European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 1, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 9 Jan s death an Impact around the world Max Lerner the self immolation Kcf Jan a lath in Prague it ilk nothing else that hat happened in Itu Dertat movements around the world. The common element among them hat been their re Volt against authority especially against the regime in Power. In most Case the hatred of the regime has spilled Over and become a hatred of country. But in the Case of Jan Palach and of the Young fellow students with whom he made his death pact there was instead a passionate love of country. Hie death has had an Impact net Only on hit own countrymen but on the Young throughout Europe and the world. It could have been a sick act because there h always a margin of sick Ness in a fanatic Faith that turns inward and becomes self destructive. Yet there was a shining authentic Quality thai came through in Jan polach i Dentith convincing a whole people that he truly loved his country and its Freedom beyond his own life. Amid to much that is jaded and weary and mechanical not Only among the old in authority Bur also among the Young who rebel against them this Quality of affirmation even in death Cap tured the world s awed respect. There is another difference be tween the role of the czech Stu dents and other student groups. In Madrid and parts and Naples in Dacca and san Francisco the recent student riots have spread havoc in sections of the Campus or the City and have divided the nation. In the Case of the Young czechs their position at once a protest and an affirmation has United the nation and committed the people. The russians Are in trouble Over the response to Palach s death and so Are the czech political and military leaders who have become unhappy Collaborator with the rim fan occupation even White they hate to in Italy student groups across the nation have been moved to demonstrate their sympathy for the czech students thus break ing the tradition among Young europeans that the russians can do no wrong that Only the americans can do wrong. There will be other students Frt other countries who will express their moral recoil from the russian act of invasion and occupation. In their own nation too the czech students have awakened the conscience of the whole peo ple. The russian strategy sine the invasion has been based on a blackmail threat they have held Over the czech leaders who in turn have held it Over their people that unless the czechs behave the russians May be moved to invade again. It won t be easy to continue with this blackmail strategy be cause of what Palach and the other czech students have done to keep alive the memory of so Viet perfidy. Instead of always having to warn the people of what the russians May have to a the czech leaders for once May have to warn the russians of what the people May be moved to do. And perhaps the soviet leaders May worry a Little about their own students. Three authoritarian Heads of state Franco Ayub Khan and de Gaulle Are having trouble with students too. In Spain and East Pakistan the pattern is the classical one the students demonstrate against a repressive re Gime the police gel rough with them several students Are killed they become Martyr symbols and this leads to new demonstrations and new repressions. In de Gaulle s Case the students Are taking up their own quarrel with him and his regime after having suffered a defeat fast june and having now regrouped their forces. An authoritarian Leader who has All along boasted of his magical Halo can scarcely pro test if the Halo Wilts and forts to crack. De Gaulle has ceased to be convincing in Hli role of perpetual Savior of the natron just As Franco and Ayub ceased to be convincing Long ago. De Galle might learn from the israelis the people he now hates How to keep the Young Genera Tion committed to the cause of the nation instead of opening a gop Between themselves and the Plain people. To to this Gap which Marks the real problem of student groups in most countries. Even if the Stu Dent cause at san Francisco state were better than it is the social angers that the rioters aroused would be Loo High a Price to pay for their protest. The czech Stu dents and the israelis too in a very different Way have a real cause to fight for and a real enemy to fight against. Some times i get the feeling that Young americans Are looking both for an enemy and a cause and arc having to improvise both. 1969, lot Onoelee time soviets peddling Mideast plan Henry j. Taylor president Richard m. Nixon and Secretary of state William p. Rogers Are getting a behind the scenes pass from the Kremlin that now has reached a Point of particulars in the explosive mid East situation. Or. Nixon and or. Rogers know that it s the Kremlin s car rot and Sticks All Over again but there is sub stance in the particulars. That is what counts. The first hint came from Moscow after soviet foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko visited egyptian president Gama Abdel Nasser in Cairo on december 21 23. Then the Kremlin formalized the proposal to president Nixen on the Day he took office and even went so far As to attach maps. The soviet proposal contains the hitherto unrevealed Prospect that Israel will ultimately Negomir ate about the Gaza strip much of the territory outside Jerusa Lem taken from Jordan and Evn parts of the Sinai which Tel Aviv has insisted Are not negotiable. In Exchange and most importantly it omits insistence that lira Deal United nations the Arab world s pressures notwithstanding. This would be a True Vita and possibly decisive breakthrough. Able presidential envoy Rob Ert b. Anderson s 1967 trip to set Nasser a precipitated by a warning from it retell Premier lev Eshkol to the in. On oct. 30, 1967. Ural has keen adamantly unwilling a i we Are regarding our Vietnam policy to surrender her Post Victory policy to the loaded votes of the . Eshkol Destin cod that the . Refrain from any step that will make it difficult for Israel to negotiate with her neighbors.11 in the icky hands of and for Surel j v but Eshkol has Indi Catta to president Nixon that a trite real izes nevertheless that it badly needs diploma. A. Brut Israel is on the defensive. In the 1949 Palestine War the did take 3.00q Square Rulles More than the Rifelj ton of nov. 29, 1947, gave attn to in the in sue Brut when the British and French lost out and their seizure of the canal never came to pass Only the israelis achieved their objective. Next since the 1967 Victory Israel has kept Syria s Golan Heights. This is now an israeli dry use line instead of a syrian attack line and similar occupations exist in other strategic areas j next Israel has won no friends by appearing to refuse to take Back the million evicted Arab refugees dating from 1948, and not share the Jordan Waters. And finally Tel Aviv insiders know Many catholics and other religious elements throughout the world Are alienated by is Rael Adamant refusal to negotiate regarding an israeli held Jerusalem. These weaknesses in the israeli position threaten the main thrust of israeli postwar policy hardly understood in the outside world whereas the Over All objective requires great Power. In and out of the Arab world and in Moscow at Welt As Washington the consensus is that is Rael proposes to achieve the bal Ance of Power in the Vita mid East Region and that Tel Aviv intends to enforce if possible a stabilizing Center of Gravity that will fill the vacuum. The soviet proposal in the hands of or. Nixon and or. Rogers contains 11 references to what can Only be read As agree ments reached with Nasser. These include committing the Arab states to accept Israel s existence a first step toward the negotiations Israel has urge the acceptance of an Israel within secure Borders and Israel s free Dom of navigation through Egypt s red sea bottlenecks and the suet canal. It indicates even a willing Ness on Nasser s part to discuss Israel s demand for the Sharmel Sheik Heights above the Straits of tiran to further assure free navigation. The payoff to Moscow would be the reopening of the Suez canal a pressing economic Rea son along with that achieve ment s political Reward to soviet ambitions in Yemen saudi Arabia East Africa and the strategic areas of the Indian Ocean c 1969 United feature Syndicate inc. We re having an Ali american meal pizza Geff Ite fish enchiladas Chow mein sauerkraut soul food. T n proper design to guard . Is a Triangle Flora Lewis Moscow is pressing president Nixon hard for an Early Start an talks to limit the missile race. The russians teem so eager that they have raised suspicions among american policy makers. I it a diplomatic trick to i intact attention Fromcke schotto Vakula and to color rustic peace Loving to a newly wary world it it a military trick to fore tall a new generation of american weapon while the by scions build mus let in to Crecy they Are reasonable questions that con l be answered w Lew Tei Tiv. Though it u at for at Munif Anu Niffin who attune that any Jinoji iwo Waful my a bad sorb be As it Iwami to far to defense Secretary Laird who said talks should t Start until there is a sign they will succeed. Missile talks Are to complicated that no one can realistically expect any agreement without year of dogged negotiation the experience of the nue Leamett ban treaty thawed that the negotiators Learned what they really had to Deal with As they talked. And that a a much easier subject than missile controls. The longer a Start i delayed the More Likely it i that both i left will be irrevocably launched Oil cd. To Artajo new Arm race. Nixon s apparent con of Politico agreements with Hie soviet Union it like Tak of Loi a of 169, new Day Lew
