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Friday, October 13, 1918
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PARIS (JTA) — The
Council of Europe, a
supra-national European
parliament, has called on
the Soviet Union to stop its
anti-Jewish persecutions.
The European Parliament,
at its regular session in
Strasbourg, also called on
all its member states to take
active measures to try and
help the Soviet Union's
Jewish population.
..The council unanimously
voted to protest against the
prison sentences meted out
to Jewish activists in the
USSR, stressing that these
sentences were imposed on
people "who only want to
exercise one of their most
elementary rights — that of
settling in the country of
their choice."
The council stressed that
the current anti-Zionist
campaign launched by
the Soviet authorities
"strongly smells of anti-
Semitism" and drew the
Soviet government's atten-
tion to the Helsinki Con-
vention on the protection of
human rights.
In a related develop-
ment; the recent "anti-
dissident trials" in the
Soviet Union have been
cited by the Executive
Council of the Canadian
Labor Congress (CLC) in
resolution "firmly dis-
couraging" all further
exchange visits with
Soviet trade unions, ac-
cording to Denis McDer-
mott, CLC president.
In the resolution, the
executive council noted "the
fundamental differences in
approach to human and
trade union rights between
the CLC and the Soviet
All-Union Central Council
of Trade Unions (AU-
CCTU), as exemplified by
the recent anti-dissident
trials in the Soviet Union
and the harassment of the
Free Trade Union Associa-
tion of Workers of the Soviet
Union," and said it was
"forced to suspend indefi-
nitely the exchange pro-
grams with the AUCCTU." -
"Therefore, the executive
council firmly discourages
affiliates of the congress
from accepting, until such
time as the human and
trade union rights situation
makes it possible for them
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exchanges with their Soviet
counterparts, and invita-
tions to visit the Soviet
Union," the resolution
sates.
Meanwhile, the Soviet
Olympic Committee has
sent an entry blank to the
Israel Olympic Committee,
inviting the Israeli Corn-
mittee to send a group of
junior athletes to Moscow
the week before the Olym-
pic Games start in July
1980, Moshe Lehrer, sports
columnist of Maariv, re-
ported.
The Soviet Committee
also sent Chaim Wein,
vice president of the Is-
rael Olympic Committee,
a request for the colors of
the Israel Olympic team.
The two Soviet actions
are generally viewed in Is-
rael as confirmation of the
Soviet intention to invite
the Israelis to send a team to
the 1980 Olympics. He said
the colors are needed to pre-
pare the flags and banners
of the nations participating
in the various Olympic
Games' opening ceremonies.
In Detroit; the Executive
Committee of the Jewish
Community Council of Met-
ropolitan Detroit has
endorsed the Kemp-
Anderson resolution which
calls on the United States
Olympic Committee to
"take such measures as may
be necessary to have the In-
ternational Olympic com-
mittee select a site for the
1980 summer Olympic
Games outside the Soviet
Union." -
The National Jewish
Community
Relations
Advisory
Council
(NJCRAC) and the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry have previously
endorsed the Kemp-
Anderson resolution.
-
In London, Raya Jag-
lom, president of the
Women's International
Zionist Organization
(WIZO), reported at the
meeting here of the World
Conference on Soviet
Jewry about the historic
participation of WIZO in
the Primary Health Care
Conference organized by
the United Nations and
the Soviet government
which was held Sept. 6-15
in Alma Ata.
WIZO is accredited to the
UN as a non-governmental
organization and is the only
Zionist organization with
headquarters in Israel.
Evelyn Sommer, WIZO's
representative at the UN in
New York, met with Jews
and refusniks and in Tash-
kent, Leningrad and Mos-
cow. She said afterwards
that she was overwhelmed
by their hope, faith and gal-
lantry "unprecedented in
the annals of our genera-
tion.
"We must involve
thousands of people of good
will_in our struggle to free
the Jews of the Soviet
Union. We must continue to
stress the priorities of our
struggle: insist on the re-
lease of the prisoners who
have been sentenced to jail
or harsh labor camps; fight
for the right of every Jew to
receive a visa to Israel."
The Jewish refusniks,
Mrs. Sommer added, "living
day after day with the
threat of harassment; ar-
rest, trials, deserve all our
support, encouragement
and solidarity to enable
them to live their lives in
freedom, as Jews, after the
long ordeal to which they
are being subjected."
Basketba ll Euphoria in Israel
By HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
What's the best basket-
ball team in the world?
The National Basketball
Association champion
Washington Bullets?
Should be, - but that can't
be. Why? The Maccabi Tel
Aviv five beat the Bullets in
Tel Aviv recently, 98-97.
Does that make the Mac-
cabis the world's best?
Doesn't seem likely but
until the European Cup
Games are completed this
year, we'll have to give the
Tel Aviv five a superficial
nod as the greatest.
Perhaps this startling
upset of a poorly con-
ditioned Washington quin-
tet before 10,000 screaming
fans will serve the Israeli
boys with the confidence
they require to again cap-
ture the European title.
Then again, as Coach Dick
Motta of the Bullets put it,
"The Israelis may be in
trouble now, because every
team in Europe will want to
knock off the team which
beat the Bullets."
Be that as it may, the
win over Washington has
given Israel's basketball
program a shot in the
arm. It can only help
when Israel's National
League season gets
underway. Hapoel Haifa
has strengthened its
lineup with American
imports and so has Mac-
cabi Ramat Gan. Neil
Walk, the forrner NBA
performer, will debut in
the loop this season with
Ramat Gan, so anything
can happen.
fort. Of course the unfamil-
iar international rules and
the locals' zone defense
upset the Washingtonians.
- Nevertheless a club with
the class of the Bullets,
under normal circum-
stances, should have
creamed Maccabi. The re-
sult certainly attests to the
sturdiness of the Tel Aviv
boys.
Don't forget Coach Ralph
Klein. A former Maccabi
playing star, Klein came to
the United States with the
first Israeli National team
ever to visit, in 1957. He
was one of the key perfor-
mers when the Israelis beat
Yeshiva before 13,000 fans.
Since then, Ralph, under
the sponsorship of the U.S.
Committee Sports for Is-
rael, has been back three or
four times for coaching in-
struction under the best
American coaches. Appar-
ently these visits have paid
off. Klein also is the mentor
of the Israel National team
and looks forward to the
possibility of leading that
club in the 1980 Olympics.
Normally, Israel
wouldn't be granted an
outside chance to _qualify
for the 16 berths avail-
able in the games. Now,
with so many dual citi-
zens available to Ralph,
the Israelis stand a
possible chance of gar-
nering one of the four
European spots avail-
able. Yugoslavia, the
Soviet Union and Italy
seem certain with Israel
battling the best of the
other Europeans for the
remaining opening. Don't
sell them short.
The fact remains that
Maccabi, with an almost
Dean Smith, coach of the
All-American lineup (only
Mickey Berkovitz is a always contending North
sabra), downed the Bullets. Carolina University unit
Jim Boatwright and Aulcie and Joe Hall, mentor of the
Perry, the two converts to NCAA Kentucky squad, vi-
Judaism, led the Macca- sited the Holy Land two
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rived, and gave clinics to Is-
raeli coaches at the Wingate
School of Physical Educa-
tion located in Natanya.
Both mentors were elated
with the progress made by
Israeli coaches in their
teaching techniques.
While Israel is celebrat-_ _
ing the Maccabi . feat,
American Jewry is excited
over the new Jewish light
heavyweight boxing champ
Mike Rossman. Rossman
stopped the former king,
Victor Galindez, in the 13th
round of the semi-final to
the Ali-Spinks debacle on
Sept. 15.
How Jewish Rossman is,
remains to be seen. The son
of a Jewish mother and Ita-
lian father, -Rossman has
adopted his mother's
maiden name and fights
with a Magen David sewn
on his trunks a la the late
Max Baer, a non-Jew.
Rossman grew up in
Turnersville, N.J. under
his given moniker, Mike
DePiano. He assumed his
mother's name when he
became a professional
fighter. His dad, Jimmy
DePiano, explained- after
the fight, "Only in
America can an Italian
kid turn Jewish to beat
up Mexicans."
Actually; Galindez is an
Argentinian.
He follows alb footsteps of
two clever light-heavy
champs, Maxie Rosenbloom
and Bob Olin. At 22 he fig-
ures to go quite far in the
cauliflower profession. He
ultimately may wear the
crown that adorns the head
of Muhammad Ali, who at
36 isn't going to be around
too long.
The new champ says
"Call me 'the kosher
butcher.' " Evern if he
doesn't say a brokha over
his opponents he is proving
to be quite the killer in the
souared circle.