Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, March 10, 1977, Image 6

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    1*1 S W Annual A A A Suu« H « h School
n c a ie m e n . u e w u » p ayin g extrem ely well now. His
G rant High, the state's • two. opened ita bid for the 1976-77
p a a d . . . he’s rondy. Team speed and Boys' Basketball Championship by pasting a stubborn bat
- j ability w ill lean heavily in the Geural's favor. W efteo
«•iebssed ¡taith Albany team 72-60.
Jordan should be h e best offensive guard on the f k a r and
Grant started slowly and by bad tu rn nan increased tiietr
Jerry Stilw ell can more than handle the Parkrose guards
b
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d to 14 pointe.
AB of ns who w eren't fortunate enough to see this great
defensively. Parkrose just might he better team defensive
Conch Tom Jones be orbed M ark Radford after he draw hn
tears tarin g the re g ila r season and had read se many things
players They w ill have f e w « turnovers for sura. The keys
for both teams w ill be th eir all state players M ark Radford second foul midway through the second quarter. “It's my
pobey to pull any p la y « drawing two fouls that early," joaaa
fabulous team tar the first time.
aad Ray Blume Blume plays with a groat deal
commented.
and is more than adequate at scoring. His
Granted, this perhaps was not one of North's better {Tames,
W elton Jordan supplied the early fire p o w « aad had 14
few. M ark Radford is suuply great. On the basketball
but w h it I saw was a team with no height and not a good deal
be can do it alL H e’. strong inside, but can shoot outoda pointe at half tim e. Jordan finished «rith 16, w h ib Radford b d
of quickness. Den Ainge. reported to be the moat sought
with 19. G rant played the last gams of the first round aad
rebounds exceptionally wen and docs aae the open man
a ft« - prep p la y « in Oregon. w just a n o th « good p la y « -
what else can you a*y?
when asked abou: the b o g w ait. Coach Joaaa replied.
"Pressure!! I thought we would never play I f , good to gut
Jeff Stout. Lake Oswego: M ark Radford. Grant; and Ray
The Blasers are struggling to say the fomt. Last Tuesday this first one u n d « our belts, you 11 see the real Grant team
against
Philadelphia.
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Blume. Park Rose, all seem to have b e » « PAC-8 potential.
Thursday night."
O f course there are other games to play and may be North
had to strug g b to hold on to th eir 106-107 win Portland
Jones met the press after the game aad immediately
Eugene and Dan Ainge will redeem themselves before it ail
« a rte d strong and, in fact, looked a t e the early
displayed a telegram from M a y « Goldschmidt. "Now that's
ends on Saturday night
tc*ra at the beginning
pressure". said a smiling Tom Jones. "Even the M ayor
But for now my pick in the tap bracket i t Parkrose and
But thee, for some strange reason, they reverted to expects us to «rin.'
they should meet the Grant Generals h r the title , w ith Grant
playing tike the 75-76 team and suddenly the 76ers were
Grant's M ark Radford blamed the b u g w ait for the team's
making a strong comeback. U Maurice Lucas hadn't hit that shaky start. "1 was very aware of the officiating tonight and
h t je left handed book shot with 25 seconds remaining jt I’m sure it bothered me some. H l «rork some tomorrow in the
W hat a difference a day makes, sometimes a month or a
would have been another Blaaer foes.
gym and 111 be ready tomorrow." M ark's scoring was a M b
y e « . Seattle's Bill Russel) not tong ago was nding high in
W ithout Bill there seems to he a bttfe stability lacking Not off but h a D o « game was strong, as ■«■»«!
A p ril, but now seems to be shot down in M ay. T h a t’s right.
to say that Robin hasn't filled in adequately . . . or more.
The Generals meet Churchill Thursday night in a
When M ay rails around I look for Bill Russell and the Sonics
M aunee Lucas seems to foal the pressure more now with quarter final game. “I expect a better game from Churchill."
to port company. Sam Schuleman. Seattle's o w n « , has publicly W alton out of the lineup. Oh sure, we beat Seattle Sunday Jones said. “A ll those Eugene teams are tough."
stated that his desire is for Rossi II to step down as G M and
night but they're a weak team and just might self-destruct
"W e were ab b to substitute early, and that helps. Gil
only coach
any moment. Even against S ea ttb . and playing at home we Flowers. I thought, had an excellent game and we need that
never really put them away until the last Q uarter. And from GiL" Flowers scored six points, had seven rebounds aad
Now we all know Bill Russell has often said that in order
I a? still not convinced Russell was raaBy trying to win this two blocked shots.
for him to coach he also must be able to pick his own players.
ooe- As evidenced by the early benching of Fred Brown, who
Grant's defense wasn't as sharp as usual but Jones said
It w ill be interesting to see what develops.
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not worried and that he's sure it «rill come back by
Russel) inherited a troubled team when he was lured to
Tom Burleson saw no fourth quarter aetioa. Russell probably Thursday.
Seattle a f t « winning a world's championship in Boston. Bill
had his reasons, but only he knows whv.
Robert Ix w ia , 6-6 pivot «n«n pbyed a «»«««g inside game
quickly swept a lot of dead weight u n d « the n ig and
The Blazers fell to Buffalo 102 96 Tuesday night in Buffalo
and was devastating on the hoards. Lewis contributed IB
appeared to be heading in the right direction. But the other
Adrian D a n tb y scared 29 pointe aad pulled down IS pointe to the Grant attack.
problems developed with S p en c« Haywood and then
rebounds This is mentioned a t a re m in d « to Hm— of vou
Leonard Gray, and now Slick W atts. Freddie Brown is
that may have forgotten, but anyway D a a tb v was stiB
unhappy and these problems w ill eventually b ed to Russell's
around when Portland drafted WaBy Who.
demise.
Mnod Tuesday. March * h and Barney Holland
broueht his N orth Eureoe travelling show to Portland with a
p o rted 22-0 record, one of f o « undefe a ted teams. and ratod
«1 in the state.
I t is a sad thing to see happening to one of the N B A s
b e » « franchises.
W hen the players are unhappy with the coach and the
conch gets no support from the owners, and the fans join in.
then it's a hopeless siiuauoo and it's too bad far Bill.
Okay. I've gone out on the limb for Grant to win it all by
beating a good Parkrose team in the finals. Let's examine the
the key match-ups for both teams. Look for Ray Blume, the
6-4 P a r k » « pivotm aa to have his hands full w ith the 6-6
Blazer brass seems to shim local players so there seems to
be no chance of seeing Oregon's Greg BaBard «rearing the
Red and Black of Portland. Can't help but think, h o w e v « , it
would be very nice w ith GB working alongside Maurice
Bill. It's hoped th a t Stu Inman doesn't think Greg
«nil
be around in the Into second round, as he thought in the ease
of Ron Lee. W hat a mistake that proved to be. Ballard is
strong, swift and a terrific shooter and at 6-7 could block very
well in Ramsey's style.
Central Catholic lost to Medford 56-55 in overtim e. D m ra
by 18 midway through the first half Central fought back to
send the game into overtime.
Byron Howell, 6-2 freshman forward was very instrum ent­
al in Central's comeback. . . and appears to be on the w ay to a
very good prop c a re « .
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sovereign countries.
Today Palestinians comprise two-
thirds of the population of Jordan, half
the populations of the Israeli-occupied
lands, a third of the population of K u w ait
and about 12 percent of the population of
They are a key ingredient of not only
the Arab-larneU conflict, but the eon
frootatioo between the industrialized and
Third Worlds and the relationship of the
superpowers And whatever happens in
the near future, this a quite unlikely to
Even if they get the; mini-state, the
Palestinians are likely to remain a n atxn
whoae population and influence continues
to l a largely outside its borders.
“Faced with explusion aad exile " ob-
•m re d Prof. Nabeei Shaath of the Am ari
can University of Beirut, the Pabatim aas
turned to “adueatioo as a m— « .
l -tioual self-preservation " Encounter
ing the Arabs' own hostility to the
strangers in their midst, the Palestinian
"had to study hard to enhance his
personal competitive p o w « and over
come the disadvantages emanating from
his refugee status' as w ell.*
A W O R L D FO R CE
I f both the social origins aad human
««sequences at the Palestinian »topnn.
seastiuo resemble U mmc th at nurtured
Zionism, so-tbougfa neither side admits
rt-th e politicaJ *esults have
run
increasingly parallel.
Just as the Zionist movement derived
its initial strength not from the Oriental
J e w . B ring u n d « Moseiem ru b but from
Jews b rin g in Europe, so the ferment
that produced the PLO began not in—A—
Israel or the camps but among a Palestin
ian elite scattered aeroes the A rab worid
Y a a a « A ra fa t s t r t e d not as a seared
ravofutiooary but as an e n g in e « in
Kuw ait.
The consequences have also been wm,
b r.
L ik e the International Zionist Organi
zation Organization before it. the Pales
tine Liberation Organization (PLO ) today
is an tm b re lb movement sheltering radi
cab aad reactionaries, terrorists and the
victims of te rro ris m -a c t by what they
have in comm on-but in what they lack.
Some tim e ago in Amman, a wealthy
Palestinian la w y « showed a visitor
around U s lavish house. “T U s w not my
home." he said. “M y sons ask me when
we w ill go home and I remind them of the
p arabb of Moaes. I f it does not cóme in
my lifetim e, it «rill come in theirs."
U n d « th eir graduation photographs in
A rab school yearbooks. Palestinian stu­
dente do not any w here they bve. Instead
they bat. as forwarding addresses, cities
they have never seen: “Jerusalem. Pales
tine; Acre. Palestine; Jaffa. Palestine "
As th eir historical quarrel grows deep
« , the tw o peoples resemble each other
more and more, and one is b f t , in the end.
neither with Israelis nor Palestinians, but
only with people people whose quest for
a future condemns them to constant
reenactments of the past.
Haunted by the concentration camps of
Europe, the Jews have become the
masters of Gaza, Samaria and Judea.
Resisting the JudaizaUon of taser b ad .
the Palestinians have become the new
people of the Diaspora
(Next: The
T erritories.)
in the Occupied
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