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tain "a bedrocC^ of suppoirt toward Israel, ttoeine is nevertheless ae iucreasiiag sym-. pathy for tfee Palestiiuams;, according to the beads off three naidoiaall poMiog oig^ei-zations.
: ■ .-The ,.;lhr<M . osr^mzatipims,: which coMiidted^ saarpeys im recent months ou Asmencsm attitudes toward Isiael m view of the ' Palestieiao eprisimg, S2ud here the Aeaericaia pmbllic would like to see the 0_S. aiod the parties to the coiafBict — Israel and the Palestioe Liberation Oi]^iiizataoin — opem negotiations for a settBensemt. . The three pollsters spoke att a discussion panel sponsoired by the Gonfeience of Pmesi-, 4ienls of Major Anaeirican Jewish Organizations.
Representataves of the" American Jewish Committee, American Jewish. Congress and Anti^Defamation Leagoiie of B-nai B^rith, which cona-missioned the surveys, also participated in the discussioai. - John Mantila, of the Bos-
Appeal falls
: : BONN —3yeo-3Sfazaactivi^I Karl-Heinz HoSfmania lost his apeal against a nime-and-a-half-year jail sentence- jhta
PLO deputy admits group wants to destroy Israel
JERtJSALEM—The PLO continues to seek Israelis elimination in stages, a'top aide to PLC chairman'Yasser Arafat admitted recently.
Mahmoud Abbas, senior depiity to Arafat, last week told the Egyptian newspaper Al Mussawar the PLO still abides by its plan of using ' "incremental stages"* to replace Israel with a "secular, democratic Palestinian state.'"
Abbas said that "this cos*-stitutes the final and ideal solution."'
ton public opimomiiirraMai^^ wM Kik:y, who cqcEdiBir-
ted a pol. last Ap^il for t&e AJComg^ess, said IsraeFs lela-ttioms with the U .S- are ""strong secBJure^and Israel is conh-by thej'^Dericam pubr
licasamaHy- V . Nevertheless, his survev
upper-igscoimie Ainteirkans are more «:ritticafi of IsraeTs
Israel,- they also favor a Pales-
tmian homeland.
The AJCongress* major findmg was-that despite the continiJU»i violence and clash-^ es in the territories, American si^port for Israel has grown between Dec. 9, 1988, when the uprmng began, andApril.
FuFthermqre, it showed that Ariiericans by a large margin arc more sympathetic to I^ael than to either the Palestinians or the Arab states. jta
Rabbi to represents
WASHINGTON — Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Fbuhdation^ haT be«n hoihi-hated by President Reagan as an alternate U.S. representative to the U-N. General Assembly session:
The 58-yearM)id Orthodox rabbi has t^n religious leader of the Park East Synagogue in-Manhattan since 1962.
Schneier said while he will be representing the U.S. on all the issues he hopes to focus oh human rights and religious freedom, which has been an ongoing concern of his for years.'
As president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Schneier hais frequently visited the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and East-eni Europe to discuss these issues with the leaders of those countries.
"It's going to be quite a challenge,'' he said of his
SCHNEIER ... UN. alternate
appointment. Schneier said he hopes to be able to give the human rights policy, which Reagan enunciated duringthe Moscow summit "the broadest echo" in a global forum.
The Vienna-bom Schneier is also the first rabbi to be named a member, of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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JERUSALEM
Israel's for the
army chief admitted first time that Israeli troops killed Palestinian protesters while firing plastic bullets.
While defending the controversial new plastic bullets Lt.-Gen. Dan Shomron confirmed that Palestinians were dying from   rubber bullet
PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK ShamSrvi^ed Or Akiva where a small outbreak off polio occurred. Here he enfliraces Baba Baiiicli,a^iat9iialh^er of the Moroccan community, who came to bless the
Bin to sanction iraq for gas attacic
HEW YORK ^ The Anti-Defamation League of BTnai B*iith has haikd the Senate's passage of a bill designed to impose sanctions on Iraq for using poison gas against Kuids and urged the Reagan admimstration to support the bilL
ADL^s national chairman,, Button Levinson, sakl it was
important that the U.S. government kad the way in oppcKing the first major use of cfaemkal weapons since World WarL
""We must make clear that siKfa activity cannot be done with impunity. It is not sufficient merely to criticize Iraq's activiQr. It is important as well to take concrete acQjon.^
PLO approves Israeli Arab party in election
An ella-   party in this year's Knesset
cial publication of the PLO has endorsed an Israeli Arab
A funny thing happened. ^.
^, SCENE; Airlmer so Phoemx
MacToliven I can*t wait to ^ out into that sun and onto the
couise... Are you by any chance a golfer?
Sibtsky(apl<Kher): Am/agolfer?Golf ismy life!
MacToliven WclL well- * manage to play in the seventies.
Slotsky: Exactly what I do! But if it gets one degree coMer, I
head right back to the hotel.
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elections.
1Z.: The Palestine Revolution. - the official PLO newspaper, praised the Arab Democratic Party, headecLby M.K. Abd el-Waiiab Darousha.
The ADP was set up earlier this year by Darc>,usha, who resigned from the liabor Party to express his support for Arab rioting in the territories.
In previous election years, PLO journals endoised the Communist Party and Pro-gressi\'e list for Peace. inb
The bill passed by the Senate, known as the "Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988," provides that the U.S. not give Iraq military equipment, credit, and vote against all international loans to Iraq.
Israel expecting lots of pressure' at new UN session
UNITED NATIONS ~ Israel will come under a great deal of pressure in the course of the 43 rd session of the U.N. General Assembly, Israel's chief representative to the world body has predicted.
Ambassador Johanan Bein said Arab delegates are likely to introducea number of anti-Israel resolutions in the assembly. They will probably focus on the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, now in its 11th month. jta
wounds and tear gas inhalation. United Nations officials had been protesting the use of plastic bullets in recent weeks, according to the Globe and Mail
"1 want to emphasize the system of operation greatly ensures that people won't be killed," Shomron said in an Israel Radio interview.
"In very isolated incidents it happens that people died of • plastic bullets, but that happened also, by the way, from rubber bullets and even by those who inhaled gasr^' he ' said.
Gen. Shomron said these weapons — as alternatives to his troops' widely criticized use of live ammunition — had successfully minimized killings.
U.N. statistics show more than 200 Palestinians were shot and wounded, mainly with plastic bullets, last month in Gaza.
Terrorist attack
prevented
KIRYAT SHMONA — A
Palestinian terrorist attack on civilians in - northern Israel was prevented by South Lebanese Army troops.
Two gunmen, belonging to the Syrian-backed^ Popular Struggle Front-(PSF), were captured alive after a short gunbattle with the SLA soldiers.
It is believed that one or two other gunmen may have managed to escape despite being badly wounded, accorditig to The Jerusalem Post.
The two captured terrorists had been equipped with three Kalashnikov automatic rifles and 15 maga/jnes, a revolver with a^silenfcer, wire cutters and four hand-grenades. They wore bullet-pToof vests, had— -food and medicines and Russian-made: chocolate in addition to three RPGs.
The head of the IDF's Lebanon liaison unit, Tat-Aluf Ze'ev Zaharin, yesterday praised the efficiency and quick-thinking action of the SLA troops. He said they had
Law broken
JERUSALEM
Two
Israeli yachtsmen. escaped being called home _from the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Kpria, for-apparent violation of strict orders not to compete on Yom Kippur The contestants, Dan and Ran Torten, who are brothers, sailed their 470-class boat, although otlier members of the Israeli Olympic squad refused to participate in events scheduled , on Yom Kippur, even though it meant elimination. jta
JERUSALEM Israel's supreme court rejected an appeal by a Palestinian activist under administrative detention, foiling another attempt to use Israel's legal system to counter security measures. The Court ruled against Faisal al-Husseini, 48, who was detained under an administrative arrest order, after being identified by authorities as a key leader of Al Fatah in Jerusalem. Fatah is the military' arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization controlled by Yasir Arafat.
Verdict protested
BONN Holocaust Survivors and German anti-Nazis protested in court when Wolfgang Otto, 76, a former Buchenwald death camp guard, AV^as acquitted at his retrial in Dusseldorf.
He had been charged with complicity in the murder of Ernst Thaelmann, former German Communist leader, in the camp in 1944, according to the London Jewish Chronicle.
The court ruled that the evidence, including that of ■ eye-witnesses, was insufficient.
Portugal soon to furtlier relations witii Israel
PARIS — Portugal will soon upgrade its diplomatic representation in Israel.
President Mario Soares of Portugal said his country had decided to appoint a resident ambassador to Israel and will do so "in a matter of months." Portugal presently has a nonresident ambassador accredited to Israel. Jta
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Could be first Wisconsin Jew in U.S. Senate
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MILWAUKEE -
waukee businessman Kohl has come within oae step of becoming the first Wisconsin Jew to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Kohl won the Sept. 13 Democratic prTmary for the seat being vacated by the retiring Sen; William Proxmire. This is the first run for office for Kohl, 53, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks profes-
sional basketball team and a demonstrated a high standard foriner chairman of the state of fighting ability. Democratic Party. j'^