THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20 Friday, July 24, 1981
FRANK PAUL
Arab Boycott Nixed by French Rule
and His ORCHESTRA
DUO's — TRIO's
PARIS (JTA) — The
French government Tues-
day issued an order enforc-
ing anti-boycott legislation
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and making it mandatory .
for French firms to disre-
gard Arab boycott requests
as the condition for indus-
trial and commercial con-
tracts.
The order was issued by
Premier Pierre Mauroy at
the request of President
Francois Mitterrand, who
had promised Jewish lead-
ers during his campaign to
give priority consideration
to this issue.
Jewish leaders and pro-
Israeli economic circles in
France expressed their
satisfaction with the new
administration's prompt
legislation.
Anti-boycott legisla-
tion was adopted by the
National Assembly in
1977, but the outgoing
administration issued an
executive order enabling
French exporters to
avoid compliance with
the law "when France's
economic interests are at
stake."
This executive interpre-
tation was used by practi-
cally all French firms trad-
ing with the Arab states to
avoid the law and enforce
Arab demands discriminat-
ing against economic ex-
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Israel Hits Bridges in Lebanon,
Casualties Mount on Both Sides
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is-
raeli Air Force planes at-
tacked terrorist installa-
tions in South Lebanon
Wednesday, the military
command said here.
The targets were cros-
sings along the Litani and
Zaharani Rivers which the
terrorists had improvised
after Israeli Air Force
planes destroyed the
bridges last week. The
bridges had been used to
transport military equip-
ment for attacks on Israel.
Air Force Commander
Gen. David Ivry said Israeli
aircraft had met "massive
anti-aircraft fire" during
some of their sorties on ter-
rorist targets in Lebanon,
but none fiad been hit and
all planes returned safely to
their base. The fire included
anti-aircraft artillery and
missiles, mainly from
shoulder-mounted Strella
missile launchers, and on
one occasion a SAM-9 mis-
sile was fired, Ivry said.
Asked about the delays in
the delivery of F-16 planes
from the United States, he
said it was "bearable in the
short term, but could be
serious in the long term."
Meanwhile, Premier
Menahem Begin dis-
closed that a 130 mm ar-
tillery gun of the type
used to shell Israeli set-
tlements had been de-
stroyed Tuesday, but he
did not say whether it
was by air attack or by
Israeli artillery fire. "It
may be replaced by the
enemy," he said. "If so, its
replacement will also be
destroyed."
The number of deaths
rose steadily as violence in
the Israel-Lebanon border
area remained intense
throughout the week.
Palestinian rocket fire
claimed another victim
Monday morning. A 40-year
old mother of three chil-
dren, Zipora Yesod, was kil-
led in Kibutz Misgav Am
and several other settlers
were injured when shells
burst in the center of the
kibutz.
According to the United
Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) the
Palestinians fired about 350
artillery shells and about 50
Katyusha rockets into
northern Israel Sunday
night.
Three Israelis were kil-
led in Nahariya last
week. A fourth was killed
last Friday in Kiryat
Shmona by terrorist roc-
ket fire after a massive
Israeli air raid on Beirut
in which more than 100
people were killed Fri-
day.
The sources said Begin re-
jected American criticism of
Israel's air attack on Beirut
last Friday in which there
were heavy civilian casual-
ties on grounds that the ter-
rorists have been shelling
Israeli civilians over a long
period.
U.S. special envoy Philip
Habib reportedly was told
by Begin that Syria was the
key to the terrorist attacks
on Israel from Lebanon and
he was urged to convey the
message to Damascus that
Israel reserved the right to
take whatever action it
thought necessary to pro-
tect the lives of its citizens
and that it was up to Syria
to keep the terrorists under
firm control.
The Israelis also repor-
tedly told Habib that the
terrorists were constantly
being supplied with more
and better weapons from
Libya, Syria and the Corn-
munist bloc countries.
Deputy Defense Minis-
ter Mordechai Zipori said
in a radio interview
Saturday that Israel
would welcome diploma-
tic efforts to restore calm
to the Israeli-Lebanese
border. But he warned
that if the Palestinians
continued their shelling
of Israeli towns, the Is-
rael army would escalate
its counter-measures.
Meanwhile, former Pre-
mier Yitzhak Rabin, a
leader of the opposition
Labor Party sharply
criticized the Begin gov-
ernment's military policy in
Lebanon in an article in
Yediot Ahronot. Terrorist
operations from Lebanon
cannot be stopped by mili-
tary means, he said.
Former Foreign Minister
Moshe Dayan also appeared
to have reservations about
the raid. Nevertheless, he
said on a radio interview
that Israel was confronted
with the choice of halting
the attacks to allow dip-
lomatic efforts to work,
knowing that the terrorists
would utilize the hiatus to
regroup and prepare for fu-
ture assaults, or to continue
the attacks while the former
guerrilla forces of the PLO
gradually attain the status
of an army with their ac-
quisition of tanks and heavy
artillery.
Explaining the Beirut
raid, Chief of Military In-
telligence Gen. Yehoshua
Saguy told foreign corre-
spondents at a press confer-
ence last weekend that the
action followed delivery o,
large numbers of 130 mm.
cannons and 40-barrel
Katyusha rocket launchers
to the Palestinians as well
as T-34, T-55 and T-54
tanks, and SAM-9 anti-
aircraft missiles from Syria
and Libya.
He said these mainly
Soviet-made weapons
were difficult to spot in
search-and-destroy mis-
sions. Therefore, it was
decided to attack ter-
rorist headquarters in
Beirut "to give them
something to think ab-
out," Saguy said.
He said all of the targets
in Friday's raid were lo-
cated within a triangle in
the Lebanese capital that
has been taken over com-
pletely by the terrorists to
which Lebanese authorities
and civilians have only
limited access.
He said the principal
targets were two buildings
which housed the main
headquarters of El Fatah
and the Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Pales-
tine on the third to fifth
floors with the families of
Palestinian officers housed
on the upper and lower
floors.
'
Weinberger: Israel Reactor
Strike Set Back Peace Talks
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger charged that
Israel's attack on Iraq's nu-
clear reactor June 7 and its
bombing of Beirut last Fri-
day have set back American
peace efforts in Lebanon.
Interviewed by ABC-TV
"Good Morning America"
program, Weinberger said
that special U.S. envoy
Philip Habib "came very
close to securing a very rea-
sonable set of peace terms
with respect to the removal
of the missiles of Syria (in
Lebanon) just about that
time the Iraqi reactor was
bombed.
"Then," Weinberger con-
tinued, "He was starting to
make very good progress,
assisted by Saudi Arabia
and other countries of the
moderate Arab nations with
respect to the situation
again, and then Beirut was
bombed. So, each of these
things has set back the
whole course of security and
peace quite a ways."
Weinberger's state-
ment, one of the strongest
by a Reagan Administra-
tion official regarding Is-
rael's policy toward
Lebanon, also termed
Premier Menahem Be-
gin's policy as one that
"cannot really be de-
scribed as moderate at
this point," and justified
President Reagan's deci-
sion to put off indefinitely
two shipments totalling
10 F-16 fighter planes to
Israel.
"One of the instruments
of violence, is of course, the
planes," the Secretary of
Defense said. The
President's feeling was that
we simply did not want to
add anything to that al-
ready rather explosive situ-
ation."
Weinberger warned that
the escalation of hostilities
across the Lebanon-Israe'
border could cause tremer.
dous damage. He added: "1 -
would very much hope that
the logic of the situation
would appeal to everybody
and we would get a cease-
fire quickly."
Name Honorees
NEW YORK — Herbert
and Toby Willing of Forest
Hills, N.Y., will be honored
at the Emunah Women of
America Diamond Key
Dinner on Dec. 13.
Every one hath a tender
sense of reputation.