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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

52 Friday, April 7, 1978

Shcharansky Day Proclaimed Trial Date, His Status Unknown

HARRISBURG, Pa.
(JTA) — Gov. Milton Shapp
of Pennsylvania proclaimed
March 30 "Anatoly
Shcharansky Day" in the
state and pledged that he
and every elected official
will stand with the Jewish
communities and their
non-Jewish supporters to
secure the release of the
Jewish dissident who has
been held in a Moscow
prison for over a year and
faces trial shortly on
charges of alleged treason.

LENNY
LIBERMAN

Orchestra
399-1301

The proclamation was
presented by Shapp to
Theodore Mann, president
of the National Jewish
Community Relations Ad-
visory Council and Joseph
Smukler, vice president of
the National Conference on
Soviet Jewry at ceremonies
in the state capitol. The
ceremonies were attended
by more than 100 persons,
Jewish and Christian from
10 Pennsylvania cities.
In Washington, Rep.
Henry A. Waxman (D-
Calif.), long involved in the
struggle for Soviet Jewry,
met last week in the Soviet
Union with Mrs. Ida Mil-
gram, Shcharansky's
mother.
Waxman and two other
members of a Congres-

sional delegation who
were in the Soviet Union
to discuss arms limitation
negotiations also met
with a leading Soviet
Jewish activist, Vladimir
Slepak and more than a
dozen of Slepak's fellow
refuseniks.
Waxman and Reps. M.
Robert Carr (D-Mich.) and
Patricia Schroder (D-Colo.)
insisted on making contact
with Jewish activists —
though the official Congres-
sional committee schedule

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from Hamburg presented to
the Yad Vashem Holocaust
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did not make provisions for
such talks.
According to Waxman,
neither Shcharansky's
mother or any other mem-
bers of his family have been
given any information as to
whether or when a trial will
take place or precisely what
the charges will be.
Slepak and his associates
told the Waxman group that
the emigration situation is
deteriorating. Waxman re-
ported that exit permits are
being issued mainly to the
sick and aged and that it has
become especially hard for
scientists and professionals
to emigrate.

Meanwhile;

it WIA0

learned that Natalya Sol-
zhenitsyn, wife of expel-
led Nobel Prize-winner
Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
flew to London from New
York to rally British sup-
port for the release of
Soviet dissident Alexan-
der Ginsberg.
In a related development,
the Knesset's immigration
and absorption committee
recommended that Soviet
Jews leaving the USSR
with Israeli visas be flown
directly to Israel as a solu-
tion of the drop-out problem
— Jews choosing to settle in
countries other than Israel.
The committee proposed

to Aboorption Minioter

David Levy and World
Zionist Organization
Executive chairman Leon
Dulzin that Vienna-be by-
passed as a transit center.
The drop-out rate, ac-
cording to the committee,
has been running at 50
percent and higher for
the past two years. The
committee believes that
given the alternative of
going to Israel or return-
ing to the Soviet Union,
the emigres will choose
Israel.
It urged the government
to pressure the Soviet au-
thorities to allow direct
flights to Israel for Jews

granted exit pormito.

Israel Withdrawing Slowly
from South Lebanon Region

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is-
rael has begun to thin out
its armed forces and to
withdraw significantly in
south Lebanon as the Un-
ited Nations Interim Force
in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
moved into place along the
south bank of the Litani
River.
Over the weekend, a
1,000-man Norwegian con-
tingent of UNIFIL estab-
lished headquarters at Al-
khiyam village, northeast
of Mad Ayoun, a Lebanese
Christian village.
Further south, Israeli
units continued to help re-
build Lebanese villages se-
verely damaged in last
month's fighting. They have
brought pre-fab houses from
Israel and established
health services for the vil-
lagers. It was disclosed that
dispensaries located at the
open fences along the
Israeli-Lebanese border
treated some 41,000 south
Lebanese villagers during
the past two years.
The Norwegian units
came under terrorist
mortar fire Tuesday near
the Khardala Bridge over

Life Sentence Set
for Former Nazi

BONN (JTA)—The West
German Supreme Court has
extended to life imprison-
ment the 12-year sentence
imposed by a lower court in
Hamburg on former SS Cpl.
Wilhelm Eickdorff who was
convicted in 1976 for the
murder of at least 50 Polish
Jews during World War II.
EickdoriT, now 57, headed
an SS camp in White
Ruthenia, Russia, during
1942-43 where more than
1,400 Warsaw Ghetto sur-
vivors were murdered.

Passover Leaflet
Available Free

LAWRENCE, N.Y. —
Cong. Kol Yisroel
Chaverim has issued a new,
free publication that deals
with the family observance
of Passover in the home.
To receive a copy, send a
stamped, self-addressed en-
velope to Rabbi Rubin R.
Dobin, "Passover in the
Home," POB 11, Lawrence,
N.Y. 11559.

of Palestine, vowed that his
faction would escalate their
war against Israel in south
Lebanon, and would battle
anyone, including Syria or
the UNIFIL troops, who got
in their way.
In related developments,
Israel sent four Arab pris-
oners back to Lebanon, via
the Red Cross.

the Litani River. The
Norwegians took shelter
in sand-bagged positions
but did not return the fire
which came from the
Beaufort Castle, a
terrorist-held strong-
point north of the Litani.
Eight mortar shells were
fired at the Norwegians and
automatic fire was directed
at Marj Ayoun. The
Lebanese Christian militia
returned the fire.
In a taped-in-Beirut in-
terview on ABC-TV's "Is-
sues and Answers," PLO
chief Yasir Arafat evaded a
question on whether the
terrorists would observe the
south Lebanon cease fire. In
an earlier interview, Arafat
labelled Israeli Prime
Minister Menahem Begin
"a Nazi" and warned of a
fifth Arab-Israeli war.
Dr. George Habash,
leader of the terrorist Popu-
lar Front for the Liberation

Israeli Chief of Staff
Gen Mordecai Gur re-
vealed in an interview
that Israel had advance
knowledge that terrorists
were training at Damour
for an assult on Israel,
but it was not known that
they would attack by sea.
Gur said the base was not
attacked because of the pos-
sibility of high civilian
casualties.
In his "Issues and
Answers" interview, Arafat
denied there were civilian
casualties in the March 11
raid.

Terrorist Head Haddad Dies ,
Directed Many Hijackings

One of the most dramatic
terrorist actions that Dr.
Haddad planned was the
hijacking of four airliners in
September 1970 and the
blowing up of three of them
in the desert of Jordan and
the fourth at the Cairo air-
port.
Dr. Haddad was reported
to have been the planner of
the Lod Airport massacre by
the Japanese Red Army in
May 1972, in which the at-
tackers pulled submachine
guns and grenades from
suitcases in the airport ter-
minal and opened fire.
He was also said to have
been involved in planning
the hijacking of an Air Fr-
ance plane to Uganda in
July 1976, which ended
with an assault by Israeli
commandos to free the hos-
tages.
According to the New
York Times , Dr. Had-
dad's terrorist ventures
were said to have been fi-
nanced by Arab sectors
opposed to any peaceful
settlement with Israel,
among them the Libyans.
Dr. Haddad was buried in
Iraq, after Lebanon refused
the burial "for security
reasons."

JERUSALEM — Dr.
Wadi Haddad, the
strategist behind the Pales-
tinian terrorist movement's
hijacking of airliners and a
shadowy figure linked to
the Japanese Red Army and
Baader-Meinhof terrorist
groups, died this week.
Dr. Haddad, a former
pediatrician, co-founded the
Popular Front for the Lib-
eration of Palestine, a group
dedicated to the Palestinian
struggle against Israel. He
split from the group he
formed with Dr. George
Habash in 1966 two years
ago after a dispute over the
hijackings.
Dr. Haddad was at the
head of Israel's list of
wanted terrorists. He di-
rected the first airliner
hijacking by Palestinians,
involving the seizure of an
Israeli plane, an El Al air-
liner, in July 1968 and its
diversion to Algeria.
He was seen as the
strategist behind the
most recent major hijack-
ing, the takeover of a
Lufthansa airliner that
was ultimately stormed
in Somalia by West Ger-
man commandos.

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