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Middle East: The next world war???
by Catherine Siegner
M. BEGIN
Events in the M id d le East have
captured our collective attention for
several years now as the U .S . a t
tempts to stabilize its access to the
a rea ’ s o il supplies am id explosive
political maneuverings.
Never a very calm region, the situ
ation was d ra m atic ally shaken by
the assissination o f Egyptian Presi
dent A n w ar S ad at, a re lativ ely
staunch supporter o f the U .S . and
correspondingly seen m ore and
more by other Arab countries as an
enemy to Arab solidarity in disputes
with Israel.
S a d at’ s support did not come
cheap. The U .S . government spent
millions in m ilitary arms and other
aid to effectively buy his friendship.
This did not go unnoticed by his
neighbors, who viewed him as a sell
out for p articip atin g in the C am p
D avid accords w ith Is raeli P rim e
M in iste r M en ach im Begin and
fo rm er U .S . President Jim m y
Carter.
There are ongoing debates about
whether Sadat met his end because
o f his willingness to deal unilaterally
with Israel and the U .S ., or because
there were factions w ithin his own
government who wanted a less dip
lomatic and a more violent encount
er w ith the Israelis. Perhaps both
reasons were at w o rk , or perhaps
others we know nothing about.
As this discussion goes o n , the
Jewish and A ra b com m u nities in
P o rtla n d , as well as Palestinians,
are taking part. This week we hear
from Lanita Anderson, editor o f the
P o rtla n d Jewish R eview , who has
studied both the history o f the re
gion and the current situation.
’ ’ 1 think Sadat was a moderating
in flu en ce,” she says. “ His overall
interest was not to push Israel into
the sea like other Arab states.” A n
derson believes S a d a t’ s absence
from the scene could encourage the
more anti-Israeli attitudes exempli
fied by the Palestinian L ib eratio n
Organization (P L O ) and its leader,
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Jordan discusses economy
Grassroot News, N. W .— Vernon
Jordan, Executive D irecto r o f the
Urban League, faced the nation on
N B C ’ s Meet the Press in one o f his
last public appearances on civil
rights issues as a national civil rights
leader. A t the beginning o f next
year, Jordan will begin a private law
practice in Washington, D .C .
VERNON JORDAN
Jordan was questioned about his
tor to address basic needs, that it
support for larger doses o f federal
was not in the n atio n al interest to
funds to entitlem ent program s.
have an increasingly high unemploy
“ W e are living with the reality that
ment rate. “ Public employment is
the budget is going to be cut. We
just one way. I ’m for any number o f
have taken the position, that to the
incentives to the p rivate sector to
extent that the budget-cutting pro
hire and train the unem ployed.
cess takes place, the burden should
What we’ re getting is the cutting o f
not be borne by those least able to
programs with no visible alternative
bear i t . ” He believes that there
for those directly affected.”
might have been programs not as ef
It was asked if the subject o f fe
fective as others, but that the con
male-headed households was taboo
cept o f this administration that fed
among Black leaders and what
eral programs have not worked is a
could society and the leadership do
misconception. "Food Stamps have
to solve the problem . Jordan re
wiped out hunger in this country.
sponded that Black leaders were
Head Start and compensatory read
very much aware o f the problem .
ing programs have made a fantastic
“ But this problem transcends race.
difference. Part o f the difficulties
I t ’s a problem involving the private
are that these programs have been
and public sector. It’s a problem for
underfunded and not in existence
many white families sim ilarly situ
long enough to determ ine their
ated. I t ’ s exacerbated in the Black
w orth.”
community.”
Once the budget cuts arc made
Interviewers stated that a ffirm a
Jordan doesn’ t foresee the private
tive action is viewed by this adminis
sector taking up any o f the slack. " I
tra tio n and the m a jo rity in this
do not see the private sector employ
country as u n fair and unworkable
ing people, in fact, white male un
because it imp sed official discrim
employment is on the rise. If this is
ination in favor o f minorities to cor
the case, we’re surely in a recession
rect past official discrimination. “ I
ary period because i f i t ’ s hard for
never saw the outrage when Black
white males, i t ’ s twice as hard on
people were being specially treated
Black people.”
in a negative way and now that a
Jordan stated that it’s the respon
corrective process has been pu, in
sibility o f the private and public sec
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b y A .M . Babu
W ith the ever-increasing possibil
ity that the United States and some
o f its W estern allies m ight under
take m ilita ry action in L ib y a to
o verth ro w the regim e o f C o l.
Muammar Khadafy, it is crucial for
Americans to take stock < possible
consequences.
For the simple truth is that Kha
dafy is not perceived in the M iddle
East and A frica as he is portrayed in
the United States. Massive propa
ganda efforts to discredit him well
could backfire in a region already
beset by political, economic and so
cial turmoil.
In addition, to ignore the view o f
Khadafy from Khadafy’s own hemi
sphere is to ignore some o f the more
painful lessons in the history o f U.S.
foreign po licy over the pat three
decades. T h e h abit o f A m erican
presidents to pin p o in t special v il
lains in the Third W orld has had the
regularity o f a law o f nature.
T ru m a n picked N o rth K o re a ’ s
Kim 11 Sung as his arch-villain; Eis
enhow er chose Nasser o f E g yp t;
Kennedy’ s nemesis was Fidel Cas
tro; Johnson’ s was H o C hi M in h ;
Nixon settled on Allende o f Chile,
and C a rte r on K h o m e in i. N o w
Ronald Reagan has his Khadfy.
A ll o f these villains in one way or
ano th er indeed have challenged
U .S . policies in th e ir regions. But
none o f them seriously posed a se
curity threat to the U n ited States.
Nevertheless, they have been pre
sented consistently to the American
public as though th e ir power was
deeply dangerous to U .S . survival
and to world peace— and that their
removal was essential for the good
o f humankind.
The great p arad o x, however, is
that in v a ria b ly these v illa in s also
happened to be extremely popular in
their own countries, and in their re
spective regions as w ell. In fact, it
now has become axiomatic that if a
leader is fanatically v illified by the
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M. KHADAFY
OABA charges Demo racism
The Oregon Assembly for Black
A ffa irs (O A B A ) has charged the
D em ocratic P arty o f Oregon w ith
racism in its decision to boycott
O A B A ’ s S u m m it m eeting last
m onth. According to C alvin O .L .
H e n ry , president o f O A B A , the
D em ocratic P arty o ffic ia ls join ed
the M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty L ab o r
Council in asking members not to
participate in the conference.
The conference, which featured
Atlanta M ayor Maynard Jackson as
its banquet speaker, addressed
“ Economic Survival o f Black Peo
ple.”
Problems began when the confer
ence was scheduled at the T h u n-
de bird Jantzen Beach in Portland,
a motel currently on the A F L -C IO ’s
o ffic ia l U n fa ir List. H en ry states
that he was not aware o f the listing
and was not n o tifie d by the
Multnomah County Labor Council,
A F L - C IO , u n til it was too late to
move the conference.
tive report.
The Executive Secretary o f the
state party called Henry to say that
she had been directed by the
Executive D ire c to r Wes H a re to
inform him that the executive report
would not continue to advertise the
conference because la b o r unions
were upset that it was to be held at
the
T h u n d e rb ird .
This
was
confirmed by Hare, who said he had
received calls about the advertising
and that he and Sm ith had
concluded that it would be best for
the p arty not to p u b licize the
conference.
Henry was also informed by other
sources that some county chairmen
were discouraging attendence and
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Henry states that Lon Imel. Exec
utive Secretary o f the M ultn o m ah
Labor Council, told him the organ
ization would not participate in the
conference.
H enry was told that Im el called
Joe Smith, Chairperson o f the Dem
ocratic Party o f O regon, and told
him that Democrats should not at
tend the conference or the banquet.
Also Sm ith was told by labor that
the Democratic Party should not ad
vertise the O A B A event in its execu
Dental clinic receives grant
Project Dental Health, a program
o f the federal Department o f Health
and H u m an Services funded
through Multnom ah C ounty’ s Pro
ject Health Division, has awarded a
three-year grant to the department
o f public health dentistry at The
Oregon Health Sciences University
School o f D entistry for the Cleve
Allen (Russell Street) C linic which
provides dental care to low-income
persons.
The to ta l am ount o f the grant,
which is expected to be $2 million, is
dependent on cutbacks made in fed
eral funds. The first year’ s funding
will be $590,890.
The clinic, located at 214 N. Rus
sell Street, has provided comprehen
sive dental care to low-income per
sons since 1975. Between 75 and l(X)
patients are seen at the clinic daily,
which translates to some 1,500 visits
during an average m o n th . M an y
have never visited a dentist before.
Dr. David Roscnstein, project di
rector and professor and chairman
o f the department o f public health
dentistry at the School o f Dentistry,
believes that the quality o f care pro
vided to low-income patients at the
Cleve Allen Clinic is just as good as
private care. A full range o f services
is o ffe re d including endodontic
(ro ot canal) care, crowns, bridges
and dentures.
Describing the clinic as "virtually
one o f a kind,” Dr. Roscnstein said
3
that while most other clinics have a
35 per cent "n o show" patient rate,
the Cleve Allen Clinic’s rale is only
15 percent.
"Th e focus o f the clinic is on pre
vention, stressing saving the teeth
rather than extracting th e m ," ex
plained Dr. Roscnstein "Before pa
tients receive restorative care, they
arc first instructed on proper main
tenance o f the teeth. Initial instruc
tion is followed by periodic check
ups."
The Cleve Allen C lin ic’s staff o f
40 includes seven dentists, one pedo-
dontist (children’s dentist), two den
tal hygienists and five lab techni
cians, nearly all o f whom are aluini
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Balemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor
Organizing Committee, visited Oregon to explain
boycott of Campell's Soups, Pietro's Pizza Parlors,
and Libby in support of striking migrant farm
workers. Above. Velasquez sings a song for An
i
thony Castillo Brown, 4. son of Gayle Castillo and
Jerry Brown, and Veronica Digman McNassar. 2.
daughter of Jeanne McNassar and Joe Digman
(Photo Richard J. Brown)