P^e i2-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, June 15, 1989 M-T Believes change in attitude has occurred viewing PLO as more TEL AVIV(JTA) - The United States believes that the Palestine Liberation Organization has become more flexible toward Israel. It has warned the Israelis, however, that the Palestinian uprising will become more deadly and violent in the months ahead. Those views emerged in recent official contacts between American intelligence officials arid.senior NEW YORK (JTA) - The director of the Solomon Mikhoels Jewish cultural centre in Moscow has apblogized to the World Jewish Congress official who complained about mistreatment of a visiting Israeli scholar. Mikhail Gluz sent a letter to WJC vice-president Isi Leibler explaining he had not meant to ostracize or inconvenience Professor Yaiacov Roi, whose lecture at the centre was almost Israeli leaders, Ma'ariv reported last week. The uprising, which the Palestinians call the intifada, is already gaining moirientum as the summer approaches. It is spreading to areas that were previously relatively calm, and Palestinian efforts to. acquire firearms are increasing, the American intelligence sources reportedly said. But those sources know of no change in the PLO's centre a canceled. ' Gluz wrote, "I earnestly ' request to aplogize to Yaacov Roi with this letter," adding that the centre is ready to invite Roi "any time which siiits him to give a course of lectures in. the Mikhoels Center." Gluz said the problem arose because the centre, "learned about his (Roi's) intention at the last moment's notice." The incident at the Mikhoels Center occurred May orders against the use of firearms by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Ma'ariv said the United States is convinced that the PLC accepts the Israeli idea of Palestinian elections in the territories and that its conditions for such elections are more flexible than they appear from the rhetoric of PLO leaders. Washington believes a geriuine change has oc- 23 when Roi, a professor at Tel Aviv University, arrived at the centre expecting to give his lecture in its main auditorium. He was told upon his arrival that Gluz had hot given permission for him to speak arid had left towri; Roi said an assistant at the centre sent away about 20 people who had come to hear him. Roi finally spoke in a small room to approximately 25 people. curred in the PLO's atti-; tude toward Israel, including a recognition that it will have to negotiate with Israel. Ma'ariv reported. In another development, U.S. and Israeli officials are refuting claims by the PLO that a meeting between U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and'the PLO's U.N. delegate was a continuation of.the U.S.-PLO dialogue. According to a spokeswoman for the U.S. delegation, Ambassador Thomas Pickering met with Zehdi Terzt, head of the PLO's observer mission to the United Nations, only in the U.S. ambassador's role as president this month of the UN Security Council. "There was no reflection upon our relations with the PLO, nor any direct bilateral issues," said the spokeswoman. "The meeting dealt solely with Security Council matters. The only authorized channel for the PLO dialogue with the U.S. remains the ambas-: sador to Tunis, "Robert Pelletreau. Israeli officials expressed disappointment in the meeting, but they accepted Pickering's explanation: The last time an American del^ate to the United Nations was known to speak with the PLO was 1979, when then^ Ambassador Andrew Young held an unauthorized meetuig with PLO representatives; Young, who is Black, resigned after the meeting became known, leading to a storm of anger by Black leaders against the Jewish community, which strongly disapproved of the meeting. Pickering's meeting with Terzi came as the Security : Council prepared to debate a resolution condemning Israel for its handling of th& Palestinian uprising. The meeting was requested by Sudan on behalf of the Arab Leagiie. The Arabs were asking the, Security Council to condemn Israel for violations of Palestinian human rights and the huriian rights standards contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention. 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Granovsky, a Toronto Phil Granovsky businessman who is UIA of Canada's board chairman, is expected to attend the opening of the auditorium. Israel's Prime Minister; Yitzhak Shamir and Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres will also likely be The Name Game There is a story in ahnost every Jewish surname and Toronto lawyer FRED M. CATZ-MAN has been researching their origins over the past few years. Mr. Catzman reports on his research in The CJN. KOPVTO- CAPPE Toronto lawyer Harry KOPYTO.'S aggressive advocacy in the courts has brought his name into the public eye. KOPYTOW is a village in Poland near the Russian border. It is also responsible for the surname KOPYTOWSKI, which was Anglicized to CAPITOFSKY and later abbreviated to CAPPE —-a prominent family in Toronto, whose members include Larry, a chartered accountant, and the late Nathan, a lawyer, LASTOFKY - LOSTOWICE - DANZIGER Jiiliel^towsky, of Toronto, has written in tracking down her family name. The closest I can come to matching up the name, which is obviously derived from a place name in Europe, is theTown of LOSTOWIC, a suburb of GDANSK (formeriy DANZIG). The familiar surname DANZIGER indicates that Jews lived in the region. ■ .1- •. Jack Posluns present at the launching of tlie projects. "It will be an occasion to pay tribute to these distinguished families," said Allan Offman, mission chairman. Granovsky's outstanding leadership record in Canada, Israel and world Jewish affau^ is "respected" and "admired" by all UIA ofTicials, he said. Equally "inspiring" is the Posluns family's con-tribution to Canadian Jewry and welfare of Is- rael, Offman said. The family is naming the cultural centre after Jack Posluns, who was a Toronto businessman in the clothing manufacturing industry. A generous supporter of Jewish causes, he died prematurely in 1984 at the age of 54. Walter Hess, executive vice-president of UIA of Canada; called the Granovsky project, located near the Israel-Lebanon border, a statement of his organization's priority to maintain northern Israel's population. '.'Hopefully an auditorium like this — providing social services to the community — will be a means . by which we can retain that population," Hess said. The Posluns project represents another UIA goal of economic development in Israel, he said. Ness Ziona is located 18 kilometres .south of Tel Aviv in Israel's "Silicon Valley," the heart of the country's new industrial development, he .said. Suitable social welfare services are needed to attract people to the area and the new cultural centre will provide those services, Hess .said. 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