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U.S. should not bow to Iranian blackmail
Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini's
decision Wednesday not to receive
two envoys, seeking the release of
American hostage', at the U.S.
embassy in Tehran, has placed the
United States in a difficult position.
Failure, now, to move quickly and
firmly to secure the release of the
Americans will be criticized-by many
as weakness. Acting with'
unnecessary force, on the other
hand, could cause the untimely
deaths of those whose lives might be
saved through some other course
action.
Hopes now seem to rest on a dele
gation of the Palestine liberation Or
ganization which, at the time of this
writing, apparently was on its way to
Iran. The PLO has had good relations
with the Islamic government and an
earlier siege of embassy this year
ended after the PLO spoke on
American behalf.
Whatever the outcome of theSe
negotiations may, be, however, the
United States cannot submit to
blackmail.' On this point Americans
must remain firm. Demands that the
ousted Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi, hospitalized in New York
for cancer treatment, be returned to
Iran for trial are outrageous.
The earlier decision by the Shah
to live in Mexico upon exile had
been greeted with relief by the
American government. At a time
when our govenment was seeking to
establish friendly relations with Iran,
the decision was politically prudent.
But it would have been an act of in
humanity to deny the Shah medical
treatment. And it would be morally
wrong for this country to turn the
Shah over to those who seek militant
vengeance.
The traditions and customs of this
country would not allow us to bend
to the demands of a country whose
judicial and political ideals conflict
so radically with our own .
When the Shah was exiled, the
United States was criticizied for
what the Iranians called immoral
U.S. intervention into their country's
laws, customs and lifestyles. Now,
however, because of Iranian
intervention, they ask us to violate
the laws of Western civilization.
But the integrity of the United
States as a just, humane nation
cannot be sacrificed -for the whims
of another country or even for the
lives of the 60 American hostages.
FootbaUroad trips
don 't 'stymie fans
I walked into the bar and asked the bartender for two
cups of coffee for my comrade and me.
"Wadda ya think this is, a hospital?" he quipped. "Why
not just have a nice scotch and water?"
At that point, a "nice" scotch and water was the furth
est thing from my mind.
It had been a long weekend.
But, it was a weekend ! wouldn't trade for a press box
date with Don Meredeth, or matching baseball cards of
Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson. :
Road trips are the epitome of life, and ours to Missouri
was definitely a lifetime highlight. -
I mean, where else but on road trips can you see three
football games in three days?
Where else could you be totally impulsive for 96 hours
and through it learn more about people and their lifestyles
than you had in 2 1 years of sanity? , .
Nebraska fans are great.
I EXPECTED a good fan showing at the varsity game,
Saturday, but even at the freshman game Friday, which
they lost, the color red was predominant. ,
It also.was the predominant color in several Columbia
bars.
Friday night it was mass confusion when the stereo
played the Missou fight song, Nebraskans yelled the Corn
husker fight song, and somewhere in the crowd two
people screamed "Stymie."
Typical of the hysteria to follow,
Around campus, night was day, and outside, streets
looked like dance halls.
A girl in the bathroom at a sorority house asked us if
our football team was doing very good this year.
My friend politely informed her that we hadn't lost a
game yet this year, and were ranked number two.
"In the state?" she asked.
Saturday morning I asked my friends where they stay
ed last night.
"On the football field," they said.
3 AND WHAT'S worse they did until they got kicked off
by Columbia police at 4 a.m.
"We wanted to make sure Warren (Mizzou Head Coach
Powers) wasn't watering down his field," they said.
Hie game Saturday was like someone had erased the
blackboard during the first half, and then ran their finger
nails down it the second half, not coming to a halt until
0:00 was left on the clock. fc
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It would appear that Mr. Nabil Dahdah has a one-sided
if not unfounded view of history in the Guest Opinion of
Nov. 1 . He points out that Israel was officially declared
the Jewish Homeland in 1948 but fails to mention that
the original U.N. partition plan included a Palestinian
state with equal rights and privileges in th U.N. and indeed
in the world community. The state was never accepted by
the Arabs and they declared war on Israel the next day to
"Push the Jews into the sea."
The 1 5 million Arabs that were "'forced to flee from
Palestine into Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt" in fact
left under pressure from those countries and only after
being assured that their land would be returned to them
after the war.
Again from 1948 until 1967 Jordan controlled the
West Bank as well as East Jerusalem. At any time during
those 19 years a separate Palestinian state could have been
established and wis not. In truth, only after the Six Day
War of June 1967 has the issue of a Palestinian state been
of any major importance in the Arab world. (
His charges that 15,000 Palestinians who are subject to
systematic torture by "the infamous Israeli prisons" have
been proven false year after year by such international or
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He says that "alone in this' racist state Arab's rights of
expression, association and political organization are
denied" when in fact the only free press in die Arab world
is in the Israeli controlled West Bank.
Not a word is said about the PLO's constant massacre
of civilian lives or the abusive propaganda used on
Palestinian children by their "Arab brothers" teaching
them the mentality to kill the "Jewish Enemy." .
We do not need any more absurd black or white
accusations based on myth or speculation. Instead we
need to view the real possibilities for peace and, in the
light of Camp David, strive toward the goal.
Efrem Bromberg
Freshman, Undeclared
Working class oppressed
While I respect Sen. Ernest Chambers' opposition to
the death penalty and his anti-racist political struggle, he
sometimes loses perspective and is a disservice to
progressive political change. According to the Daily
Nebraskan (Nov. 1) during a Student Y sponsored forum,
Mr. Chambers said he wouldn't mind if white people
practiced homosexuality because in a few generations
whites would disappear, along with problems for black
people. I grant that there are many whites who oppress
blacks and that those whites must be resisted and over
come. It should be pointed out that many of those whites
(working class whites) are basically oppressed as well as
working class blacks and that racism serves to divide
peoples who would be better served to unite in an anti
racist, antteexist struggle to overcome class oppression.
The fundamental issue isn't whites versus blacks, males
versus females, or even Russians versus Americans: the
issue is the oppressive relationship that exists between
those few people who own the means of production and
the masses of people who don't.
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