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r News Briefs 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. J 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 J 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’ PAGE 5 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10, 1986