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V** J3L Israel salutes Miss Liberty The Israeli tall ship Galaxy, a 125-foot brigantine with a crew of 10, officially represented the State of Israel in Operation Sail (the parade of tall ships saluting the Statue of Liberty for the Centen nial Celebration. Owners of the Galaxy are Brian and Linda Street. tw The Southern Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewr 'Since 1925' Vol. LXII Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 11, 1986 No. 28| "r» C~, H -- (jn c *T> O :id IT "H > T) O zr. z? 'jj (SJ .—1 Arafat dealt major bio in shutdown of El Fatah by Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli analysts said Tuesday that Jordan’s closure of El Fatah’s operational centers in Amman was a major blow to Palestine Liberation Or ganization chief Yasir Arafat. They described the centers as a vital link between the PLO leadership and residents of the administered terri tories. El Fatah is ’he terrorist arm of the PLO loyal to Arafat. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin called the Jordanian action “a de velopment in the right direction.” Addressing the Yeshiva University convention here, he said the clo sures would restrict PLO activities in the territories and reduce terror ism there. Yasir Arafat The official communique issued in Amman Monday said the PLO offices shut down were the ones that were reopened over a year ago following the rapprochement be tween Jordan’s King Hussein and Arafat. They were closed, the com munique said, in response to PLO attacks on Jordan. The Hussein-Arafat relationship disintegrated early this year after prolonged efforts by Hussein to convince Arafat to bring the PLO into the Middle East peace process leading to negotiations with Israel. Hussein announced in February that he was abandoning those ef forts because the PLO leadership was “unreliable.” The centers shut down by the Jordanian authorities include the See Arafat, page 20. Father of nuclear Navy Rickover’s death ends controversial career Admiral Rickover with President Carter on the submarine Los Angeles. by Marlene Goldman NEW YORK (JTA)—Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy and developer of the first nuclear power plant in the world, died Tuesday at age 86 at his home in Arlington, Va., from complications due to strokes suf fered over the past year. Rickover, the first Jewish admi ral in the U.S. Navy, was the longest-serving officer in the U.S. Navy and led a career marked by controversy and contradictions. As head of nuclear propulsion for the Navy between 1949 and 1982, Rickover worked diligently to build a fleet of missile-carrying nuclear submarines, each capable of destroying every major city in the Soviet Union. Yet, upon his retirement in early 1982, by the request of the Reagan administration, he told Congress he was not proud of his role in the arms race and warned that nuclear war was likely. He was known for his strong personality which caused him to have both many friends and many enemies. But Rickover was always admired by powerful supporters in Congress. The admiral also had a reputation as a tireless and selfless public servant who denounced mil itary contractors for wasting tax money. However, the Navy Depart ment last year censured him for accepting gifts from defense con tractors valued at $68,703 in the years before his retirement. Rick over denied any wrongdoing. Born in Poland on Jan. 27, 1900, Rickover was brought to Chicago by his parents at age 6. He recalled his early years in Poland at a gala for his 83rd birthday in Washington. “I was born in Poland, then a part of Russia, and was not allowed to attend public schools because of my Jewish faith,” he told the nearly 500 people at the dinner, including former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. “However, starting at age four, I attended a religious school where the only learning was from the Old Testament, in Hebrew. School hours were from sunrise to sunset, six days a week. “My father emigrated tothe U.S. shortly before 1900, and saved enough money from his work to send tickets for my mother, my sis ter and me. My mother packed as much of our possessions as she could carry in a sheet, including bedding and 10 days’ supply of kosher food.” In America, he began working as an errand boy for Western Union and was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1919. He grad uated in 1922 and was commissi oned an ensign that year. After sea duty and study of electrical engi neering at Annapolis and Colum bia University, he served aboard submarines for three years. The small-framed, gaunt admi ral overcame hurdles as a Jew and held increasingly important staff and command positions in the U.S. Navy. Rickover also seived with the Atomic Energy Commission at Oakridge. Against considerable opposi tion, Rickover persuaded the U.S. Navy in 1947 to begin construction of nuclear powered submarines and was placed in charge of the project which launched the first one. Nautilus. Later on, Rickover created the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet which helped revolutionize atomic era defense. He received two Congres sional Gold Medals for outstand ing service to the United States. According to a close friend of Rickover, Dr. Mordecai Hacohen, first vice president of the Bank Leumi Trust Company of New York, when the admiral visited Israel in 1981 and met with then Prime Minister Menachem Begin, “he came out of the meeting a reborn Jew and his whole past came back to him.” He then established the Rick over Science Institute which every summer arranged for four or five Israeli top science students to join 50 top students from the United States, one from each state, in meeting with U.S. scientists and to study advanced programs in elec tronics and computer science. A few months ago he had resigned as head of the Institute. While Rick over did not follow in the Orthodox tradition of his parents, Hacohen described him as “a good Jew at heart.”