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Tank deal goes to Congress
WASHINGTON (JTA)-The proposed sale of 100 M-60 unks k
to Jordan advanced when the Defense Department announced last
week that the $160 million deal will he presented to Congress for
approval. The tonka, equipped with night vision
a 200-tank package President Carter promised King
Jordan, during his recent Washington visit, to modi
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Israel has vigorously opposed the tank sale althoui
officials insist it will not affect the military balance in
East because Jordan has promised to phase out its
tanka. Congress has 30 days to block the tank sale
Capitol Hill predicted that it will be approved. - - ■
Bomb blasts S.A. ORTschool
BUENOS AIRES (JCNS)—television and computer
equipment was extensively damaged when a terrorist bomb
exploded in th$ ORT (Organization of Rehabilitation through Training)
CoBege in Buenos Aires, where mote than 1,100 students, mduding many
non-Jews, receive high level technical training. No one was hurt in
the Mast.
Police explosives experts rendered harmless another terrorist
bomb which was placed in the Ch.N. Bialik school in the Villa
Crespo Jewish district of the city.
Refusnlk gets psycho sentence
NEW YORK (JTA)—Vladimir Kislik, prominent physicist,
long-term refusnik and Jewish activist from Kiev, was token to a
psychiatric institution on July 19 after being imprisoned for 15
days, according to confirmed reports received by the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). He was arrested on July 4 on
charges of “hooliganism," and sentenced to 15 days in prison. At
the conclusion of his stay in jail he was told that his sentence was
extended for an additional 15 days. In protest, Kislik staged a
hunger strike and. as punishment, was token to a psychiatric
institution.
for B’nai B’rith »
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mrnsmxz National Endowment of the
Humanities has awarded a grant to the B'nai B’rith Klutznick
Museum for a $175,000 project to expand and modernise the
display of B’nai B’rith’s permanent collection of Jewish ceremonial
and folk art, some of which date back 2,000 years.
B'nai B’rith officials hailed the grant as “making possible the
expansion of the museum into one of the most significant Jewish
museums in the nation." Construction is scheduled to begin in
early fall, with completion expected by May.
B’nai B’rith’s permanent collection documents the history of the
Jewish people. More than 500 objects, spanning 20 centuries, are
on display. Among the objects arc third-century vessels inscribed
with passages from Isaiah; a 16th-century Torah wrapper
embroidered with passages from the Psalms and an account of the
first marriage between the Finzis and the Continis; and miniature
Hanuka men ora hs. designed to allow traveler! to observe the
holidays.
Jewish nurse joins police force
TORONTO (JCNS)—Miss Ruth Mendelsohn, a native of
Vergevilk, Alberta, has been sworn in as Toronto’s first Jewish
policewoman. , x
A nursing graduate of the Jewish General Hospital in
Montreal. Mist Mendelsohn has worked in the Branson Hospital
in Toronto.
She joined the police department two years ago as a civilian
radio dispatcher.
Will Baghdad have the bomb?
PARIS (JTA)—France officially announced this week that It
plans to go ahead with its uranium deliveries to Iraq in spite of
dates that Baghdad is in the process of manufacturing atomic
weapons. The French foreign ministry triaasad a fltttei
Tuesday night saying that Fiance was surprised by
statements and accusations” inked to its cooperation with I
the nndsar field. ’ 6-'5' ' ! '•
France signed in 1975 a abciear agreement with Iraq and has
Reader offers cold reality
Editor:
I read with interest “Duty
Calls," (The Southern Israelite,
July 25,1980) an article describing
the feelings of several 19- and
20-year-old Atlanta Jewish
young people about the
reinstitution of selective service
registration. Since all of the young
men you talked with viewed the
draft registration (as well as the
actual draft) as a necessary, if not
desirable consequence of living in
America in 1980,1 thought it might
be appropriate to counter this
pseudo-patriotism with a cold dose
of reality.
As one affected by President
Carter’s proclamation, I find it
incredible that so many of the
supposed leaders of the new
generation could remain so
blissfully unaware of how and why
the idea of a peacetime selective
service registration has come
about. We need look no further
than Washington, D.C, to see what
has happened to U.S. military
capabilities ever since Billy’s
brother has come to power.
Firstly, needed military weapons
systems programs such as the B-l
Bomber and the Advanced
Military Transport Program (C-
14/15 transport planes) have been
short-circuited by the Carter
administration. At the same time,
ttV.Ta&Ffte sikhed d SXtTIl
treaty, before Congressional
certification, which dramatically
concedes military superiority to
the Soviets should they actually
abide by the pact, which as history
documents, they would not. The
fact that over 200 retired
and active top level military
officials have warned against
ratification of SALT II has had no
effect on Carter'iconstant bleating
pleas to the Congress to pass the
treaty.
With regard to reasons given to
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Missing persons
Editor
I am looking for my older
brother Froika Shapiro or his
children.
raw
When Froika was born, his
mother died. Mintsya YaMochnik
took the baby. She fed Froika with
her breast and rated Froika aa her
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support a draft, it is common
which argues that what the
military needs is not bodies to
make up ground troops, but
engineers to run increasingly
sophisticated machinery. So
instead of drafting all 19 and
year olds, why not set up several
federally funded schools of
engineering and technology to
produce what the armed forces
needi And Thy'military eitf Men
and technicians a wage compatible
with similar civilian posts so they
will stay with the armed forces.
Thus, in effect, Mr. Carter is
telling me that if is my
responsibility to make up for his
strategic blunders. 1 just cannot
buy the needless interruption of
college and career plans of
thousands of young people (should
an actual draft come about) as an
example of "an old fashioned
brand of patriotism." There are
alternatives to the selective service,
and I can only hope that the
condescending young men you
talked to do not voice the feelinp
of Atlanta’s Jewish 19- and 20-
year-old men, much less the
feelinp of many young people
throughout the United States.
year 1904.
A+ grads
of Yeshiva
Editor
Under your editorial in last
week's (July 25) paper titled “A+*
Attitude,” 1 wonder why you did
not include the impressive
achievements of the pioneering
members of the first graduating
class of the Yeshiva High School of
Atlanta, as noted on pap two of
that very tame edition.
Two students in medical school;
one in law school; ooe in dental
school; two in the field of business
and two students doing advanced
study in Israel. Certainly, these
students, at well as other graduates
of the school have also brought
nachas to the entire Jewish
community.
Isn’t it time the community took
amice of this fine school and pve
the recognition add support it
and told Froika to call his wife
"Mother." Froida did not want to
do it. He went to Mintsya and
continued to call her “Mother."
After that, the father took his
family and went to America.
As a child, Froika left Russia
(Sqmerdek) with his family,
possibly in 1912 or 1914.
Froika tent letters, a
photograph and money to his
second mother, Mintsya
Yablochnik, in Russia from
America before the Second World
War. 1
In 1941, I lost all my relatives
and all papers about Froika. Now I
don’t know where Froika is with
hit famity.
Please help me to find Froika
Shapiro or his children. I am
Mintsya's daughter.
Mrs. Novoseietskay
2711 Louisiana Court, 04
St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55426
Definitions
Editor:
It would be nice if our Jewish
leaders who speak so much for the
Jewish people would stop using the
phrase “anti-Semitic."
Most people do not know what
Semitic is.
The Arabs are a Semitic people
as well as the Jewish people.
The hate organizations are anti-
Judaism. They are not anti-
Semitic. They regard the Arabs as
great people.
Our Jewish feeders who speak
for us should use the phrase "anti-
Judaism."
Herbert F. Rose
Soviet activist gets five years
NEW YORIj. (JTA)!—Valery Pflaikov. aSovict Jewish activist
from Kiev, has Man ssatsaosd to five years of hard labor,
. according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). He
ms tried for aOepdiy assaulting hie neighbor. PNnikov W
arrested May 16 upon Ms return from Moscow where he and a
group of Soviet Jews from his home dty delivered a coraplaint to
the Commulidl Party Central Cotnmktse regarding new
; sraigratisn restrictions. The trial tea* bald without fegal