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NEW YORK — Eleven members of the Concerned Jewish Youth (CJY) and the American Association for Ethiopian Jews forced their way into the ofHces of the New York director of the American Red Cross here, to explain the plight of Ethiopia's Falasha Jews and to urge officials of the Red Cross to take action on their behalf.
CJY co-chairman Stuart Wax, in a press interview, said that the two groups focused on the American Red Cross because it Jias the political **power to do something*' for the Falashas,
VALUED HEBREW TEXTS are held by an elder Falasha at a village in Ethiopia.
The Falashas, or''Black Jews" of Ethiopia, have been the victims of genocide and other atrocities following the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie and the subsequent revolution of 1976.
The Falashas, who ndw number 28,000 from 250,000 in 1975, are working^^ with the Jewish Agency in Israel for a mass aliyah of their people, Zacharias Yona, a spokesman for the Falashas, said in an interview earlier this year. : ^
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TEL AVIV - An Israeli merchant vessel rescued 41 Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea after their boat sank in a storm, Israel Radio reported. The Israeli container ship, Zim Sydney, responded to a meissage by an American plane which spotted the refugees in a life boat, according to the report. After rescuing the refugees the Israeli vessel continued on its trip to Singapore. Israel has taken in about 200 Vietnamese refugees as peiihanent residents over the past two years.
JERUSALEM Despite criticism of his recent meeting with an outspoken supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said that he will continue to meet periodically with West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians of various political persuasions. w
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chairmaii of the Gaza Red Crescent Society, Dayan said their conversation helped him to better understand the views held by Palestinian leaders in the administered territories.
"I learned a lot 1 didn't know before," the Foreign Minister told reporters. It is not enough for "Jews to talk to each other, over cups of tea, about what the Palestinians are thinking," Dayan observed.
Nevertheless, Dayan was careful to distinguish between talking and negotiating. He had not met with Abdul-Shafi to negotiate about the autonomy or about the normalization. Rather, they had had a general exchange of views on how Abdul-Shaifi sees a future of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, Dayan explained.
The doctor, for his part, described the conversation as "academic and theoretical. Dayan is fond of exploring .-.— even in a situation where there is no point to explore," he told a reporter after the meeting.
Abdul-Shafi said he had told the' Foreign Minister that he wanted a Palestinian state comprising the West Bank and Gaza Strip and not initially linked to Jordan. He favored open borders between that state and Israel — once an agreement was reached with the PLO.
The news of Dayan's meeting with the Gaza leader evoked mixed reactions in the poHtical community.
The prime minister's office refused steadfastly to comment. Dayan did not tell Menachem Begin beforehand about the talks although once
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JERUSALEM --^^^^fo^ first time for several months, Moshe Dayan, the Israeli Foreign Minister, has participated in a planning meeting of Israel's Ministerial team for West Bank and Gaza Strip autonomy talks with Egypt.
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JERUSALEM ^ A man was seriously hurt when a terrorist bomb exploded in a Jerusalem street near Government printing press and railway station.
JERUSALEM — Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane was jailed for three months by an Israeli military court in Ramallah for violating an order of Military Government forbidding him from entering Hebron.
DALLAS, Texas—"The Russian Connection,^ a special documentary that details hard evidence of Soviet involvement in the training of Palestine Liberation Organization terorists, will be televised Tuesday, Sept. 25 by th^ Public Broadcasting Service. The television documentary^ is a co-production of KERA-TV, Dallas/Fort Worth, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The program features the first public admission by PLO officers of their training in the Soviet Union. It reveals the type of training they received and the names and places of the Soviet KGB camps where terrorist training takes place. Three other terrorist groups from Africa and the Middle East also receiving training are named by those who trained with them in Russia.
"The Russian Connection" begins with the death of Gail Rubin, an American photographer murdered by a Fatah terrorist squad on a beach in Israel in-March, 197&. Surrounds .
ing her death was. a web of connections in transnational terrorism that reached to the Soviet Union, East Germany, Syria and to PLO training bases in Lebanon.
Analysis and commentary are given by Ray Cline, formerly head of Intelligence,. ,U.S. Depaitment of State, now director of the Centre for Strategic Studies, Georgetown university; Brian Crozier, director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict, London; and by General Shlomo Gazit, head of Israeli Military Intelligence, 1974-1979.
Cline calls the Soviet training activities and support part of a pattern of "low intensity warfare" serving Soviet geo-political interests in the Middle East and elsewhere.
The experts' commentary also considers questions regarding the free world's response to the intention of Soviet involvement in terrorism.
Veteran broadcast journalist Marilyn Berger will serve as anchor for the documentary. Producer is Herb Krosney.
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