Ambassador MUM Will Open Campaign on Tuesday
Yehuda Blum, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, will ad-
dress the annual dinner meeting of the Allied Jewish Campaign - Israel
Emergency Fund on Tuesday at Temple Israel. The dinner will be pre-
ceded by a cocktail reception at 6:15 p.m. (Due to unforeseen circum-
stances, plans announced earlier have been changed).
The Detroit Jewish community is invited to attend the event. Reser-
vations should be made by calling the Jewish Welfare Federation office,
965-3939.
Presiding at the meeting will be Marvin H. Goldman and David S.
Mondry, the general chairmen of this year's Campaign. Rabbi M. Robert
Syme will deliver the invocation.
Ambassador Blum, a native of Czechoslovakia, was a prisoner
at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before immigrating to
A Purim
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to Jewish
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Israel after World War II.
He became a noted authority on international law, earning his docto-
rate at the University of London. His master's degree is from Hebrew
University, where he spent 10 years as a faculty member. Among his
various legal positions with the Israel government, he served as the senior
assistant to the legal adviser of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
During his academic career, Ambassador Blum worked as a research
scholar at the University of Michigan's law school. He was a visiting
professor at the law schools of New York University and the University of
Texas. In 1968, he served as a UNESCO fellow in Sydney, Australia.
He has served as Israel's ambassador to the UN since September
1978.
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Shamir Warns Sales to Saudis
`Cloud' U.S.-Israel Relations
Jewish Cemetery
on Poletown Site
Will Be Improved
The old Beth Olam Cemetery, also known as the
Smith Street Cemetery, is the only piece of property,
within the boundaries of the proposed General
Motors plant in Poletown which will not be acquired
or disturbed by GM.
In fact, according to Andrew Phythian, superin-
tendent of Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Troy who
has been supervising the maintenance of the Smith
Street Cemetery, the acquisition of the area by GM
will benefit the cemetery.
Phythian said GM originally proposed moving the
cemetery. Officials of GM, Governor William Milli-
ken's office, and the cities of Detroit and Hamtramck
were told that moving the cemetery would violate
Jewish law.
Meeting with the officials were Cong. Shaarey
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared Monday that proposed U.S. sales of
sophisticated weapons to Saudi Arabia could "cloud" relations between the U.S. and Israel. He warned that an
arms' sale escalation in the region could eventually cause "an explosion."
Speaking in the Kriesset, Shamir noted, though, that the U.S. had recently pledged to boost Israel's own
military strength, and its economic stability, and said detailed talks would soon begin between officials of the
two countries on how those pledges were to be implemented.
In his statement, he referred to the proposed U.S. sale of offensive attachments for Saudi Arabia's F-15
warplanes, due to be delivered this year, and also to the reported U.S. consideration of the sale of advanced
AWACS intelligence and control planes. The Israeli Foreign Minister warned that Israel would not be able to
keep up with the regional arms race if systems of this cost and sophistication were supplied to its enemies.
Top. Labor Party foreign affairs spokesman Abba Eban charged that the government had "recon-
ciled itself" to the proposed U.S.-Saudi arms deal (for offensive attachments to the F-15 warplanes).
Eban added that there was no real "understanding" between Washington and Jerusalem — and it was
for that reason that Premier Menahem Begin had not been invited ta summit talks in Washington this
spring.
Eban said the supply of AWACS to Saudi-Arabia would mean a serious weakening of Israel's defensive
capability. The Saudis would be able to "scan and peer into" Israel from the planes, he said. Many other Knesset
members from both major parties faulted the government for not sounding more forceful in its public opposition
to the U.S.-Saudi arms deals.
A Foreign Ministry official said last week that an assessment had been made of the Reagan Administration
intentions and Israel did not lodge a stronger protest over the proposed sales to the Saudis because it was not
Excitement Is. Building
for the Jewish Olympics
By SIMON GRIVER
World Zionist Press Service
JERUSALEM -- This summer's Maccabia Games promise to be
biggest and best in the event's 50-year history. July 6-16, nearly
,o00 competitors, easily a record entry, will take part in 28 differ-
ent sports.
The concept of the Maccabia Games, a Jewish Olympics, was
envisaged by Joseph Yekuteli in 1921. He persuaded Tel Aviv
Mayor Meir Dizengoff to build a stadium in neighboring Ramat!
Gan, which was named Kfar Maccabia.
When the first games were held 309 athletes came from 17
countries. The event was a striking success and in the 1935 Mac-
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The opening ceremonies at the 10th Maccabia.
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Ted Cummings
Will Be Named
Envoy to Austria
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Theo-
dore Cummings of Beverly Hills,
Calif., who is regarded as President
Reagan's closest Jewish friend, has
been selected by the President to be
the next U.S. ambassador to Au-
stria, the country where he was
born, a White House source in-
formed the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
While the White House would
not officially confirm the appoint-
ment of Cummings pending a for-
mal announcement, it was under-
stood that his nomination probably
will be submitted soon to the Se-
nate.
Cummings, 72, a financier and
philanthropist in the Los
Angeles area, has been close to
Reagan for more than 30 years
and supported him in his
gubernatorial and Presidential
campaigns. He was an honorary
co-chairman of the Coalition for
Reagan-Bush, the Jewish
organization that backed
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Purim: Joyous Freedom
Festival for Centuries
By DVORA WAYSMAN
World Zionist Press Service
JERUSALEM — No festival in the Jewish calendar is more
joyous, than Purim, which is celebrated today (14th Adar II), except
in Jerusalem where it is celebrated tomorrow. The 15th of Adar is
known as Shushan Purim, and recalls the fact that the Jews who
lived in the Persian town of Shushan continued to fight their
enemies on 14th Adar, then celebrated their victory a day later. It
was ordained that towns in Israel with ancient walls dating back to
the days of Joshua, should celebrate Purim on 15th Adar.
The central elements of Purim are joy and celebration. It is
historical in origin — involving a plot in Persia by the wicked
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A 19th Century Megillat Esther.