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Israeli sailors freed In drug ‘buy’
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Two Israeli seamen arrested in Alexandria
eight months ago on drug charges were acquitted last Friday and
released from jail. They elected to spend the Rosh Hashana holiday
with local Jewish families before returning home to Haifa.
Shlomo Peretz and Amram Shlush, from Zim Lines cargo ship
Camelia, were apprehended after they allegedly purchased hashish
from an undercover agent in an Alexandria bazaar. They admitted
they were approached but denied buying the drug. The ^ourt
accepted their story.
Teams go to bat lor federation
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)—A game often associated with
drinking beer may benefit the Jewish Community Federation of
San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma counties,
according to the Northern California Jewish Bulletin.
A four-team Jewish softball league, co-sponsored by the feder
ation and the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, began
play this month.
Each player must pay $25 for the seven-game series. Any
money left after expenses for field rental and umpires’ wages will be
donated to the federation.
Swede is third Taba panelist
GENEVA (JTA)—Gunnar Karl Andreas Lagergren, a 74-
year-old international jurist from Sweden, will be the third
member of the three-man panel to arbitrate the Israeli-Egyptian
border dispute over Taba, it was announced here Monday by
Pincttas Eliav, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations in
Geneva.
Eliav said Lagergren was the first choice of both the Israeli and
Egyptians delegations which met here Sept. 29 to complete the
panel of arbitrators.
Israel advances in Davis Cup
NEW YORK (JTA)—Israel’s national tennis team defeated
host Switzerland 4-1 in the Davis Cup European Zone B final last
week, moving Israel for the first time into the 16-nation final round
of competition for the following year’s cup.
The competition was rescheduled to begin last Wednesday,
rather than on the weekend, not to conflict with Rosh Hashana.
The Israel Tennis Association paid $15,000 to the Swiss to make up
for the resulting lost revenue.
El Al to buy two Boeing jets
TEL AVIV (JTA)—El Al has announced that it will purchase
two Boeing 757 aircraft at a cost of $75 million, to be delivered in
November and December 1987. The twin-engined Rolls-Royce
powered jets seat 191 passengers. They will replace aging Boeing
707 aircraft due to be retired in January 1988.
Trio shares Jerusalem Award
NEW YORK (JTA) — Luis Alberto Monge, former president
of Costa Rica, Per Ahlmark, former deputy prime minister of
Sweden, and Rabbi Eliahu Essas, a Soviet refusnik now living in
Israel, are the co-recipients of the 1986 $100,000 Defender of
Jerusalem Award, according to Eryk Spektor, chairman of the
Jabotinsky Foundation, sponsor of the prize.
Spektor told a news conference that the three men received the
award “for their extraordinary actions in standing up in defense of
the rights of the Jewish people, the sole criterion for the award.”
Palestinian rule on West Bank?
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A researcher at one of Israel’s leading
think tanks proposed a gradual expansion of responsibility for
Palestinian leaders in the West Bank, leading eventually to auton
omy for the territory. But he warned against implementing auto
nomy unilaterally in the near future.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Arye Shalev, a senior fellow at Tel Aviv
University’s Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies, presented his views
in a 35-page study on unilateral autonomy for the West Bank,
published last Thursday.
He said an international peace conference on the Middle East is
unlikely to materialize now and Israel therefore should work to
strengthen the authority of Palestinians in the administered terri
tory and encourage Jordanian influence there at the expense of the
PLO.
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Disclosure Bill earns reader’s praise
Editor:
Congress is to be commended
for enacting the University Disclo
sure Bill. This new law is designed
to protect academic integrity by
requiring universities to reveal siz
able foreign gifts and contracts,
including any conditions attached
to such grants by the donor. It thus
discourages attempts to use our
campuses as conduits for foreign
political propaganda or pressure.
The “disclosure” legislation is
based on a proposal advanced by
the American Jewish Congress.
While it does not prohibit foreign
gifts, it does require universities
receiving Federal aid to report to
the secretary of education all gifts
of $250,000 or more and the condi
tions attached to such gifts.
Disclosure requirements are not
without precedent. Federal laws,
among them the Foreign Agents
Registration Act and the Interna
tional Investment Survey Act, al
ready protect American interests.
This concept certainly merited ex
tension to our colleges and univer
sities.
Before the enactment of the latest
legislation, there was no way of
really knowing what conditions, if
any, were attached to large gifts or
contracts.
In 1981, for example, George
town University returned a large
donation for a chair in Arab Stu
dies after a public outcry resulting
from the revelation that the gift
came from Libya.
Duke University accepted a
$400,000 gift from Saudi Arabia to
set up a program in Islamic and
Arabian Development Studies,
which was later described by the
head of Duke’s East Asian Studies
Committee as “less a university
activity than an activity in which
certain members of the university
serve as a go-between for Arab
interests and major corporations.”
Efforts by foreign donors to use
our educational system as centers
for promoting political views and
propaganda should be made a part
of the public record. This “disclo
sure” legislation will help accomp
lish that objective.
Bernard B. Kornmehl, Chairman
Commission on Law and Social
A ction
Atlanta Chapter
American Jewish Congress
Support urged for Mendelevich’s work
Editor:
On Sunday, Sept. 21, the At
lanta Jewish community was
honored to see and hear a Jewish
hero, Iosef Mendelevich. He was
arrested for attempting to take an
airplane to his beloved Israel in
1970. He served almost 11 years of
hard labor in Soviet prisons and
camps, teaching Hebrew to fellow
prisoners and observing Jewish cus
toms and the Shabbat in the face of
incredible hardships.
Iosef now lives with his wife and
two children in Israel. However,
his struggle for his brothers and
sisters in the U.S.S.R. is even more
important. He expressed fears that
people are less interested today in
the issue of Soviet Jewry, that they
are tired of it. He stated that Gor
bachev is increasing anti-Semi
tism in Russia. To increase their
economy, he suppresses the peo
ple. Arrests of Jews, particularly
Hebrew teachers, and persecution
of Jews is on the increase.
In 1983, the Soviet Jewry Edu
cation and Information Center
(SJEIC) was established. It is the
official representative organization
in the West for Soviet Jewish refus-
niks. This information center main
tains a solid line of communication
with activists still in Russia. They
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TSI’s cartoon puts
writer in bad humor
Editor:
I was shocked and sickened by
the “political” cartoon in your Sept.
26 edition which shows Prime
Minister Peres and Foreign Minis
ter Shamir goosestepping. What
was the purpose of this cartoon?
Why was it in The Southern Israel
ite?
At least the president of the
Congo had the decency to apolo
gize for the absurd and baseless
comparisons between Nazi Ger
many and Israel. The political car
toonist and The Southern Israelite
editor who allowed the cartoon to
be published, should also apologize.
J C ohen
are in contact with refusnik leader
ship and are able to obtain precise,
detailed current information on
conditions in Russia.
They translate the latest news
from Russia into Hebrew and Eng
lish, distributing it to international
press agencies, local news media
and to prominent activist groups in
the U.S., Britain and Europe.
They are consultants to the
Knesset, encouraging the Knesset
to take a more prominent role in
pressing for Jewish rights within
Russia.
Iosef Mendelevich stated that
information and publicity is the
major task. Rallies are powerful
when people turn out in great
numbers and where media cover
age is also present.
On Oct. 27, the Atlanta com
munity is having a Simhat Torah
Rally, at 7:30 p.m. at The Temple.
I encourage your readers and
organizations to come out and
Editor:
The Atlanta Chapter of the
Brandeis University National
Women’s Committee would like to
publicly acknowledge the charita
bleness of Delta Air Lines. Through
the generosity and cooperation of
Delta Air Lines our chapter was
able to raise the largest sum ever
collected at our annual opening
meeting book fund event. Delta
Air Lines has indeed fulfilled the
slogan...“Delta Gets You There.”
Special recognition should also
show our solidarity. Bring letters
written to President Reagan. Form
letters are available through Fed
eration. Bring your signed petitions.
Help Iosef Mendelevich moni
tor the status of refusnik families,
and general developments in Rus
sia affecting those families. Help
disseminate the latest relevant in
formation on refusniks to people
actively engaged in the struggle of
the Soviet Jews for freedom. Help
Iosef continue to deliver his two-
hour Parshat Hashavua in Rus
sian on Israeli Radio, Kol Yisrael,
which is heard in the Soviet Union.
Information about SJEIC and con
tributions can be mailed to: Friends
of SJEIC, 400 Meadow Lane.
Longwood, Fla. 32779
Leah Starkman
Gesher Tzion-Atlanta Chapter of
A MIT Women
Soviet Jewry Chairwoman
be given to Sue Missbach, senior
marketing representative. Delta Air
Lines. Her professionalism and
personal commitment to a strong
relationship between Delta Air
Lines and the community as a
whole must be applauded.
Thank you...Delta Air Lines.
Dale Millman, President
Atlanta Chapter.
Brandeis University
National Women's Committee
Wiesel invited to U.S.S.R.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Soviet Union has invited Elie
Wiesel, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, to visit
the U.S.S.R. from Oct. 20 through Nov. 2 to meet with Russian
scholars and archivists on the fate of millions of non-Jewish Serbs,
Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Russian soldiers and others killed in
Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
The meetings in Moscow are to prepare for a conference spon
sored by the Memorial Council at the State Department on Feb.
20, 1987, on non-Jewish victims of the Nazis. Wiesel will also
gather information for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
being built in Washington.
Delta ‘gets Brandeis Women there’
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