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University Daily Kansan, September 19. 1983
Massacre remembered
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
The sorrow and bitterness that the massacre at the Sabra and Chatila refuge camps brought upon Palestinians a year ago painfully lives on, though people who weren't touched by it sometimes easily forget.
"You are a joke, man. You guys are a joke," an onlooker shouted at a group of Palestinian students and friends in the Middle East. "Friday along Jayhawk Boulevard.
But the occasion was far from funny for the quiet group of about 30 people who solemnly marched to commemorate the first anniversary killing of at least 300 refugees at the Cairo and Chattai camps in Lebanon.
LEBANESE CHRISTIAN miliamen carried out the systematic slaughter of civilians, but an Israeli inquiry found that Jewish forces around the camps bore some resemblance to act to prevent the killings.
"We have a student who lost his mother, father, sister and brother-in-law; almost all his family," said Ishan Alagha, Gaza Strip junior and president of the Arab Student Organization.
Palestinian students don't like to resort to marching as a way of expressing their feelings, Alagha said, because marches are common events in the Middle East and because it is the cheapest way of reminding people of the events.
THE MEDIA are not willing to participate in remembering the event, he said, so the group resorts to marching to keep the tragedy in.
He said he couldn't understand why the media extensively covered the Korean Air Lines jet tragedy and let the massacre's anniversary quietly go by, when as many as three times more people died in Sabra and Chatilla a year ago than in the airplane disaster.
America's minds.
Witnesses at the camps counted 300 bodies, but an accurate death toll may never be determined.
"The United States and other countries promised the Palestinians protection if they evacuated. The massacre is a challenge to those who promised to protect us," Alagha said.
Members of the group carried placards. One read, "Where are your promises Mr. Reagan?"
STUDENTS IN THE group said they feared reprisals in their home country for being involved in protests
"Many don't like to take the risk of demonstrating here, because when you go back to Israel, they may be questioned or jailed," he said.
Some American students marched with the Palestinians.
Stu Shafer, a Great Bend graduate student, said, "I am expressing solidarity with them for this great crime against humanity.
"Besides the solidarity that it expresses, it helps to bring the issue back to life, to keep it right here," he said.
Alagha said that he thought the recent change in government in Israel would not alter the Palestinians' situation.
"There is a difference between a Jewish man and a Zionist, but there is no difference between two Zionists," he said.
Changing the way federal spending responds to inflation is an important way to reduce the burgeoning deficits. Joe Jim Slattery, D-Kan, said
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
satterty told about 60 people at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vermont St., that the federal government could no longer depend directly on the consumer price index when it determined cost-of-living figures, such as Social Security and federal employee retirement plans.
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Slattery, who represents the 2nd District, is supporting a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives that would base those increases and the indexed income-tax program due on a figure 2 percent below the CPI.
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SLATTERY FIELDED SEVERAL questions about the increasing costs of telephone and natural gas service. Send information to Committee on Energy and Commerce.
The breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph, which will be effective Jan 1, 1984, could cause rates in New York to rise dramatically, he said.
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"This is part of an ongoing attempt to make sure the limited amounts of money available get to the people who need them the most," he said.
The phone rates to those areas, Slattery said, have been subsidized by the city.
Slattery is a member of the tossi fuels subcommittee of that House committee. The subcommittee is studying ways to make the low income assistance program, or ILEAP, more equitable for people in the Midwest.
"This is not a perfect idea, but it is a place to begin. We have to go where the money is spent — defense and entitlements."
Slattery was critical of President Reagan's tax-cut plan, and said he voted consistently for increases in the tax rate than those wanted by the president.
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