18 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 30, 1981 Costa Rica Finds Embracing Arabs Is Not Desirable • • See "THE LEADER" Today Morris Buick 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- IS THE GUY 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 IS THE BUY 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 IS SALE DAY for international terrorism. Assembly. However, plans The stage for Arab sub- 342-7100 W 7 Mile At Lodge X-Way 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 10 Kt., 14 Kt., 18 Kt., 22 Kt., PLATINUM storm of controversy. Cit- ing government sources, papers in the capital of San Jose, reported that a PLO delegation would We arrive with the primary Always Pay EARRINGS objective of securing Of permission to open a PLO course, prices office in Costa Rica. 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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. • 00 you're looking for a smart little advertising agency ...that keeps costs down— call us today! In NEWS- PAPERS, you constantly see our ads for some of Detroit's most successful advertisers. On RADIO, you hear our spots all day long. Our LOW- BUDGET TV spots look like "big budget" spots. To find out more—ask for Phil Buckfire. 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