I Iraqi Bomb Cover-Up Reaches Senate Unit By DAVID FRIEDMAN (Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.) ( 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 • 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. 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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. 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