Egyptian Attack
Threatens Peace
Sound Off
The pyramids may last for another 2,000 years but
it’s doubtful that the word of the Egyptian government
could last 20 days.
Never before in history has a victor, in this case Israel,
been as patient with an enemy, which rearmed within weeks
of its total defeat, again spits hatred and threatens re
newed war in the Middle East.
Egypt’s sinking of an Israeli destroyer on Saturday is
the latest and most serious blow to a peaceful settlement.
The ship Elath lost 15 dead, 48 wounded and 38 un
accounted for, after being hit and sunk with a Soviet-
supplied Egyptian missile.
Just as Egypt has so often used the United States to
wrestle continued financial and military support while using
its oil as bait, so Egypt will undoubtedly and once again use
the United Nations as its propaganda soap box to the
world.
It has become standard procedure to blame Israel for
attacks, while Egypt periodically fires across the Suez
Canal with arms and United Nations support from Russia.
Britain has indicated it will reestablish diplomatic rela
tions with Egypt, apparently to persuade them to reopen
the Suez to British shipping. A sagging British economy
is forcing that once great power into compromise with an
unpredictable and irrational United Arab Republic.
Those 20 non-alligned UN countries who have been
trying to effect a peaceful settlement in the Middle East
and were trying to have the great powers meet next week
on the issue might as well pack their bags and head home.
With the victory gained in six days by Israel it now
seems unfortunate that the war might not have continued
another three days with the complete occupation of all
Egyptian territory and subsequent downfall of the Nasser
regime.
Egypt may soon have a new and rude reawakening.
Israel will not wait long for Egypt to bargain for peace
while they continue to attack Israeli outposts and shipping.
Without the oil it bargains with, Egypt would be ex
posed by most nations as a fraud to peace.
As the Jerusalem Post said about the recent attack on
the Elath, ‘‘it has hardened the feeling that there is no
real hope of achieving a peaceful solution in the area with
the present Arab regimes.”
Editor,
The Battalion:
The respectability and worth of
a community is often measured
by the sales personnel in various
retail stores and the efficiency of
its public workers. An outsider
considering moving to the Bryan-
College Station area would have
to attempt but one telephone call
and his decision would be easily
made for him.
In the past few months, our
radio stations have openly ad
vertised the efficiency of our Pol
ice Department. It is a shame
that other public servants can’t
operate equally as well.
Our telephone system is great
ly lacking in both facilities and
competent workers. The incom
petency that is met is a handi
cap to business, an aggravating
and unnecessary circumstance
in personal life, and a danger to
public safety.
To further emphasize these
accusations, I will state facts.
In my business, I alone spend
$30.00 to $40.00 on long distance
calls per week, and I am re
quired to record time and char
ges. Complete records include the
initial three minute rate before
the call is placed. Each time I
place a call and ask for this in
formation, the operator becomes
indignant and perturbed that she
has to call Houston.
On one specific long distance
call, I requested the initial three
minute rate and the operator told
me she would have to call Hous
ton. I told her fine—do so, and
she politely asked me to hold the
line. I proceeded to hold the dead
line to my ear for 22 consecutive
minutes I can’t help but think
that she had no intention of get
ting my charges and merely left
me for an easier task.
Very recently, I received the
culminating blow to my already
overloaded disgust for our tele
phone system. I was attempting
to place a personal call at 8:00
p.m. After waiting ten or fifteen
minutes (this is not an outlandish
exaggeration) for the operator
to answer the phone, she did. Re
peating myself twice on each per
tinent fact, she finally had it all
down correctly. Then with the in
nocence of a five-year-old child,
she stated there would be a de
lay of approximately thirty min
utes in placing my call due to
heavy traffic. Why, if they were
so pressed for time, didn’t she in
form me of her hardship at the
outset? I tried this same call sev
eral more times throughout the
night, and each time I received
the same treatment; i. e., the long
delay in answering, the repetitive
stating - of information, then the
information about the delay.
The danger to public safety is
the telephone company’s greatest
crime. The unnecessary and an
tagonizing delay in contacting an
operator could easily mean the de
struction of human life and pro
perty. The majority of parents
instruct their small children to
dial “O” in case of an emergency
and request the necessary facili
ties.
The utter disregard that the
telephone company possesses for
their public responsibility is an
apparent indication of their com
placency. This feeling of over
powering security needs to be
quelled and kept out of the com
munity.
Very truly yours,
Richard M. Owen, Jr.
900 Park Place
College Station
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an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
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America, with application of new
technologies his field. The reg
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Rex Bailey,
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contacted to see if he had any
objections to the publication of
this letter in The Battalion. He
strongly objected to the reference
of complacency by the telephone
company. He cited the construc
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soon, according to Bailey.
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