s Er4g t Eighty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedoml 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Ml 48109 Tuesday, March 22, 1977 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Despte loss, Blue cagers are still number with us THE SEASON IS OVER for the Wol- verine basketball team. UNC-Charlotte, and "Cornbread" Maxwell ended our hopes for a na- tional championship with a well-de- served 75-68 win Saturday. To be sure,, that loss was a dis- appointment to all Michigan fans, and just as heartbreaking to the play- ers -reserve guard Dave Baxter cried after the defeat. But it would be an awful shame to let the dis- appointment of not being national champions sour the memory of a fine team that made us proud all season long. The Wolverines were ranked num- ber one at the outset of the season. They dropped to fifth during , the grueling Big Ten season, but regain- ed the top spot just before the tour- nament with stirring triumphs over Illinois, Purdue, and Marquette (with- out the services of injured all-Ameri- can guard Rickey Green). Still, the feeling lingers around campus that this team has not lived up to its potential. Somehow, the 176-'77 Wolverines - while filling Crisler every week -have disappoint- ed their rabid fans. This is a shame. Even with Saturday's loss, this Michigan team finished with the fin- est won-lost record in Wolverine his- tory. The quintet of Green, Grote, Hubbard, Staton and Robinson-aided by Baxter, Thompson, Hardy, et al., has come through with victories in almost every big game. THE HOME GAMES involving Indi- ana, Minnesota and Purdue must rank as some of the best basketball ever seen in these parts. To forget these moments simply because Mich- igan fell short in the playoffs would be a tragedy. Many exceptional teams were elim- inated from the NCAA tournament before Michigan - Tennessee and UCLA are good examples - and even mighty Kentucky lost in the East Regional finals. College basketball has become incredibly well-balanced, and just getting to the final eight teams in the country should malte Blue fans proud. The years of dom- ination by one team - UCLA - are gone. That we have made it to the tournament four consecutive years is as close to a dynasty as teams will be able to get anymore, and we should all be pleased. Fans at Michigan have developed a reputation of being front-runners. And it has been tiring to see our sports teams fall inches short in championship games time after time. But nothing, not even Saturday's loss, should take away from the ex- cellent season the team had, and our hats are off to every player and coach who made this year what it was. Thanks to all of them - you done us proud. Palestinians: By T. D. ALLMAN First of Five Parts IN ISRAEL is is said there never was a "Palestine." Prior to their state's birth in 1946, the Israelis say, the Palestinians - were merely a "peasant" peo- ple, with no national culture, no historical traditions,. no special skills. Rather than being the victims of Zionism, in the Israeli view, the Palestinians were actually passive beneficiaries of it. But - as both Israelis and Arabs have forgotten to their mutual peril ever since 1948 - to drive peas- ants from the land is to make them peasants no more. To destroy a traditional society is to conjure up a new one. However valid the stereotype of the Palestinians prior to 1948, the 1977 statistics show how different they are today. THE PALESTINIANS now have the highest litera- cy rate in the Mideast, except for the .Israelis them- selves, according to data assembled by UNESCO, the Red Cross, the U.N. World Relief Agency and other international bodies. They also have the highest pro- portion of children in school, the highest porportion of university students and the greatest ratio of skilled laborers to total work force of any Arabic-speaking people. Like the Israelis, the Palestinians have become a nation of apartment dwellers; together they, are the two most urbanized peoples in the Mideast. Next to the Jews, the Palestinians are also the most so- cially mobile, the most geographically dispersed and the least traditional people involved in the entire Arab- Israeli conflict. Despite being divided for 30 years by the lines of military confrontation, the Palestinians have be- moce an increasingly homogenous nation. THE IRONY IS IMMENSE. While fighting along- side the Arabs, the Palestinians resemble Arabs less and less. But while combatting Israel, they are com- ing to resemble Jews more anti more. Even the stereotype of the Palestinians as a peo- ple of the refugee camps is no longer valid. Of the more than two million Palestinians living outside Is- raeli-controlled territory, only 448,278 - about a fifth - actually inhabit refugee camps. And the vast ma- jority of those are women, children and old people, many of whom are refugees not from 1948 but from the 1967 Six Day War. Thus the real problem for the Palestinians is that of the declining role of the camps, in spite of the Palesti rising incomes - which now often exceed the nurtured Zioni among whom they have settled - they re- it - the polit people who the more they wander the more parallel. am of returning home; the more cosmopolitan Just as th some, the more they want some small corner strength not fr arth to call their own - much like the Jews lem rule but f ael. ment that pro former population of sedentary peasants has or the camps1 a nation of itinerant scholteachers; this sup- across the Ar 4bal of saboteurs, now is the principal source a scarved rev i labor and trained management for the non- The conse ist world's most important, oil reserves. LIKE TH ion before it, RLY A QUARTER-MILLION Palestinians work ment shelterin it; the oil would stop flowing to the factories and the victi and West Germany without them. The Pal- have in comm are also the single most numerous group Some time cians and teachers in Saudi Arabia, the small etinian lawye tes and Libya. \ house. "This i result is that, deprived of their own land, the me when we v ans have become an increasingly powerful parable of Mo; other lands. Denied nationhood, they play a it will comei international role than many fully sovereign Under thei yearbooks. Pal y Palestinians comprise two-thirds of the popu- live. Instead ti Jordan, half the populations of the Israeli- they have nex lands, a third of the population of Kuwait Palestine; Jaff ut 12 per cent of the population of Lebanon. are a key ingredient of not only the Arab- AS THEIR onflict, but the confrontation between the in- two peoples re red and Third Worlds and the relationship one is left, in1 uperpowers. And what ever happens in the tinians, but o :ure, this is quite unlikely to change. for a future c of the past. N IF THEY GET their mini-state, the Pales- Haunted b re likely to remain a nation whose popula- the Jews have influence continues to lie largely outside its and Judea. Resisting t :ed with expulsion and exile," observed Prof. tinians have b haath of the American University of Beirut, :stinians turned to "education as a means to Tomorrow: Th self-preservation." Encountering the Arabs' tility to the strangers in their midst, the Pal- Dr. Aliman, "had to study hard to enhance his personal ford, England, ive power and overcome the disadvantages ship at the Co ig from his 'refugee status' as well." ten on the Mi A WORLD FORCE 1970's for such >th the social origins and human consequences "Guardian" an To the right, By CHUCK ANESI orientatic ONCE AGAIN, "To the Right, March!" is forc- a major ed to reply to the railings of someone who from th pretends to know the truth. and from eThis refers to the March 17 letter to the gram to Daily of James Phillips, a Department of Popu- Rapid lation Planning (DPP) student who takes issue problem with the March 2 "To the Right, March!" which health p soundly chastised the DPP studiess Phillips states that, contrary to the information lems is p presented in the March 2 column, "the 'fetish put its o with third world problems' stems from the ob- study th vious fact that rapid population growth is primar- large, i ily a problem of the third world." glectede wastes t - HE ALSO SAYS that "We are not a family plan- studies. ning department, and nowhere in the Review Re- * port was the "family planning versus population PHILL control' debate discussed." ing in 1 For his own enlightenment, Mr. Phillips should schedule consult the Report of the Committee on Review of question the Department of Population Planning, Pages be obtai 2 and 3, where the following text appears: negative "3. In attempting to get a perspective on the After t Department's problems, the Committee identified informal some of the significant underlying issues. For "To the e the most part, they can be regarded as problems proconc of allocation of emphasis in the following cate- tion . . gories: "third world" versus domestic problems, a compe t professional versus academic training, doctoral level versus master's level education, family plan- A cor wm ning .versus population control." tial sour Which clearly shows that Mr. Phillips is abso- formati. lutely wrong. on the a liable i AS REGARDS the "third world" problem, the average Committee recommends that "there be a re- ed to be The Mideasts new Jews nian dispossession resemble those that ism, so - though neither side admits icAl results have also run increasingly e Zionist movement derived its initial om the Oriental Jews living under Mos- rom Jews living in Europe, so the fer- duced the PLA began not inside Israel but among a Palestinian elite scattered b world. Yasser Arafat started not as olutionary but as an engineer in Kuwait. quences have also been similar. E INTERNATIONAL Zionist Organiza- the PLO today is an umbrella move- g radicals and reactionaries, terrorists ms of terrorism - not by what they ion - but in what they lack. ago in Amman, Jordan, a wealthy Pal- r showed a visitor around his lavish s not my home," he said. "My sons ask will go home and I remind them of the ses. If it does not come in my lifetime, in theirs." r graduation photographs in Arab school lestinian students do not say where they hey list, as forwarding addresses, cities ver seen: "Jerusalem, Palestine; Acre, fa, Palestine." HISTORICAL quarrel grows deeper, the semble each other more and more, and the end, neither with Israelis nor Pales- nly with people - people whose quest ondemns them to constantreenactments y the concentration camps of Europe, become the masters of Gaza, Samario he Judaization of their land, the Pales- ecome the new people of the Diaspora. e Palestinians in the occupied territories a member of St. Antony's College in Ox- recently completed a research fellow- uncil on Foreign Relations. He has writ- ddle East and Indochina since the early publications as "The New York Times", d "Le Monde diplomatique". march!. on of the overall teaching program with shift of emphasis in two directions: e international to the domestic scene, n the master's professional training pro- the doctoral academic program." population growth is, of course, an acute in third world countries. Most public roblems are. But to say that public health should concentrate on third world prob- phantasmagoric. The United States should wn house in order first: the DPP should ie very real problems which result in npoverished American families, and ne- and abused American children, bafore it ime and energy on fanciful third wud IPS ALSO says that the loss of AID fund- 978 came as no surprise, because it was d to expire anyway. This is true. The , however, was whether more funds could ned from this source, and the answer was this carnical of misinterpretationand mis- tion, Phillips suggests, that the March 2 Right, March!" was "based on shallow eptions rather than a careful investiga- ." and that "We invite the Daily to send tent reporter to the DPP." ipetent reporter determines which poten- ces will give him good and accurate in- n. My assessment was that DPP students, iverage, would give me biased and unre- nformation. If Mr. Phillips typifies the DPP student, this assessment has prov- correct. Letters to the Daily Sun sets on Gandhi regime INDIRA GANDHI and her reign of despotism are no more. In the culmination of one of the most puzzling political gambles in re- cent memory, Gandhi and her Con- gress Party were denied the majority in the Indian Parliament that they sought. Gandhi lost her personal bid for re-election by over 50,000 votes, and he son Sanjay, seeking election for the first time was thrashed by over 70,000 votes. The Janata opposition party has taken an early lead in the voting, the results of which are not expected to be in until this evening. It appears certain they will be able to form a coalition that will give them the ma- jority necessary to keep the Congress Party from power for the first time since Indian independence was de- clared 30 years ago. It is a happy day for the Indian people. Twenty-one months ago, Gandhi declared a state of emergen- cy for the country, instituting cen- sorship of the press, and incarcerat- ing members of the opposition par- ties and other "dissidents." Then, this past January, just as quickly as she slapped the cordon on Indian rights, she lifted many of the restrictions, and announced a gen- eral election. Gandhi gambled that she still had sufficient support to win, and silence her critics. From there it was all down hill. The opposition parties rallied and began a vigorous campaign to oust Gandhi. The crushing blow came last month when former Agricultural Min- ister Jagjivan Ram resigned from the government, lambasted Gandhi and formed a coalition with the Janata Party. WITH THE VICTORY, acting Presi- dent B. D. Jatti officially ended the state of emergency, and the Ja- nata Party called for Gandhi's im- mediate resignation as Prime Min- ister. As of yesterday, she was ex- pected to comply. The past two years have been very tumultous and trying for India. The outcome of the election can only be seen as an optimistic sign for the world's second most populated coun- try. It is imperative that the Janata party reintroduce some semblance of political normalcy to India. Indira Gandhi is gone, and along with her go two years of tyranny. But notice- ably remaining are the serious prob- lems of overpopulation, undernourish- ment and poverty., These are prob- lems that the new coalition will have to deal with. It is hoped that they will not devote an overabundance of time attempting to de-Gandhize In- dia and will instead concentrate on dealing with these more pressing crises. It is further hoped, that Gandhi will not fight to keep her post as Prime Minister, but will resign grace- fully, making the transition of pow- er as smooth as possible. Finally, it is hoped that the new goyernment will put India back on the track that Mahatma Gandhi set for it back in 1947. To the Daily: In light of the recent concerning the decision1 solve the Department of lation Planning, (DPP), lieve that as the officials organization within the of Public Health we mu clare our position on th ter. Our purpose is not to< whether or not the decisi a justifiable or good one a concern is beyond the s our organization. Ho whenever the rights of s are violated,then the iss definite concern for us. fically, we address ourse the manner in which the ion to terminate the DP made. To conduct meetings of a significant matter with fying the students and of the proceedings is wr fact, it is deplorable. T< these people the right toI their case, let alone to formed of the proceeding injustice that violates C tional rights. We find it prehensible that such c tine operations could ha curred. We also find the Cam] DPP proceedings incomprehensible given the precedent established by the former dean and his openness about dealing with a events similar financial crisis just a to dis- few years ago. Popu- we be- When viewed on a larger student scale, the actions of the Execu- School tive Committee causes g r e a t ust de- distress about ,future decisions is mat- of import. If all significant de- cisions are to be made during contest "closed door" meetings, control on was of the School of Public Health e. Such will be in the hands of a power- cope of ful few who will be unresponsive )wever, to the needs of the students and tudents faculty. After witnessing t h e ,Speci- events of the past few weeks, elves to such a situation is not infeasible. decis- . ep was Therefore, we, the Public Health Student Association de- mand that the Board of Regents )ut n.uc of the University of Michigar faculty reopen the issue of the existence ong. In of DPP and allow the depart- o deny ment the right to present a case present in their defense. Only in thai b e in d be in- way can the process be a demo- -s isan onstitu- cratic one. incom- -Robert Palmer landes- Catherine Feldman James Behrmann mittee's Ronald Gentile * -7 t~ ~ ;4 "..," ~ BMN CANCrLZ~O- THANK< ' 7r at I 9 / *i~- ji 10 /~f r - '. TUFF SAiN ;i( * I' I -I, i f . ..5 . i, n ^ r . f t r' ( E y / t . , f r, . ... "'" - L t4 ;a 1, i i't _ Null u1 1 sir ,q4WfrJIUElJJJi= d.