2 — THE BULLETIN --Thursday, September27,1990
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By DAVID KANTOR
BONN — The goyerniheht plans to establish a quota on the number X)f Soviet Jews admitted to the soon-to-be united Germany.
Consultations have gone on for several days between Bonn representatives, the governments of the federal states and representatives of the German Jewish community.
No quotas have been set so far. But according to informed sources, unified Germany is expected to absorb about 3,000 Soviet Jews over the next five years. German unification becomes official Oct.3.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble has confirmed that he asked the West German embassy in Moscow for the time being not to process the applications of Soviet Jews seeking recognition as "ethnic Germans** so they may settle in Germany.
West Germany*^ foreign ministry said that Jewish visas ,are being processed only when the applicant can prove
beyond doubt to be ethnic German, or that he or she has close relatives living in Germany. In all other cases, applications are not being accepted at this time, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
The spokesman stressed that Germany was not a country for immigration and did not intend to become one. But he noted that under a longstanding policy, any German Jew who was persecuted and expelled during the Nazi era« can return. The same policy applies to the persecutee*s descendants,
The foreign ministry labeled a "big exaggeration** the statement by the interior ministry two weeks ago that 10,000 Soviet Jews applied for visas at the German consulate in Kiev alone.
The Hgure is no more thana few hundred, the foreign ministry said. But it estimated about 10,000 Soviet Jews from throughout the Soviet Union have applied for visas.
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FIRST DAY of school wasn^t happy one for these children whose parents live In Tel Aviv tent camp. They didnt go to school.
Pollard not allowed to ^^p
Left-wing Knesset member urgesSabbath soccer games
TEL AVIV — A leading left-wing Knesset member has criticized reports that many Israeli soccer players would prefer soccer matches to be hield on weekdays, rather than on the Sabbath.
Yigal Menachem,^ who plays fpr the Maccabi' Neta-nya team, complained to reporters that the practice of holding all soccer matches on the Sabbath was harming the families of players who consi-
dered themselves traditional. Rabbi Yisrael Lau, the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, confirmed that he had been contacted by a number of players who favor nioving the games to Saturday night.
But Knesset member Yossi Sarid, of the left-wing Citizens Rights Movement, criticized Menachem and Lau, labeling the players' wishes "iri-ele-vant.**
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By ALLISON KAPLAN
NEW YORK — A federal judge has turned down Jonathan Pollard*s motion to withdraw the guilty plea that landed him a life term in jail for spying on behalf of Israel.
Pollard, who has served five-and-a-half years of the sentence, contends the government did not live up to its part of the plea bargain. If the judge had accepted his petition, a new trial would have had to be called.
Pollard*s attorney, Haniil-ton Fox, said the former United States nayal intelligence officer*s family and; supporters were **not surprised** by the ruling, which was issued by U.S. District Court judge Aubrey Robinson. Fox said the family plans to appeal the decision.
"The judge who denied the motion to withdraw the guilty plea was the same judge who had accepted the plea in the first place,** the attorney said.
"By accepting the plea, he had necessarily determined
that the plea was proper. We are hopeful that the Court of Appeals will view the issues we have raised from a different perspective,** he said.
' A motion to remove Robinson from the case, which was kept under wraps throughout the court's deliberations, was unveiled earlier. The motion is based on an accusation by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz that Robinson obtained out-of-court, or "ex parte,** information from the U.S. government. Thecharge stems from a conversation Dershowitz had last autumn with former Supreme Court justice Arthur Goldberg.
Goldberg, who died shortly after that conversation, re^ portedly told Dershowitz that
Robinson had spoken of government evidence that PpUard had provided Israel with U.S. photographs proving Jerusalem had supplied Jericho missiles to South Africa. But such evidence was never introduced in the court proceedings. Pollard's attorneys contend.
Pollard's attorneys agreed that the only way to find out if information was inappropriately given to Robinson would be to question the judge himself. Therefore, they contended, Robinson would have to step down from the case.
Robinson denied this motion, in addition to a number of other charges suggesting that the government violated its plea agreement with Pollard. JTA
Knesset ponders immunity of member suspected of PLO ties
JERUSALEM — The Knesset house committee have begun deliberations over
OPERI^TION
Progtess seen In
Refusenlks'
cases;
families reunited
Longtime Refuseniks whose names have graced the pages of Jewish newspapers and been the subject of United States state department talks with Soviet officials are seeing major changes in their lives as glasnost and perestroika con-tinue to alter the face of Soviet Jewry.
Irina Voronkevich, a 78-year-old retired biologist refdsed permission to emigrate since March 1981 ^because of her access two decades earliei: to '"state secrets,*^ hi^ received a^travel visa that will allow^her to visit her family iii Israel, the Natio^iiai Conference on Soviet Jewry reports. Jhoii^^ iiot the coveted- emigration
visa, Voronkevich*s travel pass has been a long-sought goal, too, allowing her to be reunited with her son Igor Uspensky, daughter-in-law Inna loffe" Uspensky and grandchildren. Voronkevich, who is not
Jewish, will be accompanied on her travels with her grandson Ilya Uspensky. Another' grandson, Slava Uspensky,an Orthodox Jew, arrived in Israel last fall. He and his wife Alia Mendeleva are expecting their second child.
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EIGHT P.M. n«wa broadcast on Itraal Talavltlon It now accom-panlad by translation into Ruttlan.
Boris Kelman, a Refusenik for 12 years, left Leningrad in early August and has settled in Palo Alto, Calif., some 25 miles south of San Francisco, where he will be working on a special project for the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews. Kelman is a structural design engineer and physicist. His wife. Alia, is a pediatrician. Their son Maxim has also settled in California.
Another arrival is Oxana Kotiyar, wife of longtime Refusenik Mark Kotiyar, with whom she was reunited in Los Angeles. Vladimir Tsivkin, a longtime Refusenik from Leningrad, arrived in Stamford, Conn., and was reunited with his wife and daughter:"   ^ - — _
ThO-»peclal emergency campaign — Operation Eitodua la being conducted by theJewlah Federation In conjunction with the Com-bined JewlBh Appeal.
A funny thing happened «
**CroAin, JFloyd and Lipstcin,** crooned the operator.
-May I talk to Mr. Lipstcinr
-Mr. Lipstein is out. sir; this is Yom Kippur.**
-Oh well, Mr. Kippur, please tell him his car is fixed*
Hoiocauslexhibitshdwfi in Prague
LEO nOSTEN,HOOJRAYFOR YIDDISH!
PRAGUE — 7%^ Courage to Remember, a travelling Holocaust memorial exhibition of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, opened at the former Klaus synagogue here.
The presentation is to teach people to have the courage to
remember and the will to make impossible the repetition of racial, ethnic and relir gious hatred, said organizers. The show of photos, pictures and documents was prepared by the SWC, Prague Jewish M useum and Czech Society of Jewish Culture.
whether to lift the parliamentary immunity of Arab Knesset member Mohamnied Miari, whom' Israeli attorney general YosefHarish wants to prosecute foralleged collaboration with the PLO.
Miari is leader of the far-left Progressive List for Peace, and occupies its single Knesset seat. While the faction openly identifies with the PLO; and Miari has had numerous contacts with PLO officials in contravention of the law, the state did not "bother him,** Harish explained, because he claimed he was -discussing peace with them.**
Now, however, the attorney general charges that Miari acted in collusion with the PLO in planning to sail a shipload of Palestinian Arab deportees to an Israeli port in November 1988. The plan was aborted when the ferry the PLO had chartered for the purpose was disabled by an underwater explosion at the Cypriot port of Limassol. Agents' of Mossad, Israers foreign intelligence service, %ere^i9cly "believed responsible.
Harish urged that Miari be stripped of 4iis immunity because his alleged involvement with the PLO in the scheme -does not conform with the bibhavior expected from a member of the Knesset.**
Miari, who was off to Geneva for an international conference attended by PLO representatives, rejected Harr ish*s arguments. In a statement before his departure, he ^ said he would be proud to go tojaiL
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Boy of six knifes sis
JERUSALEM
A six-
year-old boy from the Galilee village of Ba*ana stabbed his sister, 9; in an argument while they were playing. The victim was treated for a punctured lung at Nahariyya hospital after being taken by ambulance.
Gas brochunes sent
JERUSALEM - Brochures telling how to prepare for a gas attack have been delivered to eveiy Tel Aviv household. Tel Aviv is the first city to give out such material since Iraq*s threats to use chemical weapons against Israelis.
Homeless not wanted
JERUSALEM - Five hundred residents of the low-income Ramat Eliahu section protested Rishon LeZion municipality*s plan to move many city tent dwellers to mobile homes in their area. A neighborhood council head suggested putting homeless in a local citrus grove.
Youngsters on ball
JERUSALEM — Israel*s national Little League baseball team scored its first world win when the 11 and 12-yeir-olds defeated Italy in the European regional championship in West Germany. A final game 9-1 victory over Spain made it two in a row.
Vandals damage graves in France
PARIS — Vandals have desecrated some 43 graves in a Jewish cemetery in a small town in the French province of Alsace, near the German border, but no anti-Semitic slogans were found.
Officials of Horbourg Wuhr, near Colmar, said the vandalism might have been done by local hoods without particular anti-Semitic leanings. Many stones were overturned, others shattered, and ornaments/such as Stars of David, torn off.
lAI sues Spanish electronics firm
MADRID — Israeli Aircraft Industries has filed suit against a Spanish electronics firm, asking for more than $125 million in compensation for stolen technology, breaking a contract, lost income and a perceived loss of world market share in modernizing old planes.
Ceselisa, a private concern, said through president Jose Antonio Perez-Nievas that the lAl accusations were unfounded. Perez-Nieveas said the Defence Ministry forced his company to stop cooperating with the Israelis in modernizing 23 Mirage airplanes of the" Spanish air force.