VOL.LVI,No.3 SHEVAT13,5749 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19,1989
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They said Hafez Kassen Dalkamoni was found in possession of a radio equipped with plastic explosives and a barometer device that would trigger the ejcplosives at a set altitude. ^^^^^^^^^^     ^ r
A West German expert Said "there is no doubt that such a bomb is designed to attack civil aviation."
Dalkamoni, identified as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, an extremist group headed by Ahmed Jabril, was seized along with several other
Arabs who stored weapons and ammunition in an apartment   near  a Frankfurt synagogue. Die Welt reported that
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WASHINGTON — Shab-bat services will be conducted at two Washington synagogues for the inauguration of George Bush as president, the first time Jewish services have been part of the official inaugural program.
The services will take place on Jan. 21 — the day after Bush and Vice-President-elect Dan Quayle are inaugurated — at Washington's Conservative Adas Israel congregation and Orthodox Beth Sholom congregation.
Dalkamoni was arrested in Israel in 1968, but freed in 1979 in a prisoner exchange with the Jabril group.
Until his arrest in Germany, he lived in Neuss, near Dus-seldorf. He was found in possession of stolen passports and forged documents in addition to explosives.
Thirteen other individuals, mostly Arabs, were arrested but released for lack of evidence.
Die Welt reported that warrants were issued in October for two Arabs surnamed Chandafrar and Cadora. They, along with Dalkamoni, are suspected of attacking American military convoys in Lower Saxony in August 1987 and April 1988.
Terrorism experts here expect the Jabril group to press for the release of Dalkamoni.
By EDWIN EYTAN
PARIS — Israel and the Soviet Union have decided to widen the scope of their respective consular delegations and maintain contact on the ministerial level."
Diplomatic sources said these measures amount to a de facto upgrading of relations between Israel and the USSR — perhaps the mo^stsignificaiit breakthrough in Soviet-Israeli relations since Moscow severed ties with Jerusalem in 1967.. ■
News of the agreement was announced by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens and his Soviet counterpart, Eduard Shevardnadze, after the two met for an hour.
The announcement was the climax of a weekend of high-level diplomatic contacts for Arens, who arrived here to attend an international conference on the proliferation of chemical weapons.
Arens began the day at a working breakfast with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz.
He also met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid, Foreign Minister Roland Dumas of France, Canadian External Affairs Minister Joe Clark and Hans van den Brpek, the Dutch foreign minister.
But the diplomatic highlight was clearly the Arens-Shevardnadze meeting, where they announced among other things that working conditions for the two consular delegations would be improved.
The delegations will be able to conduct political and diplomatic negotiations and for all practical purposes serve as diplomatic missions, sources said.
The Soviet foreign minister told Israeli correspondents here that this probably means the return of the Israeli Embassy building in Moscow, which has been empty for 21 years. Israel has insisted on having the premises back.
Shevardnadze said the work of the two delegations would henceforth be "better and normal."
Asked by a reporter if the Israelis could move back to
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their old embassy, Shevardnadze replied, "Normal conditions include that also. We've found common ground on that question."
The Israeli consular mission has worked out of the Dutch Embassy since its arrival in the Soviet capital last summer. The Soviet Consular mission in Israel has been renting private premises near Tel Aviv since June 1987.
Both have been strictly limited in their activities until now.
Israel hopes "normalization" will mean a role for these diplomats in developing a political dialogue between the two countries. The Soviets have insisted until now that the two missions stick to low-level, routine consular business.
The restoration of the Israel
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Embassy, should it occur, would be of great political as well as symbolic value.
Arye Levin, head of the Israeli mission in Moscow; had been trying for months without success to initiate talks with Soviet officials above the most junior level.
But the climate seems to have changed; Levin, on home leave, disclosed in Jerusalem that he recently discussed political issues with Soviet Foreign Ministry officials.
He told a Hebrew University-sponsored conference on Soviet and Eastern bloc affairs that Israel's aid to the earthquake victims in Soviet Armenia had opened the door for him.
In Paris, Shevardnadze expressed his country's grati-BREAKTHROUGH — Pages
The featured speaker at Vancouver Hadassah-WlZO's '89 Youth Aliyah campaign opener Thursday, Jan. 26 will be Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto, Judge of the District Court of Tel-Aviv. The event takes place 8 p.m. at Beth Israel,
Her topic will be Human Rights and the Jewish Agenda: the Growth of Anti-Semitism.
Judge Ben-Utb's
highly distinguished career
she has twice been a member
of Israel's delegation to the U.N. Assembly, holding the
temporary rank of ambassador. She has served as acting justice of the Supreme Court of Israel and has been a
member of the Law faculty at Israel's Bar-Ilan university. At the invitations of the U.S. and
French governments, she has carried out research studies in both countries.
Currently, Judge Ben-Itto is president of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. In 1986 she was appointed by this group to head the International Project to Combat anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
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