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The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, October 13, 198S-Page5
prices jump as
JERUSALEM (JPFS) -
Thelprice of inilk and other dairy products went up last week by 14%, eggs by 12%, and poultry by 8%. Subsidy GUIS, designed to reduce the budget deficit by 110 million shekels. \vere announced severai weeks ago but were delayed
until after the holidays.
The prices.of other subsidized goods —"trread, public transportation, and water — will remain unchanged for the meantime, but are expected to go up -di'-.
ter the elections. Milk, eggs, and poultry prices are
also expected to increase, agaiFTn November; ~~ ~ Finance Minister Moshe Nissim and Labor Minister Moshe Katsav agreed to u.se part of thp revenues generated bv the price hikes to increase Na-tionailnsurarice Institute
JERUSALEM (JPFS).-
The Association for Civil Rights in Isi^ael (ACRI) has called on Attorney-General Yosef Harish to issue legal guidelines on the iise of plastic bullets in the territories, following statements by â– Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin that the bullets were being used to increase injuries among Palestinian rioters (CJN Oct. 6).
In a letter to Harish,, ACRI chairman Judge Eli Natan warned that Rabin's statements appear to sanc~ tibn illegal use of pla.stic bullets for purposes of punishment or deterrence.
"As long as the impression has^'been created that the'aim is causing injury for purposes of deterrence, we can expect a" growing number of casualties' Natan wrote, noting reports of soaring Palestinian injuries. '
"Thiere is no doubt that 0|>ehing fire for purposes ofdeterrence is an illegal act. The matter is reminiscent of the sanction given nine months ago to the use of violence
and beatings for purposes of punishment and deterrence."
Just as Harish issued guidelines then on the use-of force, which were communicated to troops in a, letter from the chief of staff, so rriust Harish now issue clarification on when plastic bullets can be legally used, Natan said.
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fatalities
Chief of GeneraL Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Shomron said. last Week that the army Was not using plastic bullets in the territories in self-defence, but in
order to stop riots before they got dangerously oiiT of hand.
Shomron told the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee that the number of fatalities among Arab rioters had decreased since the plastic bullets came into use, while the number of injuries had risen.
"Arabs who deliberately choose to go out and demonstrate are getting injured," he said. "Eventually they will realize that it is not in their interest to get involved in riots."
The chief of general staff said that standing orders on use of the plastic bullets required thii they be fired from a distance of 70 metres, and solely by officers or by other ranks who had completed special marks^ manship courses. These other ranks were not permitted to fire on their owii volition, he said, and Orders required that in all cases the bullets be aimed at rioters' legs.
TEL AVIV (JTA) -
Prominent Israelis will be visiting Bulgaria in the next few weeks, and preliminary discussions are under way aimed at establishing commercial airline service between Israel and'Bulgaria, it was reportpd here last week.
Bulgaria broke diplpirjat-: ic relations with.Israel after the 1967:Six Day War, as did all Soviet bloc nations except Romania. But lately a.thaw has set in.;
Representatives x)fArT kia, /Israel's domestic airline, were joined inSo-fia by officials of El Al, Israel's international carrier, and by Shai Shohami, head, of Israel's Civil Aviation Administration.
They discussed the inauguration of flights with. Bulgarian officials. Arkia has recenUy gone into the overseas ehartier fieldrr^"
other issues with senior Bulgarian ministers.
Abba Eban, outgoing chairman of the Knesset foreign affairs and defence
committee will also visit Bulgaria within die framework of his European information campaign on behalf of Israel.
Meanwhile, Shulamit Shamir, wife of Israeli Premier Yitzhak-Shamir, has been invited by the Bulgarian government to attend ceremonies—marking the rSibue of BuigarianJewry during World War II. She is nb stranger to Bulgaria, haying been bom there and visited in recent ytars. ,
Commerce and Industry Minister Ariel Sharon went to Sofia last week to discuss economic and
. -By PAUL LUNGEN
lORONTO—
A justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal la«il week declined to make a ruling oh whedier convicted falsifier Ernst Zundel would be in violation of the terms of his bail if he published a report on Nazi gas chambers. Justice David Griffiths Tinade no order following lawyer Doug" Christie's "motion ifpr direction": _asking whether Zuridel ...could publish a report by ^__Fr6d Leuchter prepared for -Zundel.during his secorid trial for publishingJialse information ;about the Holocaust.
The report, which was riot made an exhibit at the trial, ostensibly found only minute traces of Hydrogep cyanide gas (used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews)
in some of the walls and-ceilings of gas chambers in A u sc h w i tz-B i rke n a u: and Maidanek..
Crown; attorney John , Pearson opposed Christie's motion, arguing the court was not obliged under the Criminal Code to give legal opinions Of that nature.
Follovying brief submissions by both lawyers. Justice Griffiths said he would make no order, Pearson told The CJN,
Under terms of his bail pending appeal, Zundel ; was ordered not to publish, directly"or indirectly, anything' in support of the views or assertions of fact expressed in the pamphlet for which he was convicted. ; V
The pamphlet, Did-Six Million Really Die?, alleges the Holocaust was a hoax and that gas chambers were riot used to exterminate Jews. :
,benefits for the needy and large families by 1.04%.
The subsidy, however, represent only half the battle for Nissim. As part of a propo.sal presented to the government last month, the .financeminlster also called for aeross-the-board cuts of 190 million shekels in'the budget.s"orall government ministries. Unlike the subsidy cuts, such a measure-requires the approval of the cabinet, and a majority of ministers have already expressed their opposition. ' According to Nissim. a number of unforeseen developments this year had in-creased the budget deficit alTd^ made government
spending cuts of 3(30 million shekels imperative. These included the uprising in the territories, which had re-quii;ed increases of 110 million shekels in the defence and police ministry budg-etsrtheTTTcreai^e in the price of imported grain, which had forced the government to increa.se .subsidies by 110 million shekels to cushion its effect; and the compensation payments of 60.-100 million shekels made to the country's farmers as a result of damage during the heat wave last spring. At the same time, the econoinic slowdown had led to a 450 million shekel drop in tax receipts.
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NEW YORK -
Representatives of the World Jewish Congress from three continents — including Ea.st Bloc Jewish communities — are meeting this week ^ in Mexico City.
The official meeting of the organization's governing body will be addressed by Mexican statesmen, World Zionist Organization Chairman SimcTia Dinitz and by WJC leaders, including President Edgar Bronfman, Secretary General Israel Singer and Execu-
tive Director Elan Steinberg.
Winnipeg's Sol-JCanee will ehair the assembly and has promised The G.fN a full report on the meeting following his return.
In addition to representatives from Jewish communities in the U.S. and Canada, participants are attending from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hiin-gary, Yugoslavia, Ea.st Germany, Spain, Turkey, Western European nations and from South and Central America.
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