Israel Is Giving Aid to Christian Phalange
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is-
raeli military sources con-
firmed this week that Israel
was aiding Christian forces
in central Lebanon as well
as those in the enclave just
north of the Israel border.
The sources would not say
what sort of aid was being
given or how it was reach-
ing areas of Lebanon
further away from the bor-
der. But they insisted that
no Israelis, in either a train-
ing or advisory capacity,
were with the Christian
Phalangists fighting the
Syrians, Palestinians and
their leftist allies.
They would not comment
on foreign reports that Is-
raeli Chief of Staff Rafael
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Catholic Bishop Calls for
U.S. Diplomacy for Lebanon
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V 'HINGTON — In a
tele, am to Vice President
George Bush, the president
of the Catholic Bishops'
Conference has urged that
the U.S. take the strongest
possible diplomatic action
to condemn the shelling of
civilian centers in Lebanon.
Archbishop John R.
Roach of Saint Paul and
Minneapolis noted that the
population of Zahle, a
largely Christian city of
about 150,000 people 30
miles east of Beirut, is in
danger of being massacred.
"This must be opposed in
the most effective manner
possible," he said.
In a cable sent to the
Catholic Bishops' Assembly
of Lebanon, Archbishop
Roach expressed solidarity
with the Christian com-
munities of Lebanon.
At the United Nations
last week, at least 400
American Lebanese
Christians and their sup-
porters demonstrated in
Dag Hammarskjold
Plaza to demand the
withdrawal of Syrian
troops from Lebanon,
while inside the Security
Council chamber 10-12
other Lebanese Chris-
tians staged a one-hour
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sit-in. Several of them re-
portedly were from the
Christian village of Zahle
in Lebanon which has
been under siege by the
Syrians.
In Washington, the sub-
committee on Europe and
the Middle East of the
House Foreign Affairs
Committee, citing Syria's
"aggression" in Lebanon,
agreed to cut off $130.2 mil-
lion in funds that had been
allocated to Syria in prev-
ious years.
Members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit-
tee, in a letter to President
Reagan, unanimously con-
demned the Syrian attacks
on the Christian commu-
nity in Lebanon as outrage-
ous and indefensible.
Senator Rudy Bos-
chwitz (R-Minn.), chair-
man of the foreign rela-
tions subcommittee on
the Near East, initiated
the letter which was
signed by all of the com-
mittee's members.
At The same time, Sen.
Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.)
called for the withdrawal of
all Syrian and Palestine
Liberation Organization
forces from Lebanon.
Eitan had recently visited
Phalangist forces in the port
of Junea north of Beirut,
through which supplies are
believed to reach the Chris-
tians from Europe, Cyprus
and elsewhere.
The sources dis-
counted Christian re-
ports from Lebanon that
the Syrian's had used
their air force or groung-
to-ground missiles in the
recent fighting around
Zahle. They also thought
there was no truth in
other reports that Soviet
advisers had been with
the - - Syrian forces in
Lebanon.
The sources said the
flareup of fighting had
started when the residents
of the mainly Greek
Catholic town of Zahle had
taken advantage of the end
of the snow period to resume
work on a road linking
Zahle with Christian-held
areas on the coast.
Israel would favor the es-
tablishment of an interna-
tional emergency force in
Lebanon to serve as a buffer
between the Syrian army
and Lebanese Christians.
Such an international force
has been proposed by
France and apparently has
American support.
The State Department
indicated on Tuesday that it
,was not advocating a
United Nations peacekeep-
ing force but that it did con-
sider it a possibility. Dean
Fischer, the department's
new spokesman, said that
the French proposal for a
UN peacekeeping force in
areas outside of south
Lebanon was just "an op-
tion."
In Israel, Deputy Defense
Minister Mordechai Zipori
claimed that Israel's politi-
cal activities resulted in the
United States, and possibly
France, finally intervening
politically in Lebanon to
halt the fighting.
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Unions Back Jewish Pilot
Who Refused to Fly to Libya
PARIS (JTA) — Three
airline trade unions repre-
senting flight crews, pilots,
engineers and cabin atten-
dants held a five-day strike
last week against a leading
French air carrier which
-°punished a Jewish pilot who
had refused to fly his Boeing
747 to Libya last December
with a cargo of arms,
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parts.
The walkout was called in
_ solidarity with Capt. Roger
Dieleman who was sus-
pended for 14 days without
pay and reprimanded by the
management of the Union
Des Transports
Ae - ,,antique (UTA) which
scheduled
of es
pass nger and cargo service
between France, Africa and
the Pacific region.
Dieleman, a veteran
pilot, refused to take his
plane to Sebbah Airport in
Libya, claiming that be-
cause he is Jewish, flying to
Libya would jeopardize his
safety because of that coun-
try's extreme anti-Jewish
policies.
Dieleman argued that
according to interna-
tional conventions, all air
crews flying to war zones
or other danger zones
must be voluntary.
He was quoted as saying
that his decision "was not
political but a personal mat-
ter." He said he would con-
tinue to refuse to fly war
material to Libya if ordered
to do so again.
Tel Aviv OKs
Reform Temple
TEL AVIV k JN — The
Reform Jewish community
of the Tel Aviv area has re-
ceived approval to build its
own synagogue and com-
munity center after more
than a decade of petition.
The city construction
committee overruled politi-
cal pressure within the
municipal coalition and
voted in favor of the Reform
synagogue by a large major-
ity. The three-story com-
munity center, youth club,
and 400-seat synagogue
will be built by 1983, on a lot
approved by the Municipal
Executive in 1979.
The Tel Aviv Reform
community has several
hundred active members
including many young
people.
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