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Friday, November 9, 1984
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the decks, are not scheduled to
exist yet; it's as if the state has to
find a way to prove now that they
will be there later. What does
exist now, the baseball diamond
included, is consistent with the
plans that have been displayed
with only minor changes at poorly
attended public meetings for the
last three years. Some of the meet-
ings which I have attended have
had more state employees than
area residents.
So much community effort has
gone into fighting the freeway al-
together that it has deflected at-
tention from the unique treat-
ment that has been received from
the state. It has also ignored the
fact that there are different levels
of damage between having no
freeway and the worst that could
be. If there is no difference, then
there is no use wasting any money
on concessions. Myself, I'll take
the concessions.
So thanks for the history of the
freeway's gestation. It is now corn-
ing. Many have been uprooted
and will suffer. Construction
noise will disturb us in our homes
for years. This is how it has been
everywhere in the urban portions
of the interstate highway system
(although our construction will be
Monday through Friday until 6
p.m. only). Goodbye to the war to
prevent the freeway; now begins
the war to contain it.
The war for concessions is
achievable. The state was never
going to give up on building I-696.
For the same reason now that con-
struction has started, they will
not let construction slow down by
skimping on concessions and in-
viting a lawsuit, if the community
insists on the concessions. A frac-
tion of the effort that went unsuc-
cessfully to preventing the free-
way can successfully secure the
decks.
Here are some suggestions on
how our community newspaper
can be one of the first major in-
stitutions to give support, instead
of despair, to the 1-696 commu-
nity:
• Prominently publish an-
nouncements of the public meet-
ings on the freeway. (Oak Park is
hosting one on Nov. 15.)
• Have a periodic freeway pro-
gress report.
• Print names and phone num-
bers of responsible state and city
staff with descriptions of their
duties regarding the freeway.
• Report verified instances of
work-hour restriction violations
with name of the contractor and
fine, if any.
• Publish any changes in deck
design as they occur.
Now some suggestions for the
citizens:
• Go to the public meetings.
Know what is being proMised.
• Know whom to call if there's a
problem (with help of No. 2
above).
• Report to the ombudsman any
work hours violations, rowdiness,
littering, or plain mess-making
by any state employees or con-
tractors.
• Complain quickly and loudly
if any child-protection at the con-
struction boundary is inadequate.
Nobody bought this freeway for
Oak Park, but it's ours now. If we
get the best of it, it doesn't have to
make the worst out of us.
Arthur Slabosky
Can we trust U.N.
to control the PLO?
Here we go again. It is proposed
to again have U.N. forces in
southern Lebanon to prevent ter-
rorist attacks on Israel.
The last time it was 1976 that
United Nations Interim Forces in
Lebanon, UNIFIL, were sent to
southern Lebanon to protect Is-
rael's northern border area from
PLO attacks. Within a year the
PLO had infiltrated it to such an
extent that, for all practical pur-
poses, it controlled UNIFIL who
even employed the PLO to guard
its base headquarters in Beirut.
The U.N. allowed the PLO
forces to remain intact in south-
ern Lebanon and not only . that,
but also supplied them with food
and equipment and provided
sophisticated communications
gear for the PLO commander in
southern Lebanon. PLO liaison
officers were allowed to move at
will around the UNIFIL territory
fully armed and with an armed
resort. UNIFIL officers informed
village Mukhtars or leaders and
the PLO liaison officers 24 hours
in advance of any impending
search for concealed weapons —
which for some reason they never
seemed to be able to find.
The southern Lebanese towns
of Damur, Tyre and Sidon were
completely ruled by the guns of
the PLO and were used to store
weapons and ammunition and for
terrorist training. That didn't
seem to bother the United Na-
tions forces, nor did they find
cause to complain about the PLO
freely torturing and killing any of
the local population they hap-
pened to decide they didn't like or
considered friendly to the Zionist
PLO propaganda induced indi-
vidual UNIFIL officers to smug-
gle explosives into Israel for use
by PLO terrorists. The UNIFIL
practice was to return to the PLO
within 24 hours any of the PLO's
men caught while carrying out il-
legal activities and to return their
weapons within a week.
Because of such good protection
provided by the United Nations,
over the years thousands of Israeli
civilians were casualties of rocket
attacks and terrorist incursions
across their border. Finally in
June of 1982, the PLO, unhin-
dered by the UN forces, within a
24 hour period fired over a 1,000
shells at 23 Israeli towns across
the border. That led to Israel mov-
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readers . . .
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