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VOL.LVI. NO. 35 ELUL14,5749 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1989
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south find moment to rest. Gissmolce and chat after patrol just north of security zone controlled by Israel inside Lebanon. .     . -
Clerics oppose Gleinp call for nem conyent accord
WASHINGTON — A wen-phei^^ official has given
credence to reports that Syria has invited PLO commandos to attack Israel from Syrian soil.
: The official said, however, that it was ''unlikely" that PLO leader Yasir Arafat would accept the offer. ' According to a wide-ranging interview A Av4ndii^ Syria's defense ministi^r jjU^dg^^   give Arafat ^every help possible^ in conducting commando attacks from Syrian bases.
"We have told our brother   terrorism last fall, prompting
PARIS - The bitter controversy over a Carmelite convent on the ground s of the former Auschwitz death camp has suddenly pitted the.PolisJi primate,"- Gardinal—Jozef Glemp, against prominent members of the Ei^ropean Catholic clergy.
Glemp, who only two weeks ago infuriated Jews with an anti-Semitic polemic on the issue, drew sharp responses from his peers after calling on the church to renegotiate .an agreement it reached with Jewish leaders in Geneva more than two years ago to relocate the convent.
The agreement's implementation has been blocked by the Pplish-v Ghurchv; ahd^^ , contends nbwthat the Catholic leaders who signed it were
competent" to do so. Cardinal Albert Decour-tray, the archbishop of Lyon,
dismissed Glemp's charges last week as "pure nonsense."
"lam shocked, I am wounded" by Glemp*s declarations;-Decourtray'told a newsicdnference in. Lyon: do not understand Cardinal Glemp's remarks, and I do not accept them. Keeping the Carmelites within the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp would break international law," he said.
Decourtray headed the delegation of four European cardinals who signed the agreement with world Jewish leaders on Feb. 22, 1987 in Geneva. Two of the other three. Cardinal Jean Lustiger, the archbishop of Paris, and Cardinal Goffried Daneels, archbishop of Brussels, joined Decourtray in a joint statement released here, which said that "the signed commitments should be upheld."
- Theo Klein, who headed the Jewish delegation to Geneva, also had a reply for Glemp.
; '"Passions have reached a new pitchi and for us Jews, it is
"*impossible 4o t^ke anotheir step," he said, ruling out renegotiation.
Klein, a former president of the European Jewish Congress and of CRIF, the Representative Council of Jewish Organizations in France, told the' daily newspaper Le Monde, "I fail to see who could resume negotiations with Cardinal Glemp, as. he has denied the authority of both the Catholic and the Jewish personalities who negotiated the Geneva- agreement. I can't imagine that others would be ready to replace us."
The fourth signatory of the Geneva agreement, Cardinal
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command os to come to ^the Syrian front and coordinate with us," Gen. Mustafa Tlass said in the interview, which was reported by the U.S. state department's Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
Tlass, who is also a deputy prime minister, said Syria would have to oversee any raids because it would "provide blood and cover and be the target of Israeli retaliation." In addition, Tlass said two- or three-person com->mando ^operations would be ineffective, and" that ISyria would not hijack Israeli planes or lay mines in the Jewish state because those would just be "trivial actions.";
A Syrian-PLO agreement to coordinate'attacks against Israel would not only pose a potent new threat to Israel, but represent a dramatic change in the positions and allegiances of the two Arab powers.
Arafat and Syrian president Hafez Assad have been archenemies for the last six years.
the United States to launch a dialogue with the PLO. But earlier this month/ his Al^ Fatah faction of the PLO called for renewed "armed struggle" against Israel.
Syria is no longer actively promoting terrorist attacks and is "moving in the right direction" in that area, the U.S. official said. He praised Syria for cooperating in the investigation of the bombing last December of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. The United, States returned its ambassador to Syria in September 1987 after a year-long : hiatus, spurred in part, by Syria's decision that summer to expel the Abu Nidal terrorist group from its soil.
Assad reportedly would like to involve Arafat in more attacks against Israel, in part because that might cause the United States to end its dialogue with the PLC, which the Syrian president opposes.
Tlass' interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper also provided insight into Syria's con-
And in recent months, the two ception of conventional war-have been moving away from fare with Israel. When asked if supporting internatibiial direct war with Israel would terrorism. exceed the capabilities of Arafat officially renounced Syria's army, Tlass would
only say, "Expanding the front here with us would mean that (Israel's) front would be expanded." He predicted war with Israel not in "the coming days, but the coming years."
Asked how strong the Syrian army is, he said, "The Syrian army is the strongest Arab army nowadays. The Israelis said this, and not me." Tlass said he would welcome any Israeli attack on Syria, arguing that Israel would "pay many times what they have bargained for." He argued that an Israeli attack would '*make the Soviets take-a more hard-^line stand toward Israel and. bring them still closer to us." In addition; "the Soviets will become even more convinced that the Americans are not serious about their efforts to work out a just solution," he said.
When asked what is holding Syria back from such a war if Syria stands to gain, Tlass replied, "We will not have any party drag us into a war, the place and timing of which are not decided by us."
Tlass also denied that Syria has chemical or nuclear weapons. But he contended that the Soviet Union "would give SYRIA - Page 2
By ETHAN MINOVITZ You might think that 60 Minutes producer Barry Lando's Jewish background would cause him difficulties when interviewing Arabs for his Emmy-winning CBS show. Think again.
"As a matter of fact, we've had much more trouble with Jewish groups „ than with Arab groups,'' Lahdo said in a i5M//£'/m interview last week. The former Vancouverite has been with the widelyrwatched newsmagazine since 1970.
"1 interviewed (PLC leader Yasir) Arafat twice. And he knew that I and {60 Minutes co-hosi) Mike Wallace are Jewish," he said, adding that he's never been denied access to a story because of his religion.
LandOv who has. also visited Syria, gone to Amman and conferred with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat during his many assignments, returned to his home town last week to emcee a dinner sponsored by
Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev(Vancouver branch) honoring old family friends Elaine and Abe Charkow.
Speaking in the West End apartmentt)f his mother, Edith Lando — his father was the late - Esmond Lando ^ the onetime Beth Israel Religious School student related how he's received his share of criticism from Jewish>groups for running critical stories about lsrael;on the newsmagazine.
"The stories we've done on Israel, such as the segment last fall on Al PAG (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), which is the Israel lobby in Washington, have provoked some of the biggest responses," recalled Lando, a 50-year-old veteran of the tube who has been based in Paris for more than eight years.
"There was also the story we didv' several years back, on the Arabs in Israel. \ye dealt, not with the, Arabs in the West Bank, but the
Arabs in Isr^iel proper," he said. ym^-mmm^-i'^^^
"We take'a lot of flack for that. Sometimes we're called -self-hating: Jews.'"
But Lando, who name appears in the credits much more often than does his face on camera, distinguishes between love for the land of Israeland love for its policies. Asked if heconsidered himself a Zionist, Lando replied: "If a . Zionist is a person who; supports Israel — yes. But I'm not a Zionist
who might want to live in Israel. : "I think that Jews have the obli-! LANDOPages
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