10-THE BULLETJN-Thursday, May 26, 1977
LONDON — International terrorism has taken on the aspects of a big corporation.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization is believed to have iq> to 50 million pounds sterling invested in the City of London as a result of donations from the Arab oil states and ransom paid in terrorist operations.
These claims were made in a book, **The Carlos Complex — A Pattern of Violence," published here by Hodder and Stougfaton.
The authors, Ronald Payne and Christopher Oobson, who write for the Sunday Telegraph, named President Muammar el-Qaddafi . of Libya as the chief bank-roller of ttie Palestinian terrorists and employer of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, otherwise known as "Carlos," who is wanted in maiQr countries for terrorist acts, assassination and murder.
The authors also say that while the European Common Market countries are taking an increasingly active role to combat international, terrorism, the United States is a **weak sister."
After the 1972Munich Olympics massacre, the U.S. set up an inter-departmental working group on terrorism ''but it does not seem to have made much of an-impact," Payne and Dobson wrote.
The PLO acquisitions in the City of London represent only a portion of the terrorist organization's business assets, the authors said. (The City of London is London's financial district, roughly equivalent to Wall Street in New York.)
The terrorist revenue in 1974 amounted to more than 120 mil-
lion pounds sterling, Payne and Dobson estimated.
''Terrorism has acquired a political and military infrastructure," they wrote.
"There are office staffs, $5,000-a-month men equipped with compnay cars and secretaries. Some are concerned only with money matters or public relations, but others stUl on the planidng staffs dictate memos to girl secretaries urgiiig plans for assassination and libmbiiig, assessing what might be the effects of various activities."
The book described Qaddafi as the chief paymaster of international terrorism.
It claimed that he paid Carlos CMie million pounds sterling to kidnap Saudi Arabian (Ml Minister Shiekh Yamani and other delegates to the OPEC conference in Vienna in December, 1975.
Qaddafi also supports terrorists in countries as far apart as Ireland and The Philippines.
He paid 25 millicmpounds sterling to the leftists in the Lebanese civil war and another 40 million pounds sterling to various Arab terror groups before the Lebanese conflict.
According to the authors, Qaddafi was behind the abortive attempts to •assassinate former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger after the YomKippur War because he objected to the Israeli-Arab disengagement, agreements.
Qaddafi and Carlos were behind the July, 1976 hijacking of the Air France jet to Entebbe, Uganda.
Carlos did not participate in the hijacking because his photograph and fingerprints are well
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But it was Carlos who put the Popular Froat for the Liberation of Palestine in touch with Wilfred Boese and Gabriele Kroecher-Tiedemann, the terrorists who were kiUed in the Israeli rescue operation at Entebbe.
Another Carlos associate, Antonio . Degas Bouvier, was Carlos' teacher and accomplice in t|ie latter's attempt to murder Edward Sieff, the Anglo-Jewish philanttiropist and president of Mark and Spencer department stores at his London home on Dec. 30, 1973, Payne and Dobson said.
The writers believe that Israel is now impressed with the cooperation it is getting in Eurc^e at thepolice level, notwithstanding the French government's behavior in the Abu Daoud affair.
They noted that Britain, France and West Germany are now working together in a Common Market convention against terrorism and even before the convention was signed the security forces of those countries worked out their own operational arrangements backed by constant unoifficial contact in all three capitals and in Geneva and Brussels.
The auhtors predicted that following the Entebbe affadr, the international terrorist network will focus increasingly on tiie struggle in southern Africa.
They warned of the growing danger that the terrorists will gain control of a nuclear or chemical weapon.
They said that terrorism will continue as long as the Soviet bloc and the Arab states give it aid aiid shelter. '
JERUSALEM— "Next year I hope I'U be able to teach in Hebrew," says Prof. VitaliRubin, noted Russian sinologist who is now lecturing in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after a more than four year struggle to obtain an exit-permit fi'om the Soviet Union.
Prof. Rubin as an internationally-known scholar on Confucian philosophy as well as other Chinese classical thought.
Soon after coming to Israel in summer 1976 he attended an inters national conference of sinologists in Mexico, there he met many of
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RABBI SIMHA BUNIM ALTER was acclaimed in a dramatic ceremony by thousands of Gar has-sidim as the new Rebbe of Gur ("Gerer Rebbe"). Rabbi Simha, 80, is the yoimger brother of the late rebbe. Rabid Yisrael Alter, wbo died recentlly.
(Jerusalem Post)
his colleagues who at a Paris conference of sinologists in 1975 had signed a petition to the Soviet authorities on his behalf.
"I think it is unprecedented for such a campaign to be maintained for four years," stresses Prof. Rubin in describing the world-wide efforts made to secure his release from the Soviet Union, includuig the petition signed by many sinologists, and an entry in the U.S. Congressional Record.
He was not fully aware of the magnitude of these efforts until presented with a gift on a recent trip to the United States: a weighty archive of information on the campaign waged by hiis sympathizers around-the-world.
At the beginning of the 1976-77 academic year Prof. Rubin began teaching at the Hebrew University. Although the language barrier is a difficult aspect'of his absorption, he is comforted by the fact that students in Israel are tolerant of people who do not know the language. "They are accustomed to this," he says.
Prof. Rubin and his wife moved from, the absorption centre on the outskirts of Jerusalem where they spent their first months, into an apartment on tiie University's Mount Scopus campus.
Unlike ^e atmosphere in the .Soviet academic community which Prof. Rubin characterizes as a "stale, fruitless existence," he finds the atmosphere at the Hebrew University lively and his students intelligent and alert.
His lectures, which deal with Chinese philosophy, often become healthy dialogues between him and his students.
In Prof. Rubin's small classroom, nine students sit in a circle, writing notes in English, Hebrew and Chinese. There are several students from England, some Israelis and one Chinese.
Prof. Rubin, discussing an ancient Chinese philosopher, often includes comftients relating to Russian and contemporary Wes-
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tern society. He says: "In Russia, as according to certain Chinese philosophy, work is the highest form of aspiration. If a person is not working in Russia, in a few months he is charged with parasitism, in the capitalist countries it's the opposite; they pay you weliare.
The class breaks outinlaughter and an English student who once lived in Singapore says, "it's a challenge and a pleasure to listen to him!"
After announcing his intention to immigrate to Israel in 1972, Prof. Rubin was forced to resign from his position at the Institute of Oriental Studies at theU.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
During the next four years of continuous struggle, he was subject to constant surveillance and harrassment by Soviet authorities.. As a member of an active group of Soviet dissidents, he participated in numerous protest activities and in 1974 he was arrested in Moscow.
Prof. Rubin did not always believe he would be able to leavie Russia. Describing his thoughts and expectations during his final years there he says, "it is like a slave who tries not to think about slavery."
"Certainly" he adds, "it is a great sense of relief to be in Israel and to see the faces of the Jewish people who are living here."
BY GEOFFREY WIGODER
WIDE INTEREST has been aroused in France by the recent publication of a document by the
. Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (better known
. as CRIF) delineating French Jewry's stand on a variety of issues.
CRIF represents all Jewish bodies m France and this unique charter constitutes an unusual ccHisensus of organizations ranging from the right to the extreme left.
At its outset, the document is careful to dissociate itself from any notion of a Jewish lobby and states that the French Jewish conununity disowns in advance any such group blaiming to speak its name.
Then, after e3q[>ressing some of -the moral ideals of Judaism, such as social justice, human rights and human dignity, it draws the conclusion that no person should be discriminated against because he belongs to a specific group.
Similarly no group should be subject to a boycott without benefit of public protection. All fonns of freedom are unconditionally advo-cated-such as liberty of opinion, expression, teaching and press (althoui^ it is not long since the CRIF pointed to the dangers of unrestricted press freedom when hate-organs are involved).
THE STATEMENT on Israel is unequivocal. The document describes the millennia-old attachment between the Jewish soul and Israel and Jerusalem, finding its outlet in Israel as the privileged expression of beiiig Jewish.
Any threat to Israel is seen by the French community as a mehace to its integrity, faith and hope.;;'" ■■
Basing itself on ethical and hisotrical imperatives, the Jewish community of France e3q>resses its right to expect that every French government insist on the principles of international morality as against passing material interests and calls upon the Government to break with its currency policy, based on expediency, which helps and encmirages countries bent on the destruction of the State of Israel.
"Only a new policy of equilibrium and friendship for Israel-as for peoples of the region-can promote both the chances of peace and French influence" it says.
After condemning all forms of terrorism, the statement concludes by expressing solidarity with all other Jewish communities, regardless of the polit-. ical regime under which they live.
It calls on the French Crovem-ment to intervene on behalf of Jews anywhere - notably in East-em Europe and the Arab lands-who are deprived of their liberties.
SINCE THE time of Napoleon, French Jewry has been effectivety organized for religious purposes but it was only at the end of World War n that CRIF came into being to represent the conmiunity as a whole for secular purposes. It is composed of almost 30 leading oi:ganizations ranging from religious to Communist, from Zionist to Bundist. It represents French Jewry before the French authorities and has been active in. the fight against anti-Semitism.
The various organizations designate their representative on CRIF, which in this respect is closer to the American Pres-. idents' Conference than the Britiish Board of Deputies whose members are elected.
In the past the variegated natore of CRIF ha& militated against the crystallization of a consensus on such potentialty controversial issues as the attitude 'of the French Government to Israel.
There were inevitable tensions within CRIF. Its leadership (in which the Rothschilds are prom-inenet) preferred to make its protests to the (tevemment more discreetly than the rank-and-file often liked. Left and radical groups were in favor of taking much more vocal and outspoken stands. They were supported by Zionist bodies (even more than by the Israel Embassy) and youth organizations.
PRESSURES have been building to speak up. One factor may be the growing role by Jews of North African origin. French Jewry today is roughly divided into one third oldtimers, one third of East European origin and one third North Africans. The last are the most excitable group as far as Israel is concerned, r ■
Today, some 20 years after the major North African immigrations , these Jews have risen within the different Jewish bodies. Apart' from special North Afri<iian organizations, a growing number of North African Jews appear as delegates to CRIF.
French Jewish reaction to the Abu Daoiid affair was hysterically anti-Government. It is, however, doubtful whether it led to this particular document which must have been in preparation over a comparatively lengthy period of time.
The leadership has tended to lag behmd the rank-and-file but now has caught up. The unanimity obtained is an achievement.
For the first time, the links between the French Jewish community and Israel have been clearly defined in a pubUshed statement, which constitutes an
important milestone in the Israel-Diaspora parteership.
(Jerusalem Post)
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