The Dally Collegian Thursday, April 29,1976 Israeli Syrian By JERRY SCHWARTZ Collegian Staff Writer There is a “thin, red line” beyond which Syria should not go in its dealings with Lebanon, the Israeli consul general in Philadelphia said yesterday. Emannuel Shimoni,’’on campus yesterday, saicf that the recent incursion of a branch of the Palestinian Liberation Organization into Lebanon was “in fact a Syrian intervention by proxy.” “We will not interfere with the domestic problems of a neighboring country as long as our security is not threatened. We have watched painfully our patience has been tried,” he said. Shimoni said he could not reveal what the Syrians would have to do to force the Israelis to take action. He said the situation in Lebanon concerns the Israelis because, “It is one thing Emanuel Shim on i Residence Hall Week 761 “Penn State’s Greatest Week of Entertainment” I - SUNDAY, MAY 2 I South Halls presents:. I 7:00 pm The Water Battle of Bunker Hill I at the hill between Hoyt & Cross, with water balloons I 9:00 pm “The Great Escape” free film I in the Redifer Hallway I MONDAY, MAY 3 I ' North Halls presents... I 7:00 pm The Buck-Buck Championship of the World I . in the North Hall? Quad I TUESDAY, MAY 4 West Halls presents • • • I 1:00 pm Funtime Tournaments Air Hockey, Pinball and more! in Waring I 7 :00 pm Mattress Contest How many people can fit on a Residence Hall Mattress? I 8:30 pm Terry Beard ... in the Waring Lounge WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 Centre Halls presents... 6:30 pm Scavenger Hunt... Campus-Wide Fun! • f Sign-up your team in the CHRA office —-,102 Simmons 8:30 pm Coffeehouse in the HUB Ballroom featuring the Britton Sisters, free coffee & tea Thursday, May 6 —v East Halls presents... 6:00 pm Steeple chase ’76 ... a challenging obstacle course. Sign-up in the ERA office, 124 FUB 8:00 pm Square Dance in the FUB flee Room , ★★9-00 pm ARHS presents... at the IM Field near the stadium:** FIREWORKS! FRIDAY, MAY 7 Pollock-Nittany Halls presents... An Evening in the Quad 7:30 pm Celebrity Auction ... bid for the personal items of your favorite stars. Proceeds to Charity 10:00 pm “Woodstock” free film in the quad. , Saturday & Sunday, May 8 & 9 MOVIN’ON A weekend of music to benefit the Volunteer Service Center Noon to Midnight on the HUB Lawn. Broadcast live bn WQWK wary invasion having a fence-sitting Lebanon to pur , north;' it would be very difficult having a hostile, active border.” Shimoni said the war in Lebanon is a “classical case” which proves that “the in stability of the Mideast is not necessarily the result of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The chief element is the Palestinians rather, the terrorists who foster in stability wherever they are.” ' The area’s future stability will depend on the creation of defensible borders for Israel, Shimoni said. “It makes a tremendous difference if the boundary is 30 miles from Beersheba or 5 miles from Beersheba. Israel’s ultimate - security must be based on, among other things, defensible borders,” he said. Although he said the Israelis were willing to discuss the return of some conquered land to the Arabs, t -i •- •* sai'? Shimoni said all borders will not return to the lines that existed before the 1967 Six- Day War. He said Israelis willing to. abandon set .lements which have since been built in the conquered lands, providing that an acceptable pdace treaty is written. If and when the settlements are ceded, Shimoni said the Jews may decide to stay, "We don’t accept the concept that Jordan must be Judenrein (free of Jews) any more than we accept the idea that Israel shoud be Arabrein,”he said. Shimoni defended Israel’s treatment of the Arabs within its borders, claiming that there is no official discrimination in Israel. “We Israelis will be judged from a moral point ,of view by the way we treat our minorities,” he said. Still he said many minorities in Israel are dissatisfied, citing the election of a Communist mayor in Nazareth and the riots that followed in Arab villages. He said that the Jews and Arabs in Israel could “live in happy coexistence” if there were no conflict between Israel and UN policy called racist By EVE MARKOWITZ Collegian Staff Writer The. United Nations has degenerated into a voicepiece for certain power groups, Israeli Consul General Emanuel Shimoni said;to a HUB audience last night. He said the current prin ciple ,at the United Nations seems to be that “things are never so bad that they can’t be made worse.,” “We have seen the head of a terrorist organization, with a holster at his hip, being given ’red carpet treatment,” Shimoni said. He.said that it should be “a t matter of concern for all people in the civilized world” when the General Assembly of the United Nations adopts a resolution that Zionism is , a form of racism. Zionism, Shimoni ex plained, underlies the “law of return” instituted in 1948, when; Israel became an in dependent state. Israel was established in, the Jews’ ancient homeland to receive Jews who chose to emigrate after the Nazi genocide' of World War 11, Shimoni said. “Israel was to be the one places’ in the world in which Jews might not be a minority,” he said. Shimoni said that since the Arab countries, Shimoni, who is ending a, tour of duty in Philadelphia that began in 1972, termed his position as “a public relations job,” and said he also serves as a listening post for the Israeli government. He said he has not been asked to report much information to Jerusalem'on the elections, which he said “doesn’t really effect policy or planning on a day-to-day basis. “But the average Israeli is very conscious of the significant role the United States plays in the Mideast” he said. They look at each of the candidates and decide if they are good for Israel or bad for Israel. There is much coverage of the United States, much more than of any other country in the world.” Shimoni said the United States’ backing of Israel was based, not on the support of the American Jewish com munity, but on the “basic interests of' the United States ** “Let’s no kid ourselves. We know we’re a good customer, in terms of repayment,” he said, noting that there is also an ideological tie with Israel that would prevent the two countries from drifting apart. 1948, the Arab-Israeli conflict has existed because of terrorist efforts to “un dermine the credibility, and indeed, very physical existence of Israel.” They chose to undermine militarily through war, economically through blockades and pressure on Third World allies of Israel, and politically by trying to isolate Israel from the United Nations, Shimoni said. When these methods failed to destroy Israel, he said, Israel’s enemies “did the next best thing they tried to blacken Israel in the minds of people of the world with the worst possible 1 name racists. ■ * As to .whether, Israel was racist in practicing genocide agai'nst its non-Jewish citizens, Shimoni replied that the question was ludicrous Israel’s native non-Jewish population has been “reduced”' from 200,000 to half a million since statehood. Stressing that the term racism has been unfairly applied to Israel, Shimoni said that a Jew is no better before the alw than any other Israeli citizen who may not be Jewish.” i - Shimoni said that Israel PANASONIC CAR/HOME 8-TRACK STEREO TAPE PLAYERS Features multiplex ra io o fm/fm multiplex radioonthe room. Slides from lock cabinet (CJ2(>H) with no wires with no wiresto connect • Separate volume, tone, and to connect after initial installation (after initial installation), balance controls • FM radio features mono/stereo • Program-change and program- and Distant/Local switches for I letru TA repeat pushbuttons optimal reception Lid I CN I U f CQ-898 PANASONIC CAR/HOME STEREO TAPE PLAYER WITH FM/FM STEREO RADIO' ... .aia .a. FEATURES: WITH MUSIC IN THE CQ-898 car/home stereo slips in or out of I CAR OR attractive CJ-20H home cabinet with no wires > v m/n(| r~ to connect after Initial installation. CJ-20H A I rIVsIVIC features a digital clock. . , _ nn w CJ-20H FOR ONLY CQ-898 Home System - | $109.95 I of O \#CS IS9S. Garner L.d IClyCr 1 I Vr Electronics 237-5734 House passes vet By MARK GRIFFITH Collegian Staff Writer Veteran benefit increases moved closer to final ap proval yesterday when the House voted to add $l.B billion to fiscal 1977’s Veterans- Administration (VA) budget. Dwayne Fagan, second vice president ot the Penn State Veterans Organization (PSUVO), said' vets should push for the passage of an additional amendment, to be introduced by the end of this week, which would add $5OO million more to the VA budget. The passage of yesterday’s amendment may have' paved the way for the passage of the additional amendment, which has already been' passed by the Senate, Fagan said. Fagan and Bob Daiighenbaugh, chairman of PSUVO’s Legislative Affairs Committee, had just returned from Washington, D.C., where they have been in volved in a last minute at tempt to aid the passage of the amendments. depends on the United States to maintain the balance of power in the Mid East and to promote peaceful negotia tions. , "Maintaining the balance of power” would require the United States to continue to help Israel militarily, Shimoni said. ' “This is not so that we can win the next war,” he said. “Israel would like very much to avoid the next war.” If Israel acquired even one fourth the weapons the Arab states possess, it could convince the Arabs that they can’t win the next war either, he said. Israel’s use - of nuclear weapons is highly im probable, Shimoni said: “We will not be the first to in troduce nuclear weapons into the Mid East.” Shimoni said U.S. aid wouldn’t lead to “another Vietnam” because Israel ddoes not request American soldiers. “Not a single American has been asked to fight for Israel and not a single American has died for us,” he said. Obstacles to be overcome include the budget conference committee, which will at tempt to iron out the dif ferences between the House and Senate versions, of the fiscal 1977 budget, will be the first obstacle for the amend ments’ sponsors to over come. Then, authorization and appropriation bills, will have to be drafted, introduced and passed before veterans will be able to benefit from the. budget increases', he added. The major areas of con centration for veterans af fairs in Washington, Fagan said, are the extension of the delimiting date and the continuation of the Veterans Cost of Instruction Payment (VCIP) program. The delimiting date is the date when a veteran’s educational benefits ex pire currently 10 years after his date of discharge. Nuclear safety viewed -tSSSSSJSi !sWtfS± that tto*.Bear fast becaus; liquid used to «»1 “ “S hrpprfpr reactor noses new it will not be under, number who agree is Si Sety%erts pressure and the problem growing It» as,gmf,cant said yesterday the breeder of a burst cooling pipe is development. may be less accident-prone not so great. .. _. Rpreareh than light-water reactors The views presented by The Energy Research used in existing atomic 'Stratton, Wilson and other and Development Sower SantT experts at an American Administration is’bulldog . W.R. Stratton of the Los Physical Society con- a- prototype fast breeder Alamos Scientific ference contradicted the reactor, so called because. Laboratory in New Mexico, assumption that the fast it Produces said the breeder viewed breeder is more dangerous. it burns, at Oak Ridge, as the reactor for the 1990’s “It would bea strikingly Tenn., to test ’ its com and beyond will have so significant breakthrough to mercial potential in the many built-in safeguards think that the breeder 1990 s and beyond. that the worst accident it is design reference accident reactors designed to handle might not' be possible, Unlike present reactors, probably could never Stratton told UPI. which are cooled by water Exm ’ “This has been kind of under high pressure the Another eicpert. Richard creeping up on those of us breeder wd be cooled by Wilson of Harvard in the business for some molten sodium metal at University? said the time, and I, think we are atmospheric pressure. Divers 'monopolize' in water About 100 certified scuba divers will sink or swim this week as they attempt to break a 300-hour Guinness record of playing Monopoly un derwater. ! The Nittany Divers Club will begin its -underwater Monopoly game in the Natatorium’s diving well today and will finish May 16, 17 days- later (about 400 hours). The-VA budget amendment passed, yesterday allocated $6lO million for the extension of the delimiting date. The VCIP program pays participating colleges and universities a set amount for every veteran enrolled. The money, received by Penn State is used to maintain the Veterans Affairs .Office in Boucke. In other action, Barry. Lasky defeated Chuck Allen for the position of fourth vice president in charge of membership - 20-12. - Lasky replaces Carl Lepping, who had to resign before the , normal end of his term because of his re-entering the armed services at the end of ..... . Spring Term. Fagan added that a good Also, PSUVO will hold a showing at Impact Day will block party May 15, the last aid the passage of necessary Saturday before the end of the veterans legislation, term. The party, which will) Interested vets can sign up at run from 3. p.m. to 11 p.m., the PSUVO table in the HUB will feature five live bands- tomorrow and Monday. Dave Prutzman, president of the club and manager of the. event said' that . the members are waterproofing the actual Monopoly .game board by placing it between The free event will be open two pieces of unbreakable to the public 24 hours a day. glass with water tight seals. ah donations will be given to J the Red Cross Water Safety Prutzman said the Nittany Program and to the Penn- Divers'Club hopes to out-play sylvania Association for the University of lowa club, Retarded Children for water which is currently attempting activities. to*************************** f MOTHER’S BAT I 1 SPECIAL ! * * * NO TELEGRAPH CHARGES ON ALL * * MOTHER’S DAY FTD ORDERS $ 5 PLACED BY MAY Ist * * WOODRINGS * 6 S ,£ Floral Gardens £ 145 S. Allen 238-0566 * %************************* We’ve got what you want: Get Two Pair For The Price Of One . Take your pick of any pair of earrings we have in stock and get a second pair of equal value free. 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