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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 30, 1981
Costa Rica Finds Embracing Arabs Is Not Desirable
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Rican President, Rodrigo
Carazo Odio, when he sent
his son and a high govern-
ment official on a special
mission to the Middle East.
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
With news from Central In visiting Kuwait, Leba-
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America focusing on the non, Libya, Qatar and Saudi
bloody struggle between Arabia, their objective was
Left and Right, we have to secure funding for the
seen no coverage on the -' president's pet project — the
Palestine Liberation University of Peace.
The establishment of this
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Organization'S efforts to
university.
in the Costa
gain a foothold in Costa
Rican capital was initially
Rica. As the only demo-
cratic country in Central proposed by President
America, Costa Rica is Carazo Odio in 1978 and
WHERE EVERY DAY
potentially an easy target subsequently endorsed by
the United Nations General
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for international terrorism.
Assembly. However, plans
The stage for Arab sub-
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for the university have been
version was set by the Costa
stalled for lack of funds.
The Arabs, seeing an
opportunity to gain
entry, reciprocated the
visit by sending a delega-
tion to Costa Rica. News
of their arrival set off a
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the situation. The Acting
Foreign Minister, Bernard
Neihaus, denied that it was
a PLO delegation and
claimed that it was an Arab
League delegation, led by
their secretary general,
Ambassador Hammadi Es-
sid. On arrival, Essid pro-
fessed that he did not know
if PLO members were in the
delegation, but nonetheless,
he said, "I also represent the
interests of the PLO."
During their visit, Costa
Rican policy vis-a-vis the
PLO became a heated issue.
Ambassador Yamuni, Costa
Rica's representative in
several Arab capitals, told
reporters that Costa Rica
had officially recognized the
PLO and quoted from what
was purportedly an official
documeht of the Foreign
Ministry. The denials were
immediate. Finally, Am-
bassador Yamuni reversed
himself and denied having
said that Costa Rica had
ever recognized the PLO.
Although the delegation
did not secure permission to
open an office, it did get
President Carazo Odio's
support for an Arab-Latin
American conference to be
held in Costa Rica in
January 1981.
After the Arab delega-
tion left, Dr. Rodolfo
Cerdas Cruz, deputy of
Frente Popular, claimed
that Yasir Arafat, as
Longevity of Dead Sea Scrolls
Studied- by Weizmann Group
REHOVOT — Can the
Dead' Sea Scrolls, which
have survived for some
2,000 years, continue to
stand up to the ravages of
time?
Researchers at the Weiz-
mann Institute of Science in
cooperation with colleagues
at Jerusalem's Israel
Museum, where the world-
famous scrolls are now
housed, are looking into the
longevity issue.
The institute team of spe-
cialists, including
biochemist Dr. Stephen
Weiner; Prof. Wolfie Traub,
an expert on X-ray diffrac-
tion; and the organic
• chemists Prof. Emanuel
Gil-Av and Zina Kus
tanovich, first examined the
dark and brittle areas
around the periphery of the
scrolls that seemed to have
accumulated most of the
damage. Employing the
technique of X-ray diffrac-
t tion, which, like a super-
microscope, allows scien-
tists to see how atoms are
arranged in matter, they
were able to compare the
molecular structures of the
dark and light sections.
Since parchments pre-
pared from animal skins
contain the protein colla-
gen, which when exposed to
excess heat and moisture
turns to gelatin, and since
collagen and gelatin have
distinctly different X-ray
patterns, the scientists
could tell which scroll sam-
ples contained more gelatin
and which less. As expected,
the darker damaged area
showed more gelatin than
the lighter ones, and the
distribution of these areas
suggested that water seep-
age probably triggered most
of the damage.
Protection is not a princi-
ple, but an expedient.
— Benjamin Disraeli
president of the Arab
League in 1981, would
preside over the interna-
tional Arab Conference.
Cerdas Cruz warned that
the involvement of Costa
Rica would make it a
headquarters of PLO ac-
tivities and bring to Cen-
tral America the violence
and conflicts of the Mid-
dle East.
Political support at the
United Nations was an-
other motive for Costa Rica
courting the Arabs.
The proposed Arab-Latin
American conference has
been postponed and Costa
Rica's embrace of the Arab
world has markedly slac-
kened in the past few
months for a variety of rea-
sons. Among them: the fail-
ure of the Arabs to support
Costa Rica in the United
Nations, the emergence of
the PLO as a revolutionary
force in the region and the
country's acute economic
and political crisis.
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