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off 'whitewcishiiifi' Bloch murderers
NORWEGIAN Socbl AflUri Mfadster RoAKyste vteltod Yad Vaahent raoendy, and paused a monient at plaqne honoring Norwegians who saved Jews front Nazi occnpiUion forces. (Jemsaknr Post)
Germons regret
desecfotion ,
DUESSELDdllF ~ Two young West'Germsn who admitted ^ t^^^ they had desecrated Jewish burial places^and'had ^iaken part
■ in oflier; anti-Jewish: activities bo^tween 1972 and 1974i expressed
yregret for -their ^jsctions in a Liieneberg court recently. ^
Willi Wegener, 24, a former sergeant in the West German
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and three numths, and Half,01-lmann,-:21» - a '::f^ officer,^ received a suspended 21 -•ijnoQth jai^ sentei^cp. ^ . ,
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had been motivated by their'iieo-■Nazi,: anti-;Jewish and anti-G(»n-imunist beliefs. - / ' > They had ibeen responsible for
Strong reactions continue iesplte Ironfmon's retroction
' LONDON^he British)GbV0rn-: ment has accused President Amin of Uganda of "Whitewashing" the • murderers of Mrs. Dora Bloch, 75, the hyjeck hostage, who disappeared after the Israeli com- : r^mando: raid on; Entebbe'air^ in July. ' , '
The Government's rejection of I
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ihquiry" into Mrs.'Bloch's dis-' appearance was revealed in a let-? toK fitmii^ed
' Qffice ^ Minister • of State, ^ to , Greviljfe Janner, QC,;MP.^ -'^|S?^^ieil^hdMs aniro^^ that ' the commission had decided that ' Mrs. Bloch,' who ' had dual ^ Britisbrrls^raeU^nationalii^i was' released - along with more than . 100 oflier hostages, ^in the raid. ' -Afiritain has en>ressed angerTat ' the Ugandan- versira of Mrs. Bloch's. (fisappearance. The "British Government is convinced -
^ MONTREAL — Charles Bronfman; president of the-Seagram . Co., one of ttie:world»s^largest distilleries,' Aroused strwig reactions when he told a group of 400 businessmen on the eve of the Nov.' 15 provincial elections tluit a victory for the separatist PartL Quebecois would "mean the end of the countiy and the' des-' traction of the Jewish community." , ^ - , ' . He vowed that in such an eyent >he-would pull S^ram out .of '^Quebec and with it the Montreal .Expos' baseltall team in wbich Jie has a 40 percentinterest< " Tiie^Parti^'*lu«bOcois ^wonthe
sed the'Bronfman family's loyalty to Montreal and Quebec nnd^ pledged that Seagram would co- ^ operate fully, with the new government. ' "
. Earlier, Allan Bronfman, Charles Bronfman's 82-year-old uncle, declared on^ French television that "none ofusBrmfmans' intend to leave Qu^t>ec. ^Whatever government we getwe'IImove with
In his jpost-election statement, ■Charles BronfmM ^aidr'llt was -; incumbent "Upon 4hose ot us- who < dearly love <Canada' and' whQ,be-
the Parti Quebecois allegedly Jield >on its;i>Vemises. Th^'disavowal appeared in the AJCS bulletin "Your'Community News," - '
In' the same issue, AJCS president Jqe;Ainaddressed^.an open letterto);.Premier-elect Bene Le-yesque pledging "full.cooperation in achieving ttie'^ common aims of all who ' wish . tolive' in a progressive and enlightened soc-
ie*ty."; i
'Ain wrote ^that the "AJCS will continue^'fo iHrorltc^IdSely with' the govemment the fields of health, 'jnelttace ,and ^education and can be
that Mrs; Bloch was dragged from > a Kampala hospital by two of Ai|iin's secret police, probably suffocated in ithe struggle, and then her body was burned.
Rowlands wrote in his letter that the Ugandan: findings were "the sort of whitewash we expected." He added that the inquiry .ai^^red to have tried to obscure what'^^ had liappened in order not to find any Ugandan authority "even partly respmis-ible" for Mrs. Bloch's death.
A Foreign Office sp<Aeman said that the Ungandans luid not officially told Britain of the findings of the conunission of inquiry. 'Since the break in relations, the Foreign Office has been.represented in Kampala by the French.
Janner raised the Bloch case-with the Foreign Office by refer-;:^ring to ri^rts of the murder of a Ugandan photographer said to having talcen pictures of Mrs. Bloch's burned body.
Rowlands confirmed that the photografdier ^K>eared to have met a violent death, although 'Whitehall was in no position to say wheflier-it was linlced to what had happened to~Mrs< Bloch.
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'electitinsamd Bronfman^ ;a strong nuAyoffenceSjincIwtfngithedese- •to«ti|jporier'''>'of-^"defdated liberal U«ima» <jr'1he^^mtfmoriaibi^to the >-'a^2tW Premier-Rcltert'Bbura's^a, ^
of Nazism at the site of " Usiued a retraction:' ; ^ ^ ' t«ltlfteft ipr TiArffM.Belsen con- ' ' He Oxplaiiied that'lUs remarks ^''pa«si9natety^^^
had ^been made - inipuls reilly ?iijf Kiii««4. ^e-:hei«'Of;thfe^^
'iiijued. "At::i^^^^^^ • Seagram^^ K^l^^fteii^eliB^^ snian for the St. Jean Baptiste Society UfM«itreal;W^ ; 50 shaiires presented a jmotfon :of censurt
victims
the former iBergen-Belsen:: con '^centration^^ci^ tingen: Jewish cemeteryi?;.^^^^^ -iTIie "'^cottrt^^
Wegener had |)aintedthe's~lagans^ «Judah>^e'f -iiid "Only when Gennaqy isr\irithout Jews may this ^country breathe^ii^ely again^ on .^eBergen-Belsen memorial. i ; c^Both, m
now,; regard themsielves as lofyal citizens -observing' the country's
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jlitvft in/.Quebec,aSja.viable i^id, cqwted.iqn to r^spoi^.toshuman, important itfre^ within the Con- needs' as. we, have^ always done federation to bend jevery effort in the pa'si.", ^ ' '\ ^ ensure - tlTe' stS^flKtWaMiir of "^^l our country^ and pur province.
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. NEW YORK-El Al achieved the trans-Adantic fliglit time world record with a New Yorlc to London flight in S hours and 14 minufes.The' previous t^Hhid'^Vfas 5 liours and ^25 ^minutes. H Al flight 016# aiBoeing 747, was pilot-, ed by Captain Leslie Easter-man. .. , , «
of die great and blessed nations •of .tho. world.: And^^^faoe the specter of separatism which <could tear^ our country ^apart^^waus a prospect so. shattering ^that what lr<said truly reflected my mood and my feelings of tKe moment."
Hie. .Allied^ Jewish Conununity Services found .it necessary to publish a denial of any connec-
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It was^ rejected aftor Seagram, tions whatsoever withapre-elec-director PhUlip Veinberg stres- ' tion--political 'meeting opposing
Probe Gulf teak in Washingfoh
.WASHINGTON — A representative of the Israel Police was recentty in Washington interrogating Israel Embassy diplomats and other persinuiet:-on the leak in October of a paper prepared by a, Foreign Ministry , legal official regarding the status, of
about, the, controversial leak of die legal study» prepared byMeir Rosenne, ' legal adviser at the Toreign Ministry.' "
That "^leak was ptd>lished in '^Ha!aretz*? in October in a^ article written by Jerusalem dip-, lomalac ^ correspondent > Matti'
ument wl^s prepared^ and before it was published iiT "Ha'arfetz," the embassy-here received a concise summary, v « ^
Scilk wins
UNITED >fATIO;i^ — Tfie Gen-^''eral'Asisembly called im^ Israel to return Arab refugees "to Gaza ' Strip camps,though the Israeli delegate said'jthis would require V their transfer- from clean homes 'to dirty hovels. '
Chaim Herzog showed the U.N. ^gadiering two largo photographs} ^one' of "modern, clean, decent; "housing',*'', and 'the other of '^wretched refugee camps." ^ '
"That'is what you are going> "to yot^ for"'the Israeli delegate : 4old^ iiis colleagues.' "If you do: so, you will make yourselves ;
the^hiUghhig ffiock of thewoHd.'* ' Ignoring jhis'^ appeal, the AsTSem-bly voted 118'to two^ in favor of the transfer call.^ Three members abstained. ^' ^ - Herzog said he hoped the Assembly was ashamed of itself. Herzog accused 'the Arab^govem-ments of retaining the Palestinian refugees as political pawns. "Nothing could be. more ludicrous •and absurd than'the fact that this situation is allowed to continne when- one day's supply of oil an the Arab world could ■ solve the refugee problem," "he said^
theGulfofSuezoil-drilling-rights. ^olan. ZiveLis trying to deter-
dispute between the U.S. and mine whether the,substance of Israel. , MheJeak was conveyed to Golan
Yitzhak Zivel, the New York from > WasMngton, either by
representative ^ of the Israel another Israeli journalist or by
Police, asked embassy personnel an embassy official, r r >
whether fliey have any information Shortiy after - the Rosenne doc-
ARABIARE OUR ENEMIES - LEBANESE COMMANDER
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»: friend and - the Arabs are enemies of Lefew^ added ,m an mterview published recently by ^'Al Moharrer," a left-ist newspaper. ■ ■ ■ • - .
: V<>wed, however, to ''fight against any Israeli!
%^?alestuuans.'! wa^ PTOVerb^alin the 2^
time ttieir leader advocated what he called a; Vsiinple''sett!eme^ •
~^V?iyUbanese Christian should^j^
5g»P»<i^;He repeated this viewpoint m^tt^
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■our of I*bd|ion,^^^he .said..;.^^0.;.. V, ^
.WASHINGiTON Dr. Jonas ^ Salk, the New Yorkrbom physician and scientist-who in 1954. developed > ^anti-polio vaccine which bears his. name, has ,been given die Jawaharial Neliruaward hy the Indian government ^
The In<^' . Embassy here reported diat die award to SaUc
,is .in., "recognition <^„his outf-'
c standing servi<ies to the study of biological and h^l^h services and to die alleviation of human suffering, which imve' significantfy ^enhanced the .welfare of, the present and-future generations.^' ->^ In resp<»ise to^ qiuestion from reporter^, Salk, who is director of < the Salk Institute for Biolog-: ical^Stodies in San Diego, Calif., said he ei^ected to go to New Delhi shortiy to accept the award.; - It carries $13,740 in cash and; a citation. They will be presented i
u,at a. special ceremony.
' Salk is the third American to receive the honor since it'was established in 1965. The others were the late Martin Luther kGirtg
.Jr. ,in 1965 aqd violinist Yehudi Menuhin Jni96l
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