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Maine litter studies aire powerful bottle 'MM weapons
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Two reports released last month in
Maine are the weapons anti-littler
advocates are using to prevent repeal
of Maine's bottle statute-a law simi
lar to the one Nebraskans voted
down last year.
Last November, Nebraskans de
feated a measure which would have
imposed a 5-cent deposit on beverage
containers. The defeat followed a
long advertising and media campaign
financed predominantly by the bott
ling and beverage industries.
As promised, those opponents this The studies in Maine are perhaps
year supported the passage of the the best evidence yet that prevention
litter control act taxing all citizens to is better than cure.
pay tor tne cleanup 01 Neorasjca s
roads and highways.
The measure went into effect last
week. And although it is too soon to
judge accurately, we suspect that it
will have little impact on litter
control in Nebraska. It is easier to
One studv indicates that since the
measure went into effect in February
of 1978, roadside beverage bottle
and can litter in Maine has decreased
78 percent and litter in general has
dropped 32 percent.
The other survey, conducted by
stop litter from leaving the hands of Maine's Transportation Department,
litterbugs than it is to pick it up after reports that the cost of cleaning
it is on the road. It is cheaper, too. roadside litter has been reduced by
more than 50 percent-from
$250,000 in 1977 to $104,000 in
1978.
Besides the fight in Maine to keep
the bottle law, battles now are being
fought in Ohio and Washington state
to get such laws for the first time.
And reports indicate that the opposi
tion is again mounting well-financed
media campaigns, a situation similar
to that prior to the bottle bill defeat
in Nebraska. Let's hope those states
learn from ours-and Maine.
Writer stamped
by odds and ends
When I'm stumped about finding something to write
about, I fold my arms across my typewriter, rest my head
on my hands, and stare off into a blank wall.
It's not much for inspiration, but at least if I lose it be
fore I graduate from college, I know 111 be adequately
prepared for some kind of asylum.
Not knowing what to write about is like wanting to ski
when there's no snow, or trying to find a book in Love
Library, or being blocked in the parking lot by another,
car with the keys nowhere in sight.
, List week I wrote about the brislc autumn air.:
The same day, it hit 74 degrees, the sun was hot and
the sky was blue.
Maybe if I write about Lincoln's downpours it won't
rain until March. Or, I could write about how bad Dallas
looked against Pittsburgh last Sunday, but then the Cow
boy's would probably win their division, the playoffs and
the Superbowl. I could make a Filley-Elk Creek predict
ion, or a McCook-Lex prediction, but inevitably those
would be wrong too.
I could write about my sister's weightlifting class, or
my friends boyfriend's new beard, or about how my car
has only one headlight, or how Coach Tom Osborne
doesn't think Nebraska's team is awesome (he said he
cringed at the word) or how I wish I was a travel agent for
Husker gymnasts, or how I wish I was a travel agent for
anybody.
Let's see, the new Buzz Books are in, my parents are
going to start playing parents again after deserting us for
two months (I don't blame them, I'd desert us, too). Wake
Forest is now 7-1 on the season and they really don't play
teams like Sleepy Hollow and Running Brook, NU Presi
dent Ronald Roskens is an avid jogger, the indoor track
underneath the stadium is still appropriately named
"Mushroom Gardens," my friends from Colorado finally
left, I finally got some sleep, the classes have resumed
after Labor Day vacation contrary to popular belief.
But, if I wrote about just one of these things, I'd never
find enough material to fill a whole column. Some would
argue that I'm really a longwinded writer, but can some
one actually visualize 60 lines about the new Buzz Books?
So, for this week, anyway, 111 conglomerate all of my
thoughts into one.
Let's see, where was I?
The girls next door cleaned their popcorn popper, my
friend with the Brown Celica is still missing in action,
Halloween came and went and I forgot to celebrate, the
New York Giants actually beat the Los Angeles Rams, I
did my wash
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Arab rights neglected, refused
Peace between peoples is sought
After the British conquered Palestine in 1918, the
Palestinian Arabs were joyous because the British had
liberated them from the Turkish rule. However, soon
after, the British colonialists opened the gates of Palestine
to massive Zionist immigration, despite Arab protests.
Britiain transferred state lands to the Zionists for
colonization. It protected the institutions of the fledging
"National Home." It permitted the Zionists community,
which was a small majority, to maintain its military
establishment (the Haganah). It trained mobile Zionist
striking forces (the Palmach) and condoned the existence
of "underground" terrorist organizations (the Stern group
and the Irgun).
The Palestinian Arabs who became aware of the British
and Zionist goals of establishing a "National Home" re
stricted to the Jews organized a number of uprisings with
the little arms they had acquired. In 1936, the Palestinian
Arabs declared the "General Strike" and intensified the
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armed struggle against the British colonialists. The British
massacred and executed 10,000 Palestinians in the course
of the next two years and brought further army units into
Palestine to suppress the Arabs.
In retrospect, the British were also colonizing Jordan
and Egypt. They made a pact with King Abdullah of
Jordan and King Farouk of Egypt that each would get a
"portion of the spoils"; namely, Jordan would get what is
to be called the West Bank while Egypt would receive
what was to be known as Gaza Strip, while the
Palestinians would get "adequate tents" in Egypt, Jordan,
Syria, and Lebanon.
THE BRITISH pulled out from Palestine on May 15,
1948, and on the same day the Zionist settlers declared
' the establishment of their "state" or "National Home"
and changed the name of Palestine to Israel, p name per
taining only to Jews. The reactionary Arab regimes sent
their armies to Palestine, claiming to defend the "Arab
rights" in Palestine while their actual goal was to retain
the certain areas that were part of the agreement with the
British. The Arab armies fought a "foul" and limited war
with the Haganah that was renamed the "Israeli Defense
Army." The Arab armies, which were mostly British-trained
and supervised by British officers, subsequently made a
truce with the Israelis. The truce, which fulfilled the
'earlier agreement between these countries, allowed the
Israelis to occupy tlie areas allocated to them, and to
make way for the "evacuation" of the Palestinian Arabs
from the now "Jewish homeland;'
The Stern gang, headed at the time by Menachem
Begin, now prime minister of Israel, organized a massacre
against a peaceful village, Dair Vassin, just before the
British pulled-out from Palestine. Two hundred and
twenty children, old men, and women were stabbed and
shot to death and thrown into the village's well. By
threatening the lives of Palestinian Arabs if they didn't
leave their hometowns and run to the neighboring Arab
countries, the Zionist terrorist groups escalated the flight
of the local population, making way for Zionist settle
ments. By the end of 1948, the various Israeli terrorist
groups had forced 1.5 million Palestinians to flee from
Palestine into Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, where
most of them were placed in rtfu5
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