The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 13, 1986 - Page 7


U.S. is vital to Middle
East peace, experts say

By JEAN LOMBARD
A former U.S. ambassador, a
diplomat, and two professors agreed
Friday that the United States must
be the catalyst for peace in the
Middle East.
But the officials, who spoke at
a forum called "Terrorism and
Conflict in the Middle East" at
Rackham Auditorium, differed over
exactly how the Reagan
Administration should exert its
influence.
HERMANN EILTS, former
,U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia
and Egypt, said the United States
"cannot disengage in the Middle
East peace process because peace
has a very real, very high price, and
the United States is one of the few
nations able to pay for it. "
"Without the lubricant of general
economic and military aid we
cannot advance the peace process,"
he said.
But Eilts did not advocate
throwing money at the problem.
"In trying to further the Arab-Israeli
peace process we should be prepared
to put on the table proposals which
are fair and equitable for both sides,
so both parties can have something
to gnaw on."

AARON MILLER, a Middle
East analyst for Secretary of State
George Schultz, agreed. "The
challenge to the United States is to
put together an equitable
distribution package of incentives
to move the peace process to the
negotiating table." In the past, he
said, stumbling blocks have
resulted because "what each party
asked for as an incentive became
another party's disincentive."
The prospects for negotiations
will be limited, he continued,
"unless the rewards are sufficiently
clear and the threats are sufficiently
clear."
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a political
science professor at Northwestern
University, held a different
viewpoint. He said the historical
stumbling block to peace has been
the United States' inability to
recognize "the Palestinian peoples'
right to representation by an
authority of their own choice."

HE DEFENDED the
Palestine Liberation Organization
as a representative of the
Palestinian people. "No one else
claims to represent the wishes of
the Palestinian people besides the
PLO. Their legitimacy derives
from their support," he said.
Lughod urged the U.S.
government to officially recognize
the PLO, as well as prohibiting
"shipments of all arms to all
countries in the Middle East."
Don Peretz, a political science
professor at the State University of
New York- Binghampton,
concluded the forum by reaffirming
the importance of the United States
in the peace process. "Last year we
had a very promising situation for
peace with an accepting Israel, a
willing King Hussein, a moderate
PLO, and a willing Egypt. So
what was the missing link, the
catalyst for peace negotiations?
The answer is the United States."

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Most minorities content
with 'U', survey shows

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problems which we attribute to
racial factors could in fact be the
result of socio-economic or class
factors."
Here are responses to other
survey questions:
-Acceptance into the University
community- 91 percent of white
students were satisfied; 75 percent
of black students were satisfied, 20
percent were dissatisfied; 81 percent
of Asian American students were
satisfied, 12 percent were
dissatisfied; 862percent of Hispanic
students were satisfied, 3 percent
were dissatisfied.
-Attitude of white students
toward minority students-Over 50
percent of blacks, 18 percent of
Asian Americans, and 7 percent of
Hispanics were dissatisfied.
-Friendships in one's own racial
group- 84 percent of white
students indicated that mbst f heiTh
friends were from their own racial
group, compared with 63 percent
for blacks,14 percent for Asian
Americans, 30 percent for Hispanic
students, and13 percent for Native
American students
GABORIT SAID that he and
others are currently analyzing the
open-ended questions of the survey
to determine why student opinions
differ between different ethnic,
groups. He said a full report should
lbe completed by the time Sudarkasa
leaves in February to accept a post
at Lincoln University.
Questionnaries were sent to all
minority students whose addresses
were available, and to a random
sample of majority students. Of the

900 students who responded, 39
percent were minorities, 15 percent
Black, 20 percent Asian American,
three percent Hispanic, and about
one percent Native American.
Sudarkasa said her survey was
the first to examine the opinions of
minority students at the University.
"We do have a much better survey
of the opinion of minority students
now than before. Before we relied
on the ad-hoc comments from
individualdminority students. This
may be' aspringboard for future
studies," she said.
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