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The American University of
Beirut is grappling with the
legacy of nine years of civil war
in Lebanon.
founded by American mis
sionaries in 1866. the university
has been praised for helping
foster the climate of Arab na
tionalism that led to the over
throw of colonial powers in the
Middle Last.
But now it is almost more a
U-banese than an Arab institu
tion. The war has reduced
enrollment of students from
countries other than Lebanon,
as well as contributed to a
budget deficit of more than $8
million.
Christian and Moslem
students have repeatedly clash
ed on the campus over political
issues that have divided their
nation.
The university’s American
president. Malcolm Kerr, was
assassinated in a hallway out
side his office last January.'
An engineering professor,
Frank Regier, was kidnapped
and held for more than two
months after the Moslem militia
takeover of west Beirut in
February.
The university has Lebanese
police and army guards at its
gates, but some American facul
ty members feel the institution
will continue to be a target as
long as American foreign policy
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is viewed as anti-Arab.
“The United States often
makes decisions in Lebanon
without paying attention to
whether it puts Americans here
in danger,” said English in
structor Tanyss Ludescher of
Galena, 111.
She pointed to the gunfire of
the battleship New Jersey
against Druse positions during
last spring's civil war, and the
recent U.S. veto of a U.N.
Security Council resolution
critical of the Israeli occupation
of south Lebanon.
Ludescher — and several
other Americans who spoke on
condition they not be identified
— charged that diplomats at the
U.S. Embassy ignored them and
other U.S. citizens here. She
noted that the Americans have
closed their Beirut embassy of
fices after the Sept. 20 truck
bomb attack on their east Beirut
annex.
“They haven't even bothered
to give us a telephone number
where we can reach them in an
emergency,” she said. “It's a
private glub. When there\s trou
ble they take care of each other,
not us.”
Welfare policy
under challenge
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policy of cutting off welfare
payments to people who have
received lump-sum settlements
as a result of personal injuries.
The lawsuit, filed in LJ.S.
District Court last week by Legal
Aid Service on behalf of two
Portland mothers, seeks cer
tification as a class-action
lawsuit on behalf of all welfare
recipients who have faced such
cutoffs.
The state’s policy, the lawsuit
says, is to take a lien for half of
the amount of any personal in
jury settlement that goes direct
ly to the welfare recipient. The
recipient's monthly welfare
allotment is then divided into
the amount of the recipient’s
half of the settlement, and
welfare payments are suspend
ed for the resulting number of
months.
The lawsuit contends such
cutoffs deny equal protection of
the law by letting the state
count money from a personal
injury settlement as “income.”
The lawsuit was" filed on
behalf of Eufemia LaMadrid and
Debbie Viskov.
I^iMadrid "was severely burn
ed in a fire and received $7,450
in compensation, after the state
had taken an equal amount, the
lawsuit said. The state then
suspended monthly payments
on which LaMadrid and her son
were expected to live for the
next 15 months.
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