2— THE BULLETIN — Thursday, January 14, 1988
Renown scientist acliieves exit visa
Bomb suspect arrested after evading capture for 7 mos.
NEW YORK Professor Alexander Lernerof Moscow, internationally known scientist, has be£fl told he can emigrate. -
Lerner received a phone call from the OVIR emigration bureau in Moscow saying he had permission to leave for Israel. Lerner's son, Vladimir, and Vladimir's wife and child also were told they could leave.
Lerner, 74, known for his work in the field of cybernetics, has been waiting since 1971 to go to Israel He has been refused permission to emigrate several times on "state secrecy" grounds, despite the fact that his work supervisor testified to the KGB that he was not privy to state secrets.
Earlier this year, Lerner was among a list of Refusen-iks the Soviets said would neveij be allowed to leave.
The author of 168 scientific works, Lerner-was charged with "espionage and treason" in an open letter published in /zv'£'A7/fl on March 4, 1977. He replied, *M was never con? nected in any form with any secret service of any foreign state."
Prior to applying to emigrate; Lerner had traveled to the West to participate in scientific symposiums. Later, after he was refused an exit visa, the international scientific community carried on a vigorous campaign on his behalf.
Lerner is expected to join his daughter, Sonya I erner Levin, whoemigrated in 1973,
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in Rehovot, where for years he has been promised a research position at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Lerner had two daughters, ages 3 and 5, who,were killed with their grandparents at Babi Yar in 1941, when the Jews were rounded up. His wife, Judith,died in I98I.
The soft-spoken scientist is regarded by m'any as the senior spokesman of the Moscow Soviet Jewry movement and his comparatively lavish apartment (a testament to his one-time membership in the Soviet Academy of Sciences) is a popular stopover for members of Congress and foreign leaders visiting the Soviet Union.
During the 1970s, Lerner was active in organizing professional seminars for Soviet
Kasparov retains his title
SEVILLEfSpain — World chess champ Garri Kasparov is still champ after achieving a brilliant final game victory over fellow Soviet challenger, AnatblyKarpov.
Kasparov's vibtory evened the score of the 24-game match-up at i 2-12. Tournament rules permit the champion to keep hiis title should there be a tie.
Kasparov, who secured his title from Karpov in 1985, will be champion for another three years.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27.1988 at 7:30 FM.
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Jewish scientists who had lost their jobs when they applied to emigrate. _ .n>\
Black and Jewish papers merge for year-long dialogue
MIAMI - A black and a Jewish newspaper have launched an experimental year-long jnter-ethnic dialogue in print that may be unique.
Last month, the two weeklies began sharing publisher's columns, opinion pieces and news items. vThe columns will' appear quarterly, and based on the circulation of both newspapers, will reach more than a quarter million readers, Jewish and black.
David Abramowitz and Jack Levine, publishers and founders last year of The Miami Jewish Tribune, agree with the premise stated by Garth Reeves.Sr., publisher of the 64-year-old Times, that "nothing breeds distrust more than ignorance."
The three publishers acknowledge the black and Jewish communities have drifted apart since the civil rights movement in the 1960s,' and say they hope to restore the spirit of co-operation that existed.
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BEARING THE SCARS of a gas bombing that killed his wife and son, Avraham Moses and daughter, Adi, 9, expressed relief a suspect has been arrested.
ALFEI  MENASHE —
Security forces recently nabbed a suspect in the April gas bombing that killed a pregnant woman, her son and injured four others.
The 25-year-old suspect reconstructed the attack on the Moses family near the Habla intersection between Alfei Menashe and Kalkilya.
Handcuffed and sur^ rounded by border police, he traced the route he apparently took to the site from his neighbourhood on the outskirts of Kalkilya. He stood in the remains of the orange grove from which he is sus-: pected of throwing the petrol
bomb, and described his actions as a policeman took notes.
The grove was uprooted after the attack.
O.C. Central Command Amram Mitzna said the sus^ pect is believed to haye acted on his own, carrying out several atacks before joining a group of Nayef .Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Other suspected DFLP members have also been arrested. Chief of General Staff Dan Shomron said they also carried out petrol bomb attacks on their own.
Sharon feuding
TEL AVIV —Ariel Sharon, outspoken Herut hardliner, has been embroiled in an angry war of words with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres ; and Mayor Teddy Kollek_of Vjerusalem. Kollek chided him for moving into an apartment in the Old City's Moslem Quarter. Sharon, minister of commerce and industry, accused Peres of creating a "worldwide panic" by constant warnings of the demographic dangers to Israel by its continued rule over 1.5 million Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Addressing a Likud party meeting,. Sharon blasted the proposal the Gaza Strip be demilitarized. jta
Mengele 'alive'
TEL AVIV —A prize of $1 million for apprehension of war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele has been announced by Candles, organization of Children — Auschwitz Nazis Deadly Experiments' Survivors. In making the announcement, organization chairman Eva Kor of Terre Haute. Indi-ana, said she does not believe reports the bones found at Embu, Brazil, in 1985 were those oj; Mengele.
Commonwealth biennial staged inside oldest shui
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados
— Sabbath eve services were held for the first time in more than 100 years in the synagogue of Congregation Nid-hei Israel, World Jewish Congress reported..
They marked the opening of the four-day biennial conference of the Commonwealth Jewish Council and reconse-cration of what is possibly the oldest Jewish house of worship in the Western hemisphere.
Rabbi Israel Singer, secretary general of the World Jewish Congress, officiated at the rededication anc^ Prime Minister Erskine Sahdiford of Barbados was the honored guest.
The Commonwealth Jewish Council represents Jewish communities in 24 countries of the British Commonwealth.
Its president, Greville Janner^ Labor member of the British Parliament, formally opened a special exhibition on the history of "Jewish settlement in the Caribbean" at the Barbados Museum, under the auspices of the Barbadan government.
There are about 27 Jewish faniilies in this island nation of a quarter million. Jews arrived here shortly after the first British settlement in 1627. Congregation Nidhei IsraeL was founded in 1654. The synagogue was partly destroyed bya hurricane in 1831. It is now undergoingTestora-
JANNER . CJC president
tion, expected to be completed late next year.
The 110 delegates and observers at the conference included representatives from Jewish communities in such Third World countries as India and Zambia. Resolutions adopted at the gathering include strong conderhnation of apartheid and a call to bring tojustice Nazi war criminals still at large and living in Commonwealth countries.
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Arab groups lobbying European heads for support after riots
LONDON — In Paris and ■ Athens, Geneva and Amsterdam, Arab groups and their sympathizers are trying to rally public support for Pales-tinians in the Israeli-administered territories and are demanding strong condemnation of Israel for the tough measures it has taken to quell rioting in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
In Paris, a delegation of young Frenchmen <jf Algerian origin demonstrated outside the Israel Embassy, calling for an end to Israeli "violence" and for an international peace conference with*ttie participation of the FLO.
Premier Jacques Chirac brokb precedent by formally receiving, for the first time, a representative of the PLO,
A funny thiiig happened ...
A newcomer to Israel was staying with a relative in Haifa. The relative asked him one morning: "How do you plan to spend your time today?"
"Oh, I thought rd go on a tour of Israel."
"Fine," answered the relative, "and what will you do in the afternoon?"
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Ibrahim Suss, who heads the PLO office in, Paris, was part of a delegation of, Arab ambassadors who called on Chirac to protest Israel's "repressive" actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The French Socialist Party, headed by President Francois Mitterrand, meanwhile, has expressed its concern over events in.the territories.
In Athens, the Union of Palestinian Students in Greece staged a rally at the Athens University to protest the latest "Israeli attacks against the inhabitants of the occupied Arab lands."
The students presented a draft resolution to the U.N. office in Athens denouncing the "Zionistvracist oppression being juolently- carried out today in the occupied lands, which have resulted in dozens -of deaths, hundreds of injuries and thousands of arrests."
The General Confederation of Workers of Greece called on all working people to participate in a ten-minute work stoppage in solidarity with the Palestinian people. They called for an end to "the oppression by Israel in the occupied Arab lands,"
IVIemo with U.S. elevates Israel to NATO ally
WASHINGTON — Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci have signed a memorandum of understanding that boosts Israel's status to the equivalent of a NATO ally of the U.S.
The agreement, signed at the Pentagon, provides for U.S. and Israel to carry out joint military research and development programs. It also allows Israel to bid on military sales to the Pentagon on the same basis as NATO members. Israel joins a select group of five major non-NATO U.S. allies that also comprises Australia, Egypt, Japan and South Korea, jta
Bomb threat disrupts meeting on anti-Semitism
AMSTERDAM — A bomb threat emptied a meeting hall here of some 800 people, mainly non-Jews, gathered to protest the recent upsurge of anti-Semitism in Holland.
The anonymous telephone warning-was received near the end of the meeting. No bomb was found, but the threat seemed to underscore the reason for the gathering. It'was sponsored by all of Holland's political parties, many trade unions, artists organizations and the Netherlands Council of Churches and held in Amsterdam's historic old Jewish Quarter. jta
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