12 Friday, September 12, 1980

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Huntington Woods Re-Schedules
Recreation Registration Monday

Mayor Jack Olsen of dents to register at that
Huntington Woods an- time.
"Since these popular pro-
nounced on Monday that
the registration for Hun- grams are filled on a first-
tington Woods recreational come, first-served basis we
programs will begin 6:30 thought it appropriate to
p.m. Monday, Sept. 16 in- move the date to a more
stead of Wednesday, Sept. convenient time for all resi-
10 (Erev Rosh Hashana) as dents. I like to think it is
originally planned.
just another example of our
"In establishing the orig- sensitivity to the need to
inal registration time," the consider all members of the
mayor said, "the Recreation community when making
Department inadvertently decisions. Notices will be
scheduled the registration posted throughout the city
to coincide with the begin- noting the change in regis-
ning of important holy days tration times."
for a large number of our
Last week, Huntington
residents. This would make Woods administrative offi-
it impossible for many resi- cials apologized to the

May The Blessings
Of Peace,
Good Health and Happiness,
Be Yours Throughout
The Coming New Year.

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and Staff of
Tamaroff Buick-Honda

PLO Policy Toward the U.S.
Analyzed in New TAU Report

TEL AVIV — While the
PLO's goal as put forth in its
National Palestinian Char-
ter of establishing a demo-
cratic secular Palestinian
state and "the elimination
of the Zionist presence in
Palestine" has not been al-
tered even slightly, its atti-
tude towards the United
States has changed consid-
erably in recent years as a
calculated tactic towards
achieving its ends, estab-

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Our Best Wishes
for a year of
Health, Peace
and
Happiness

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Jewish Community Council
when contacted about the
scheduling conflict but said
nothing could be done to
change the date.
Mrs. Marian Shiffman,
president of the Jewish
Community Council, said
last week that Huntington
Woods is one of 2,500 gov-
ernmental units and in-
stitutions which receive tb-
council's one-year ar,
five-year calendars of
Jewish and secular dates.
At the time, she said
scheduling problems still
arose occasionally through
insensitivity to Jewish
communal concerns.

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and -Staff

Celebrating over a half century of insurance service to the community

lishes a research report by
Eran Lerman of Tel Aviv
University's Shiloah Center
for Middle Eastern and Af-
rican Studies.
Following the Yom Kip-
pur War, bouyed by the
leverage power of Arab oil
and Arab military success,
albeit limited, the PLO re-
vised its strategy, adopting
a more pragmatic approach.
One of its most significant
changes was its attitude to
the United States, accord-
ing to the Shiloah Center.
The transition from the
PLO perception of the
United States as an ar-
chenemy, the archetype of
all evil, and the patron of
imperialism, Zionism, and
other such pejorative "isms"
to regarding it as the cen-
tral force in the Middle
East, one that had to be re-
ckoned with in achieving
PLO ends as the key to the
fate of Israel did not come
easily.
The PLO, although tak-
ing a rather ambivalent
line due to internal pres-
sures and in-fighting, felt
that Arab power might
allow them to achieve at-
tainments by diplomatic
means, and lowered its
terror profile in Europe
and the United States,
confining terrorist ac-
tivity to Israel proper.
The approach taken was
that the PLO would not
waive any of its principles
or demands, but would be
prepared to proceed in
stages, rather than adher-
ing to the "all of Palestine
immediately" demand, but
with the entire Palestine as
the final goal.
The goal, then, became to
obtain the West Bank and
Gaza as an interim phase
towards all of Palestine, and
the United States became a
vehicle towards achieving
it.
The goal, dressed in
tweed suits and diplomatic
jargon, was couched in
different terms when pre-
sented to Western listeners,
and while many in the in-
ternational arena believe
the West Bank and Gaza to
be the PLO's final aim, the
PLO has never presented it
as such. On the contrary,
statements to their own

audiences express their
goals clearly.
To what extent have
they succeeded in their
new policy? They have
had many impressive
partial successes, ac-
cording to the Tel Aviv
University report:
The UN success, a
gradual change in Ameri-
can government attitudes,
contacts with American UN
Ambassador Andrew
Young, the events in Iran
lending the oil threat policy
new impact, and increasing
European support.
Their shortcomings have
also come to light, says re-
searcher Lerman: the ina-
bility to influence Egypt,
the PLO's military weak-
ness in Lebanon and its ina-
bility to translate these par-
tial achievements of Ira-
nian circumstances, Euro-
pean relationships, and
Palestinian propaganda
successes in the U.S. into a
real breakthrough of
PLO-U.S. relations.
The main reason for the
inability to achieve a break-
through is contention
within the PLO. "It is
within the power of the PLO
to join in the process of the
American arrangement,"
says Lerman, "but in order
to take advantage of its
political achievements, the
PLO must recognize the
framework of the Camp
David agreements.
"Yasir Arafat's past
moves indicate that he him-
self might perhaps have
preferred to seek a political
way to do so, in the hope of
toppling the agreements
from within, but this par-
ticular point renders the di''
ference between
pragmatic line and the
ideological, 'anti-
imperialist' line (which is
the dominant line in Fatah
and in the PLO) a subject of
strategic contention.

Whether the PLO will ul-
timately be able to establish
relations with the U.S.
without altering its princi-
ples still, remains a ques-
tion. For them, the Euro-
pean precedent may consti-
tute a hopeful prospect that
the U.S. may still come
around.