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   U.S. SPONSORS MID-EAST TERROR
   
   SHIITE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE RILES U.S.
   The Mid-East continues its role as U.S. dumping ground for 
sanctimonious drivel about "terrorism." The U.S. admits that 
its police-dog Israel violated Geneva Conventions by holding 
766 Shiites within its own borders since its invasion of 
Lebanon in the summer of 1982. (USA Today, 6/19/85, 4a) Yet, 
while Reagan threatened to kill the so-called terrorists and 
pushed a boycott of airports in Athens and Beirut, he did 
nothing of the sort to pressure Israel.
   Indeed, the U.S. gave political and military support to 
the last invasion of Lebanon by Israel, which by conservative 
estimates took the lives of over 20,000 Lebanese and 
Palestinians. (See "The U.S. and Lebanon" on the MIM lit. 
list.) For this, Israel received an increase in its military 
and economic aid from the U.S., which received Israel's 
services in installing a new minority Christian government 
favorable to U.S. interests. According to Joel Marcus who 
writes for the Haaretz, "the United States does things for us 
in all fields and, without understatement, one could even say 
that the regular and special U.S. aid is what stands between 
us and total bankruptcy." (New York Times, 6/22/85, 5) Israel 
and Egypt are the US's top recipients of aid, but the U.S. 
does nothing with this influence to stop the real terrorism 
of Israel and the sell-out Arab governments.
   Instead, the American media is forced to create 
superficial denunciations of the terrorists [read the other 
guy] who have only managed to perpetrate a tiny fraction of 
the organized murder that the U.S. and its allies does. 
According to USA Today, the average terrorist is a "man in 
his early 20s, single, a commercial failure, impulsive, 
disorganized and poorly educated," (USA Today, 6/24/85, 4a) 
but the real terrorists are in their 60s and up, married, 
filthy rich, repressive, organized with millions of hired 
mercenaries and formally educated in media hype and 
mystification--often taking their cues from Hollywood.
   The black-out of international news from any viewpoint not 
approved by the U.S. Government in the U.S. meant that many 
Americans found out about the U.S. sponsored Israeli 
occupation and hostage-taking only because of the hijacking. 
It even came to light during the hijacking that Israel 
continues to take Lebanese hostages in the part of Lebanon 
that it still occupies. 19 Shiites were taken on June 18th. 
(New York Times, 6/19/85, a15)
   Indeed, the U.S. media suddenly had to explain the 
hostages' views of the more substantial roots of the 
hijacking problem. According to one hostage, most of the 
hostages gained "profound sympathy" for their captors. One 
said, "let's face it, if someone captured my wife and 
children and had them across that border, I also would be 
taking drastic actions and doing things against my principles 
to secure their freedom." The U.S. media explained this away 
with the aid of psychologists' subjectivist mish-mash. 
References to the Stockholm Syndrome of hostages, desires to 
comfort family members etc. were all invoked without 
considering for a moment whether the Shiite cause is a just 
one. The psychologists even said that the supposed stress 
defense mechanisms last beyond the hostage-taking itself. No 
doubt one hostage's sympathy for the Shiite line, "Israel, 
free my people" will be dubbed as deviant by our imperialist 
mouthpiece shrinks.
   
   SOUTH AFRICA CONTINUES AGGRESSION ABROAD
   When they attacked U.S. multinational corporation Gulf Oil 
in a northern enclave of Angola called Cabinda that does not 
even border South Africa, the apartheid military forces made 
a mistake. They were caught by the Angolan military in May.
   South Africa attempts to destabilize its Black-ruled 
neighbors in a desperate effort to stave off the day when 
South Africa too will be decolonized. However, this time U.S. 
could cover up no longer. The American ambassador was called 
home for consultations.
   Meanwhile attacks in Mozambique and Botswana continued. An 
apartheid raid killed at least 12 on June 14th in Botswana.
   In Angola South Africa claimed success for a raid killing 
45 people on June 29th. South Africa colonizes Namibia which 
is a country bordering South Africa and Angola. The white 
settler regime does not even claim to be in pursuit of rebels 
working to overthrow apartheid. The casualties in Angola are 
said to be Namibians working from bases there to overthrow 
the apartheid puppet regime in occupied Namibia.
   Meanwhile, the press greeted a reshuffling of the puppet 
regime in Namibia by South African Prime Minister Botha. 
"Namibia Gets Taste of Freedom." (USA Today, 6/18/85, 5a) No 
government recognizes the puppet regime in Namibia. Namibian 
demonstrators opposed to the new regime were attacked by 
police the day of the reshuffling. (New York Times, 6/18/85, 
a3)
   New constitutions are popular gimmicks in South Africa 
these days. Police have killed over 400 Blacks in South 
Africa since September 1984 in rebellions against the new 
constitution in South Africa itself. (New York Times, 
6/20/85, a7)
   
   CONGRESS VOTES STAR WARS, NERVE GAS
   The House of Representatives approved $2.5 billion for 
Star Wars defense work in 1986. The Senate had already 
approved $3 billion. (New York Times, 6/21/85, 1)
   Star Wars is an effort to make possible a first strike 
against other countries without fear of nuclear retaliation. 
Once again the U.S. imperialists demonstrate that in war with 
the Soviet social-imperialists that even the only ratified 
"arms control" treaty--SALT I--is a scrap of paper.
   The Congress also approved money for nerve gas, provided 
Reagan could whip the Allies into line and make them store 
the weapons too. (New York Times, 6/20/85, a1) 
   
   NEW YORK TIMES WRITER CRITICIZES JAPANESE PRESS
   "Journalism in Japan... has a way of appearing to be an 
exercise in sameness... the major newspapers look alike and 
read alike... Journalists organize themselves into 
specialized 'press clubs' that serve as information cartels." 
(New York Times, 6/21/85, a2)
   
   VILLAGE VOICE IS SOLD
   The Village Voice, owned by Rupert Murdoch since 1977, was 
sold to Leonard Stern, a wealthy businessman, for more than 
$55 million." (New York Times, 6/21/85, a1)
   
   LANDLORD GETS THIRTY DAYS IN OWN HOUSING
   Failing to fix rundown apartments, a landlord was 
sentenced to 30 days in his own buildings. A female judge 
ordered the slumlord to leave his Beverly Hills home. (New 
York Times, 6/19/85, a20)
   
   MOVE LAWSUIT
   The Philadelphia bombing that killed 11 people and 
destroyed 60 homes has finally resulted in a civl suit by a 
relative of a murdered MOVE member. (USA Today, 6/21/85, 3a) 
In other news it came out that police believed that they had 
washed away all flammable substances that MOVE supposedly 
doused its own house with before dropping the bomb on the 
MOVE house. Water cannons were being fired on the MOVE house 
but were inexplicably shut off for the bombing and the fire. 
   
   IBM AND ATT COMPETE FOR TOP DOG
   IBM purchased 18% of MCI, a long distance telephone 
company in an effort to move onto ATT's turf. It is thought 
that telephones and computers will be increasingly connected 
in their usage. At the same time, ATT is looking to buy IBM's 
smaller competitors. (New York Times, 6/27/85, a1) The 
corporate merger pace continues even faster than the spread 
of capitalism, thus confirming Marx's insights into the 
process by which capital becomes ever more concentrated.