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. izrzr) 113110 ructl Mr. & Mrs. Marvin M. Tamaroff and Family 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- al2A9 Our Best Wishes for a year of Health, Peace and Happiness AGINS INSURANCE AGENCY AGINS ESTATE & CORPORATE PLANNERS ..114'L. and Eag EnzdV. oq9 i.nd Sl4T . and J14 J147... and 1a 2 1 . G.40 CATC2 .114 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. .LLIT112 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.