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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 11, 1981 17

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Shalom; to him that is far off
and to him that is near."
Begin noted that "our
generation" has lived
through two world wars and
that since the end of World
War II there have been 56
"s-called local wars." This
means that "blood-letting
and enslavement are going
on. Country after country is
being taken over by to-
talitarianism," Begin said.
He said this means that
all free and democratic
countries should stand to-
gether.

Begin also noted that
Israel made peace with
Egypt, signing their
treaty on the same lawn
where Wednesday's wel-
coming ceremonies were
held. "But we strive to
sign peace treaties and
make peace forever on all
our borders with all our
neighbors," he said, add-
ing, "and with God's help,
this noble aim will be
achieved too." He
praised Reagan as "not
only the President of the
United States but also the
defender of freedom
throughout the world."

The two leaders agreed to
strengthen U.S.-Israeli ties,
which may take the form of
storage of U.S. military
supplies in Israel and the
use of Israeli facilities to re-
pair U.S. equipment. U.S.
officials denied that Israel
would be given access to
U.S. spy satellites or that
the U.S. would establish
bases in Israel.
The President and Mrs.
Reagan hosted a dinner
Wednesday night in honor
of the visiting Israeli Pre-
mier. The two leaders met
again early Thursday morn-
ing.
Begin actually arrived in
Washington on Tuesday
and went immediately to
Blitir House where he spent
the day without any
scheduled visits. The
Jewish Community Council
of Greater Washington held
a demonstration outside
Blair House to welcome the
Israeli Premier.
After meeting with Re-
agan Wednesday morning,
Begin went to the State De-
partment for a working
lunch with Secretary of
State Alexander Haig.
Later he had separate meet-
ings with Treasury Secre-
tary Donald Regan and Sec-
retary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger.

After his meeting with
Reagan Thursday, Begin
met with Vice. President
George Bush, had lunch
with the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee,
met with the House
Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee and separately with
members of.the Senate at
Blair House.
Begin also held a press
-conference Thursday morn-
ing and was guest of honor

at a dinner given by Israeli
Ambassador Ephraim
Evron at the National Por-
trait Gallery that night.
On - Friday morning,
Begin was scheduled to
have a breakfast meeting
with Haig at Blair House

and then meet with Sen. interest" and "although
Henry Jackson (D-Wash.); difficult for Israel to ac-
Rev. Jerry Falwell and cept, we feel it meets their
other members of the Moral interests as well."
Majority; and Lane Kirk- Haig made his remarks in
land, president of the the course of an exclusive
interview with the New
AFL-CIO.
Begin leaves for New York Times, published at
York Friday afternoon the time of Begin's arrival
where he will'remain until in New York with a large
he goes back to Israel on entourage of aides, includ-
Tuesday. He is scheduled to ing Foreign Minister Yit-
appear on ABC-TV's "Meet zhak Shamir, Defense
the Press" program on Sun- Minister Ariel Sharon, and
day. - his chief autonomy
negotiator, Interior Minis-
Before arriving in
ter Yosef Burg.
Washington, Begin stop-
In reply to questions,
ped over for a day in New
York City where he met Haig stressed that the U.S.
with representatives of continues to pursue a
the Conference of "strategic consensus" in the'
Middle East and that it rec-
Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organ- - ognized "there have been
some
fundamental changes
izations in his suite at the
Waldorf Towers: During since Camp David in the
whole
Middle East
the 90-minute meeting,
Begin reportedly told the environment -and situa-
Jewish leaders that Is- tion."
He said, "One of those
rael is deeply concerned
over the Reagan Ad- changes is now an interrela-
ministration's proposal tionship which has de-
to sell AWACS radar veloped between the situa-
tion in Lebanon and the
planes to Saudi Arabia.
peace process, which while
He also reportedly said
on totally separate tracks,
that he will present Reagan
are increasingly interre-
with the Israeli view that
lated, and a failure or a col-
the AWACS aircraft in the
lapse of one can have a seri-
hands of the Saudis is a
ous impact on the other;
danger to Israel's security.
whereas progress in one
Among the leaders who
contributes to an atmos-
took part in the meeting
phere of progress in the
were Howard Squadron,
other."
chairman of the Presidents
Haig said that the
Conference; Yehuda strategic consensus in
Hellman, the Conference's
the Middle East, "still in
executive director; and
embryo but nonetheless
Rabbi Alexander Schindler,
existent," was saved from
president of the Union of "collapse" by the efforts
American Hebrew Congre-
of U.S. special envoy
gations.
Philip Habib to resolve
Secretary of State Haig the Syrian missile crisis.
said discussion of the pro-
"That involved harnes-
posed U.S. sale of AWACS sing leadership and sup-
"will come on probably
port from the Arab
early in the meeting" be-
League, and with consid-
tween Reagan and Begin
erable help from Saudi
"and will be disposed of Arabia not only in lead-
rapidly."
ership and diplomacy but

He said he thought "the
President will under-
stand Israel's natural
concerns about any
enhancement of Arab
capabilities, especially in
a neighboring Arab
state" but that the
AWACS sale "is in
America's c strategic

and that should not be done
until we have a little more
information from both par-
ties," Haig said. He added,
"One of the outcomes of the
Begin visit, we hope, is for a
sharpening of our thinking
on that subject."

which involved Palesti-
nians, the PLO and the Is-
raeli forces." Nevertheless
the consensus "managed to
sustain itself in a very
shaky way by some very
skillful work by Phil
(Habib) to produce a cessa-
tion of hostilities," Haig
said.
Haig said the nature and
extent of U.S. participation
in the autonomy talks
which Israel and Egypt
have agreed to resume Sept.
23 on the ministerial level
has not yet been decided.
"There is still some un-
certainty about this meet-
ing in terms of location. We
will participate, in any
event, at whatever appro-
priate level we decide upon,

Haig said there were .
two aspects to the Begin
visit. "We would want to
discuss the peace process
under the Camp David
framework and specifi-
cally the autonomy talks
. And the second part,
clearly, will be on the
Lebanon process, which
is far more complex be-
cause of the multiplicity
of interest in parties in-
volved:"

Haig said that "another

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final point" on the agenda of
the Begin meeting is "a dis-
cussion of the bilateral rela-
tionships in the sense of the
period ahead in a changing
situation — strategic con-
cerns — and whether or not
we are going to reaffirm.
"There's been a lot of
rhetoric in the past and I
think both sides are in-
terested in putting some
meat on the bone for that
rhetoric with respect to our
bilateral strategic relation-
ship," Haig said.
He said, in reply to ques-
tions that he was not talk-
ing about a defense treaty
with Israel but "about prac-
tical cooperation ... that will
contribute to regional secu-
rity."

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Haig added that "the
whole process was severely
jolted" when Israel bombed
Iraq's nuclear reactor in
June and by "the sub-
sequent increased violence
along the border of Israel

JDL Denies Factions Exist

NEW YO1?K (JTA) —
The director of the Jewish
Defense League denied
there are any militant fac-
tions in the JDL, after an
anonymous group, calling
itself "Thunder of Zion,"
and claiming to be "a milit-
ant faction" of the JDL,
claimed responsibility for
two firebomb incidents in
Manhattan•Sunday.
Arno Weinstein, the JDL
director, said there .are no
"factions" in the JDL. But,
he added, in the routine
JDL reaction to such re-

ports, that the JDL
"applauded" the actions of

the group in the hope they
would focus attention on
Soviet suppression of Jews.
Seven firebombs, includ-
ing one that detonated,
were placed in the area of
the Soviet Mission to the
United Nations, leading
police officials to increase

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security precautions in the
area on Manhattan's upper
East Side.

In the other incident,
police reported that a
small bomb exploded at
1:40 a.m. at the Four Con-
tinent Book Store on
lower Fifth Avenue, caus-
ing minor damage to the
front window of the
bookstore which sells
books published in the
Soviet Union.

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A caller told news agen-
cies that "Thunder of Zion"
claimed responsibility. The
caller said the group was
demanding the release of
Soviet Jewish dissident
Anatoly Shcharansky and
"all Soviet Jews."
Like the JDL, local law
enforcement officials - said '
they had never heard of the
group which called itself the
"Thunder of Zion" wing of
the JDL.

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