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News Briefs Sinai families to receive $$$ JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Knesset Finance Committee last Sunday approved an initial sum of IL 50 million in compensation to Israeli families who have already left Sinai in the evacuation required by the terms of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. The total cost of evacuating 1,500 families from Yamit, Ophira and the various agricultural settlements during the next two and one-half years is estimated at IL 4 billion. Committee members were told that each family will receive IL 2-3 million. The amount of compensation is based on three criteria: length of residency, size of family and size of their housing. Latin Jews slam pro-PLO Latins BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—The proposal of several Latin American countries to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization was condemned by Gregorio Faigon, president of the Latin American Jewish Congress. Faigon deplored the fact that some of those countries “had ceded to external pressure because certain factors appeared on the surface to be favorable to their interests." . Youths protest student transfer JERUSALEM (JTA)—Eighteen high school youths from Bir Zeit were detained for questioning last Sunday after Israeli forces broke up a demonstration in that West Bank college town. The youngsters set up roadblocks and stoned Israeli military and police vehicles to protest the forced transfer of other local students to different schools. The Military Government confirmed that a number of students were transferred for allegedly inciting disorder. Pope greets Evron warmly WASHINGTON (JTA)—Pope John Paul II warmly greeted Israel's Ambassador to the U.S., Ephraim Evron, at a reception for ; the Washington diplomatic corps held at the residence of the |S Apostolic Delegate in the U.S., Jean Jadot, here last Saturday jl night. Evron was one of the few among approximately 120 chiefs of ^ missions of countries represented in Washington with whom the I* Pontiff stopped to chat on the receiving line. As they shook hands in the conventional manner, the Pope ‘ grasped Evron's hand in both of his and told the Israeli envoy J§ about his warm feelings “for your people," it was reported later by sources present at the reception. Neo-Nazi’s fine goes to Israel BONN (JTA)—A 34-year-old man, Peter Ecke, who distributed neo-jNazi propaganda and attempted to revive the banned Nazi Party was ordered by a West Berlin court last week to pay $175 to an atonement fund that sends money to Israel. The court also ordered Ecke, to be jailed for six and one-half months and fined Wedo Baumgart, 71, $470 for similar offenses. Ten others involved in efforts to revive the Nazi Party were jailed for threes last August in a separate trial. High Holy Day prices higher JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prices for High Holy Day articles and synagogue seats reached new peaks this year. Some of the prices were reportedly 100 to 300 percent higher than last year. A reserved seat in one of Jerusalem's central synagogues was sold for up to IL 1.000 ($33). although it was still possible to obtain a seat for IL 100. Quality etrogim were sold for up to IL 5.000 and the price of a shofar was IL 1.000. Carter to get ARZA petitions WASHINGTON (JTA)—Petitions containing the signatures of more than 20,000 individuals demanding American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital have been presented to the White House by ARZA—Association of Reform Zionists of America. ARZA's delegation was led by its president. Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn, and its executive director. Rabbi Ira Youdovin. They were received by Edward Sanders, senior advisor to President Carter, who promised to forward the petitions to the President. Sadat sends treasure to Begin TEL AVIV (JTA)—Interior Minister Yosef Burg, head of the Israeli autonomy negotiating team, returned from the latest round of talks in Alexandria recently with a special gift for Premier Menachem Begin—an ancient scroll from Alexandria's once- flourishing Jewish community that President Anwar Sadat promised Begin when the Israeli leader visited Alexandria earlier this year. Sadat granted his personal permission for transfer of the scroll, a national treasure, to Israel. Hi 1 lcr« to (lie etl it or Physician’s opinion Editor: I read with sadness and compassion the article that appeared in your Sept. 28 issue concerning the need for volunteers to help “pattern” a little bOy with severe developmental delay. For the sake of these parents and other parents facing this kind of heartache, there are some comments that I feel should be made. Whenever making a diagnosis and prognosis in a young child, one is always faced with the fact that one is evaluating a very immature brain. This immaturity* precludes assessing all the potential functions of that brain. Some of my colleagues have been too pessimistic too soon in evaluating a child who was clearly delayed. Very often that premature, overstated, dismal diagnosis can lead to a presumption of “miraculous improvements of cures” later on as the child’s brain develops and better potential than was initially assessed comes to light. A second consideration is the factor of parental involvement. There is nothing more devastating than telling a parent that there is “nothing they can do" to help a child that they love. Any program that promotes parent-child interaction, gives a feeling of hope, is going to have some degree of a positive effect. Patterning involves, as was clearly stated, hours and hours of monotonous repetition. The emotional and physical toll that it takes can truly be devastating to the parents' relationship with each other, with other nonhandicapped children and with themselves. If this was the only hope for that child’s developmental salvation, one might say, “well it is worth any sacrifice.” Those studies that have been done, however, indicate that at best, patterning produces results which are no more positive than those of a good, well thought-out developmental program. Such a program involves some modifica tion of the way a child is handled, fed, etc., but generally does not involve more than perhaps an additional hour of time during the day. The effect is a normalization of relationships between parents, parent and child and the greater community in which the family is involved, and a total habitation picture can be far more easily achieved in this way. I have personally seen patients who have come out of years of patterning with a dislocated hip, with virtually no attention to speech and language deficits that could have been corrected earlier in their life, if a multidisciplinary approach had been used to their developmental problems. I would urge this family and others to search carefully for a program that gives hope without the potential of destroying other members of the family with the sheer, physical demands of the program. Those in the community who know me are well aware of the fact that I eagerly and openly assess all treatment modalities in my effort to help families with develop- mentally delayed children and after due consideration I have yet to see anything in the literature or in anecdotal information which would have me recommend this drastic method of treatment. Linda Nathanson, M.D. Chairman, Committee on the Handicapped Child Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics —Black speaks— continued from page 4 that it is wrong to talk about Palestinian human rights as long as Israeli children live with the prospect of death at Palestinian hands. How can black leadership even think about self-determina tion for people who attack children? To do so implicity condones the murder of children. Black leaders should know about the murder of children, or have we forgotten the four children murdered in that Birmingham church in 1963? And surely we've forgotten that at the memorial services and rallies after the bombing, it was Jews, more so than other Americans, who stood beside us and shared our pain. Black leadership insults this very real part of black history, not to mention insulting Jews, when it says that Jewish support for the black struggle was given when it was “in their (Jews) best interest to do so.” No, that is not true, because those Jews who supported, worked, and died in the civil rights movement remembered in their souls the pograms in Russia, the Holocaust, the dying that is so constant in Israel, and because they remembered, they made our struggle a part of their lives. That Jew* have not supported affirmative action does nothing to negate this. But this does not seem good enough for black leadership, which takes the position that the support Jews gave in the past is to be denigrated now. I cannot understand whv black leadership i has acted as if Jews were responsible for Andy Young’s resignation. I thought Andy was responsible for that, and, with great dignity, he explained that he needed to be free to speak as he wished. But, as Western history amply demonstrates, whenever something goes wrong it is easy to blame the Jews. By doing so, black leadership has shown inself to be morally barren. By its support of the Palestinians, it exemplifies a callousness of spirit to the meaning of the Holocaust, because when six million Jews are killed while the world is indifferent, the right of Israel to exist is unassailable. That is the only reasonable position I think one can have on the Middle East. Is black leadership unable to perceive that the world is still indifferent to the lives of Jews? We shouldn't be, because the same world is indifferent to black lives. Are we unable to see that the position of Jews in the world has not changed significantly since World War II? And what I hear in the self-righteousness of black leaders is, very simply, we don't give a damn. The irony is that this new expression of anti-Semitism was spearheaded by the organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr.—the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr. King has been dead only 11 years, but when I listen to his SCLC successors, it is hard to believe that Dr. King ever lived. I missed him these past weeks. because, for all my political disagreements with him, he helped me understand that though I suffer by virtue of my race, I cannot indulge that suffering. Neither can I use suffering to crown myself with a tiara of moral superiority. I must learn to carry that suffering as if it were a long-stemmed rose I offer to humanity. I do that by living with my suffering so intimately as to never forget that, having suffered evil, I must be careful not to do something that will, as Dr. King put it, “intensify the existence of evil in the universe.” Because I have suffered as a black person, I do not succumb to the thrill of making others suffer. I look at my own suffering and say, let this inhuman suffering end here. How quickly, how effortlessly those who knew and worked with Dr. King have forgotten that he taught that “all life is interrelated.” that “all humanity is involved in a single process, and to the degree that I harm my brother, to that extent I am harming myself," and that “creation is so designed that my personality can only be fulfilled in the context of community." I am deeply sorry that black leadership spoke as it did, because my humanity as a black person was diminished. The differences and tensions between blacks and Jews are real, but the positions espoused recently by black leaders were not “our Declaration of Independ ence." as Kenneth Clark put it. They merely showed that blacks, too. can be Germans. Page 5 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 12, 1979