r The Candidates and Their Quandaries as the Contestants Confront the Electorate Writers' Obligations to Master Facts Before Passing Judgment on a Nation's Just Rights HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events LXXVII, No. 25 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 Editorial, Page 4 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c August 22, 1980 IQF Strikes Against the PLO to Prevent Border Terrorism SSSJ Members Pray at Soviet UN Mission i I WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States is conducting "a continuing investigation" of Israel's possible use of American weapons"beyond its own borders, State Department spokesman David Passage said against the background of Israel's incursion into south Lebanon Monday night and Tuesday morning. "I don't know if the law has been violated," he said. U.S. law prohibits use of American weaponry outside the borders of the country that receives them. Passage reiterated previous U.S. views on Israel penetration of south Lebanon where Palestinian terrorists have military strongholds by noting that "continuing violence contributes to violence" and expressing support for the integrity of Lebanon. He refused to condemn the Israeli incursion, however, saying he has "no way of characterizing the raid except to note that it took place." Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Raphael Eitan characterized the four-pronged helicopter assault by the ISrael Defense Forces as a pre-emptive strike against PLO bases near Israel's border. Since the IDF evacuated south Lebanon in 1978, terrorists have launched 48 strikes, killing nine Israeli civilians, two soldiers and wounding 31 civilians and 20 soldiers. During the same period. terrorists shelled Israeli settlements 29 times and penetrated Israel nine times by sea. In clashes with the IDF, 31 terrorists were killed and 22 were taken prisoner. During Monday night's operation, Eitan said three Israeli soldiers were killed and 13 wounded. An estimated 50 terrorists were killed by the IDF and three taken prisoner. This was the second operation against the terrorists in less than a week. Israel launched a combined land, air and sea attack last Thursday against the bases north of Tyre and north of Sidon and leveled them. • A number of terrorists were killed and all Israeli forces returned safely to their bases. _ Palestinian gunners shelled northern Israel following Monday's raid and Israeli jets retaliated with air strikes inside southern Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Monday night raid was directed against four targets in the Arnoun Plateau north and west of the Litani River: the vil- lages of Arnoun, Hamma, Tibnit and Jabel Tahara. -The Israeli forces reportedly arrived after midnight, surprising the ter- rorists in their bases. An advance PARIS (JTA) — The Iranian Parliament on Sunday expelled its force of the Golani Infantry only Jewish member, Eshagh Farahmandpur, after a two-hour debate taking the form of a trial, according to reports from Teheran. Brigade was the first to confront a Seventy members voted against Farahmandpur for "collaboration unit of terrorists. After a brief ex- with the regime of the late Shah, and with Zionism," teaching until change of fire the Israeli force 1969 at the ORT international school "which had relations with Israel," overcame the terrorists. and tutoring the Shah's nephew for nine months. Thirty-six members Once near the targeted bases the of the Parliament voted for him and 89 abstained: forces comprising infantry- Israeli- The barred Jewish deputy denied the charges, saying he was un- men and paratroopers simultane- aware of the school's international ties and he gave instructions to the ously attacked the terrorists. Shah's nephew on orders of the National Education Ministry and with- Early Tuesday, the Israeli Air out pay. Farahmandpur was also accused of being "against the taking Force bombed the ancient Beaufort of the (U.S.) hostages" and of having protested the June 5 execution of for Ties to Shah, Zionism Members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry pray before an open Torah during a Tisha b'Av demonstration outside the Soviet Union's United Na- tions Mission. The students protested the 1980 Olym- pics ("of Oppression") in Moscow and the plight of Soviet Jewry. Iranian Jew Albert Danielpur for being an Israeli spy. Embassies Quit Jerusalem for Tel Aviv L AVIV (JTA) — Ecuador Tuesday became the third South American country to announce it will move its embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in the wake of the new Israeli law formally declaring united Jerusalem the capital _el. As did Venezuela and Uruguay in announcing their decision earlier, Ecuador insisted that its friendship for Is ._„4 is unchanged by the move. Dr. Wilson Vela Hervas, Ecuador's ambassador, said that the move was based on a principle of his country's foreign policy which is not to recognize the acquisition of territory by force. He indignantly rejected a suggestion that the move was due to Arab pressure. "I have not heard anything about Arab threats or pressure on Israel," he said. We have only a handful of citizens of Arab extraction." But the Israeli Foreign Ministry, in expressing its regret over the announced move, disagreed. "It's reasonable to assume that Ecuador did yield to Arab pressure as there is nothing in the text of the Jerusalem bill that changes an existing situation or warrants such a move by Ecuador," a ministry spokesman said. He said he hoped that Ecuador will change its mind even though Hervas officially presented the Ecuadorian decision to the Foreign Ministry Tuesday. In talking to reporters Tuesday night, the Ecuadorian envoy stressed that Tel Aviv is also Israel and he would be visiting Jerusalem frequently both in his political capacity and to maintain his social contacts. Meanwhile, announcements are expected in Tel Aviv from three other Latin American countries with embassies in Jerusalem — Chile, Bolivia and Colombia. However, Colombian Ambassador Cesar Castro Pardomo told reporters, We have sufficient oil and any decision taken by my government will not be based on threats of oil cuts." However, the real concern in Israel is whether Holland, the only West European country with an embassy in Jerusalem, will also move its embassy to Tel Aviv. The Dutch have come under heavy Arab pressure and the government in Amsterdam is presently considering the question. (Continued to Page 10) • U.S. Assails Latest Security Council Action Censuring Israel on Jerusalem See Story Page 10 . (Continued on Page 5) Elizabeth Taylor Aids Holocaust Program , Shown at the John Wood Recording Studio in London, Rabbi Marvin Hier, left, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, reviews the center's "Genocide" multi-media project with Elizabeth Taylor Warner and multi-media director Arnold Schwartzman. Mrs. Warner, along with Orson Welles, donated her time and talent to participate in the project.