THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

24 Friday, August 21, 1981

Negev Air Bases
Are Not Delayed

CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Mili-
tary, Defense Ministry and
American construction offi-
cials have denied a report in
the Los Angeles Times that
delays in construction of
new Israeli air bases in the
Negev to replace those to be
evacuated in the Sinai
would endanger Israel's air
security and might cause
delays in the evacuation
from Sinai due to be com-
pleted by next April.
American base construc-
tion company officials said
there were no delays in es-
sential work, though there
was some delay in construc-
tion of housing for airmen
and their families. But they
could move into housing
used by the construction
workers.

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Sirhan's Parole
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LOS ANGELES — The
district attorney in Los
Angeles has asked the state
of California to reverse the
decision to parole Sirhan B.
Sirhan in 1984.
The killer of Sen. Robert
F. Kennedy, Sirhan has re-
portedly made threats
against Sen. Edward Ken-
nedy, a prison dentist, one of
his former lawyers and an
author.

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Interior Minister's Handling
of Prison Conditions Is Hit

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg is under fire for what
has been described as in-
tolerable conditions in Is-
rael's prisons. A prison serv-
ice investigating committee
released a report which said
that Burg was responsible
for these conditions and
recommended that the
prison services should be
removed from the Interior
Ministry.
It also suggested tearing
down several of the prison
buildings because they are
"unfit for human habita-
tion."
The committee, which
was appointed in January
1979 by Supreme Court
Justice Yoel Susman follow-
ing widespread criticism of
conditions in prisons, pre-
sented a gloomy picture of
the present situation. "The
conditions are so serious, so
inhumane that the prisons
are on the verge of explo-
sion," the committee's re-
port stated.
The report dealt
primarily with the over-
crowded living condi-
tions in 15 prisons, most
of them in Israel proper.
In the case of the prison
in Ramle, the report said
that 500 of the 650 in-
mates are held in "sub-
human, overcrowded liv-
ing conditions." Accord-
ing to former prison serv-
ices officials, inmates are
confined to cells which
average two to three
square meters, whereas
international standards
set a minimum of eight
square meters for each
prisoner.
The committee, which is
limited to making recom-

mendations, has submitted
a preliminary report to
Premier Menahem Begin. A
second and perhaps third
report are expected. In his
initial reaction, Burg said
he had not yet read the re-
port, but added that -the
committee was formed at
his request.
The committee, in its re-
port, said Burg had too
many areas of responsibil-
ity and therefore did not pay
the necessary attention to
the prisons. Burg, amor
other responsibilities, ha
served during the greater
part of his term as chairman
of the Israeli team involved
in the autonomy negotia-
tions with Egypt.
The committee also
stated that the merger be-
tween the Interior and
Police Ministries, which
was introduced for the first
time under the Likud gov-
ernment, did not result in
the expected improvements
in prison conditions.

Haim - Levy, former
prison service commis-
sioner, said the report
proved his long-standing
complaints about prison
conditions. He supported
the suggestion that the
responsibility for the
prisons be removed from
the Interior Ministry.

Mordecai Virshubsky, a
Shinui Knesset member,
submitted an urgent motion
to the Knesset agenda ask-
ing for a discussion on the
prisons. He, too, demanded
that Burg relinquish the re-
sponsibility for prison serv-
ices, noting that the Interior
Minister had proved that he
was unable to cope with his
many tasks.

Little Splinter Didn't
Want to Be Alone

By SARIT JACOBSON

(Editor's note: This ar-
ticle was written by Miss
Jacobson, 101/2, a resident
of northern Israeli bor-
der town of Metulla, dur-
ing a PLO artillery and
rocket attack on the
town. The story was writ-
ten during summer day-
camp activities at Metul-
la's Youth and Cultural
Center, which continued
to function during the in-
termittent shelling.)
One upon a time there was
a storehouse full of shells.
And in each shell there were
explosives. The shells were
all neatly arranged in a row.
One day, the third shell in
the row was placed in a can-
non. The shell received a
strong blow, and up it
quickly rose. When the shell
began to break up into splin-
ters of shrapnel, there was,
among all the others, a tiny
little splinter.
This splinter had one
wish: not to hurt children or
grown-ups. This the splinter
asked, and his wish was
granted.
The splinter fell near a
house.
A little boy brought the
splinter into his house, and

placed it in a tiny matchbox.
And, until this very day,
the splinter is there in the
box. Only, as time went by,
the splinter began to rust.

Arafat Interview
Botched by ABC

NEW YORK — The
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith last week made
public the "Issues and An-
swers" TV program's re-
sponse to a complaint about
its July 26 interview with
Yasir, Arafat.
The statement, which
blamed the shoddy produc-
tion on a "series of unfortu-
nate and unpredictable in-
cidents," was part of a lett(
from the ABC News pro
gram's producer, Peggy
Whedon, to an ADL con-
stituent who had charged
that the "amateur fumbl-
ings" of the interviewers
had turned the session into
"an overt propaganda ses-
sion for the PLO."
The ABC correspondents
originally assigned to the
program were unable to
reach Beirut and the substi-
tutes were not properly pre-
pared for the interview, ac-
cording to Ms. Whedon.

