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daily nebraskan
friday, january 26, 199
Speakers differ on problems of Camp David accord
Speakers at a public forum Thursday night agreed that
the Camp David accords have major snags, but identified
the problems differently.
Michael Richmond of Omaha, regional director of the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, told
100 people at the Lincoln Center Building the biggest
problem stalling Middle East Peace negotiations is the
Egyptian proposal to link the Egypt-Israeli peace with
Israel's peace negotiations with the rest of the Arab world.
He said neither Israel nor the U.S. should accept
Egypt's proposal.
"The treaty of Egypt and Israel must take precedence
ovey any other treaty," Richmond said.
Overall, however, Richmond said Camp David was
"one of the greatest things to happen to the Mid -East in
the last 30 years." .
But to Palestinians, Camp David was "a tragedy," ac
cording to David Champagne, assistant director of the
Ceoter of Afghanistan Studies at UNO.
"There can be no peace in the Middle East until the
heart of the matter is addressed," Champagne said. "And
the heart of the matter is the legitimate rights of the
Palestinians."
The Camp David negotiations didn't take Palestine into
account, he said.
Champagne was originally scheduled to objectively
comment on conflicting concerns on human rights in the
Middle East, but was pressed into defending the Palestin
ian point of view to balance the forum when the
scheduled speaker, Palestinian Bashir Nijim, was snow
bound in Iowa.
Champagne said although he was not a Palestinian, he
felt the Palestinians were not treated justly.
Palestinians have a national cohesiveness, he said, and
setting up an Israeli state at the expense of Palestine is
'like taking over Belgium and saying to them, 'You speak
French. . .Go live in France," Champagne said.
'To right the grievous wrong perpetrated on the
Palestinians, Israel must acquiesce to the Palestinians a
state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank at the
minimum," Champagne said.
Defending the Israeli claim to the land, Richmond
said the modern state of Israel has retained ties to its
historical homeland for 3,000 years.
Richmond said it is "probably prudent for the United
States to support states that support stability. Israel is the
only stable regime in the Mid-East."
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He suggested the Arabs were the ones "seeking war" in
the Mid -East.
The Office of International Educational Services at
UNL sponsored the forum, and will sponsor similar
forums every month through May on different world
issues.
Regents should veto
stadium plan-RHA
By Brenda Moskovits
The Resident Hall Association voted Thursday night to
send copies of a resolution opposing the newly -approved
stadium addition to the NU Board of Regents, various uni
versity offices and to RHA member's hometown papers
and citizens.
The resolution, drafted by Neihardt Hall representative
Jay Curtiss, condemned the regents approval of the expan
sion and asked them to reconsider.
It also asked "that student input be given greater
weight in future decisions" and that the board "direct
their energies more toward academics"
The resolution asks that the stadium's student section
remain in its present location rather than be moved to the
new seats and that any surcharge exclude student tickets.
The original resolution was amended to include sending
the resolution to Nebraska newspapers and constituents be
cause "the regents concern is to please the parents and not
the students," according to Emily Allan, Abel-Sandoz Re
sidint Association representative.
ASUN president Ken Marienau, who attended the
meeting as an observer, said the only way to change the
regents' minds would be to prove thai the addition is
"barely financially solvent."
"If we can get enough parents from Western Nebraska
and outside Lincoln writing in to say they'll come out to
one game but I'm not going to buy a season ticket," the
seats won't sell out for pre -season games, Marienau said,
making the addition financially unsound .
In other action, the group asked interested members to
meet and draft a statement opposing the housing office's
decision not to raise student employees salaries to the new
$2.90 minimum wage until July. The new rate began Jan
uary 1 .
"The university can afford to expand its stadium, pay
its coach $,000 a year more, yet it can't afford to pay its
students minimum wage," Selleck Hall representative Deb
Emery said.
President Bill Skoneki told the group he is working to
have the housing office present their rate proposals to the
regents earlier or later than their January meeting, which
is held by law during the winter break.
RHA also appointed a committee to study cost -savings
in light of next year's $80 housing rate increase which was
approved this month.
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