Jerusalem Committee Backs Kollek Policies
REV. HESBURGH
Detroit Must
Not Be Turned
Into Suburb
Of of Beirut
or Damascus
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Recent threats by Arab leaders to liberate Jerusalem and withhold oil from Israel have drawn
an unperturbed response from Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek. "It's not the first time," he said. "But Arabs in Jerusalem
are the most civilized, best educated of any in the world, and they don't want to see their city divided any more than the
Jews."
Twenty-three North American members of the Jerusalem Committee meeting with Kollek last week at the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame, however, were much more acutely concerned with recent political events in Israel. Fr. Theodore
Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and a member of the committee, hosted the meeting.
The committee was formed by Kollek two years after the Six-Day War in 1967 and gave high priority for the
preservation'of holy sites. "We have a trust with hundreds of millions of spiritual citizens all over the world,
and we can't make important decisions about Jerusalem unadvised," explained Kollek. Total worldwide
membership in the committee is about 130.
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Pledges of Support for Israel
Are Re-Affirmed by Reagan
Hostage Criticizes Capucci
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Several of the former U.S. hostages in Iran have added
their criticism to Detroiter Charles Jones' comments about
the clergy who twice visited the hostages while they were
held in the U.S. Embassy.
The embassy's political officer, Michael J. Metrinko,
said Archbishop Hilarion Capucci saw a few well-treated
prisoners and "spent the rest of the time enjoying himself
with the guards.
"I tried to tell Capucci what things were like, and
he just went into a diatribe about how bad things were
in Israeli prisons."
Capucci was convicted in Israel of gun-running for the
Palestine Liberation Organization. The Vatican arranged
his release from prison on the condition that he stay out of
the Middle East. He has broken those conditions on at least
three occasions.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Reagan said Monday that America's "number one . . . moral
commitment" in the Middle East is "to see that the state of Israel has a right to continue living as a nation"
and that he also feels "that morally, the United States should do everything it can in an even-handed
manner, to bring peace to the Middle East." But he emphasized that the process "starts with the acceptance
of Israel as a nation" by those countries which refuse to recognize it.
Reagan, in the first of a series of informal news conferences with selected reporters in the Oval Office,
also reiterated his belief that Israel's military capabilities are "of benefit" to the U.S. in the region and his
disagreement with the Carter Administration's contention that Israeli settlements on the West Bank are
"illegal." However, he criticized Israel's current settlement moves as "ill advised" and "unnecessarily
provocative."
Reagan, respopding to questions by reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,
Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune and Time Magazine, made his most comprehensive comments
on the Middle East since his election in November.
With respect to the strategic security of the region, he maintained that the U.S. should
establish a "ground presence" there "for the Soviets to know that if they made a reckless move,
they would be risking a confrontation with the United States."
Asked if his was an "even handed policy in the Mideast," the President replied, "I believe that we have,
No. 1, a moral commitment for the
present to see that the state of Israel
has a right to continue living as a
nation. I believe that, and think that
we're morally bound to do that. But
beyond that, I think it's also a two-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Labor Party convention ended late Mon-
way street.
day night after approving a 1,071-member Central Committee — its
Labor Takes Liberal Line
in Preparing for Elections
U.S. Air Force Chaplain Joel R. Schwartzman is
shown visiting with former hostage Barry Rosen at
the U.S. military hospital in Weisbaden, West Ger-
many.
largest in history in order to present a united front — and spending a
day thrashing out Labor policy statements on the emigration of Is-
raelis, the inclusion of Conservative and Reform rabbis in state-
sanctioned rabbinical bodies and differences between Israelis and
Diaspora Jewry.
The latter issue centered around a report submitted to the
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MSU Profs
Detroit Schools to
Link Economy, Correct Arab Guide
Anti-Semitism
The .present upsurge of 'anti-Semitism
' `he response of people in dire economic
ss seeking scapegoats for their hos-
itst
t ities, according to two Michigan State
University social scientists.
. Responding to recent reports that
anti-Semitic incidents in America rose
sharply in 1980, Albert Levak and David
Katz agree that such incidents can be di-
rectly linked to current economic condi-
tions.
"During economic crises, people seek
scapegoats," says Levak. "The Jews are
always available because, for a variety of
historical reasons, our society legitimizes
discrimination against them."
When the economy is stable and
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By ALAN HITSKY
A Jewish teacher's objections to omissions and inac-
curacies about Jews in an Arab ethnic guide produced by
the Detroit Public Schools has led to an official recom-
mendation that the guide be withdrawn and corrected.
Doris Yehiel, a teacher at the Grayling School, ob-
jected to a map of the Arab world in the guide which iden-
tified Israel as "Arab land occupied by Israel." She also
objected to the listing of Jerusalem as a city on the West
Bank of Jordan rather than as Israel's capital and the
identifying of costumes as coming from Syria and Palestine
rather than of Syria and Palestinian Arabs.
Judaism was included among the three major
religions in the area but Jewish holidays were not
.listed with the Christian and Islamic holidays.
According to an article in the Jan. 26 issue of the
Detroit Federation of Teachers' newspaper, the Detroit
Teacher, Ms. Yehiel first raised her objections with the
administration of the Detroit Public Schools' Region 6.
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He added, "I think Israel, being a
country sharing our same ideals,
with a democratic approach to
things, with a combat-ready and
even a combat-experienced military,
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Future Lebanese Tennis Stars
At the border of Israel and Lebanon, Christian-Lebanese
boys wait with their tennis coach, Etan Stern, for the bus that
will take them to the Israel Tennis Center at Kiryat Shmona.
These youngsters play twice a week.