Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 11

              brown and white . â– â– - vol 82 no ii 866-0331 bethlehem pa friday october 23 1970 steel given warning by pollution control by jeffrey r brindle " bethlehem steel will be given approximately two vears to curt its particulate emissions according to steven wasko state air pollu tion control engineer for iehigh and northampton counties wasko also said that the steel company knows it is in violation of state statutes so there is no reason for foolish procrastination according to the latest local air pollution study a 1967 state survey approximately 630 tons per square mile of particulate matter settle annually in bethlehem this figure is nearly double the average amount for a itv of bethlehem's size the report continues the citv of bethlehem contains one major industry whose process emissions are likely to contaminate the entire city as well as neighboring communities other sources in the city are minor when compared to the large steel industry located there the annual emission rate of the steel plant according to the state report is " 3 n/)2fwom^ifgaseou^nrcxiuct>^nd22no ate matter i the state air pollution art is the legislation the state uses to curb air pollution the act impowers the commonwealth of pennsyl vania to maintain such a reasonable degree of purity of the air resources of the commonwealth as shall be technically feasible economically reasonable and necessary for the protection if the normal l health the general welfare and the people of the commonwealth this law accordingto wasko contains loopholes specifically to help some of the big industries one example cited by wasko is the clause on dark smoke emis sion the law says that a source can emit dark smoke 10 out of 60 minutes of plant operation this clause enables companies to continue polluting the atmosphere and avoid reducing particulate emissions wasko stated that the major source of information about air pollution offenders comes from citizen complaints people often call the air pollution commission complaining of odors and dark smoke b&w photo by sims bethlehem steel's contribution to cleaner air state department experts speak on world problems by b&w staff four u s state department men visited the university monday and spoke on the world's trouble spots the speakers and their topics were david bloch the middle east conflict jason h parker vietnam vernon a lanphler latin america and william t shinn soviet union bloch stressed the central point of conflict m the arab-israeli dispute is that there are two peoples claiming the same land both the arabs and the israelis claim palestine as their own and it is this con flict for possession of all or part of pales tine that is the basis for the dispute arab polarization among the arab nations there is a decided polarization as to how the conflict should be resolved there are some arab groups bloch stated who are willing to accept the ex istence of israel as an independent sovereign state m return for the israeli agreement to give back the occupied lands they took m 1967 and also if the israeli's are willing to cooperate m the problem of the palestinian refugees bloch went on to say however that there are those arabs who are more extreme and are still dedicated to the destruction of israel these arabs wish to turn pales tine into either an arab-palestine state or a multinational state which is not based on any one religious or ethnic group but a state m which all people who are now ln palestine can live together bloch noted that the recent cease-fire m the arab-israeli conflict may paradox ically make it more difficult to obtain a political settlement this is a result of the egyptian violations of the military standstill agreement that went along with the cease-fire stipulating that neither side would use the cease-fire to alter their mil itary facilities within the cease-fire zone he added that the u.s has indisputable evidence that the egyptians have used the period to strengthen their military position along the suez canal bloch concluded that most of the arms the u.s has been supplying israel recent ly have been m response to a continuing russian unwillingness to limit their arms shipments to the arab countries and that we are m effect trying to maintain the balance of power to prevent another out break of total war vietnamese self-determination parker a state department expert on east asian and southeast asian affairs said the crucial question around which peace m vietnam revolves is whether the vietnamese will have the right of self determination for their own government parker alsodiscussed chinese influence m southeast asia and the internal politics of vietnam the crucial package m southeast asian affairs is vietnamese self-determination said parker this concept is m keeping with the nixon doctrine of asian solutions to asian problems and declining role for the united states there he added that despite the absence of u.s military pre sence vietnam would still be independent upon american economic assistance parker sees very encouraging results m the august elections m viet nam m which opposition candidates gain ed several seats m the senate he said this is a sign that political freedom m south vietnam is increasing parker wa.s also encouraged by the fact that vietnamese president ngvven van thieu has found it necessary to broaden the base of his support beyond the military to include the citizen bureaucracy and other non-communist local government officials ifc lists community aid proposals the interfraternity council unanimously recommended to the university forum to establish a program whereby indigent community members could receive a uni versity degree by carrying three courses per semester in a meeting largely con cerned with community relations ifc also considered scholastic standing of the fraternity houses and freshmen job opportunities ifc's recommendations were based on moravian's educational experience today meet program under this setup mor avian seeks out good students from town who have not had the educational background or the financial resources to attend school the student is the required to take only three courses so that they can handle the educational challenge and still have time to work each student is entitled to a counselor to assist him m adjusting to the college environment ifc also strongly recommended that each house volunteer its pledge class to assist the puerto rican beneficial society member of irish senate to speak here monday the hon john morgan internationally-known journalist and member of the irish senate will speak m whitaker laboratory auditorium monday oct 26 at 8 p.m sponsored by the forum for visiting lecturers committee horgan will speak and answer questions on the topic ireland north and south violence and change a mirror for many of the tensions m contemporary society ireland poses searching questions about the nature of social change horgan at 30 a journalist and inter preter of human society and its qualities addresses himself to the means used to effect social change m ireland â–  as education and religion editor of the irish times his assignments have included intensive coverage of the nigerian-biafran civil war troubled zambia the rhodisian constitutional crisis vatican n the 1967 roman synod of bishops the general assembly of the world council of churches at uppsala sweden and a recent study tour of cuba his first book the church among the people is a study of the post conciliar phenomenon of the re-emergence of the local church rather than the pol itical national church of the middle ages or of nazi germany horgan feels that this is a theological reality with immense consequences for the development of the universal church as a whole john horgan see related editorial page 2 see world page 6 see frats page 4 see country page 4 spring tapes video taj>es of the events and liap penings that culminated m the organ ization of the lehigh university forum will l>e shown thursday oct 29 the showings will be continuous starting at 4 p.m m room 307 of whitaker ah