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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Iran, Syria^a^ are amassing large arsenMs of chemical weapons and are determined to obtain or produce nuclear arms and the missiles to deliver them to distant targets by the end of this decade. These claims are contained in a report by the Simpn^^^^W Center released last week.
The 140-page report, "Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Gases of Iran, Syria arid Libya,'- also asserts that, in a replay of the clandesiirie; Iraqi
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FORMER SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev, flanked by
lem mayor Teddy Koliek, plants a tree In the JNF's Peace Forest In Jerusalem. During his recent visit to Israel, Gorbachev also received honorary degrees from the Technion and Bar-ilan Uni^ :versity. \
With 10 large and newly identified nuclear weapons facilities oh its own soil, the report notes, Iran will be capable of manufacturing nuclear arms within a few years, even if all foreign
By MICHELE CH ABIN
' JERUSALEM (JTA): —. Israelis were walking tall last week after the country garnered the first Olympic medal in its history. And it won not just one medal, but two. ■
Yael Arad's silver-medal victory in the judo competition kept Israelis glued to their televisions July • 30, leavi ng mo v ie-theat re owners with plenty of empty
seats. . Arad's match against
Frauke Eickpff of Germany
kept viewers at the edge of
their seats, The match was
so close, in fact, that the
Israeli TV announcerjud ged
Eickoff the winner. But when the judges declared Arad the victor, one could hear the cheers from every open window.
About 11 p.m. Israel time, Arad faced off against Catherine Fleury of France. Arad, 25, competes in the half-middleweight (134-1 / 2 pounds) division.
Again, the match was very close, but the Israeli seemed to be ahead. Viewers were, therefore^ more than a bit disappointed when the judge's split decision gave the gold to Fleury and the silver to Arad.
The next day, newspapers and radio Were filled with
praise for the country's "best athlete." The headline in Ma'ariv exclaimed, "Arad Equals Silver, But for Us She is Gold." Yediot Ahro-not ran ^ a headline in the national colors of blue and white that screamed, "After 2,000 Years."
's mother, a writer for Yediot, rwvoit a frontpage story that began simply: "My daughter Yael did it!" There were many plays on the family name Arad, which means bronze in Hebrew.
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin sent a tele-
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assistance is cut off.
The report, including exhaustive details and analyses, was compiled by Kenneth Timmerman, an American investigative reporter living in Paris who specializes in Middle East security issues. Two years ago, in advance of Operation Desert Storni, Timmerman ^^pub-lished through the Wies-enthal Center "The Poison Gas Connection," which documented Western complicity in building up Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's arsenal of mass destruction.
Named in the current report are 300 firms in 36 countries, which have supplied Iran, Syria and Libya with "dual-use".. technologv —^ materiel and equipment ostensibly for civilian uses but easily diverted to military purposes.
Germany led the list with 100 companies, followed by the U.S., France and Britain. Timmerman noted.
equipment froni Western nations^ China and North Korea are now inovihg into the lead as the main suppliers, however.
however, that Germany has The ; report lists other recently enacted tough new weapon developments in laws to "prevent German each of the three Moslem companies from , creating countries.
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Peres' nephew l<illed in Himalayas crash
ByHUGHORGEL TEL AVIV (JTAX.==iXiie^
nephew of Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres was one of two Israelis killed in the Aug. 1 crash of a Thai Airways Airbus in the Himalayas.
Uzi Peres and Dr. Rafael Sharon were among the 113 people aboard the plane who were killed when it siammed into a forested mountainside in Nepal while enroute from Bangkok, Thiailand to Katmandu, Nepal. There was no sign of survivors.
Peres was born in Israel, but lived for the past 20
years in Paris, where he worked as a filrri director. He had, h'owever," recently switched to commercial affairs, and had been on a business trip to the Far East.
He had planned to return to Israel tojpin his wife and three young children for their annual visit home with their families.
Sharon, 57, was head of the blood bank at Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. He had been sent to the Far East by the foreign ministry to advise Nepalese and Burmese health authorities on settmg up blood banks.
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Despite successive rounds of peace negotiations with its Arab neighbors, Israel is far from reaching an accord on water. -.-W-;-.-
"We still have to come to some kind of agreement," water management expert Brian Berkowitz said in a /^rm interview. •. '
Many decisions on managing usage of water —"a commodity Israel shares \yitTi the Arabs — remain independent of the peace riegotiations, he explained.
Entering his second year as a visiting associate professor in U BC's geological sciences department, Berkowitz is on leave from his job as a senior research hydrologist with Israel's agriculture ministry.
Israel has sent agricultural experts to Egypt, the only Arab state at peace with Israel, to help that country with its water shortages. But according to Berkowitz, the major problem in reaching an ; v. ; A, accord on the shared use of water is in dealing with Palestinian demands.
"That's where it gets sticky. A lot of Palestinian villages in pre-1967 Israel have been underfunded, and Arab councils haven't had their equal share of water," said Berkowitz.
Some of their complaints have been justified. But gradually things will be better there," said the 1986 recipient of the Israel Hydrology Association Goldschmidt Prize for his research and development of models for analyzing hydrological data.
In the West Bank, Palestinians rely on local water supplies, while Israeli pipes connect with the national water carrier. A peace
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Stating how water sources would be allocated, he said; —: After earning bachelor and master of science degrees in applied mathematics from the U niversity of Alberta, the Edmonton native went to Israel for six wee;ks in 1980 . . . and stayed for three months.
Berkowitz earned his doctorate in civil engineering at-Haifa's Technion. In 1982v he made .. aliyah.
According to the professor, Israel is "generar ^\ , tions away" in comparison to Vancouver in con-serving water. That's partly due to Israel's lower ahriual precipitation.
Israeli toilets and taps are fitted with water-saving devices; and irrigation systems are highly developed, he noted. "But
one could always conserve more.' LIQUID ASSETS—Pages