6 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 24, 1981 AWACS for Saudis Endangers Israel, U.S. 75,000 Students for ORT Israel NEW YORK (JTA) -- (Continued from Page 1) ORT schools in Israel re- and anti-aircraft devices cently reported a record can "home-in" im- student registration for the mediately on these Israeli 1981-1982 school year planes. Indeed, the which begins Sept. 1. More AWACS equipment is so than 10,000 new students "intelligent" that it could are expected to attend the instantaneously deter- 115 ORT schools through- mine the best route for out Israel, bringing the enemy planes to inter- enrollment to an estimated cept Israeli aircraft. A major Israeli re- 75,000. source in the balance of military power in the Mid- Your dle East has been the qual- itative superiority of much of its arms, and particularly of its planes. The kind of in- formation furnished by the AWACS would of course wipe out much of this essen- tial margin. 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NEW YORK — Now in the fourth month of solitary confinement in the Perm labor camp, prisoner of con- science Anatoly Shcharansky's mind has be- come greatly weakened, his weight has dropped to 95 pounds, and he is again ex- periencing vision difficul- ties, his wife Avital re- ported from Jerusalem to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. According to Mrs. Shcharansky, her husband fears he will become senile at his young age, and re- counted that even while under severe pre-trial con- ditions in Lefortovov Prison he could memorize whole groups of Hebrew words daily, but now attempts to learn one or two new words each day, and forgets them by the next. He complains about toothaches and a re- curring vision problem which forces him to take frequent breaks while read- ing. He tries to do eye exer- cises. to packages Food Shcharansky are confis- cated. He has also never been officially informed of DON'T BUY VIDEO MOVIES RENT 'EM $5 00 - 4 DAYS 9 to 5 FAME STUNTMAN MY BODY GUARD SOMEWHERE IN TIME AIRPLANE Choose from 100's of titles in stock 1 YEAR MEMBERSHIP $35 VIDEO PLUS 12 Mile at Evergreen OPEN 7 DAYS Compounding this is the United States' proposal — despite a 1978 pledge to Congress that it would not do so — to sell the Saudis equipment that will convert their 62 F-15 planes into po- tent offensive weaspons: fuel pods and refueling tan- kers that will give them greater range and powerful Sidewinder missiles. Tests have demonstrated that one F-15 on a single mission — when assisted by an AWACS — can destroy sev- eral sophisticated planes sent up against it. The AWACS and its abilities are battle-tested: an earlier, less sophisticated version introduced in Vietnam raised the "kill-ratio" of American fighters by a fac- tor of six. 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He faces up to five years' imprisonment for "beating an old woman" after he left a Purim party to deserted streets in a pouring rain. He is being held in the Rukianovskaya Prison, and has no defense attorney. "To the people with whom he had celebrated Purim he was his normal, peaceful self," the activists declared. "Judging from this, we can be sure that his arrest was unfounded. He has been try- ing to emigrate for eight years to his wife and 12- year-old son in Israel. For all this time, he has been persecuted and threatened, and even beaten on the street. Defamatory articles have been written about him in the press, and he has been held under adminis- trative arrest many times. His apartment has been searched and at one point he was taken to a mental hos- pital." Another well-known Kiev refusenik, 46-year-old Kim Friedman, was ar- rested March 18 and sen- tenced to 10 days in jail on unknown charges, the SSSJ and UCSJ said. On March 28, the authorities brought him home, searched his apartment, then rearrested In a related development, the number of exit visas granted to Jews seeking to emigrate from the Soviet Union fell by nearly 50 per- cent in March, the Zionist Information News Service reported. Selling AWACS to the Saudis means that for the first time the Arabs would have an important edge in surveillance in any conflict with Israel. Israel is equip- ped with Hawkeye radar planes, which are by no means a match for the AWACS aircraft. The lat- ter, moreover, can remain aloft for long periods of time; in U.S. military exer- cises they often stayed in the air for as long as hours at a stretch. One must expect that if any Arab state goes to war against Israel the Saudis will make the AWACS — or at the least AWACS information — available to it. Present U.S. plans are to sell five AWACS to Saudi Arabia. This means that they will be able to provide round-the-clock cover- age. AWACS sales to the Saudis will mean that Israel would face a serious disad- vantage in the future, a dis- advantage with tragic potential for the vital secu- rity of the Jewish state. The worst of it is that neither the risk to Ameri- can top secrets nor to Is- rael's security is at all necessary. AWACS aircraft already circle above Saudi. Arabia at the present time, in defense of that country. But these AWACS eyes in the sky are where they be- long, in America's best interest — under American control. THE FINEST AND LARGEST POOL BUILDER IN THE MIDWEST Almost a quarter of century of supplying discriminating buyers has earned an unequaled reputation for Miami Pools. And, if you purchase a pool with Miami, we'll give $150.00 to your Temple or Synagogue. 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