Thursday, October 11, 1979 — THE BULLETIN — 3
PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT of Egypt fwd his wife listen intently tdDr.Avrahani Suhami, president of Elseint, Ltd. of Haifa, Israel, explain howthecoBn|»ny*s£XEL-905 computerized Mial tomography (CAT) system bl>eb^ physicians throughout the wdrhl for medical diagnostic purposes. A radiolo^ using the Eiscint scaimer wiU obtafai hi a few seconds a highly detailed picture of a cross-section of the brain or of various organs of the body. This is achieved by taldngagreat. number of x-ray images firom different angles wound the bbdy, fee^ them to a computer, which then **reconstriieiar the faitersMtion of these imagM^
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FRANKFURT — Six neo-Nazis aged between 22 and 42 received jail terms ranging from four to 11 years in Bueclceburg, near l^rankfurt, for bank robbery, theft, ihcitement to racial hatred and disseminating Nazi propaganda.
Four of the men were found guilty of being members of a neo-Nazi terrorist organization, believed to be the first sisch conviction of right-wing extremists iii West Germany since tlie war.
Michael Kuehnen, 23, was acquitted of being leader of this group, but was jailed for four years for incitement to racial hatred, insulting the West German State, wearing Nazi uniform and disseminating Nazi propaganda.
Kuehnen, a former army lieuten-
heading U.S. Senators 'Free
BY RICHARD YAFFE
NEW YORK — LeadingSenators are heading a: ^**Free Wallenberg Committee,^ which has been formed in the United States, parallel with an all-party parliamentary conimittee set up in Britain, to seek further information from Soviet authorities al)out the disappearance of this heroic Swedish diplomat.
Raoul Wallenberg saved 30,000 Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz death camp by providing them with Swedish diplomatic protection in Nazi-occupied Budapest during the closing stages oif the Secorid World War; r i
But Wallenberg was arrested by ^ the Soviet forces which entered Hungary in 1945 and, in answer to repeated requests by the Swedish government for information, Andrei Gromyko, then Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister, told the govern-^ ment in 1957 that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in Moscow*s Lubyanka prison in 1947.
U.S. BACKLASH ISRAEL AID
JERUSALEM — American public opinion is growing increasingly anti-Israel because of Israel's increased requests for economic aid, Douglas Bennet, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), told Adi Amorai, co-
New U.K. envoy takes up duties
RAOUL WALLENBERG .;. saved 3O;O0d Jews-
However, according to reports by some former Soviet prisoners, Wallenberg was seen alive after that date.
Jan Kaplan, a former Soviet Jewish prisoner, was re-arrested by Soviet authorities after speaking in a telephone conversation with his
daughter in Israel of a Swedish prisoner who had been in jail for more than 30 years.
Nina Lagergren, Wallenbei^g's half-sister, has appealed to all governments and public opinion to help trace Wallenberg.
She told a press conference^ organized by the American Jewish Committee in New York, that Wallenberg was stated to be alive in 1962 on Wrangel Island, north of Eastern Siberia, in a book. The Feather in My Hand, by Carl-Frederik Palmstierns.
The United States Wallenberg Committee is headed by Senators Daniel Patrick Mpymha[n,^ of New York; Frank Church, of Idaho; Claiborne Pell, of Rhode Island; and Rudy Boschwitz, of Minnesota.
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ordinator of the Labor Alignment faction in the Knesset Finance committee. Bennet was in Israel to review Israel's economic requests for 1981.
He met with Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich, who outlined Israel's economic needs. Ehrlich told Bennet that the peace agreement with Egypt paradoxically made it necessaiy for Israel to increase its defense spending.
ButBennetm^ had chosen a difficult time to make her increased request. Inflation and growing unemployment in the U.S. made it difficult to raise the aid, he said. ■
Ehrlich admitted that the govem-menfs economic policy had partially failed. But on the other hand, he said, Israel was making an effort to cope with the energy crisis on her own and would not exercise her right to ask the U.S. to honor its commitment and supply her with oil.
Pope responds to Polish Jewry
TEL AVIV — Pope John Paul II has sent his heartfelt greetings to all Polish Jews . and expressed his hope that the' Almighty will relieve the world of hatred. The Pope's greetings and wishes were included in a letter, written in Polish, to Anszel Reis, president of the World Federation of Polish Jews, who had sent greetings to the pontiff on his ascent to the : Holy See. The Pope stressed in his letter that he has "prayed to the Almighty that all those who are acting on behalf of and for humanity would be blessed.*'
SHLOMOx AftGOV. Israel's hew Ambassador to Brit^irf; arrived ^ in London recently to take up his duties.
JERUSALEM — Canadian envoy Robert Stanfield visited a Palestinian refugee camp and conferred with Palestinian and Jordanian officials as part of his mission to measure reaction to proposed transfer of Canadian Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Danes, Saudis differ on'PLO
COPENHAGEN » Henning Christophersen, the Danish Foreign Minister, and Saudi leaders could not agree on who should represent the Palestinians, a matter they discussed during his three-day visit to Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis believed that it should be the Palestine Liberation Organic zation, but Christophersen said that it vfas not Denmark's task to nominate a single organization as the one and only representative of the Palestinians.
Dehmark had no plans a^t present to recognize the PLO, he told his hosts.
On his return home, Christophersen reported the Saudi view that another open conflict in the Middle East threatened-more far-reaching consequences than ever before.
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ant, was also deprived of his civil rights for five years.
The court decided that the leader of the groiip was Gary Lauck, the German-bom leader of the American Nazi organization, NSDAP/ AO, who gave evidence for the defence during the four-month trial under a. safe conduct.
A total of 292 neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic offences w^re consmitted in West Berlin during the first six. months of this year, compared with 99 during the same period in 1978, the police have reported.
Most of this year's incidents occurred between January and March, before and soon after' showing of the American television series Holocaust in the city.
Manfred Heidenfelder, 36, a neo-Nazi activist, has been charged by the Frankfurt public prosecutor with
disseminating neo-Nazi propaganda, defaihing the victims of Nazi persecution and inciting hatred against West Germany's Jewish minority.
~ A lieutenant-colonel instructor at a Hamburg military school is reported to have been reprimanded and transferred to another post after making an anti-Jewish remark on duty.
West Germany's Federal Consii-tutiqnal Court in Karlsruhe has reversed the decision of Hamburg district and high courts that former SS Colonel Hermann Bischoff, 71, must stand trial on charges of complicity in the murder of at least 26 Jews in Poland during the Second World War. ;
Bischoff had claimed that he had suffered two strokes and was unfit to stand trial. JCNS.
COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY ATTACKED
LONDON — The veteran campaigner for the deletion of scurrilous definitions of the word "Jew" from dictionaries, Marcus Shloimovitz, has fired off another salvo.
His latest target is the Coliins English Dictionary, the first new dictionary to be published in Britain for 45 years. It contains seven definitions of the word, "Jew", the last three of which it describes variously as "offensive" or "offensive and obsolete".
Shloimovitz, who has expressed himself satisfied with the ^definitions given in Collins Concise Einglish Dictionary, published last autiimn, said that notwithstanding the prefixing of the definitions with the words **pffensive and x>bsoiete, the publishers have seen fit to draw 'unworthy' references to the attention of all who need to refer to a dictionary, and I would have thought it totally unnecessary to do
so." ^
He added that the more such definitions appeared in print "it could only provide ammunition for anti-Semitism, and it is not for the dictionary to use the word 'offensive' as a cloak. Such qualifications hardly serve to undo the impression created. It is wrong and morally corrupt."
But the editor of the Collins English Dictionary, Patrick Hanks, refuted Shloimovitz's charges. Asked why it was necessary to_ include definitions of words which
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the editors themselves agreed were obsolete, he stated, "It is our job to describe the language as it is, including the historical dimension.
"Shloimovitz has a completely mistaken idea of the nature of a dictionary. He seems to think that putting words in the dictionary gives them an approval status. Nothing could be further from the truth."
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Swastika oii lawn
NEW YORK - A large swastika was burnt into the lawn in front of a Long Island Jewish family's home, the latest in a series of such incidents during past few months.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR and the former ambassador to the U.S., Simcha Dinitz, enjoy a toast at the Jerusalem Hilton hotel shortly after the American film starts arrival from Cairo aboard a jet provided by President Anwar Sadat. The actress was in Israel at the invitation of Dinitz, who told reporters at Ben-G urion Airport that she is a close friend of his family. (Jerusalem Post)