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All in the family
Mrs. Abe Goldstein (seated), honoree for the Nov. 6 Ahavath
Achim-Israel Bond Dinner, at the host committee meeting held last
week at the home of Betty and Leon Goldstein, (right). At left are
Lee and Betty Ann Shusterman, who co-chair the host committee
with the Leon Goldsteins. For more information and reservations,
call the synagogue or the Israel Bond office, 634-9500.
Klinghoffer’s family
say final goodbyes
by Fran Gold
Editor, Jewish Horizon
KENILWORTH, N.J. (JTA)—
Leon Klinghoffer came to his final
rest Monday afternoon. The last
journey of the American Jew
murdered by terrorists aboard the
Achille Lauro cruise ship two weeks
ago—begun last Sunday when the
flag-draped coffin with his body
arrived at Kennedy Airport from
Rome—ended as he was buried
after a 15-minute service at the
Beth David Memorial Park-Cemetery
here.
Security for the private burial
was the tightest that this town had
ever witnessed, according to Mayor
Livio Mansino. New York police
cars led the 20-vehicle procession
from Temple Shaarey Tefila on
Manhattan’s East Side, where the
funeral was held early in the after
noon. They were joined at the
George Washington Bridge by New
Jersey state troopers and, at the
Kenilworth exit, by local and county
police.
Secret Service officers were also
on hand. An FBI bomb squad,
aided by their county counterparts
and equipped with sniffer dogs,
had spent all morning combing
every inch of the 10-acre cemetery.
An American flag covered the
green carpet over the mound of
dirt from the gravesite in the Aaron
and Shifra Peterman plot owned
by Marilyn Klinghoffer’s family.
The flag was held in place by a
World War II plaque in recognition
of Leon Klinghoffer’s service in the
U.S. Army during the war.
The cars began to arrive at the
cemetery at about 3 p.m., with
most of the 75 participants—close
family members and friends—walking
the length of the cemetery in twos
and threes.
Viola and Seymour Meskin, who
were also held hostage by the ter
rorists aboard the Achille Lauro,
accompanied by family members,
grouped together on one side of the
grave. The mahagony coffin was
brought to the gravesite and im
mediately draped with a black and
gray cover with a large Jewish star.
The mourners arrived—Klinghof
fer’s daughters Lisa Arbitter and
her husband, Jerry, and I Isa Kling
hoffer and her fiance Paul Dworin;
Marilyn Klinghoffer’s mother, Rose
Windwehr; and finally, the widow.
After the cantor chanted prayers
in Hebrew, Rabbi Harvey Tattelbaum
of Shaarey Tefila, Klinghoffer’s
rabbi of two decades, said quiet
words of consolation to members
of the bereaved family. The family
mourners placed the flowers they
had held during the ceremony at
the coffin, and the rabbi threw soil
on the casket. Most of the people
present followed suit.
A long-time friend of the family,
cemetery official Harry Massar,
said quietly, “Now Leon Klinghoffer
belongs to the world.”
Related story on Page 28.
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Israelite
The Weekly
Vol. LXI
Newspaper For Southern Jewry
'Since 1925'
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 25, 1985 No. 43
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U.S., Jordan arms dea I
bubbles on back burne
by Joseph Polakoff
TSI’s Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON—Reagan admini
stration officials striving to prevent
rejection by Congress of its proposed
$ 1.9 billion arms transfer to Jordan
have switched their defense of the
deal. In place of emphasis that the
arms will provide Jordan with added
defense against Syria, their conten
tion now is to serve the peace
process in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
President Reagan himself, in a
meeting with Republican congres
sional leaders at the W hite House
Tuesday, was quoted as saying,
“Our aim is to create the conditions
that would lead to a lasting peace.
The sale of defense arms to Jordan
is essential to this process.” The
arms include two squadrons of F-
16 and F-20 warplanes and mobile
Hawk missile systems.
Rep. Robert Michel (R-Ill.), the
Republican leader of the House,
said after the meeting the arms
program has “no possibility what
soever” of approval in the House.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Dole (R-Kans.) said the sale is “a
bit premature.” Dole said he didn’t
know if even he could support the
program at present. Presidential
spokesman Larry Speakes said
Reagan is “fully committed” to the
transfer if it will help induce Jordan’s
King Hussein to consider direct
talks with Israel.
At present, 74 senators and 225
congressmen oppose the sale. Re
publicans as well as Democrats are
among the leaders of the opposition
—
Late news
WASHINGTON-At press
time, it was learned that
President Reagan, facing
massive bipartisan opposition
to his proposed sale of sophis
ticated arms to Jordan, has
agreed to delay the sale until
March I unless Jordan and
Israel begin peace talks.
to it. They are pointing out that
Jordan must enter direct negotiations
with Israel before receiving the
sophisticated weapons.
The change in the administration’s
defense was perceived after Jordan
and Syria had agreed in a meeting
in Riyadh of the prime ministers of
the two countries that they will
exchange ambassadors, and Syria’s
President Hafez a! Assad may n.w,
with King Hussein in the near
future. Jordan and Syria have not
had diplomatic relations for four
years.
Their goals are centered on Syria’s
objection to last February’s agree
ment between Jordan and the
Palestine Liberation Organization
on dealing with Israel, the Lebanon
situation and the Iranian-lraqi war.
Jordan backs Iraq. Syria is for
Iran. Syria opposes PLOchief Yasir
Arafat’s role in Palestinian affairs,
and as Syria and Jordan warm
their relations a rift has appeared
between Arafat and Hussein over
Britain’s cancellation of its scheduled
meeting in London with a Palestinian-
Jordanian delegation that included
two high-ranking PLO members.
Jordan is alleged to have had an
agreement with London that the
PLO members would sign a statement
recognizing Israel.
When State Department spokes
man Bernard Kalb was asked what
effect the Syrian-J ordanian
rapprochement would have on
Jordan’s role in the peace process,
he replied it would “be premature
to analyze the significance of the
impact.”
Text of Peres’ U.N. speech
embodies past and future
Below is the text of the address
by Shimon Peres, prime minister
of the State of Israel, on the occasion
of the 40th anniversary ofthe General
Assembly of the United Nations.
— Editor
The world in which the United
Nations was born was torn between
two conflicting feelings. There was
shock and grief in the wake of
death and holocaust. But there was
also a gleam of hope. Hope for a
new era of freedom. For a world
free of oppression; of discrimination;
of racism; of apartheid. Above all,
for a world free of war—for the
reign of peace.
Nothing reflects the universal
idea of Judaism more than the
noble idea of nations united, a
United Nations. This ideal rests, as
our forefathers taught us, on the
three pillars that support the world:
on justice, truth, and peace. Yet,
this great vision is shadowed by
inescapable concerns. As Jews we
bear heavy memories. As Israelis,
Prime Minister Shimon Peres
See Speech, page 24.
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