4 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday, September 28,1989
Af resOoil^ bus attack plair
By HUGH ORGEL
TEL AVIV — An attack on a Jerusalem-bound passenger bus was averted by the arrest of a 21-year-old West Bank Palestinian Arab last week at Tel Aviv's central bus station.
According to a police report, the suspect confessed he planned to stab the driver and force the bus off the road somewhere en route to Jerusalem.
A police spokeswoman said the suspect admitted he
planned the act to mark the seventh anniversary of the massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut, and "because his brothers were being killed every day in the intifada:^
the arrest was credited to a bus security guard who collared the youth because he was acting suspiciously and had tried to force his way onto the bus. The suspect was brought to a police post in the terminal, where he was asked
Anti-Semitic book stand shut down
NEW YORK - A book stand selling Holocaust revisionist literature at the Fourth Biennial International Book Fair in Rio de Janeiro has been closed by the state's governor.
The stand was operated by Revisao Editora, a Brazilian publishing company which published several revisionist and anti-Semitic texts, including Jewish or German Holo-
caust?, The Gas is Finished: Guilty or Innocent. The International Jew and the Katyn Massacre, and a Portuguese version of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zipn.
Sigfried Ellwanger Castan, part owner of Revisao Editora and author of Jewish or German Holocaust? vowed to continue his "fight against the biggest lie of the century."
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Film director to be tried for anti-Semitic remarics
PARIS — The government has ordered that one of France's most acclaimed film directors, Claude Autant-Lara, be put on trial for anti-Semitic incitement.
The 88-year-old filmmaker was also ousted from the French Academy of Fine Arts arid resigned his seat in the Parliament of Europe, based in the French city of Strasbourg. '
French justice minister Pierre Arpaillange announced that he personally decided to initiate proceedings against Autant-Lara for virulent anti-Semitic remarks he made in an interview published in the leftist monthly Le Globe. Autant-Lara's remarks included a scornful denial of the Holocaust and an expression of disappointment that one of its famous survivors, Simone Veil, did not perish.
Arpaillange said Autant-Lara would be charged with inciting racial hatred, racial slurs and racial defamation. If found guilty of all charges, he could face a one-year prison term.
Autant-Lara quit the European Parliament as moves were initiated by leading French political figures to strip him of parliamentary immunity. Autant-Lara was elected last summer on the list of the National Front, the extreme right-wing party headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who himself has denied the Holocaust but says he is not anti-Semitic.
As the oldest member of the European Parliament, Autant-Lara was given the honor of formally opening its sessions. He used those occasions to take swipes at unnamed minorities who "dominate us.'*
The film director had been vice-president of the Academy of Fine Arts and was slated to head it next year. The academy's current president. Marcel Landowsky, said he was shocked by Autant-Lara's remarks and joined other members in demanding his resignation.
Autant-Lara has publicly and pridefuUy proclaimed himself as anti-Semite and seems obsessed by the subjects of Jews and the Holocaust. Le Globe quoted him as saying, "Yes, I am an anti-Semite when they misbehave and a philo-Semite when they behave all right. Unfortunately, there are not many who behave all right. Jews are not very creative."
Autant-Lara was particularly venomous toward Veil, a former president of the European Parliament who served as a member of the French cabinet and was once voted the most popular political figure in France. "She uses her deportation; she plays on it like a guitar. But she came back, didn't she? And she seems to be doing all right," he told £e "So when people talk to me about geno-
cide, I say: They missed that woman Veil."
Veil has refused to proffer, charges against Autant-Lara, saying he is not worth the trouble. jta
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Mrs. Shulbaum came to the post office to mail a Bible to her sort who had just enrolled in a Yeshiva a few days before.
"Is there anything in this package that is breakable?" asked the post office clerk. "Only the Ten Commandments," replied Mrs. Shulbaum.
to empty his bag. According to the police, a commando knife was found wrapped in cloth.
The two earlier attacks led to tightened security and a high state of alert on the route. On July 6, an Arab passenger wrested the wheel from the driver of another No. 405 bus, plunging the vehicle into a ravine, where it exploded.
Sixteen passengers were killed, including Eve Zilber-man of Vancouver, and 27 injured.
On Sept. 9, the driver of a bus on the same route was stabbed in the stomach by an Arab, who was overpowered by other passengers and arrested. Both incidents have been linked to the Palestinian Arab uprising. jta
Israel Sun
HELPED BY daughter Hassiia, former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin smiles faintly as he emerges from Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem. Begin, 76, was admitted after suffering from "slight fatigue," which doctors attributed to lack of sodium in his blood.
'Sons of Jewish Memory' attack FMrisson
by EDWIN EYTAN
PARIS — Robert Fauris-son, a French revisionist leader who denies the Holocaust ever occurred, was attacked and severely beaten by three men near his home in Vichy.
An organization calling itself the "Sons of Jewish Memory" telephoned the news media to claim responsibility and threatened that "falsifying history will not go unpunishecf."
But French Jewish leaders expressed doubts about the organization's existence. Jean Kahn, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Organizations in France, said the group "just does not sound credible." He speculated that Faurisson's assailants were right-wing hoodlums hoping to provoke anti-Jewish sentiment.
Faurisson is regarded as the founder of the French revisionist school of historians. In the early 1970s, he tried to publish a thesis contending there were no gas chambers and that the number of Holocaust victims "is vastly exaggerated." Although repudiated by most historians, his notions have been published by Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right-wing National Front.
Right-wing organizations called Faurisson's attackers
"terrorists" and demanded the government launch a major investigation.
He was set upon while walking his dog. He was listed in
serious condition in the intensive care unit of Clermond Ferrand hospital, with facial-bone fractures and broken ribs:
E. German Jews urge gov't to extend Israeli relations
By DAVID KANTOR
EAS;r BERLIN — Th^ editors of Nachrichtenblatt, the official newspaper of East Berlin's Jewish community, published their annual greetings on the occasion of the Jewish New Year last week — with one significant deviation from the norm.
They expressed the hope that the establishment of diplomatic relations between East Germany and Israel "will logically unfold."
The message appeared only hours before news reached here that Hungary had become the first East bloc country to re-establish full diplomatic ties with Israel, broken in 1967. According to observers, it is safe to assume that Communist Party officials assigned to keep tabs on the tiny Jewish community approved the wording in advance.
The paper noted that the past year was the first in which East German Jews were permitted to observe Israel's Independence Day. It referred to the fact that there have already been scientific and cultural contacts between Israel and the German Democratic Republic.
East Germany, facing a mass exodus of its citizens to the West, has a' serious image problem. By alluding to a possible opening toward Israel, the Communist regime may be trying to demonstrate that it is not shutting itself
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The New Year message appeared, in the form of an editorial signed by Siegmund Rotstein, chairman of the community, and his colleagues, Peter Kirchner of Ea^t Berlin, Hans-Joachim Levy of Magdeburg and Raphael Scharf-Katz of Erfurt. Jta
Rockets drawirie
TEL AVIV - katyusha rockets fired from Jprdan into the Jordan Valley have led settlers in the area to complain of a deterioration in security sitiiation and to demand special status granted to frontline villages. The missiles caused no damage or casualties. The crater caused by the impact of a 105mm Katyusha was found in a subsequent search of the region.
Heart recipient O.K.
TEL AVIV — Shaul Miz-rahi, Israel's seventh heart transplant patient, was reported doing well after an operation that was recorded by an Israel Television camera crew. Mizrahi, a 33-year-old resident of Or Yehuda, underwent seven hours of surgery at Hadassah hospital in Ein Kerem, a suburb of Jerusalem. The transplant was third performed at Ein Kerem and first to be filmed for TV.
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Israelis Still travel
JERUSALEM - Israelis are treating themselves to expensive vacations abroad, despite economic slowdown at home and record unemployment. At least 750,000 Israelis traveled abroad this past summer, six ^ percent more than last year. ^fii
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Se/IM IGR ANT$ S£ ARCK f or new apartment at housing fair in new ollm centra. Spcnso red by Jewish Agency; fair aittractdd 8 wra^
Andreotti offers new convent site
PARIS — Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti of Italy has proposed relocating the controversial Carmelite convent from the grounds of the Auschwitz death camp to a former convent near Rome.
His suggested site is at the Adreatine Forest, where the Nazis executed Jewish and. Catholic hostages and resistance fighters during the Second World War.
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Conductor probed at time of death
WASHINGTON - The U.S. justice department's Office of Special Investigations was conducting an inquiry into Herbert von Kar-ajan's wartime activities in the Nazi Party when the world-famous conductor died July 16, OS I officials have confirmed. Von Karajan, who died at 81, was a member of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich.
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Tourists urged to bleed for Israel
NEW YORK - Faced with a severe shortage of blood in Israel, Magen David Adom, country's national blood serr vice, hais called upon tourists to participate in an emergency drive.
Requests for blood, made via a series of Announcements over Israel Radio, urged all. tourists to Israel, as well as all healthy Israeli adults, to report to nearest MPA sta> \ tiori during daytime hours.-