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Poor Press and Arabs Discussed by Mawlawi By MIKE BUCK Emerald Staff Writer Farouk Mawlawi of San Fran cisco told a meeting of the Or ganization of Arab students Tuesday that Gamal Abdul Nas ser of the United Arab Republic did not tell the United States envoy to "go to hell” as reported in the American press. Mawlawi pointed this out as evidence of poor press in the United States. Nasser, the United Arab Republic President, was later quoted as saying "Jump in the lake” and still later, "Drink from the sea.” Mawlawi said that the third translation was most accurate. In his discussion of recent developments in the Arab world, he accused the press of con tributing to Americans’ misunder standing of the Arab states. The Arab world has a population of 100 million people, and its 13 states cover 4^ million miles. Mawlawi told of the Arab Israeli conflict. The United Na tions resolution 194-111. Article 11, orders Israel to allow refu gees to return to their former homeland. Yet Israel continues to refuse the Arabs re-entry, Mawlawi accused. This involves 1.250.000 people living just out side Israel's borders. Mawlawi voiced the Arab states’ protest over West tier many's gift of $35 million worth of arms, including armored tanks, to Israel. Mawlawi said these arms were obviously intended for use against the Arabs. Mawlawi said that 80% of Europe’s oil comes from the Arab states He cited Kuwait as an excellent example of Arab poten tial. A few years ago it was a desert wasteland and now Ku wait is a "model state with the highest standard of living in the entire area.” He said, however, that the Arab world cannot be compared with countries such as the United States, which have Students Discuss Viet Nam War Two University graduate stu dents discussed "U.S., Get Out Students Look at Viet Nam, Tuesday afternoon in a YMCA Dialogue. James Boggs, graduate in Chemistry, and Hal Boyer, grad uate in anthropology, both said they thought the United States ought to halt the war in Viet Nam. “It is a question of morality— people’s lives are involved,” Boyer said. He held that the U S. has no moral right to be involved in the war. “Americans of conscience have to act and demand the U.S. pull out of Viet Nam,” he said. Quoting several distinguished world statesmen and scholars, in eluding Bertrand Russell, Dwight D Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, Boyer said “the war is a native, home-grown indigenous revolution—a civil war. ’ Boggs agreed that a civil war is raging in Viet Nam, not a fight to prevent the spread of commu-, nism. He also said the important is sue concerning U.S. involvement in Viet Nam is not whether to pull out or not. but “when to pull out and under what condi tions.” Boggs said the the ideology of the U.S. is fundamentally prefer able to that of Red China; how ever, he noted that the U.S. policy in Viet Nam is not work ing. The lack of success was due “to the forceful exporting of the U.S. ideology to Viet Nam, and the fact that the 1954 Geneva Convention decision has been ignored.” He said “our puppet dictators have been as bad on the right as the Communists would be on the left.” Boggs also said that communism in Viet Nam would be nativized, not under Chinese control. Boyer, a member of the Stu dents for Socialist Action on cam pus, said the “Domino theory doesn’t deserve to be discussed ” This theory holds that if one country in an area. Southeast Asia, for instance, is overtaken by Communism, this will cause the other governments to topple. Boggs, who will participate in the all night demonstration by the Student-Faculty Committee to Stop the War in Viet Nam next Friday, said “it is not too late for the U S. to pull out. We can still negotiate and allow South Viet Nam to determine its own fate.” been industrialized much longer When asked about Commu nism, Mawlawi said, "Commu nism is completely incompatible with the Arab way of life and religious beliefs. Communism has made no gains at all among the Arab people." About 65 persons attended Mawlawi's speech in the Student Union Tuesday. Mawlawi attended high school in Tripoli, Lebanon, before study ing a year at the University of London At Roosevelt College he received his B.S. in mathematics in 1956, and in 1957 he received his M A. in political science at the University of Chicago. 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