THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 24 Friday, March 6, 1981 Carrington to Meet Arafat? with British Foreign Office aides in London last week, presumably to arrange the Carrington-Arafat get- together. It would probably take place after July, when Carrington becomes head of the European Council of Ministers. WASHINGTON — British sources told News- week magazine that Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington plans to meet with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat in the Mideast this year. Such a meeting would grant the PLO the most im- portant recognition it has ever received from a major Western nation. Mahmoud Labadi, a PLO information officer, met Carrington is the main architect of the European initiative that calls for in- clusion of the PLO in Mideast peace talks. Your Own Personal Accountant Provides you the same services that are available to the business community 1. Financial planning (budgeting) 2. Schedule payment of bills, write checks and mail payments if desired. 3. 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In the past eight years, from fiscal year 1973 to fiscal year 1981, $251 million has been appropriated of which . $239 million will have been provided by next March 31. Meanwhile, more than 500 students from some 25 campuses contacted 378 of the 535 members of the U.S. Senate and House with ap- peals for continuation by Congress of its support for programs helpful to Soviet Jewry. In a related development, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was ready to allow Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union to fly directly from Moscow to Is- rael, but was dissuaded by one of his aides, it was dis- - closed last weekend in a radio interview with Leon Dulzin, chairman of the World Zionist Organization Executive. He said that at the re- quest of Premier Menahem Begin, a "prominent Jewish personality with contacts with Brezhnev" discussed the matter of Jewish emig- ration with him and pro- posed that Jews be allowed to fly direct from the USSR to Israel, without an inter- mediate stop in Vienna. 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It also was learned that Avital Shcharansky, wife of prisoner of conscience Anatoly Shcharansky, said that she placed little cre- dence in press reports from South Africa that her hus- band is to be freed shortly in exchange for an alleged Soviet spy, Alexei, Kozlov, captured in South Africa last year. She said rumors of his re- lease had been frequent, but he was still in a Soviet labor camp serving the fourth year of a 13-year term on charges of treason, spying and anti-Soviet subversion. Meanwhile, Avital has received the first informa- tion in weeks about her husband from his mother, Ida Milgrom. In a telephone call from Moscow where Mrs. Milgrom resides, she told Avital that Anatoly stated in a letter to his brother Leonid that he could not have any visits from either his mother or brother for the remainder of 1981 since all meetings scheduled for this year have been cancelled. Mrs. Milgrom said that his food allotment has been cut in half and that his correspondence has been limited. The National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported that Soviet police in Moscow halted an exhibition by eight Jewish artists by blocking the entrance to a private home where the ex- hibition was being held last week. Many people had already viewed the paintings, which consisted of about 40 abstract and symbolic re- nderings of the Holocaust and of Jewish life in the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, the number of Jews who left the USSR in February totaled 1,407, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported. SR4 FENNLEVia KURT MON-ER1i WA(014(11,4 (J HMO /SA- STRKEt °WARD' Members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Identity Center gather at the Isaiah Peace Wall opposite the United Nations for what proved to be the final rally for prisoner of conscience Joseph Mendelevich. A few days later, Mendelevich was released, and was flown to Israel. Biblical Amusement Park Is Planned for Haifa Area TEL AVIV (JTA) — Christian and Jewish spon- sors of a "Bibleland Park" in Haifa are awaiting the go- ahead from the Haifa municipality to complete an _economic and architectural survey for the $250 million project. The local sponsor, George Taussig, president of an Is- raeli tourist company, says Mayor Arye Gurel has an- nounced his support in prin- ciple. The American investors are the Christian Broad- casting Network which also sponsors the Voice of Hope Christian Lebanese radio station in south Lebanon which is to begin television broadcasts shortly. IDF Deserters Reverse Boycott TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The Israel Defense Forces are now experiencing a phe- nomenon unheard of in the early years of the state — desertion. Since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the IDF has had 6,000 cases of desertion each year. Analysts link the des- erters to a change in policy after 1973. The IDF now ac- cepts illiterates and persons with criminal records. Most of the deserters come from development towns and have police re- cords, a report said. A Jewish group headed by Leonard Strelitz, a former national United Jewish Ap- peal chairman, has under- taken to match any com- mitment made by the Chris- tian group. The Bibleland Park, planned as a tourist attraction, will be estab- lished on the lines of Dis- neyland but with the Bible as its theme. ZURICH (ZINS) — A non-Jewish swimming pool manufacturer in Switzer- land has cancelled an order placed by a Saudi Arabian firm after its directors read a Saudi-inspired article about Jerusalem in a Ger- man language magazine. The management of the Hartman firm wrote the Saudi company that it sup- ported Israel and Jerusalem as its indivisible capital. "We will not make deals with sworn enemies of Is- rael," they wrote. More WB Land Taken by Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) • — The West Bank Military Government is declaring several thousand acres of land east of Jerusalem to be "state land" and therefore available for the expansion of Jewish settlements, in this case the new town of Maale Adumim on the Jerusalem-Jericho road. Military government offi- cers have notified the Mukhtars (heads of local government) of two neighboring Arab villages of this intention. Under law, the villagers have 21 days to appeal in the courts against the seizure. The expansion of Maale Adumim would cut off the Arab villages east of Jerusalem from the Judean desert. In recent months, the Military Government has declared thousands of acres on the West Bank to be "state land" on grounds that it is unused and untitled. The effect is to expand Jewish settlements while precluding the growth of nearby Arab villages and denying them use of the land for grazing or other purposes.