European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 04, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Age 12 the stars and stripes thursday May 4, 1978 in we those Paw newspapers thes6 7wm0s Anthony Lewis the Story of a Village caught up in warring a Asiye Lebanon a Dusty Road in a Broad Green Valley on either Side Grain ripening in the Fields Olive and Orange Groves wild fennel poppies hollyhocks. But do not wander off the Road to pick fruit or Flowers. There Are mines in the Rich soil of Southern  nations troops from Senegal and France and Nepal Wail for hours under a burning Sun while israeli trucks go up a dirt track to a command Post to pick up equipment. Israeli soldiers try to keep the press Down from Beirut for the next phase of withdrawal behind a Coil of barbed wire. The israeli officer in command is a Brig Adier. Hiram Efrain with a presence the stands out in the crowd. He wears a Flat Felt hat a is. Marine Drill instructor s hat it turns out. That he picked up while at the Marine staff College in Quantico a. His words Are Tough. Before now he did t believe All that about the decline of the roman Empire Efraim said. But now he saw the West go ing soft its corruption fuelled by Arab  in the press and elsewhere there was a Bias against Israel. In Southern Lebanon the brigadier said Israel did what it had to do and did it did you succeed he was asked in the Hope of destroying the palestinians As military Force we feel we succeeded in making it impossible for them to operate Here he said. A Little after 2 in the afternoon the last israeli armoured personnel Carrier drove off. A dozen senegalese marched smartly Forward and took up positions. And it be Illiam f. Buckley facing reds Challenge in Africa t is spooky to read in the foreign is about something that happened in t own backyard but even As old eng introduced Robert Frost to new eng. We have recently been introduced to by Kissinger by the foreign press. Be the International radio and Televik society in new York Henry Kissinger Vered extemporaneously one of the t important Brief statements on for policy in recent years. That is the russian dominated cuban doing in Africa in 1975, the soviet on dispatched a cuban division to an at a Cost of one billion dollars. Angola Kissinger remarked dryly is about As from the soviet Union As it is possible it. And one billion dollars is More than rest of the world put together was give to the whole of Africa. Congress lid Hen. A Little Over two years later the it Union sent a cuban division a cd to Ethiopia. The move into ethic cannot be Analysed in terms of the reels Between Somalia and Ethiopia " Kissinger explained. Nor is the Issue Only who crossed bo11" first if.  to soviet that the . Cannot protect its friends to raise doubts in saudi Arabia right across the red sea in Egypt in the Sudan and in Iran. And now we hear that once again we May be facing the threat of cuban and so Viet intervention in Southern  what Are we going to do about Cuba As recently As a Lew years ago or. Kissinger column Sand comments on " cuban Mili intervene in our global e bul in is d0fsr a through Cha Ceries not Only of the communist world but of the West that the soviet Union understand that another move of the kind we have seen in Angola and Ethiopia will raise the presumption that we Are fac ing a global geopolitical Challenge incompatible with any definition of detente. And under those circumstances i do not see How any arms agreement could possibly be ratified and How detente could possibly survive. And i Hope that that he s ital is will be made Clear to the soviet Union. So far. The american press has not been conspicuously helpful on the Point came possible for the first time in Mott than a month to drive on along the Road and up the Hill to the Village of a Asiye. It was a pretty Village or it must have been once. Now much of it was levelled of bombs. A handsome Small boy named Ibrahim perhaps 5 years old showed to visitors around. He pointed to a mass of rubble the mosque. According to seven of the villagers 23 people who had sought Refuge in the mosque were killed in the bombing. How Many were killed in a Asiye Alto Gether the Village elders and others gave different figures ranging from 100 to 250. All were lebanese they said. The palestinians had been there but they had All left two Days before the israelis invasion in March and the bombing. What the villagers said was the More bet liveable because they did not harshly Critt Cize the israelis. The occupying forces had behaved Well most people seemed to think. And several while saying they Wen glad to see the occupation end said firmly that they did not want the palestinians Back because that would mean More fight ing. That View was expressed in a heart rending Way by a family that lost a son to the bombing. Ali shaman and his wife Alor Al Hayat arabic for the Eye of life each 50 years old talked with two visitors in the White washed main room of their simple House. A daughter Leila 14, sat listening. Three other sons have gone to America to Detroit. Shaman was herself wounded when her son Kemal 17, was killed. She was taken to Israel for Hospital treatment. She was satisfied with that and there seemed to be of bitterness toward the israelis As she Spok painfully sadly about the bombing. It was the palestinians she criticized. The reason for the israeli attack was that the palestinians had been in our Vil Lage she said. Before the invasion they were not so bad. But we were always Ner Vous we thought the israelis would  what is there to say after seeing the Vil Lage of a Asiye that the innocent Are of ten the real victims of War that there to no such thing As confining destruction to military targets that even the most impressive commanding officer of an army in a strange land May not know what he has done those Are commonplace. It is the pointlessness of it All Tost strikes one at the end of this Day. The palestinians Are still there a few Miles far ther away if anything strengthened to their resolve to be a nation. We pass these nepalese on the Way out a few Hundred Yards Down the Road soldiers of the leftist lebanese forces that cooperate with Tot palestinians Manning their guns. C new York Tyrnn even to this Day unspecified but it was accepted that in return for i had put Forward claims on the urts l All its neighbouring states soviet ment was thus guaranteed to be used i expansionist Way. And then when equipment was used for the precise be that Somalia had always asked  iudes50"6 " or Kissinger la bravely is geopolitical. To the Middle East