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Iceland allows Jewish delegation to hold conference before summit by Andrew Muchin NEW YORK (JTA)—The Na tional Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Icelandic government have agreed that an eight-member NCSJ delegation will fly to Iceland Fri day for a press conference and return immediately to New York. Earlier, Iceland’s prime minis ter, Steingrimur Hermansson, had denied landing rights to a delega tion of 50 U.S. Jewish leaders who wanted to protest Soviet treatment of Jews during the Oct. 11-12 U.S.- Soviet summit meeting in Reyk javik. Hermansson was reported as saying: “I hope that these Jewish people will just stay at home be cause I want to avoid any demon strations.” Some members of Con gress immediately responded with calls for President Reagan to repu diate that statement. However, an NCSJ spokesper son told the JTA Tuesday that NCSJ staffer Jerry Strober and Icelandic officials had come to an agreement. “It’s not that Iceland won’t allow us in,” explained the spokesper son. “They have tremendous prob lems with security. They negotiated this as a compromise. They want a Jewish presence.” The delegation, to be led by NCSJ chairman Morris Abram and executive director Jerry Good man, will fly into Iceland at 9 a.m. Friday, hold an 11 a.m. press con ference at an as yet undetermined site and depart Iceland at 3 p.m., the spokesperson said. The six other delegates have not yet been deter mined. In addition, U.S. Navy Lt. Com mander Arnold Resnicoff, a Con servative rabbi, will be sent to Ice land to lead Yom Kippur services for U.S. Jewish personnel assigned there during the summit, the Jew ish Theological Seminary of Amer ica and the J WB Jewish Chaplains Council reported. Peres reaffirms nuclear stand by David Landau JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prime Minister Shimon Peres declared at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting that Is rael adheres to its long-standing policy on nuclear weapons: “We will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the area.” The Foreign Ministry issued an identical statement. Peres spoke in response to a story in the Sunday Times of Lon don that Israel has produced up to 200 nuclear weapons at a secret underground plant in the Negev. Peres told the Cabinet that Israel has frequently been faced with sen sational reports in the world media relating to the nuclear reactor at Dimona in the Negev. There were no comments from any of the min isters and no further discussion of the matter. According to the Sunday Times report, which was headlined around the world, Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal was disclosed by Morde- chai Vanunu, a 31-year-old nuclear technician who worked at Dimona for 10 years before he was laid off with 180 Dimona workers last November. Vanunu presently lives in Australia. If the Times report were true, Israel would rank sixth among the world’s nuclear powers. Meanwhile in Washington, the State Department repeated Mon day its long standing request that Israel accept international safe guards and inspection for its nuclear facilities. “We believe that regional secur ity will be enhanced if all states in the region would adhere to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty,” State Department deputy spokes man Charles Redman said, “We are concerned about the existence of unsafeguarded nuclear facilities in Israel and made our concern known to the government of Israel.” ' 'jVhiy tho ^ New 1 Year ‘lirinq yoi joy and Hat n uncss! Hotel & Conference Center 418 Armour brive. N'E /1-85 N. at^Monroe Drive What Should You Look For In A Computer Company? Peachtree Associates is at your side every step of the way. TOTAL SERVICE: The burden of making your computer work should not fall on you and your office staff (we take full responsibility for specifica tion, acquisition, implementation, training and fol low up). 100 Ponce de Leon Piace • Suite H • PO Box 1312 • Decatur, GA 30031 (404) 373-3000 •M*" ** -MW X X x l I i An Evening With ROBERTA PETERS World-class performer with the Metropolitan Opera in recital at Ahavath Achim Synagogue 600 Peachtree Battle Avenue Wednesday, October 29 8:00 p.m. Join us in the gala opening of the Ahavath Achim Cen tennial Celebration. Sponsor (general admission) tickets available at $15 each, Patron tickets available at $75. All seating is reserved. Patrons are invited to a cham pagne dinner with the artist following the performance. Black tie optional. [To reserve seating for this performance, make check payable toi~J j Ahavath Achim and send along with this coupon to: 600 Peachtree j I Battle Avenue, N.W. Atlanta, GA. 30327. i Please send the following reserved seating tickets: J Patron tickets at $75.00 each | Sponsor tickets at $15.00 each Name_ J I Address *>£!—- ..'Migr-. MW ■Vitr J* >> J J For further information, call the synagogue office at 355-5222 David S. Alterman and Norman H. Diamond Centennial Co-Chairmen Sidney J. Kaplan, President MK~" MW MM 3t»C 1 PAGE 7 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10. 1986