BEIRUT ^ The Reverend Jesse Jackson, despite criticism from numerous qudrters regarding anti-Israel statements he made throughout his visit to Middle Eiast centres, turned his tour into around bf shuttle dip^^
Jackson flew back to Anwar Sadat's
personal jet to deliver Si "s^ from Egyptian
president Sadat to P^estane Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.
The black U.S.civil^ghts leader said he would tell tlie PLO that Egypt welcomes its participation in the peace process provided it accepts Israel's right to exist aind J the autonomy scheme outlined in the Camp David accords.
Jackson said he had also been entrusted with two appeals from Sadat ^ one to Arafat urging a ceasefire in.south
AN W AR SADAT and the Reverend Jesse Jackson hold an earnest conversation at the Egyptian President's Cairo home
that would'impede the peace process.'
Shortly after his arrival in Beirut, Jackson w^ sent to hospital with stomach flu and had to cancel a meeting with Arafat -r so the PLO chief visited his bedside^ givuig him a kiss and a bouquet Of flowers^
Meanwhile, in New York, a major American Jewish leader charged that Jackson 'had ''mischievously intruded into the peace negotiations in the Middle East tinder box area.^
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BHIyGrahain/says there « "dangerous possibility?; of ^ m ; increaselrf^nti-S the U.S. Graham said in an interview on the CBS television program 5^ did not
think there was Currently a wave of anti-Semitism, but^ he added, "It is a possibility, I think, and would be a dangerous possibility." He also said, "I don't think you're going to see an uprising, among blacks against Jewish people because they marched with them in the civil rights movement. No group stood by them more than Jewish people during that period."
DISMANTLE BOMB
DIMONA — Police sappers dismantled a small bomb discovered in front of a Dimona cinema.
TEL AVIV — Prisoners hard labor in Soviet camps are entitled by Jaw to a diet of 2fi50 calories a day, which is less than the 2,S0O calories a day allotted to Nazi forced labor camp inmates in World War n, fieteased Prisoner of Zion Edward j^usnetzov told a press conference. He added that most prisoners never even get the minimum allowed them by law, and that many are reduced to eating weeds.
An adult doing strenuous physical labor must receive at least 4^000 calories daily, according to nutrition experts.
Kuznetzov, other former prisoners, and relatives of those still behind S oyiet barbed wire appeared at the conference to announce publication of the first-ever report on the medical conditions of Prisoners of Zion. The report, which will be sent
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to medical experts throughout the world, is based on the testimony oif released prisoners, on letters smuggled put of Soviet captivity, on families' testimony, and on medical examinations of released prisoners.
According to the report, the quality of food given the prisoners is so poor that, despite their chronic hunger, they are frequen*»y unableto bring themselves to eat it. Worms and parts of the bodies of dead rats float in watery so-called, soiips. Bread is often baked waste.
Kuznetzov said that the purpose of the deliberate starvation of prisoners of conscience is to turn them into weak-willed, obedient creatures.
The conditions in Soviet jails are in direct contravention of Soviet law itself, he said.
Kuznetzov was one of the leaders of the 1970 plot to hijack a Soviet plane out of Russia. He was released to the U.S. in exchange for a Soviet spy. Two other prisoners from the same trial — Leib Khnock and Hillel Butman — also appeared at the press conference. Butman, who is under treatment for a severe ulcer developed during his years of imprisonment, missed a hospital treatment appointment in order to attend.
Protest French attack on Israel
PARIS — Crif, the representative council of French Jewry, and all other major French Jewish and Zionist organizations strongly protested against a violent attacic on Israel voiced by Georges Marchais, leader of the French Conununist party, at a press conference in Algiers.
Marchais described Israeli policy in combating the terrorists in South Lebanon and her policy towards the Palestinians as "criminal.**
He called for an end to what he called Israel's "aggressive'' policy and claimed that the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement had not solved any issues. JCNS.
According to^iige report and the ex-prisoners' te|tl&py, Soviet prison cells are sea|^%om the outside world and.cont^i^^ither water, a bucket of aiiyf^pSirtV or a toilet. Sewage frequently overflows from the basement and floods the cells. In the labor camps, countless rats run about freely, and during cold winter nights, swarm over the prisbniers' cots. A prisoner in solitary confinement is allowed only two visits to Jlie latrine dailyv and only when and If the warden permits them. J
Due to constant hunger, hard labor, and unspeakable sanitary
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AN EMBRACE from PLO leader Yassir Arafat.
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RAP SETTLERSENTS
JERUSALEM — Finance Minister Simha Ehrli'ch criticized cotistrjuctibn-^bf-'^'^cttlm^^ West Bank which, are not economically self-sufficient, saying the money could have been used for construction of more economically feasible settlements^ in Galilee.
POUND DECLINES
JERUSALEM — Israel Pound continued its rapid decline relative to U.S. dollar —IL28;63-$1.
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JERUSALEM — Deputy Premier Yigieii yadih said that any attempt to change United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 would constitute a serious obstacle to peace process.
COMMITTEE of Relatives of Victims of Repression in Argentina demonstrated near Western Wall against new legislation Argentine military regime which enables courts to declare that anyone who "has disappeared" is dead. According to the committee, since the military seized power in March 1976, 8,000 political opponents have been murdered, 20,000 are missing and there are IO,OOSJ political prisoners. Some 1,000 Jews have been victims of repression, the committee says.. (Jerusalem Post)-