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VOL. 04   NO. 2!)
JULY 17,1986-TAMMUZ10
Devoted to American
ancf Jewlth Ideal*.
Ten Achille Lauro Hijackers Sentenced;
None Found Guilty of Klinghoffer Murder
were: (for a three year
term) Mrs. Ed Ellman;
Murray Ebner; Ron Feerer;
Robert Friedman, M.D.;
Allen Gundersheimer; Mrs.
in
Miriam Yenkin, president of the Columbus Jewish
Federation, was the guest speaker at the Heritage
Village Annual Meeting on June 26. (top photo). J.
Maynard Kaplan and Mrs. Joseph .Schecter, co-chairpersons of Nominating Committee, are in the bottom
photo.
Robins To Serve Third Term
As Heritage Village President
Members of the Boards of
Heritage Village; Heritage
Tower, the Geriatric Service
Organization and the Heritage Village Auxiliary were
honored for their continuing
dedication to providing "Life
With Dignity" at the Heritage Village Annual Board
Installation, held on June 26
at Heritage House.
Mrs. Howard Schoenbaum
and Allen Gundersheimer
served as co-chairpersons
for the installation program.
Louis Robins received the
unanimous support of all
present in his ejection to a
third term as president of
Heritage Village. In his acceptance remarks, Robins
noted that the current Heritage House building and expansion program was a
focus of his past two years in
office and that "there is still
a lot of work to be completed" toward the fund raising and construction of the
"most modern and most
functional home for the elderly in the country." At the
conclusion of his remarks,
Robins expressed his sincere
appreciation to members of
all Village boards and distributed noteholders imprinted
with the Village's Silver Anniversary logo "as a reminder of how important
each of you are to the Heritage Village family."
Elected to the Heritage
Village Board were Arthur
Kobacker as vice president;
Mrs. Harry Polster as secretary; Mrs. Ed Stan as assistant secretary; Irving,
Barkan as treasurer, and
Alan Weiler as associate
treasurer. Members of the
Board elected at the meeting
Louis Robins
Michael Lehv; Mrs. A. Herbert Kanter;   Mrs.  Laura
Gordon; Richard Kohn; S.
Richard  Kotzer;   Harry
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GENOA (JTA) - Ten
Achille Lauro hijackers
were given sentences ranging from life to six months
imprisonment by a criminal
court here last week for
"kidnapping for terrorist
ends which resulted in the
death of a person." One
defendant, a minor, will be
tried separately by a juvenile court. Four others
were acquitted.
But none of the accused
was found guilty of murder
in the death of Leon Klinghoffer, 60, the American
Jewish passenger shot in his
wheelchair and dumped
overboard after the hijackers seized the Italian
cruise ship in Egyptian waters last Oct. 7-9. (See separate U.S. State Department
reaction story.)
The life sentences were
pronounced in absentia on
Abu Abbas, 37, leader of the
terrorist group known as the
Palestine Liberation Front;
his "chief of staff" Ouzudin
Badratkan, 39, and Omar Al-
Zaid, 2d, described as the
PLF treasurer. They and
seven others are still at large
and were tried in absentia.
Abbas allegedly masterminded the hijack.
Magied Mulqi, a 23-year-
old Palestinian accused of
killing Klinghoffer and
ordering crew members to
throWjhis body into the sea,
was sentenced to 30 years
imprisonment. According to
Italian legal experts, the
facts surrounding the murder were vague and the evidence too circumstantial to
warrant a conviction for
murder.
Mulqi, one of the five accused in custody, would in
any case have received a life
sentence, the maximum
penalty allowed under
Italian law.
The verdict was decided
Jordan's Closure Of El Fatah
Centers In Amman Seen As
Major Blow To PLC's Arafat
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Israeli analysts said last
week that Jordan's closure
of El Fatah's operational
centers in Amman was a
major blow to Palestine
Liberation Organization
chief Yasir Arafat. They described the centers as a vital
link between the PLO leadership and residents of the
administered territories. El
Fatah is the terrorist arm of
the PLO loyal to Arafat.
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin called the Jordanian
jointly "by a panel of six
jurors and two magistrates
who began their deliberations July 7 after a 17-day
trial. It was read to a
packed,   heavily  guarded
court  by  presiding Judge
Lino Monteverde.
Ibrahim Abdel Latif, 21,
Mulqi's deputy, drew a
prison sentence of 24 years
and three months. Ahmed
U.S. Expresses Satisfaction,
Regret With Outcome Ot Trial
Of Achille Lauro Hijackers
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The United States expressed
both satisfaction with the
outcome of the trial in Italy
of the hijackers of the
Achille Lauro and regret
that the person who murdered an American hostage
on the cruise ship received
only a 30-year sentence.
"The United States is
pleased that persons responsible for fhe death of an
American citizen and injuries and damages to others
have been convicted," State
Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said. "We hope
that these convictions will
deter terrorist acts in the future."
The Italian jury handed
down a life sentence last
week in absentia to Abu
Abbas, the head of the
terrorist Palestine Liberation Front, who is believed to
have masterminded the
hijacking of the Achille
Lauro. His whereabouts are
unknown.
The court gave a 30-year
sentence to Magied Al Mulqi,
a 23-year-old Palestinian accused of shooting Klinghoffer and ordering crew members to dump his body into
the sea. However, neither he
nor the others on trial were
convicted of murder.
"We note that Abu Abbas
got a maximum sentence
under Italian law," Kalb
said! "We regret that the?
murderer of Leon Klinghoffer was not treated more
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Maruf Al-Assadi, who turned
states evidence at the trial,
was sentenced to 15 years
and two months. The others
found guilty drew sentences
from six months to seven
years and six months in
prison. All of the, defendants
were cleared of charges of
"belonging to an armed
gang," the blanket charge
usually made in cases of terrorist activities.
The three, leaders given
life terms and the three
others given long sentences
were ordered by the court to>
individually pay 30 million
Lire (approximately $20,000)
to each of Klinghoffer's two
daughters, Ilsa and Lisa.
American Jewish Press Group
Elects Officers For Current Year
Newly elected officers of the American Jewish Press
Association, retained for another year are (1. to r.,
seated) Marc S. Klein of the Northern California Jewish Bulletin, first vice president; Robert A. Cohn of the
St. Louis Jewish Light, president; (standing) Florence
Eckstein of the Greater Phoenix Jewish News, second
vice president; Richard Waloff of theJewish Exponent
. of Philadelphia, treasurer; Vida Goldgar of the Southern Israelite ol Atlanta, third vice president; Fredda
Sacharow of the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia,
recording secretary, and Charles Baumohl of the Jewish News of metropolitan New Jersey, corresponding
secretary. Photo by Larry Fox.
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By Aug. 4
action "a development in the
right direction." Addressing
the Yeshiva University convention here, he said the closures would restrict PLO
activities in the territories
and reduce terrorism there.
The official communique
issued in Amman said the
PLO offices shut down were
the ones that were reopened
over a year ago following the
rapproachemeht between
Jordan's King Hussein and
Arafat, They were closed,
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• THE OHIO JEWISH CHRONICLE
J NEW YEAR EDITION
• SEPTEMBER 29, 1986
I FEATURING:
• ■ The Jewish Epicure—a special feature section about how
m to plan the perfect party and what and where to eat in
~ Columbus
• m Short stories by Local Authors
• ■ The Annual,.Updated Guide to the Jewish community
• ■ organization Annual Reports
£ ■ Pictorial and Chronological Highlights of the Past Year
a ■ New Year Greetings to the community
Z ■ The New OJC community Calendar—a Jewish
• Calendar designed especially for this communi'
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