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Together again Anatoly Shcharansky hugs his mother, Ida Milgrom, at Ben- Gurion airport after her arrival in Israel Aug. 25. I.L. “Sonny” Kunian has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Georgia Tech Alumni Distin guished Service Award. The award will be conferred at the Summer Quarter Commencement on Sat urday, Sept. 6. In announcing the award, J.M. Pettit, president of Georgia Tech, said: “In recognition of his service to Tech and his community, his leadership and his generosity, it is with great pride that Georgia Tech confers upon I.L. ‘Sonny’ Kunian the Alumni Distinguished Service Award.” A 1934 textile engineering grad uate, Kunian began his career with Hesslein and Company. He was president of Banks, Olshine Stores in Nashville, Tenn., from 1937 to 1960, and during 1960-61 he was president and owner of Davidson’s in Chattanooga. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-45. The Atlanta real estate devel oper has been involved in the in dustrial development of Atlanta since 1961, initially as a partner of Kay Developers and later as a partner of Kunian Enterprises. Kunian served as co-chairman of the Class of 1934’s 50th reunion fund and helped establish a class endowment fund which gives an award annually to an outstanding Georgia Tech professor. The Class of ’34 was the first class to raise over $1 million in reunion funds. In 1980, he and his wife, the former Mildred Olshine, established the Mildred and I.L. Kunian Schol arship Fund which gives financial assistance to students of high aca demic standing. While a Tech student, Kunian played football in his freshman year; served as editor of the student newspaper Technique; was asso ciate editor of the yearbook, the Blueprint; was associate editor of the “Yellow Jacket”; and was a member of the Student Council, the Intrafraternity Council, Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, AN A K and Omicron Delta Kappa Honorary societies. Sonny Kunian, an Atlanta native, comes from a large Georgia Tech family. Nineteen members of his family, including two uncles, two I.L. Kunian brothers, nephews, nieces and cou sins, have Tech ties. Kunian is president of the Geor gia Chapter of the Arthritis Foun dation, a member of The Temple and the Standard Club. He is on the board of the Center for Reha bilitation Technology at Tech, and a former board member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Jewish Family and Children Servi ces Inc. He is also a board member of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and is a former member of the National Jewish Welfare Board. Long-time friend Larry Geller- stedt, on hearing Kunian’s selec tion, said: “Sonny has always been an ardent supporter of causes and is a tireless worker for a cause in which he believes. He has built a bridge of better understanding be tween the Jewish community and Georgia Tech. He has the great ability to build a bridge with many people of different ethnic back grounds, religious backgrounds and economic backgrounds. He is a producer.” Gellerstedt is a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees. Kunian and his wife, who have been married 49 years, have one son, Donald. Donald and his wife, Eleanor, have two children. As the 58th recipient of the Dis tinguished Service Award, Kuni an’s name is added to a distin guished list of previous recipients, which includes former President Jimmy Carter and former mayor of Atlanta Ivan Allen Jr. Sonny Kunian tapped for Tech alumni award by Luna Levy The Southern Israelite wi The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry r 'Since 1925' ;fJR L Vol. LXH Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 5, 1986 No. 36 > Peres-Mubaraksummi! sets off flurry of activity by Yaacov Ben Yosef Special to The Southern Israelite JERUSALEM—Israel is mak ing a last-minute effort to induce King Hussein of Jordan to join next week’s summit between Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Egyp tian President Hosni Mubarak. At the same time, Assistant Sec retary of State Richard Murphy has begun a shuttle between Jeru salem, Amman, and Cairo to deter mine whether Secretary of State George Shultz should participate in the Peres-Mubarak summit. The prospects for Hussein join ing the Israel-Egypt summit appear dim. Without the backing of the Arab world, Hussein remains un willing to enter peace talks with Israel. But the chances of Shultz taking part look bright. The United States had an important role in moving the Taba dispute to a successful conclusion. Progress was made when State Department legal advi ser Abraham Sofer shuttled between Cairo and Jerusalem this spring. Shultz obviously wants to under line the American role in this Mid dle East success story by being present for the summit which will signify the happy conclusion of Taba. Israel and Egypt have been ne gotiating for the past year over how to determine who should be the rightful owner of Taba, a 250- acre slice of sandy beach south of Eilat in the Sinai. Though Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt as part of the 1979 Peace Treaty between the two countries, Israel retained control of Taba and the Egyptians have Yaacov Ben Yosef insisted that it too should be re turned. Israel eventually agreed that the matter should be arbitrated; the talks of the past year have focused on how arbitration should be con ducted. Peres sent Minister without Port folio Ezer Weizman to West Ger many and Italy this weekend offi cially to explain Israel’s policies on the eve of the Egyptian summit. But there was speculation that Weizman’s visit was a mere fig leaf for the real purpose: a Weizman- Hussein get-together somewhere in Europe. Hussein was due in London Tuesday. All of this diplomatic movement was undoubtedly linked with Mu barak’s visit to Jordan last week and Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid Rifai’s trip to Egypt Sunday. These two visits were also apparently linked to efforts to bring about a Jordanian-PLO reconciliation and agreement on a list of Palestinians who could take part in a joint ne gotiating team to resolve the West Bank issue. The Israeli-Eygptian summit was likely to take place on Sept. 10 and 11, most probably in Alexandria, Egypt. Peres is due to meet Presi dent Ronald Reagan in Washing ton on Sept. 15 and to relinquish his post as prime minister to For eign Minister Yitzhak Shamir a month later. With the Peres - Shamir rota tion agreement about to be imple mented, Peres has stepped up Israeli diplomacy: he saw King Hassan of Morocco in July; traveled to Cameroon last week to preside over the restoration of diplomatic relations between Israel and that West African state. And in the next two weeks he will meet with Mu barak, probably Shultz, and Reagan. Jordan’s King Hussein remains elusive, and so Peres has made a special effort, relying upon Richard Murphy’s good offices and pres ence in the Middle East, to bring Jordan into the process. In his meeting with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Com mittee Monday, Peres explained that he hoped three subjects would dominate his talks with Mubarak next week: the border dispute over Taba; normalization with Egypt; and expanding the Mideast peace process. Peres said he would propose to Mubarak that a preliminary con ference be convened to plan an international conference which would serve as the aegis for later See Summit, page 20. Jerusalem-born Californian asks $58 million after arrest by Saudis by Joseph Polakoff TSPs Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—The State Department says it has a copy of Sam Bamieh’s “complaints” that he was held captive for 133 days in Saudi Arabia and it is willing to meet with him but the case of the owner of a financial management consulting company in San Mateo, Calif., is “a private legal matter.” Israeli Embassy spokesman Yossi Gal said he had no information on the case. The department has “no record of contact with him before or after” his incarceration, a spokesman. Charles Redman, said. He was asked about Bamieh’s statements that he was accused by Saudis of being a CIA agent, asked if his mother were Jewish, then handed a check for $400,000 as a gift from his cap- tors shortly before being freed. Bamieh, 47, arrived in Riyadh on Feb. 15 on a business trip. Bamieh told reporters here he has sued former and current Saudi officials for $58 million damages for mental suffering and loss of business. The suit is in federal court for the Northern District of California. Among the defendants are Mo hammed Imran, described as a former head of Kind Fahd’s pri vate office, and Mohammed Al- Suliaman, reportedly its present head. Bamieh, who said he was born in Jerusalem and came to the U.S. 30 years ago, was reported as being a distant cousin of Imran. When he was asked if his mother were Jew ish, Bamieh said, he replied to the Saudi who asked that it was none of his business. United Press Inter national reported. It reported Bamieh said he cashed the check in New York. lLlulJA gDASPAPFP PPCJCUT M A I i» I.IHiAlvY