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- Gross Sculpture for Golda 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. 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