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Show I Russians don't need a hot war in winning the Cold War BY LINDA GARRISON Chronicle Staff 'J "Russians have no need for a jjl war when they are winning a .,,) war" stated Miles Copeland ' he discussed "The Games jiions Play: The Middle East Crisis" Tuesday in the Contrary Con-trary Issues Class. The game he speaks of deals iiih the same idea General Eisen hower used with the Germans in World War II. "He knew tire German Ger-man spys would receive some information in-formation so his idea was to give them the information we wanted them to have. Put yourself in their places and go from there". The player in the Middle East is Nassar. He has game techniques he has played with the world. He learned to play one side against the other. Citing one example, Mr. Copeland explained "when Nassar : 1 V,. I" f ft' f ' f . . asked the U.S. for 100 million dollars, the U.S. said 20 to 30 million at the most. Nassar said alnght I'll get it from the Russians, Rus-sians, so what can you do." Mr. Copeland then added it was his job to tell Nassar, 1. This is not the way to get money from the U.S. and 2. This time, but never again. Nassar united the Arab leaders. He then could speak for the whole Arab world to the U.S. and Russia. With this volume his power has been tremendous. Copeland said "Nassar's Arabism was for Egyptian purposes. pur-poses. The one formula to understand under-stand about Arab Politics is that the people running for office make promises they could never possibly fulfil! so then their whole career is spent trying to make up excuses and putting the blame on other people." Men the question was asked about Nassar's successor, Sadat, and what he is now doing, Copeland Cope-land said, "Nassar is still running Egypt. Sadat is weak enough to hold on but who would want to succeed Nassar. What the boss would do if he were alive is considered. No war or peace with Israel, trying to get together with Nassar is still running Egypt, Miles Copeland claimed as lie lectured on the Middle East crises to the Contemporary raits class, Tuesday in (lie Union Ballroom. Libia." When asked what game the U.S. is playing in Vict Nam he felt that many reasons are not explained and cannot be explained to the public. He said in the future we'll still think it is wrong to be in Viet Nam, but not as wrong. Copeland said "The Arabs say that they all love each odier and are united but the hate and anti-Arab anti-Arab feeling there today is tremendous. tre-mendous. The canal should be open and Egypt needs to get away from the Arab World". A Democracy cannot be built overnight and the people must want it. |