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BRAGG BRIEFS is published in the apirit of the Declaration of Independence

and the United States Conatitution,.
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It is a free press, published by active
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VOL. 3 NO. 8 OCTOBER 1970

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Bragg On Alert For Mideast

U.S. Arms Both Sides

The United States is being asked to
sell modern F-4 Phantom jets to Israel
supposedly to help maintain the mili-
tary balance in the Middle East.

The "imbalance" is said to result
from the introduction of Soviet mis-
sles and Soviet planes and pilots in
Egypt.

Yet the United States has committed
itself to selling 56 modern jets to A-
rab states in the Middle East in re-
cent years. Thus the United States has
contributed in part to creating the
oimbalance� in fighter planes it is
being asked to correct,

In the Six Day War in 1967 between
the Arabs and the Israelis both Jordan
and Israel were using U.S. Patton
tanks against each other,

One Defense department Middle East
expert points out that U.S. equipment
has been used on both sides in the
Greek-Cyprus war, Arab-Israeli, India-
Pakistan and the Yemenite war,

Says a Foreign Relations Committee
report:

"Current policies have resulted in
U.S, furnished arms appearing in the
hands of both sides in all too many
regional disputes around the globe,
sapping scarce resources which should
be used for economic development, and
creating an ~arms merchant~ image for
this country.�

The label is appropriate, The Uni-
ted States today is the world's lead-
ing salesman and dispenser of arma-
ments.

In the current fiscal year the Uni-
ted States plans to dispose of more
than $5 billion in armaments to more

than 60 countries,

Part of the reason the United
States sells arms to poor countries is
to maintain a favorable balance of
trade.

Some critics object to the U.S. ag-
gravating local problems by selling
arms in order to solve its internal
economic problems,

FREE TO SERVICEMEN

All right, you radicals want to
tear this system down. But what are

you going to replace it with?

-- Anonymous

PHILADELPHIA (LNS)=- Ten thousand
people, mostiy black and mostly young
jammed the North Philadelphia ghetto
community on Labor Day weekend to at-
tend the first large-scale meeting of
American radicals designed to put to-
gether a concrete vision of a revolu-
tionary America.

It was called the Revolutionary
People's Constitutional Convention
plenary session; the site was Temple
University, located in the middle of
@ crumbling but lively black ghetto.

The registration center was staffed
and guarded by members of the Black
Panther Party, which called and spon-
sored the convention.

The first plenary session was
held in a 5,000-seat gymnasium. The
bleachers were filled, and people sat
cross-legged on the gym floor, too.
We listened to Michael Tabor, one of
the New York Panther 21, who talked
intensely and passionately for two
hours about American history, the old
Constitution, and the future of our
revolution,

"Prom the beginning it was a gov-
ernment of the pigs, by the pigs and
for the pigs....¥% Tabor said, and he
began to relate the real side of Amer
ican history, the oppressed people's
side of the school-taught myths. It
was slaveowners and landowners, he
said, who drafted the original Const-
itution to serve their own needs,

"All men are created equal..."
But women and black people were not
considered people, Tabor told the
crowd.

He then dissected the current
state of the economy: "They say we
have an inflation and recession. That
means the top of the lid is blowing
off and the bottom is falling out,

(CONT 'D ON PAGE 7)

Write On! 5.

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Brothers--

Not long ago a new act of repres-
sion was introduced to the 327th.
Sig. Bn. The men there are not al-
lowed to lay on their beds without
turning them down. Also a daily in-
spection interrupts any peace and
quiet that used to prevail. A man
has a day off, or a half a day, and
he doesn't have the privilege of
his own bed. What more of an insult
can the lifers hand us??

When the inspections began, all
footwear had to be highly shined,
not buffed it seemed, but spit-
shined, or the EM was harrassed.

A new CO took over one of the
companies in the Bn. and from then
on gave Art. 15's left and right to
Black brothers to attempt to get
over with the Caucasian lifers in
command,

The shit is continuing to get
deeper, my brothers. When it ends
depends on you. It's time for a
change, my brothers, react or it
will soon be too late for any reac-
tion.--= Right on!!--Write on!!

The motor pool was clean,too bad the
trucks wern't. Congratulations ABCAR!

Brothers-

For some time I have been a member
of the U.S. Army. In fact I've been
in the war machine so long I'm due to
get out in October 1970. But that's
not your problem, it's one of mine.
Here is yours. Now everyone pays tax-
es to the government. And the govern-
ment takes these taxes & pays the war
machine bills. One bill they pay for
is Separate Rations, which is when .
you are a lifer you get money for
your food, and if you wish to eat in

the mess hall, you have to pay for it.

Then how come in the 612th QM Co(aD)
the lifers are getting over. Every
morning the men come in and get cof-
fee. But before they get this coffee,
they have to sign a roster saying
they ate a whole meal. But not the
lifers. They just get their coffee
and are on their way. No money is
payed and no signatures are signed.
Why don't they sign the roster and
pay for what they are payed for? Good
waste of money, huh?

Well if you think that's good (for
nothing), then dig this. My name is
Roy M. Watson. I am the company gar-'
dener. My rank is E-1, Every day
I've got to go and report to the
612th QM Co (AD). In the morning
when I come to work, and in the
evening when I get off. If I don't
my commanding officer, Maj. Robert
Schlasser has threatened to give me
a dishonorable discharge before my
ETS, which is & Oct 70 - Big Deal.

Now Dig- :

During ~my entire day I am
followed by SFC Newson who makes
E-7 over-21 pay just for watching
little old me and nothing else. He
tells me what to do, when to take a
break, and is my constant daily
shadow. Your taxes are really being
used wisely, people.

Think About It,
Roy M. Watson

prothners -

We are faced with an unconstitu-
tional army. Show me a law or a con-
stitution that says that this govern-
ment or any government has the right
to take fathers from their families
or children from their parents to
fight in a immoral and unconstitu-

tional war. How many Vietnamese died
in our civil war?

In this New Action Army a person
is not treated as a person. He is a
number or else he is Government
Property?

They are always on you about the
length of your hair. Since when does
the length of your hair interfere
your work or the way you fight?

When will it all end? Sonetimes I
wonder!!! Is the United States going
to be another Rome? If so, when will
it fall; and who will it take down
with it when it does? 2

If we don't act now this is going
to turn into a Military Controlled
State, just like Nazi Germany, and
Gen. Westmoreland another Adolf
Hitler,

Is this the great United States of
America everyone is talking about?
The land where we have so much free-
dom? The land where all men are
created equal? Well, just ask the
Black man, he'll tell you!

Long Live Amerika!

Kill for Peace,

A Slaye

You know what GI stands fors Gov-
ernment Issued, That means you're ex-
pendable, You are a piece of equipment
necessary to the machine, Without you
they are nothing. They have to have °
you, not the reverse, Whether you are
a foot soldier, a medic, a truck dri-
ver, or whatever, you are the one who
makes the Army work, You are respons«.
ible for what it does,

Get together, talk about your prob-
lems. If you dig it as it is then you
have lost nothing, But if you do not
dig the way it is, find out what you
as a soldier can do to exercise your
basic right of change, Changing it to
fit your individual needs,

You are the soldier, You feel the
bullets, You pull "their" triggers,
Learn, baby, That's where it's at.

You tell me you got troubles. You
tell me they work you too hard, You
tell me the money is no good. You
tell me you have no rights, You tell
me the lifers push you around, You
tell me that you get ripped off down-
town. You tell me you get too much
harrassment, Over and over again you
tell me that the GI gets shafted,

So I asks

What are you doing about it?

Are you going to let them decide
when, where, and how you are to die?

Do you like being a slave?

Who made the rules in the army?

Do they let fe decide anything?

If you do not like it stand up and
be counted. I am not saying become a
martyr: They have a lot of power. All I
am saying is try. See how much the
army will allow you to learn, See how
much the ruling class in the army al-:
lows you to question,

Write On!!

Dear Bragg Briefs,

In your article,K.P."S Speak Out?
you have gone entirely to far, first
of all,I want to.know who madeyou an
authority on K.P.? I donTt know where
you get your info,but, it's more frau-
dulent than Santa Clause,I'1ll have you
know, K.P!6 get up at 6100(civilian
time),and drag ass to the mess hall
choose their own job,(where to work},
The side sink man,(as you have been so
kind as to refer to), has no comittance
as to cleaning the chow line,(A COOKS
JOB), putting milk into the cooler, or
most of all washing the cooking pots,
or utensils,

K.P.S in our mess hall, HHC 82nd
Abn Div. have at a min, of 30 min., to
eat,usually longer,than the cooks them-
selves, the heat is not exaggerated
although, there would be at least 5
men,(5 for a mess of ao) to pn
same job, SIDE SINK. You are actually
a slave for 14 hrs. approx,

So you see,or so you should, K.P.
is actually HARMLESS IF you work your
balls off,and you will,if you could
insure the-ome question, if K.P. is so
terrible,go retched,than why do so many
soldiers buy K.P.? All the money in
the world, could pay for your fraud-
ulent description of a K.P.s day and
I don't mind you or the world knowing,
My opinion as probably your own is
built by practical knowledge. Although
I'm not a lifer I have a job to do,and
I'll do my best, you see ARMY builds
men,(with character), :

Please if you dare,print thise
I'll be waiting for a reply.

Sp/4+ Art Morgan
HHC 82nd Abn Div

A pissed off reader of Bragg Briefs

---Well, we dared to
print it, and I'm sure
somebody will dare to
disagree,

Write On!

Bragg Briefs -

Last nite, Wednesday, 3 pigs came
into Rowan Park and busted a dude for
possession of Mace, a chemical sub-
stance the pigs need to blind people,
As the pigs chased this guy, a narc
was left behind to guard the two pigs!
cars against the heads in the park,

When the pigs returned the nare
was congratulated for a job well done
and then sent on his merry way. The
pigs split, but before the narc was
out of the park a group of about 40
people staged a die-in in the narc's
honor. Needless to say, the nare got
the fuck beat out of him by everybody
there,

PFC Edward H. Willis, Jr,
182nd AVN CO,

FREEDOM!

At 10:30 AM on Sept. 6; 1970, a company of
armed infantrymen swept into Doylestown, Penn.
They veizéd and occupied the center of the city,
setting up road blocks and taking civilian prisoners,
The mayor, who was addressing a rally at the court-
house, was captured, interrogated, tortured, and in
full view of the stunned townspeople, shot to death,
Other innocent civilians including women and child-

ren, were taken captive, and , after being mistreated
by the Gls, were also killed, At 10:45 AM the
company marched south out of the town, leaving
behind a trail of bloody bodies and a horrified
citizenry standing in their yards and streets mute
with shock, their unbelieving eyes fastened on the
departing soldiers,

The preceeding actually happened, as part of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Operation RAW
(Rapid American Withdrawal), a simulated search-
and-destroy mission carried out on Labor Day Week-
end. Over 100 Vietnam vets organized, dressed, and

equipped as an Infantry Combat Company, marched
from Morristown, N.J. té Vally Forge, Pennsylvania

(a distance of over 90 miles) to protest AmerikaTs
continuing war in Indochina,

By previous arrangement with the towns along
the way, the VVAW carried out a series of combat
raids exactly like those performed daily by US forces
in SE Asia, The victims in these incidents were local
townspeople (including a mayor and a minister)
and members of the Philadelphia Guerrilla Theatre,

While civilians looked on, the captured ogooks�
were beaten, humiliated, questioned, tortured, and _ a. special contingent of vets stayed behind, They spoke
killed"using the same methods taught, sanctioned, to townspeople in order to judge their reactions to the
and encouraged by the US Army. It was obvious

had been soldiers; that they had seen killing and that

Bringing It All Back Home

Eleven towns were occupied this way, and in each

operations and to explain the reason for the action
through their ianguage and manner that these men _"_ 41d the views of the VVAW about the war,

Civilian response ranged from fear, shock, and con
cern, through apathy, to outright hostility, One young
mother just stood on the sidewalk holding her 2 small
boys tightly and crying. There were also some incidents
of violence. The Vets were threatened with a loaded
~Shotgun and with being run over by a car, They were
assulted and insulted, and attempts were made to stop
the march with American flag roadbiocks and obsceni«
ties shouted by VFW and American Legion members.
Apathy was the most common reaction; people tried
to ignore the occupation of their town and go on with
business as usual, Just now , reactions of shock and
disbelief are showing up, and reports are that the
towns will not be the same for quite a while,

At the end of the 4"day march, over 300 former
soldiers, reservists, and active duty GlTs, led by.a group
o A US infantry company just passed of disabled Viet Vets and medics, moved in a slow

through your town, If you were Viet- formation to meet several thousand people in Valley
namese, Forge where the whole group held a rally in support

You might have been killed of the Vets andT what they are doing, oBeing a man is

Your wife or daughter might have not ~my country right or wrongT but ~my country "
been raped letTs right the wrong!T �

Your crops and home might have As the rally ended, the veterans, many with tears

sage: deste oy ed : in their eyes from the emotional strain, violently smashed
This kind of thing happens every day in the toy M-16Ts they had carried day night during the long

Vieiioam in your nae march, and instead raised their hands in the V sign for
What have you done to stop it???� peace,

they had done killing,

The VVAW handed out leaflets en the way:
oWe are the Vietnam vets who have

survived the trap in which our buddies
have died or been maimed, Many of
you know that vietnam is a trap"and
have done nothing to prevent our bud-

dies (your sons) from going into it.
Today, about 32 GIs will be killed
in Vietnam and about 140 will be seri-
iously wounded, and you did not
speak out to prevent thier deaths, You
let them walk into the trap.

WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT YOU?
The last platoon handed out this mess age:

(Reprinted from the Old Mole)

THE REAL LOSERS IN MIDDLE EAST PALESTINIAN ARABS

Palestine Problem

Of all the problems bequeathed to the world by European
imperialism, Palestine is among the most intractable.

It is a peculiarly emotional issue, not only for those
immediately involved. In the West the burden of guilt left
by HitlerTs crimes against the Jews has created a barrier
which the injustices suffered by the Palestinian Arabs can-
not penetrate. In many Arab countries hatred of the Jews
is whipped up to divert the internal struggle against re-
actionary regimes into external channels. Western economic
interests in the area, and the tendency of both East and
West to exploit the situation for ideological or strategic
advantage, further complicate the problem. To make
matters worse, in both Israel and the Arab countries there
is almost, total ignorance of the other's history, people and
aspirations.

Emotions, however, whether rightly or wrongly based,
cannot solve complex political problems. They are much
more likely to lead to disaster. At the centre of the emo-
tional miasma surrounding Palestine lie two hard facts "
the displaced Arab population who still live in refugee
camps round Israel's borders; and a new nation of Israel,
with a complete class structure of its own, who by incessant
propaganda and, to a certain extent, real achievement, are
beginning to carve a place in the world. Neither can be
forgotten, ignored, or annihilated. A political solution must
sooner or later be found, that is both realistic and just.
The alternative is " eventually " war, which will at best
only defer, not solve, the political problems.

A realistic solution can only be based on a thorough
historical, economic, political and social analysis of the

PALESTINIAN COMMANDOS
In the first half of the 20th Century the population of
Palestine was about 700,000, the overwhelming majority
being Arabs. There were various minority communities,
including some 70,000 Jews. Economically and politically
these Jews were an integral part of the indigenous

population, differing only in religion. They had nothing
to do with colonization or Zionism.

The first step in the modern Jewish colonization of Pales-
tine was taken in 1870 when Baron Edmund de Rothschild
of France acquired some land near Jaffa and established an
agricultural school (Mikveh Israel " o Catherer of Israel �).
This was followed by the building of some twenty villages,
inhabited by some 5,000 Jews, mostly from Russia. Up to
1900 the Baron invested about £2m. in Palestine. The
Rothschilds were (and still are) among the worldTs leading
financiers, with the French and British branches of the
family holding influential positions in the economy of these
two countries. Baron Edmund combined his Jewish senti-
ments with his support for French interests in colonizing
Palestine following the Algerian model. He wished to
amalgamate the emigration of east European Jews with
the colonial interests of French imperialism. He did not
entertain the idea of an independent Jewish state in
Palestine (he was no Zionist) but used his financial power
in the Ottoman treasury in order to prepare a new sphere
of influence for French interests, employing Jewish immi-

grants as settlers. His Palestine activities were thirty years
old when Zionism was born.

Zionism Founded

Political Zionism was founded in 1897 at a congress neld
in Basle, Switzerland. If differed significantly from the
Rothschild colonization in that it declared its intention of
solving the Jewish problem by creating a national Jewish
state. However, the Viennese journalist T. Herzl, the
founder and first leader of the Zionist movement, did
not consider Palestine as the indispensable location for
such a state. On the contrary, he advocated Uganda as the
most suitable place for Jewish colonization. But the majority
of the Zionists reiected the Uganda scheme and insisted or
fulfilling the Jewish religious sentiment towards Palestine.

British. Imperialism

npese Fpmergeseomi which ruled Palestine from 1918 to
used the familiar ~tactics of o divide and rule �, exploit-
ing to the utmost the possibilities which rivalling national-
istic movements offered. For the masses it employed nation-
ist and religious incitement and provocation, which proved
to be effective. It employed Jewish policemen against Arab

population and vice versa. For the leaders it employed
diplomacy, o white papers �, round-table donferences, giving

contradictory promises to buvin sides and acting as meaia-
tors�. It succeeded in diverting what threatened to become
an anti-imperialist struggle into the channels of national-
istic strife.

The first important statement of British policy on Pales-
tine wass et out in a private letter from Arthur James
Balfour, Foreign Minister in Lloyd GeorgeTs Cabinet, to
Lord Rothschild. This become known as oThe Balfour
Declaration �T.

Tt reads as follows:
Foreign Office,

2nd November, 1917.
Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of
His Majesty's Government the following declaration of sym-
pathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been sub-
mitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet: o His MajestyTs
Government view with favour the establishment in Pales-
tine of a National home for the Jewish people and will use
their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this
object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be
done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights
and political status enjoyed by the Jews in any other
country�. I should be grateful if you would bring this
declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,

Arthur James Balfour.
We will not analyse here in detail the wording of this

document (which with extraordinary impudence refers to
the Palestine Arabs who outnumbered the Jalestine Jews
by about eight to one, as o existing non-Jewish communi-
tiesT) but comment briefly on its main motives. The
British Governemnt was engaged at that timé in the war

against Germany, whose ally in the Middle East was
Turkey. The Balfour Declaration was meant to rally the
Jews all over the world (including those in Germany,
America, Austria and Palestine) to its side. Moreover, being
well aware of the aspirations of Arab Nationalism, it was
calculated to supply Zionist hopes with a political founda-
tion to use as a counterweight to Arab Nationalism.. Similar
promises of national independence were givea to the
Arabs through Capt. Lawrence and Ronald Storrs.

Even before these promises were handed out to the
onatives �, the whole area was divided between British and
French imperialism in the Sykes-Picot agreement (1916)
which dissected the Ottoman Empire two years before its
downfall. In 1922 the British government implemented the
Balfour letter by an official white paper and in order to
pacify the enraged Arabs for the Sykes-Picot and Balfour

obetrayal�, granted oindependence� to TransJordan in
1923 and appointed Abdallah as ruler.

The calculated ambiguities and o contradictions� in the
British Foreign policy increased the unrest and hostilities
between Jews and Arabs, and involved considerable blood-
shed. In the late 30Ts this factor turned from an asset into
a liability. The religious, feudal and bourgeois elements in
Arab Nationalism welcomed the rise of fascism in Germany
and Italy, as fellow enemies of British Imperialism. Con-
tacts between these camps worried the British. The oil-
fields, pipelines and Suez Canal seemed in danger. Zionist
demands for more independence and increased immigration
quotas for European Jews fleeing from persecution were
other issues which had to be handled, too. But the Foreign
Office, confident that the Nazis would never consider the
Zionists as potential allies, produced another white paper
in 1939, aimed at currying favour with the Arabs. It stated:

oHis Majesty's Government now declare unequivocably
that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should
become a Jewish state... . It should be a state in which the
two peoples in Palestine, Arabs and Jews, share authority
in government in such a way that the essential interests of
each are secured... .T

This, briefly, was the situation on the eve of World
War I

From WWII to

Present

During the Second World War, new economic and poli-
cal factors revolutionised the Palestine situation.

The decisive period in the development of the Palestine
problem started with the rise of fascism in Europe. T

The Nazi crimes against the Jews : gave Zionists an
entirely new status in the international arena. Previously,
it had been a minority trend amongst the worldTs 18,000,000
Jews, with the majority either indifferent or hostile. After
the extermination of 6,000,000 European Jews by Nazism,
many more were attracted by the idea of an independent
Jewish state. Zionism, which had always accepted anti-
semitism, became a major political tendency even among
Jews who had no intention of personally emigrating to
Palestine. The World Powers began to regard Zionism as
the representative of the whole Jewish people.

The war left large numbers of Jewish refugees in Europe,
many of whom, encouraged by the Zionists, wanted to emi-
grate to Palestine. The Palestine Arabs had no wish to
become a minority in their own country, pressed the British
government to stop Jewish emigration. The Zionists there-
upon began to organise clandestine emigration on a large
scale. The British tried to prevent this not only because of
Arab pressure but also because they. were worried by the
rising tendencies towards independence among the Pales-
tine Jews. World opinion, especially in Europe and the
U.S, wag still reeling with the shock of discovering the
enormity of the Nazi war-crimes and inevitably sympathized

with the refugees.:The resulting political atmosphere was
hostile both to the British government and to Arab nation-
alism. This atmosphere persists today and is one of the
major assets of Zionism.

The emergence of the U.S. as a major world power after
World War II and the decline of British imperialism brought
about a gradual shift of Zionist orientation from Britain
towards the U.S. A strong Zionists lobby was built up in
Washington and at the same time the pro-American ele-

ments in world Zionism gained supremacy over the pro-
British faction.

oIr this new situation the ZionistT demanded political in-
dependence in Palestine. The right-wing demanded im-

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mediate independence for the whole of Palestine under
Jewish minority rule; the centrists favoured the partition
of Palestine between Arabs and Jews; the left-wing Zion-
ists (among them parts of the present-day o Napam� party)
wanted to postpone independence until the Jews became
a majority through increased immigration.

In essence there were three parties directly involved in
the Palestine problem. British imperialism; the Jewish
minority (about 0.6m.); and the Arab majority (about 1m.).
Each of these had its own demands, in conflict with the
other two. But " mainly owing to the deformation of Arab
society by the process of Jewish colonization " the Pales-
tine Arabs did not in fact constitute a major independent
political force in the period 1945-1947. The struggle was
waged mainly between the Zionists and Britain.

Bri problem to the

In 1947 Britain referred the Palestine
U.N. expecting disagreement in the U.N. to lead to a
renewal of the mandate. This would lend a new lease of life
to the precarious British authority in the area. In Novem-
ber, 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution
recommending the partition of Palestine into two inde-
pendent, but economically linked, states. This solution was
a victory for Zionism and was strongly opposed by the
Arabs (who, of course, demanded an undivided indepen-
dent Arab Palestine), and by British imperialism which
struggled to retain its influence and power.

Both the U.S. and the U.S S.R. supported the resolution;
the U.S. because they considered it a convenient way of
gaining a foothold in the Middle East and replacing British
imperialism; the U.S.S.R. because it considered it the most
practical way to drive British imperialism out of one of its
strongholds. The U.S.S.R. probably under-estimated the
strong links between Zionism and American imperialism.
As for the Foreign Office, it was worried not only because
the creation of a Zionist state meant loss of influence to
the U.S. but also because the establishing of an independent
Arab state in Palestine could have repercussions in the
Arab world.

After the U.N. partition resolution, the British tried to
provoke the Palestine Arabs'~against the Jewish population,
to prove that a British presence was necessary to keep law
and order. This attempt failed. Next, the British organised
in Syria an irregular volunteer army (headed by Fawzi el
Kaukji) which entered Palestine and attacked Jewish settle-
ments. When this attempt failed too, the British finally
decided to employ the regular armies of TransJordan,
Syria, Egypt and Iraq in order to wage open war against
the Zionist state, which (according to the U.N. resolution),
was to come into existence on 15th May, 1948. The political
and itary plans for this invasion were grawn up by

~C. Clayton (one of the main tish colonial
agents in thtMiddle East) in a meeting of the Arab chiefs
of staffs held eatty in 1948 at Bludan, Syria.

The 1948 war became a military conflict between the
Zionists and the Arab armies. These armies were not, how-
ever, playing an independent role for achieving Arab inde-
pendence in Palestine, but rather serving British interests,
through the puppet regimes of Farouk, Abdallah and Nuri
Sa'id. The war was used by these regimes to divert the
internal anti-imperialist struggle (especially in Egypt and
Iraq) into an imperialist-sponsored Holy War. The conduct

of the war exposed the utter corruption of these regimes
and hastened their downfall.

The fate of Palestine was decided not on the battle-
field, but also in secret talks between the Zionist leaders
and Abdallah. These talks started immediately after the
adoption of the partition resolution by the U.N. and went
on until 1950. In these talks the two ofriendly enemies ",
although ostensibly at war with each other, agreed to
divide between them the territory which the U.N. resolu-
tion had allotted to the Palestinian Arabs, as well as Jeru-
salem which, according to the resolution, was to become a

separate unit under the U.N. administration. The armistice
agreement coincided, more or less, with the results of the
political negotiations between the Zionist leaders and
Abdallah.

A new set-up was thus established in Palestine: 20,000
sq. km. (instead of the 14,000 sq. .m. allotted to it in the
U.N. resolution) became Israel; anc the remaining territory
(except the Gaza strip) was annexed by Abdallah, who re-
named his kingdom o Jordan� (instead of Trans-Jordan).
This new set-up expressed the new lance of influence
among the Western Powers. The area of the Zionist state
was lost to British imperialism and came under U~S. influ-
ence; while the area annexed by Abdallah represented the
remnants of British influence. This new division of spheres
of influence received formal confirmation in the Tri-partite
(U.S., Britain and France) Declaration of May, 1950.

This state of affairs, established as a consequence of the
1948 war, persists today and is referred to as the o status
quo� in the Middle East. It is an inherently unstable situa-
tion because the war was not terminated by a politicT
solution of the Palestine problem but only by a temporT
Armistice Agreement. Since Israel is interested in prese.
ing the o status quo �, it has become more and more depen-
dent on the Western Powers who guarantee its continuance.
The same applies, of course, to the Jordanian regime, which
because of its military weakness also depends indirectly on
Israel. In spite of their seemingly hostile relations, these
two regimes share a common interest " to preserve the
o status quo�. Thus, the sum total of the relations between
Imperialism, the Zionists, and the various Arab parties

. which was known up to 1948 as o The Palestine Problem �

was transformed in 1948 into the o Israeli-Arab conflict �,
the latter being a direct continuation (albeit in a new form)
of the former.

The Losers

The losers and victims of the 1948 war were the Palestine
Arabs, who hardly participated in the war. Their right to
Self-determination, which previously nobody " not even the
Zionist leaders " had denied, was violated. Most of them
became homesless refugees. The fate of those who remained
in the area held by Israel was hardly better. They had lived
ever since under military rule and are subject to constant
and severe repression. The land remaining in Arab hands
is still gradually but systematically expropriated, often by
administrative subterfuge, to make way for Zionist develop-

ment. The Arabs are second-class citizens in their own
country.

Arab Opposition to

I - e e
mperialism

In the early 50Ts the anti-imperialist struggle intensified
throughout the Arab world. In the Arab East this intenai-
fication was, in part, a result of the Palestine war. Britain,
already too weak to defend its old positio:. ad to accept
the fact that the U.S. was becoming dominant in this part
of the woarld as in others, The global policy of the US.
to surround the U.S.S.R. by a chain of bases and military
pacts was welded in the Middle East with the traditional
British colonial policy into a single anti-Soviet and imperi-
alist policy. Throughout the 50Ts these two Powers tried
to create a military alliance of Middle-Eastern countries,
to serve as a link in the chain of anti-Soviet alliances
stretching from Scandinavia to Korea and to strengthen
Western domination in the Middle East.

This policy encountered great difficulties, because the
Arab miase¥ wéte aware of its imperialist character and
opposed it violently. Qn the government level, the consis-
tent refusal of Egypt and Syria to participate in such pacts
undermined the whole of Western policy in the region. The
Israeli government on the other hand, was always willing
to participate actively in any such scheme, not only because
of the traditional links between Zionism and Imperialism,
but also (and more specifically) because IsraelTs adherence
to the ostatus quo� made it a natural ally of imperialism
"an ally who identified his own national interests"indeed
his very existence " with the Imperialist presence in the
Middle East. x

The Israeli position was fully understood and utilized by
the West. Whenever the governments of Egypt, Syria or
Jordan attacked the Anglo-American schemes, Israel was
used as a threat against them. These threats often material-
ised in the form of armed raids by Israeli forces. Jordan,
particularly, was raided during the period when the el
Nabulsi government there conducted anti-Western policies.
Usually, after such a raid, the Arab government concerned
would turn to the West and ask for arms. The reply was
always: oJoin the Baghdad Pact, and you will get arms�

This Western policy was finally defeated when, after the
big Israeli raid on Gaza on 28th April, 1955, Nasser
refused to submit to Western pressure and turned to
Czechoslovakia for arms. This broke the arms monopoly
of Imperialism in the area, and considerably: weakened its
political influence. From this time onwards, the Soviet
Union emerged as a protagonist in the Middle East scene.
This development, followed by the nationalisation of the
Suez Canal, drove Britain and France to desperation. Em-
ploying an Israeli invasion of Egypt as a pre-arranged pre-
text, they launched a direct military attack on Egypt in
order to regain possession of the Canal and to overthrow
the neutralist and anti-imperialist governments in the
Middle East. The fate of this aggression is well known.

For Israel the failure of the Suez invasion meant that she
was unable to force tie Arab world to accept the o status
quo�. From that time the Palestine problem entered a
period of stalemate.

The Zionist leaders of Israel are generally satisfied with
the present stalemate. It is true that originally Zionism
aimed to get hold of all of Palestine, and that for most
Zionists this included the whole of the territory west of
the River Jordan. An extremist minority had, and still has,
aspirations to the eastern bank, but the defeat of the Suez
aggression brought home to the Zionist leadérship the
lesson that even direct military partnership with imperi-
alist powers cannot, in the world of today, achieve a
further expansion of Israel. At present they consider expan-
sionism unrealistic.

But they do consider as realistic a policy aimed at con:
solidating and perpetpating the ostatus quo�. This is the
principle object of Israeli foreign policy. In carrying out
this policy, they rely on three factors.

First, that Israel] is the most stable and reliable ally of
imperialism in the area. In return, imperialism " which
has an interest in preserving such an ally " grants them
protection. Their hope is that the West will always be able
to grant them this protection and wiil never let them down.

Jewish Pressure

Second, .Zfonism has a powerful ally in Western public
opinion. The 5,000,000 American Jews constitute a strong
pressure group exerting considerable influence not only on
U.S. official policy but also on American public opinion.
Even-that section of Western public opinion which opposes
imperialism, is reluctant to criticise Israel. This is a result
of the deep feeling o f guilt in the West after the massacre

of 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis. Even socialists in the West
often mistakenly identify anti-Zionism with anti-semitism.

Zionist propaganda has another great advantage: it aims
at consolidating an existing situation and_ therefore
preaches peace. Arab policy wishes to change the situation,
and cannot simply preach peace, but has the difficult task
of explaining the injustice of the ~~ status quo�. Thus the
Zionists appear as peace seekers, the Arabs as aggressors.

Third, the Zionists rely on military force. Knowing that
eventually the balance of conventional forces will be
against them, they have recently started to develop nuclear
weapons. They hope that possession of such weapons will
make it impossible for the Arabs to upset the o status quo�.
Alternatively, should the Great Powers force them to give
up possession of nucuear weapons, the Zionists hope to get
in exchange for this an East-West guarantee to maintain
the ostatus quo�.

In the long run, the Zionist policies cannot succeed. Even
if they do manage to maintain the ostatus quoT for a
relatively long period, Israel will remain a small beseiged
fortress, economically unviable and dependent on outside
economic aid for its very existence (about $400m. per year
flow into the country since 1950, to balance a constant
deficit in the balance of payments). Its own natural re-
sources are meagre, and its markets extremely limited.
It cannot compete with the advanced economies of the
European countries, and Arab markets are closed to it. It
is only the world-wide fund-raising activities of Zionist
organisations such as the Jewish Agency, and the repara-
tions paid by the Germans which keep the standard of
living in Israel at an artificially high level. If Israel's care-
fully cultivated image in the West"'~of a democratic,
refugee sheltering, peace-loving country were seriously
dented, the economic consequences could be very serious.
The inevitable decline of imperialist influence coupled with
the progressive unification of the Arab world, will make
IsraelTs position even more precarious.

The Arab feudal regimes, like Zionism, had always been
natural allies of Western imperialism. Both waged a
struggle against rising bourgeois nationalism, therefore,
these regimes considered Zionism as the lesser of the two
evils. Today, as in the past, they share common political
interests with Zionism as both depend for their existence
on Imperialist influence in the area. 5

The feudal regimes cannot uphold such a policy publicly
in the Arab world where the masses are anti-imperialist and
clamour for political independence. To cover up their
cooperation with imperialism they put out virulent anti-
Zionist and antiJewish propaganda. A classic example
occurred during King Feisal's visit to Washington in June,
1966. While conferring with President Johnson on con-
taining Nasser and his policies, and thereby running the
risk of revealing his pro-imperialist policies to the Arab
~vorld, a press question him the opportunity to declare that

~all the Jews in the world support Israel, and therefore
are enemies of the ArabsT. The mayor of New York city,
which has more Jews than Israel itself, promptly cancelled
an official dinner with him. Feisal could only congratulate

Consent

himself on this chance to co
in the Arab world.

Publicly, the feudal re

nsolidate his tarnished image

gimes advocate the annihil
co-operate with it. ee

vene if Hussein is overthrown. The rebeli
immediately o pacified � on the grounds th
army can defend them from the aggre
though Hussein's throne has rocked vi
once, it has stood all attacks up to now
vention of Israel, which woul '
Hussein as a violation of the ~

10US Masses are
at only Hussein's
Ssive Israelis. A]-
Olently more than
thanks to the inter.
d regard the overthrow of
~status quo " " a new regime
recognise the Abdallah-Ben

Tri-partite Declaration of

Thus, whereas on the surfac
to be the most extreme ene
concerned as {srael to consoli
ist influence and presence in
feudalism are, as aiways,

e the feudal regimes appear
mies of Zionism, they are as
date and perpetuate imperial-
the area. Zionism, and Arab
ofriendly enemies �.

not Coercion

The bourgeois and petty-bourgeois parties throughout the
Arab world approach the Palestine problem through the
United Nations resolutions. This policy was first formulated
by Nasser at the Bandung Conference (1955) and it was
unanimously adopted. This policy meanf essentially two
things: (1) Israel should repatriate the Arab refugees
(according to a 1949 U.N. resolution); (2) Israel should
give up the territory annexed by it as a result of the
secret pact with Abdallah. This policy would reduce the
area of Israel but would not affect its Zionist character

In fact, this conciliatory programme (which represents
a vonsiderable concession to Zionism) would rot provide
a stable solution of the Palestine problem. It would prob.
ably be as dangerous as the ostatus quo�. A smaller
Zionist state would still be dependent on Western imperia!-
ism, and as such would continue to threaten Arab progress
towards unity and socialism. This programme was raised
again by Bourgiba in order to embarrass Nasser. who
dropped this formula after Suez, realising that although
the slogan of adhering to the U.N. resolutions had an
attractive propaganda value, it did not provide for a stable
solution. Moreover, since Nasser's approach to the problem
of Arab unity is a basically bourgeois one, relegating class
contradictions within Arab society to second place, he was
led to seek an understanding with the reactionary regime
in Jordan. But this regime is as much opposed to the
U.N, partition resolution as the Ziunists are, because Jordan
too annexed. part of Palestine territory. Nasser is now not
so keen to raise the U.N. formula.

Today, the Nasserites and BaTathists do not have any
political solution. Instead, they talk in military terms and
argue endlessly with each other whether to go to war with
Israel (oliberate Palestine") in the near future (Syrian
Ba'ath) or to postpone the war until a considerable pro-
gress is made towards Arab unity (Nasser). This military
approach evades the main question. War can, at the very
most, serve as a means to political solution; it can never
replace one. Even if a war against Israel were to be won,
the question of the political future of Palestine would
remain unsolved. A military Arab victory would, at most,
destroy the Zionist regime, but 2,000,000 Jews would
remain, and probably constitute a problem similar to the
Kurdish problem, unless a political solution is implemented.
As is well known, the Nasserites and the BaTathists do not
have a political solution even to the Kurdish problem

It is clear that the existence of an Israeli state (whatever

the size of its territory) isolated from the Arab world is
contrary to the interests of the Arab masses. It is also
contrary to the interests of the Israeli masses. Such a state
cannot exist without outside support and will always
necessarily be dependent on imperialism. The inherent
instability of such a situation will always be a threat over
the heads of the Israelis. A stable solution must therefore
provide for a non-Zionist form of self-determination for
Israel within the framework of an Arab Socialist Union
The Palestine problem is, in fact, closely linked with the
class struggle in the Arab world and with the problem of
unification. This is the reason why those forces in the Arab
world which are unable to solve the problem of Arab unity
are also unable to solve the Palestine problem. "

Another aspect of the Palestine problem is the self-
determination of the Palestinian Arabs. Should they exer-

ise this right and establish a state of their own? Naturally,
th the Zionists and Hussein are hysterically opposed to
any such suggestion. But progressive elements are also un-
decided on this issue, believing that the creation of a new
small Arab state would have a harmful effect on the process
of unification. :

Here, too, any solution must be compatible with the
interests of unification and socialism throughout the
Middle East. If a political form of self-determination of the
Palestine Arabs be established (because it is theirs a
right) it must come about in a way that will conform ier
the interests of the masses throughout the Middle East.
unification based on the denial of the right to self-deter
mination is morally, and politically, wrong, and er
practised in the past has introduced suspicion, mistrust =
instability, into the union. If these are to be pag At
from the Union cf the Middle Eastern states, the = oei
mental national rights of the constituent members ave oi
fulfiled, They shpulg be given. up By conser TAL POMP
Taken from the Israeli Sociaiis

Organization's Pamphlet-- The

Palestine Problem.

ANTI!

The

Anti-war critics often accuse the
generals of loving war, of actually
preferring war to peace. The military
(so goes the argument) abhors peace
the way nature abhors a vacuum. Thus
you have the warmongering brass of
"Dr. Strangelove," General Custer's
mad pursuit of the Sioux, and the
jingoistic British, French and Ger-
man officer corps who set off World
War I.

The professional soldier,T of
course, is quick to protest his in-
nocence., Voice full of sincerity, he
seems hurt that anyone could take
him to be a violent man."The public,"
he says," has a total ignorance of
our problem, We go to war because
it's our duty, not because we like
killing or the thrill of battle. My
God, if there's one group of people
who have a vested interest in peace,
it's us."

Ah, how far that is from the
truth as GI's know it, troop! Any
draftee who has seen the gleam in a
DI's eyes as he recounts his war
stories, or heard the General praise
the noble qualities of the soldier
or a pet weapons system, knows this
to be a myth,

The tragedy is that the Silent
American and his missus- whose taxes
fund the Warrior, whose flags in-
spire his martial boasts- suspect
nothing of his baser motives. They
trust his judgment on the inevita-
bility of the next war...and when
their son follows the Reluctant War-
rior into combat and dies, they ac-
cept the flag from his casket with
silent resignation. When will they
ever learn??

Well, a telling blow against the
myth of the oWarrior-as-Reluctant-
Guardian-of-peace-in-our-time" is
being struck by the movie PATTON
( based on Ladislav Farago's book),
now packing in crowds nationwide
( and, pray God, a lot of Silent
Americans and their missus! ).

Sorry to knock your thing, lif-
ers, but PATTON does not portray
"Old Blood and Guts" as a reluctant
citizen-soldier torn from a peaceful
home to fight an unwelcome war.

On the contrary, Patton spent his
entire life, in his words, hardening
his body and preparing his mind for
one purpose-- to lead his beloved
tanks in epic battle. Patton plain-
ly loved war, exulted in it!

George C. Scott's portrayal is
a sensitive one, and we even find
ourselves sympathizing with Patton's
warlust, as when his friend Omar Brad
ley is faulting him for glory-hunting
in the push to beat Montgomery to Pal
ermo. "George," he says reproachful-
ly. " there's one difference between
you and me. I'm in this war because
it's my job, an unpleasant duty.
You're here because you love it!"

Bradley's accusation haunts Patton
During the Battle of the Bulge, Pat-
ton views the carnage of a freshly
fought tank battle and is overcome
with emotion. "God help me," but I
do love it. I do love it so," he
half sighs, half moans in self-
reproach,

But Patton was one in a million,
the generals will say. Was he? His
son, Brig. Gen. George Patton III,
seems to have inherited the old man's
warlust, to be, if anything, more of
@ war-lover than his dad. The son
(according to a report in the i\.Y.
Times Magazine) carries the polished
skull of a VC as a good-luck charm.

PIAA AADAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAAANE

I vUST Type
SPECIFICATIONS.

War Movie

He once told a reporter: " I sure do
like to see the arms and legs fly."
A chip off the old block...and we
know the Army is full of such chips!
How much longer until we learn
that the career Warrior has a "vest-
ed interest," not in peace, but in
WAR! Isn't it time to call his avow-
ed "reluctance" for what it ls-- a
hollow myth and lie!!

PRAIA IIIA AAAAAI II AAI II II IIA IIIA IAA ISDA IN:

Auto Workers.

Over 300,000 workers in GM locals
throughout the country went on strike
last month, Their strike is one of
many over the past two years - caused
by the rising prices and taxes which
are effecting working men and women, °

The strikes are coming now because
of the inflation and recession which
are a product of the war in Indochina,
and Nixon's economic policy of suppor-
ting big profits for business and tax-
ing the workers to support the war.

The figures speak for themselves,
Since the war was escalated in 1965,
the take home wages of the average
worker (after you figure for inflation)
has gone down, Workers today can't buy
as much for their week's pay as they
could in 1965.

Meanwhile, profits of big business
have increased over 200%, The big de-
fense contractors have made even more
money off taxes paid by workers struge#
gling to make ends meet,

Now Nixon's "new" policies are add-
ing to unemployment. It's 0.K. with
Tricky Dicky if one out of every twen-
ty people who are jooking oor _lops
can't get them. ItTs 0.K. with him if
medical eare gets so expensive that
only the very rich can afford it.

But it*s not 0.K with the workers,
And so mass resistance in the form of
strikes has developed, The workers
know that when the government talks
about guns and butter, the butter is
for the big businesses and the guns
are for them to carry.

Nixon's in trouble and he knows it,
His puppets - Thieu, Ky, Lon Nol, etc.
- are faltering, even with massive
American aid, At home, students, other
young people, and blacks are rebelling.
And the workers, who are the backbone

of this country, are waking up to the
effects of the war.
And as they do, will the Nixons and
Agnews and all their friends hesitate
to use GI's against the struggles of
working people? Look at the history
of this country and the answer is ob-
vious, Just a few months ago troops
were used as scabs against the postal
workers,

The question is, what will happen
when the GI's get together and stop
doing the bosses bidding? ,

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situtional Conv

(CONT'D: FROM PAGE 1)

and that's a depression...." He warn-
ed that fascism can come without the
telltale signs of sieg-heils and
goose-steps; and he called the U.S.
the number one threat to the continu-

ed existence of the human race,
Huey P. Newton, out of jail for

only a few weeks, drew thousands more
than the 10,000 daytime participants.
When he spoke on Saturday night, the
gym was packed beyond capacity, and
thousands more were crushed together
outside the modernistic building, un-
able to get in

man models of behavior, that will eli-
minate racism, male chauvinism and
heterosexual chauvinism.

Land and natural resources will
belong to all the people. The dele-
gates did not forget that America has
been raping and stealing land and
wealth throughout the worida for de-
cades.

The "means of production" work-
shop pointed out that America's stan-
dard of living in a post-revolution-

We needa new constitution

to express the

Spirit

of the people's Movement.

Huey PR newton

Huey again laid out the premises
behind the need for a new constitu-
tion. He talked about the right of op-
pressed people to rebel and to build
their own new world. pat

The evening session depicted, in
unpolished but well-thought-out form,

an America where political power is
brought down to the level of communi-
ties, autonomous local forms that
would replace states and cities; an
America where oppressed national min-
orities are guaranteed "the right to
integrate, segregate, do whatever
they want to do;" where women are gua-
ranteed total equality, equal partici-
pation, full education; where sextsm

in all its forms is fought and.elimin
naveas ruLrrT24nour day-care centers

for children would be universally av-
allable.

The Constitution's New America
will provide for a people's militia,
destruction of the standing army, dis-
mantling of genocidal weapons, no
more than 10% of the national budget
spent on the military, and a prohibi-
tion against American military forces

fighting outside national boundaries.
Half of the militia. will be women.

Police will be controlled by
each community, policeforces being

composed of people from each comnun-
ity who would rotate their police

responsibilities at set intervals.
There would be no national police,
no secret police, and no plain-
clothes police.

Education will be universal,
controlled by the community; schools
should stress social ideas and prac-
tice, students would have full con-
trol of school governments and news-
papers, there would be no enforced
state curriculums, and pre-schools
would be set up.

The most thunderous applause of
the session was for the street peo~
ple's workshop endorsement of grass,
acid and mescaline as oinstrumental
in developing the revolutionary con-
scLousness of the people."(!!)

The health workshop took the posi-
tion that a revolutionary attitude to-
ward psychedelic drugs can only be de-
veloped after we see how drugs are
used by people actively participating
in the building of a revolutionary
society. Dope under capitalism and
dope under socialism are bound to be
two different trips! Both the drug
and the health workshops roundly de-
nounced the use of speed, heroin and
other hard drugs which are used to
keep people oppressed.

The Constitution will state that
children are not to be property-- of
parents, the state, or of the collect
ive groupings in which they may live.
They have a right to a broad educa-
tion that will expose them to all hu-

ary period would have to decrease at
first in order to help other peoples

_catch up. The right to freedom from

hunger will be central; so will the
right to a decent home.

Agriculture will be decentrali-
zed, and thus overproduction ( and
subsequent destruction of excess
food) will be eliminated; and the
use of chemical fertilizers and in-
secticides minimized. "The only solu-
tion to air pollution is revolution,"
one : Spokesman said, amid cheers,

The Convention's final session
is set for Nov. 4 ( tentatively in
Wash. ,D.C.) which will produce a writ
ten constitution.

The Army has come out with some
brand new riot control films posi-
tively designed to capture your mind,
Naturally, the men in the 82nd Air-
borne Division are the troops most
likely to be called out for riot con-
trol in Washington, D.C., and else-
where, In these films troops are
shown confronting belligerent and in-~
sulting crowds of protesters. Accor-
ding to the placards which the demon-
strators carried, the issue being pro-
tested was something to do with the
PTA, If GI's are deployed for riot
control, it won't be anything to do
with the PTA. It's going to be about
the war or the military or civil
rights or something along these lines.
But the film makers very ingeniously
did not make any of these subjects the
issue in the films because, if they
did, some of us dumb GITs might have

put 2 and 2 together and saw the light.

The narrator of the films explains
that it takes a special kind of man,
Someone with almost superhuman quali-
ties, to perform his duties as ordered
under these circumstances, The films
do a fine job of leaving the soldier
with the impression that anytime he is
placed in a riot type situation, no
Matter what it's about, and he does
his duty, then he'll be performing an
act worthy of the greatest praise.
He'll be respected and admired by

eople everywhere,

, Five months ago a bunch of national
guardsmen who joined the guard to keep
their asses out of Vietnam gunned down
a group of college students who were
demonstrating against the very thing
that these gmardsmen had managed to
avoid - the war. It's true the guards-
men were called names and pelted with
rocks but thatTs because they were de-

fending something very wrong. They
were defending the madness which has
killed and mutillated your friends and
my friends and which has shipped them
home without limbs, without the use of
their bodies, and with twisted minds,
If you're deployed for riot duty
and ordered to defend something which
you don't believe in defending or to
contain people whom you donTt think
should be contained, then do whatever
you believe and not what you are told.

USF; mperia lism

Sells Shit

The Saigon government has just done
the Vietnamese farmers a great favor.
One that brings tears to their eyes.
Until recently, the farmers were all-
owed to buy fertilizer from Taiwan and
South Korea at the special rate of 50
dollars a ton, This was already consi-
dered exorbitant by the Vietnamese
farmers, Now, in order to make up for
the loss caused by the Allies" policy
of ofree defoliation� the government
has given them special and excusive
authorization to buy only US ferti-
lizers, Tears in the farmersT eyes?
US fertilizers cost 129 dollars a ton.

The GI-Civilian Coffeehouse

Special Events

OCT. 2 & 3 = CHARLIE CHAPLIN FILM FESTIVAL ~
OCT. 16 = RENNIE DAVIS of the Chicago Conspiracy

Films every Thursday

OCT. 2 - "Salt of the Earth" - Struggle of Mexican Am. zinc
miners and their wives for equality.

ocT. 8 = "Bullet Bargaining in Ludlow" - 1913 miners strike
(UMW) against Rockerfeller owned mines.

OCT. 15 = "A Tribute to Malcolm X" and "Susan B. Anthony"

LiveEntertainment on Weekends
OCT. 3 - FOLKSINGER - Byrd Talbee
OCT. 10 = FOLKSINGER - Pierce Barr
POETRY READING - Bruce Stuart
oct. 17 - FOLKSINGER - Jeff Coddington
OCT. 24 - COUNTRY AND WESTERN - Rick Morgan

FOLKSINGER - Nick Griffin

Quaker House Reopens

The Quaker belief i& basically that
there is good and evil in all men and
women in varying degrees, But that we
should not give up on someone:~who has
more evil than good but rather try to
win him over in a spirit of reconcil-
iation,

This is a rather radical belief to
have in a military town because the
military is based on the premise that
there are good guys and bad guys. Good
guys have to kill bad guys owithout
mercy" because they are the enemy and
there is no hope for then,

As a result of their beliefs, the
North Carolina Friends (Quakers) ,decid-
ed in the summer of 1969 to open a
house in Fayetteville to show their
concern for peace and reconciliation,

Everything went well until the May
16th rally that GI's United held in
the Rowan Street Park. Someone in Fay-
etteville felt that this concern for
peace had gone too far, That when 1,000
GI's showed that they were for peace,
the focal point for that concern had
to go. Two days after the rally, the
Quaker House was burned, Fortunately,
no one was hurt, The Friends felt that
there was a need to continue the work
of Quaker House in Fayetteville.

After three months of searching a
new house has been found and offically
opened on Sept 13. The house is located
on 223 Hillside Avenue, two blocks up
Haymont hill from Hay street, The house
has two staff members and gives draft
and military counseling. There is also
a womenTs center where Women's Emanci-
pation meets,

The House ig open to all GI's and
civilians, 2-p.m, to 10 p.m, daily
except Mondays for counseling, rapping,
or just reading,

There is also a silent worship
meeting on Sunday mornings at 11100,.,







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Spring Lake, N.C. 28390

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of Struggle -

struggee for independence.
All Power to the People -

the story ~of the BESSk Portier Sarty

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Radical Bookstore
at
Haymarket Square

new and used books, underground papers,

pamphlets, buttons, posters.

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just in - Vietnam: A Thousand Years

story of the Vietnamese

Monopoly Capital - An Essay
on the American Wionsete and Social