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VOL. LXXIX, No. 14
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June 5, 1981
Sadat, Begin Seeking Mutual
Accord to Avoid Military Rift
The Ten Words
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Deuteronomy 5:6-21
I the Lord am your God who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, the house of bondage:
Y ou shall have no other gods beside Me.
You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, any
likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in
the waters below the earth.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The main purpose of Thursday's summit conference of Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menahem Begin was to "avoid any risk of misun-
derstanding" between Israel and Egypt if Israel decides on any military or political action over the
Lebanon missile crisis. This was stated in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon by Begin's spokesman Uri
Porat in a pre-sums~ i+ briefing to newsmen.
Porat said both countries want above all to protect their peace treaty and to ensure that it is not
undermined or jeopardized by developments that might evolve out of the missile crisis.
"There is no doubt," he said, "that the Lebanon crisis will be the central issue" of the summit.
"This was the cause of the urgency" in the two leaders' arranging to meet at this time.
Porat referred to an exchange of letters between the two men two weeks ago, and to a
subsequent phone call from Begin to Sadat in which the summit was set up. They agreed on
the need to coordinate certain points ... to avoid misunderstandings or breakdowns in
communications regarding scenarios that might arise in the present fluid situation in the
north."
The two leaders met alone Thursday morning for a scheduled two-hour session at a hotel in Ofira
(Shari' el Sheikh) at the southern tip of Sinai. Their entourages of ministers and aides Joined them for
lunch, and there was to be a further private session if the two leaders considered it necessary.
An Israeli aide seemed to expect that Sadat will agree to receive a delegation of Ofira residents —
but added that there has been no official word from Cairo on the residents' request for a meeting,
which the Israel government had relayed.
The residents intended to ask Sadat to allow those who wished to stay on at Ofira under Egyptian
rule, following Israel's pullback next April. The Israel government has made it clear that it does not
endorse the request and would not, therefore, regard it as a gesture to Israel if Sadat agreed to grant
it. But, an Israeli aide said, it would be a very nice gesture to the people of Ofira."
The summit encounter also included a helicopter tour of the area in the morning, and a
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You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the Lord
your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the fathers
upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations
of those who reject Me, but showing kindness to the thousandth
generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
AWACS Filibuster Pledged
You shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God;
for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by His name.
Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your
God has commanded you.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh
day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; you shall not do any work —
you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox
or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settle-
ments, so that your male or female slave may rest as you do.
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the
Lord your God freed you from there with a mighty hand and an
outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to
observe the Sabbath day.
Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has
commanded you, that you may long endure, and that you may fare
well in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You
shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your
7e; ghbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not crave
your neighbor's house, or his field, or his male or female slave, or
his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
The Lord spoke these words — these and no more — to your
whole congregation at the mountain, with a mighty voice out of the
fire and the dense clouds. He inscribed them on two tablets of
stone, which He gave to me.
When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the
mountain was ablaze with fire, you came up to me, all your tribal
heads and elders, and said, The Lord our God has just shown us
His majestic Presence and we have heard His voice out of the fire;
we have seen this day that man may live though God has spoken to
him."
From 1963 Revised Jewish Publication Society Translation of the Torah.
SENATOR MOYNIHAN
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.) pledged Sunday to
filibuster in the U.S. Senate against the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi
Arabia. Addressing the 60th annual meeting of the National Commission of the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, Moynihan declared, "While I have
voice, there will not be such a bill passed in the U.S. Senate — in the South, they
call it a filibuster. In the North it is referred to as extended debate."
At the same time, he warned that the Syrian missile crisis stems from
a deliberate Soviet attempt to test the resolve of the Reagan Administra-
tion.
Referring to the controversy over the sale of AWACS to the Saudis, the
Senator told the ADL meeting that Saudi security needs can be satisfied
through the use of American-owned and operated AWACS which are already
based in the region. He said that American efforts to deliver sophisticated
offensive equipment to the Saudis for use with F-15 planes they already possess
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Reagan and Bush Promise to Assist
Dissident Jews in the Soviet Union
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Reagan met last Thursday with Avital Shcharansky, wife of jailed
Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, and promised to do all he could to help her husband. The meeting in the
Oval Office was attended by Vice President George Bush, and Yosef Mendelevich, another Jewish dissident who
was released from Russia recently and settled in Israel. He is currently on a U.S. tour for Soviet Jewish refusniks.
Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said the President "expressed deep sympathy for
the persecuted Jewish and other religious communities in the Soviet Union, as well as for Mrs. Shcharansky's
husband and promised to do all in his power to alleviate the situation." Speakes said U.S. officials would discuss
the Shcharansky case with Soviet officials but declined to be specific about what the President could do to help
Shcharansky, now in the fifth year of a 13-year ‘,z
prison sentence.
Mrs. Shcharansky told a press conference after
meeting with the President that she did not know
what the President might do but that "I trust
him." The President made no pledges of specific
action, she said, but she felt he understood "the
emergency situation" and that her husband's life
was "in danger."
On Sunday, about 150,000 people, accord-
ing to police estimates, gathered at Dag
Hammarskjold Plaza, across from the United
Avital Shcharansky and Yosef Mendelevich are
Nations, for the 10th annual rally for Solidar-
shown at last week's meeting with President Reagan
ity Sunday for Soviet Jewry.
and Vice President Bush.
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