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By DAVID FRIEDMAN and GIL SEDAN
^WASHINGTON — United States president George Bush and Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev ended their one-day summit in Finland in disagreement about whether the Palestinian Arab issue should be linked to the international effort to get Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.
Th^ United Nations resolutions imposing an economic blockade against Iraq ''should be implemented on their face without trying to tie it in to some other unresolved dispute," Bush said last week during an internationally televised joint news conference with Gorbachev in Helsinki.
The U.S. president said that that such a conference would while he feels "strongly" the be acceptable only if efforts to
Town fears neo-Nazi bash
Compiled from Dispatches
PROVOST, Alta^r- Siome businesspedple in this town 300 kilometres southeast of Edmonton fear professionals wdii't move here following a weekend Aryan ^Iations gathering nearby earlier this month.
"We've, done a lot of work to develop services in the community that are unique to rural Alberta. This dumps all over it," Dick Chamney, director of the 800-resident community's economic development committee, told the Calgary Heraid last week. "This gets front page, and all of our efforts don't."
The Church of Jesus Christ Christian Aryan Nations, headed by "Warrior High Priest" Terry Long of Caroline, Aha., held a cross burning Sept. 8 at a ranch owned by local oilfield welder Ray Brad-
ley six kilometres west of here. It was reportedly the first racist meeting in the Provost area.
About 30 white supremacists, several of whom were dressed in the Ku Klux Klan's long white robes and pointed hoods, chanted "While power, hail victory" and "Death to the Jew" while circling and saluting a 10-metre-high flaming cross at "the first annual Alberta Aryan Fest."
The Aryan Nations members were mostly from other areas. Chamney and others said it's unfair that residents, opposed to the Aryan Nations, will have to repair the town's tainted image.
"The thing is, we're trying to attract doctors here," said Richard Holmes, editor of the weekly Provosl News. "This is a heck of a time for this to happen."
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The town will hav^ only one doctor by-Jthe mdhth, wheri it^ aiie^ relocates to Stettler, Alta. Residents fear the bad publicity Will halt young medical school graduates — many of whom are ethnic — from moving here. The community is also trying to draw new businesses.
Meanwhile, Alberta H uman Rights Commission chairman Fil Fraser said there's not much his council can do about the existence of white supremacists in the province. But Fraser said the commission would have more tttsay after it was to meet in Edson, Alta. late last week to discuss the Aryan Nations festival.
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Palestinian Arab issue must be solved, h should not be linked to the Persian Gulf crisis. "Any effort to link them is an effort to dilute the resolutions of the United Nations^" he said. But Gorbachev replied "there is a link here, because failure to find a solution in the Middle East at large also has a bearing on the conflict."
The Soviet leader said a solution for all Middle East ^iaSWe^^stis
tant thah resolving the Gulf crisis^? He said there is a need to "cbme Up with decisions and to devise a system to devise guarantees that would ensure the interests of all peoples and the whole world community, because it is a matter of vital concern to all ofus."^
The Soviet Union earlier supported Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's proposal that an international conference to deal with the Palestinian Arab issue, as well as the Gulf crisis. Bush said last week the U.S. position has been that "under certain circumstances, consideration of a conference of that nature would be acceptable," but not one linking the Israeli-Arab conflict to the Gulf crisis. The U.S. position has been
bring about direct negotiations between Israel and Palestinian .Arabs fell through. Israel has been adamantly opposed to such a conference, because it fears the 'Soviet Union and Arab states would gang up on it.
When a Palestinian Arab reporter asked Bush why he does not support U.N. resolutions aimed at bringing about an Israeli withdrawal from the Territories with the same fervor that he supports resolU": tionsagainst^iriqi^^lie president leplied the U.S. has been. ^*zeaIously trying to implement" U.N.. Security Council Resolution 242, which he said calls for Israel's "withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries." The fact this has not happened; yet "does not mean^you sit idly by in the face of naked aggression against Kuwait," he said.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Qaza Strip has expressed confidence the rise of Iraqi power would further Palestinian Arab national goals. ^
At the same time, Annan Sherif, executive member of the Federation of Trade Unions in the Administered Territories, called on the U.S. to protect the rights of Pales-
tinian Arabs living in Persian Gulf states.
Sherif held a news conference in East Jerusalem, where he and other speakers charged that more than 55,000 Palestinian Arab families have been expelled from Saudi Arabia because Palestinian Arabs support Hussein in his confrontation with the Western powers.
According to the speakers, the Saudis gave some families no more than 48 hours to leave.
They did not know how mainy families hi^ sihctT returned to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where economic conditions have deteriorated because the remittance of money from the Gulf states has ended.
But according to Sherif, the bright side of the situation is that Palestinian Arabs are more united than ever and encouraged by Iraq's ascendancy.
However, the Persian Gulf crisis is taking its toll on Israelis with weak hearts. Shahai, a private service that operates an around-the-clock telephone link for subscribers with heart ailments, reports a 20 percent increase in calls for help since the start of the Gulf crisis.
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The two honorees at the first annual Unsung Heroes A wards Dinner were described as "our present and future" at the event, which paid tribute to Albert Melul and Alan Tapper.
"The recognition extended to these two men is Jong overdue," Na'amat Canada (Vancouver Council) president Esther Caldes said during the recent dinner at the Soft Rock Cafe, which attracted a crowd of 90. "They have travelled many miles to^ come to Canada," she noted.
Sponsored by Na'amat (Vancouver Council) and Co-op'Radio's Jewish Antholdg)' radio show, the celebra-tion served to honor Melul and Tapper's volunteer efforts.
There's a tradition "that our leaders are our trusted servants. They do not govern." remarked Aryeh Chark, who, with Tapper, co-hosts Jewish -Anthology. The Unsung Heroes
Awards — the first of what its presenters hope will be an annual honor -were presented by Chark in memory of his grandfather. Max Chark, one of the Jewish community's earlier "unsung heroes".
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UNSUNG HEROES Albert Melul and Alan Tapper shortly after receiving awards at recent inaugural dinner; guest speaker Denny Boyd, columnist lor Vancouver Sun: Canada "very lukewarm" about heroes.
Melul and Tapper have worked extensively both "inside" — within the Jewish community - and "outside," in the community at large, Chark pointed out.
Born in Morocco, Melul worked with cultural and youth groups in Toronto before coming to Vancouver in 1963 to help staff the then-new Jewish Community Centre. He has worked in Vancouver with neighborhood houses, especially helping recent immigrarits^and-has volunteered within the city's Grand view-Wood lands and Commercial Drivemeighborhoods.
Tapper has had "40 years of involvement in Jewish and general communities" since shortly after his Bar-Mitzvah, when he aided the Red Cross in his native England, Chark said. Chark added that Tapper worked for years in the Canadian Zionist Federation, Jewish Family Service Agency, B'nai B'rith and Royal Canadian Legion Shalom branch, and was instrumental in establishing a free breakfast program in several Vancouver elementary schools.
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