WORLD spite Reagan’s “there to stay’’. fallen on hard times. country. outside. Israel, however, has view. try appears read By JOHN WOJCIK The campaign of Jesse Jackson for the Democratic nomination for President recalled some of the most dramatic struggles of the civil rights battles of the 1960's last week. Jackson took his cam- paign to numerous towns and cities in Alabama, including Selma and Birmingham, where he spoke in impassioned tones about the works of notable civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Viola Liuzzo and others. Jackson had been one of these leaders. “Early on the morning of March 13, when you go walking out of your dormitory, Alabama will never be the same,”’ he said to a crowd of thousands at the predominantly Black Stillman College in Tuscaloosa. Alabama is one of the southern states Jackson has targeted in the early round of key primaries, be- ginning March 13. President Reagan has targeted the same states in his own re-election drive with a revival of the ‘“‘Southern Strategy’’ employed by Nixon — attacks on civil rights and affirma- tive action and appeals to the fundamentalist right-wing. During this campaign Jackson returns to an Alabama quite diffe- rent from the one he visited in the 60’s. In both the city and county of Tuscaloosa, for example, only 130 Blacks were registered in 1963. Now 17,000 are registered. - Alabama state troopers, who often used clubs and sticks to beat civil rights demonstrators, es- The return of Jesse Jackson U.S. policy U.S. policy in Lebanon, whose aim is the eventual partitioning of the country and imposition of a U.S.- backed regime, is on the verge of collapse this week. Following the removal of British and Italian forces, U.S. marines are being loaded aboard warships, de- promise last month that they are The U.S.-armed-and-trained Lebanese army of President Gemayel is broken and units are retreating southward to Israeli positions along with their Christian Fal The grand plan of U:S.-Israeli and Arab reactionary forces to stem the tide of Arab national liberation has angist allies. In Washington the situation is grim. After an ex- penditure of $120-million and the loss of hundreds of marines, Reagan’s “peacekeeping” effort has failed. So have U.S. efforts, under the May 17 agreement signed by Gemayel with Israel to give the Israelis Virtual military and Political control of Lebanon. The forced pullout of U.S. and other NATO troops from Lebanon and the virtual isolation of the Gemayel regime offers an Opportunity in coming weeks for a national dialogue to restore peace and stability in the This was called for-earlier this month at a confer- ence of the National Salvation F ront of Lebanon whose delegates included former president Suleiman Frangie, former prime minister Rashid Karame and chaired by Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt. The NSF demanded the immediate with- drawal of all so-called peacekeeping forces as well as Israeli troops from the country. The meeting issued a call for the resumption of the national dialogue to restore peace which can only take place if there is no more Pressure on the country from ed the collapse of the Gemayel regime and withdrawl of NATO troops with horror. Its army, which invaded Lebanon 18 months ago and now occupies the southern third of the coun- y to turn the region into a permanent Despite causing $15- plan to destroy Leba Beirut street after Israeli bombing. billion damage, the U.S.-Israeli non is in shambles. Photo: West Israeli-occupied zone of the type it runs in Gaza and West Bank. As Gemayel’ and armor con’ tions indicatin s forces disintegrate, Israeli warplanes tinue their attacks against NSF posi- g that Tel Aviv has no plans to heed in Lebanon collapses| News Analysis calls for an Israeli pullout from Lebanon. ae There is evidence that Israel may be Reagan’s a hope to prevent the establishment ofa representatm government in Lebanon. Washington’s 1985 nile budget for Israel is a whopping $1.4-billion wi another $850-million in economic aid. a The U.S. is supplying the Israeli forces with the” most up-to-date weapons not only to carry out a tagon policy in the region but to use Lebanon aS ; testing ground for new weapons’ systems, ye ; which were developed and tested by Israel in Le q non in 1982 alone, according to the New York Times. ~ The price in death and destruction Lebanon haS 9 paid is terrible — estimated at-$12-15-billion, a0 astronomical sum for a country of three million. But | still the policy has failed and the debacle grows. In this respect the predictions recently of A! ~ Jamhir, newspaper of the Jordanian Communist Party ring prophetic: ‘The U.S. is bent on converting Lebanon into a 4 f bridgehead for the realization of the new phase of its — openly aggressive policy. But it is in Lebanon that i big stick policy will fail. “The battle for Lebanon is not only a fight between local forces. The battle is not confined to Lebanes ; territory, but goes beyond the country’s borders and is.a manifestation of the general Arab struggle agai : | the U.S. and its local partners — Zionism and A q reaction ... ‘This obvious truth should show the Arab peoples J the road to victory, the road of struggle on the basis of the correct demarcation in individual countries an throughout the Arab world and also on the basis of @ J sincere alliance in the international arena with the forces of the world revolutionary movement ... TM. | a : a corted Jackson’s motorcade on his journey, whichincluded a stop at the Univeristy of Alabama where George Wallace had once blocked the doors to prevent in- tegration. Jackson was greeted by an overflow crowd of students, both Black and white. Jackson was quick to point out that there is still much to be ac- complished in the South. “You move from Jim Crow to Jim Crow Esq.,”’ he told a Selma audience. “‘He’s better trained now. He’s a little slicker. The: name has changed but the game is the same.”’ He said there ‘‘is a difference between 1963 and 1984. Then we could hope for change but now we can vote for change.’’ 8 e PACIFIC TRIBUNE, FEBRUARY 29, 1984 JACKSON: Alabama will never be the same. 7 ges At least 20 per cent of iiie popu- lation of Alabama lives below the official poverty level, with official unemployment figures for adult Black men standing at 25 per cent. Although Afro-Americans have been elected to local and munici- pal offices in the state there is not one Black Congressman, even though the state’s voting age population is 23 percent Black. Reagan has a lot to fear from Jesse Jackson’s campaign activity in Alabama. In 1980 the President won the state by a margin of only 17,000 votes. Congressional Black Caucus figures indicate that there were 272,000 unregistered Black voters in the state at that time. Many are registering as a result of the Jackson effort. — Daily World Ridding Europe of poison gas From Fils Delisle Tribune Berlin Correspondent BERLIN — A private initiative by a West German labor leader to get the two German states to cooperate in ridding Europe of poison gases for war purposes has called forth complete support from the GDR and evasion of the issue from the Government at Bonn. On Jan. 23, Julius Lehlbach, provincial chairman of the Rhine-Palatinate DGB, the West German Trade union organ- ization, addressed letters to Chancellor Helmut KohlandGDR ~ State Council chairman Erich Honecker. In his letters, Lehlbach called upon the two statesmen to join in prohibiting the stationing and the use of poison gas weapons in both ic German states. The union leader has now made public their replies. Chancellor Kohl, he revealed, did not even bother to reply personally. Through a subordinate he advised Lehlbach that he did not consider the matter to come within his jurisdiction. It was something, the Chancellor added, to be decided by the powers stationing the poison gas weapons in the FRG. That meant, of course, primarily the USA. Honecker, however, informed the union chairman that the GDR was prepared “‘to join in negotiations for a zone free of chemical weapons with all interested states.”’ In his appeal to the leaders of the two German States, Lehlbach had written: ‘‘It would be a ray of hope for humani- ty, and most certainly a step toward building trust, if the GDR and the FRG would pledge themselves by treaty to banish the barbarous poison gas which threatens the people with death.” Honecker’s reply to Lehlbach said: ‘‘I agree with you com- pletely that it is not enough to talk about peace. The point is to contribute to the lessening of the danger of war by concrete measures, which could include agreements on the prohibition and the liquidation of chemical weapons. The GDR supports such measures, whether worldwide or locally.” ea The initiatives undertaken by the socialist countries to free Europe of chemical weapons, Honecker added, have unfor- tunately brought no reply from the other side. ‘‘Despite that,”’ ae Tein: ase bl Honecker told the FRG union chief, ‘‘the GDR takes a posi- ‘ | tive attitude to all reasonable proposals .. .