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Page 2 Portland Observer, Ju ly 14. 1982 Palestinian speaks on Middle East Adnan Achman, a member of the weaken or destroy the PLO and to General Union o f Palestinian Stu liquidate the Palestinian issue. dents, told the Observer that his or Yet the invasion is only one issue, ganization is attempting to reveal to he explained. “ Since 1948 and be the America;- people the U.S. role in fore Palestinian people—and there Israel’s invasion o f Lebanon. are four m illio n —have been killed, ” U S. monev is being spent in a kicked out, living in refugee camps state that is k illin g civilia n s and . . . . It is their legitimate right under leaving people homeless—what they in terna tio na l law to ask fo r their call a ‘ mopping up' o f the Palestin ians 1 (lev are reallv tryin g to de own homeland and to live in peace.” molish the Palestinian entity and kill “ They keep kicking the Palestin anything called Palestinian. ians out o f the places they live; they ’ ’This invasion comes as projected keep killing the people and the civi by the PLO [Palestinian Liberation lians—even killing the children so in Organization] which is the only le the future they cannot grow up and gitimate representative o f the Pales be fighters. A ll o f the Palestinians tinian peopie. The invasion was ex who live in the camps have nothing pected because it fits in to the so- to lose and they want the ir own called peace settlement that the homes back. It's their legitim ate U nited States is imposing on the right to resist such an occupation by area. T l , Pl O has warned that such such a fascist government in their an invasion would come this sum own homeland. mer.” “ So what is happening is that the Achman described two peace pro Israelis went into Lebanon—are sur posals The first — the proposal o f rounding Beirut—are putting a very the L .S and the “ reactionary Arab strong and firm siege on West Bei regimes” [sush as Jordan’s and Sau rut. Actually no water and food and di Arabia's] has three parts: no medical aid are being allowed 1) For Israel to occupy Southern through to help the wounded people Lebanon to the Itelia River, to en in Beirut. sure Israel's northern border; “ This fascist and this aggressive 2) To destroy the PLO and the invasion comes to show the nature Lebanese P a trio tic Movement so o f the Israeli governm ent— the they w ill have no influence in the Zionist movement—point o f view. area; This shows their expansionist policy 2) To complete the Camp David —their racist policy. Nobody in the agreements as altered by the propo world can justify killing women and sal o f the iate King Fahd o f Saudi children and civilians, just bombing Arabia. The^e proposals are basical- indiscriminately the civilian areas, iv the same as the Camp David ac ju st under the excuse that some cords, according to Achman, but fighters are there among the are more acceptable to the Arab civilians. governments because they were pro “ I f the Israelis manage to destroy posed by Fahd The Arab govern the PLO and the Lebanese Libera ments oppo ed the Camp David tio n Movement, there w ill be process ,o would find it d ifficu lt to another PLO. And if that one is de accept these accords. molished there will be another PLO, Fahd’spla; ncludes recognition and another PLO, and we w ill get o f the State of Israel and formation our legitimate rights and self-deter o f a Palestinian state. The d iffe r mination.” ences o f opinion are around what type o f state this would be. The Pal The Jewish people and the Pales estinians want a sovereign nation tinians lived in peace together in while Israel desi-es a Palestinian Palestine prior to the establishment state with no military, with a foreign o f the state o f Israel, Achman said. policy controlled by Israel. ‘ ‘ We were Palestinians and they The second o ptio n is the Israel were Palestinians; they only d iffe r plan—called the Sharon plan after ence was that some of the people in the Israeli defense m inister who Palestine were Muslims, some were proposed it: C hristians and some were Jews. 1) To destroy the military and po They were a ll liv in g in peace and litical structure o f the PLO and the they were all living happily. Lebanese Patriotic Movement; “ The Zionist movement—which 2) To create a government in Leb is what we are against—is a racist anon that would be friendly to Is movement, it is a discrim inatory, rael; fascist movement which was o r 3) To get Syrian troops out o f ganized in the 1890s and this move Lebanon; ment took advantage o f the world 4) To elect some type o f govern sympathy fo r the Jews who had mental council in the West Bank been killed in W orld War II by the that would be called representative Nazis. We sympathize very much o f the Palestinian people but would with the Jews who were killed, we cooperate with Israel. were 100% against H itle r and the “ Palestinians see the Sharon plan Nazis but we don’t think we have to being implemented in the current in pay for that massacre. The Zionists vasion,” Achman said. Both plans have appealed to the Jews to come have tw o points in com m on— to to Palestine and create a nation for 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 n atio n in such a small country where three m illion people were living. In 1948 they took 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. “ And the United States is helping (hem. 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 held July 15 to protaat the Israeli In vasion. Tha march begins at tha South Park Blocka, 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, Achman 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 w ith 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 the Middle East—it has been an ob stacle in the way o f the so-called peace process that the United States, Egypt, Saudi A rabia and a ll the other so-called moderate A rab states are trying to push.” W ith the PLO strong the A rab governments cannot accept the Fahd plan. “ Over three fourths o f the people in Jordan are Palestin ian, and that government would be gone overnight i f it were to accept such a proposal. ” When the invasion began, the Arab states did not object because it was to accomplish their objectives, Achman said. But then there were a lot o f casualties and pressure from in te rn a tio n a l p u b lic o p in io n , the longer the resistance holds on—the longer it takes fo r Israel to accom plish its mission—the less stable the A rab governments w ill be. “ The people w ill not ju s t sit there and look at their relatives and friends in Lebanon being killed. The longer it takes the more questions there w ill be about why these regimes are re maining silent while the people are being massacred.” Next week: The PLO option Retirement home plans closure by C. Eddie Edmondson S hortly a fte r vice-president George Bush was in Portland happi ly chirping the Reagan Adm inistra tion’ s news that the crippling reces sion was over, the Mann Home, an inner Northeast Portland retirement home, announced it was going to close its doors by September so as to offset losses o f over $300,000 an nually. “ I t ’s a lovely old building,” said Mrs. Ada Pischer, one o f 43 resi dents o f the three story brick struc ture located at 1025 N.E. 33rd. She has been there since 1973, she said. “ You can’ t fin d p re ttie r grounds than these around these old b u ild 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 flo or offered its reside •« a taste o f elegance and leisure .nai would have been d ifficu 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 o f 1980 the Mann Home execu tive Board agreed to merge w ith Willamette. “ They were running out o f fu n d s ,” said Edwards, who assumed responsibility fo r opera tion o f Mann. M ann’ s assets were turned over to W illamette and are used to maintain operations But it was not enough. Edwards said some Mann resi dents had been w ith the home fo r over 20 years. “ They paid a lump sum o f $9,000 and were not required to pay anymore,” he said. That cer tainly cut anticipated revenue. Over 20 years ago, as an incentive to obtain residents, M ann, like many retirement homes, offered po tential residents the option o f pay ing a set fee o f several thousand dol lars— often equal to the cost o f a comfortable home in the 1950s and early ’60s—in return fo r complete room , board and hospital care. (There is an in firm a ry adjacent to the building with a nurse on duty all 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 $300,009 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- cision to close. Asked if interest rates fell to 10 per cent (from their current 16 and 18 per cent) Edwards responded h ea rtily: “ I f interest rates came down to 10, we’d go tomorrow,” he said. Mrs. Pischer said that there was some resentment on the part o f the residents to Mann’s closing. “ I ’ m a senior citizen and I don’ t want to move. You can’ t fin d p re ttie r grounds than these around these old buildings.” The building is maintained very well, she said, with monthly clean ing by a staff. In addition, residents’ heavy laundry is cleaned by the staff. Not everything at Mann was as b rig ht 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 fo r 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) NOW M A N Y OF SLASHED 5O%! Trailways keeps lowering the cost of travel. We’ve just slashed many of our fares up to 50% — which proves Trailways will no, be undersold Guaranteed! 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