Chaplains Welcomed 3 Jewish Hostages
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receive Passover food from
home, but when they asked
where his wife lived and he
replied Brooklyn, "They
said she should be in Tel
Aviv and they called me a
dirty Zionist," he was
quoted as saying.
While at the U.S. military
hospital in Weisbaden, the
three hostages were greeted
by U.S. Air Force chaplain
bi Joel Schwartzman,
flew in from Ramstein
Force Base. He gave
them Jewish Welfare Board
Bibles and prayer books,
necklaces with a Star of
David and the JWB's
Jewish chaplaincy badge.
Rosen had served with
the Peace Corps in Iran in
the 1960s. The Iranian
militants had referred to
him as "a famous spy and
plotter."
Plotkin, a businessman
on his first trip outside of
the U.S., arrived in Tehe-
ran in October, 1979 seek-
ing business oppor-
tunities and chanced to
be in the U.S. embassy
when it was seized. He
was born in New York
and has lived in Califor-
nia for the past 18 years.
Kalp's duties at the em-
bassy are unknown. The
militants accused him of
being a CIA agent. He had
served in Vietnam. He told
his brother by telephone
after landing at Wiesbaden
that because of repeated at-
Knesset OKs
Plane Purchase
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Knesset Finance Commit-
tee has approved the gov-
ernment purchase of six
new Boeing aircraft — four
767s and two 737s with four
spare Pratt and Whitney
engines — for a total of $260
million.
The planes were origi-
nally ordered by El Al, but
the government refused to
help with financing until
the airline overcame its fi-
nancial and personnel prob-
lems which have brought it
to the verge of forced clo-
sure.
The aircraft will be held
by the government after de-
livery begins in 1982,
handing them over to El Al
only after the government's
conditions have been met.
The government stands no
chance of financial loss by
e purchase as the aircraft,
hich use less fuel than
aircraft presently in use,
are in brisk demand
throughout the world.
Correction
In an article on the back
page of the Jan. 16 issue of
The Jewish News, New
York attorney and Republi-
can Party activist Rita
Hauser is referred to as
half-Jewish.
Mrs. Hauser was born to
Jewish parents and is a
practicing, Jew. She says
confusion about her status
arises because her father
later became a Christian
Scientist.
tempts to escape, he was be-
aten by his captors, kept in
solitary confinement for
five months and denied mail
from home.
Many of the former hos-
tages suffered maltreat-
ment at the hands of the
Iranians but none appar-
ently were singled out be-
cause of their religion.
The only black hostage,
Detroiter Charles Jones,
this week assailed some of
the clergymen who visited
the hostages while they
were in captivity. He
criticized statements made
by some of the clergy to
television reporters. Jones
felt they were too sym
pathetic to Iran.
The release of the 52
American hostages was
hailed by Jewish organiza-
tions throughout the U.S.
point of view, it may serve
as a dangerous precedent
for other would-be kidnap-
pers or hijackers, either in-
dividuals, organizations or
governments," he said.
Merari said that for the
past five or six years there
had been a decline in the in-.
cidence of hijacking, mainly
because countries refused to
grant asylum to the hijac-
kers from fear of interna-
tional sanctions.
He said the Iranian gov-
ernment, itself involved in
the seizure and holding of
the hostages, had succeeded
in its operation "or at least
had escaped • without
punishment.
Israeli Criticizes
U.S. on Hostages
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Dr.
Ariel Merari, an expert on
international terrorism and
researcher at Tel Aviv Uni-
versity's Institute for
Strategic Studies, said last
week the freeing of the hos-
tages in Teheran may serve
as a dangerous precedent.
"I can fully understand
the rejoicing of the families
of the hostages, but from the
national and international
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