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Wallpaper, shutters, wallpaper shades, lami- nated shades, custom spreads. Weavers Domain mac- rame blinds, custom decorative shades. Call for home service. Measurements and-installation at extra cost. "Our product is a SHADE better. Tradi- tionally the best quality and price" IIF Since 1 895 "ftolis41414~tr I Greene Bros. Window Shade Co. - Old Orchard Shopping,Center Maple Road at Orchard Lake Rd. 15150 W. 7 Mile Rd. 626-2400 Open Mon. thru Fri. 8:30 to 5; Sat. 9 to 3 Open Mon. thru Fri. 10 to 5; Sat. 10 to ais NEW YORK (JTA) — and in any other activities Charles J. Patterson, vice in which the corporation president for corporate rela- has been involved, we have tions of the Perini Corp., never violated any U.S. told the Jewish Telegraphic anti-boycott laws or any Agency Wednesday that his regulations promulgated by firm has "never violated" the U.S. Department of U.S. legislation against the Commerce in connection Arab boycott of Israel. He with such laws." was responding to reports David Surack, a spokes- published in Israel Tuesday man for the ADL in New that the Framingham, York, confirmed that the Mass. company, a primary internal memo, dated June contractor for the construc- 11, 1979, existed and that tion of two U.S.-financed air the Perini Corp. has been bases in the Negev, was an under "study" by the ADL. active participant in the He explained, however, that Arab boycott. the contents of the memo That allegation was con7 were based entirely on news tained in an internal memo items and magazine article s of the Anti-Defamation published in the U.S. be- League of Bnai. Brith pub- tween 1976-1978, including lished in the Jerusalem a story in the June 22, 1976 Post. The memo said the daily newsbulletin of the company was known to do JTA. business with Arab coun- That story, wich origi- tries, including Saudi nated in Boston, said that a Arabia and Kuwait and bill to outlaw the Arab signed agreements with boycott in Massachusetts those countries that con- remained stalled in the tained clauses enforcing the state senate because of the anti-Israel boycott. vigorous opposition of the Asked for clarification, Raytheon Corp. and the Pe- Patterson read the follow- rini Construction Co. Ac- ing statement: "The only cording to the story, "their project the Perini Corp. had fepreientatives said at a ever had in the Arab world meeting last week at the was the construction of a office of Senate President hospital in Kuwait. In con- Kevin Harrington that nection with that project while the firms do not favor • the Arab boycott, they felt the bill, as written, could be injurious to their business and was an unconstitu- tional state usurpation of JOHANNESBURG federal power that could be (JTA) — The appointment harmful to U.S. trade of Joseph` Hermelin as Is- abroad." rael's next 'Ambassador to The Perini Corp. is the South Africa, has been con- managing company of one of firmed in Pretoria and the two consortiums Jerusalem. "He will assume selected by the U.S. Army his new post in August, suc- Corps of Engineers on May ceeding Yitzhak Unna. 18 to build the Negev air 57-year-old bases that will replace those The diplomat-soldier most re- Israel gives up when it cently served as Israel's un- withdraws from Sinai. Ac- official envoy to Iran, a cording to Patterson, the task of extreme difficulty Corps of Engineers esti while the anti-Israel revo- mated the cost of the bases lutionary forces of Ayatol- at $400 million each. He lah Ruhollah Khomeini - said that with various man- were rampaging through agerial and other related the streets of Teheran. . contracts the total cost Born in Austria, Her- would be about $1 billion. melin was a farmer and a Meanwhile, prelimi- member of the Maccabi nary work is proceeding swimming club in Vienna on one of the Negev air- before World War II. He es- fields in the Ovdat Valley caped after the Nazi where land has already takeover and joined the been leveled. A private Jewish Brigade which plane has already landed fought with the Allies dur- there carrying a team of ing the war. American experts and di- Later, he served as a rectors of the construc- captain in Israel's army tion companies involved. in the War for Indepen- American geologists have dence in 1948. His wife, sent...rock samples to the Sarah, also served in the Technion in Haifa for lab- army and was the first oratory examination to de- woman to rise to the rank termine if they are suitable - of major. to use as foundations for the In preparation for his runways. duties in South Africa, Hermelin is studying Afri- kaans, one of the two offical --languages of the country. His predecessor's fluency in that language gained him gteat popularity with South Africans. I 342-8822 4 Offer expires July 31 ill, -4,-tete /7 u6i,i4 t te. #16 Block's has blocked out a new image . .. and your friend Joe Dorfman is so impressed he can't wait to show you around. He invites you, his personal cus- tomers, to inspect Block's new European designer lines. 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