request scope params not getting rendered with jsf 1.2 EL?

Hello all and thank you in advance for any help.

I am not seeming to get request scope params rendered into the following code snippet:

<%@ taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" %>
<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" %>
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<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<html>
<head><title>Simple jsp page</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/pages/tutorials/css-tutorials.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<f:subview id="linked-paragraph">
<div align="center">
        <h:outputText
                styleClass="yellowHeadings"
                value="#{param.heading}"/><br>
    <br>
    <div align="center" id="pageMenu"style="border-width:7px; border-style: solid;
        border-color:#6495ed;width:200px">
        <h:outputLink styleClass="white" value="#pageMenu">
            <h:outputText styleClass="white" value="back to page menu"/></h:outputLink>
    </div><br><br>
    </f:subview>
</body>
</html>

The code calling this is a jsp:include as follows:

no exceptions and the line breaks are getting rendered just fine

Usingfollowing taglibs:

<%@ taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" %>

I must apologisz for the noobie question as I am getting back into coding after serious illness and appreciate once again any help

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