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
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