school quadrangle. uncovered in the area in "It has given a tremendous lift to the case of Father one of the greatest challenges that humanity must face, which the task force has together with the danger of nuclear holocaust, is the Gore," he said. been operating. We are 'hunger of the poor of this world."

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