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Vancouver's Jewish community is being urged to sponsor at least 10 families of Vietnamese 'Boat.People*'this:];Mear..; ' '\ •■.^ -^''-^^^ sj' •:\
Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific Region, repoited this week J^wi^Wesii^n Bulleiinedltonskl July 12 on behalf of aiding the Vietnamese ^struck a r^^^ note in many
personsVhearts and we hope the momentum will continue.''
To spur the drive, which has been fully endorsed across Canada by the CJC national office, the local Congress office is establishing an ad-hoc committee Of representatives froni organizations^to serve as a clearing-house for individuals or groups wishing to sponsor refugee families. -^ v
B.C. Premier Bill Bennett, in response to a CJC letter urgingproyincial government support for the 'Boat-People', replied, in part: ''Certainly, British Columbia is ready to cooperate with the government of Canada and the Immigration De^
programs of social services and otherareas, is willing to do whatever wc can to ease the plight of •theVietnamesi^-^refugees." ■ ^v^/^,
Representatives from National Council of Jewish Women and from B'nai B'rith, as well as volunteers', are^working with CJC to set up the ad-hoc committeev They will shortly meet with
THUY HANG DUONG THI; whose Hebrew liame is Kochava, is one of the refugees from Vietnam now settled in
Israel. (Jeruisalem Post).
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Howeverj information has already been received that the city of Yancouyer is setting up a clearing house for information, as well as a depot for donated items. The Mayor's office is also inaugurating a fundf-The Boat People's Rescue Project^" which will be used by organizations to help Tcsettle immigrants here in Vancouver and surrounding areas. The office sees this as work for several years^ a spokesman said.
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Here's how to
WHO MAY SPONSOR: #
• National organizations
• Local, legalljf-incorporated organizations
• X^rpiips of at least five adult . Canadian citizens or permanent residents
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Housing, food, clotlies for one year :
9 Medical for three months aiid dental for one year
• Integration and moral sui>^ort for the family
SUPPORT SYSTEMS
• Municipal 'Boat People Rescue Prefect*
• Immigrant Services office
• Jewish service organizations
• Interfaith *B.C. Cares'
. For further information contact the Congress office at. 261-8101.
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- OTTAWA -i. The Arab Monetary Fund, an agency of the Arab League, has stopped all financial dealings with Canada in protest against the new Canadian Govern-menfs election promise to move the Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
MEtBOURNE - Jewish communal leaders have welcomed the decision by the Australian government to withdraw an invitation to host - the Sixth United Nations
Dr. Jawad Hashem, chairman of Congress on the Prevention of the Fund which is based in Abu Crime scheduled next year in Dhabi, said: "No more deposits will Sydney:
be placed with Canadian banks, whether they are' offshore banks in Bahrein, on the Euroiiiarket or anywhere else.**
The ban also covers dealings in foreign exchange and •4>onds. -
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The 1980 conference was dropped because delegates representing the Palestine Liberation Organization, which has observed status at the U.N. would have been eligible to attend.
The Australian government
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followed the precedent set by Canada*s former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who cancelled the Fifth U.N. Congress on the Prevention of Crime in September 1975, because the PLO would have attended.
Although neither Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. nor the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrew Peacock, have publicly given the PLO*s possible^atteridahce as the reason for withdrawingrthe invitation, sources close to the Prime Minister have confirmed^the detjEuIsJ
The' president of the E;xecutive Council of Australian Jewry, Isi Leibler, said Canberra's decision had upheld the highest Jdeals of international relations and was in the best interests of Australia.
"There was something particularly bizarre and hyppcritical in the idea of the PLO at an international conference on the prevention of crime,** Leibler said. He added that the overwhelmingly majority of the Australian public ■'quite rightly regard the PLO as synonymous with crime and terrorism against civil-ians.**
The government's decision, however, was criticized by a number of leading criminologists who said that Australia had forfeited the opportunity to stage a prestigious conference bringing jurists, police and criminologists together.
Surprisingly, the government's action has received veryiittle media coverage and there has been almost no editorial comment in the Australian press. '
The Fraser government, which took office in December 1975, has consistently refused to allow any representatives of the PLO to visit Atistralia and has emphasized on a number of occasions its refusal to recognize the PLO in any way untiL that organization . first recognizes
ag£ftnsl'^i^^ reports here citing an internal document of the Anti-Pefamation League of B*nai B*rith.
TEL AViy - Three Arab terrorists, apparently on a mission to seize hostages in, Israel, were killed by an Israeli patrol in Har Dov area on western slopes of Mount Hermon.
TEL AVIV First commercial agreement between Israel' and Egypt leading to trade between the two countries — that could begin this summer — was announced here.
JERUSALEM ---Sephaidic Chief Rabbi OvadiaYpsef issued a halachic judgement rulihg that birth control is forbidden by religious Saw and is perniissable only if the woman must not become pregnant for health reasbns.
Helsinki Agreement which the Soviet gdvernment signed ifs for freedom ,of emigration. Let our voices — letters, jrams and phone calls — express our protest to Western ^rs to-intercede and to the Soviets, to set them free.
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YASSER AR.4FAT, leader of Palestine Liberation Organization, with Austrian Chanciellor Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt, chairman of Socialist International, at a news conference in Vienna. Israeli leaders and heads of major North American Jewish organizations strongly denounced Arafat's visit, charging that Kreisky and Brandt gave legitimacy to a terrorist group and thereby undermined ongoing Middle East peace process. (Jerusalem Post)
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