THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
28 Friday, January 23, 1981
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Israel's newly-appointed fi-
nance minister, Yoram
Aridor, is expected to intro-
duce an economic program
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to slow the steady devalua-
tion of the shekel, improve
labor relations, encourage
long-term investments and
savings by the public and.
hopefully, reduce the an-
nual inflation rate, now at a
record 130 percent-plus.
Much of Aridor's program
was recommended to his
predecesssor, Yigal Hur-
witz, in an economic plan
submitted a month ago,
close associates of the new
finance mininster told re-
porters Tuesday. He is ex-
pected to continue Hur-
witz's policy of slashing
spending
government
which he considers abso-
lutely essential if inflation
is to be contained. That pro-
ved to be Hurwitz's most
formidable obstacle. He
achieved only limited suc-
cess and resigned over the
issue Jan. 11, causing the
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ernment.
Aridor's confirmation
Monday was somewhat
of a surprise inasmuch as
Likud's Liberal Party
wing insisted that one of
its men be named to head
the Treasury. Begin, in
fact, had acceded to the
Liberals' demands de-
spite protests from Herut
ministers. But the Liber-
als apparently could not
agree among themselves
on a nominee.
Both Yitzhak Modai and
Minister of Commerce and
Industry Gideon Patt
wanted the job and an
internal fight developed be-
tween them.
Aridor, a lawyer in his
middle forties, is regarded
as very close to Begin. He is
chairman of the Herut
Executive.
Mike Wallace
Receives Threats
NEW YORK — CBS 60
Minutes host Mike Wallace
has been receiving tele-
phone threats after a caller
on Barry Farber's radio talk
program in New York
charged that 60 Minutes
paid an Arab youth on the
West Bank to throw rocks at
an Israeli patrol in front of
60 Minutes' cameras.
According to the Jewish
Post and Opinion, Wallace
denied the charge, which
was first made and then
withdrawn in the Israeli
newspaper Maariv. It was
repeated in several Ameri-
can papers.
Another caller 'to the
radio show accused Wallace
of having converted to
Christianity. Wallace said
this was also not true.
UN Soldiers Die
in Lebanon, Haifa
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TEL AVIV — "Uniden-
tified guerillas" killed three
Senegalese soldiers serving
in a United Nations
peacekeeping unit in south-
ern Lebanon Sunday night,
according to a UN spokes-
man.
Meanwhile, a UN soldier
from the Pacific island na-
tion of Fiji died in a Haifa
hospital from wounds re-
ceived during an attack on
the Fijian unit's headquar-
ters in Qana on Saturday.
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LAKEWOOD ROSH YESHIVA RABBI SHNEUR KOTLER
to be honored at a reception
Monday, Jan. 26 — 8:30 P.M.
at the home of Mrs. Sol Nusbaum,
25847 Woodvilla, Southfield
Rabbi Kotler will report on
Problems and Progress of Jewish Education in America
Guest Speaker:
Rabbi Nosson Scherman, general editor of -
"Art Scroll Series" of Judaica in English will speak on
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"Eternity, Relevance and the New Majority"
Rabbi Joseph Nusbaum and Rabbi Dov Loketch will be hosts
Dr. Arnold Eisenman, Master of Ceremonies Mr. Lou Stern, Chairman Sponsor Committee
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(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
ACADEMIC INNOVATION: Something new has
been introduced in the Jewish academic world in this coun-
try with regard to honoring Soviet Jews. Jews in the Soviet
Union are no longer awarded the decoration of "Hero of the
Soviet Union." So the Baltimore Hebrew College — one of
the most distinguished academic institutions of higher
Jewish education in the United States — introduced adik
innovation counteracting the Kremlin's discrimination.
It has adopted a policy of conferring an honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Jewish intellectuals
who, after years of imprisonment, succeeded in winning
their battle for emigration to Israel. The degree designates
them as "Heroes of the Jewish People."
The first to be presented with such an honorary docto-
rate degree was Eduard Kuznetsov — a half-Jew (his
mother is Jewish) now living with his wife in Israel, after
being sentenced to death at a trial in Leningrad 10 years
ago for leading a group of dissidents in a plan to hijack a
plane in Leningrad and fly it to Sweden. Another fellow
plotter, Mark Dymshitz, was also sentenced to death. Nine
others were sentenced from 10. to 15 years imprisonment.
HONORING SOVIET JEWS: At the formal cere-
mony at the Baltimore Hebrew College — at which the
honorary doctorate was presented to Kuznetsov — the
audience included hundreds of members of the Soviet
Jewish emigre community in Baltimore. Kuznetsov re-
vealed at the ceremony that his group expected to be caught
at the Leningrad airport. Each of the participants of the
plot/knew, he said, that with such a large group, no secret
plan could remain undetected by the Soviet secret police
since some of the group who had already served prison
sentences as dissidents were under strict surveillance.
They nevertheless decided to take the drastic step, but
to steal an empty plane on the ground at the airport rather
than to hijack a plane with passengers in it while in flight.
The purpose of this desperate act, he disclosed, was really to
draw public attention in the free world to the plight of Jews
in the Soviet Union. They figured that if they were caught,
there would be a Soviet trial which would inevitably have
strong reverberations throughout the civilized world, and
thus serve to intensify the efforts abroad to pressure the
Kremlin for permitting larger Jewish emigration which at
that time was merely a trickle.
They were caught, as expected, the minute they ap-
peared at the airfield. The trial took place and served the
purpose. It provoked indignation in the free world. Kuznet-
sov was not worried about the death sentence he received,
as long as the trial brought the desired outraged reaction of
the outside world. For him this was not the first sentence.
In 1961, as a student of philosophy at the Moscow Univer-
sity, he was sentenced to seven years of forced labor as a
dissident. Now 41 years old, he spent a total of 17 years of
his life in Soviet prisons.
EXAMPLE TO EMULATE: The example of the Bal-
timore Hebrew College in being the first institution of
higher Jewish learning in the U.S. to acclaim a Soviet
Jewish fighter for human rights as "Hero of the Jewish
People," deserves to be emulated by other American Jewish
institutions of higher learning in recognition of the courage
of Jews in the USSR.
Aircraft Deal Is Proposed
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Three American aircraft
manufacturers are reported
to be making offers to Israel
Aircraft Industries for a
deal in which they would
participate in the produc-
tion of Israel's latest combat
plane in exchange for an Is-
raeli undertaking to pur-
chase their own planes ex-
clusively for the next 20
years.
The three-way competi-
tion involves Northrop,
General Dynamics and the
McDonnell Douglas - com-
panies which are offering
the F-18 L, the F-16 and the
FA-18, respectively.
The American firm whose
offer is accepted would par-
ticipate in manufacturing
the Lavie, the second gen-
eration Israel-designed and
produced jet figher which
will replace the Kfir. The
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Lavie, like the Kfir, will be
powered by an American-
made jet engine.
Meanwhile, the news-
paper Haaretz reported that
France is trying to block at-
tempts by Israel to sell its
Kfir jets to Colombia and
Mexico. A decision from
Mexico is expected within a
month.
Israel Approves
New Settlements
JERUSALEM — A
Cabinet-level committee
last week approved the es-
tablishment of two new
Jewish settlements in the
occupied West Bank, ac-
cording to Israeli officials.
The settlements will be
located east of Ramallah
and southwest of Nablus.
They are part of the last 10
such outposts planned by
the Begin government.
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