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_—~— mtSMU&i by Rap. t H. Fountain After two weeks of confer ring and meeting with more than 100 Arab and Israeli lead ers and visiting more than sev 4 IV*.' en countries during a study mis sion to the Middle JSast, it is wonderful to be back — safe and sound — on Amercan soil The series of hijacking took HARNESS RACING is Just one of the many events in the Grand stand at Fairtime. Many of the State’s top trotting ponys and sulkie drivers will be on hand Thursday, Oct. 23 to compete for nearly •2,600 in premium awards. m .... THE ANNUAL FOLK FESTIVAL is always a highlight at the State Fair. Increased premiums draw top competitors from within the State for three shows daily October 16-24. Paint Up Clean Up BLUE LUSTRE CLEANER PAINT REMOVERS ENAMELS VACUUM BAGS MINWAX VARNISHES place while we were there 1 am happy to see that our eminent is finally waking u this grave problem, There have been no less than 73 successful hijackings since 1961 and most of these took place'in the United States. Hope fully, the Administration’s pre ventive measures wall be suc cessful. The mission by the House Foreign Affairs Near East Sub committee which I chair, went first to Lebanon, then on to the island kingdoms of Kuwait and Bahrein, next to several points in Saudi Arabia, to Cairo, Egypt, and finally to Israel by way of Cyprus. The need for this mission grew out. of the recent hearings on the tense and explosive Middle East situation, conducted by the Near East Subcommittee. We set out to gather as much in formation as possible for the use of the Congress. The major conferences in each country were, of course, with the heads of state. Some were Prime Ministers, others were Kings or Emirs or Shaykhs (sheiks). There was a unanimous desire for peace on the part of every high official I talked to, Arab and' Israeli alike. However, as was to be expected, they dif fered greatly on the question of just how peace is to be a chieved, One thing is clear, the ques tion of the Palestinian refugees is at the heart of the problem. It must somehow be resolved before peace of any duration can come in the' Arab-Israeli conflict. . . i ■ However, some of ' the key Arab leaders did not rule out the possibility of compensation to these refugees as an aid tn restoration of peace. Israeli officials rightfully stressed self-defense: Israel' want to be able to buy enough arms from America to adequate ly defend herself. As Prime Minister Golda Meir told me, Israel'can only lose one war. If they lose once, they cease to exist. The Arabs, on the other hand, can lose war after war gnd still survive. Arab leaders expressed the feeling that America -has be come anti-Arab during the last twenty years, that we are pro Israel, and that the Administra tion’s Middle Eastern policy is not even-hahded. Prime Minis ter H. E. Rachid Karame of Leb anon was especially forceful in presenting this view, but others said much the same thing, i In Kuwait, we met with Crown Prince Shykh Jaber, the acting Emit; in Bahrein with Arabia^with in Egypt with Dr. Foreign Ministry and Nasser’s righthand man; 'and in Israel with Mrs. Meir and her top ad visor, Dr. Yaacov Herzog and Foreign Minister Abba Eban. Of course, as I’ve indicated, we also, met with many other Arab and Israeli government officials and business leaders to numer ous to name here. Notwithstanding a tight sched ule, we did manage to find a few hours on the last afternoon to make an extremely interest ing trip to some of the Holy places in Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem. It was inspir ing to visit thdse places where Jesus walked and taught.. Golda Meir has teen in Wash ington since r got Back. It’s my guess that she concen trated on asking us to sell Israel the wherewithal to defend it self. , \ But, whatever we do, I think we should keep up the pressure on both Israel and the Arid) world to seek a settlement. We piust do everything we properly can to prevent the present con flict from engulfing the whole world in war. We certainly don’t want any more Viet Nams. Other Editors Say W^AL-TV VIEWPOINT Helms Finds Hope on Kansas Campus If hope springs eternal — as it must, and as it does ■— then the country’s fervent hope just now surely must be that Presi dent Nixon will correctly assess the real meaning of his gratify ing experience at Kansas State University a few days ago. The thunderous ovations giv en him by the young people should not be viewed by the President as either a personal triumph or a political endorse ment. The young people were telling the President something — something that should have been apparent all along, not on ly to Mr. Nixon but to all Amer icans. Which was that young Ameri cans — the vast majority of them — want their country to resume and preserve its funda mentals of decency, honor and responsibility. They cheered not so much Nixon the man as Nixon the symbol, the elected leader. They stood in repeated tribute to what he was saying when he condemned violence, lawlessness, cowardice, and crudeness. Each standing ova tion was a mandate for the Pres ident, and all others in govern ment, to start thinking again of those who wish to build a bet ter America, and to'stop trem bling at the threats of a mi nority determined to tear the country apart. ' The shoe has been on th£ wrong foot for far too long al ready. Minorities which seek to destroy, not build, have been al lowed to plunder the will, the very purpose, of the republic. Militants have not only invaded, but destroyed, the rights of oth ers while the leadership of the country compromised and vas cillated. Mr. Nixon himself, 101 PROOF-8 YEARS OLD s ■ —mm - . 2*'v- ■ STRAIGHT SOU ^ WHISKEY sad to say, has not always stood firm, as he pledged he would in 1986. But he received a magnificent reminder at Kansas State Univer sity that the country is ready to stand firm, that it supports law and order, decent behavior and personal responsibility. Mr. Nixon spoke of education at Kansas State, and he spoke wisely. He observed that only the administrators and faculty members and responsible stu dent leaders can save education — that the government cannot He could have said, and should have said, that the government —the federal government which Mr. Nixon heads — is largely responsible for much of the up heaval in education today. ' If Mr. Nixon will continue to heed the mood of the country — if he will analyze the ovations of support that thundered in his ears in Kansas — he will understand that the people are fed up with a lot of things, among them federal meddling in education. The President can serve his country well by ex ercising his authority and lead ership in making certain that freedom of choice is resurrect ed from the graveyard of fed eral tyranny. tie eannoi — ana snouia not — control the federal judges, but he can make his position dear •— the one that he took as a candidate for President in 1968 that forced busing of school children is unwise and destructive. We suspect, that the President would again be astonished at the clamor of sup port that would come to him from all sections of the land. It is a paradox. Mostly what the country needs now is lead ership willing to stand jap for what is logical, wise and fair. Yet, for more than a decade, politicians have been shoving American down the road to Self destruction. Destructive mili tants have been courted' and gferiiijed, w!#e citizens dedi cated to building America have been ignored. Loafers have been pampered while the work ing man has been taxed to sup port them. Gallant young men baye gone off to fight a war that their country would not let them win in order to appease half baked revolutionaries parading in the streets at home. The soul of American can yet be preserved — as was eloquent ly demonstrated before Richard Nixon’s “«*»* «♦ °*-*" Universi
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