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Iraqi Bomb Cover-Up Reaches Senate Unit
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
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Senior State Department
officials, testifying before
Congressional committees
on Israel's destruction of
Iraq's nuclear reactor,
seemed to go to amazing
lengths to keep from agree-
ing publicly with Israel that
Iraq planned to build a nu-
clear bomb.
Yet privately the de-
partment officials repor-
tedly did admit to having
concern about the direction
of Iraq's nuclear program.
The belief that Iraq wanted
to build an atomic bomb was
openly discussed in Wash-
ington long before the Is-
raeli raid.
The State Department's
position turned ludicrous
when it sought to prevent a
33-year-old American in-
spector from the Interna-
tional Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) from read-
ing from his own memo
while testifying before the
Senate Foreign- Relations
Committee.
Roger Richter, the only was classified and therefore
American national as- Richter should not be
signed as an inspector allowed to read the memo.
with the IAEA's Middle
This resulted in an argu-
East and South Asian ment among several com-
section, had resigned mittee members about the
from the IAEA so that he next step. Sen. Alan
could tell the Senate Cranston (D-Calif.), who
committee of his belief had brought Richter to the
that Iraq was working committee, told the audi-
toward nuclear weapons ence that what was involved
capability and that IAEA was a behind-the-scenes
safeguards would not dispute between two State
have prevented this from Department officers on
happening.
whether the memo was
Richter wrote a memo ex- classified or not.
pressing this fear to the
Glenn noted that since
United States Mission to
the IAEA a year ago and joining the committee he
wanted to read a portion of had fought against leaks of
it to the committee. But classified information and
Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) there has been a decrease in
interrupted, saying he was the practice. A good point
told by the State Depart- but not really germane to
ment that the document Richter's memo as Sen.
Maidanek Guards to Appeal
BONN — Lawyers for all commented last week on
eight convicted defendants the anger of survivors
in„ the 5 1/2-year Maidanek over the comparatively
concentration camp trial light sentences for for
have announced that they eight defendants.
"Like many of us," he
will appeal the convictions
said, "you will be unable to
State Department to a higher court.
Receivitg the longest understand the decision of
Blasts Libyans
sentence, a life term, was the court." At the same
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hermine Braunsteiner time, he told 130 Jewish
The Reagan Administra- Ryan, the former camp former citizens of Bonn at a
tion this week accused the guard called the "Mare" by Chancellery reception, the
Libyan regime of Muammar survivors of Maidanek be- judges in the case were con-
Qaddafi of being the only cause she stomped inmates fronted by a "task that is
morally practically insolu-
Arab state that wants to to death.
wreck chances of a peaceful
West German Chancel- ble."
solution to the conflict in lor Helmut Schmidt
Fellowships
Lebanon.
"In what can only be seen
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Are
Awarded
as an effort to interfere with Israeli Concerts
NEW YORK (JTA) —
a reasonable solution to the Mark Holiday
The National Foundation
most recent tragedy in
JERUSALEM. (JNI) — for Jewish Studies (NFJS)
Lebanon, Libya has intro-
duced sophisticated There may not have been has awarded doctoral diser-
tation fellowships in Jewish
weapons and trained per- fireworks, hot dogs or apple
sonnel into Lebanon during pie, but Americans in Israel studies for the 1981-1982
the highly volatile period of celebrated U.S. Indepen- academic year.
Amos Comay, NFJS
the last few weeks," Chester dence Day.
president,
said the fellow-
While
immigrant
singer
Crocker, assistant secretary
of state for Africa declared. Sandra Johnson and pianist ships carry a $1,000 to
Crocker made his re- Liz Magnes entertained at $5,500 stipend, depending
marks in the course of tes- the Israel Museum in on the awardee's financial
timony before a subcommit- Jerusalem, U.S. Ambas- need.
Eight of the 13 recipients
tee of the Senate Foreign sador Samuel Lewis
this
year are specializing in
hosted
an
outdoor
concert
Relations Committee on
what he said was the "seri- by the Jerusalem Sym- Jewish history and one each
ous concern" of the U.S. over phony in Tel Aviv. Later, in ethnomusicology, He-
Libya's "growing interven- the American Folk Ballet brew languages and litera-
tion" in Africa and performed at the Tel Aviv ture, rabbinics, Bible and
sociology.
Hilton.
elsewhere.
Pioneer Women to Fund
JNF Park Access Road
Friday, July 10, 1%1
Moscow Rabbi
Issues Warning
on Drop-Outs
Right In Your
Own Driveway!
JERUSALEM (JNI) —
Arye Dulzin, chairman of
the World Zionist Executive
has confirmed that Moscow
Chief Rabbi Yaacov
Fishman warned Israel that
the continued "neshira"
(dropping-out) of Soviet
Jewish emigrants could im-
peril further Jewish emig-
ration from Russia.
Dulzin upheld a British
"observer" report broadcast
over Army Radio which
stated that Fishman told
Iraeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo
Goren that Soviet officials
were likely to stop issuing
exit permits if the number
of Soviet Jews choosing des-
tinations other than Israel
continued to rise.
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Delegates Back
from Moscow
TEL AVIV (JNI) — The
Israeli delegation to the In-
ternational Convention of
World Trade Centers in
Moscow returned home last
week. The eight man dele-
gation made many contacts
in Moscow, mainly from the
West. They also met with
members of the local Jewish
community and visited the
main synagogue in Moscow.
Detroiters Serve
Weizmann Event
Pioneer Women has agreed to sponsor the
$600,000 cost of improving the access road in the
American Independence Park to the popular stalac-
tite cavern in the park. Shown, seated, at the sponsor
ceremonies are, from left, Pioneer Women's Elsie Wat-
tenberg, national president Detroiter Frieda Leemon
and Zelda Lemberger. Standing is Moshe Rivlin of
Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (Jewish National Fund).
Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minn.)
pointed out. He wanted to
know whether the State
Department had decided to
classify the memo after it
learned that Richter was
about to testify.
Cranston finally found
that Richter's memo was
not classified since the
U.S. cannot classify
material from an interna-
tional organization, but
the copy of the memo sent
by the U.S. Mission to the
State Department was
classified. This is like
classifying the daily
newspaper, Cranston de-
clared.
Richter, who noted that
he was only reading a por-
tion of his memo, followed
the advice of Sen. Charles
Percy (R-Ill.) and parap-
hrased his own words.
Throughout the argu-
ment, Senators noted that
the press already had a copy
of Richter's remarks includ-
ing the section of the dis-
puted memo. But not men-
tioned was that Cranston
had publicly read to the
committee a day earlier the
very portion of Richter's
memo that was now in dis-
pute. And it had already
been reported by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency among
others.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
NEW YORK — De-
troiters Paul Borman and
Daniel Honigman are
among the 25 divisional
chairman serving on the
dinner committee for the
annual national dinner of
the American Committee
for the Weizmann Institute
of Science.
The dinner will be held
Oct. 18 at the Sheraton Cen-
ter in New York.
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