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The Bella and Harry Wexner Gazebo is a focal point
for this portion of the newly dedicated Heritage Village
Therapeutic Landscaped Gardens. It is the setting for
informal visiting and a variety of meaningful
activities.
Warning Of Religious Absolutism'
WASHINGTON (JTA)-The' Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaism was redsdicated here last week at ceremonies marked by ^ warning that "the climate of mutual
tolerance and pluralism in America is being polluted by an
ominous-and potent campaign of religious absolutism."
Albert Vorspan of New York, Director of American Hebrew
Congregations (TJAHC), charged that "a fever of religious
radicalism now sweeps America, its power augmented by a
vast electronic pulpit and mailing list which yield a cornucopia of political funds to go with a hit-list of terrifying political power."
rael Target
g Terrorists
oriented and. sponsored
groups, like the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
which, the study said operates with soviet arms and
training.
Greenberg said "the ideological glue that binds the
'red' and 'black''terrorists is
"the shared commitment"
to destroy-democracy' and
freedom of expression. He
told the meeting of the ADL
National Commission that
the two terrorist networks
have established links
through financial support,
weapons and joint terrorist
training operations.
According to the study,
prepared by Jerome H.
Bakst, ADL research department director, the terrorist
networks are backed by powerful propaganda machines
that attack western societies
and disseminate anti-Zionist
and anti-Semitic materials.
The study reported that
West  German's  principal
neo-Nazi, Manfred Reeder,
has American connections,
. which include George Dietz
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NEW YORK (JTA)-
Right-wing and left-wing terrorists are conducting a
global campaign against the
same targets—western democracies, Israel and
Jews—and, in some cases,
have joined forces in that
campaign, according to a
study reported by Maxwell
Greenberg, chairman of the
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith. He said Israel
was a primary target for
both.
Greenberg told the ADL
National Commission at its
meeting here that terrorist
violence in Europe in 1980
and the recent assassination.)
attempt against Pope John
Paul II gave new urgency to
exposing and taking action
against the international terrorist networks.
•The ADL study described
neo-Nazi and fascist terrorists and propagandists as a
"black" network and' used
the term "red" network for
such groups as the West Ger-
. man Baader-Meinhoff Gang,
the Italian Red Brigades," the
Japanese, and other Soviet-
§ IAEA Documents Showing
Have Produced Up To 3 A-Bombs
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Sen. Alan Cranston
(D:-Calif.) revealed last
week that he has received
internal documents from
American sources at the
International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) that
estimate that the Iraqi nuclear reactor destroyed by
Israel June 7 could have produced enough plutonium
each year to build up to three
nuclear bombs.
"Furthermore, these
IAEA documents indicate
that there is a significant
possibility, indeed probability, that this plutonium
production could not have
been detected by IAEA
inspectors," Cranston told
the opening day of hearings
by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the
Israeli raid.
The Senator, a member of
the committee, revealed that
Roger Richter, a 33-year-old
American who has been
working as an IAEA
inspector in the Middle East
and South Asia sections,
would testify before the com-"
mitte on the unreliability of
the IAEA inspection system.
Richter, who recently
accepted a five-year extension of his contract, resigned
from the IAEA on Tuesday
of last week so he could testify before the committee,
Cranston's office said.
Richter, who reportedly
was closeted in a hotel room
working on his testimony,
was said by Cranston's office
to be a strong supporter of
the peaceful use of nuclear
energy for making electricity.
Sen. Cranston, however,
read portions of an analysis
Richter provided the U.S.
Mission to the IAEA in 1980.
"The available information
points to an aggressive,
coordinated program by
Iraq to develop a nuclear
weapons capability during
the next five years," Cranston said.
"As a nuclear-safeguard-
inspector at the IAEA, my
concern, and complaint is
that Iraq will be able to conduct this program under the
auspices of the Non-proliferation Treaty and while violating the provision of NPT,"
Richter wrote.
' 'The IAEA safeguards are ,
totally incapable of detecting the production, of plutonium in large-size
material test reactors under
the presently constituted
safeguards arrangements.
Perhaps the most disturbing
implication of the Iraqi
nuclear program is that the
NPT agreement has had the
effect of assisting Iraq in
acquiring the nuclear technology and nuclear material
for its program by absolving
the cooperating nations.of
their moral responsibility by
shifting it to the IAEA.
"These cooperating
nations have thwarted concerted international criticism . of their actions by
pointing to Iraq's signing of
NPT while turning away
from the numerous, obvious
and compelling evidence
which leads to the conclusion
that Iraq is embarked on a
nuclear weapons program,"
Richter charged.
Cranston, the Senate
Assistant Minority Leader,
made available to the reporters  the  IAEA  documents
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Engineering. During the
1980-81 year he was on leave
from Congregation Tifereth
Israel, studying at the
Melton Center for Jewish
Merrill Shapiro Appointed Director Of Education
Merrill Shapiro, formerly
Ritual Director of Congregation Tifereth Israel, has been
appointed Educational
Director of the congregation
effective August 1, 1981. Announcement was made by
Harold Mindlin, Congregation President, and Alan
Radnor, Education and Personnel Chairman.
A member of the congre-
ga .ion's educational staff for
more than a decade, Merrill I
Shapiro has served as a
teacher in the Elementary
and Machon Departments
and served during the 1979-80
year as Principal of the
Tifereth Israel Community
Hebrew High School. He
served as Ritual Director
from 1978 to 1980. In addition
to the position. of Educational Director he will also
continue to be the congregation's Torah reader for Shabbat and Holidays.
A graduate of the Ohio
State University, Rabbi
Shapiro has also studied at
Cornell University, the Jewish Theological Seminary
and the Newark College of
Rabbi Merrill Shapiro
ttaucation in the Diaspora
and also pursuing Rabbinical Studies in Jerusalem. He
was ordained as a rabbi in
Jerusalem lliis year.
As Educational Director,
Rabbi Shapiro will supervise
all of the educational programs of the congregation
while also serving as Principal   of  the  Elementary
School. Mrs. Evelyn,.Nate-
man, who served as Principal from 1972 to 1981, will
continue to be a member of '
the teaching staff and will
assume the newly created
position as Co-ordinator for
Adult  Education.   Miriam
Stadtler  Rosenbaum  will
continue to serve as High
School Principal.
Fifty Arrested
Bomb Threat
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)-
A bopib threat to a radio station forced the suspension of
"A Voz Israelita", the only
daily Jewish radio progam
in Rio de Janeiro which has
been carried by Radio Copa-
cabana for the past 17 years.
, The warning, by an anonymous telephone call to the
station manager, threatened
that a bomb would be exploded at the station if the
Jewish program "or any
other program promoting
Jews" was continued. The
caller warned that "No Jewish programs should be
transmitted over Brazil's
radio station." "A Voz
Israelita" was established 26
years ago. Its founder and
director is David Markus,
editor of Rio's only Yiddish
newspaper, "Yiddishe
Presse" and Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent in Brazil.
Some circles here believe
the threat was associated
with terrorist activities by
an extreme rightwing group
aimed at creating an atmosphere of unrest in the
country to obstruct the process of democratization initiated by President Joao
Baptista Figeiredo. But
others do not exclude the
-possibility that the bomb
threat came from the Palestine Liberation Organization
which has been the' target
of attacks on "A Voz Israelita."
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JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Police reported last week
that more than 50 persons
have been arrested for creating disturbances at election
rallies or perpetrating other
acts of violence in connection with the upcoming Knesset elections. Eight suspects
have been remanded in custody pending the completion
of proceedings against them,
the police said.
The latest rash of violence
included false bomb threats
at places where election rallies were to be held. "Senior
police officers" were quoted
by the news media as saying
that at least some of the dis-
turbances  which  have
m Knesset
oign Violence
marred Israel's election
campaign were planned and
organized by lower echelon
party activists. Most of the
violence has been directed
against Labor Alignment
election rallies. Labor Party
leaders have accused Likud
of inspiring or condoning the
incidents. Premier Menachem Begin hotly denied this
but issued a call to "everyone" to refrain from creating disorder at election
rallies.
Attorney General Yitzhak
Zamir issued a warning that
disturbances at election rallies constituted a criminal
offense punishable by up to
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