kg 4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 2, 1986 PLO rep. speaks on By MICHAEL LUSTIG Riad Mansour, a diplomat with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said last night that the plight of the Palestinians is comparable to that of blacks living under apartheid in South Africa. Speaking to an audience of about 50 at Rackham , Amphitheater, Mansour presented th "Palestinian view" of the current situation in the Middle East. Mansour is the deputy director of the PLO's mission to the United Nations. His visit to the University was sponsored by the General Union of Palestinian Students. Normally, Palestinian diplomats are restricted from travelling more than 25 miles away from New York, but Mansour did not say how he was able to come to Ann Arbor. MANSOUR COMPARED the situation Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank face to the apartheid system of government in South Africa and the blacks' struggle for civil rights in the United States. Israel, Mansour said, was created out of British imperialism and Zionist colonialism, and the UN partition of Palestine in 1947 is one cause of today's problems. The partition fragmented Palestinian society, splitting it among Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. The nearly 700,000 Palestinians in Israel "live under a very oppressive, racist system," he said. A major issue facing the world, according to Mansour, is what to do with the Palestinians living in the Middle East. "The Zionist solution," Mansour said, is based on the premise that Palestine is a country without a people and Zionists are a people without a country. He said the ideas of Israeli politician Meir Kahane - that the Palestinians should either leave Israel voluntarily or risk being killed - are common in Israel and cited a New York Times article that said 38 percent of Israelis accept Kahane's role in politics, and therefore, accept his views. Jideast Mansour outlined solutions to the Palestinian problem which he said received a consensus in the UN and are similar to solutions desired by the Palestinians: Israeli withdrawal from all lands captured in 1967; preservation of inalienable rights of the Palestinian people; Palestinian self-determination of an independent state; and future guarantees of the security of an independent Palestinian state. "It is a big shame that, in the end of the 20th century, racist reactionary'regimes like those in South Africa and Israel still exist," Mansour said. Gandhi pledges NEW DELHI, India (AP) - independence for Pun Hindus rioted and Prime Minister Hindus in a similar b Rajiv Gandhi pledged "tough and July 25. strong action" alaidst Sikh Paramilitary troops terrorists yesterday, the day after to patrol New Del four gunmen pulled Hindus off a general strike called fo bus in Punjab and killed 24 of an opposition Hindu p them. Strikes also were sch Police said Sikh militants killed Hindu-dominated stat eight more people in Punjab state and Kashmir next to P yesterday. has a Sikh majority. Sikh extremists, who want Shops were closed action against Sikhs jab, killed 14 bus hijacking were ordered hi during a r Tuesday by olitical party. eduled in the es of Haryana unjab, which yesterday by general strikes in towns and cities throughout Punjab. Clashes bet - ween Sikh and Hindu youths were reported in Jallundhar, but police said no serious injuries resulted. About 3,000 Hindus rioted and threw stones on the edge of New Delhi. Police fired shots into the air and lobbed tear gas to scatter the crowds. Officers said they arrested 100 people for trying to block traffic on the main ring road around the capital. "There is a lot of tension in the city, but we are keeping a watch on things," said Police Commissioner Ved Marwah, who prohibited public gatherings for four days. Near parliament, police hauled away 300 supporters of the. opposition Janata Party who held a non-violent protest in violation of the ban. They were released later. 'Oversight' (Continued from Page 1) .from the Modern Languages Building into a parking structure down the street. Interviews were postponed "out of concern for the safety of their personnel," said University Director of Career Planning and Placement Deborah Orr May at the time.a CIA recuiters did not schedule interviews on campus last winter, saying they did not need new employees. ANDREWS maintained that "protests play a very small part in our decision. As I understand it, the prevents protesters on your campus represent a minority of the students. And we rarely face protests on other campuses." He pointed out that recruiters visited the University of Wisconsin in Madison this fall, even though police used tear gas to break up a protest there last winter. But economics graduate student Mark Weisbrot, a member of the Latin American Solidarity Committee, claims protests did cause the cancellation of recruitment. "The CIA avoids light like termites," Weisbrot said. "They CIA from v got a lot of publicity the last time they were here about their terrorist activites." PROTESTERS HAVE opposed the CIA's role in overthrowing governments in such countries as Chile, and in aiding the Nicaraguan rebels known as Contras. Past protests have also drawn criticism from students and Career Planning and Placement officials who say the protests threatened the students' rights to be interviewed. Ann Richter, associate director of Career Planning and Placement, isiting U' agreed, but said the recruiters' absence this term has not had a great effect. Richter said she hasn't recieved any queries or complaints from students. "It's been my experience that students don't differentiate very much between recruiters. They rarely complain that a particular agency is missing. I would think that anyone who wanted specifically to interview with the CIA has contacted the agency directly." Andrews said he's unsure whether recruiters will interview students next term. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS GM South Africa withdrawl disappoints administration DETROIT - General Motors Corp. and other U.S. companies in South Africa have "done America proud," and the Reagan administration is disappointed by their withdrawl from the country, an adviser to the president said yesterday. "We can appreciate the kind of pressure a number of companies are under, as well as the difficult economic situation in South Africa," said Chester Crocker, assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Crocker said U.S. companies have been a major force for racial justice in white-ruled South Africa, adding that those who have pressured American companies to divest "might have sung a different tune" if they knew this. GM announced in October that it would pull out of South Africa and sell its Port Elizabeth plant to local management effective January 1. International business Machines Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., General Electric Co. and several other majors companies have announced similar plans this year. Fire destroys abortion clinic KALAMAZOO - A suspicious fire early yesterday destroyed a Planned Parenthood clinic that had been picketed almost daily by anti- abortion protestors, officials said. The blaze caused an estimated $750,000 in damage to the building, which was consumed by flames by the time firefighters arrived at the scene, said Louise Safron, executive director of the Planned Parenthood- Reproductive Health Care Center. "The building is three-quarters destroyed. It can't be re-opened at that location," she said. Kalamazoo public safety Lt. Ulysses Dixon said the fire was of suspicious origin, but investigators hadn't pinpointed the cause of the blaze that was reported about 1:18 a.m. Marty Myers, Kalamazoo fire marshal, said it was too early to determine the origin of the fire or whether it was intentionally set. He said the two-story building was a total loss. Planned Parenthood centers and clinics where abortions are done have been frequent targets of vandalism, threats and bombing attacks in recent years. Nixon's papers made public WASHINGTON - Former President Richard Nixon was counseled by a top aide in 1969 to avoid a visit to Mrs. Martin Luther King oi the first anniversary of her husband's assassination because "it would outrage many, many people." The aide, Patrick Buchanan, was a speechwriter in the Nixon White House. He is the director of communications for President Reagan. Buchanan's memo was among 1.5 million documents from the Nixon administration made public yesterday by the National Archives. It was the first release of textual material from the more than 40 million documents Nixon left behind when he resigned Aug. 9, 1974. Missing from the newly released documents are the most sensitive of the Nixon files - those relating to the Watergate scandal that drove him from office. The National Archives once before tried to release those but was stopped by 29 lawsuits filed by former Nixon associates. Jobs increase in Michigan DETROIT - Unemployment rates declined during October in seven of Michigan's 12 major labor markets, with Ann Arbor showing the greatest drop and Muskegon the steepest rise, the Michigan Employment Security Commission said yesterday. "Among the labor-market areas, most the month-to-month changes were minor, as the majority of areas reported jobless-rate increases of less than half a (percentage point), " said Richard Simmons Jr., MESC director. Ann Arbor's unemployment rate, the lowest among the markets, was 3.8 percent in October, down from 4.6 percent in September and from 5.6 percent in October 1985, the MESC said. Simmons said employment rose in Ann Arbor "as classes resumed and employees returned to their jobs at the University of Michigan." In Muskegon, the jobless rate rose to 10.6 percent from 9.9 percent in September, the MESC said. The rate stood 2.9 percentage points below the year-ago level of 13.5 percent. Mental Health Director may be replaced by psychiatrist LANSING, Mich. - Gov. James Blanchard should consider appointing a psychiatrist trained in management to replace outgoing Mental Health Director Patrick Babcock, the Michigan Psychiatric Society's president said yesterday. The society "has on the whole been very pleased with the stewardship of Pat Babcock. He's been a good director, " said Dr. James Graves. But Babcock's Jan. 1 switch to the Social Services Department opens an opportunity for an administratively trained psychiatrist to replace him at the mental health agency, Graves said. "What we would hope is that we would be fortunate enough to find a person with the administrative capacities that Mr. Babcock so admirably exemplifies and a rich and deep clinical experience in dealing with acutely and chronically ill persons," he said. when vis hospital. The n under an 'U' nurses picket to end contract disputes (Continuedfrom Page 1) Sept. 30, when their old contract Council (UMPNC), called the overtime to fill in a void created by itors wanted to enter the expired. current promotional rules vague and approximately 150 unfilled nursing M A R G O B A R R O N, said promotions are "often based on positions at the hospitals.- urses have been working chairperson of the University of favoritism." The vacancies, she said, result extended cpntract since Michigan Professional Nurse h dtt c ilirio r t r'othat Sh ii i i h tfrnr mnm l es who leave because FOOD Buys 4~ Michigan's Largest Chain of Fine Family Restaurants has immediate openings for all positions. We offer excellent benefits and starting wages. 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