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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday june 13, 1969 . Senate committee probes culture Gap in diplomats by Warren Unna Washington special tons the Senate foreign relations committee recently decided to explore what has perhaps been the Over looked Factor in conducting foreign relations the human being inside the Diplomat politician and everyday citizen for whom communicating with an american May end up in calamity. insist that everyone else do things our Way. Consequently we manage to convey the impression that we simply regard foreign nationals a s underdeveloped Edward t. Hall Northwestern University professor of anthropology told the committee. Knowledge of a culture is much More than just learning to be Nice or having Good manners. The reason most people react so strongly to violations of their mores is that these Are seen As attacks on the he added. Prof. Hall was the Lead off witness in a new series of 1 hearings on psychological aspects of foreign policy. He will be followed on june 19 and 20 by or. Karl Menninger founder of the Menninger psychiatric clinic and Margaret Mead curator of ethnology at the museum of natural history in new York. Sen. J. William Fulbright Democrat Arkansas the committee c airman and a onetime president of the u n diversity of Arkansas made it Plain that he thinks How the american acts and the foreigner reacts can sow endless misunderstanding in everything from the . Foreign Aid program to the Rockefeller Goodwill missions to latin America to russians and americans getting together on a strategic arms limitation treaty. Proc Hall s testimony progressed it became apparent that while a younger United states thought it prudent to commission Ruth Benedict to do a study and Book explaining How the japanese thinks and be haves the chrysanthemum and the today s older and presumably More worldly United states has never bothered to commis Sion similar attempts to understand the russians or the chinese. The most common com plaints about americans abroad Are that they Are rude and Don t listen. I suspect it s because they dont know How to properly play the part of interlock prof. Hall said. With that chairman Ful Bright could t resist speculating about president John son s meeting with soviet Premier Alexei n. Kosygin in Glassboro new Jersey in 1967 i often wonder whether or. Kosygin got an Opportunity to say any he said. So that he would t be failing in communication with the senators prof. Hall illustrated How the different notions americans and for Eigners have of time and space More often than not result in the culture Shock of the visiting Amer ican. He said an american will arrive shortly before the appointed time for a meet ing with a ranking latin american official and Gress from puzzlement to anxiety to impatience to anger to storming out in a Huff after a 45-minute wait. For an american to keep someone waiting 45 minutes is an prof. Hall declared. It reduces a Man s status and makes inroads on his ego and Calls him bad names. For a latin american a 45-minute wait does t have these Imp Lica prof. Hall told How he once helped an american firm achieve its desired contract in Japan by advis ing the americans to make it Plain on arrival in Tokyo that they would be in no hurry to leave. For the japanese who were accustomed to exploiting the americans impatience to Settle fast and dash Back Home this proved unnerving. The japanese came around As desired. The cultural Shock from space always pops up in the Middle East. Ameri cans experience the Arab s Normal conversational Dis Tance and Overly familiar and offensive. When an Arab gets too close to an american the american backs up prof. Hall said. The Arab thinks the american finds something unpleasant in his personality or does t like him the american thinks the Arab is being Pushy and Overly familiar. Not Only do we need to know More about the size of people s space bubbles in All countries but we need to know such things As what Are their concepts of Terri tory what constitutes tres pass what is an invasion of privacy where Are the boundaries to a Man s Home where Are the Boun Daries to his he said that the cultural distance Factor grows in importance As americans Progress in their relations with the British and Ger mans where it in t too dissimilar to the French and finally to the japanese and chinese. But even with the British he said the upper class English use an expression less stare which we find unnerving. The Eye blink is what tells you they Are tuned As for the Middle East he said the Mediterranean arabs belong to a touch culture and in conversation they literally envelope the other person. They hold his hand look into his Eye and they Bathe him in their All of this prof. Hall found plays Hob with the Early warning system when understanding Breaks Down. A Bird whose territory is being invaded will puff up his feathers to show that he intends to fight. A rattle Snake gives warning before he strikes. When an Ameri can starts to get angry or to lose interest we can usually read the signs he May Start to drum his fingers on the table tap his foot get red in the face raise his voice or speak in a very measured cold voice. An american Reading these signs can anticipate the prof. Hall said. But what we often know when dealing with foreigners is How they Sig Nal their anger or displeasure. Frequently americans cannot distinguish Between Bluff and a definite warning of Blent to fight. Overseas we Don t know where the lines Are drawn and there fore we cannot know when we May have crossed sen. Fulbright mused on How the administration was criticizing opponents of the safeguard abm for calling it provocative to the russians when it is sup posed to be a defensive system. If we want the russians to slow Down the arms race How do we do prof. Hall responded. It is quite obvious if we read them the Way we read ourselves the chances Are we Are going to read them wrong or at Best Are taking a very great j to this. Sen. Fulbright added they the rus sians could interpret an accusation on the part of our leaders that they Are about to destroy us As a reflection of what we have in mind for Iii. Drug addicts prostitutes picture Harlem s despair by Ray Rogers new York special tons Harlem in its heyday was Black Ameri Ca s Mecca. Men travelled great dist ances and paid heavy dues to gain Entrance to its institutions and sit at the feet of its idols. Dukes and Duchesse princes and princesses regarded it As one of America s outstanding cultural experiences. Once it was a self supporting Black Community with its own Black Power Structure. And Many of the first negroes in America to gain Fame and great wealth called Harlem Home. Among them were Singer Paul Robeson dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson prize fighter Jack Johnson writ ers c o u t e e Cullen and Richard Wright Madame c. J. Walker the maid who became a millionaire after she founded a line of cosmetics for Blade women and Casper Holstein the West Indian who established the numbers Racket in har Lem Long before White racketeers took it Over. Today about All that is left is Row upon Row of decaying tenements and a staggering proportion o f drug addicts prostitutes policy writers and Bankers welfare recipients and men who have grown old before their time standing on its Street Corners. Art example of Harlem s despair is Harlem Hospital Central Harlem s Only Public medical facility. It was forced to turn away patients two months ago because of an acute Lack of funds. Less than a year ago mayor John v. Lindsay found it necessary to bolster., this facility by. Erecting a modern clinic across the Street. But the opening was delayed by Lack of funds. A a r 1 e m s Amsterdam news reported recently that by comparing records and allocations of funds for Harlem Hospital Over the years it was revealed that Harlem Hospital received one fourth the budget received by the All White Harlem Hospital of years ago. Once the f acuity was turned Over to Black people the budget increases were minimal and doubly disproportionate to the number of use cygoim2-e now Long time control of aphids Leaf hoppers mites an thrips. Paint on or Spray. Cyan amid of Canada limited 635 Dorchester blvd. W., Montreal 101, . Patients serviced the num Ber of medical personnel on hand and the total number of supporting staff despite All its pretensions Harlem is one of the country s worst ghettos. The old tenements that were stylish at the turn of the Century have become dismal hovels where rats and Roaches exist Side by Side with tenants. Crime has escalated in Harlem to the extent that Many apartment dwellers literally barricade their apartments. Fashionably dressed Young Black women find it necessary to carry two pocketbooks one on their Arm while the other containing Money is secreted on their person. Some owners of Small groceries hire private guards to protect them from stick up men. Drug pushers have con verged on Junior High egyptian Temple found i it Negev desert cygoit2-e protects your roses from insect attack by Terence Lyons special the sunday times the forty years which the israelite spent in the wilderness after Moses had led them out of Egypt represents one of the less closely documented periods of history in the Bible. Apart from a few scattered incidents related in the Book of exodus we know Little of their activities. But now an archaeological team has made a significant discovery in the Negev desert which suggests ironically that the children of Israel May have spent much of their time working As. Copper miners for the egyptian pharaohs their Arch enemies. The new find is a Temple to the egyptian goddess Hathor the goddess of childbirth singing and Dan cing. It is near Timna in the Negev desert and inscriptions on potsherds and the Temple itself indicate that it was first built by the Pharoah Sci i 1309-1291 . And later rebuilt by Ramses Iii 1182-1151 the Temple is important because it was in an israelite area far from any egyptian settlement. Egypt to Logist. Or. Raphael Given says that it is the furthest known site of egyptian Cults outside the Nile Valley and the whole area forms part of the wilderness into which Moses led the Israel ites after they had crossed the red sea from Egypt. The team which found the t Temple was made up largely of american Volunteer Stu dents working for the archaeological Institute of Tel Aviv University. It was led by or. Benno rpt Herburg and their find was a More or less accidental one since they had gone into the desert to excavate a byzantine Copper smelting Plant at Beer Ora which is near Timna. The Beer Ora dig went so Well that the team finished before their scheduled time and before they had used All their funds. So or. Rothen Burg decided to excavate a Small Hillock with three niches dug into it which he had noticed on a recon Oit ering trip several years earlier. The Temple was duly uncovered a great find in itself and even More interesting because the images of the goddess which were found showed her As a Beautiful woman with a Mona Lisa rather than the half cow half woman normally found in other temples. The discovery of this tem ple set deep in hostile Terri tory raises a number of important questions the main ones being Why did the egyptians go there in the first place How did they manage to survive so far into enemy territory the first answer May be that they went out into the desert to look for Copper to make arms for the expansionist and warlike phar Oaks Seti i and rameses Iii who built the Temple. They arrived at Timna this theory goes and were Al Lowed to work the mines by the midia nites the local tribe. With whom they had had cultural and Commer Cial links for Many years. The midia nites provide the link Between the Mutu ally hostile egyptians and israelite. The egyptians it seems were already working the Copper mines when the israelite arrived. But Moses married the daughter of Jethro the mid Ian Leader so that each Side had a link with the Midian ilk. Statistics show Small Rise in murders London special tons murders in eng land and Wales have increased slightly since 1965 when capital punishment was suspended for a five year trial period according to statistics presented to students records Quebec up a new singing group bringing together 27 students from Quebec High school has completed its second Long playing record that will be released under the sponsorship of a Quebec City businessman. The known As the Blue and Gold has 19 girls and eight boys ranging in age from 14 to 18. It was formed last september by Sheldon Phaneuf music teacher at the High school. I formed the group for those interested in Folk sing says or. Phaneuf. I knew All the kids from previous years and i had no trouble whatever bringing them together. Those who were really interested signed up. Some eventually left when they realized the work it would the youngsters have per formed in several Quebec City schools and have Given one recital in Ottawa. They Supply their own in percussion Sec Tion steel drum acoustic Bass three guitars and a five string Banjo. The students All have Var ious reasons for being i the group but most important is that we just love All want to continue in the music teachers singers or instrumentalists. For me it s a wonderful says 18-year-old Ricky Dumesnil. I have always wanted to work in music. I am learning a great Deal about All the work that goes into making a one other advantage says the Young French Canadian is that being with the group gives him a better Chance to learn English. Lynn Macaulay 15, wants to get her music degree. None of us have had any real music lessons. I taught myself How to play the guitar. I Haven t made up my mind yet whether i la teach or sing. At the moment i need More or. Phaneuf feels some of the members of the Blue and Gold May make it in the. Music Field. That is As Long As they keep at it and get More intensive lessons. I also depend a great Deal on the encourage ment they get from their parents and the parliament this week. The figures were open to various interpretations. There were immediate cries for restoration of hanging but there were also indications that the government would cite the same Statis tics with different emphasis to seek a permanent abolition of capital punish ment this year. The number of murders Here seems almost insignificant compared to the United states 174 last year compared to in the United states in 1967. On a population basis an Ameri can has a 20 times greater Chance of being murdered than a briton. The rate Here has been increasing however. The annual average was 158 Over the four years since capital punishment was sus Pended compared to 140 a year Over the four years preceding suspension and 138 Over 1957 to 1960. The average has thus risen at just Over 3 per cent a year while All crimes of violence have been rising abot 6 per cent annually. Scotland Yard announced tuesday that indictable crimes involving guns have risen 17 per cent in London in the past year and robber ies and assaults with intent to Rob have jumped 31 per cent. The National statistics Are interpreted variously when so called capital murders Are considered. These were murders for which men could be Hung prior to 1965. Included were murder while stealing or resisting arrest or escaping custody any murder of a policeman on duty and any murder using a gun or explosive. Duncan Sandys a tory member of parliament who wants capital punishment re stored at least for murderers of policemen noted that there were 71 capital murders in the four years before 1965 and 161 in the four years since. From 1957 to 1960, How Ever there were 93 capital murders. Murder statistics fluctuate so markedly Here because there Are so few murders that conclusions should be drawn from them very cautiously. Moreover capital Mur Ders is no longer a Legal category so the figures Are hypothetical. Even so there was a drop in the category from 49 capital murders in 1967 to 45 last year. Ites and with this Bond the israelite would not have found it impossible to work in the egyptian mines. These Are of course just theories at the moment because the work has Only just begun but the very discovery of the egyptian Temple Means that there will have to be some fairly drastic re thinking on the whole history of the Negev Region. Or. Rothenburg who is at present a history of Copper mining in the Arava area which is around the dead says emphatically this find Means that the history of Metal technology will have to be schools. The los Angeles times found a 12-year-old boy sitting on the stoop of a tenement in a narcotic Daze with his Mother begging him to turn himself in to the police. One infant has been in a Hospital since birth six months ago being treated for heroin addiction that he inherited from his Mother. The Mother uses prostitution to get Money to buy heroin. In a Lenox ave. Tavern a White uniformed police offi cer stands at the Back hatless with his coat sipping a shot of Bourbon while telling the bartender about his Sailboat i a Street Corner philosopher explained that hip members of the new York City police Force Are not totally unhappy about being assigned to supposed cop hating Harlem Man up Here a cop can make enough pin Money to keep his family Nice and comfortable off the num Bers Bankers and pimps. I Don t care so much about that As much As i wish they would round lip the junkies so decent people can walk the streets without fear of being robbed. They could do it. And you know who i like All Black ghettos of America Harlem is haunted by a they or the and they Lurk behind every evil deed. In some instances this feeling amounts to borderline paranoia. Many Harle mites for example believe that har Lem is like it is because the jews want to keep it that Way if they wanted to clean it up and get. Rid of the junkies they could do it mrs. Mary Jenkins 42, said that Black anti-1 semitism was promulgated in Harlem because wherever a Black person turned he had to Deal with a White Man and he was a jew. They were the shopkeeper the teacher in the the Man you paid your rent to and who you never saw from month to month. So is it any wonder that a lot of Black people Are anti two characteristics set the younger Harlem Genera Tion apart from their elders first they Are extremely conscious of and second they want More. Early this year the new York times reported that several thousand dollars was spirited out of anti poverty programs by unscrupulous managers. A Young attractive Black woman who is a Secretary for a local War on poverty said she was not disturbed by these thefts. Honey that s what survival is All about get it where you can. Right people up Here Are into their own things and that s Why i love Harlem. By that i mean despite All the things they say about this being a depressed area and All that Harlem has style. Where else does a Black Man find it necessary to buy a suit and shoes and earn Only a week because you just can t run around up Here looking like you Ain t got the Price and expect to get next to a Chick like an Agenda for the or blast kills 10 Rawalpindi a ten persons were reported killed thursday in a dynamite explosion at Mirpuri 90 Miles North West of this pakistani capital. Six bodies have been recovered from the debris of several build Ings which were razed to the ground. The blast occurred in a dynamite store owned by the Public works department which uses it for Road building. Bobby Bend is presenting Liberal policies for n government of action and accomplishment direct to the people of Manitoba in a series of 5 minute radio broadcasts. There Are White papers on government farm problems taxation City problems and Manitoba development. Tune in to your local stations. Dates times topics and stations Are As follows Friday june 13 White paper on taxation Job pm q sky pm d Steinbach am q cry Portage la Prairie am q Cox Brandon pm d a Kim Dauphin am d car flin flon am q chem Thompson am. Monday june is White paper on the City Job am pm q Job pm pm sky pm q Steinbach am q cry Portage la Prairie am Cox Brandon pm q a Kim Dauphin am q car flin flon am q chem Thompson am. Wednesday june 18 White paper on Man Job am 4.54 pm q Job pm pm q sky pm q Steinbach am q cry. Portage la Prairie am q Cox Brandon pm q a Kim Dauphin am q flon am q chem Thompson am. White papers on government and farm problems have already been broadcast. Copies of each policy broadcast May be obtained from the Liberal candidate Headquarters in 5 our constituency or from of the Liberal party in Manitoba 667 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg 10. Telephone 7s6-7481, Manitoba authorized by the Manitoba Liberal election committee ;