THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
1,000 Kidnapped Argentine Jews Dead?
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international groups con-
cerned with human rights'.
The Inter-American Com-
mission on Human Rights,
an organ of the Organiza-
tion of American States,
plans to hold hearings in
Argentina in May.
The DATA, the repre-
sentative body of Argentine
Jewry, has made appeals or
individual .Jews. The most
active group in Argentina is
the Permanent Assembly
on Human Rights which in-
cludes Jews among_ its
members. There are also
Jews among the , "Plaza
Mothers," the group of
women who walk silently in
downtown Buenos Aires to
publicize their missing
sons. Recently, 13 of these
women, including three
nuns, disappeared..
Rosenthal noted that
syiiipathy
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relatives of prisoners have
frequently turned to the
ADL for help. He said the
ADL was able to compile a
list of more than 1,000 Jews
missing through the help of
relatives in Argentina, Is-
rael, the U.S. and
elsewhere. A group of
Argentinians in Israel
asked Rosenthal for help in
finding their missing rela-
tives. in some cases, the
ADL, by making inquiries
to the Argentine govern-
ment, has been able to se-
cure the release of pois-
oners. One such case was
the Deutsch family —
Alejandro, 58; Elena, 57;
Susana, 23; Elsa Elizabeth,
29; and Liliana, 19, who
were kidnapped from their
home in Cordoba in 1977
and were freed after an in-
ternational campaign was
launched. They are now liv-
ing in Los Angeles.
The most celebrated
case is that of Jacobo
Timerman, the editor and
publisher of La Opinion,
who is under house ar-
rest in Buenos Aires but
is not allowed to leave the
country although the
Argentine Supreme
Court has found no
'grounds for holding him.
Many believe that
Timerman, who was kid-
napped from his home in
April 1977, would not be
alive if it were not for the
international pressure
brought on his behalf. Ro-
senthal noted another case,
that of Jaime Lokman, a
Cordoba automobile dealer,
will:, was taken away on the
day of the coup in 1976 and
has not been heard from
since. He is probably the
longest-term Jewish pris-
oner, if still alive.
Epstein and Rosenthal
noted that the Argentine
government has gone out of
its way to deny it is anti-
Semitic. Videla has even
denied responsibility for the
kidnappings. Some obser-
vers claimed that each of
the three .armed services in
Argentina has its own hit
teams. They point to the
discovery last January of
Elena Holmberg's bOdy. A
diplomat and close friend of
the president, she was kil-
led six months after she re-
turned from Paris where
she had been part of the
Argentine government's
public relations campaign
to deny charges of human
rights violations. Marty be-
lieved she was killed be-
cause she learned some-
thing about one of the gen-
erals in the junta while in
Paris.
However, Rosenthal said
the government must take
responsibility for what is
happening in Argentina. He
said while the kidnapping
has been decried no one has
been arrested for kidnap-
ping.
Rosenthal and Epstein
noted that there is some
effort now at controlling
kidnappings. The
number decreased in re-
cent months. But Ro-
senthal said he hoped the
government would now
identify the prisoners
who are being held in the
detention camps and that
they will either be re-
leased or allowed to
exercise the "option,"
which all prisoners held
without charge have in
Argentina, of leaving the
country.
Argentina. "has great
potential" as a country if it
returns to law and order,
Rosenthal stressed. He said
Jews have been -in Argen-
tina a long time and they
can and want to have a
share in helping Argentina
reach its potential.
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Supreme Court Opens Door
to Funding NY Day Schools
NEW YORk(JTA) — An Regents examinations
official-of Torah Umesorah, and pupil attendance re-
the National Society for porting.
Hebrew Day Schools, said
Asked about the possibil-
that the agency was advis- ity that, if the Supreme
ing its approximately 200 Court rules the 1974 law
affiliated day schools in unconstitutional, the non-
New York State to accept public schools might be re-
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following a U.S. Supreme bursement funds, Golden-
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The State. Coniptroller's
Dennis Rapps, executive
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after the Supreme Court ac- Jewish Commission on Law
tion last week, that checks and Public Affairs
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Supreme Court had not, in lacked safeguards to assure
its action Tuesday, ruled on its application did not in-
the constitutionality of New volve an "entanglement"
York's 1974 Mandated with religion in violation of
Services Law.
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