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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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