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Thursday, November 5, 1992 Cheshvan 9, 5753 65<^
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Publications Mail Registration No 1683 - Postage Paid at Toronto
Coalition crisis averted
By LEORA FRUCHT
JERUSALEM - A coalition crisis in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government was narrowly averted by a last minute accord betwwn Labor's two feuding coalition partners, Shas and Meretz. The agreement was reached hours before-a vote on a no confidence motion, submitted by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, decrying recent comments made by Education Minister Shulamit Aloni, leader of Meretz. In return for not voting against the government, the accord will enable Shas' Deputy Education Minister Moshe Maya to be involved in the preparation and application of Jewish studies programs in the secular state education system. Until now, Maya has been responsible for overseeing Shas'own religious school network.
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By RON CSILLAG
TORONTO -
Whither David Irving?
The British Holocaust revisionist, who entered and stayed in Canada despite an order barring him and another ordering him to leave the country within 48 hours, faced deportation to Great Britain as The CJN went to press Monday afternoon.
Minutes before midnight Sunday, Irving attempted to cross over into the United States, which refused to accept him. He spent the night at an immigration detention centre in Niagara Falls.
Ont., pending a hearing Monday.
It is not known why U.S. officials refused Irving entry. Some speculate it may have b^n because the author did not truthfully disclose the purpose of his visit when he entered Canada, or because he entered Canada despite an order barring him from doing so.
Irving's odyssey began last month, when he was served in Los Angeles with an order barring him entry to Canada, where he had scheduled a two-week, five-jirovincie speaking tour.
Irving nevertheless sneaked into the country at the Niagara Falls crossing and made his way to Victoria, where
he delivered a speech in a restaurant to about 100 supporters.
Just as he was about to finish, police officers moved in and arrested him.
Irving's lawyer, Doug Christie, then appealed to Federal Court for an injunction to rescind the order banning his client. Judge Barry Strayer allowed the ban to stand.
At an adjudication hearing Friday, Irving was given 48 hours to leave after Christie and officials of the im^ migration department struck a deal.|
The deal allowed Irving to leave under a departure notice rather than a more serious and immediate deporta-
Israel, Jordan agree on a
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Israeli policy-makers have described an agreement reached with Jordan on an agenda for the next round of peace talks as a "major breakthrough" and a model for negotiations with Syria.
Publication of the contents of the agreement in the Jordanian press was seen here as an indication it has been approved by King Hussein, opening the way for substantive negotiations when the talks resume in Washington. .
Its most important clause is a declaration of intent that efforts by this parties are likely to be concluded by a "peace treaty," the highest form of peace in the diplomatic lexicon.
Notwithstanding the consensus among Arab states on the need for a comprehensive settlement, Jordan consulted neither the Syrians nor the Palestinians before agreeing to the "peace treaty" language, political sources in Jerusalem said. ' Several government ministers spoke in upbeat terms after hearing a report at the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday on the progress of the peace talks, which recessed Oct. 28 and will resume Nov. 9, following the U.S. elections.
Environment Minister Ora Namir said she was now "more optimistic about the peace talks."
A senior Jordanian official was quoted Sunday from Amman as saying Israeli joy over what it regarded as "a great victory" was premature; in any case, Jordan would make no separate agreements without Syria and the Palestinians.
But the official confirmed that progress was reached in last w^k's round of talks.
Israel, for its part, agreed at the talks to discuss territorial demands made by Jordan in the Jordan Valley and the Arava region of the Negev. The land areas in controversy are marginal.
Amman claims a 128-square mile area south of the Dead Sea, which, if surrendered, would mean loss of agricultural land for several kibbutzim in the Arava.
The Jordanian claim is based on the fact that the border determined by British Mandate authorities in September 1922 was never marked in on the ground.
In the north, Amman claims Israel holds about 350 acres of its territory just soudi of the Sea of Galilee in the Naharayim region.
Israel, for its part, claims a small area in die Eilat region currently held by Jordan.
In the accord reached last week, Jordan reportedly agreed that the first item on the agenda of the next round
of talks would be the sharing of water resources. It also agreed that tacit cooperation already existing between the two countries would be formalized in any future peace treaty.
Israel and Jordan are already discussing construction of a canal connecting the Red Sea and the Dead Slea to create a 50-megawatt plant that would generate power by exploiting the drop in altitude between the two bodies of water, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.
A canal would also enable regulation of the water level of the Dead Sea, which has been drying out in recent years. Planners envision joint tourism projects in the area, the report said.
In their joint dociiment, Israel and Jordan also agreed to discuss demilitarization of the Middle East within the framework of a permanent and comprehensive peace agreement.
This is viewed as an achievement, in the context of standing Israeli policy to make regional arms control part of a comprehensive peace agreement.
Israeli sources in Jerusalem dismissed a report in the French newspaper Liberation that Israel had agreed to allow Palestinian refugees to return to the West Bank and grant them reparations, and to freeze settlement-building completely in the territories.
tion order.
But Irving made full use of the 48-hour window. He came to Toronto over the weekend, where he delivered a speech to about 100 followers at the Primrose Hotel.
It was after the speech he tried to cross into the United Stales.
Immigration department spxDkesman MiltBest told TTie CJN Monday morning that a hearing in Niagara Falls was called on charges that Irving did not comply with his order to leave.
Best said Irving was technically on Canadian soil after the stroke of mid-
night Sunday, when the 48 hours had elapsed. '
He said Irving faces deportation to his native England because the Americans don't want him. ----_
Irving has admitted he lied when he crossed the border into Canada. He said he told officials than he would be louring Ontario. ,
At a press conference Monday morning, B'nai Brith Caniada said allowing Irving 48 hours to leave "is like giving the fox 48 hours to leave the chicken coop."
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