THE BEIRUT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 1. 1981 16 Three Groups Praise JDC ELFISH Filli Israel, Egypt, U.S. Initial Sinai Agreement JERUSALEM — The Pabbinic.1 Council of America, Bar-Ilan Univer- sity and Yeshiva University recently paid tribute to the American JeWish Joint Dis- tribution Committee (JDC) for."making Judaism relev- ant through its rescue, re- lief and rehabilitation pro- grams in Jewish com- munities the world over." Dr. Emanuel Rackman, president of Bar-Dan, praised the organization's role in "preservation of Jewish values, and its em- phasis on the centrality of Israel in history and the de- stiny of Jewish people." CIEWEMY Highest dollart paid for your +Namin, gold, sterling or ogliewelry! rant .. • n- toiLv Azs State of Michigan Licensed CALL FOR APPOINTMENT E51-7333 ' WASHINGTON (JTA) — The development of an agreement for a multina- tional force and observers (MFO) to patrol the Sinai after Israel's final with- drawal in April 1982 was seen as evidence of U.S. commitment to work for peace in the Middle East. But the commitment was viewed differently by the parties involved — the United States, Egypt and Israel. This was evident at a State Department cere- mony Monday_ afternoon when Secretary of State Alexander Haig witnessed , ORDER YOUR NEW PONTIAC 11 1000 or J 2000 NOW! • • AL STEINBERG ti _ ALSO FEATURING AMC-JEEP & RENAULT T MORAN PONTIAC 9300 TELEGRAPH 353-9000 Jl ST NORTH OF TEL-TWELVE MALL ve Your Windows The Works 0 0 D O DO 00 D O 00 0 0 00- I /0 1, 0 OD OD OFF • Verticals DO 00 OD DO Discounts Are Not Everything! 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Haig also signed identical letters to the Foreign Ministers of Is- rael and Egypt outlining U.S. commitments to the agreement, including pro- viding more than 1,000 troops for the MFO and get- ting other nations to make up the rest of the 2,500- member force. Haig, noting the "pleas- ure" the agreement has given both President Re- agan and himself, said the agreement was a "reflection of a new confidence in the Middle East in America's leadership, its willingness to meet its commitments and obligations to the peace process." He said a first step in the peace process would be moving toward the au- tonomy talks, a step which he said will begin with the visits of Egyp- tian President Anwar Sadat this week and Is- raeli Premier Menahem Begin in September. Ghorbal, in his remarks, also called for progress toward a Palestinian au- 13 Nazi Cases Being Tried in W. Germany BONN (JTA) — Thirteen former Nazi officials are presently on trial in West Germany and four more cases are expected to go to trial before the end of the year, according to Adalbert Rueckerl, head of the war crimes investigation center at Ludwigsburg. He said 2,251 other suspected Nazis are under investigation. Two of the most impor- tant ex-Nazis now facing trial are Gustav Richter, who was Adolf Eichmann's deputy in Bucharest, and Heinz-Guenther Wisner, accused of killing inmates of the Riga-Kaiserwald con- centration camp. Rueckerl stressed that the prosecu- tion in these cases will de- pend heavily on witnesses. He called on survivors whc knew the accused to testify in court. * * * Canada Pushed on War Crimes TORONTO (JTA) — A delegation from the Cana - dian Holocaust Remembr- ance Association met with Justice Minister John Chre- tien and presented him with a petition containing 30,000 names urging the govern- ment to prosecute war crim- inals residing in Canada and to take action against white supremacy groups. A brief accompanying the petition stated that the gov- ernment has the legal means to act and should im- plement the relevant laws. Sabina Citron, a leading member of the Association, said Canada is obligated under international treaties to prosecute war criminals. tonomy. He noted the Re- agan Administration's first efforts in the Middle East, as evidenced by the Sinai agreement and the "cease- fire" across the Israel- Lebanon border, "augurs well for the future." Evron stressed that the agreement signed today was the "implementation of President Carter's com- mitment on this issue. We should all remember that the credibility of an Ameri- can commitment, on any is- sue, is essential to keeping the momentum of the Camp David accords." The Israeli envoy stressed that the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement "does not mean Israeli withdrawals only" but also "full normalization and friendly relations and cooperation between our countries and peoples." Meanwhile, only Fiji has announced that it is willing to send troops to t :rte ry.71- `" State Depart- ment spoke., Dean Fischer said that the U.5• expects to have the "components" of the MFO ready soon, but he said it will not announce individual acceptance by countries until the entire force is complete. The U.S. has agreed to al- locate $125 million for the fiscal_year beginning Oct. 1, to pay for the Sinai forces and the construction costs involved in creating the MFO by next March. Start- ing in the 1983 fiscal year, Israel, Egypt and the U.S. will each pay one-third of the costs of MFO or $35 mid lion annually. JWV Investigating the Sale of Philly Post to Missionaries NEW YORK (JTA) — Letters and telephone calls of protest against a decision of a Philadelphia Jewish War Veterans post to sell its building to a Christian mis- sionary group has prompted the national JWV head- quarters in Washington to start an investigation of the transaction. Harris Stone, JWV na- tional director, confirmed that he had received a letter from Paul Small, a member of the Lt. Milton Kelkey Post No. 575 in Northeast Philadelphia, reporting on the projected sale of the building to the Messiah Missions Assembly of God. Ed Ramov, head of the local Jewish Defense League, is publicly protest- ing the projected sale. He and several other JDL members have been picket- ing the Kelkey Post build- ing daily. Norman Saltzman, a past commander, who is not an official member Russians Smear A. Solzhenitsyn LONDON (JTA) — A Russian-language publish- ing house operating here is- sued a long two-volume book about Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn which depicts him as being of Jewish origin and a per, son of doubtful sexual mor- als. The book, "Vokrug Sol- zhenitsyna" ("About Sol- zhenitsyn"), is written and published by A. Flegon, head of the Flegon Press. Although ostensibly cater-` ing to anti-Soviet Russians in the West, the lurid attack on Solzhenitsyn, with its blend of pornography and anti-Jewish smears, resem- bles some of the latest, offi- cially inspired popular writ- ing in the Soviet Union. Long before Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, the Soviet authorities had sought to discredit him by anti-Jewish smears even though he has no Jewish ancestry. currently, has joined with several members in seeking an injunction to halt the planned sale. Confirming that the rea- son given for sale of the building is high mainte- nance costs, he asked whether it was wise to sell one place and buy another likely to have comparable s mainte- nance costs. Rabbi Gil Marks, associ- ate director of interreligious concerns at the Philadel- phia Jewish Community Relations Council, said the propsective purchaser is a "Hebrew-Christian" group involved in "unethical" methods of missionizing. Rev. Mark Alterman, spiritual leader of Messiah Missions Assembly of God, denied that charge and said his group was interested in saving all people, not just Jews. U.S. Files Nazi Case NEW YORK (JTA) — The U.S. government has charged in Federal District Court in Newark, N.J. that 65-year-old Juoza Kungys had falsified information in his visa and citizenship ap- plications to conceal his participation with German forces in the firing squad murders of 2,000 Jews near the village of Kedainiai around August 1941. The complaint against Kungys, a Clifton, N.J. de- ntist, also said that he had not revealed that around July 1941 he participated in the killing of approximately 100 unarmed civilians near Babences, Lithuania. Kungys vehemently de- nied the charges to report- ers last week, adding, "This is slander — it's the Rus- sians who are doing this." He said he knew of no mass slayings. A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. —Bill Vaughan