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THE JEWISH NEWS
Feature News
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A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
Calling Spade
a Spade in
Middle East Issue
and the New
Front Line
Editorials, Page 4
VOL. LXXIII, No.12 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c
May 26, 1978
Detroit Nazi Re-Opening Hit;
Court
Clouds
Skokie
Parade
Passengers Credit Israelis
for Halting Orly Terrorists
Detroit Nazis, evicted from their "bookstore" on Detroit's south-
west side this spring, opened a new storefront headquarters at 20807
Fenkell in northwest Detroit on Saturday amid militant neighbor-
_ hood opposition. At the same time, a Federal appeals court was ruling
PARIS (JTA)
Passengers on an El Al flight from Paris who were
targets of an Arab terrorist machinegun attack at Orly Airport Satur-
day afternoon, claimed that had it not been for the alertness and
instant response of Israeli security guards, the Lod Airport massacre of
May •30, 1972 would have been repeated.
The three terrorists were killed in a hail of bullets near the El Al
boarding gate, but not before one of them fhtally shot a French police-
man. Two other policemen and three passengers waiting to board an
Iberia Airline flight to Malaga from an adjoining gate were wounded.
—
The El Al passengers credited Israeli security guards with
gunning down the terrorists. Reports from Paris said French
police opened fire killing the terrorists seconds after they drew
their weapons. One of the dead terrorists was identified as a
25-year-old Lebanese, Mahmoud Awada.
Only about a dozen passengers completed the trip aboard the El Al
jumbo jet. Originally a tourist party of over 200 French insurance
agents was to have made the flight but the group cancelled their trip
after the shooting.
Two of the French tourists, Claude and Miriam Haddad, made the
trip anyway. Haddad said he convinced nine others to stay with the
flight despite the shock of the attack. Another returning passenger was
Labor Minister Israel Katz. He said he was certain the attack was not
directed at him because he booked on the flight at the last minute after
reaching Paris from Nice.
A group calling itself the Sons of South Lebanon claimed responsibil-
ity for the attack, saying it would be the first of a series against the
French in the Middle East and Africa. The attack was claimed to be in
retaliation for a recent clash between French UN troops and Fatah
terrorists in the Lebanese village of Abassieh and a warning against
French "colonialism."
Yeshiva to Cite
Dr. Kantrowitz
NEW YORK — Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz,
chairman of the Department of Cardiovas-
cular and Thoracic Surgery at Sinai Hospi-
tal of Detroit, will receive Yeshiva Univer-
sity's Mordecai ben David Award at the uni-
versity's 47th annual commencement June
8.
Dr. Kantrowitz will be cited for his
"noteworthy record of success in the promo-
tion and encouragement of self-respect,
self-defense and independence and courage
among members of the Jewish faith ..."
Honorary doctorates will be awarded to
Dr. Ernest L. Boyer, U.S. Commissioner of
Education; Dr. Meir Felman, rabbi of the
Judea Center in Brook-
lyn; Dr. Sheldon
Glashow, professor of
physics at Harvard;
sculptor Chaim Gross;
Dr. David M. Maeir, di-
rector general of
Shaare Zedek Hospital
in Jerusalem; Sen.
Daniel P. Moynihan;
and Irving S. Shapiro,
chirman of E.I. Du Pont
HANTRONVITZ
de Nemours & Co.
that American Nazis can go ahead with a long-contested parade in
predominately Jewish Skokie, Ill.
In Detroit on Saturday, Charles Benham, executive director of the
Detroit Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and
Jews, was punched and shoved out of the Nazi headquarters after he
told the Nazis they did not belong in the neighborhood. Leonard
Green, state commander of the Jewish War Veterans, was picketing
in front of the store and witnessed the incident.
Benham filed a complaint with police and one of the Nazis, Merrill
Fulton, was charged with assault. He failed to appear for arraign-
ment on Tuesday and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Picketing in front of the store has been violent throughout
the week and a number of anti-Nazi demonstrators have been
arrested. At an anti-Nazi community meeting Tuesday night at
CHARLES BENHAM--
the Brightmoor Community Center, a large crowd nearly got out of hand on several
occasions.
Businessmen who have stores near the Nazis will seek help from city officials to see if Detroit's
nuisance statutes can be used to have the Nazis evicted. They will also meet with police officials
to discuss their handling of the demonstrations and vowed to make the demonstrations or-
ganized and non-violent.
Green told The Jewish News that the JWV was seeking support from all units associated with
Michigan's Allied Veterans Council for a massive demonstration this weekend.
Green was one of the first pickets at the store Saturday morning, following a tel ?phone call
from a JWV member. Benham, who lives in a near-by neighborhood, heard about the new Nazi
headquarters while at the post office one block away.
"The news media picture that comes across," Benham said, "is that of a community in
uproar because of a handfull of `neo-Nazis', and that if people would not react to them
the problem would be resolved and we can achieve our number one objective — the
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200,000 in Parade for Soviet
Jewry; Carter Aide Mocked
NEW YORK (JTA) — Thousands of Jews and non-Jews from the Greater New
York area marched down Broadway from City Hall to Battery Park on Sunday
where they joined many thousands more in a demonstration of support for Soviet
Jewry. The crowd was estimated at 200,000 by the Greater New York Conference
on Soviet Jewry which has sponsored the "Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry"
event for the past seven years.
The march was led off by a group of youngsters in the garb of Soviet prisoners
followed by members of Congress, state and local officials, many of them carrying
pictures of Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience.
Behind them came groups representing synagogues, Jewish organizations,
Zionist groups, doctors, lawyers and the Interreligious Task Force for Soviet Jewry.
While they carried such signs as "We Dare Not Repeat the Past," "Silence Kills,
Will You Speak Out For Soviet Jews," and "For Them the Red Sea. Has Not Yet
Parted," the predominant banner this year was a picture of a Soviet .7..rish
prisoner.
At Battery Park with the Statue of Liberty in the background, White
House Counsel Robert Lipshutz said that looking at the statue reminded
him that all four of his grandparents came to the United States fleeing
Russia and now it is up to us to help other Russian Jews emigrate. Lipshutz
said he brought a message from President Carter which said "To all of you
who have assembled here today and to all those brave men and women who
are with you in spirit, I am determined to stand by these commitments" .to
the Helsinki agreement on human rights.
The White House Counsel told the audience that a "government which restricts
its own citizens" such as Yuri Orlov or Anatoly Shcharansky "for insisting that
their own government live up to its own constitution and international agree-
ments, such a government can only invite the concern and distrust of people
(Contintied on Page 5)
Israel Seeking
Jets Redress
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier
Menahem Begin has appealed personally to
President Carter to correct the military bal-
ance of power in the Middle East that Israel
believes has shifted in its disfavor as a result
of the U.S. decision to sell advanced
warplanes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In a
letter to Carter, Begin expressed his gov-
ernment's dismay over the aircraft package
deal and asked for redress, apparently in the
form of additional sophisticated weaponry
for Israel.
The letter followed a five-hour Cabinet
session Sunday devoted largely to the impli-
cations of the warplanes sales to the Arab
countries as well as to
Israel. The Cabinet de-
cided to press the U.S.
for long-term "compen-
sation." Observers ex-
pect Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman to go to
Washington shortly to
seek acceleration of the
"Matmon-C" program
which calls for an
American commitment
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