THE BULLETIN — Thursday. May 14,1987
plan3 f0r Inter'l Peace-talks
{Israeli inedia has elements of '{^ii'r^,agreement' reportedly, ;^;rea;clie(I bctweea Foreign ; Minister' Shimon Peres and \ kiiig Hussein of Jordan on an international conference for Middle Ealst Peace. The two were said to have met recently in London.
~ '^ut Peres* office issued a , strong denial later.
It said the report of an agreement between Peres and Hussein in London was ^without foundations** and **part of the production of a rumor and speculation factory aimed at torpedoing the peace process.
The statement added those efforts were doomed„to failure, an implication there was a deliverate campaign afoot to wreck negotiations by publishing rumor.
The media reports referred variously to a working paper or a memorandum of understanding which sets the terms of reference an(| procedures for convening an international conference and has the backing of the United States.
According to the media. United Nations Secretary-
gerieralwill summon the five^ permanent members of the Security Council U.S.i USSR, Britain, France and^ the People's Republic of China — and t|ie parties in the .Middle East to a conference aimed at achieving a comprehensive peace settlement in the region based on Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and providing for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
' The conference will serve as an opening and introduction to meetings of bilateral com- JC '•rae'-. mitteesv each composed of Israel and an Arab neighbor. The bilateral committees would attempt to resolye the oatstanding differences between the parties in order to reach a comprehensive settlement.
Courtesy Na'Amat
STIJDYTOUR OF ISRAEL was recently undertaken by 31 members Of the Organization^^o^^^ South African women as guests of Na'Amat (movement of Working Women: and Volunt AfrorAslan Instltuteof Histadrut (Israel's General Federation of Labor). Shown at the closing dinner, seminarists participated In a dance of solidarity with Masha Lubelsky, secretary general of Na'Amat
Crackdown on extremist groups sparks wave of mass arrests
Israel Radio reported the memorandum contained a secret annex that includes a Jordanian undertaking to Israel not to include on the Jordanian negotiating team members of the PLO, whpse presence would cause Israel to immediately to break off the talks.
Jewish man among those accuseil of anti-Semitism
PHILADELPHIA — Three men, one of whom is Jewish, have;.been arrested for vandalizing a predominantly Jewish - country club in Cherry Hill, NJ.
They could-face five years in jail and/or $7,500 in fines, 'according to the prosecutor whose office is now preparing the case fdr the county grand Jury. ----
Police in Cherry Hill, where the vandalized Woodcrest Goun-r try Club is located, arrested the three men last month and charged them with creating fear of bodily violence and criminal mischief for their attack on the club on April 18.
Maintenance workers discovered anti-Semitic slurs and obscenities spray-painted on the club's main building, on the sidewalk and on a car left overnight at the club. Observers said it was the worstact of anti-Semitic vandalism in years. Black swastikas were also painted on the club's golf course. jta
NEW,YORK — The latest wave of indictments and arrests of anti-Semitic hate group ine m be rs i n Fo rt Smith, Arkansas, and Denver, Colorado, is part of one of the Federal government's most aggressive crackdowns on criminal activity among extremists in decades, according to an expert of the Anti-r Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
Three federal indictments charged 15 members of white-supremacist-hate groups with the murder of Denver talk show host Alan Berg, plotting to murder a federal judge, and engaging in conspiracy to overthrow the American government. ' All those charged are affiliated with one' of two hate groups, the Aryan Nations and/ or the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (GSA), according to Irwin Suall, ADL fact-finding director.
Ty/o of the most powerful national leaders of the extremist movements^ were among
those charged and arrested last week, "Reverend" Richard Butler, head of ^ryan Nations^ and Robert Miles^ a former Ku Klux Klan (iCKK) member and Midwest coordinator of Aryan Nations.
Butler, 67, is the "pastor" of the vehemently anti-Semitic Church of Jesus Christ Chrisr tian in Hayden Lake, Idaho, the headquarters of Aryan Nations, Miles is a one-time Grand Dragon (State leader) of the KKK in Michigan.
A federal grand jury in Denver indicted four people under the Federal Civil Rights Act in connection with the machine-gun slaying of Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host who provbkeB'racists during his program; Berg was gunned down outside his Denver home in June 1984.
The four indicted, all members of The Order, an Aryan Nations splinter group, were David Eden Lane^ 48, Richard Joseph Scutari, 39, Bruce Carroll Pierce, 32, a leader of The Order, and Jean Margaret Craig, 53. Lane and
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Pierce are both affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ Christian in Hayden Lake.
Federal authorities allege Pierce carried the sub-machinegun used to murder Berg and was accompanied by Scutari and Lane. Craig allegedly followed Berg.and possibly acted as lookout during the murder. The charge carries a maximum life sentence.
Five others were named in a separate indictment in Fort Smith charging them with a plot to murder a federal judge and other officials.
The federal government has stepped up investigations and prosecution of the hate groups in the past two to three years and is pursuing the members more aggressively and successfully, Suall said.
The increased activity began with the exposure of The Order in 1984 after Robert Jay Matthews, the group's leader and founder, died in a shootout with more than 100 law enforcement agents in Puget Sound.
Since the gun battle, 24 members of The Order were convicted or pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering, murder, bombings and armed robbery.
Two years ago, in April 1985, 300 state and federal officers raideda CSA camp in the Ozark Mountains near Mountain Home, Arkansas. Inside the camp, they disco-„vered an arsenal of machiftie guns, antitank rockets, grenades, plastic explosives-and an abundance of anti-Semitic and racist literature.
The members trained in\^ minefields, and in an area used for target practice the officers found a wooden target which pictured a state trooper with a Jewish star on his chest.
Members of The Order had trained and resided at the CSAcamp. In the wake of the raid, four Order members were discovered hiding in the camp_and^ey surrendered.
The leaders of at least two other hate groups, the Arizona Patriots and Committee of the States, are awaiting trials, Suall said. -
"There is no question that tha. latest indictments represent a serious blow to hate movements in the U.S.," Suall said. "Depending on the out-^ come of the trial, it could significantly cripple the hate movements."
Wants N-reactor
TEL AVIV — Israel has asked West Germany to sellit a nuciear-power reactor and Jias proposed setting it up in an "extTa-territoriaV' enclave in the Negev, near Shivta, in order to bypass the major political obstacle to the transaction. Bonn is "essentially willing" to carry out such a sale.
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Accusation levelled
TEL AVIV — Israel is supplying weapons and military aircraft to Guatemala on a business basis without the Israel government's involvement, Hdaretz h&s reported. The newspaper quoted Guatemala's Defense Minister, Gen. Hector Alejandro Gra-majo Morales, as telling its correspondent in Guatemala City his country has "broad military relations" with Israel conducted by private Israeli businessmen, not on government levels. JTA
NuderVseth
TEL AVIV — Some 500 people recently attended a 56th birthday party for Soviet Jewish Refusenik Ida Nudel at WIZO House here.
Nudel was present via telephone call from former Refusenik, Natan Sharansky. She spoke from the Moravian town of Bendery where she has been allowed to live since her release from exile in Siberia. JTA '
5 Af ri&an states refuse to condemn Israel actions
DAR ES'SAiiAAM — Five African countries have refused to endorse a resolution by the Organization of African Unity Labour Commission condemning Israel's "oppression" of Palestinian workers in the occupied territories.
Ivory Coast, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon and Liberia voted against the resolution, which called on the International Labour Organi^tion to assist Palestinians suffering under Israeli occupation. It was approve!d^4?X^he majority.
Rumania rebbe < advises patience with Soviets
NEW YORK — Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of Rumania counsels patience regarding Soviet so-called promises to allow increased Jewish emigration and to route the emigrants through Rumania directly to Israel.
"Now is the time to wait, because we have hopes that there will be improvement/' Rosen said during ceremonies of the 44th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Rosen, who addressed some 4,000 people in Yiddish, was' accompanied from Rumania by the Rumanian Jewish Federation Choir, all of them children of Holocaust survi-
Ji^ vors.
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