THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 18, 1979

Israeli Government Is Blasted for Release of Terrorists

JERUSALEM (JTA) — for Israeli prisoner Ab-
The Knesset rejected a mo= raham Amram.
The motion was submit-
tion of no confidence in the
government Wednesday ted by Labor's Yigal Allon
due to the release of 76 Arab and by Shai Knesseter
terrorists recently in return Shmuel Toledano. Defense
Minister Ezer Weizman re-
plied that no military action
was possible to release Am-
ram, and therefore his ex-
change for imprisoned ter-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The rorists was the only way to
Israeli Electric Corp., act- secure his release. Weizman
ing on instructions from the
Defense Ministry, has
begun work on an IL22.mil-
lion ($1 million) high vol-
tage powerline system.
The system will provide
current for the two military
By ALLEN WARSEN
air bases that the U.S. will
Allan Topol's "The
construct for Israel in the Fourth of July War"
Negev Desert to replace air (William Morrow and Co.) is
bases in Sinai.
a novel about the last day of
The power lines, linking the energy crunch.
the airfields with the na-
Its central character is
tional electric grid, will
George
T. Morris. The
eliminate the need for on-
site generators. A sub- others are Charles Malcolm
sidiary power station will Edwards, President of the
have to be constructed in United States; William El-
the area to handle other liott, secretary of defense;
Gen. Alvin Thomas, chair-
needs.

Power Lines Will
Provide Current
for Negev Bases

of information that 33 of
the terrorists were serv-
ing life sentences for kil-
ling or injuring Israeli
citizens. The newspaper
Yediot Achronot pub-
lished the terrorists'
names after they ap-
peared in a terrorist
pamphlet claiming a
"great victory" over Is-
rael.
The prisoner exchange

noted that previous gov-
ernments had released ter-
rorists in exchange for hos-
tages.
Shelli MK Uri Avneri
presented a separate motion
of no confidence regarding
the government decision to
allow military prosecutors
to ask for the death sentence
for terrorists.
The no-confidence mo-
tions followed the release

A U.S. Plot for Middle East Oil
Described in Allan Topol Novel

Lawyer Probes Nazis

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman
(D-NY), chairman of the
House Judiciary subcom-
mittee responsible for trac-
ing alleged Nazi war -crimi-
nals in the U.S., has wel-
comed the appointment of a
veteran lawyer, Walter
Rockler, as h–ea.d of a new
investigatory unit in the
Department of Justice.
Rockler, 58, a senior
partner in the Washington
law firm of Arnold and Por-
ter, had served as a pro-
secutor in the Nuremberg
trials.
Holtzman said the ap-
pointment of Rockler is the
Justice Department's "first
step" to "honor its commit-
ments to me to upgrade and
intensify efforts to bring
Nazi war criminals in this.
country to justice."

The
Meanwhile,
Netherlands Foreign
Minister Christoph van
der Klaauw said that he
would place the issue of
neo-Nazism on the
agenda of -this week's
meeting of the Council of
Europe of which he is
chairman. He stressed
the need of vigilance by
all European countries
because of the recent up-
surge of neo-Nazi activi-
ties.
In Belgium, the names of
242 Jewish men and women
who died fighting with the
Belgian resistance during
World War II were placed on
a monument Sunday next to
a memorial to the 24,000
Belgian Jews who died dur-
ing-the Nazi occupation.
7 The King of Belgium
sponsored the memorial.

extract some concessions
from Israel — to reduce
their supply of arms?"
Feisel Was not concerned.
Rebuffed by Feisel,
Morris contrived a plan
similar to that of Gen.
Thomks — to seize. the
Saudi oil fields by mili-
tary force.
The President rejected it.
"I'll tell you one thing, Mor-
ris," he said, "I'm not lead-
ing this country into any
nuclear war. That is for
damn sure. I've my obliga-
tions to the people who
elected me."
ConvinCed that a military
takeover of the Saudi Ara-
bian oil fields was the only
solution to the energy prob-
Morris, however, re- lem, Morris and Gen.
garded the President as an Thomas conspire to carry
honest, decent man, "but out the takeover in strict
not too_ bright." secrecy, and involve in the
Gen. Thomas was the conspiracy William Elliott
only government official and Fred Stewart. Both of
who believed that the these men hated the
energy problem could be President "with a ven-
solved by military means. geance." The conspirators,
He even "initiated a train- mofeover, planned to utilize
ing program in desert war- eastern Sinai as a secret
fare in Arizona and New base.
The conspirators, w th
Mexico."
Morris proposed an alter- the connivance of the
native plan: to sacrifice Is- of Iran, execute successfully.
rael for Saudi oil. Accord- their sudden attack on_the
ingly, he approached Feisel, Saudi Arabian oil fields on
the finance minister of July 4, 1983. And as antici-
Saudi Arabia inquiring, pated, the Soviets, caught
"What about Israel?" . . . by surprise, at first blamed
"Perhaps you want us to Israel for the operation.

man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; Fred Stewart, the
President's chief adviser; ,
and an assortment of lesser
luminaries.
The novel's plot though
interesting, moves along a
familiar chain of predicta-
ble events.
Similarly, the life story
of Morris is a familiar
one, paralleling that of
Andrew Carnegie and
John D. Rockefeller. Like
them, he rose from pov-
erty to riches; became so-
cially influential and
politically prominent. At
age 36, he was appointed
director of energy by the
President.

`Holocaust' TV Show Remains Controversial

SEATTLE (JTA) — Per-
sonal and public reverbera-
tions are still being felt
more than a year after the
U.S. airing of "Holocaust,"
the NBC-television series
about Nazi destruction of
European Jewry from
1933 to 1945.
Robert Berger, of Titus
Productions and director of
the series, which after
"Roots" was the most-
watched television shoW in
the U.S. and the most-
watched- show worldwide,
talked about his $6 million
"labor of love" at an Anti-
Defamation League dinner.
Learning Corporation of
America has begun market-
ing the series to schools and
civic and religious groups.
According to ADL esti-
mates, about 10. percent of
primary and secondary
school students in the U.S.
are now studying the
Holocaust as part of their
regular curriculum.
In his talk, Berger re-
gretted criticism that he
and his partner, Herbert
Brodkin, commercialized

and profited from a
tragedy. They still owe
NBC $450,000, he noted.
The show was criticized
for _historical inaccuracies,
he said, but he related how
former Israeli Foreign
Minister Abba Eban con-
soled him with a comment,
"Your show, like Israel,
exists. And they will go on
arguing its merits for
years."
Finally, Berger said he

found
most
ironic
politically-motivated criti-
cism that took the form of
-censorship. Four seconds of
nudity of prisoners heading
to the gas chambers was cut
from the film in the U.S. al-
though it remained in all
foreign versions._
England cut out about
five minutes because Polish
immigrants complained
over inaccurate ribbons on
Polish officers' hats. How-

ever, apparently, the im-
migrants were also upset
over the way the Polish offi-
cers were depicted.

French TV chopped off
the ending of the show be-
cause it was not "liked."
French viewers never knew
that Rudi Weiss, one of the
main characters of the
series, went to Palestine.
West Germany and Israel,
he said, cut nothing.

was reportedly arranged by
Weizman with Begin's ap-
proval, but without the
knowledge of half the
Cabinet. A Cabinet commit-
tee had approved the idea by
only a 4-3 vote.
At the time of the ex-
change in March, the gov-
ernment claimed that two-
thirds of the persons re-
leased were common crimi-
nals and the others were not
well-known terrorists. But
the government refused to
divulge the names.
Many coalition MKs were
outraged by the disclosure
and publicly chastized the
government. They said they
voted against the no confi-
dence motion only because
of political requireinents.

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