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L,~hr JUN 2 ' l980 Sacred Heart alums to sponsor meet "Challenge to Partnership -

location served by the Religious of the Sacred Heart. Local alumnae, headed by president Kathy Kelly have formed a hospitality committee to welcome foreign visitors. The speakers for the sym- posium are leaders in their regions of the world. The speakers will provide a basic cultural history of their coun- tries. They will discuss their country's perception of other cultures, their commitment and attitude toward natural resources, education of women the poor, the family and th~ church. Meetings, liturgies and meals will be held in Camino Hall. Daily registrations will cost $25. The week-long fee is $120.

Toward an East/ West Cultural Understanding" is the title of a week-long symposium to be offered at USD from July 16-23. The symposium is sponsored by the USD Office of Continuing Education and the World Alumnae of the Sacred Heart (AMASC). Chairman of the event is Dr. Anita Figueredo of La Jolla, vice president of the World Association and USD trustee. The program is open to all alumnae and friends of the university who are interested in

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, orth American Association of the A~u~hnae of the Sacred Heart, and Dr. Anita Figueredo vice president expanding their understanding o e _group's world ~ssociati~n. check plans f;r a week-long of intercultural relations . The sym~os1u~ to be hel? in San Diego in July. Jointly sponsored b symposium was developed as USO s Office of Continuing Education and the Wo'r Id Alumnae of th~ an answer to a request from the Sacred Heart, the symposium will feature speakers from arou,d the international alumnae for an .._w_o_rl_d_._(P_h_o_to_by;_D_a_vi_d_E;..id;..e;..n;;,;m,;;.il:;.;le:.:.r:..)----~ ~ ------.__:'..op~p~o~r~t:u~nity to meet in a , s1 en o e

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. t red spmtual1ty w A worJcshop on creat1on-1~ye 7-11 at the University of held from 10 a.I? to 3 p.m. d ntemporary expressions San Diego. Ancient roots an co will be examined. Matthew Fox, ssociate Directors of the program ate and director of the p;rofessor of spil:itual theology irituality at Mundelein• Institute in C:eation-Centered ~~se Hobday, Franciscan College in Chicago, a?d Marb newal programs for the sister and consultant m pans re Diocese of ~uc~n. ·table by calling 293-4585. Information is avai

JUN 2 9 1 SUMMER CLASSES: Seniors may apply for the 1980 l nivers1ty of The Third Age program from July 15 through Aug. 20, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Sponsored by the University 01 San Diego's Office of Continuing Education, this program 1s designed for seniors seeking intellertual stimulation and physical activity. Tuition is $55 and financial !lid is available on a limited basis . For registration information call USD at 293-45R~

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EVENING TRIBUNE JUN 9 1980

32-YEAR HISTORY MAY PROVIDE ANSWERS USO researcher struggles to piece together Mideast puzzle

ests, but we also acted to aid the people of Iran. We gave economic aid, mostly to help contain cmrunu- nism, but the shah disrupted the rural economy of his nation by going heavily into armaments." "I don't know. It's hurting them more than it's hurting us. I just don't understand it. Ayatol- lah Khomeini is using the hostages symbolically as evidence of what he alleges the United States has done in his country, spying and so forth. "The effect has been that the Iranians have alienated all reason- able people." Clark's mission to Iran - "I think we have not been criminal at all in what we have done (in Iran). I think the United States should apply any laws it can against Ramsey Clark when he returns. Individuals should not be allowed to conduct foreign policy for the government of the United States." (Clark, attorney general in the Johnson administration, was in Iran with nine other Americans attending a conference exploring American "crimes" in Iran. Clark promised to seek formation of a U.S. commission to document these "crimes.") The future - "I don't see any easy times ahead. I can only conclude that we're in for difficult times, . difficult international politics and dealing with unstable govern- ments." Chambers thus hopes that his mas- sive research project will give the United States some kind of edge in dealing with the shadowy world of the Mideast. "It might give us a picture of what has happened and the hope that there may be some predictive adap- tability," he concluded. "I don't know of anyone else who is working on this." Lighting his pipe again, Chambers turned back to his puzzle. The hostages -

graduate political science student at USD. Chambers is concentrating on a specific period of political events in the Middle East, from 1947 until last year's Camp David peace treaty signed by Egypt and Israel. Everything of significance that Chambers can find out about what happened in the Middle East within those 32 years is going on his cards. His sources are current press ac- counts, scholarly studies and infor- mation from other experts. Is it possible to link the imprecise- ness of human emotions and events with the scientific computer? Chambers thinks it is. "The nation's professional poll-. takers have combined people and machines to create a near-science," Chambers said. "They don't make many mistakes." Will the events of the past help predict the future? "That's what our study is all about," Chambers said, "to help experts guess what's going to hap- pen in the Middle East. That's what history is all about, to learn from the past and to try not to repeat histo- ry's mistakes. "Yes, there is a regularity to human nature. There are mathemat- ical laws of probability that can be applied to humans." While making no claims of omnis- cience, Chambers offers these per- sonal views and predictions: The Shah of Iran - "He became a transforming leader, one who pre- sented a facade of reforms without putting them into practice. He suc- ceeded in alienating support from all of the various groups in Iran. "The '1,000 families' which once claimed ownership of the nation, the Westernized class, the peasants, all were disappointed by the shah. He had no base of support and, .with no clear signals from the United States,

Iran more than it is hurting Ameri- ca. - If it is legally possible, Ramsey Clark should be prosecuted here for his recent actions in Iran. - There are no "easy times" ahead for the United States in its relations with the Middle East. Chambers, 61, is a patient man, a pipe smoker with Midwestern roots, a one-time pre-law student, a com- bat veteran of the Marine Corps who served 24 years, and a man who won't give up on a problem. In an interview last fall, when he was not nearly as far along in his Mideast research as he is now, Chambers made a prophetic state- ment: "I can say the main thing I've learned about the Mideast so far in three words: Beware of zealots." A few days later 53 American hostages were imprisoned in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran - with the blessing of Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho- meini. Chambers said that when his thou- sands of bits of '.\1:ideast information are carded they will be sent to a consortium that collects research for the nation's academic community. The cards will be fed into comput- ers at the University of Michigan, he expects, where what he considers the nation's "most sophisticated" computer research center exists. After that, the information will be available for rapid call-up by schol- ars, politicians and others. "We're going to bust ourselves to finish our research by the end of this summer," Chambers said as he dis- played some of his thousands of cards, notebooks crammed with data tied to computer symbols, and maps. "We'll be sending off our cards by early spring of 1981." Chambers is being helped in his research by Carl Luna, an under-

By GUS STEVENS TRIBUNE Slaff Writer

In a small office at the University of San Diego a political scientist is collecting 60,000 pieces to a puzzle, the world's most complicated mosa- ic. When he is finished he hopes he will have a picture that makes sense - one that hopefully will show the clearest view yet of the 26 nations which make up the murky Middle East. John Chambers, an associate pro- fessor at USD and a faculty member on the Alcala Park campus for 14 years, has been working for a year collecting his puzzle pieces, and he expects it will be almost another year before he finqs out if they fit together. Chambers is assembling a 32-year history of Mideast events on cards, more than 60,000 single items of information on day-to-day events in the various scrambled nations. He'll put them on computer cards and, eventually, they'll be fed into a machine that may spit out some answers. Right now, after months of intense study made possible by leave from his classes, Chambers is able to grope for a few conclusions - none of them very pleasant. Not only is It impossible for Cham- bers to see a light at the end of the Mideast tunnel, he's having trouble locating the tunnel itself. But he does offer these personal views, based on his lengthy efforts: - Instability will continue to grow through the Mideast. -The Western world's Mideast oil supply is subject to instant interrup- tion. - The United States is not guilty of "criminal acts" against Iran, as today's revolutionary leaders main- tain. - The hostage crisis is hurting

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Mideast oil - "I don't know any reasonable answer to the problem of our Mideast oil supply. It is liable to instant interruption. It's foolish of us to rely on Mideast oil. We should open our capped wells and produce all of our own oil we can. "I would advocate uninterrupted growth in our nuclear energy pro- gram and more efforts to get U.S. oil from shale as parts of our program to decrease reliance on imported oil." U.S. Mideast policy - "Initially, the United States was welcomed in the Middle East. We had little coloni- al history, no colonial aspirations. I don't think we necessarily were doomed to failure in our dealings with the shah. "We acted in our national inter-

he was overtaken by events." Mideast Instability - "I look for growing instability throughout the area. Egypt is in economic trouble. The Iranian economy is in a sham- bles. Saudi Arabia is being hit by the impact of modernity that is almost certain to cause instability there. In Israel there has got to be a solution of the Palestinian problem. "The Mideast's technical progress has outstripped its social progress. Communications, industrialization and education are creating instabili- ty. "We can reasonably expect vio- lence if the traditionalists get and keep power. If the new breed, the Westernized people, get into office, we may expect, after a rocky start, reasonable stability."