THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS a Friday, July 25, 1980 13 Palestinians Eligible for Olympics; Arafat at Moscow Games Amid Crackdown on Jews TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is- cially opened to "housec- raelis are upset by the In- lean" cities holding Olym- ternational Amateur pic events of any "undesira- Wrestling Federation's ac- bles," it was reported by the ceptance of a Palestinian National Conference on team — "Falastin" — as a Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). non-national associate elig- Among those classified as ible to compete in the Mos- "undesirables" were Jewish cow Olympic Games. But activists. they are divided over According to the NCSJ, whether an Israeli presence many were told that July in Moscow might have and August were good blocked recognition of the months to "take a vacation." Palestinuans. Others were flatly ordered Labor MK Orah Namir, to leave their city or face ho heads the Knesset's prosecution. Sports Committee, observed Of all the five Olympic that Palestine Liberation cities, the persecution of Organization chief Yasir Jewish activists has been Arafat paid an official visit most severe in Kiev, accord- to the Olympic Village in ing to the NCSJ. In April, Moscow on Sunday eight Ivan Gleinik was sentenced years after PLO terrorists to one year in prison for al- massacred the Israeli team leged "hooliganism." at the Munich Olympics. In May, five Kiev re- Charging that the world fusniks, surnamed has forgotten the horrors of Knizhnik, Makhilis, the Munich massacre, Kanevsky, Bernshtein Namir announced that she and Zubko were arrested would convene her commit- by the police. Kanevsky tee to consider possible Is- was taken to prison; raeli reactions to the recog- Zubko and Knizhnik nition of the Palestinian were sentenced to 15 wrestlers. days in jail and the rest "Falastin," now a were released after one 'member of five interna- day. tional sports federations Earlier this month Val- — weightlifting, table tennis, handball and , ery Pilnikov, a Jewish ac- tivist, was sentenced to five basketball, in addition to wrestling — is eligible for years of hard labor for al- legedly assaulting his membership in the Inter- neighbor. national Olympic Com- mittee although it repre- The last few months have sents neither a state nor a been extremely difficult for government. Jewish activists, refusniks, Meanwhile, the KGB, the and Jews applying to emi- Soviet secret police, used grate from the Soviet the last few weeks before Union, the NCSJ reported. the Olympic Games offi- Soviet authorities have al- ready indicated that exit visa offices in the Olympic cities, as well as in some major Soviet cities with a high concentration of Jew,s will neither accept applica- tions for emigration, nor process applications al- ready submitted, from now until September. As of July 10, Moscow has been off limits for all Soviets except those who can prove they live and work there. Earlier this month mil- lions of Soviet television viewers were warned of alleged Western plans to use the Olympic Games for espionage and the dis- tribution of subversive literature. An hour-long docomen- tary entitled "Lies and Hatred" said Western "Zionist and pro-fascist" groups, directed by the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency in the United States, were planning acts of psychologi- cal warfare, subversion and sabotage. The program attacked movements in defense of Soviet Jews, including those on behalf of Anatoly Shcharansky. It also be- rated human rights activist Andrei Sakharov for "shielding" Shchanransky. Michigan's #1 Dealer • OLDSMOBILE • TOYOTA • AMC See HARRY ABRAM $100 CASH or DISCOUNT on all OLDS with this ad at time of sale. Harry Abram 35300 GRAND RIVER FARMINGTON HILLS 478-6677 res. 968-5048 478-0500 U.S. Consulate Permits Anti-Israel Demonstration JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Foreign Ministry spokes- man says that Israel will ask the United States Em- bassy in Tel Aviv why it allowed a demonstration to go on for several hours at its consulate in East. Jerusalem in support of Arab security prisoners now on a hunger strike at the Nafha Jail in the Negev. The spokesman called it a "strange and unprece- dented step." A consulate spokesman acknowledged that some 40 relatives and sympathizers of the hunger strikers were invited into the consulate garden where they met with a senior official and pre- sented a petition. The con- sulate spokesman said that this had been agreed to in advance on the request of prominent West Bank per- sons." But he said the consu- late was surprised by the large number of demon- strators who turned up. He said he could not say why the presentation took two to three hours. Meanwhile, prison authorities have moved 26 of the striking prison- ers from the prison near Mitzpeh Ramon to the Ramel Central Prison. Eleven of these decided to start eating and the other 15 were fed in- travenously but repor- tedly without the use of force. However, Leah Zemel, a left-wing lawyer, claimed that the prisoners were mis- treated and were forced to sleep on the floor of their cells. She claimed some prisoners were beaten, a charge denied by the war- den. ONIY ONE ULTRA LOW TAR HAS IT. The hunger strike was started last week by 75 pris- oners, all convicted of ter- rorist activities. Prison authorities claimed the strike was politically moti- vated and directed from the eutside. They said condi- tions at the Nafha Prison are the same as in other Is- raeli-jails. VANTAGE`` uLT LIGHTS ' 200E (( Haifa Hosts Folklore Festival TEL AVIV (JTA) — Some 800 performers from 12 countries, including the United States, Great Brit- ain, France, Spain, Holland, Finland, Greece, and the Philippines will take part in the one-week international folklore festival is under the auspices of the Interna- tional Council of Organiza- tions of Folklore Festivals. ' Warning : The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous toYour Health.