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VOL.61   NO. 31
M. Strapp To Head
Beth Jacob R.I.W.
Hal Tanenbaum, president
of the Beth Jacob Congregation, announces that the
chairperson for the 25th
annual Religious Emphasis
Week will be Mrs. Myrna
Strapp.
has  named
McFarlane Replaces Habib
WASHINGTON   (JTA)-President Reagan  .._
Robert McFarlane, a deputy assistant for national security
affairs, to replace Philip Habib as his personal representative in the Middle East. McFarlane will carry the personal
rank of ambassador.
British Prime Minister Praises Argov
LONDON (WNS)— British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher praised Shlomo Agrov, the former Israeli Ambassador to London, as "a true citizen of the free world who
cherishes freedom and justice and is utterly opposed to those
who assault them." She spoke at a special dinner July 21 in
London's Grosvenor House Hotel, only 200 yards from the
spot where, 13 months ago, Argov was shot by an Arab terrorist. His life was saved but he has since been almost totally
paralyzed.
U.S. Eases Opposition To Israeli
Redeployment Plans In Lebanon
 "",        — «r,tinn that this rede-    also stressed the necessity
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Myrna Strapp
Religious Emphasis Week,
held  annually  since   1959,
takes place during the period
between Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur. The purpose of
this adult education institute
is  to  awaken  men  and
women to the intellectual
foundation and intellectual
roots of traditional Judaism.
-The symposium will present
a series of lectures, workshops and special sessions
delivered  by   outstanding
speakers.
Mrs. Strapp is well known
at Beth Jacob and throughout  the  Columbus Jewish
community as a leader and
supporter of many Jewish
causes. She has been active
for the past several years
with Jewish National Fund,
House of Tradition, Jewish
Center  Preschool   and  as
Israeli Judaica chairwoman.
She has served on the Board
of the Beth Jacob Sisterhood,
as a previous member of the
R.E.W. committee and as a
leader of the Beth Jacob
Young Couples Group.
Mrs. Strapp who is also an
attorney, is married to Joe
Strapp, is mother of three
children and resides in Berwick
.1U1J«VM.
Scientists Protest Treatment 01 Colleague
NEW YORK (JTA)—Physicists from around the world
who attended a major international scientific conference in
Crete in July protested to soviet authorities against the
refusal to allow Prof. Armen Khachaturyan and his wife,
Svetlana, to attend the conference and the continued denial to
them of exit visas to emigrate, the World Jewish Congress reported. The professor and his wife, leading experts in the
theory of phase transformation, first applied to emigrate to
Israel in July, 1981
WASHINGTON   (WNS)
After three days of talks with
Israeli   Defense   Minister
Moshe Arens and Foreign
Minister   Yitzhak   Shamir,
the Reagan Administration
appeared last week to have
eased its opposition to the
Israeli plans to redeploy its
forces in Lebanon, calling
the move "inevitable" and
agreeing to Israel's contentions that this will be the first
phase of its complete withdrawal from Lebanon.
"One of the things that
came forward very strongly
was the attitude of Israel
that this redeployment is the
first phase toward total withdrawal in the context of the
May   17   Israeli-Lebanese
agreement," said Secretary
of State George Shultz on
July 28 after a 30-minute
meeting  between  the  two
Israeli ministers and President Reagan. "I think that
Jimmy Cram To Be Master Of Ceremonies
At Aug. 15 Jewish Center Sports Spectacular
""'     --'""» "oiohritv dinner with    ics, demonstrations, e:
Jimmy Crum, WCMH-TV
sports director, will be
master of ceremonies at the
Butch Levy Sports Spectacular of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center on Monday, Aug.
15.
This  announcement was
made by Sports'Spectacular
chairman Ron Feerer. "We
are pleased to have Crum
join us for our second annual
event," Feerer said. "He is
well-known not only as the
sports authority in Central
Ohio but also for his dedication  to  many  charitable
groups in the area."
Reservations for the daylong event to be held at
Winding Hollow Country
Club are coming in daily.
Feerer reports that the golf
and tennis activities as well
as the celebrity dinner with
Jim Valvano are attracting
lots of interest.
ics, demonstrations, exhibitions and tournament play.
Bud Demling, golf trick shot
artist, will also entertain.
Jim Valvano, head basketball coach of the 1983 NCAA
champion North Carolina
State University, will be the
featured speaker at dinner
that evening.
Ticket information is
available by calling David
Valinsky at the Center,
231-2731.
any notion that this redeployment is part of an
attempt to stay in Lebanon is
totally wrong and certainly
to the contrary. It is a step in
the direction of total withdrawal arid we, at least hope
it will make some impact in
that regard on the Syrians
and others in the area."
Shultz's   remarks   were
made in the driveway outside the White House West
Wing while the Israeli ministers stood by his side. Shamir and Arens arrived here
July 26 and conducted intensive meetings with Shultz
and  his   aides,   including
Robert McFarlane, the new
envoy to the Middle East,
and Richard Fairbanks, another special Mideast envoy.
Shamir departed to Israel
the night of July 28 while
Arens, who has also met
separately  with  Defense
Secretary   Caspar  Weinberger   at  the  Pentagon,
stayed a day longer for more
meetings with Weinberger.
Neither! Arens nor Shamir
specifically  mentioned the
issue of deployment in their
brief   remarks   after   the
White House meeting. But
Shamir did comment on the
deployment issue after an
all-day session with Shultz at
the State Department July
27.   He  said:   "We've  explained to our friends, the
Secretary and his assistants
all of our concepts on the redeployment as a first stage
of the implementation of the
agreement   concluded   between us and Lebanon. We
■WITI—i—rr —i    i • -
Jimmy Crum
Golf stars Donna Caponi
and Al Geiberger and tennis
legends Fred Stolle and Cliff
Drysdale will provide clin-
Z31-Z7J1.
Bill Introduced In Ohio Senate
To Curb Paramilitary Training
t „ T ir-oho,. en.    inn   for   'defense'   thro
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Soviets Export Anti-Zionist Propaganda
-_!_»..„*   v>h^aces which strike a chore
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
National  Conference, on
Soviet  Jewry (NCSJ)   reported that a new film made
by the Soviet government for
export abroad, particularly
to the United States, links
Zionism with Nazism and
racism.  According  to  the
. NCSJ, the film, "Babi Yar:
the Lessons of History," is
disturbing because it represents an attempt to expand
the ongoing Soviet propaganda campaign personified
by  the  three-and-a-half
month  old  "Anti-Zionist
Committee."
Narrated in near flawless
English and of high technical
quality,, it? was apparently
sent out to a wide variety of
media outlets, including CBS
News, the Simon Wiesenthal
Center and private individuals involved in tracking
down Nazi war criminals,
The danger of the film, the
NCSJ stressed, is that it has
been well targeted. Its anti-
Zionist message is subtle
compared to that in Soviet
propaganda geared for internal consumption; only a few
telltale lines, uttered in a
steady, matter-of-fact tone,
are inserted into the roughly
hour-long film. They appear,
moreover, within the context
of repeated admonitions like
"Never  again,"  and  '.'We
must  never  forget" —
phrases which strike a chord
in any Jew, and doubtless
many others in the West.
Knesset Rejects
Bill Calling For
New Elections
JERUSALEM   (JTA)-
The Knesset rejected last
week a Tami Party private
member's bill for elections
for a new Knesset next October, instead of the scheduled
1984   date.   The   rejection
stemmed from a tie vote on
the  proposal   and  under
Knesset rules, such a vote
means a proposal does not
pass.
Senator Lee I. Fisher (D-
Cleveland) has introduced a
bill in the Ohio Senate which
would provide for criminal
penalties  for  weapons  instructors and participants in
paramilitary   training
camps. Senators William F.
Bowen  (D-Cincinnati)  and
M. Morris Jackson (D-Cleve-
land) are co-sponsors of the
bill,   S.B.   254,   which   is
modeled  after  legislation
drafted by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
The legislation is designed
to confront the proliferation
of paramilitary training centers operated by the Ku Klux
Klan and other violence-inclined hate groups in the
United   States.   Camps
operated by the Klan and
similar groups have been uncovered in Alabama, California,   Connecticut,   Illinois,
North Carolina and Texas.
"Though sponsors of these
camps claim they are train
ing  for   'defense'   through
'survival courses,' it is clear
that these armed racists are
engaged  in  paramilitary
training for guerrilla Warfare against their purported
enemies—blacks, Jews and
other minority groups," said
Michael Kotzin, director of.
the  Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana
Regional Office of the Anti-
Defamation League.
The statute would have no
effect on legitimate sporting
activities involving weapons
or deadly techniques which
do  not  pose  a  threat  to
society, such as rifle ranges
and karate clubs. It would,
however, make illegal the
activities of groups, like the
Klan, who are training for
the purpose of engaging in a
"civil disorder."
"We are very pleased that
this important legislation
has been introduced in
Ohio," Kotzin said. "We will
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also stressed the necessity of
close cooperation of the redeployment between lis and
the Lebanese government.
and the United States government."
There was no public comment oft whether there has
been a timetable set for the
start of the redeployment
which would put the Israeli
forces back to the Awali     .
River. But a senior Administration official briefing re^
porters on the content of the'
talks between the U.S. officials and the Israeli ministers said that the Israelis
would like to start the troop
pullback "as soon as possible."   However,   it  was        j
noted by the official that the        '
U.S.  would  first want  to
make sure that before Israel
leaves, the Lebanese army?
can take over any area being
evacuated. He said the first,
step for this would be to stop
the fighting in the Shouf
Mountains in Eastern Lebanon. He also said the multi-
:: "national forces "Would "Hot    ~~
corisider going into that area
until the fighting has ended.
The U.S. position on the
troop   redeployment   was
made clear earlier in the
week  as  Reagan  fielded
questions from reporters at
a nationally televised news
conference from the White
House July 26. "I am hopeful
that  if  this   partial  withdrawal takes place that it
willbe recognized and admitted to be by the Israelis
as one phase of their agreement to withdrawal," Reagan said.
Reagan said that if the Israeli redeployment is part of
a "phased withdrawal it will
certainly give us a better
chance  for  breaking  the
roadblock  that  has  been
established by Syria and persuading them to keep their
original promise that when
others withdraw, they would
withdraw.''   But  Reagan
warned  that  there  is   a
"fear" that if the Israeli
move is "simply a withdrawal to another line and
then a digging in and fortifying along that line, that this
would be what it looks like
Syria is doing and that is
simply trying to partition
Lebanon,  reduce  Lebanon
and grab off some territory
for themselves." However,
Reagan quickly added that
since Israel has signed an
agreement with Lebanon for
the withdrawal of all Israeli
troops, "I don't think Israel
has that in mind." When the
two Israeli ministers arrived
here, Shamir stressed that
the redeployment is in the
"context"  of the  May  17
Israel-Lebanese agreement.