PUfte 8 > The Omadian Jewish News, Friday, November 14, 1975
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By SHELDON KIRSHNER CJN Staff Reporter
TORONTO —
Mark Gayn, one of Canada's foremost ix)litical analysts, ciaims that the establishment of a Palestinian state will not relieve the pressure on Israel.
A columnist and editorial ^^-riter with The Toronto Star, Gayn explained: "Palestinian leaders do not recognize the existence of Israel. They might accept the survival of Israel on paper, but it will be quite meaningless. The Palestinian movement is quite extreme and likely to. .become more extreme. It's a tool in the hands of extremists groups and regimes in the Middle East."
In his opinion, PLO chieftain Yasser Arafat echoes the views of Syrian and Iraqi leaders.
Speaking of the Arab-Israeli dispute, Gayn said Washington can only win over Egypt to her side by squeezing concessions from Israel. "Israel must combine faith in Washington's support with her own capacity to fight for survival." he noted. "Israel has no choice but to play along with Kissinger."
Sitting in his cramped, book-lined office, . Gayn, a much-travelled journalist, speculated on Middle East developments, and talked of his career as one of Canada's best-known foreign correspondents.
Although he scoffed at the glamorous Hollywood image of the dashing foreign correspondent, Gayn did admit that reporting in foreign lands is; both exciting and interesting, though not exactly the stuff of racy films and novels.
"I don't remember a diril day," he said. "1 look forward to each coming day."
Gayn may not equate himself with Hollyvyood-likeforeign correspondents, but in the course of his career he has gone through some hair-raising experiences and emerged unscathed in hot pursuit of the big stories of the day.
In spite of his diffident self-assurance, Gayn was probably more than a little frightened by some of his "nervj" experiences as a working correspondent in war-ravaged South Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Once, he and a group of fellow reporters inadvertently ventured into an embattled Saigon neighborhood. "I wasn't terrified, I don't think," he said. In another instance, the helicopter in which he wais fljring was
In his cramped, book-lined office, columnist Mark Gayn turns out <iopy for *The Toronto Star.' He is highly-regarded aS a foreign affairs analyst. (David Groskind photo)
men with a very important mandate," he explained. "We were really the first to come in after the Cultural Revolution. We were ableto briiig out a pretty full story of what happened."
A specialist in Asia and communism, as well as one of the only Canadian journalists writing on foreign affairs on a fulltime basis. Gayn makes at least one trip around the world each year to replenish his knowledge. Traveling with a bla(± leather bag stuffed with note pads detailing personal contacts and pertinent facts on any given country, he invariably goes to Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan on his journalistic odysseys.
This year, however, his editor asked him to investigate Africa. He declined because he is not professionally interested in the political affairs of the African continent. Unlike many of his fellow journalists at the Stari Gayn has absolute editorial freedom. "There's a recognition that I've spent most
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shot at by Viet Cong gunners. "It wasn't pleasant."
During the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, Gayn was strafed by an Indian plane, and almost killed in a tank attack. "We raced back to our jeeps, in the hot sun, trying to outrun the shells," he recalled. Gayn rue- . fully thinks that the Pakistani general in charge of his party deliberately exposed him and his colleagues to danger for anti-Indian propaganda purposes.
Although he has been a foreign correspondent, editor and editorial writer for some 41 years, he rates his 1971 tour of China as the most rewarding assignment of his long and varied career. As the Star's Hong Kong bureau chief during China's turbulent and mysterious Cultural Revolution period, Gayn had the signal honor of being allowed into that vast country in the wake of its xenophobic phase.
"The government assigned its ablest young diplomats for us, all very important
of my life in foreign affairs and that if I choose to write on something, th^ know it's a worthy subject," he said. Paunng, he added: "But it must be interesting to me and the potential reader."
Foregoing Africa, Gayn went to South America. A day after predicting in his thrice-weekly column that trouble was afoot in Peru, a coup d'etat took place in Lima. Yet prognostication is part and parcel of his job. "Sorting out the news, especially of the Soviet Union and China, is like doing a jig-saw puzzle or playing chess," he said.
Gayn, a linguist who speaks and reads about a half-dozen languages, expects to spend an increasing amount of his time in the Middle East, which he thinks wUl replace Vietnam as the world's most dangerous area within a decade. In his opionion. the struggles will bypass Israel and focus on the Persian Gulf.
When he is not traveling to the far comers of the world. Gayn gleans much of the material he uses in his colunms from numerous English and foreign-language newspapers and periodicals. He relies heavily on BBC's monitoring service. Gayn says he reads from the morning until late at night in an effort to keep abreast of trends.
His fasctnatibn for foreign affairs probably stems from his background. Bom in China of Russian parents (his father was a Bundist-inclined lumberman, his mother a dentist), Gayn studied in Britain, Califomia -and New York City.
After graduating from the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism in 1934. he was hired by The WashfaigtiHi Post to report on Asia. He returned to the United States on the eye of World War II and joined the St. Lools Post-Dispatch. He published the first of five books in 1941. One of them, Japan Diaiy, has sold a million copies.
Gajrn has also worked for Tbne, Newsweek, The Chicago Son, The New Rqpnblic, The New Yorii Star and London's Daily Telegiaph. Before transfering to Ihe Toronto Star in 1959. he was employed by the bid Star WeeUy in Montreal. He is married to a former Hungarian stage and screen actress. They have no children.
Though he has few regrets, Gayn is disturbed that readers' interest in foreign news has dwindled in the last* five years. "In all my career, there's never been such general disinterest." he said. "People have turned inward. The state of the economy preoccupies them."
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TORONTO —
Israel has displayed "amazing advancement" in machinery and metal-working, says the editor of the largest monthly industrial publication in Canada.
"The Jewish state has reached a stage where she no longer is a country in which other countries set up plants," a s s e r t s Antony Whitney, editor of Canadian MacUoeiy and Metalwoildng, who recently returned from Is-^ rael. "She is developing' new technology in advance of some North American technology."
Whitney attended IS-METAL, the third annual metal industries week in Israel. It was his first visit to this showcase for Israel's metalworking industry. Editor of the 30,000-readership journal for SVi years, Whitney was a
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On display at ISMETAL were such diversified pto-ducts as aircraft parts and equipment, machine tools, autornotive equipment, weapons systems and models of ships and aircraft.
He praised Israelis for
their inventiveness, particularly in the: field of computer control systems for machine tools and aerospace equipment. And, he added, the quality of their products is very high.
Another interesting observation he made was that Israel's output and investment in machinery and metalworking is greater than all the Arab countries combined.
Whitney pointed out Israel's manufacturing industries are slanted towards products with high technological content. The country has a very high ratio of skilled technologists — among the highest densities of skilled people per capita.
Ill 1965, total machinery and metalworking exports from Israel amounted to SI4.4 million; this year it is expect-
ed to hit $210 million. Of that figure, Canada receives about $2 million worth of products, according to statistics from the Israel Trade Commission in Canada.
"I can see opportunities for Israel to export to Canada more metalworking equipment such as cutting machine tools, aerospace products and subcomponents."
Asked to comment on whether he saw anything negative about the industry in Israel, he said he
found the Israelis very frank about their shortcomings and proud of their achievements.
"They lack expertise in marketing and publicity, a fact openly admitted by Industry Minister Chaim Bar-Lev."
WhUe in Israel. Whitney and his fellow delegates toured a number of plants, including Israel Aircraft Industries, a facility he was totally impressed with, especially its -production-line manufacturing.
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