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REDUCED PARKING AVAILABLE. by Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA)—The use of combat helicopters in Israel Air Force strikes against terrorist targets in south Lebanon was con firmed Sunday by Air Force Com mander Gen. Amos Lapidot. He said the type used in the July 10 attack on terrorist bases near Sidon is regularly deployed in coordina tion with Israel Defense Force ground forces. Lapidot did not identify the heli copters. But according to the latest edition of “The Middle East Mil itary Balance” published last week by Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, the Israel Air Force has 20 Bell Cobra and 35 Hughes Defender attack helicop ters. Lapidot said the helicopters are used for routine patrolling and as a deterrent. They are available to local ground commanders and can be sent into action within minutes if necessary, he said. He added that the helicopters are one of several options the Air Force has to employ in strikes against enemy targets. The terrorists do not know where, when and how the next Air Force strike will be carried out and this keeps them off balance, Lapidot said. He described the raid near Sidon, “The attack was carried out by combat helicopters which hit the targets from a distance of sev eral kilometers. We used very exact weapons which permitted direct hits, which achieved the goal of destroying the targets but not buildings, objects or people uncon nected with the terrorist organiza tions.” According to “The Middle East Military Balance,” the Israeli heli copters can be armed with TOW anti-tank missile systems which are accurate and effective against buildings as well as tanks. Lapidot said in reply to ques tions that the use of helicopters in the latest attack on terrorists “doesn’t mean we are making any special change” of methods of at tack. “In each instance, regarding each attack, we analyze the target, analyze the problem and adapt the type of attack and weapon to that same specific target,” he said. In response to another question, the Air Force commander agreed that Syria’s deployment of Sam-2 anti-aircraft missiles near the Leb anese border expanded the area inside Lebanon protected by mis siles. “We are forced to consider this new situation which, if we ignore, places us in effective range of the missiles,” he said. However, Lapidot stressed, “We are not currently in a situation where we want to be dragged into a confrontation with the Syrians, with the Syrian air defense system, even though we have our own solu tions.” Goodwill Games bring ill will Ted Turner’s Goodwill Games in Moscow became “Ill-will Games" when he entered into an agreement with the Soviet Union that black listed Israel, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B’rith has charged. Nathan Perlmutter, ADL’s na Served Nightly 5-7 p.m. Selections include: London Broil , mushroom sauce Broiled Filet of Flounder Deep Fried Oysters Chicken Teriaki Chefs Evening Selection Complete Candlelight Dinners include appetizer, entree, dessert and beverage. Reservations 955-1700 HOLIDAY INN' POWERS FERRY 4J45 KWERS FERRY RO NMf ATLANTA GA 30331 tional director, said the Turner operation had tried to cover up the agreement with Moscow. He pointed out that ADL’s Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta contacted a Games official last May when reports first surfaced that Israel would not be invited to the Games in the Soviet capital July 5 through July 20. Stuart Lewengrub, director of the office, was assured by the Games’ public relations director, Ken Bas- tian, that Israel had been invited to submit names of athletes for con sideration but had not responded. Perlmutter said that Turner ad mitted in interviews on both the Turner Broadcasting System and the ABC-TV Nightline program (July 9) that the Soviet Union had had the last word as to participants and that he. Turner, agreed to Israel’s not being invited. Turner gave as “justification” for his action, “We can’t solve all the problems of the world.” Declaring that “ADL was obvi ously deceived," Perlmutter said he failed to see “how the participa tion of athletes from a democratic country constituted a world prob lem.” He went on to say that while Turner’s stated goal for the Games is to take politics out of sports, “he has cynically condoned the very opposite in accepting the politi cally motivated exclusion of Israel, America’s democratic ally.” Turner is president of the Turner Broadcasting System which under wrote the Games at a cost of ap proximately $40 million. 1——— —————————————— Don 9 t Miss It! A Shabbat Lunch’n Learn Program Saturday, July 26 Guest lecturer: Rabbi Hanoch Teller Noted Jerusalem Storyteller & Lecturer Author of: Souls On Fire; Souled; and Once Upon A Soul. Topic: Shalom Bias: How Society May Bias The Way We Build Our Jewish Lives Also featuring: •Shabbat Lunch & Ruach • Staff of Atlanta’s Summer Kollel S 11 /adult, *6/children children's program offered Rabbi Teller will discuss his books & will be available for an autograph session on Sunday, July 27, 9:00 a.m. For reservations, call Congregation Beth Jacob, 633-0551.