2 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday. February 4,1993
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leading Hungarian politi-cian known for his anti-Semitic diatribes failed in his bid to take control pf the country's ruling party during internal party elections.
Istvan Gsurka, who has blamed national ills on liberals, Jews, Western financiers and the media, was defeated in his bid to be elected president of: the Hungarian Democratic Forum, the country's governing party,.
Although Prime Minister Jozsef Antall was re-elected as party president over Csurka's opposition, Csurka was re-elected to the powerful 21-member party presi-' dium.
Moreover, the number of Gsurka's supporters within the presidium, the party's highest body, grew as a result of the election.
The presidium was created after Csurka was demoted from his position as vice-president of the party. The party apparently was trying to blunt international criticism resultingfrom Csurka's blatantly anti-Sem it ic speeches and writings.
Members of the Hungarian Jewiish community — the largest in Central Europe, numbering about 100,000 -^expressed satisfaction at Csurka's failure, but warned it represented
only a short-term victory. Many Hungarian Jews are pessimistic about their future here.
^ Csurka's 'popularity is reportedly growing among party members and middle-class Hungarians as social and ecbnomie problems besest Hungary.
In a relatively moderate speech during the conference of the Hungarian Democratic Forum, Csurka attacked, among others, George Soros, the wealthy H uhgariah businessman 6f Jewish origin, for supporting the political opposition,
Antall was able to head off Csurka's challenge only-after presenting Csurka as a dangerous threat to Hungarian democracy.
George Konrad, a well-known Hungarian Jewish writer and the head of the International Writers Association, noted that "Jews can be safe only in liberal democracies."
However, speaking at a synagogue in Budapest, he advised Hiirtgarian Jews not to overreact and compare today's Csurka with Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s.
The difference, Konrad claimed- is that the current international cliniate does not favor right-wing forces because of the opposition of the West and the United States.
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Organization was already hard at work on a proposed resolution thiat would impose sanctions on Israel unless it complied with a Dec. 18 resolution demanding that the deportees be returned to the Administered Territories.
The PLO proposal reportedly would ban all U.N. member states from any dealings with Israeli companies or establishments involved in violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which protects the rights of inhabitants of occupied areas.
Such a resolutidn is likely to be amended before it conies to a vote in theSecur-
Vldience victims get telephone aid
LONDON
Women
victims of domestic violence can now dial an expanded Jewish help line. . Jewish Women's^Aid - Tcceives calls from throiigh-oiit England, it was started in 1984 by a group of women concerned that no Jewish organization dealt specifically with victims of physical and emotional abuse.
ity Council, and in any case, Israeli officials are confident the United States will exercise its veto power as a permanent member of the 15-nation body.
Rabin pointed out that no U.S. administration has ever permitted sanctions against Israel to be adopted by the
'. U.N. Security Council.
And Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told Israel Bonds leaders here that Jerusalem has received promises froni the Clintonadministration that it would do its "very best not to let a situation [develop] in which sanctions against Israel will be at all necessary." i : J
Likewise, the US. arribas-sador to Israel, William Harrop, said he believed it was "most unlikely'* that' Pfesiderit Bill Clinton would
; allow sanctions to be imposed against Israel.
Speaking on Israel's army radio, Harrop noted, however, that it has been two years since Washington exercised its veto JEL the Security Couhcil and.would prefer not to do so now.
He suggested that the crisis be resolved before the adniihistration is challenged into making such a tough decision,
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One day Adam was taking a walk With his two sons, Cain and Abel, when they saw a beautiful garden.
**I wish I could live there," said Cain. ;
**Wedid," answered Adam, "until your nriother ate us out of house and home."
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SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Bassem Sayuri is led to his Hebron home by military police after being deported to Lebanon by mistake. A Red Cross helicopter flew him to Israeli territory. _ J
VIENNA
quarter of a niillion Austri-ahs demonstrated against racism, Nazism and xenophobia in the same square where a c rowd of similar size cheered Adolf Hitler 55 years ago.
The peaceful demonstration, organized by a new Austrian movement dedicated to pireventing the right-wing extremism and violence appearing now in Germany, was dubbed "Sea of Lights."
Throngs of people carried small flashlights to serve as the light against the darkness of radicalism and neo-Nazism, explained leaders of SOS-Mitmensch (SOS-Fellow Human), a group probably named after the French anti-racist group SOS-Racism.
In the infamous Helden-
platz — the same spot where Hitler addressed the Viennese masses after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss in 1938 crowds gathered, to hear speakers with quite a different message.
In fact, one of the keynote speakers was Paul Chaim Eisenberg, Austria's chief rabbi.
After warning the crowd against the dangers of racisniEisenberg, along with the popular singer who goes by the name Jazz-Gitti, sang the traditional Hebrew song "Heveinu Shaloni Aleicheiri" (We Bring Peace Upon You).
The"Seaof Lights*' demonstration was the largest the city has seen since 1945, The size was seen by some as significant in light of Aus-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel Aircraft Industries has emerged as one of the world's top manufacturers of pilotless aircraft following the Pentagon's decision last summer to purchase IsraeU drones.
The Pentagon has permitted the U.S. Army to buy an initial batch of seven Hunter drones and ground control system from Israel at a cost of $250 million.
lAI was the winner last June of a competition between six world giants to supply surveillance air-ciraft, beating out such firms as IBM; General Electric ahd McDonnell-Douglas.
Butthe Pentagon's green light for the U.S. Army to. make the purchase was withheld until now, IAI sources said. ■'■■■y':. ^y-. ■
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UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Leonid Kravchuk greets Foreign Minister Shimon Peres at Ben-Gurion Airport while on a state visit to Israel. Kravchiik called for a new beginning in relations between Ukrainians and Jews.
tria's difficulty in coming to grips with its collaboration with the Nazis.
"The people of Austria have understood this message, and they have signed their yearning for tolerance and togetherness," said Cardinal Franz Koenig of Vienna/
. The crowd included tens of thousands of people from the various provinces, who pOured into Vienna for the demonstration.
SOS-Mitmehsch, founded ; by the poet and writer Andreas Heller, aims to take preventive action by speak- ^ ing out against racism and xenophobia, before rightists gain power and resort to yio-lence, as they have in Germany.
The organization says it wants to "give a chance and a voice to the silent' and decent majority in Austria."
The movement has been joined by officials of the Austrian government, members of Parliament, high-ranking representatives of the church and many youth organizations.
Leaders of SOS-Mitmensch were goaded into taking action after seeing the growing presence of rightist voices, such as the populist leader of the right-wing Freedom Party, Jorg ' Haider.
Haider's party has initiated a referendum, to be held later, that calls for stricter laws in regard to the current influx of foreigners,
Haider's party has presented a 12-pOint program which demands, among other matters, a formal statement that Atistria is not a country for immigrants andjwhich limits^t^ number of foreign children to be allowed in Austrian school classes and other institutions.
\ The success of the SOS-Mitmensch protest prompted Andreas Heller to call for renaming .the Helden-platz as the "Lichtermeer" — "Sea of Lights."
"It is a unique event that can mobilize 250,000 people to join a peaceful demonstration for human decency," he said.
Fatal accidehl
TEL AVIV
An em-
-ployee of Israe 1 Military Industries factory in the Tel Aviv su burb--Of R a mat . Hasharon was killed in what was described as a,"work accident". The victim was identified as Amir Anka, 28, of Bnei Brak. No details of the accident were given and reports were kept away from the scene. The explosion is understood to have taken place in a test laboratory during research work on a high explosive.
Journalism prl^^^^^
; TEL AVIV — Israel Prize committee announced its recommendations for this year's journalism prize, which won unanimous accolades . The winner is veteran //fl'flre/z political cartoonist Zev, whose real name i$ Ya'acov Farkash; A Holocaust survivor, he is also the major illiistfator for the newspaper Ma'ariv. The committee wrote that Zev had "established the daily political cartoon as ah integral part of Israeli journalism."
Woman, son slain
JERUSALEM — In another possible case of terrorism, an elderly IsraeH woman arid her son were found beaten to death in their home in Holon, hear Tel 'Aviv: Pplice said they were nOt certain whether the motive for the killings was political or criminal, but they pointed out thatthe victims were hot robbed.
Halocaust denier to
PARIS — A Holocaust-denier will be allowed to return to his lecturing position at a French university despite having been declared guilty of slander.
Bernard Notin, an obscure lecturer in economics at Lyon III University, made headlines in 1990 when someone noticed that a paper he published, in an economics review, openly denied the Holocaust had occurred.
Hungarian police ^erza skfhheads
BUDAPEST
arrested
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neo-iNazi skinheads here for beating up two Gypsy men at a tram stop. :"■: ■ ■■;
The yoiiths, ages 19 and 20, had in their possession Nazi armbands, leaflets with swastikas and switchblades.
According tp the chief of police, this groujj of skin^ heads is also suspected of putting up posters displaying swastikas and bearing the slogan "Out with foreigners."
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