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Nobel Prize winners protest
NEW YORK (JTA)—Twenty-six Nobel Prize winner*
protested the trial of Anatoly Shcharansky “in the strongest
possible terms. The protest was contained in a telegram sent July
1^ to the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences by the
Committee of Concerned Scientists. Calling Shcharanksy’s
prosecution a “flagrant violation of basic principles of scientific
and human rights,” the Nobelists stated that his trial will “have a
deleterious effect on the willingness of Western scientists to engage
in scholarly exchanges with the USSR.”
i Linus Pauling, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in both peace
and chemistry as well as the Lenin Peace Prize, was among the
signers of the cable. Others signing included: Kenneth J. Arrow,
iulius Axelrod, Polykarp Kusch, Simon Kuznets, Isidor I. Rabi,
Paul A. Samuelson, and Rosalyn S. Yalow.
SS guard becomes mayor 1
I (JCNS)—Josef Friedinger, 67, a former SS guard at Dachau I
concentration camp, who has been a member of the Graf rath town *
council in Upper Bavaria for 23 years, has been elected third mayor
with the support of the first and second mayors.
Social Democratic circles have protested that Friedinger’s Nazi
record, including early service with an elite SS regiment, is
incompatible with the post of mayor in a democratic State.
Amin and Arafat a team
WASHINGTON—The unofficial sanction Idi Amin’s Uganda
gave to’thc PLO two years ago in allowing Entebbe to be used as a
hostage base is still in effect, apparently. Columnist Jack Anderson
reports that Amin and Yasser Arafat have again teamed up in the
“most infamous partnership since the Axis days of Hitler and
Mussolini.” Thedeal: Uganda provides a special diplomatic shelter
for a core of Arafat’s henchmen and a training base for terrorists;
the PLO in turn help Amin set up a cadre of secret police to
terrorize Ugandan dissidents. Anderson states that at least 11 PLO
men have Ugandan diplomatic passports that allow them to pass
through international customs yith no baggage checks and few
questions asked. The newspaperman turned the names of the 11
over to Sen. Frank Church (D.-Idaho) who is investigating the
situation.
Entebbe victims sue Air France
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Sixty-four Israeli passengers on the Air
France plane hijacked to Entebbe, Uganda in June, 1976, have
filed suit for IL 190 million in damages from the French airline.
They are also seeking an unspecified amount in compensation
fof bodily harm. The group includes the heirs of three Israelis killed
in the hijacking by Arab and German terrorists.
The civil suit charges Air France with gross negligence toward
the safety of its passengers. The complainants say that the airline
had no arrangements to cope with or prevent the hijacking. They
say the door to the pilots’ compartment was left open, no thorough
search was made of luggage or boarding passengers and that crew
members told the hostages at Entebbe that they were not trained
for such an emergency.
‘Mein Kampf’ln French a no-no
PARIS, (JTA)-r-A Paris court has banned a French translation
of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. The court ruled the book could neither be
published nor circulated unless an explanatory leaflet is included
with a detailed extract of the Nuremburg international court ruling
on Nazism, Hitler and the book.
Is Koch Insensitive?
MILLBURN, N.J.—Richard Maass, president of the American
Jewish Committee, has charged New York Mayor Edward Koch
with contributing to “a rise in anti-Semitism” among Blacks in
New York City. He was critical of Koch’s “abrupt manner”
towards Blacks in implementing his “you-carr-do-more-with-less"
program.
Report of death exaggerated
BONN, (JTA)—Israel’s Ambassador to West Germany,
Yochanan Meroz, had the occasion last week to observe, as Mark
Twain once said, that reports of his death were premature. But he
thanked Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, nevertheless, for his warm
eulogy.
The incident, disclosed here this week, began when Meroz
cancelled an appointment to meet the government's chief
spokesman, Klaus Boelling. Boelling, who was attending a Cabinet
meeting, was given a note by an aide saying Meroz was “getoetet.”
The word means killed but is also a colloquialism for cancelled.
Boelling assumed the dictionary meaning was intended and
passed an urgent note to the Chancellor who halted the
proceedings to eulogize the Israeli envoy. Meroz, who learned of
the incident later, told reporters he was very pleased with the
Chancellor’s remarks.
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Atlantans with Mondale
Editor:
I have read your issue of July 7,
1978, and note that you put in bold
black type on the front page a
statement that there were “no
' Atlantans with Mondale.”
Since I assume that you wish to
recognize the right of “dual
citizenship,” I do wish to point out
that both Stuart Eizenstat and I of
Atlanta and of Washington (in
public service) accompanied the
vice president on his entire trip.
Furthermore, Dr. Marvin
Goldstein, who had gone to Israel
for an extended visit, along with
several other prominent Jewish-
Americans who also were in Israel
at that time, joined our group for
most of the activities in Jerusalem.
Robert J. Lipshutz
Counsel to the President
(Editor’s note: We ore pleased to
learn of Dr. (joldstein's
participation, since he was not
listed by the White House as being
among those on the trip. We
heartily accept Stu, and Bob as
Atlantans even though they now
spend a majority of their time in
Washington.)
Protest letter to Soviets
Editor:
Knowing that the Soviets are
sensitive to world opinion, I have
written the following letter to
President Brezhnev and to
Ambassador Dobrynin; and I
would urge all Jews to translate
their concerns into action and to
write letters as well:
Dear President Brezhnev.
I am writing to you in regard to
the trials of Anatoly Shcharansky
and Alexander Gins burg. I find it
difficult to understand why your
government continues to impose
political overtones on a purely
humanistic situation involving
these two innocent men.
If your government is trying to
show the world how powerful it is,
you are a marked failure. If.
though, you are trying to
demonstrate how repressive and
insensitive to one’s human rights
your government is, then you are
an enormous success.
The USSR does not need these
two men lo live the remainder of
their lives in youti country, and
worse, in Soviet' prisons. The
charges that have been brought
against them are trumped up and
serve as a reminder to the world of
Stalin’s massive anti-Semitic
campaigns of the 1930s.
1 am not sympathetic to this
demonstration of mock justice,
and I urge you to free these two
men.
Mrs. Jody Franco
Jewish Mexican students to visit
Editor:
On July 23th, a busload of
students, members of Beth Israel
Community Center in Mexico
City, will arrive in Atlanta for a
two-day visit as the guests of
Congregation Or VeShalom. This
short stopover in Atlanta is part of
the group’s tour of several
southeastern cities in the United
States, organized by Rabbi
Samuel S. Lerer of Beth Israel.
Rabbi Lerer has been directing
this “Camp of Wheels” bus tour
from Mexico to different areas of
the United States for several years,
and decided to include Atlanta in
the 1978 itinerary at the suggestion
of one of his members, David
Amato, a former Atlantan and still
congregant of Or VeShalom.
Rabbi S. Robert Ichay and the
Or VeShalom Sisterhood have
arranged for the students to be
guests in the homes of members
here, and tour several local places
of interest. Rabbi Ichay can
provide more details on the
students’ visit.
Mrs. D.S. Franco
Freedom of choice for Soviet Jews?
Editor:
While I often agree with Mr.
Redaction’s editorials and applaud
him for keeping the Soviet Jewish
struggle alive in his publication, I
disagree with last week’s editorial
(July 7). In it, he strongly implies
that Russian Jews who have
applied for visas to Israel (the only
country that they are allowed to
apply to while in Russia) are
somehow betraying the Jewish
people.
Isn’t our main goal to free Soviet
Jews so that they may have the
“human right” to choose where
they want to live?
Of course it would be wonderful
if Israel’s population was increased
greatly. It would be wonderful if
more American Jews—myself
included—became Israeli citizens.
Please G-d that will happen
sometime in the future. Right now
I'm not ready to live permanently
in Israel. Perhaps our brethren in
Russia are also not ready. Does
this mean that we should stop
rescuing them from the horrors
that they are experiencing in
Russia?
In my opinion, wherever Soviet
Jews want to live, they should be
accepted.
More important than “where”
they will live, is “how" they will live
if we don't get them out of Russia
SOON!
Ruby Grossblatt
Objection to ‘scantily clad woman’
Editor:
On Friday evening, after my
Shabbos meal, I usually sit down
with The Southern Israelite to
catch up with what is happening in
the Jewish community. In this past
week's issue .(July 14) it was
gratifying to see extensive
coverage of the rally at the
Federation building for Soviet
Jewry and a beautiful D'var Torah
in your "Letters to the Editor.”
However, my Shabbos meal,!
instead Of settling in my stomach,
started to chum violently because
of what I saw prominently
advertised on page two.
Emblazoned on the page was'-k
picture of a scantily clad woman,
her head flung back, with what was
obviously a bottle of liquor at her
lips. The ad read “City Lights
Cabaret...The best ofeverything...
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS (emphasis
mine)...And You Can Affoid It.”
1 can understand if, due 1 to
economic necessity and the tastes
(no pun intended) of the Atlanta
Jewish community, you accept
advertisements from non-kosher
establishments, but an advertise
ment of this nature puts The
Southern Israelite on the level of
Creative Loafing.
(Rabbi) Baruch Gold
(Editor's note: We are sorry
Rabbi Gold found the "City
Lights" advertisement offensive.
We feel certain our readers would
not be offended by the club, which
offers “the best of everything" in
entertainment without being
offensive. The girls are "beautiful. ”
which is as the Creator intended.
As for the "scantily clad" woman
in the ad, you have seen more at the
ballet or on television.)
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