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VOL.60   NO. 18
MAY 6,1982-IYAR13
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals'.
ns Of Three Years Ago
Begin Opposed To Prosecution
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Menachem Begin expressed his personal opinion against prosecuting some three
score anti-withdrawal die-hards arrested by police during
the Yamit evacuation. At the weekly Cabinet meeting
(according to unofficial reports) Begin said he would favor
"forgiving them." Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir said the
state and the army must not, in his view, "Forgo its honor"
regarding the alleged miscreants who had deliberately
assailed the government, the Knesset andidemocracy. Begin
said he did not want to "interfere"' with the judicial process
and it was not immediately clear how the episode would end.
Countries Urged To Combat Neo-Nazism
LONDON (WNS)—Britain and other West European countries will be urged to.strengthen their legislation to combat
the resurgence of neo-Nazism. The Institute of Jewish Affairs, research arm of the World Jewish Congress, it was
reported, said it would press parliaments to introduce legislation with special legal provisions against the denial and
whitewashing of Nazi crimes, especially the murder of six
million Jews.
WAS H I N G T 0 N
(JTA)—The general lack of
celebration over Israel's
withdrawal from the Sinai
Apr. 25, which marked the
last step in the implementation of the Israeli-Egyptian
peace treaty, was jevidence
that the high expectations of
three years ago werp still far
from realization.  j
Israel's other .Arab neighbors had not joined the peace
process, and Israel and
Egypt are still deadlocked
over the next stage of the
Camp David accords—autonomy for the Palestinian
Arabs on the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip.        \ . ■.
Adding to this is the con-
Rally For Soviet Jews Scheduled
For Tuesday, May 11, State House
The entire community is
urged to attend next week's
Freedom Rally For Soviet
Jewry at the State House.
The Rally will be held at 12
noon on Tuesday, May 11 on
the west steps of the capitol.
In the event of rain, the rally
will move indoors to the
State House Rotunda. The
Freedom Rally for Soviet
Jewry is being sponsored by
the Community Relations
Committee of the Columbus
Jewish Federation.
"We must raise our voices
and say to the USSR-Let
My People Go," said Mrs.-
Karen Moss, co-chairman of
the Community Relations
Committee's Soviet. Jewry
Task Force, Mrs. Moss said
that the Freedom Rally is so
important because Soviet
Jewish emigration has been
cut off. "We must once again
bring the plight of Soviet
Jewry to the attention of the
entire community-
Jew and gentile," said Mrs.
Moss. Along with the cutting
off of emigration she indicated that Soviet Jews are
subject to increase harassment, surveillance and overt
acts of anti-Semitism.
The Freedom Rally For
Soviet Jewry program will
last one-half hour. Several
state senators and state
representatives will be present in order to proclaim May
11 as Freedom For Soviet
Jewry Day in Ohio. The
proclamation is the result of
efforts by Ohio Representative Jo Ann Davidson to
steer a joint resolution on
Soviet Jewry through the
Ohio General "Assembly. In
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Begin Says Israel Will Conduct
In Good Faith Negotiations To
Reach An Autonomy Agreement
NEW YORK (JTA)-Pre-
mier Menachem Begin said
Apr.   25  that  Israel  will
"conduct   in  good  faith"
negotiations  to  reach  an
agreement on autonomy for
the Palestinians on the West
Bank and Gaza Strip.
But at the same time, as
Israel relinquished the final
- portion of Sinai to Egypt in
accordance with the Camp
David ageement, Begin said
Israel would not tolerate any
Egyptian  breach  of  the
■ peace treaty.
"If at  any  time,  they
should commit a breach of
their  commitments  under
the pace treaty, then Israel's
reaction will be swift,"
Begin said in an interview on
NBC-TVs "Meet the Press"
program broadcast via
sattellite from the Prime
Minister's Office in Jerusalem. The Israeli Premier
did not indicate what Israel
would consider as constituting such a breach or
how Israel would react.
On the issue of autonomy,
Begin said that the proposal
by Israel to allow 13 local
functions to be administered
by, the'ruling Palestinian
authorities is "the widest
ever suggested to any
ethnical group." As for the
criticism of the. government's ouster of three demo-
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addition to presentations by
local elected officials a
musical program of Soviet
Jewish refusenik son(pr will
be prSerited.^T   " ;*,lS^    "
For more information, call
the Community Relations
Committee at 237-7686.'
Careers Day Program
Set At Center May 11
Careers Day 1982 will be
presented by the Jewish Center and Jewish Family Service, on Tuesday, May 11,
beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the
Jewish Center.
The program will include
an opportunity for students
and parents to meet with
representatives of various
professional backgrounds to
discuss job opportunities,
and suggested requirements
needed to prepare for a
career in both blue and white
collar positions.
Another aspect of the
Careers Day will be the
availability of college, university and technical school
representatives to share
information regarding financial aid, application procedures, job openings, and
future employment concerns.
Also included as part of
Careers Day will be a computer link up with the Ohio
Career Information System.
This is part of a national
computer system which provides information in the
areas of local and national
jobs, descriptions, requirements; also print out inform
mation on'two and four year
graduate schools. The computer also provides an outlook on employment:
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cern by Israel's friends in
the United States that the
government of Premier
Menachem Begin is not being given enough credit for
what it has given up in the
pursuit of peace. The focus
for the last several months .
has been on whether Israel
would return the Sinai as
scheduled, a commitment
Begin maintained throughout he would keep.
Forgotten in all this was
that, for peace, Israel gave
up the Sinai oil fields, the
source of 80 percent of its Oil
requirements. Supporters of
Israel have been asking this
week if anyone knew of any
other country that had willingly given up its oil source
in recent years.
Tangibles And Intangibles
Nor , has much mention
been made of Israel's abandonment of two modern air
bases in the Sinai or that, by
leaving the Sinai, Israel
gave up defensive depth
which could cost the Jewish
State greatly in lives if
*Egyjpt 'ever abandoned the
peaiie treaty.
For these tangible moves,
Israel gets the intangible
asset of peace with Egypt, a
peace which will be tested in
the coming months as President Hosni Mubarak seeks to
improve Egypt's relations
with its fellow Arab states.
Mubarak has pledged to
keep his commitments to
Israel, but will the U.S.
retaliate if he doesn't?
What Israel's friends
would like to see was put succinctly at a recent rally by
Howard Squadron, chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
"Give Israel credit for what
it does do, and stop blaming
Israelfor what it does not
do," Squadron demanded.
The Chief Question
The chief question now
revolves around the autonomy talks. The Reagan
Administration has pledged
' to "move swiftly" in helping
Israel and Egypt agree on a
plan to provide autonomy for
the Palestinians on the West
Bank and Gaza. Secretary of
State Alexander Haig has
been occupied with the Falk-
lands crisis, but his special
assistant for the autonomy
talks, Richard Fairbanks,
has been familiarizing himself with the issues and has
reportedly been working on
a set of ideas to offer Israel
and Egypt.
Begin said in an NBC-TV
interview last Sunday that if
Israel finds the U,S. proposals "good and proper we
shll than accept them. If we
do not find them good and
proper,   we  will  reject
them."
The basic question is-
whether the U.S. will use undue pressure in an attempt
to force Israel to accept
unpalatable proposals.
Although there are still
many differences between
Israel and Egypt, including
Egypt's refusal to hold some
sessions of the negotiations
in Jerusalem, there are two
main differences that have
to be breached.
Israel wants the self-governing administrative .council which will provide autonomy to have only administrative functions and be limited to 14 members. Egypt,
which envisions autonomy
as the first step to a Palestinian state, wants it to have
legislative, and judicial
powers and to have at least
30 members.
Another Major Dispute
The other major dispute is
over whether the residents of
East Jerusalem should vote
for the self-governing
authority. Egypt demands
that they be allowed to do so;
Israel, which fears that this
would be a challenge to its-
sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, does not want to
allow the Arabs there to
vote.
All this means that the
months and years ahead in
the Middle East will' con-
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PEOPLE IN PROFILE
Anti-Nuclear Activist
Still Fighting For Causes
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle Staff Writer
Fighting for causes in
which he believes is nothing
new to Harvey Wasserman—author, lecturer, anti-
nuclear activist and former
Columbus resident.
Wasserman, a graduate of
Eastmoor High School, was
active in Heart of Ohio AZA
and Beth Jacob Youth and
was a counselor at the Jewish Center Day Camp. The
winner of numerous writing
awards, he helped found the
Liberation News Service. He
is the author of Harvey Washerman's History of the
United States and Energy
War and the co-author of
Lovejoy's Nuclear War and
The Last Resort He has
written countless articles
and essays and. is politics
editor of New Age.
In town recently to promote his newest book, Killing Our Own, a comprehensive look at the United
States' involvement with
nuclear power, Wasserman
reminisced about his first in
what was to become a long
line of political protests;      .
It was 1962, he recalled,
when the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, that he and a friend
became angry that a Columbus skating rink discriminated .against Blacks by
selling memberships. Their
answer/ he noted, was to
picket the rink, carrying
placards proclaiming,
"Don't Skate, Integrate!"
Next came protests
against the war in Viet Nam.
During this time,. Wasserman was graduated from the
University of Michigan, received his Master's Degree
in a\merican History from
the University of Chicago
and was named a Woodrow
Wilson Fellow.
Then, student protests
behind him, he settled down
to the quiet, rural life oh a
farm in Montague, Mass.,
but fighting causes, it seems,
had become a way of life. In
Har\«■}" Wjssis man
1973, according to Wasserman, when the local utility
company decided to build an
unwanted and unnecessary
nuclear power plant in his
community, he was instrumental in halting its construction, and thus began his
involvement with the Clamshell Alliance, an anti-
nuclear group which he co-
founded.    '*
His interest led him ,Jo;
begin researching dangers of radiation, and what
he found, he said, was
frightening. In such areas as
Three Mile Island, a pattern'
emerged which included an
abnormal number of animal':'
stillbirths and mutations,'
infertility, sickness and even
death, he said. Statistics
compiled since the accident,
while still under hot debate,
seemed to indicate, according to an article by Wasserman which appeared in the
Mar. 27, 1980, JVew York
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