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Page 4 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAR. 31, 1976 Strike leads to Israeli bloodshed Candidates to speak Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel— Israeli police patrolled in force in tense but quiet Arab villages in Galilee today as vil lagers in northern Israel prepared to bury six Arabs killed by police and army gunfire. There were fears that the funerals would ignite new rioting. But Police Minister Shlomo Hillel ordered se curity forces not to shoot unless lives were threatened and lifted a curfew imposed on villages north of Nazareth. Police reported that Arab youths stoned police in four villages during the night but said there was no seri ous violence. Five of the Arabs were killed Tuesday during riots that accom panied a 24-hour strike by Arab citi zens of Israel which the Israeli Communist party called to protest government purchase of some 1,600 acres of arid Arab land for housing and development projects. Another Arab was killed in a prestrike riot Monday night. Authorities reported that 31 Is raeli Arabs and about 50 police and soldiers were injured during the riots and that at least 285 persons were rounded up for investigation. The semiofficial Israeli state radio said fewer than 20 per cent of the Israeli Arabs joined in the strike and that it Was generally regarded as a failure. But in a dozen Arab villages, most of them in Galilee, rioters bat tled police, throwing stones and flaming kerosene bombs, and even fired guns in the village of Taibiya. Tewfik Zayad, the Communist junta vows stability Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Jorge Videla, in an outline of his new military government’s go als, gave first priority to a war on terrorism to achieve the stability necessary for reconstruction of the Argentine economy. “We will use that force as many times as necessary to ensure the full observance of social peace. Toward this goal we will combat, without truce, subversive delinquency in any of its manifestations until it is totally annihilated,” the 50-year-old gen eral said in a radio-television ad dress. Videla did not mention Mrs. Peron and gave no indication if his three-man military junta plans to bring her to trial. She is under house arrest at a mountain resort in south ern Argentina. Videla said in his speech that the government would retain control of “vital areas” of the economy but will welcome and encourage foreign in vestment. There has been no foreign investment in Argentina since the Peronists returned to power in 1973, because of restrictive laws and politi cal terrorism. Before that, foreign investment totaled about $2.5 bil lion, 90 per cent from the United States. U.S. Navy standing by Associated Press WASHINGTON — Defense Sec retary Donald Rumsfeld said today the United Sates is not currently planning an evacuation of Americans from war-wracked Lebanan but that the Navy is ready if evacuation be comes necessary. A special U.S. envoy, L. Dean Brown, who coordinated the task force that oversaw the U.S. evacua tion of Americans and refugees from Saigon, is en route to Lebanon to seek a truce and settlement in the volatile Lebanese civil war. Rumsfeld was asked on the CBS-TV “Morning News” whether the United States is planning to re move the 1,450 Americans presently in Lebanon. He replied with a crisp: “No, indeed.” “We are hopeful that will not be required,” Rumfeld said. “The goal is to achieve a ceasefire. A U.S. Navy task group of seven ships headed by the helicopter car rier Guadalcanal is standing about 24 hours steaming time from the Lebanese coast in what officials have called a “holding pattern.” /ttpfnamba a® ~ Eddie Dominguez ’66 Joe Arciniega ’74 Greg Price If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned ... We call It “Mexican Food Supreme.” Dallas location: 3071 Northwest Hwy 352-8570 mayor of Nazareth and the leader of the strike, charged the clashes came only “when police provoked the people.” He claimed police “ran after people and shot at them.” Zayad is also a member of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Rakah, the Communist party, intro duced a motion of no confidence ac cusing Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra bin’s government of aggression against Israel’s 500,000 Arab citi zens. The fighting was the first between Israeli troops and Arab citizens of the Jewish state since Israel l)ecame a state in 1948. Tension among Israeli Arabs has been heightened by unrest in the occupied West Bank territory taken from Jordan in the 1967 war. Three Arabs were killed there in recent weeks in clashes with security forces. Some shopkeepers in the West Bank and the occupied Gaza Strip joined in the strike Tuesday, but Is raeli troops forced them to reopen. “Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank are fed up with the occupa tion,” said the mayor of Bethlehem, Elias Freij, “We are brothers and sisters of the Arabs of Israel, and we support them.” All candidates for the College Sta tion City Council and A&M Consoli dated School Board have been in vited to participate in an 8 p. m. Polit ical Forum program in Room 701 of the Rudder Tower on April 1. “Each candidate will give a short speech, and then field questions,” Lynn Gibson, Forum chairman, said. Political Forum plans oun jpiii program Monday, April5,1 dates for the top twoofc dent Government. It will Rudder Tower. Admission! grams is free. 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