22 Friday, July 13, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Australia Bans Anti-Crime Parley, PLO `Observers' Barred MELBOURNE (JTA) — Jewish communal leaders have welcomed the decision by the Australian govern- ment to withdraw an invita- tion to host the Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime scheduled next year in Syd- ney: MUSIC MUSIC HAL GORDON ORCHEST R A • TRIO • SOLO PIANO 355-4999 357-1722 B 1/4e , 8 The 1980 conference was dropped because delegates representing the Palestine Liberation Organization, which has observer status at the UN, would have been eligible to attend. The Australian govern- ment followed the precedent set by Canada's former Prime Minister Pierre El- liott Trudeau, who cancel- led the Fifth UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime in September 1975, because the PLO would have attended. neither Although Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser nor the Minister for Foreign Affairs, An- drew Peacock, have pub- licly given the PLO's possible attendance as the reason for withdraw- mac )-' , ;7*1:3- ettevic k Tel-Ex Plaza Telegraph, 1 blk. north of 10 _Southfield BETTER CLOTHES & CUSTOM TAILORS ITUXIEIDO [RENTALS SPECIALIZING IN LADIES' & MEN'S RESTYLING & ALTERATIONS "WE HAVE MASTERED THE ART OF INTRICATE FITTING" 20% OFF ON FINEST BRAND NAMES IN MEN'S CLOTHING INCLUDING BIG & TALL, & SHORT SIZES WITH THIS AD Your White House Deserves Olympic Olympic Overcoat® is the amazing latex house paint specially made to go over the old paint on your house. Flows like cream. Wears like iron! 23061 COOLIDGE HWY., OAK PARK, AT 9101. ing the invitation, sources close to the prime minister have confirmed the details. The president of the Executive Council of Au- stralian Jewry, Isi Leibler, said Canberra's decision had upheld the highest ideals of international rela- tions and was in the best interests of Australia. "There was something particularly bizarre and hypocritical in the idea of the PLO at an international conference on the preven- tion of crime." Leibler said the overwhelming majority of the Australian public quite rightly regarded the PLO as "synonymous with crime and terrorism against civilians." The government's deci- sion, however, was criticized by a number of leading criminologists who said that Australia had for- feited the opportunity to stage a prestigious confer- ence bringing jurists, police and criminologists to- gether. Surprisingly, the government's action has received very little media coverage and there has been almost no editorial corn- ment in the Australian press. The Fraser govern- ment, which took office in December 1975, has con- sistently refused to allow any representatives of the. PLO to visit Australia -and has emphasized on a number of occasions its refusal to recognize the PLO in any way until that organization first recog- nizes Israel and aban- dons its war of terror. Meanwhile, the Palestine Liberation Organization is seeking observer status in the World Bank and the In- ternational Monetary Fund. IMF officials in Washington said that the PLO request is being given "normal consideration." In another development, an Israeli patrol killed three Arab terrorists Sunday, ap- parently on a mission to seize hostages in Israel. A military spokesman said the terrorists were well armed and carried explo- sives, ropes and other_ equipment indicating that they intended- to capture hostages and commit acts of violence. There were no Is- - raeli casualties. In Jerusalem, a united front of democratic gov- ernments to combat global terrorism was urged in a statement adopted at the closing session of a four-day con- ference on international terrorism in Israel last week. It was attended by leading public figures from. Israel, the United States and other coun- tries. One of the participants was Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.). The conference was spon- sored by the Jonathan Insti- tute, created in memory of Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu who com- manded the Israeli- force that rescued 100 Air France hijack hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda, on July 3-4, 1976, and was killed in that operation. One theme sounded by many of the participants was that the Soviet Union is the motivating force and in- stigator of many world-wide terrorist movements. That charge was leveled at the opening session by a British defense writer, Brian Crozier, who said the Soviets were behind the Portuguese Communist Party's activities on behalf of various African guerrilla movements, and by Robert Moss, of the Economist, who claimed that the Kremlin was deeply involved in every stage of the Iranian revolution and was now helping the Sandinista re- bels in Nicaragua and stir- ring trouble in Turkey. Most of the partici- pants attacked the mass media as being in indirect collusion with terrorism and one observed that "The free press cannot be neutral or objective." Although an aura of polit- ical conservatism prevailed at the conference, there was some lively dissent from statements such as one that "To understand terrorism you must understand that it is part of a 60-year com- mitment on the part of the Soviet leadership, which as far back as – 1919 documented the guidelines for world-wide revolution- ary terrorism." The conference called for a unanimous condemnation of terrorism by all leading democratic nations, the enforcement of an interna- tional convention against terrorism which would deny political status to terrorists and permit implementation of diplomatic and economic sanctions against states that aided in terrorist ac- tivities. The statement called for legislation by the democracies to enforce The Hague, Tokyo and Montreal conventions dealing with aerial piracy. During the course of the conference, many of the delegates attended graveside ceremonies memorializing Netan- yahu on the third an- niversary of his death. 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