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The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
Serving Columbus and Central Ohio
Jewish Community for Ooer 60 Years
VOLUME 69
NUMBER 10
MARCH 7,1991;
21 AD AR 5751
DEVOTED   TO   AMERICAN   AND   JEWISH   IDEALS
Jolosky to chair Bonds
Women's Division
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Cantorial Concert to be
held Sunday, March 10
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Local Israelis'-form
committee for ARMDI
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Bf Wolman to chair
GAGQjC delegation
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Metzehbaum receives
award from NJCRAC
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Students participate in
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CHS TO SPONSOR LOCAL SCREENING
Ft7m honors French rescuers
By Mara Ryan   <
Stuart M. Gordon, president
of the Columbus chapter of
Children of Holocaust Survw
vors, announces the organization's sponsorship of Weapons
of the Spirit, Pierre Sauvage's
film about 5,000 villagers of Le
Chambon-sur-Lignon who
saved 5,000 Jews during the
Holocaust.
brie Hoffman, project director, said that he was "really excited about bringing
[this] noble, four-star, professional production" to Columbus. He explained that Sau-
vage, who is Jewish, was born
in Le Chambon, a predominantly Huguenot town in
south-central France, after
his parents fled Paris in 1943. *
According to Gary Arnold
(Washington Times, Jan. 19,
1990), Sauvage's parents immigrated to the United States
after .World War II, "but it
was many years before they
revealed to ... [their son]
that they had been Jewish refugees." Arnold, who calls the
film "genuinely inspiring,"
writes that Sauvage produced,
wrote and directed it as "a
debt of gratitude" to the people of Le Chambon, who,
"quietly, systematically and
successfully, protected Jews
and their children" during the
Nazi occupation.
Under the spiritual leadership of Protestant pastor Andre Trocme, the town became
a haven for persecuted Jews.
And virtually all of its inhabitants were united in what Sauvage calls "a conspiracy of
goodness."
The solidarity, courage and
simplicity of faith exhibited by
the Chambonnaise is emphasized in the movie. Sauvage
highlights their moral stature
by interweaving the recollections of surviving villagers
with historical commentary
about the period. Despite
great danger to themselves,
the people of Le Chambon
never wavered. As one of the
women in Weapons of the
Spirit asserts, ''Theirs was not
a sentimental faith. It was a
very solid faith that was put to
the test and not found wanting-"    ;'..'■■
The film will be shown at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Community Center on Thurs
day, March 21, at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets cost $5, but one is complimentary with each $18
membership in C.H.S.
Mara Gales Ryan is a local
freelance writer and a mem-
.ber of Children of-Holocaust
Survivors.
NEWS ANALYSIS
Arab leaders who backed Hussein
will go down with him says Saudi
Tom Tugend people. They, though not their » eign minister.
By Tom Tugend
* LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
Arab leaders who sided with
Iraq will go under with Sad-
darn Hussein, according to
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to
the United States.
Taking off his diplomatic
gloves, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan described Palestine liberation Organization leader
Yasir Arafat as a "clown,"
King Hussein of Jordan as a
"goner" and Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh as "an
illiterate man."
Signaling a radical change
in Saudi Arabia's longtime
policy of building an Arab consensus, the diplomat said that
all of Saddam Hussein's supporters would share in his defeat to be stripped of all influence in the Middle East.
. The one exception, Bandar
said ina the luncheon interview with the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles
Times, was the Palestinian
people. They, though not their
leaders, would be forgiven,
because "they are not against
me," the prince said.
He excused their support of
Iraq by saying, "they are just
frustrated, and they want anything to happen that could
move something." He added
that he was convinced the Pat
estinians are "sobering up."
Bandar also announced that
his government will shortly
publish details of its aid program to other Arab nations,
revealing that pro-Iraqi leaders received, and apparently
embezzled, millions of dollars
before the outbreak of the Persian Gulf war.
The Saudi ambassador has
played a key role In strategy
meetings of the U.S,-led coalition since Iraq invaded Kuwait. He is well connected
within the Saudi power structure as son of the defense minister, brother of the overall
Saudi military commander
and brother-in-law of the f or-
^ eign minister.
He ridiculed in equal measure Arab leaders who failed
to join the fight against Hussein and those American
analysts who have predicted
that .Saddam Hussein will
emerge as a hero whether he
wins or loses the war.
"Arabists in the United
States sell the Arabs short,"
the prince said. "They think
either we don't have any
brains or they think of us in a
romantic sense — white
robes, white horses."
Reserving' some of his bitterest scorn for King Hussein,
Bandar predicted the end of
the Jordanian monarch as a
serious Arab leader.
"He earned our disrespect,
and he earned Saddam Hussein's contempt," Bandar
said, "He was our friend for 40
years, and he sold us out, just
like this.
"He cheered Saddam Hussein for five months," the
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