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The Detroit Jewish News, 1976-08-06

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14 Friday, August 6, 1976

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Tanker Hijacking
Warning Issued

AMSTERDAM (JTA)
— The Royal Nether-
lands Shipowners As-
sociation has warned the
Dutch owners of tankers
against the increased
danger of the hijacking of
tankers in the Middle
East.

The tanker owners'
companies concerned are
Dutch Shell, Chevron,
Esso and Van Ommeren.
This followed a similar
warning by the Norwe-
gian Shipping Owners
Association.

SMALL BEQUESTS
BUILD A
STRONG ISRAEL

If the tradition of including the Jewish
National Fund in the Will of every Jew were
invariably followed, sufficient resources would
be accumulated to ensure the future of the
young Jewish State on a sound basis of land
development, social welfare, and justice.

A bequest to the Jewish National Fund
should be as traditional as having a Blue Box
in one's home.

You may want your bequest to be
dedicated to afforestation, to a village, a
Nachlah, to a children's play area, to perpetual
yahrzeit or kaddish, or to some form of
permanent tribute in the names of persons
dear to you.

Consult the Foundation for Jewish
National Fund, 22100 Greenfield, 968-0820.
They will gladly co-operate with you in
working out plans to meet your special
requirements, in strict privacy.

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House Bills Seek Harsher Penalties on Hijack Abettors

WASHINGTON (JTA)
— Two resolutions have
been introduced in the
House of Representa-
tives urging the United
States to take the lead in
seeking international
cooperation in stamping
out airline hijackings.
Seventy-three Con-
gressmen from 18 states
joined in co-sponsoring a
resolution introduced
Tuesday by Republican
Jack Kemp and Democrat
Edward Koch, both of
New York, which urges
President Ford to initiate
negotiations for an inter-
national treaty which
would eliminate sanctu-
aries for terrorists and
provide for enforce-
able sanctions for coun-
tries that give asylum to
hijackers.
The other resolution
introduced Monday by
another New York Re-
publican, Benjamin Gil-
man urges Ford to seek
formation at the United
Nations of a permanent
international commis-

sion which would define
international terrorism
and propose methods to
deal with it.
The resolution also asks
the President to renew ef-
forts begun at the Interna-
tional Civil Aviation Or-
ganization (ICAO) meet-
ing in Rome in 1972 to es-
tablish an international
convention providing avi-
iation sanctions against
countries that "refuse to
punish or extradite per-
sons responsible for un-
lawful acts against civil-
aviation."
Noting that more than
800 persons have been
killed and 1700 injured by
terrorist incidents since
1968, Kemp declared that
"we shall be a long way
from stamping out ter-
rorism unless it is possi-
ble to penalize countries
harboring terrorists and
to achieve some kind of
unanimity in the treat-
ment of terrorists."
Kemp said he believes
that Ugandan President
Idi Amin would never

Gush Emunim Try to Push
for Jericho Settlement OK

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Gush Emunim attempt to
get to Jericho Monday
now appears not to have
been an actual attempt at
establishing an illegal
settlement, but a means
of putting pressure on the
ministerial committee for
settlement to approve a
Jewish settlement near
Jericho.
This was the demand of
some 30 followers of Gush
Emunim who de-
monstrated near the
prime minister's office
Tuesday as the commit-
tee headed by Minister-
Without Portfolio Israel
Galili was meeting. Re-
ligious Affairs Minister
Yitzhak Rafael promised
the demonstrators he

Would ask the committee
to approve a settlement
near Jericho.
Later, Galili . said the
matter would be discus-
sed at the committee's
next meeting.
Monday's drive to
Jericho by some 200 sup-
porters of Gush Emunim
was stopped when the
army put up roadblocks
forcing the ultra-
nationalist group to try to
make it on donkey and
camel paths. One
truckload of 60 Gush fol-
lowers did get near
Jericho and tried to put up
some tents, but the sol-
diers dismantled the tent
and all the militants ag-
reed to return to
Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, Premier
Yitzhak Rabin reaf-
firmed that the govern-
ment's decision of last
June, that the settlers at
Kadum must leave, is ir-
reversible. He told the
cabinet, which was in-
volved in a tense ex-
change between several
ministers over this issue,
that there is no room to
appeal the government's
decision. Kadum, he said,
will not remain as a set-,
tlement.
The only question,
Rabin added, is when it
will be evacuated and
whether the evacuation
will be by agreement or
by enforcing the law
against illegal settle-
ments.
The Gush Emunim
settlers took over a site
on the West Bank last
December and a group , of
30 families were permit-
ted to remain at Kadum
in a compromise move be-
tween the government
and the National Religi-
ous Party which
threatened to bolt if the
families were forcibly
evicted. Rabin said they
rejected all alternative
sites which the govern-
ment offered them in
June.

have provided sanctuary
for the terrorists who
held the hostages on
the Tel Aviv-to-Paris Air
France plane if he knew
that this would have re-
sulted in Uganda's loan
privilege at the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund
being suspended.
The three New York
Congressmen hailed the
U.8.-British resolution in
the Security Council last
month which called an
the council to condemn
terrorism and called on
all governments to pre-
vent and punish "all such
terrorist acts." The re-
solution failed to be
adopted but Kemp said
the "issue is far from
being over" in the coun-
cil.
Earlier last week Rep.
Bella S. Abzug (D-N.Y.) in-
troduced legislation in the
House aimed at drastically
increasing the penalties

on nations which aid and
abet hijackers.
The legislation would
tighten the regulations of
the 1974 Anti-Hijacking
Act, and for the first time
mandate suspension of
U.S. foreign aid to na-
tions cooperating with air
terrorists.
A companion bill would
require the President to
suspend U.S. air opera-
tions for at least one year
to or from any country
which in any way assists
any terrorist organiza-
tion that illegally seizes
an aircraft; require the
President to suspend air
operations to any country
which maintains its own
air operations - with
country assisting such
terrorist group; and im-
poses a $10,000 fine, or up
to two years in prison to
air carriers failing to sus-
pend operations in such
instances.

Pittsburgh Jewish Families
Host Disabled Israel Veterans

PITTSBURGH (JTA)-
Jewish families in
Pittsburgh played host
last month to a unique
group of emissaries from
Israel who, in their own
way, may have ac-
complished more to
strengthen bonds and in--
crease understanding be-
tween American Jews
and the Jewish state than
an army of official
"shlikhim."
The visitors were
members of the Disabled
Veterans Organization of
Israel, all former soldiers
who fought in Israel's
wars and suffered per-
manent disability. They
say, with conviction, that
theirs is the only Jewish
organization in the world
that does not want new
members: In fact, they
pray fervently that their
ranks will not be _in-
creased.
Twelve of the vets just
completed two weeks as
the guests of Jewish
families here who, in the
words of one host, wel-
comed them as they
would their own sons re-
turned from war.
The people-to-people,
project, now in its second
year, owes its inception to
Mrs. Sylvia Robinson, cur-
rently a vice president of
the Women's Division and
secretary of the board of
the United Jewish Federa-
tion of Greater Pitts-
burgh.
Her husband is Donald
M. Robinson, a well-
known philanthropist
and civic leader in the
Jewish and general com-
munity. He is a national
chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, a member
of the board of governors
of the Jewish Agency, and
the chairman of the
global budget. committee
and vice chairman of the
Joint Distribution Com-
mittee.
The idea of bringing
disabled- Israeli war vets
to spend time in Ameri-
can Jewish homes came
to Mrs. Robinson while
she and her husband
were attending a JDC
budget committee meet-

ing in Geneva in 1974. She
established the project
the following year with
the aid of the Pittsburgh
UJF.
The visits are not
funded by the UJF, how-
ever, but by monies
raised separately and
specifically for the Israeli
veterans program. This
year Mrs. Robinson en-
couraged the com-
munities of Washington,
D.C. and Philadelphia to
undertake similar prog-
rams of their own and she
offers advice to other in-
terested communities
throughout the U.S.
Yaacov Meoz, a 31-
year-old native Israeli who
was wounded in the Yom
Kippur War and is now the
general secretary of the
Tel Aviv branch of Zahal,
the Israeli defense force,
was the group leader.
Meoz related that there
are 21,000 Israeli dis-
abled veterans and there
are more than 13,000
widows and families.

Jewish Camps
Hold Maccabia

NEW YORK — The
first annual Summer
Maccabia involving
teenagers from Jewish
camps in the northeast
United States is
scheduled for next week
at the New Jersey 'Y'
Camps, Lake Como, Pa.
The program is high-
lighted by an opening
ceremony which will in-
clude a memorial com-
memoration for the slain
Israeli athletes of th.
Munich Olympics. Tilt:
campers will be involved
in sports, cultural events,
discussion groups, and
entertainment.
The Maccabia is being:
sponsored by the Ameri-
can Zionist Youth Foun-
dation.

A soft answer turneth
away wrath;
But a grievous word stir-
reth up anger. —Proverbs
.

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