European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday january 28.1988 columns Anthony Lewis West Bank South Africa chilling similarities , occupied West balt inst july a palestinian lawyer Mona Rishi Maui went 10 the Ramallal prison 10 Imi a View a client. While there she saw q handcuffed Detainee being held with n heavy Hoot Over his head making in difficult for him to breathe. The tempera lure was 100 degrees fahrenheit. Rishmawi wrote to an israeli police official to male a Legal complaint about the mistreatment of the Detainee. The response she got was to be charged with an offence herself being in the wrong place in the prison. People wonder Why the palestinians in the occupied territories have risen up now after 20 years of occupation. There fire external reasons the Arab countries and the superpowers turning away from inc israeli palestinian Issue the sense of hopelessness about negotiations. Bui Ilu re is also an accumulated bitterness at injustice and humiliation. A Public interest Law office Here in a Mallah Ai Haq i known also Asl in in the service of Man helps people who get in trouble with the occupation forces. Rishmawi and other lawyers Deal with israeli us tidal in Legal terms eschewing politics. Ital in is a frustrating kind flaw. An Al a Law Field worker hazy Shash Lari. Reported that 10 men in the Farad detention renter complained of being tortured with electric shocks. Ai Haq asked the men s lawyer to see them and Check. He came Back with affidavits front them swearing that they had been subjected to shocks.  made a quiet in Jirouch to an israeli official trying to handle the i a Plain without publicity. The official replied with a threat. Ai Haq then held a press conference and gave the prisoners affidavits to reporters. As the conference began occupation authorities ordered shas Lari detained without trial for six months. We meet cynicism or aggression Haja Shehadih a prominent palestinian lawyer. Kays it s getting worse and  he and others say injustices have increased sharply since Brig. Gen. Ephraim Sneh resigned As civil adminis Trator of the West Bank last september reportedly to cause he Felt powerless to change harsh features of the occupation. Abuts of Whai americans can Sidur i Ltd Ammal Legal rights arc common place. For example people arc deported without being allowed to see the Evi Dence against them. Justice Brandeis of Jim Anderson feel any Lett reach time pm smug fell no Ajsa the . Supreme court said deportation could Cost a Man Oil that makes life Worth  Ami the hundreds who have been deported from Here were not aliens they were expelled from the land of tit ctr birth. Censorship is another commonplace. Last week lbs news s face the nation did a program on the protests Here when an arabic newspaper. Al Fajr tried to print the lbs transcript the Cen sors struck out a comment by Irving Sha Piro former chairman of the Dupont co., that the deportations were abhor  due process of Taw and Freedom of Llie press Are Middle class concerns. But then the people of the West Bank Are an overwhelmingly Bourgeois people. The Lead ing figures Are shopkeepers and lawyers and teachers. Over the last 20 years they have mostly been quiet about the occupation. A Heller adjective might be cowed. Out that period is Over. The Young men in Gaza influenced by islamic fundamentalists started an uprising whose spirit spread to the West Bank. Feelings Here have been fun scr inflamed by the israeli policy of responding to protests by Healing people often people who have done nothing As israeli military officers concede. The government of Israel is highly sensitive Aboul comparisons to South Africa. Officials bring in up to deny that occupation practices have any thing in common with White South Afri can Rule. Indeed there arc great differences. What happens Here is not apartheid. Palestinians Are trying to get out of israeli society not into it. Out there arc chilling similarities. Here As there a people suffer Humilia Tion without recourse without voice or vote. Men and women Are at the mercy of is year old with guns. Law is Manin Ula cd to serve the rulers until Justice is eaten away. The press is censored and inc press is blamed. And Here As there the process corrupts inc rulers. Israel being the concerned place it is the army has actually Sci psychologists to its troops in can to help them Cope mentally with the or Ders to beat people. But the problem lies deeper ii lies in the very fact of occupation. The longer in goes on the More True will be a comment made loan israeli Friend by professor Fouad Miami of Johns Hopkins University the ultimate revenge of the palestinians will be to turn you into South  n0w Yolk line Nas sport Adelman proud of his role in spiking arms packs communism. Although expressed in arcane and occasionally classified terms that can be Only understood or discussed Kenseth Adelman who resigned in Decem Ber As director of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency has looked Back on his career in govern ment and decided that his greatest accomplishment in those 2 i years was shooting Down arms control proposals. His greatest regret is to have failed to cup lain effectively that arms control can do Tittle Loward peace but arms control that is handled badly can do enormous harm. This is going to be an element of the last year of the Reagan administration As conservative True believers line up against Liberal True believers on the inf treaty and the possibility of a strategic arms treaty. Adelman. Articulate energetic and unabashedly conservative has now come out of the closet and hike former White House communications director pal Buchanan is following his natural inclinations and doing what he likes Best writing a newspaper column that expresses his conservative sentiments. In an Issue of the heritage foundation s policy review Adelman joins other former officials of the conservative persuasion James Wall Martin Ander son Linda Chanci and others in trying to explain whal went wrong in the Reagan years. Adelman Falls into inc category of those officials whom liberals Label As foxes in the Hen House ideologists who appear to oppose the Aims of the Agency they were appointed to protect in the Reagan administration. Other a Maples would be Watt As i Interior Secretary or Jeanc Kirkpatrick. Or her Deputy Charles Lichton slain As envoys to inc United nations. But As Adelman describes it inc truth is More sub lit than that. My Grai test  he writes is avoid ing inc endless caravan of arms control schemes that would have harmed . Interests. Those outside Pov Erna Cut cannot imagine the political diplomatic Sale Zenari Nicol Bench Ald and other pressures to adopt some harebrained new schemes 10 negotiate with the soviets or to negotiate with  by scientists with lop secret clearances the Battle it really Aboul the Basic idea is reducing or controlling arms a Good idea or is it not Adelman says arms control has been vastly Over valued and oversold in Western Public discourse including most painfully or our  his biggest regret is that the administration did nothing about whal he describes As soviet cheating on past arms control agreement another Complex and sometimes ambiguous terrain where scientists Law yers politicians and diplomats argue about Fine Pom s that Are not totally understood by any of them. Adlman now writing for some -10 newspapers and magazines As Well As being one of the usual suspects rounded up for television and radio inter views represents son of a Christmas past for the Rea Gan administration and imy candidate who runs on the administration s  cannot imagine the names and the abuse heaped on him by slate department officials who see in him the kind of entrenched anti soviet it and other disappointed Rabi Nauls Are there to altitudes that consider War is inevitable Between the testily that the Promise of the Reagan revolution was 10 superpowers and that arms reduction on the pan of the United states is Only the prelude to surrender to not realised and they know. They were there