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8 Portland Observer Thursday. March 17. 1977 Controcton vneet officiais Book justifies a ffirm a tiv e action Eugene Jackson. Executive Director of programs to motivate the youth in the the NMCA. and Al Wingfield, Assistant Portland area. Yet. the unemployment Director, recently returned from a bust rate for this group far exceeds 35%. ness trip to Washington. D.C. 3. This area lacks supportive services Jackson met with President Carter's and financial and management assistant lop aides in the White House to discuss programs for minority businessmen and problems of minority businessmen and contractors. These services are vital for contractors in Oregon and the North the development of viable, competitive west. minority firms in our area. While in Washington. Mr. Jackson and Jackson and M mgfield also discussed Wingfield met with Senator Mark 0 . the successes they have made in this Hatfield. Congressman Al 1'liman and area. Specific reference was made to the several other congressional leaders. State of Oregon set aside program which Some of the major points discussed the NMCA was instrumental in negotia .*** «overnmei't wer* the ,oi ting with the state officials. This lowing: "CUJs were the f0J program is the only one of its kind in the 1. There is a great need for the federal U.S., but a similar program is being contract compliance to be consolidated considered at the National level. The under one agency That agency should NMt A will be assisting congressional have the authority to implement and members in designing such a program. enforce the laws currently on the books. According to Mr. Jackson, the trip was As it is now there is duplication, con quite successful and his feelings is that fusion and lack of direct accountability. “...the Carter Administration will be 2. There are no vocational training responsive to the needs of poor people and the minority businessman." The Lengthening Shadow of Ms very: A Historical Justifies tics For Affirmative Action for Blacka in Higher Education presents and evaluates two important themes: the history of the education of Blacks, from the age of slavery to the present, and the history of affirmative action programs in education. Topics also discussed are the education of Rlacks during slavery; the Freedmen'a Bureau and its efforts to educate Blacks; the era of Jim Crow and its separate but equal doctrine, and the contemporary plight of Blacks who seek education. Dr. John E. Fleming, the author of the book and a Senior Fellow of The Institute for the Study of Educational Policy at Howard University, documents the per sistent pattern of discrimination against Blacks in education. He concludes that evils and wrongs committed on the basis of race are unlikely to be remedied without taking rare into account and that affirmative action programs can reverse Oregon Bar offers referral service Herb Cawthorn. director of the Educational Opportunity Center, at Portland University, recently appeared before the Jackson High student body to urge students 1 to take four years of English. When informed that the recent high school graduation requirements called only for three years of high school English. Cawthorn referred to this as being 'a catastrophe." He declared that all students should take four years of English even though they do not intend to go to college. Cawthorn s column appears regularly on the Oregonian s editorial page. The Educational Opportunity Center deals with students needing help to overcome deficiencies in written and oral communication to be able to survive in a college environment. How can a member of the public in Oregon find a lawyer who specializes in criminal law? Labor relations law? Workmen's Compensation? Through a new specialization and cert ification program now being developed by the Oregon State Bar and scheduled for completion within the next two or three years, lists of lawyers and thetr specialities will be made available to the general public. The program anticipates that lawyers will be required to regularly and continually update their legal educa tion in their chosen fields of law; they will have to meet specific standards, ap proved by the Oregon Supreme Court, in order to qualify for certification by the Court as specialists in those fields. In the meantime, until the criteria for certification can be developed, the Su preme Court has approved rules for “dissemination of information to the public by lawyers.” The new rules permit the Oregon State Bar to publish regional directories for distribution to the general public, listing all lawyers in private practice in each region. The purpose is to give members of the public more information about the lawyers in their part of the state, and to enable them to select one whose interest is in the field of law in which they may have a problem. The directories aFe now being compiled and should be ready for publication in 60 to 90 days. Initially, distribution will be to libraries, news paper offices, police stations, hospitals, court houses, public and private agencies, community centers and other locations easily accessible to the public. The information will include, in add ition to name, address, and phone num ber, a lawyer's age. education, name of law school, date of graduation and of admission to the Oregon Bar. and to any other state Bar. It will include whether the lawyer is with a firm or is a solo practitioner; what foreign languages, if any, are spoken; office hours, and wheth ei or not the lawyer will take emergency calls after hours. It will also tell the public how much the lawyer will charge to consult with a new client in an initial one-half hour conference. And if the lawyer's practice is limited to one or more areas of the law such as patent and trademark, or admiralty law - the directory will contain that infer mat ion, as well as any specific areas of law excluded from his or her practice. The Bar. in developing its future specialization and certification program, is establishing “sections” to which its members may elect to belong. Each section - eighteen at present - will deal with a specific field of law. Ultimately, a practicing lawyer will be permitted to list up to three specialities, plus "general practice," for which he or she has been certified by the Oregon Supreme Court. Palestinians in the occupied territories I Second of four parts) bv T .D . B.ARDALA. WEST BANK (PNSI-In the two Palestinian villages of Bardala and Tel el Beida. the long Arab- Israeli conflict is one neither of grand geopolitical principle nor of recondite detail it is simply a problem afflicting human beings. Just a few years ago the most signifi cant thing about these two villages located in the central Jordan River valley near what until 1967 was the West Bank's northern boundary with Israel was that, in spite of four Arab Israeli wars, the thousand or so villagers had made some progress. At Tel el Beida a modern irrigation system had doubled the crop yields. At Bardala. the villagers had constructed a municipal water system that piped drink ing water to each household. Now the irrigation system at Tel el Beida is a ruin of dusty culverts. At Bardala the pipes are dry, and the village women, as in the days of Turkish rule, once again walk nearly a kilometer to letch drinking water and then laboriously carry it back to their houses. The source of their misfortune is the nearby Medah cooperative farm: a new Israeli settlement of modern housing surrounded by high fences where 30 families now live. A year after the Israeli army swept through the area. Israeli engineers sur veyed the two Palestinian villages. Then, in violation of Jordanian law-which Israel as the occupying power is obliged by the Geneva convention to respect -the Israel is drilled a new and deeper well only a few yards from the Palestinian well. The villagers complained to the mili tary government, but to no avail. The Israelis not only denied them permission to drill an artesian well to compensate for their lost water but refused to sell them water from the Israeli settlement. Such situations are far from rare a decade after Gen. Moshe Dayan told his troops: "Soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces, we do not aim at conquest." The Israelis have established some 84 settle ments in Arab territories occupied in 1967, accoring to American Friends Ser vice Committee figures. Under Israeli occupation, the Arab population of the Golan Heights seized from Syria has been reduced from about 130,000 to 13,285. As a result of Israeli policy in lands seized from Jordan, some 200.000 Palestinians have been forced to emigrate to foreign countries. Even within the densely populated Gaza Strip, where nearly 450.000 Pales tinians are compressed into an area of 120 square miles, the Israelis have confis cated nearly 100,000 acres and estab lisbed four Jewish settl« ,ents. In the highlands above the Jordan valley, the new Allon Road runs the length of Samaria through lands from which all traces of Palestinian settlement are being systematically eradicated. Pal estiaman cuter ns have been sealed. Pal estinian croplands have been defoliated or transferred to Israeli settlers. Since 1967, in fact, the Israelis have confiscated some 80 percent of the ar. Me land abutting the West Bank of the Jordan River. Along the highway running north from Jericho toward Galilee, where Palestin lan fields once bloomed, the Israelis have created a desert. One passes dozens of dismantled irrigation stations and miles of fences barring the Palestinian popula lion from lands they once cultivated. For the Palestinians, such systematic destruction of Arab farmlands is a clear sign of Israeli intentions. They believe the Israelis are not merely seeking military security but creating political conditions in which the Palestinians will be unable to establish a viable national state of their own. “I have seen the Israelis watch a farmer double his output.” a U.S. trained development expert said, “and then seize half his land. Their aim is to keep the Palestinians an impoverished people." In the Jordan valley village of El Makhruk. a Palestinian farmer pointed to the Israeli barbed wire and desolate fields beyond. “They have taken away three-quarters of what my father willed to me.” he said. “I fear my sons will be landless laborers, forced to wander on strange lands." At Bardala, a Palestinian landowner pointed to the Israeli well. “No guns are being fired," he said, “but the Israelis are making war on our right to five. W'e could dismantle their well some night." he added, “but then the soldiers wouild come. They would deport our elders and imprison our sons. They would tell the world the terrorists have struck again." Early this year Israeli Foreign Mini ster Yigal Allon ordered intensified Is raeli settlem ent of the Occupied Territor ies. If the Allon plan were implemented, the lands left to the Palestinians- whether they formed an independent state or were linked to Jordan would comprise three small, truncated regions: Samaria. Judea and Gaza, all largely or entirely cut off from each other, hedged in on all sides by Israeli troops, guns and barbed wire. DUAL STANDARD Palestinian suspicions are inflamed not only by Israeli policy but what they consider an unending pattern of Israeli provocations. In the Gaza Strip, where the population density exceeds 4.000 persons per square mile, Israelis have been permitted not only to establish businesses employing cheap Palestinian labor, but to live there if they wish. But Palestinian laliorers working in Israeli territory are not permitted to live where they work. Instead, they must spend many hours daily traveling to and from Jewish areas. The Palestinians of Gaza are obliged to pay Israeli taxes, but they do not receive Israeli social benefits. And while Israeli products are allowed free entry into the Occupied Territories, Palestinian pro ducts are not permitted to compete with Israeli goods inside Israel. Such Israeli policies not just in Gaza but throughout the Occupied Territories have produced an ironic result. iJesigned to make the Palestinian population more pliable, they instead have helped to radicalize local politics and win for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) a degree of support it did not enjoy before 1967. “If there is any complaint against (PLO head! Yasser Arafat, it is that he is too moderate." a Palestinian journalist re cently observed. When Israel permitted West Bank elections a year ago as required by the Geneva convention, candidates openly supporting the PLO won every contest- even though several of the most popular West Bank leaders were under political detention and one likely winner was deported before the vote was held. An in Gaza, where demands for elec tions even by the conservative Israeli- appointed mayor Rashad El Shawa were denied by the Israeli government, no one now disputes that free elections would produce an overwhelming victory for the PLO. Late last year, the Israeli military governor of Gaza. Brig. Gen. David Maimon, outlined plans for the future of the strip. Whether or not Israel ultimate ly withdrew from Gaza. Gen. Maimon said, the stnp would be surrounded by fortified Israeli settlements, including a number established in former Egyptian territory. Gaza would be denied any territorial contact with other Arab territory, and its population would be permanently quaran tined from the surrounding Arab lands. Any possibility of the Gazans ever re turning to the lands from which they h»<J fled, or receiving compensation for prop ertv lost tc the Israelis, was categorically excluded. the historical effects of racism. Dr. Fleming notes that 'to act justly in the present and future, the past must be recalled because in large part it shaped present conditions." The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery attempts to give the reader (his much needed historical perspective. Address orders and inquiries directly to Howard University Press. Price: $5.95 Paper ISBN: 0-88258074-4 Concordia receives granl Concordia College has been awarded a $5,384 grant from the National Endow ment for the Humanities. This grant is for the period from January 1, 1977 to August 31. 1977. Concordia is one of twenty six insitulions of higher education in the United States who were awarded grants under the Consultants program of the National Endowment for the Humani ties National Board. The purpose of the Consultants pro grant Is to provide institutions the oppor tunity. through expert advice, to build or strengthen new humanities curricula into their programs. Serving in this capacity for Concordia College is Dr. Ed Undell. President of Gustavus Adlophus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Dr. Arthur G. Wählers. Academic Dean of Concordia College stated. “We are extrem ely grateful in being recipients of this grant and utilizing the services of Dr. Lindell in providing assistance to our humanities curriculum." V et job seminar scheduled A seminar to teach Vietnam veterans how to get the jobs they want will be held in Portland on Thursday. March 31. from 130 to 430 p.m. at the Pacific Power and Light Auditorium. 2nd floor, 920 S.W. 6th Avenue. Sonny Jepson. director of the Portland office of the National Alliance of Bum nessmen, said the seminar will offer Vietnam veterans an opportunity to learn from businessmen and employment ex peris how to get the jobs and information they want. "Young veterans returning to the job market need to know more about self marketing skills, job options and oppor tunities," Jepson said. "At the seminar we will show them how and where t« go for jobs and employment counseling, how to prepare a resume, how to go into business for yourself, and veterans bene fits and programs that can help them in their pursuit of a career. Based on follow up studies on the last five seminars an average of 58 per cent of the veterans who attend this program will have jobs within 30 to 45 days." Jepson added that the seminar is free of charge but requires registration as partiripation will be limited to 50 veter ans. Interested veterans should call Chuck Ixing. Manager. Jobs for Veterans for the National Alliance of Businessmen, at 226 4063. “Gaza," an American official stationed father's time in Jaffa.' there later commented, "is a place where Then, referring to a text as old as one s nose is constantly being rubbed in Moses, he summed up the fate that now the dirt. Periodically, the Israelis pick up haunts all Palestinians, wherever they one of my employees and make an live, by reciting from memory the 23rd example of him. just to show the Palestin chapter of Exoidus: ians they cannot look to the inter national relief agencies for protection. I will not drive them out from The last time they took one of my before thee in one year; lest the employees, they tortured him by forcing land become desolate and the his own shoe down his throat." beasts of the field multiply aganist thee. By little and little I will drive INMATES OF GAZA them out before thee, until thou be For many Palestinians, water starved increased, and inherit the land. villages like Bardala and the defoliated farmlands along the Jordan conjure up a (Next:The Palestinians in Israel.) future in which, as a Palestinian agricul tural expert employeed by a U.S. relief agency put it. "We will all become inmates of Gaza strips, if the Israelis have their way." “The Palestinians complain all the "The secret of happiness is curiosity." Norman Douglas time.” remarked Medah Cooperative member Hillel Wiseberg. “They forget all their progress is due to us. This is our land." he added. “We will never give it back." But Wiseberg, who emigrated to Israel from Britain, acknowledged that this was the first time he had heard of his neighbors water problem. And he freely conceded that in eight years there he had Each Saturday at 81*1 p.m. never entered either Palestinian village, at the never taken a meal with a Palestinian and never engaged in prolonged conversation HIGHLAND United Church of with any of his non Jewish neighbors. Ijiter. only a few hundred yards away, 4635 N.fc 9th. com er of Goins a Christian Palestinian pointed to the Reverend Samuel Johnson. Pastor parched fields around him and said: “It is Sotw day Night Evangelistic Oatreacb for Jews Christ a very old Jewish policy. The Israelis are doing here what they did in my grand Bev. Loon Brower Jr. Preaching DR. 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