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p MOKSM raj 11 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1970 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL. 94, NO. 42 PLF director condemns M jacking by DAVE BRINK- Nebraskan Staff Writer The director of the Palesti nian Liberation Front's (PLF) permanent mission to the United Nations told University students Thursday that he did not condone the hijacking of passenger planes. But his people must use any means at their disposal, Sadat Hasan told his Union au dience, adding that the hostages had been treated kindly. He said the multiple hijackings, which the majority of the PLF had not approved, did more than any other event to focus attention on the move ment. "When the entire peop'e of Palestine were hijacked from their homeland." Hasan ex claimed, "I didn't hear any protest!" He claimed that American mass media had fostered several misconceptions about the nature of conflict in the Middle East: That it is a conflict between Arabs and Jews. Actually, Hasan stated, Jews have always found a "refuge and shelter" in Arab countries. That it is a conflict between the Arab states and Israel. According to Hasan the fight is really between "in digenous Palestinians and Zionist Israe ites" who invaded the shores of Palestine. That the presence o f Russian arms in the Middle East result from the appeal of communism or Soviet policy. He said the Russian presence is a reaction to America's aid to Israel and results from Washington's failure to support the Arab states. He added that com munism is ou.lawed in the Arab nations. Hasan claimed that Zionism is the product of bigoted and narrow minded policies of the West He said Britain had wanted a Zionist State to help divide the Arab world and maintain British control of the Mediterranean. He quoted early Zionist leaders as saying the goal of of their movement was to re move Arabs from Palestine and turn it Into an all-Jew state. "The goal of Zionists," Hasan declared, "has always been to transform the predominate Arab majority into exiles" and replace them with Jews from "all over the world." Relating to United States in volvement, he asserted that it was former President Truman "more than anybody else and his government more than any other government" who con tributed to the Israeli state. He added that the policy was against the interests o f American people and the American government. The Allies should have been generous to the Jews at the expense of those who had persecuted them, not at the exoense of Arab people, he said. "What would be your reac tion." Hasan asked the audfence, "if people came from all over the world to uproot you and set up an all Jewish community?" He compared the situation In Palestine to that 1 n Nebraska if blacks were allowed to set up an all black state. A'l the whites would have to leave and the state would open its doors !o blacks from all over the world. "What would be your at titude would you accept it?" Hasan said Palestinians have the right to follow their destiny "in their own home and." The responsibility of the people, he continued, is to bear arms to fight for their homeland and dignity. According to the director, who has been attacked and in jured in his office this year, the Palestinian who Is not a commando today "could become one tomorrow." He said that since September the unity of the Arab people has improved and the once divided Palestinian forces are united. The result Is that Turn to page 9 Be top banana not one of the hunch Applications are now being taken for second semester staff positions on the Nebraskan. Application forms may be picked up in room 34, Nebraska Union. Those wishing to apply for the position of editor, manag ing editor, news editor, business manager or East Campus editor must turn in their applications to the Nebraskan office before noon, Dec. 17. Interviews for these positions by the University Publications Board will be the afternoon of Dec. 17. Applications for other staff positions, including staff writers, copy editors and business assistants should bo turned in before mid-January. Conflict of interest Shade Prokop's cloudy by JOHN DVORAK Nebraskan Staff Writer Does drawing a monthly salary from die University and being a member of the Board of Regents at the same time, constitute a conflict of in terest? Dr. Robert J. Prokop, who unseated veteran Dr. Ben N. Greenberg for the Fourth District Regents seat last month, will wake almost $8,000 during 1970 as a resident pathologist at the NU Medical Center m Ouaha. He plans to continue as a resident there for most of 1971. He believei there is no con flict of Interest. But he acknowledged the situation is a little cloudy, and speculation has arisen that he might have to give up either his paycheck from the University or his post ai Regent. "A conflict of Interest occurs when there Is a condition whereby the person involved Is going to nse his position for his own personal betterment," Prokop said. "I questioned this matter before I filed for office and judged there was no con flict" Prokop maintains that he is not a facultj member or staff member of Uie University. Hi said he is, in affect, a graduate student who, as part of his re quired training, performs a service for tlie med school. For that service, he is paid a basic salary equal to other residents on the med campus. Prokop suld he does not teach; he has no classes assigned to him. He oc casonally lectures to classes when other faculty members request It The By-Laws and Rules of the Board of Regents are hazy on exactly who is and who is not an employe of the University. The Rules and By Laws set forth fairly specific rules on the outside employ ment and activities of "staff members." There never has been a court decision or an attorney general's opinion on whether a Regent can also draw salary from the University, according to Clarence Meyer, Nebraska Attorney General. "This question is being studied by University lawyers and I canno. speculate unless the issue would arise." He poin.ed out tiat the issue might never officially arise. The Nubraika Constitution in ArJcle III, Section 18, reads: '. . . nor shall any . . . state of ficer, be interested, either directly or indirectly in any contract with the state." Tha questbn is wh2ther Pro kop, when he is sworn in as Regent next month, will become a "s;ate officer." The Regem-elect, who claims Wilber as his legal residence, said if serioas couf'.lct should develop, he would finish his residency in another Omaha hospital, or perhaps In one of Lincoln's hospitals. Currently, ne plans to end his residency anjund October, 1971. After that he plans to go into private practice of pathology at a location he would not divulge. "It's difficult to say where a conflict of interest begins or Tarn to page S