Thursday. July 24, 1980 ~ THE BULLETIN — 3
CHANGE IN STATUS OF JERUSALEM
JOHN ANDERSON, independent U£. Prudential candidate, nwcts Israeli Yitzhak Navpn in Jerusalem. Addressing a dinner In hb honor, Andersoii itaffiiped his support Off the Camp David peaceprocess and iook exception to aotae of hi»*'fdDow ^ countrymen who believe, that peace can be pursued by pressure on Imcl <^^^ deliberately increasing tensions between the Israel and Ameriom goyernnMiits.**
• /Jerusalem Pitut}*^
UNITED The Roman C^tholici Ghiirch's Secre-tariat of State (Vatican Foreign Ministiy) circulated a 1,500-word statement at tlie Uhite4 Nations stressing that **any unilateral action tending to modify the status** of Jerusalem, which is holy to Judaism, Christianity and .Islan),.would he *fvery serious."
% The release of the statement coin* cided with debate and passage-of a Security Council resolution adopted 14-0 which^ ^deplores the persis-tance of Israel in changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and status of the Holy City.** The resolution also expressed *^grave concern** a|)but the Knesset Bill on Jerusalem/ The Vatican; statement was released simultaneously in both New York and Rome, where the Vatican's-chief spokesman announced that it was being circulated at the U.N. as
Canada concerned overliiias against Israel at U.N. women's
OTTAWA Six major Canadian women's organizations — five: of them Jewish — have urged the government to try to block' politization of the United Nations Decade for,Women Conference in Copenhagen which was scheduled to introduce the Arab-Israeli conflict on the agenda.
A delegation representing the oigahizations met with Mark MacGuigan, thie Minister of External Affairs, to apprise him of their concern.
Ddrothy Reitman, vice-president of the International Council of Jewish Women, who headed the delegation, expressed satisfaction afterwards with MacGuigan*s-**clearly sympathetic** response.
Reitman, who is also an officer of Canadian Jewish Congress, drew the Minister*s attention to a 66-page document officially approved for the conference agenda which covers the "plight** of IHllestinian women in Israel and the territories occupied by Israel.
The document is **a blatant attempt to skewer Israel politically,** Reitman said, noting that over half of the text does not address women*s issues at all.
' "Rather it presents a distorted
historical account of the Arabrlsrael conflict and never refers to Israel as other than a 'Zionist entity*,** she said.
According to Reitman, MacGuigan promised that his Ministry would be "monitoring all resolutions very <?loscly.** ~
He said each resolution wo^d^be. examined for its political implic^^ tions and he spoke of his own concerns over the political orienta-
tioii- aind extraneous discussion which seem to afflict somany Unijed Natiptis-sponsor6d confereiiices, she repor^d. . . -
The organizations represented by the ilei^gation were Organization for Rehabilitatloin through Trainings Hadassah-WIZO of Canada, Na-ITbiial Co^
Camds^y Pionefcr Women of Canada, and "Matcli,** which' is concerned with Third Work) needs.
10 years, fined $50;000
AMSTERDAM ^ MiUionaiie art dealer Pieter Menten was found guilty, for the second time, of participation in the mass murders of J^ws and others in Podhorodze village in Poland while serving with the Nazi SS during World War Two:
A Rotterdam district court iin-posed a 10-year prison sentence and a $50,000 fine on him.
Shortly after the sentence was pronounced Menten collapsed into a diabetic coma and \vas taken to the intensive care unit of a hospital at
CHILD'S KIDNAPPER CLAIMS DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL
JERUSALEM - Tel Aviv mag-istrate*s court permitted publication of the name of a man being charged with the kidnapping and death of Ronni (Oron) Yarden, the 13-year-old boy found'dead 22 days. after he disappeared from his home at Savyon, near Tel Aviv, last month.
The man, Zvi Gur — formerly JGurewitz—33, an artist of Netanya, is a sabra. He separated from his wife land two children ^boiit 18 ihonths ago, when he became friendly with a young woman teacher.
Her parents* home in a, cooperative settlement near Kfar Saba, was used, unbeknown to the girfs family, as Gui^s hideaway after he collected a 200,000 shekel ransom.
Gur admitted during questioning that he kidnapped the boy, but said that Oron suffocated accidentally when the suspect put his hand over the boy's mouth in an attempt to stop him from calling out.
The suspect was described as'cOm-ing irom a good family but was himself a lughschool drop-out wha never held a steady job. His elder brother is an architect £ind his sifter and younger brother, ironically, are employed by the police as a legal advisor and photographer respectively.
Gur^s family have been flown to West Germany with the help of Abifc; Nathan, the peace campaigner, toi spare them further public harassment and abuse.
Gui^s trial is expected to begin on Sept. I after the summer recess.
A mandatory death penalty for kidnapping a riiinor and causing his death was called for in Jerusalem by Bar Council head Amnon Golden-berg, at a ceremony where 48 newly qualified advocates were admitted to the Council. Such a step, he said, is essential before the kidnapping of children becomes fashionable.
Bussum near Amsterdam^ '
Menten, who - suffers from; diabetes, was: Jiot in court wfien the senteh<^w^s pronounced but heard about it dh the tadio at tiis home in Blarfcum, near Bussum, where he was under house arrest. He was not obUgat^ to attend the court session.
Menteh's second' trial began in May. He had been convicted in an Amsterdam court in December,. 1977 of the same crime but that verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court and subsequently a new trial was oidered. Meiiten, 81, had pleaded not guilty.
The prosecution demanded a 20-year sentence but presiding Judge Pieter Schipper pronounced a 10-year term\.in view of Menten's advanced age.
INJURED IN HEBRON
JERUSALEM ^ An Israeli border policeman was slightly wounded when he was stabbed by an Arab while on patrol in Hebron, on West Bank.
**an official document.**
Observers noted that the release of the statement in the two major centres was clearly designed to stress its importance, as was the fact that it appeared prominently on the front page of Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
The Vatican statement quoted iroiti^^peiBch Pd^ John Paul « made during his? meeting at the-Vatican last month with President Carter. The Pope said: "The que-
JACKSON BLASTS BEGIM POLICY
SENATOR HENRY JACKSON, ft-garded as one of IsmcTs most ftith-ful friends hi Congreifs, has called on Israeli Prime Mfaiistcr Memchem Beghi to abandon Israers **hitnmsiKeiit position*'<lrith regard to settlements in Judea^ and Sunaria. Jackson said that Begb might be right "jnridicaily,** but not "poBtiealiy,** because Americans rcMntcd ]bini«i^flettiement djooB^ti^^ gfotap of
JewhA editors and publishers that additional settlements were, not necessary for , IsraeFs security..
stion of Jerusalem, which ..^ attracts the attention of the world ina special way, is pivotal to a just peace in the Middle East.**
The statement added that the{ Pope hoped that the rejjrfcsenter^ tiyes of the nations would keep inl mind the common mohotheistic| tradition of faith and would find aj Way^ to alleviate^ the bitterness, o^ confrontation in the city.
It stressed that the Christian, Jewish and Moslem religiouis communities interested in preserving the sacred character of Jerusalem "should be partners in deciding their own future.**
The statement represents the first ofHcial, open endorsement by Pope John PauU II of the repeated calls by his predecessor, the late Pope Paul VI, for an "intemationaliy guaranteed special status'for Jerusalem.**
However, authoritative sources here emphasi;^ that the staitement goes beyond thi^, in addition to reflecting the attitude of Cardinal Agostino CasarbUi, the. Vatican*s "Foreign. Minister.**
The document is being interpreted here as meaning that the Vatican would be prepared to accept "any power which comes to exercise sovereignty over Jerusalem,** provided that that power assumes the obligation to accept "an appropriate juridical system guaranteed by a higher international body.**
Also, the document makes it clear that the Vatican opposes all unilateral decisions on Jerusalem by a single State, as well as any bilaterail and multilateral agreements con^ ceming the city between individuaii States.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, scorh and contempt marked IsraeFs reac^ tion to thCcSecimty CoundV resolution on J^rusak^
A Fbteign Ministry statement
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USSR warns Of /Zionist
LONDON r- The pre-Olympic Games propaganda campaign launched by Soviet authorities took ah anti-Jewish twist, with a call to Muscovites to be wary of foreign tourists and guard against "ideological subversion.**
An hour-long television program called Lies and Hatred made Jewish tourists a particular target.
It claimied that "Zionist and fascist** groups controlled by the American Central Intelligence Agency had planned a campaign of sabotage^ espionage and psychological warfare against the Soviet Union. ^
, The documentary was devoted in part to the "unmasking** of an alleged CIA plot to involve Russian emigres in a campaign of anti-Soviet activities under the guise of tourists. To illustrate its warnings, the
program reconstructed alleged attempts to "smuggle** Jewish religious and secular books into the Soviet Union.
The pictures showed how specially-made clothing and concealed compartments in cars were being used for such activities.
It is expected, however, that the majority of Jewish tourists planning to visit Moscow for the Games will travel by air.
Warning Soviet citizens to be on their guard against "Zionist agents** and "CIA provocateurs,** the program claimed to show how subversion might be attempted. .
One sequence purported to show "a Royal Air Force base somewhere in England,** where "ClA agents** were being trained to cause trouble during the Olympic Games.' JCNS.
CHANCELLOR BRUNO KREISKY of Austria (thbd from left) recently became first head of gov^ment to meet the three West Bank leaders deported by Israel over two montSlis ago. With Um (left to r^t) are: Sheikh al-T«nifani, Kadi of Hebron; Falid KawMOMk, Mayor of Hcbnm; and Mohammed MiBwn, Mayor of HaiboQi. JCNS.
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