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Fact-finders unable to find
anti-Semitism in Nicaragua
SVA'SHIN<Gt0iN — there is no official anti-Semitisni in Nicaragua today but there are strong atitti-lsrael sentiments because of Israeli policies in Central Amierica wiiich appear to '' support rightwing^dictatorships, according to three members of fact-finding mission organized by New Jewish agenda.
The three members, part of a lO-member delegation, who briefed reporters on their recently concluded mission^ said they ; wanted to investigate whether there is a basis for allegations of ^ anti-Semitism initially raised by -Anti-Defamation League of B'nai BYith (ADL).
While' the three said they are not in conflict with charges raised by the ADLabout anti-Semitism in Nicaragua two years ago, they asserted they differed with policies of the Reagan Administration which, they claimed, used the charge of anti-Semitism in Nicaragua for its own political purposes.
The assertions were immediately challenged by Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, director of ADL's Latin American Affairs Department, and by the Miami^based Jewish Nicaraguan Congregation in Exile.
He said that in no way does the group^s remarks reflect the ^ experience of the Nicaraguan Jews.
think they used the Jewish issue as a pretext for goingdown there and 1 question to what extent they were serious in doing something for JeWs," Rosenthal said. jta
khplmlansky, charismatic 34ryear-old Hebrew teacher, has been|itre$ted and charged with hooliganism, according to y^rr^lllit^^^ by Greater New York confer-'•erice oi^Si4yi^,.teA^ ■;■ . ' ■ ■
Kholmiansky, waiting for permission to emigrate since 1978, faces up to a year in prison on accusation he trampled on flowers in public park. He has been in con-fm^ment since late July, but no trial date has been announced.
Whereabouts of another Moscow Refusenik, Alek-sandr Yakir,iata iliUul^n,4^
Yakir was originallj&^ro}^ trial Augi i on
charges of refusing military servic^, but this was postponed. His parents have apparently not been able to speak with him and are extremely concerned. The charge against hini carries a maximum three year sentence. .
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PoIisIt T.V. recalls Jewish uprising
LONDON — The anniversary of the 1943 Jewish uprising against the Nazis which began in the Bialystok ghetto — second largest after the Warsaw Ghetto — was officially commemorated last'
month in that Polish city.
World Jewish Congress monitoring sources said that Polish television gave coverage to the event noting thCi heroic struggle against Nazi aggressor lasted ten days, jta
/ , Courtesy Boy$ Town
REAL EYE-OPEN£^: foraiar laraal daletite mMltter, Mothe Arena (cantra), wat amazed to And teenage atudenta at Boya Town Jeruaalem drafting plana of alrplana parte tocpedfIcatlont demanding extreme accuracy. Thia fa a real eye-opener," aald Afanir wlien, ho leamed the parte'hail l>een commiaaloned for ierael'a aeronaiitlce induatry.
JOY AND SORROW are evident in faces of friends and family of Nechama iAltfi of Leiilngrad and Meir Levinoff of Moscow, who were joined In Jewish matrimony by k visiting,American, rabbi. Necham^'s father, Evgeny, Ira former Prisoner of Conscience.
REFUSENK MCOB lEVll ffil^TED AT W
TEt.AVlV — Supporters of Rabbi Meir Kahane prevented four M-K.s from ; ^ api^foachiiig Tel 'Mond piri-son, puinmejlling tl^m. and .accusing them of being Ptp supporters. M[Ks Mof<3(echai Virshubski of Shirtiu, Yair Tsaban of Labor, Mordechai < '3ar-Oii Citizens Rights tnovenient/and Bennie Shal-ita of Likud werei Seeking td . ascertain that suspected Jew-'-Ish Ubder^ouind members; not being tried for aiiti-Arab iactivities, were not receiving preferential treattment in pri-^
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WASHINGTON — Union of Councils for Soviet Jews has learned through reliable sources that Jacob Levin, an Odessa Refusenik, has been arrested.
lies J was told that three KGB officers arrived at Levin's w6rkplace recently and searched him. Finding nothing incriminating, they drove him away in a *black mariaV the infamous black vans of the secret police. They took him to his apartment, which they also searched.
They Wei^e only able to find six incriminating* itemSj the worst of which was a Jewish calender.
Levin will be charged for the crime of'anti-Soviet aetiv-itiesV which carries a possible sentence of 100 rubles or up to three years imprisonment.
Levin intended to marry
Israel Innocent'
TEL AVIV — Four-
religipusiceremonyV thefirst in Odessa in many years.
When Neppnynashe tried to ^^^y,^^ ^.N. team has com-spealc to Levin* she was told p,eted investigation imo re-by the case investigatoi: that ^s Israel was diverting
have no contact investigation is
they may until the -complete.
Nepony nashe has also been arrested two years ago and had her internal passport sus-
Yehudit Neponynashe, also of pended for teaching Hebrew
Odessa, and Council sources speculate that Soviet officials carried out the arrest to stop the marriage, because Levin intended to havea traditional
in her home.
UGSJ's source in Odessa said that he feared a general crackdown in the Odessa Jewish community.
STOCKHOLM — Swedish Television has broadcast a secretly recorded interview >yith Arkady May, a 62-year-blfl Spvieti:Relusenik who has been seeking to emigrate to Istael since 1974, and his wife, Helene, conducted by a prominent Swedish history profes-sorwho smuggled the film out of the Soviet Union.
Mrs. May told Prof. Joer-gen Weibull that the general situation of Soviet Jews was tragic, Many lost hope on being refused an exit-visa after waiting for several years.
"Our children are grpwihg up with a split personality. They are Jews in their hearts and drelam about Israel; but they must still be here, *^ she said.
May IS cut off from any opportunity to continue his
scientific work. He has repeatedly ~ applied for an exit-visa for himself and his wife, but they now have no hope bf getting'one.
"Our situation is hopeless and liiany other Jewish families face the same problems,"" he said.
Oh returning from his visit to the Soviet Union, Prof. Weibull said that the outlook for Soviet JeWs was beginning to riesemble the situation facing Jews Hying in Hitler*s Germany in 1935:
Jews in the Soviet Uiiion were "being persecuted not for their opinions br for their activities, but because of their Jewish origin."
Weibull knows that he may not be allowed to visit the Soviet Union again, but he
W. Germans 'persuaded' U.S. not to arrest Nazi Mengele
LONDON
Dr. Tuvia
Friedman, director of Haifa Institute for Documentation of Nazi War Crimes, has accused West German author^ ities of persuading the U.S. not to arrest Dr. Joseph Mengele.
Friedman, who played a major role in capture of Adolf
: Eichmann, said in London there has been a scandalous cover-up involving Mengele, responsible for sending thousands of Jews totheirdeath at Auschwitz concentration
. camp.
Friedman has obtained documentary evidence a 1979 order for arrest of Mengele was issued by U.S.- Justice department, when it became known the war criminal was to travel from Paraguay, to Miami.. Dr. Mengele had apparently obtained a visa under an assumed name. A Miami lawyer,' Jerome
: $anford,atthe time prosecuting attorney for the area, was
alerted to MengeleVplans and preparations were made for his capture.'
- However, according to U.S. officials, Mengele did not arrive at Miami airport. (JWB. July 26, 1984.)
Dr. Friedman stated hedis-covered Sanford received a message from Washington not to-go ahead with the arrest' of Mengele three hours before the Nazi was due to arrive in Miami.
Although there had been a West German request for the Nazi's arrest, Friedman declared he strongly-believed the German governnient did not, i infact, want the Nazi criminal -sent back to. Germany to stand trial there. ' "Germany does not want to be saddled with a major Auschwitz trial lasting for years, which would again draw the world "is attention to the terrible crimes committed by the German people, - said Dr. Friedman. jcns
was prepared to accept this in order to obtain information about USSR Jews and bring it out of tbe Soviet Union for the restr 6f the wbrtd.'
"Academics all over the world must visit Jewish academics in the Soviet Union, since they have no such contacts," he said. "No one has the courage or wish to mingle with them,** he added.
Wheh Weibull appeared on television to comment oh his film, he was supported by i\nita Gra;din^Swedish M gratioii Minister, who has presented three extensive reports oh Soviet Jewry to the Council of Europe.
Gradin called pn politicians, academics and journalists to visit Jews in the Soviet Union and protest publicly.
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Jewish leader kidnap victim
waters from Wazzani and Litani rivers in Lebanon and found Lebanese and Arab allegations /unfounded; Israel Radio reported. ]LJ;N. findings are unlikely to be published^ Lebanon asked Security Council to meet on charges, of Israelis illegal diversion of waters. jta
Dayllgiit saved
TEL AVIV — luhak Modai, energy minister, said that preliminary figures showed that introduction of daylight saving time had saved money through reduced use of Kghting and power for air-conditioning in homes, offices and factories. jcns
France and PLO "not
PARIS
TEt AVIV
Wherea-
bouts of kidnapped leader of West Beirut Jewish community SelimJammous, remained a mystery after three masked gunmen removed him from his car as he drove near peirut synagogue in Jewish quarter of Wadi Abu Jemil;
According to reports from Beirut, Jammous, chairman of committee representing the 100-member Jewish community, had been under surveillance.
SPme hours before he was kidnapped, gunmen called at his home seeking his whereabouts. Apparently they wait<bd until he returned and then abducted him.
Neither his wife nor Peirut police couqld offer any explanation for the kidnapping, nor who was responsible. No group, so far, has claimed responsibility^ •'^^
Fraiice*s rela-^ tibhs with the PLO are at an all time low. Palestinian spo-kesnken are accusing French government --and especially President Francois Mitterrand of "double-talk^ in the Middle East.
Usually reliable French paper Le Monde repOTtcd from Tui^is Palestinian anger is such that PLO chief Yasir Arafat refused to meet French Foreign minister Claude Cheysson. The two were to confer ill Tunis but Arafat told the French he was too busy. . jta
Jewish veterans mark liberation
PARIS — The 40th anniversary of liberation of Paris from the Nazis was celebrated w'lth thanksgiving service at the Great synagogue. Jewish war veterans attended official ceremonies and laid wreaths on sites of main battles for city^s liberation.
Main official ceremony was at Notre Dame cathedral where Paris Cardinal- Jean-
. Marie Lustiger, a converted Jew who spent war years in hiding, pleaded for better Franco-German understanding. "It. is not enough to forgive and forget," he said. "We
< must learn to love each other.*'
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