English language: _. To:-the horror of. ‘the puriats;-: the compilers of Britain's: leading. dic- tlonaries: “now accept thia seiifiiicd "an “Hopefully, the egge are freah. we id Ana ‘the 100th year sings» he first’ oe he Keepere of the : legitmate:* Oxford - = hopefully" is an example ofthe clash between the “Conservatives (mown: as . - prescriptivista In language ‘“manning | the. ramparis against what they’ regard aa " Mngulstie”, ere. and’... the - (desériptivista) ; circles) missiveneas,: liberals’ who say juat about anything goes, provided it clroulates widely enpugh. ~ Feature | ren on Lebanon? | OPAL. » The wWoeld fa witnessing the end of the nation of Lebanon and, as has outcry of anger or uhame, ; ..All that we are doing now is watching news pro- grams which inform us about the future develop- . gent of events in that desperate country and accep- tingcathe fact that death in today's Lebanon.is as ~ casual as life. I wonder why we no longer see the ex- cited faces of televiaion commentators which we us- ‘eto soe in the cummer-and fall of 1992 when they palled the Israelis to the wall for bombing the PLO - headquarters in Wet Beriut, Where is John Chancellor now, with his “historic” ‘question; What Bo “the hell is going on In Lehanon? Now is the tlme to ask this question, And the answer 1a . Fhe Republic of Lebanon, destroyed from Inside by pro-Syrian, pro-Iranian. -and pro-Soviet groups of Moslem extrémists, as well as by the PLO, has been betrayed by the West 3 in [ts most critical hour of need, “President Ronald Reagan's decision to withdraw the marines from Beriut and the im- mediate reaction of Britain, France and Italy to cut “the ‘presence of thelr contingents in that deleaguered country, could be considered to be a ‘thump of cheap pragmattam over political-prin- '. giples and morality. It is easy to understand why ” President Reagan could not act any ditferently in an election year. But it ls doubtful that the Lebanese “willunderstand these reasons, And why should "Chey? '.' Tn the period 1936 to 1939 the Republic of Spain -]. Was betrayed by the Western democracies in a - similar way. The policy of non-invelvement and ap- easement of an r left the legal govern- ‘ment of Spain helpless before. the onslaught of _ Fascism. At the same time, Hitler and Musgolini ac- “ tively’ supported General Fr Franclsco Franco | and . helped him toc: ie peda LOOEuG 1 Ta HE HUKEy 61 LRAdent : béliéf that Lebanon Ls nothing but a part of “greater Syria.” The U.S.S.K., Syria's main ally and West's withdrawal from Lebanon. Taking into consideration that fact that the cur- rent Moslem leaders in Lebanon, such as Navih - Berri and Walid Jumblat, are long time supporters hot only of Damascus. but of Moscow as well, one might assume that a new radical Arab regime allied to Moscow will appear in the Middle East out of the ‘ashesofcivilwar. — = - From a moral polnt of view, the abandonment those who left millins of Campucheans to be exter-. -minated by the communist regime’ of Pol Pot, and tatorships. Now it is the turn of the Lebanese Chris- Gans to be subjected to massacres which will in- evitably occur soon. One hundred and thirty thou- gapd people have already beer killed in Lebanon during the many years of strife ln that country. - .’ ‘When I waa in Lebanon in 1982 I saw Christian and Moslem villages with entire populations exter- mninated by the PLO or the fanatics from both sides. Yet now the Christian population Is ln danger of - physical extermination - brutality is an inseparable part of the Lebanese civil war. In the Iong run, abandonment of principles in , politics is more dangerous that it may seem at first sight, The betrayal of Spain by the Western democracies helped Hitler.to consolidate his power : aver Europe and to start the Second World War. Itis ; o0e of the lessons which has never been learned. Un fortunately. llya Gerol’s | SHOT SPOTS Sterling News Service. = believe’ this “hopefully” « happened several timesbefore fn‘our century, this sort of drania has produced no 4 rHafes Assad of Syria wd hashidvet hidden hiv tien" ‘F *