YOM YERUSHALAYIM 1967 - 1993
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Israel Sun
To protect Israel from the Arab League's boycott — now 41 years old
YOM YERUSHALAYIM, the 26th anniversary of th^ reunification of Jerusalem, will be conimemdrated Wednesday; Mfiy 19. Israeli Prinie^Minister Yitzhak Rabin is seen being Welcomed by ^^^^
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ed Clinton, Vice-^President Al Gore, Israeli President Chaim Herzog and numerous European heads of state in a solemn, moving ceremony on the grounds of the museum, an American memorial to the horrors of the Nazi era.
Clinton, Gore, Herzog and other speakers sat on a raised dais just outside the museum's front doors as a
By DEBORAH KALB i States News Service
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Thousands gathered here under blustery, rainy skies to dedicate the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which President Bill Clinton said would "bind one of the darkest lessons in history to the hopeful soiil of America."
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row of iriilitary flags behind them flapped stiffly in the breeze. Below the dais was written the phrase, "For the dead and the living, we must bear witness,"
In his remarks, Clinton recalled the suffering inflicted on European Jews during the Nazi era. "They who were among their nation's most patriotic ciii-
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y\(A^^ given up their boycott on American companies doing business with Israel, the move is too late to help dozens of firms that have lost billions of dollars in Arab business. • .
It is also too Jate to save Baxter International, the world's largest hospital-supply company. It pleaded guilty last month to breaking a U.S. federal anti-boycott law by trying to remove itself from an Arab blacklist of United
req uests for boycott infor-mation against U.S. firms, the AJC said. Both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia resumed spurning blacklisted U S. businesses following the Persian Gulf War. "Here were our great allies, hurting American firms simply because they traded with Israel," said Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N. Y.), who has called for stronger action to battle the boycott.
In a letter toa U.S.Jewish group, the State Department acknowledged that the two desert kingdoms promised not to boycott American companies.
But accordirig to the Jewish Press, a New York weekly, Kuwaiti ruler Sheik Jaber al Sabah was "unresponsive" to a request. by Christopher at  a recent
gre.ss passed a law in 1977 that bars U.S. firms from cooperating with or trying to evade the sanctions. The law "is very difficult to :■ comply with," William V. Skid more, head of the Commerce Department's Office of Anti-Boycott Gbmpliance,  told USA%
Although Baxter paid the largest fine for allegedly violating the anti-boycott law, it is not the only corripany caught. Among dozens of companies that have paid sizable fines are LA; Gear, 3M, Citibank, Safeway, Bank of America and Sara
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But the number of violations could shrink appreciably soon because Kuwait and  Saudi  Arabia have
"quietly assured" the State Departrtient that they will no longer try to bar US. companies dealing with Israel, USA Today repotted last week.
There is no sign that either country is willing to end the boycott by trading^ with the Jewish state, but their assurances should wipe out the "secondary" boycott against American and other companies that have Clients, customers, offices^ plants or suppliers in Israel, the paper
But according to the " Boycott Report" published by the American Jewish Congress, Kuwait arid Saudi Arabia have refused Secretary of State Warren Christopher's request to end their boycott against U.S. companies dealing with Israel.
Instead, Kuwait has issued the greatest number of
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i  itenisateni Day celebrated locally an Sunday, May 16
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MORNING ITINERARY
j^x 9 a.m. at JCC: Walk with Israel registration begins. 9:45 a^m. Opening ceremony:
— "O Canada" and Hatikvah: Talmud Torah Choir; Allison Bennett, director.
— Choral Selections. Welcome/ Introduction of community leaders: Walk chair Rose
Greetings from Israel: Rabbi Benji Levene. Prayer for Jerusalem: Rabbi Philip Bregman. Shofar: Rabbi Wilfred Solomon. Walk begins: led by Richmond Jewish Day School. Marshals under direction of Maurice Lifchus will ensure walkers' safety.
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:0 Closing ceremony:;
— Plaque presentation to teen challenge vvinners.
— Russian mimes Max Fomitchev and Vladamir Grigorien:
— Vancouver Jewish Folkdance Society.
—Falafel for sale by Habonim-
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— Kids' arts and crafts, directed by JFGV Wbmen's. Young Leadership Division.
Information: CZF, 266-5366.
EVENING ITINERARY
7 p.m. at Schara Tzedeck Wosk Auditorium:
].,':— Community celebration (free admission): State of Israel Bonds marks Bonds' 40th year in Canada.
— Tribute to past Bonds campaign chairmen.
Entertainnient: Rabbi Benji Levene in The Four Faces ofjsrael.
— Champagne reception; —■ Information: 266-7210.
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