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12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE August 3, 1979 Plexiglas® and other Interesting Plastics for do it yourself projects Commercial Plastics 554 North Avenue. NW Intersection ot North Awe A Northside Drive 577-2600 | Youth Soccer S at the S S Atlanta Jewish Community Center I ! s Soccer leagues are now forming for S boys and girls, grades 1st thru 7th. Registration fee is s 20°°. The first meeting will be August 12th. ^ 8 5 For more info, call Joe Katz - 875-7881 & ^ AJCC 1745 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Ga. 30309 § Soccer Application .malcD femalen Address Grade Father's name . Home phone _ Z,p Mother’s name . Business . Hebrew School Days: M T W__Th Times 1 wish to be placed on a team that practices in the following area: ZabanD PeachtreeD Volunteer Coach: YesD NoD As'sistantn Game VolunteerD Parliament president is a survivor of Auschwitz by Ben Frank PARIS (JTA)—History was made on July 17 when the first elected European Parliament - meeting at Strasbourg. France, just across the river from Germany—elected a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz as its president. Simone Veil, age 52, born in Nice, a former Health Minister of France and for the last five years considered the most popular official in that nation, will preside over the 410-member legislative body that was chosen by a combined electorate of 180 million people. She will also represent the Parliament in negotiations with other European Economic Community (EEC) institutions. What made her give up a secure appointed position as Minister of Health for the rough and tumble of electoral politics of France and of a European Parliament which in cludes elected representatives from the EEC countries of Denmark, Ireland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Lux emburg, Italy and West Germany? There are those close to her who say that part of the motivation for her wanting to be a force in the European Parliament is that it would be a forum where she could speak out to ensure that a Holocaust which took the life of six million Jews, including her father, mother and brother, should never occur again. She now considers the EEC a safeguard against anything “like that” Parliament President Veil happening again. In the past, say French Jewish leaders, when she has had to speak out, she did so forcefully. Example. This attractive woman, who dresses elegantly in Chanel suits and long sleeved dresses that always hide the concentration camp number 78651 tatooed on her forearm, was instrumental in having French television show the NCB-TV “Holocaust” series after the head of all three TV stations made public statements refusing to show it. Example: Last year, the news weekly L’Express published an interview held in Spain with the Vichy government’s Commission er of Jewish Affairs Louis Darquier who insisted that the Holocaust never occured. Ms. Veil spoke out. She chided L’Express for not at least providing along with the interview accompanying documents and photographs showing what really happened, and emphasized the dangers of banalizing racism. Her response triggered page-one editorials in the Paris dailies, comments from President Valery Giscard d’Estaing and a long rebuttal in L’Express. Example: In a Tierce debate in the French Parliament, a number of years ago, she led the French government's battle to win the right of abortion for all women When a member of Parliament accused her of sending babies to the crematory, she fired back: “You have no right to say that to me of all people." There are of course other ideological and political reasons why Ms. Veil may have been chosen to run in the first place for the European Parliament which, while it may have limited powers, now has the moral impact and moral authority of having its members elected by universal sufferage rather than appointed by the Parliaments of member states. This past spring, Giscard plucked Ms. Veil from the Minister of Health post to head his ticket aligned against the Socialists, Communists, Gaulists and others in France’s election of representatives to the European Parliament. The President’s and Ms. Veil’s prestige were on the line. Until 1979, she possessed a completely non-partisan image since Giscard had appointed her and she never had to endure a political campaign. Giscard's “Union pour la iORIENTAL RUGS & I For ! beauty and investment, consider an oriental rug from Sharian. Complete stock of old and new oriental rugs in a wide variety of colors and designs. 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