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The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, December 16,1977 'Page S
National News
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Gennany issues
revised list of deatb camps
MONTREAL —
On Sept. 24 of this year a revised list of concentration camps appeared in the publication of the German parliament. The list contains the names of a number of new camps previously not recognized by the indemnification legislation as well as previously recognized camps, but with an extended period of operation.
According to the Indemnification Law (BEG), such persons who spent at least 12 full months in concentration camps contained in the previous list and who suffered damage to their health, = resulting in a disability of at least 25%, had a | certain advantage when submitting their claims s for indemnification. = It was assumed that their disability was the 1 result of the persecution unless the medical = service of the indemnification authorities could s prove beyond doubt that the disability was not the s result of the persecution. = Thus the burden of proof was shifted from the s claimant to the indemnification authorities. 1 Since the previous list of concentration camps E did not contain the names of all the camps in which = Jews were interned and a number of camps were = not recognized officially for the entire period of = operation, the new list opens the door to new s claims. = The deadline for submission is March 24, 1978. 1 This new possibility applies only to persons who = hiave made claims and received payment for loss of = liberty for at least 12 months (DM 1,800). 1 Persons who feel that the new list may enable p them to receive indemnification for health damage E should contact the Canadian Jewish Congress, or = I lawyers who handled their previous claim(s) for i I more detailed information. §
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Metal conference set for June 4-9
Firms deny cotn
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OTTAWA —
Top Westinghouse and General Motors officials in Canada have told MP Herb Gray that then- multinational companies do not participate in the Arab
economic boycott against. Israel.
Gray, a former minister in the Trudeau cabinet, was also informed by the then minister of industry, trade and commerce, Jean
Chretien, that the Export Development Corporation, a federal agency, continues to withold support for any contract or transaction that includes boycott clauses.
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TORONTO —
As part of Israel's efforts to expand foreign trade, the country's metal-workings and electronic industries will hold an exposition and conference, designated ISRATEC '78,' June 4-9, 1978 in Jerusalem.
Kurt D. Jungster, president of OHOLIAB, Israeli manufacturers of air compressors, and a member of the metal section of the Israeli Manufacturers Association, visited here recently to promote the event.
He addressed 30 leading Canadian manufacturers, consulting engineers, industrialists, bankers, importers and exporters at a luncheon under the aus-1 pices of the Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce with the co-operation of the Israel trade commissioner.
Jungster discussed a vast number of business opportunities in Israel, siich as buying, selling, investing and licensing in the high technology industries.
During the technology week, Canadians will also attend an international meeting of the Metalwork-
ing and Professional Electronic Association. They will tour industrial plants, research and development facilities and will be guests at official receptions.
Industries which will be exhibiting include metal processing, equipment and machinery manufacturing, electrical systems and parts, systems and components, electronics, computers, instrumentation, aerospace and military applications.
Jungster said that the technology week will focus on opportunities for Canadian companies for capital projects and discuss the current " export-import situation.
TORONTO —
Hundreds of Jewish students from across the United States and Canada are expected to attend the North American Jewish Students' Network con-. vention at the King Edward Hotel here, Dec. 26-29. '
Participants, representing a broad cultural and religious spectrum of Jewish students, are expected to attend the four-day conference which will include numerous discussions and workshops.
North American Jewish Students' Network Secretary-General Carole Stem pointed out: "This convention is being programed to meet Jewish students' various needs which have become more diversified and broader in recent years.
"Some of the planned workshops and discussions include campus politics, alternatives in Jewish education, Yiddish culture, Jewish feminism, aliya, Arab and Soviet Jewry, as well as Israeli politics and history, group dynamics, Jewish life in Quebec and American policy in the Middle East."
In addition, participants wnW attend five sessions which will cover Israel, religious expression, oppression and liberation, leadership development, and the North American Jewish community.
All repres^nta.tives of Jewish student and young adult alternative groups and publications concerned with Jewish students will be participating. Voting delegates will elect a six-member steering committee as well as a chairperson" to govern and direct the organization's
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acrivities for a period of 18 months, until the next convention.
Delegates vrill also vote on resolutions to set guidelines for national programing and the network's general direction until the 1979-80 convention.
Limited travel subsidies will be available to delegates. However, students are urged to contact local Hillels, federations and synagogues to assist in
providing transportation costs.
The fee of $50 for student delegates and observers ($120 for non-student observers) includes hotel accommodations and meals for four days.
The North American Jewish Students' Network, a constituent of the North American Jewish Students' Appeal. is_ the umbrella and service organization for Jewish student groups in the U.S. and Canada.
The Windsor West parliamentarian wrote letters to Westmghouse and General Motors after readmg an Associated Press story from Egypt that these firms had submitted evidence to Arab boycott officials that they have no dealings with Israel.
D.I.W. Bruce, Wesring-house's vice-president and secretary, categorically denied the veracity of the news story.
In a ■ Sept. 6 letter, Bruce wrote: "Westing-house Canada Limited has not made any agreement or commitment to take any action or provide any information, and has not taken any action for the purpose of either being removed from or not placed on any blacklist organized by the Arab countries. To the best of our knowledge. Westing-house Canada Limited is not nor ever has been on any such blacklist."
D.H. McPherson, president and general manager
of General Motors Canada Ltd., was just as emphatic as Bruce: "General Motors has never been on the Arab boycott list...Over a year ago General Motors was asked by the Arab boycott office about the nature of certain of its business relationships with Israel, that is to say the normal relationships we have with our dealers.
"General Motors Cor-i>oration supplied information on these relationships and reported the inquiry to the Department of Commerce, as required under U.S. regulations. The corporation has made no changes in these relationships as a result of this inquiry."
McPherson said it was General Motors policy to do business, where commercially feasible, on an international basis.
He added: "Especially basic to the conduct of General Motors business is its long-standing worldwide policy against dis-
crimination of any kind in employment practices. We extend employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of ajge, race, color, sex, religion, political persuasion or national origin. The Arab boycott has not affected this policy in any .way."
The president-asserted that General Motors continues to sell its products to distributors, dealers and customers in both Israel and the Arab world.
Chretien, who now holds the finance portfolio, assured Gray that the Export Development Corporation would not lend its support to a contract which would require an exporter to engage in discrimination based on the race, national or ethnic origin or religion of a citizen, or to refuse to purchase from or sell to any other Canadian firm.
Herb Gray — MP who speaks oat against Afab bojcott.
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