Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg Frie press wednesday october 10, 197j palestinian Par to blame renewed fighting v _ c7 o by Harold Jackson London special the guardian the palestinian guerrillas must regard this As their finest hour. After the crushing defeat they suffered at the hands of King Hussein and his bedouin troops in Jor Dan three years ago they have managed to Engineer a climate in which there is once again a massive conflict Between the conventional armies of the Middle East. Not All the credit or blame can be Laid at their door of course. But they have persevered in the past two years to dash any Hope of a peaceful climate in which negotiations might take place. When their activities were confined to israeli soil and the occupied territories they were Little More than an irritant. More to the Point they were extremely vulnerable to _ Mas is v e israeli counter action. This was precisely what they received they were eliminated As an effective fighting Force by ruthless israeli action. Their removal to neighbouring and save Winnipeg to Vancouver Toronto 31.00 Montreal 33.00 one Way. Red coach fares Call in or your travel agent. Of. Arab territories was also i failure initially As the Hijack. Ings and subsequent civil War of september 1970, demonstrated they left their Host countries open to reprisals from Israel a and eventually drove Jordan to move against them for the final showdown. It was the decision by George Habash and his popu Lar front for the liberation of Palestine to extend the confrontation into the world at Large which changed the pattern. As hijacking followed murder and More and More nations were sucked in to the Middle East quarrel the political climate became More and More heated. The israeli strategy of Mas Sive retaliation was stumped Israel could not after All at tack Germany after the olym Pic massacres at Munich or Greece after the killings Al Athens Airport so the policy of terror which had initially been condemned by the More sober palestinian organizations gamed in acceptability. It has never been formally acknowledged but there is reasonable evidence that most of the apparently unaligned groups such As Black september and the palestinian eagles Stem directly from Al Fatah. One Point that became increasingly Clear to the rage and frustration of the israelis was that blackmail paid off the surrender of the austrian government to the demands that the Schoenau transit Camp in Vienna be closed was Only the latest and most dramatic example of this fact. At Al sorts of individual airlines Onward the guerrillas have found that they Are Power in the world. The sight of the israelis being rendered impotent by what All a minis Cul group of fanatics Mayi we have helped to crystallize the decision of the Arab govern to tents to mobilize themselves to blackmail the countries which most evidently support Israel with the threat their Oil supplies would be Cut off. The israelis have mounted a considerable diplomatic often Sive to argue that this threat is unreal. As in the Case of the terror Campaign they have argued that a solid front presented by the Oil importing nation would show the Arab threat to be hollow. The Public state ments1 by United states officials from president Nixon Down have suggested however that the israelis have no teen making much headway with their argument. So we have now reached the Point when the Arab forces system Lave moved massively into the occupied territories for yet an other military showdown. On paper the israelis should be in deep trouble. Purely in Erms of manpower and. Ment they Are dwarfed combined Arab forces their army consists of regular soldiers and conscripts serving their compulsory 36 month s service for men and 20 months for women. This com pares with men in the for goodness Sake drink fikh egyptian try in the syrian in the iraqi and in the jordanian. The in Stiliani held in jordanian Gallt but there have been of total mobilization by which they can raise their forces to within 72 hours still does not offer much of a redress. But the jordanians show Little inclination to join the fray other than by propaganda statements. It is not really known what agreement was reached in Cairo when King Hussein visited there last month the Only tangible re sult was the release of the a Beale Street now a lonesome Echo by Carl Manning Memphis Tenn. A Beale Street once a conglomerate of night clubs Barbecue stands saloons Bawdy houses and Pawn strip of enticing rhythm that Drew thousands each night to Sample its pleasures now is a lonesome Echo. It has , there was More living and More dying on Beale Street than at any other Street in the world. Now about All that is happen ing on Beale Street is dying. And it is the Street that is slowly dying by Block. The ornate night clubs and the sight of w. C. Handy standing at the Cigar counter in pee wee s Saloon writing the first of his immortal blues Memphis blues now Are remembered by Only a few. Most of the Fellows who used to be a part of the Street Are dead and said Rob Ert Henry who at 83 has been a part of the Street since 1911, fifteen or 20 years ago the place would be so crowded that it was hard to walk Down the at two or three o clock in the a said. About All that is left on Beale Are rows of Pawn shops a few clothing and liquor stores arid a movie theater. The Street has been declining for years. The reasons for decline exodus after the second world War the City shutdown of the bordello in the 1930s and the passage of the civil rights Laws open Irig formerly Whites Only entertainment spots to Blacks. Many just left the Street went Uptown and never came Henry said. There is agreement that in 1968 riots after the assassination of the Rev. Or. Martin Luther King five blocks from the Street dealt a fatal blow. Many of the businesses on Beale were looted and burned others simply moved to other locations and never came Back. For years officials Havi talked about How the Street will some Day Rise from it a s he s More Beautiful than Ever. But despite and plans made Over the years de federation has been winning the race Over renovation. H6wevef, there now is a plan to restore the Street to it former prominence by 1976 but it is shrouded in con trove r s y and protested by Blacks who argue that they will have Little hand in the Dey elopement. The firm of Beale Street u.s.a., headed by Ron harass of Memphis a White won a Ottawa Crew awarded win Vancouver up a indices thanksgiving monday Canadian women s ailing championship to an arly close while face offi als announced the compete on was won by a Crew from Eidler shared first place with Vancouver team after Satur a s races but moved into first place sunday with 26.1 crivits. Ten Crews took part in the Tampio ships which ended unday one Day earlier than scheduled. We re frying to Hook you on our new Salmon patties. New Rupert Brand smoked or regular. Frozen Salmon patties. In 12 of. Packages. A fresh idea to whet your family s appetite. Tasty. Tender. Easy to serve. Tract in june to carry out a million redevelopment of e six Square Block area that designed to be a showcase of Eale Street heritage. P Ian s include a Are foot music Hall of Fame and office building a Large Otel and victorian style enter intent spots and shops. Barassi 28, said he wants to ring Back the blues music Fla or of the Street. He is con Dent that a renewed Beale Reet will generate growth in e downtown area which has in declining for years. Despite Barassi s Confidence any people still working and ent unserviceable 20 per cent Wing refuelled and reared persistent reports of some sort rather slowly and 20 per cent if secret military protocol. For moment however King Hussein seems Content to digest the lessons of 1967 and stay Well Clear of any direct involvement. The however Are at. The mercy of the air Power of the conflicting sides. Here again there is an apparent superiority on the Arab Side the egyptians have 620 combat aircraft. The strength of. Their Force lies in the soviet a few of the highly sophisticated Mig-238, the syrians can also put something hear 200 Mig-21s into the air. Against this the israelis had at the last count 488 fighting planes. The Core of their fighting strength is the 90 or so phantoms supplied by the United states. It is rein forced with French Mirage and mysteries and about 150 skyhawk fighter bombers. But the Yast change from the six Day War has been brought about by the installation by the russians of surface to air Sile Sites All along the egyptian Bank of the Suez canal. These now present a formidable defensive screen against israeli offering from in flight faults which abort their missions. During the six Day War the Graells claimed to be operating at 90 per cent or full strength and brigadier mor Declai Hod the air Force com Mander said that no plane was on the ground even for re lairs for More than one hour his compared with turnaround time of two hours or the egyptian and jordanian fighters. At the Start of the six Day War two thirds of the egyptian pilots had never flown a Cora lat Mission. They did t get much Chance to remedy this since 374 of then aircraft were knocked out in the first Day. Similar considerations apply n the use of other sophisticated equipment such As missiles penetration of egyptian space. At the. Last count Virigon Mats. Beale have their i Don t care what they do 11 never be the Henry id. Ottawa. Jane Buckley and Lynn Sam-2, Sam-3 and Sam-6 mis Siles were deployed in 130 launching Sites. One of the rumoured prob lems however has been the in adequacy of the radar cover with which these Sites need to be associated. Is Likely to give out much in formation in Cairo but there is inferential evidence to support the rumours. The fact that the libyan Airliner shot Down Over Sinai by the israelis was Stum bling around Widly off course suggests that the radar is Lesi than brilliantly efficient. And this question of i Fici ency lies at the heart o the israelis have a r e a d y demonstrated thre times that they can take on the Arab armies and inflict 6 them a decisive and Hun Filiai ing defeat there is not Mue evidence that the past so years have wrought any Grea change in that respect. As important a actual Bat efficiency is the Malnate Nance of aircraft. H you Ca keep 100 planes More or Les constantly in the air you a Well ahead of our opponent whose 200.aircraft Are 20 be and tanks. The. Egyptian breach with the russians and the decision to get rid of the soviet advisers could Well be o t considerable importance Here. Many of the russians fact drifted Back in the past years but president Anwar Sadat in an extraordinarily bitter interview now Long after the original breach spelled out plainly the often icy relations which existed be tween the instructors and the trainees. question therefore is How much each Side is hampered or helped by its whole background of education Cul Ture and motivation. The fact that the egyptian forces Man. Aged to Cross the canal and establish a Bridgehead must be a Shock for israeli Public Opin Ion which had Long been led to believe that the so called bar lev line of massive fort Ifica a ack tons along the Eastern Bank of the canal would keep the egyptians at Bay. In the longer term the world is Back to the old conundrum of the Middle East Bow much will All this latest Gre Sion Advance or set Bac an eventual settlement the israelis Are Likely at the end of it All to be even More intransigent in then claim that they must have a Buffer zone be tween themselves and their neighbors. But their bargaining Power with their traditional allies has been weakened by the Arab Oil threat and there is no Way of telling if this will make them More conciliatory or yet More belligerent. If it turns out to be the latter then the birth of a Black october movement to set the whole situation off on its next Cycle cannot be far be Hind. Bangkok and Sao Paulo have a new word in their vocabulary berlitz9 l in order to serve you and grow with Manitoba o new Berlitz school of languages has just opened at Lombard place Winnipeg. If you re looking for another language and you Don t want to waste any time visit or phone our director Dominique Souder. 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