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Page 2 Portland Observer, Ju ly 14, 1982 Palestinian speaks on Middle East \dnan Aehman. a member o f the General Union o f Palestinian Stu dents, told the Observer that his or ganization is attempting to reveal to the America:' people the U S. role in Israel’s invasion o f Lebanon. “ U S . money is being spent in a state that is k illin g civilia ns and leaving people homeless—what they call a "mopping up’ o f the Palestin ians 1 hey are really tryin g to de molish the Palestinian entity and kill anything called Palestinian. “ This invasion comes as projected by the Pl < 11 stinian Liberation Organization] which is the only le gitimate representative o f the Pales tinian people The invasion was ex pected because it fits into the so- called peace settlement that the United States ¡s imposing on the area. Tl . Pl O has warned that such an invasion would come this sum mer.” Aehman described two peace pro posals The firs t— the proposal o f the L S and the “ reactionary Arab regimes" (such as Jordan’s and Sau di Arabia's] has three parts: 1) For Israel to occupy Southern Lebanon to the Itelia River, to en sure Israel's northern border; 2) To destroy the PLO and the Lebanese P a trio tic Movement so they w ill have no influence in the area; 2) To complete the Camp David agreements as altered by the propo sal ot the late king Fahd o f Saudi Arabia The>e proposals are basical ly the same as the Camp David ac cords, according to Aehman, but are more acceptable to the Arab governments because they were pro posed by Fahd The Arab govern ments oppo ed the Camp David process o would find it d ifficult to accept these accords. Fahd’s plan in c lu d e t^ ^ of the State of Israel a o f a Palestinian state ences o f opinion are . type o f state this would estinians want a sove while Israel desires a state with no military, v policy controlled by Isrs The second o ptio n plan—called the Share the Israeli defense m proposed it: 1) To destroy the m ill litical structure o f the 1 Lebanese Patriotic Mov 2) To create a govern! anon that would be frl rael; 3) To get Syrian tr< Lebanon; 4) To elect some typ- mental council in the that would be called re of the Palestinian peop cooperate with Israel. "Palestinians see the being implemented in th vasion,’ ’ Aehman said have two points in c< weaken or destroy the PLO and to liquidate the Palestinian issue. Yet the invasion is only one issue, he explained. “ Since 1948 and be fore Palestinian people—and there are four m illio n —have been killed, kicked out, living in refugee camps . . . . It is their legitimate right under in te rn a tio n a l law to ask fo r their own homeland and to live in peace.’’ "They keep kicking the Palestin ians out o f the places they live; they keep killing the people and the civi lians—even killing the children so in the future they cannot grow up and be fighters. A ll o f the Palestinians who live in the camps have nothing to lose and they want the ir own homes back. It's their legitim ate right to resist such an occupation by such a fascist government in their ow n homeland. “ So what is happening is that the Israelis went into Lebanon—are sur rounding Beirut—are putting a very strong and firm siege on West Bei rut. Actually no water and food and no medical aid are being allowed through to help the wounded people in Beirut. “ This fascist and this aggressive invasion comes to show the nature o f the Israeli governm ent—the Zionist movement—point o f view. This shows their expansionist policy —their racist policy. Nobody in the world can justify killing women and children and civilians, just bombing indiscriminately the civilian areas, ju s t under the excuse that some fighters are there among the civilians. “ I f the Israelis manage to destroy the PLO and the Lebanese Libera tio n Movem ent, there w ill be another PLO. And if that one is de- — k.ka4 «k.— h. ~ Retirerr by C. Eddie Edmondson S hortly a fte r vice George Bush was in Port ly chirping the Reagan t tion’ s news that the crip sion was over, the Mann inner Northeast Portland home, announced it w j close its doors by Septeml offset losses o f over $3( nualiy. “ I t ’s a lovely old built« M rs. Ada Pischer, one t dents o f the three story H ture located at 1025 N. e \ has been there since 1 9 7 3 A \ “ You can’ t fin d prettierYTbunds than these around these old b uild ings.” The Mann Home soon became a distinctive part o f the elderly’s Sep tember years. Its antique furniture and large sunrooms on the first and second floor offered its reside "« a taste o f elegance and leisure . h u would have been d iffic u lt to afford or maintain in a family home. Jim Edwards, executive director o f the W illam ette View M anor, Inc., said that hard times began to befall the Mann Home and in Jan uary of 1980 the Mann Home execu tive Board agreed to merge with Willamette. “ They were running out o f fu n d s ,” said Edwards, who assumed responsibility fo r opera tion o f Mann Mann’ s assets were turned over to W illamette and are used to maintain operations. But it was not enough. t themselves and this was wrong be cause you are not creating a new na tion in a place empty o f people— you are creating a new nation in such a small country where three m illion people were living. In 1948 they look three quarters o f Palestine and in 1967 they took the rest o f Palestine, the Sinai and Golan Heights. They have been expanding —they have annexed the Golan Heights, they w ill annex part o f Lebanon, and there is no guarantee this expansion will not continue. "A n d the United States is helping them. Without U.S. aid they would not last a week. They have no economy there, they have only the aid that comes from Western Eu rope and the United States. And the U.S. w ill bank 100% on Israel to keep the Arab countries divided so the U.S. can take what it wants from them.” A march and rally will ba bald July IS to protaat tha Israali In vasion. The march bagina at tha South Park Blocks, 11:30 am: rally at Shrunk Park. 12:30. Speakers include: Ron Hamdon, BUF; Karen Talbot, World Peace Council: Palestinians and Leban ese. The American plan is to destroy the PLO so it w ill not be an in flu ence in the M iddle East, Aehman said. “ The PLO and the Lebanese National Movement, are leaders o f the Arab national movement because they are the only armed revolution aries, along with the Oman revolu tion. The others are secret, under ground, struggling against the reac tionary Arab regimes. Being a van guard— the strongest revolution in U .iU U U—. m k— k NOW M A N Y OF TRAIIW AY5 LOW FARES HAVE BEEN SLASHED 5O%! Trailways keeps lowering the cost of travel. We've just slashed many of our fares up to 50% — which proves Trailways will not be undersold. Guaranteed! You can ride Big Red to: SEATTLE SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES And you can take advantage of these extraordinary savings on every seat, every bus, every day So don't be confused about what's the cheapest way to travel If you really want the rock bottom, cheapest way to travel, the lowest fare anywhere, there's still only one way to go. Go Big Red. Go Trailways Call Trailways for more information, 228-8571 BEST AVAILABLE COPY the time.) W hat was not anticipated was that the actuarial tables then in use at the time would not anticipate the advances in science or the enormous increases in medical and other main tenance expenses. “ We didn’t run out o f money,” said Edwards, explaining the deci sion to close down the Home, “ we are tryin g to cut our losses (o f $300,000 per year).” When Mann merged with Willam ette View Manor, the parties agreed to sell the Mann Home property due to the higher operating expenses for the old building. A new structure was to be b u ilt in Southeast P o rt land on property already owned by Willamette, and the Mann residents would be transferred there. But interest rates refused to fall low enough to make fo llo w in g through on that plan economically feasible, Edwards said. Thus the de- heavy laundry is cleaned by the staff. Not everything at Mann was as b right as it could be, she added. While most o f the staff is excellent, Mrs. Pischer admitted that it ’s been difficult with several cooks over the year. “ Sometimes they think they are cooks when they are not,” she said, noting that she was a cook herself and did not want to say anything negative about cooks. And then too, she noted, the teenagers who serve the food in the formal dining room in the evening for the 30-odd resi dents who are not confined to their beds, sometimes have more gravy on the outside o f the gravybowl than in it. But that depends on how carefully they were taught at home, she added. Edwards said several options have been made available on transferring the Mann residents, p rim a rily to (Please turn to page 8 column I) $ 8.70 $55.00 $69.00
