Two Palestinians Sentenced to Death in Athens Court for Airport Massacre

ATHENS (JTA) — Two
young Palestinians were sen-
tenced to death in criminal
court for the • machine-gun
and grenade massacre at
Athens Airport last August.
Shafik Arid and Talal Khan-
touran, both 22, admitted
that they staged the attack in
which five people were killed
and 5 5 wounded. They
claimed it was a "political
act" aimed at "liberating"
Palestine a n d preventing
Jewish immigrants from go-
ing to Israel.
The death sentence was
pronounced at the end of the
second day of the trial during
which 13 witnesses testified
for the prosecution. There
were none for the defense.
The pair, who claimed to
be members of Black Septem-
ber, told the court they had
"carried out a political act
in conformity with political
orders" because they were
"detemined to liberate Pales-
tine at any cost and spare
no efforts to achieve this
aim."
An editorial in The New
York Times commended the
decision by the Athens court,
but, at the same time, ex-
pressed the fear that the
Greek government may also
"pardon the two Arabs fully,
and expel them from the
country."
"This would only suit the
terrorists' purposes; such a
hypocritical deal would viti-
ate the whole Athens proceed-
ings and eliminate the impact
of legal punishment as a de-
terrent to future attacks," the
editorial stated.
Observers also have ex-
pressed the fear that the ter-
rorists who participated in

the Rome Airport hijacking,
as well as the Palestinians
who murdered two American
diplomats and a Belgian offi-
cial in Khartoum, may be es-
caping justice, for they still
have not been brought to
trial.

J. F. Ter Horst, chief of
the Detroit News Washington
bureau, said the trial for the
hijackers is a tricky situation
because Kuwait, where they
are being held, was a victim
of the hijacking—the journey
having ended there.

Yeshiva U. Prof Says Israel
Views Yiddish With Misgivings

Although Yiddish remains
the principal language —
aside from Hebrew — in
everyday Israeli life, Yiddish
is being officially neglected
and "viewed with misgivings
by organized sectors of Is-
raeli society and govern-
ment," according to Dr.
Joshua A. Fishman, vice
president for academic af-
fairs at Yeshiva University
and Distinguished University
Research Professor of Social
Sciences.
Dr.
Fishman's
findings
were presented in "Yiddish
and Israel," which appears
in his new book, "Advances
in the Study of Societal
Multilingualism," soon to he
published by Mouton and Co.,
the Hague. Dr. Fishman was
assisted in his study of "Yid-
dish in Israel" by his son,
David, now a freshman at
Yeshiva College.
"Yiddish continues to be
officially associated only with
the Eastern European past,
with older Eastern European
immigrants, with sectarian
opposition to the modern
State and with unsophisti-
cated humor," Dr. Fishman
writes. "Any level of Yiddish
other than the folk-popular
is either unknown by official-

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dom of the ministry of cul-
ture and education or reject-
ed as possibly disruptive."
As an example of the of-
ficial neglect of Yiddish, Dr.
Fishman marshals evidence
pertaining to discrimination
against Yiddish in Israeli
radio, TV, theater and in
the teaching of the language
in government - supported
schools.
With the exception of three
classes in a single suburban
Haifa high school, no school
under official auspices has
been permitted to teach Yid-
dish.
According to Dr. Fishman,
Yiddish is being officially
neglected, if not reduced, be-
cause the ideology of Israeli
governing circles favors pro-
ceeding along a path of pro-
ducing a new monolingual,
national-secular culture, con-
trary to the previously sanc-
tioned Jewish societal bi-
lingualism.
As a result, official circles
in Israel are not only weak-
ening an important form of
Jewish expression within Is-
rael, but they are also losing
a link with Jews and Jewish-
ness abroad, a loss that Is-
rael can ill-afford. Dr. Fish-
man writes.
Dr. Fishman's study was
supported by the Ford Foun-
dation, the language be-
havior Section of Hebrew
University; and the Founda-
tion for Jewish Culture.

Originally, they were to
have a revolutionary trial be-
fore the Palestinian Libera-
tion Organization (P L 0)
"supposedly promised by
PLO leader Yassir Arafat."
However, after interrogating
the five, Arafat de c i d e d
against taking custody of
them.
The rest of the Arab world
condemned the crime and
will not accept the five hi-
jackers. The latter in turn, do
not wish to go to Morocco
because the Rome airport
fire-bombing took the lives of
four Moroccan officials.
Morocco is pressing Kuwait
to try the hijackers; however
Libya's Muammar Qaddafi
is opposed to any action
against them, evidencing the
divided attitude among the
Arab nations.
In Khartoum, the Sudanese
government is holding the
eight Palestinians involved in
the murder of the U. S. dip-
lomats and the Belgian en-
voy. Sudan's foreign minister
called for a trial last March,
but the trial is still pending.
Warning Issued Against
Toy-Like Booby Traps
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Is-
raeli public—and especially
children — were warned by
police and security authori-
ties to beware of toy-like
boobytraps that were appar-
ently introduced into the
country by one of the Arab
terrorist organizations.
The lethal objects realistic-
ally resemble toy shells and
cartridges. They are very
small, but can easily cause
the loss of a hand or fingers
or worse.
Eight such toys have been
found so far—two in Jerusa-
lem, one in Ashkelon, another
in Affula and some in the
Haifa area.

Bomb Is Tossed
Into Bank Hapoalim;
Employe Injured
LONDON (JTA)—A bomb
was thrown into the Israeli
Hapoalim Bank here injuring
one employe and causing
some interior damage.
Police cordoned off the area
and are looking for a suspect
who "looks like a European."
Larry Gorman Mach. No. 5.
According to witnesses, the
suspect appeared in the door-
way at 11 a.m. and threw the
bomb behind a counter. The
injured employe, identified as
Janet Kipling, in her early
20s, was taken to a hospital
with minor injuries.
The explosion blew a hole
in the wooden floor and flying
debris caused other damage.
No customers were in the
bank at the time.
Police said the bomb was
a plastic grenade wrapped
in a brown colored package
measuring 9x4 inches. The
special bomb squad was
called in to aid in the inves-
tigation.
British troops meanwhile
stepped up their three-week
security patrols around Lon-
don's Heathrow Air por t
against possible terrorist at-
tacks.
Airport workers reported

that soldiers were checking
their credentials well outside
the airport's boundaries for
the first time since the secur-
ity alert was called.

Mexico-Israeli Pact
on Research Signed

MEXICO CITY (JTA) A
new agreement calling for
Mexican-Israeli cooperation
in the fields of science and
technology was signed here
by officials of both countries.
The accord calls for col-
laboration between the Mexi-
can National Council of Sci-
ence and Technology and the
Israeli Institute of Research
and Development.
President Luis Echevei
Alvarez received the Israeli
scientific delegation headed
by Prof. Eliezer Tal.

A bronze sculpture entitled' "Mother Israel Receiv-
ing Her Children" by American sculptor Chaim Gross
will be presented to Mrs. Golda Meir at the Prime Minister's
International Israel Bond Conference in Israel Saturday
evening. The occasion will mark the founding of the Prime
Minister's Club, an honorary group consisting of purchasers
of $25,000 and more in Israel Bonds. Sam Rothberg, general
chairman of the Israel Bond Organization, will present the
sculpture to the prime minister before the more than 500
delegates who are taking part in the inauguration of the
new $1,000,000,000 reconstruction and development loan, rep-
resenting the biggest issue of Israel Bonds in the 23-year
history of the campaign.

10—Friday, February 1, 1974 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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