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■ rs f 'r a n c A8 S c h o » n -? .'e s 3 ;s p ir U n iv e r s ity o f O re - r t L ib r r / Observer Achievement Awards July 10 - Please see page 2 W ho is the PLO? oise excels Page 1 UJ LU A Jewish point of view Section I Page 2 Holmes vs Cooney Page 10 PORTLAND OBSERVER June 17,1982 Volume XII, Number 36 25$ Per Copy Tw o Sections USPS 959-680-855 Are these wars really necessary? *1 Argentine junta fails by A ! M c C ilberry A rg en tin a is in tro u b le. This beautiful country is now being led down the road o f indirection by the military with no game plan. The country's inflation rate is one o f the highest in the world; their bal ance of payments to the world bank and other lending institutions is sec ond to Poland; yet the generals chose to stop negotiations with the British and occupy the Malvinas Is lands, (called the Falkland Islands by the British). The generals need to gain national support and tried to achieve it by getting the population to ra lly around for takin g the is lands back fro m the B ritish who took it from them 152 years ago. A nalysis The British were also having do mestic problems. Unemployment is high in the lower class areas, and the conservative government is doing the same as the Reagan government. They are cutting back on services Israel's aim in Lebanon and programs established under the old Labor Government. M rs. M argaret Thatcher, Prim e Minister o f England, needed to gain public support when the Argentine generals invaded the M a lv in a s / Falklands. She retaliated by sending troops to the area to reclaim those tiny islands and save its 1600 British subjects from Argentine rule. W hy does B ritain need these Is lands? C o lo n ialism is dead. W hy spend millions o f dollars to fight a war when people need food to eat? Why spend millions to occupy lands so useless and have supply lines thousands o f miles away from four borders? W hen the jo y o f victory is over and the dead and wounded are counted the people will say, “ Was this war necessary?" T he A rg en tines and the British need to take a good look at themselves. They are destroying each other’s economy for ego and positions. They are living in the past. The world has passed them by. W hen w ill leaders learn that wars only change things for the mo ment and sitting across the table ne gotiating is the only way. Ayers leaves Jefferson High D r. L a rry A yers, p rin c ip al o f Jefferson H ig h School, has announced that at the end o f this school year he w ill tran sfer to another assignment. Ayers has met with com m unity criticism because o f his fund raising efforts for Bob Jones U n iv e rs ity , a college that discrim inates against Black stu dents. Ayers com pleted his do cto ral studies at Oregon State University and previously was assigned to Jackson and Adams. No announcement has been made regarding Ayers’ new assignment. by Osama Dum ani Pacific News Service W h at th e w o rld is witnessing in Lebanon is the awesome use o f m il itary violence by Israel to reverse a disadvantageous political balance o f forces. In the past few years, the Pales tine L ib eratio n O rg a n izatio n has won the most important battle— le gitimate leadership o f the Palestin ian people, as well as international recognition o f its demand for an in dependent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza. A t the same time, Israeli actions in the West Bank, Gaza and South Lebanon have been condemned by the in ternational com m unity, thus increasing Israel’s isolation d ip lo matically and politically. Meanwhile, Begin’s government, beset by increasing economic and political crises, periodically is called in for a vote o f confidence, and each time it succeeds by a narrower m ar gin. Neither the ruling coalition nor the Labor Party has had any viable, workable policy concerning the Pal estinians. This situation has left the Israeli leadership w ith two alternatives: They must acknowledge and accept a minim um o f Palestinian national rights— an o p tio n which the old guard in Israel looks upon as the very negation o f the central meaning o f their state's existence. O r, they must deliver a blow to the P L O which will terminate its significance as a viable political force in the M id dle East. For the P L O to recover from such a blow organizationally, politically and d ip lo m a tica lly w ill take a few years— as happened after the beat ing they received in Jordan. This will buy time for Israel and the United States to again m a n u fa ctu re the semblance o f a solution which, like the C am p D avid Accords and the plan o f Saudi Prince Fahd, w ill be no solution at all for the Palestin ians. Hence, the Israelis invaded Leb anon shortly after A riel Sharon vis ited Washington to confer with the Reagan Administration. For several m onths, Israel had been building troop concentratins on its borders w ith Lebanon in p rep aratio n for such an invasion. This was at a time when the P L O was not shelling Is raeli settlements, and months before the attempted asassination o f the Is raeli ambassador to Britain. W hat, then, are the Israeli aims, and how do they hope to achieve them? T o deal a crippling blow to the P L O , the Israelis w ill have to physically wipe out the P L O leader ship, and as many arms-bearing Pal estinians as they can. In order to ac complish this end, their military op erations in Lebanon must approach genocide. F or when the Israelis threw the Palestinians out o f Pales tine and into Lebanon in 1948, the refugees were fo rcib ly placed in camps just outside m a jo r m arket towns in South Lebanon, in Beirut, in the Bakaa Valley and, to a lesser extent, in N o rth Lebanon. Since then, the Palestinian population has increased at a rate estim ated at The target of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. A young Palestinian child holds the symbols of peace and reeistance. (Palestine Perspectives photo) among the highest in the w o rld , w hile the area reserved fo r the camps has scarcely changed. Moreover, this same 30-year per iod has seen a dram atic population increase and urban expansion all over Lebanon. C onsequently, no demarcation line now exists between the Palestinian camps and the cities near which they were originally lo cated. The sprawl o f the cities sim ply envelops the camps. Palestinian Fighters have emplace ments in m ore rem ote m ountain areas, but they also live w ith their fam ilies in the camps. W h a t this means, therefore, is that for the Is raelis to go in to Lebanon to liq u i date the Palestinian Fighters without sustaining enormous casualties o f their own, they have to saturate the “ camps” — actually entire neighbor hoods in urban areas— with artillery and bombs. Indeed, this is exactly what has happened: indiscriminate air, land and naval bombardment of towns where hundreds o f thousands o f civilians, refugees and Lebanese live. The result, according to indepen dent reports, has been the complete destruction o f the Rashidiyah Camp near T yre, w ith its shops, restaur ants, shacks and in h ab itan ts. The same fate has met the A in el-H elw i C am p near S idon, the N abatiyeh Cam p, and the town o f D am our, as well as the Bourg el-B arajinah and S hatila Camps in the m iddle o f (Please turn to page 14 col. 5) oise achievement surpasses district average Boise Elementary School’s eighth grade class has passed (he district average in language arts this year— the first time for as long as anyone can remember. Excitement spread throughout the building as Principal Dave M cCrea made the announce ment du rin g the g ra d u a tio n cere mony. In recent years Boise has been either last in the school district or very near the bottom in achievement test scores. This year not only did the youngsters score average or near average in all areas, but they showed much greater progress than that o f the district as a whole. The 8th grade class achieved a “ P-score" (a score that shows its re lationship to other schools) o f 50.8, demonstrating that one-half o f the district’s 41 eighth graders score be low Boise. Boise eighth graders outscored the 8th grades o f 21 schools in lan guage arts, and equaled the score of one other— Hosford Middle School. Among (he schools which Boise sur passes were C o lu m b ia /W h itta k e r, B eaum ont, Sellw ood and Hinns- mead m iddle schools. Boise fell slightly behind Fernwood. Only six east side schools outscored Boise— A sto r, B uckm an, M t. T ab o r M S , T u b m an M S , P enninsula, Sitton and Fernwood MS. A lth o u g h com parison o f test scores— p artic u la rly at one grade level— are not a true evaluation o f a school, they are significant in dem onstrating trends and growth. For years Boise has been pointed to as (he school at the bottom and this was correlated with the fact that Boise is the school with the highest concentration o f black students and the school with the lowest socio-eco nomic status. “ It was hard on mo r a le ," M cC re a exp lain ed . " O u r teachers worked hard and our stu dents worked hard. We made gains, but we were still at the bottom. The results were published and every body knew.” McCrea credits the cumulative ef forts o f the school's "b a s ic ” pro gram — a strong emphasis on read ing, language arts and math. Seventh and eighth graders— as a unit— are divided into four groups according to reading ability. During the morning each group has Five 40- m inute classes: reading lab , la n guage arts, computer assisted math, math, and social studies. During the a fte rn o o n , in their hom e-room s, they have two 40-minute periods o f language arts and a period o f physi cal education. Reading and language arts are in tegrated in to the to ta l pro g ram . Ms. Laura Glosson, who teaches so cial studies, emphasizes reading and w ritin g and requires that skills learned in basic classes be used in her class. Research projects and term papers provide an opportunity for students to practice these skills. “ I expect high quality work in my classes," she said. " I assign a lot o f reading and w r itin g ." M rs. Gios- (Please turn to page 4 column 4) i Bola« Elementary School*« 8th grad« graduating claaa Include«: Karina Alcantara, Bryan Allan, M cQ ullla (M ac) Allan, Joaa Bella, Jaffrey Britt. Tina Byrd. Tong Cha. Kim Clark. Eddie Edward«. Can dace Ewall, Loram o Qranvllle. Dw ight Oravaa, Harm an Harden, Dana Hatton. Barbara Hodgaa. M lkl Hunnicutt. M ichele Jackaon, Klmbaralay Jenklna. Michael Johnaon, Varneal Jonaa. DaRay Kin- nay, David Lawrence, Chlnh Van La, Maglb M ahratab. Raymond Richard. Jamaa Riley, Naychlo Saechao, Bonnla Sartan. Greg Sly. Ann Staple«. Jacqueline Taylor, Sla Thao. William W alker. Varna Wllklna, Carl Wyllla. Tw anty-tw o atudanta w ill attend Qrant High School, eleven will attend Banaon, and two will go to Jaffaraon.
