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THE GLOBAL VIEW RAY CROMLEY Nixon Plan Raises Hopes For Middle East Peace By LEON DENNEN NEA Foreign News Analyst UNITED NATIONS. I'he usual comedy of diplomats saying when they mean should not obscure the progress that is being made in the search for peace in the Middle East President Nixon quiet is beginning to pay some political dividends in one of the trouble zones. This explains the guarded optimism of Charles VV Yost, chief American delegate to the United Nations. An authority on the Middle Hast and a skilled negotiator. Yost is probably the ablest American diplomat who ever served in the N.

In his view, negotiations between the United States, Russia. Britain and France have reached a point where Big Four meetings on the Middle East mav bring some results rhe tentative American peace plan includes permanent demilitarized buffer zones between Israel and the Arab countries and the opening of the Suez Canal and all other waterways in the Middle East to shipping of all countries, including Israel's ships. Also, instead of a peace settlement imposed by the Big Four, the plan encourages Israel and the Arabs to reach a voluntary contractual agreement Ambassador Yost has no illusions about the almost insurmountable difficulties that lie ahead The prospect of an Arab-Israel settlement is still more hope than reality. But it is increasingly clear that Israel will relinquish territory it conquered in the six-day war in 1967. including much of the Sinai peninsula, as the price for peace talks with the Arabs.

President Nasser is also inching cautiously toward negotiations. To appease Arab extremists and are now more dangerous to his regime than continues to threaten another round of hostilities. But even best friend. President Tito, is urging him to seek a peaceful solution. Yugoslavia broke diplomatic relations with Israel after the beginning of the 1967 hostilities However.

Tito is reported to have warned Nasser to stop preaching that Israel must be thrown into the Mediterranean and totally annihilated Arab propaganda calling for a total destruction of Israel is not only but also dangerous." said a dispatch from airo to the official Yugoslav newspaper Odjek. More significant is new attitude toward the Middle Eastern belligerents. Officially. Moscow still castigates Israel as a tool of American imperialism. Yet U.

diplomats were encouraged by the tones of chief delegate during the latest debate on the Middle East in the Security Council The Russians have realized belatedly that the Arab ter rorists. originally financed and armed by Moscow, are now working hand-in-hand with Red agents Pub licly the Russians continue to flatter the terrorists. But a secret conference of pro-Moscow Arab Communists that recently met in denounced the terrorists as true agents of imperialism According to Red news agency, Russian dele gates were at a conference in Cairo about their true stance on the Middle East conflict If the Soviet Union is sincere in supporting the Arab a terrorist leader is reported to have asked. why do you not support the Palestinian people's armed struggle against Israel?" According to press agency, the Soviet spokesmen Dumbfounded or not, the Kremlin leaders, as always, are Kussia-firsters. They will bargain diligently on behalf of their Arab clients at the Big Four meetings.

But they are not likely to jeopardize national interests to appease the terrorists. Renewed large-scale hostilities in the Middle East not in Moscow interest The Russians are anxious to reopen the Suez Canal Above all, they need a relaxation of tensions in the Middle in long as they are threatened by Communist China in Asia (nlerprne Ann A Great Christian Leader Stiffens S. Korea's Spine By RAY CROMLEY NEA Washington Correspondent tians There were only six Christians in the unit at the start; they had converted the rest Before he left Vietnam Han discovered two other all-Christian companies. Since then he has learned of several more guarding the 38th Parallel in Korea Each started with six to 10 Christians, who converted 20 to 30 times their numbers A goodly portion of South teachers, officials, politicians, soldiers and businessmen are now Christians El Dorado (Ark.) II Dorado April This reporter is convinced that this kind of unashamed enthusiasm, which South Koreans are applying to religion, industry, exports, education, defense and to advertising their country is the secret ot the speed with which South Korea has risen from the shambles that followed World War II and the North Korean invasion Newspaper Enterprise Ann SEOUL. Korea i NEA i Kyung Chik Man is a wan, slight man who once spent two years as an invalid recovering from tuberculosis.

About 1945, he fled from Communist-occupied North Korea with 27 refugee parishioners In the 24 years sinee, he and those and the church they founded have started 100 new churches. HO of which are now sell-supporting. When the North Koreans attacked in 1950, Han escaped, moved south and kept on organizing churches The mother church in Seoul, which Han and the 27 established. now has 5,693 full and 1.232 preparatory members and a Sunday morning attendance of somewhat over 6.700 An additional 2.065 attend Sunday School Some 300 deaf attend every Sunday in special classes Han is the leader in a handful of Korean high schools, middle schools and colleges His church has a missionary in Bangkok, Thailand, and evangelists in industrial, military and medical centers in South Korea It is rumored that Billy C.raham has called him the greatest preacher My friends say he is certainly one ot the greatest men activities did not begin suddenly in 1945 As a young man he was for years pastor of a Korean Presbyterian Church in Sinuiju on the Manchurian border On the side he operated a secret way station for Korean nationalist underground leaders moving in and out of Korea by way ot Manchuria and North China For his nationalist sentiments, the Japanese finally barred him from preaching, but let him and his wife manage a home in the country. On defeat, by popular acclaim he was made mayor of Sinuiju.

When the Communists took over, they rounded up the nationalist leaders. Han, luckily, was out of the city. He took the opportunity to escape south. Han is symbolic of the South Korea that has developed since gaining its independence in World War II. Christianity, with 2 5 million members, is now one of the two largest active religions It is growing by 10 per cent a year, with no letup in sight.

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