Impending Dangers From Growing Saudi - Domination Strong Support for Israel's Osirak Raid Commentary, Page 2 k l THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly' Review Copyright VOL. LXXIX, No. 18 g Iraq Nuclear Reactor Bombing: The Honor of Israel's Self-Defense of Jewish Events Editorial, Page 4 The Jewish News Publishing Co. 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c July 3, 1981 Hegemony of Begin and Likud Assured by Religious Parties 11th Maccabia Games Will Open on Sunday Menahem Begin and the Likud veered toward reassuming political domination in Israel under a mandate from the National Religious Party (NRP) and the related religious factions after Tuesday's national elections in Israel. Shimon Peres and the Labor Party, upon completion of the vote counting next week, may exceed Begin's Knesset representation by one vote, 49 to 48, but retention of the prime ministership by Begin will be due to at least 14 votes from the religious factions and other small parties, already assured to the incumbent by Yosef Burg, spokesman for the NRP. Thus, an election that drew 2,500,000 — 240,000 more than in 1977 when Begin scored his first political victory for national leadership — continues as a parliamentary status quo ante,continuation of a condition that has never changed in Israel. It began with David Ben-Gurion in 1948 when he attained a coalition majority with the help of the religious groups, and has continued with all his successors in office. In addition to Dr. Burg's alignment with the Likud and Prime Minister Begin, Agudat Israel leader Rabbi Pinhas Menahem Alter also expressed the opinion that his party would be part of a Likud coalition government for another four years. Burg is Interior Minister in the present Likud administration and he handled the now-dormant Palestinian autonomy negotiations with Egypt. If Tuesday's election is to be termed a political status quo (Continued on Page 5 BURG `The Mare' of Maidanek Given Life Term JERUSALEM — The state of Israel has issued three new stamps in honor of the 11th Maccabia Games, which begin Sunday and run through July 16 for 3,500 Jewish athletes from 26 countries throughout the world. The stamps depict the high jump event in track and field, the basketball competition and board sailing. For the first time in the history of the Maccabia the athletes will be housed according to their sport and not with all the members of their national team. The new system will promote friendships among the , athletes and reduce transportation and housing prob- lems Michigan athletes participating in the Maccabia in- clude Nanci Goldsmith, gymnastics; Mark Jaffe, tennis masters; David Linden, squash; and Anita Rival, swim- ming. BONN (JTA) — Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, the first and only Nazi war criminal to be stripped of U.S. citizenship and extradited, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Duesseldorf on Tuesday, ending West Germany's longest war crimes trial. The 61-year-old former New York housewife was convicted of the murders of over 1,100 prisoners while serving as a guard at the Maidanek death camp in Poland from 1942-1944 and of complicity in the killing of more than 700 others. Judge Guenter Bogen sentenced seven of her nine co-defendants to prison terms ranging from three to 12 years and acquitted one. All were former guards or ranking officers at Maidanek. The prosecution had asked for life sentences for five of the defendants, including Ryan. The trial, which opened in Duesseldorf more than 5 1/2 years ago, was prolonged by legal disputes and difficulties in mustering evidence concerning events that occurred 30 years earlier. But a parade of Maidanek survivors, Jewish and non-Jewish, provided devastating eyewitness testimony to Ryan's brutal treatment of camp inmates. She was known to them as "the Mare" for kicking prisoners with her heavy boots. Some 250,000 died in Maidanek's gas chambers or were shot or beaten to death. The saga that lifted Ryan from the obscurity she had sought in a middle class neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. and brought her to justice in West Germany began in August 1968 when the U.S. Justice Department (Continued on Page 6) AIPAC Report Defends Israeli Air Strike at Osirak (Editor's note: The fol- lowing report, "The Is- raeli Strike at Osirak," was printed as a supple- ment of Near East Re- port, published by AirPAC, the American Is- Wel Public Affairs Com- mittee in Washington, D.C.) Is it true that Iraq is engaged in a nuclear arms program? Secretary of State Haig has said that Iraq "is trend- ing towards the develop- ment of nuclear capabilities for military purposes." In a Senate speech on March 17, Sen. Alan Cranston (D- Calif.) cited authoritative American intelligence assessments that Iraq has embarked on a "Manhattan-Project-type approach" — a crash pro- gram to produce nuclear weapons. Iraq has stockpiled the most sensi- tive nuclear technologies and materiel available, using as its leverage its position as a major oil supplier to France and Italy. Other U.S. intelligence analysts point to the incon- sistency between Iraq's vig- orous nuclear research pro- gram and its lack of pursuit of a nuclear power program. Iraq has not even started on a program to buy large- scale power reactors, as have other countries in- terested in electricity, nor would such a program make much economic sense for Iraq, given its wealth of oil. The types and variety of Iraq's nuclear facilities and fuel purchases have raised widespread questions among experts In 1975, Iraq ordered from France an ad- vanced 70-megawatt ex- perimental reactor, along with 72 kilograms of Uranium-235, enriched to 93 percent. This is weapons-grade fuel, suf- ficiently potent directly to produce three or four Hiroshima-type bombs. A senior U.S. nuclear official has said that "there isn't any reason to have a research reac- tor that large in Iraq," for it is too large for a research facility. Theodore Taylor, a former bomb designer in the U.S. nuclear weapons pro- gram, said: "Under certain circumstances, at least one nuclear weapon could be made out of that amount — 12 kilograms of uranium, which comprises one full fueling of the facility." The French have also been training 600 Iraqi technicians and scientists, in France and in Baghdad. Iraq has no nuclear re- search program and no sci- entists to man the reactor, for the leading Iraqi scien- tists were purged by the re- gime. In 1979, the reactor equipment Iraq had origi- nally bought from France was mysteriously destroyed at a French port. Sub- sequently, France de- veloped a new process good enough to fuel a reactor and permit all the research functions at Osirak, but with low-grade uranium fuel — called Caramel — unusable for diversion to bombs. Last year the U.S. gov- ernment asked France not to resupply Iraq with the same high-grade uranium, but instead to give them Caramel. The French raised the issue with Iraq, but Iraq demanded fulfillment of the original order a sure sign of its intent. Iraq also has a $50- million contract with Italy, for the construction of the "Dry-30" project, a radio-chemistry labora- tory for reprocessing ir- radiated low-grade fuel, which can separate out and breed weapons- grade, bomb-producing plutonium from the French fuel. In the past year, Iraq signed a nuclear coopera- (Continued on Page 2)