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. He is
the director of the Arab Infor
mation Center at San Francisco
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