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Shamir’s turn. Peres became for
eign minister on Monday.
In his 30-minute speech to the
Knesset Monday, Shamir vowed
to fight a Palestinian guerilla
build-up in south Lebanon, prom
ising: “We will prevent the gangs
from entrenching themselves in
Lebanon and establishing bases
there.’’ At the time he asserted
that a “supreme priority” of his
new government would be to
promote Jewish settlement of Is
rael s occupied territories
“ The government," Shamir told
the Knesset, “will seek to forge a
Ziomst economy. The economy
will be based not only on solid
economic principles, but also on
the Zionist values which must be
our guide, among them the su
preme value of settlement
throughout the land of Israel.”
Should Shamir make a point
of pushing Jewish settlement in
the occupied lands aggressively,
he could produce a split with
Peres, who has made clear that
he intends to break up the govern
ment if the Mideast peace pro
cess is blocked.
Shamir was supposed to take
over as prime minister last Tues
day but the transfer did not take
place, as the two major parties
quarreled over a set of seemingly
minor political appointments.
The actual reason tor the delay
in rotation focused on two men,
Likud Knesset member Yitzhak
Modai, and Cabinet secretary
Yossi Beilin, a Peres intimate.
Peres had gone ahead with his
resignation on Oct. 10 even
though Labor and Likud had
still been at odds over the politi
cal future of Modai and Beilin as
well as a number of lesser issues.
Modai had been forced to resign
in July as justice minister after
mounting a personal attack a-
gainst Peres; Shamir now wanted
him back in the government and
Peres did not. The other major
issue in dispute was Peres’ demand
to have Beilin appointed Israeli
ambassador to Washington. Sha
mir preferred Foreign Minister
Deputy Director-General Hanan
Bar-On.
On Thursday afternoon, dur
ing their third meeting to resolve
the dispute, Peres and Shamir
finally worked out a comprom
ise: Modai would be permitted in
Remembrance
Continued from page 1.
between Germany and Israel if
Germany does not acknowledge
the stark realities of its past.
The book has an introduction
by West German President Rich
ard Von Weizsaecker, who wrote:
“Not only are we responsible for
the consequences of what hap
pened, but our history would
come to an end if we attempted
to erase the years of terror from
our own consciousness.”
The book contains the name,
date and place of birth, and date
and place of death of each of the
victims, where such information
was available. It is far from com
plete, however. Yad Vashem es
timates that between 170,000 and
200,000 German Jews perished
in the Holocaust. The Memorial
Book does not contain the names
of Jewish victims from what is
now the East German Democratic
Republic, which refused to co-
Rally
Continued from page 1.
tions in Israel.
“From what we can determine,”
Horowitz said, “both reasons are
bogus.”
Horowitz said that for Soviet
authorities to allow Jews to im
migrate to Israel “would be an
admission of the failure of their
system.” He added that many
other groups of Soviet citizens
would also ask to leave.
Key to the Soviet Union’s ref
usal to allow Jewish immigra
tion, Horowitz said, is that “they
think of Jews as useful pawns.
It’s convenient for them to have
Jews in the Soviet Union to fur
ther their anti-Zionist and anti-
Jewish propaganda. It’s been that
way for years.”
The Soviets, he added, do with
Jews whatever is in their best
self-interest.
“You can go back to the SALT
negotiation in the 1970s," he
said. “There were many Jews
being allowed to leave then. It
was in their best interest to do so
at the time because it showed
their good faith to the world.
Jews, Christians
build Zaire hospital
NEW YORK—A unique part
nership of Jews and Christians
continents apart and the govern
ments of three nations is building
a modern 180-bed hospital in
Kinshasa, Zaire, it was announced
jointly this week by the United
States Agency for International
Development (A.I.D.) and Ha-
dassah, the Women’s Zionist Or
ganization of America.
A.I.D. administrator M. Peter
McPherson and Hadassah na
tional president Ruth W. Popkin
said that the hospital will serve
150,000 residents. The facility is
under construction on the site of
a small hospital run by the Kim-
banguist Church, a Christian sect.
The original hospital was founded
in 1973 and was the first to be
built in Zaire since the nation
achieved independence in 1960.
The new hospital is a joint pro
ject of A.I.D., the Hadassah
Medical Organization, the Kim-
banguist Church and the govern
ments of Israel and Zaire. A $1.5
million A.I.D. grant will com
plete construction and the equip
ping of the hospital. The Interna
tional Cooperation Department
of the Israel Foreign Ministry
will pay expenses of volunteer
Hadassah Medical Organization
medical personnel from Israel
who will work with the hospital’s
Zairian staff.
Mrs. Popkin noted that Hadas
sah has conducted cooperative
medical programs in Africa for
almost three decades and said:
“Our work in Zaire is part of the
Hadassah tradition of concern
for the quality of life of every
human being on this planet.
“We believe sharing our medi
cal knowledge and skill with all
those who need it, and we are
proud of the role we have played
in improving the quality and ac
cessibility of medical care world
wide,” she continued. “Hadassah
is delighted to have the oppor
tunity to carry on this tradition
of service in Zaire.”
The Medical Center had con
ducted medical programs-—pri
marily in eye care—in several
African nations since 1959. The
center also trains public health
doctors, nurses and paramedical
personnel from a number of
countries on the African conti
nent.
The new facility in Kinshasa
will occupy seven buildings—
some already in operation. It will
include departments for pedia
trics, gynecology and obstetrics,
surgery and internal medicine
and will be equipped with opera
ting theaters, recovery room,
diagnostic laboratories and in
tensive care and X-ray units.
Doctors and nurses at Hadas
sah hospitals in Jerusalem have
volunteered to serve rotating
two-month tours at the new hos
pital over the next two-and-a-
half years to work with the 157
Zairians who will staff the facil
ity. The Israelis’ transportation
and living expenses will be paid
by the Israel Foreign Ministry
International Cooperation e-
partment.
American
H 0 Heart
Association
They are very conscious of world
opinion.”
For more information on the
Oct. 27 Simhat Torah Rally for
Soviet Jewry, call the Atlanta
Jewish Federation at 873-1661.
operate in compiling the list. It
does, however, include the names
of Jews from East Berlin.
The data were culled from
German municipal archives and
Red Cross lists. But many records
were destroyed in air raids. The
compilers also had problems with
spelling and had to weed out
duplications. The dates of death
of some 80,000 victims could not
be ascertained.
Other countries have under
taken similar projects. Yad
Vashem already houses memor
ial books from the Netherlands,
Belgium and France.
the government but as minister
without portfolio (he would not
be given a specific ministry).
Peres would be given the ex
clusive right to choose nominees
for the post of ambassador to
Washington while Shamir could
veto those nominees. Beilin, as a
result, was named to the new
post of political director-general
of the foreign ministry, but not
without fresh criticism from Av-
raham Tamir, the new director-
general who felt Beilin’s job
would infringe on his.
So incensed had Peres been at
Shamir’s intransigence over
Modai and Beilin that the outgo
ing prime minister overlooked
the public’s increasingly harsh
judgment of him for delaying
rotation over these seemingly
minor issues. Israeli newspapers
began suggesting that Peres would
lose all the credibilitv and popu
larity he had won over the past 25
months as prime minister.
But the real pressure on the
two men to put aside their differ
ences came Wednesday evening
in the form of the Jerusalme ter
rorist attack.
On Thursday evening Labor
and Likud signed yet another
document smoothing over their
latest differences, setting the
stage for Shamir to be tapped by
President Chaim Herzog as the
next prime minister.
“Interesting, humorous and well-
written, Memo From Russia is a must
for book lovers of all ages!’’
— The Broward County Florida Jewish Journal
“A
ny age group
would enjoy
Rose's candid impression
of the world's number two
superpower. His
impressions on his month
long trip to the Soviet
Union, including a trip to
Siberia, and traveling on
the Trans Siberian Railroad
provided the impetus for
this book.”
4 4 W n a straight-
I
Photos by Shirley Rose
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