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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22 Friday, February 2, 1919
The Vatican Disavows Capucci's Trip to Syria for PLO Meeting
ROME (JTA) — The ap-
pearance of Msgr. Hilarion
Capucci, the former Greek
Melchite Catholic Ar-
chbishop of Jerusalem, at
the Palestine National
Council conference in
Damascus last week, where
he espoused the cause of the
Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization caused acute
embarrassment to the Vati-_
can.
The Holy See issued a
special statement saying
that Capucci, who had been
assigned to pastoral duties
in Latin America, "made
the trip to Damascus on his
own- initiative, without the
authorization of the Holy
See and without having
previously informed the
Holy See."
It was learned that this
official disavowal by the
Vatican of Capucci's actions
followed on the heels of a
high-level meeting between
the Israel Embassy here
and a top Vatican spokes-
man. Israel released
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Capucci from prison in 1977
after he served three years
of a 12-year sentence for
gun-running for the Pales-
tinians across the
Lebanese-Israeli border.
The Vatican promised
Israel that Capucci
would not be assigned
again to the Middle East,
and in November 1977 he
was sent to Latin,
America as a Vatican vis-
itor to Greek Melchite
Catholic communities
there.
President Ephraim Kat-
zir of Israel agreed to
Capucci's release in 1977
when the Vatican inter-
vened with a personal re-
quest by the late Pope Paul
VI After a brief sojourn at a
Israel's Par ticipation i n Olympics
Reportedly Is Assured by USSR
LONDON (JTA) — The
International Amateur
Athletic
Federation
foresees no difficulties for
Israeli athletes at the Mos-
cow Olympics next year.
The Soviet Union had given
assurances that all Asian
group states, including Is-
rael, would be allowed to
participate, a federation
spokesman said. -
Earlier, the federation
placed a four-month-ban on
international competitions
in 21 countries who took
part in the Asian Games in
Bangkok in December, from
which Israel had been
excluded. It also banned
their athletes from par-
ticipating in other interna-
tional competitions until
April 14.
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MSGR. CAPUCCI
Rome sanitorium, Capucci
was then transferred to
Buenos Aires.
In a related development,
sed satisfaction over the
"Hebrew-Christian
dialogues."
a letter from the Vatican
Secretariat of State to Rabbi
Marc H. Tanenbaum, na-
tional interreligious affairs
director of the Atherican
Jewish Committee, expres-
sed satisfaction about "the
growing relation between
the Roman Catholic Church
and the Jewish religion, in
the wake of the Second Vat-
ican Council and its Decla-
ration Nostra Aetate on the
relation of the church with
non-Christian religions."
In Mexico City, a delega-
tion of Mexican-Jewish
leaders was received by
Pope John Paul II at an
ecumenical reception dur-
ing the Latin American
Bishop's Conference in
Puebla. The Pontiff expres-
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The countries who had
taken- part in the Bangkok
Games had -committed a
"deliberate breach" of the
rules of the federation
which had refused to au-
thorize the games because
of the ban on Israel.
Earlier reports had stated
that the sports federation
rules required the par-
ticipating athletes be ban-
JDC Funds TAU
Social Work Unit
TEL AVIV — The Joint
Distribution Committee
has established a new
graduate program at the Tel
Aviv University of Social
Work to raise the standards
of professionals serving in
supervisory positions.
The program, which of-
fers a master's degree in
social work, includes such
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ot old age, youth,
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elations, mental
fami.
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Participants in the new
program, all of whom have
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Cardozo Has
First Graduate
NEW YORK — Barbara
Berwitz of Jamaica,
Queens, the only member of
her class to complete her
studies in January, is the
first graduate of Yeshiva
University's. Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law,
chartered in 1974 and
opened in 1976.
Last summer, Ms. Ber-
witz studied comparative
law at Hebrew University
Law School in Israel in a
program sponsored by Tem-
ple University. Her addi-
tional studies enabled her to
graduate early.
ned from Olympic competi-
tion.
The Jewish delegation,
which was one of a
number of non-Catholic
denominations to visit
the Pope, presented him
with a silver gift in-
scribed with the Hebrew
date, Tevet 29, 5739. The
group was headed by En-
rique Elias and Sergio
Nudelstejer, president
and secretary general,
respectively, of the Cent-
ral Jewish Committee of
Mexico, and Rabbis Ab-
raham Palty, Samuel
Lehrer and . Aron
Kopikos. Others • at the
reception - included Jose
Benbassat, president of
Bnai Brith in Mexico:
A documentary television
program on the Pope's jour-
ney to Mexico was screened
on national television, writ-
ten and directed by Jewish
personalities.
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