Moshe Dayan, Israel Soldier-Statesman, Dead at 66
By HUGH ORGEL and GIL SEDAN
NAHALAL (JTA) — Moshe Dayan, the statesman, soldier and symbol of
the young generation of Israel fighting for its survival, was buried Sunday in
the village cemetery overlooking Nahalal, his home town which he had
chosen as his last resting place.
The funeral was an official state service, conducted by the army burial
unit. But in keeping with Dayan's wish, made known to his wife Rachel
shortly before his death last Friday, there were no speeches and no volleys
fired in his honor at graveside. _
It was a simple ceremony, attended by thousands of friends,
former comrades in arms and colleagues, fellow Knesset members,
guests from abroad, official 'representatives of foreign governinents
and ordinary Israelis who admired him.
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MOSHE DAYAN
Kreisky Message
Courting
Atonement
for Nourishing PLO,
as a Warning to
Ex-Presidents
Commentary, Page 2
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Dayan died Friday evening, at the age of 66. He had been admitted to the
intensive care unit of the cardiac department of Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel
Aviv Thursday night, suffering from chest pains. Doctors reported his condi-
tion to be "stable" at noon Friday, but his wife, and daughter Yael were
summoned to his bedside in the late afternoon.
Dayan had undergone a routine check up last month, the latest in the
series of tests carried out since he underwent surgery for cancer three years
ago. He was found to be in satisfactory condition.
After a brief religious service at the hospital, Dayan's body was flown by
army helicopter to Nahalal, the Emek village his parents had helped to found
and which had been his home from the age of six. Dayan was born in Kibutz
Degania, the first kibutz to be established in 1909. His family moved to
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October 23, 1981
Byrd's Vote Pushes AWACS
Sale Opponents Near Victory
Israel Links Bombing
to PLO Recognition
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is mounting an interna-
tional campaign to shatter what it perceives to be the in-
creasingly positive image of Yasir Arafat and the Palestine
Liberation Organization in Western Europe and
elsewhere. Israel political circles let it be known that they
regard Tuesday's bombing of a synagogue in Antwerp in
which two persons were killed and 100 injured as the result
of international tolerance of the PLO.
Political circles said there was a direct link between
the PLO's strengthened ties with Moscow and the escala-
tion of terrorist activities. It was announced Tuesday that
the Soviet Union has granted full diplomatic status to the
PLO office in Moscow.
Israel regards this latest move as part of an overall
policy to encourage the extremist elements in the Middle
East, particularly the rejectionist front, and to create an
atmosphere of unrest and instability in the region. The
Israelis also charge the Soviets with fomenting unrest in
Africa and increasing arms supplies to Libya for that pur-
pose.
Meanwhile, Israeli diplomatic missions in Europe
have been instructed to alert their host governments
to the new wave of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel ter-
rorism, as manifested by the Antwerp synagogue
bombing. Israel is also preparing a detailed document
on the dimensions of Soviet assistance to the PLO
which will be circulated to Western European gover-
ments.
The synagogue bombing in Antwerp was the latest such
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd ( D-W.Va.),
accusing the Reagan Administration of failing to develop "a clearly defined or
workable policy" for the Middle East, announced Wednesday he would vote
against the sale of AWACS reconnaissance planes and other military equip-
ment to Saudi Arabia.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Byrd rejected the Administration's argu-
ment that the weapons sale was needed as part of the Administration's strategic
consensus policy opposing the threat to the region from the Soviet Union or its
surrogates. While acknowledging that there is a direct and indirect threat to the
region from the USSR, Byrd declared, "The central issue for American policy in
the Middle East is the Arab-Israel dispute, and not the Soviet threat."
Byrd rejected the view that the U.S. would be damaged in the Arab
world if Congress vetoes the arms sale. "The United States is damaged in
the Arab world only because of continued irresolution of the Palestinian
problem and the perceived lack of commitment on our part to address
this issue," he said.
Byrd's announcement could seriously wreck President Reagan's efforts to
SENATOR BYRD
win support for the sale in the Senate where a slim majority now opposes it. The
House voted by a 3 to 1 margin last week to reject the sale and the Senate is due to vote next week, probably
Wednesday. The President had been hopeful Byrd would support the arms package and the Minority
Leader acknowledged Wednesday that he had swung back and forth before making the decision.
After Byrd spoke, Senate Deputy Minority Leader Alan Cranston ( D-Calif.), a leader of the anti-sale
forces, called Byrd's announcement a "turning point." He said many undecided Senators may now an-
nounce their opposition to the sale.
But Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) said that while he agreed with Byrd's position, the Administration could
still get the sale approved if it obtained an agreement on joint U.S.-Saudi crewing of the planes. Glenn
urged Reagan, who left Wednesday morning for the north-south economic summit in Cancun, Mexico, to
speak to Crown Prince Fand of Saudi Arabia and convince him to agree to the joint crewing.
Meanwhile, the President failed to win any converts on Tuesday in talks at the White House
with six Senators. Three of the Senators — Alan Dixon (D-Ill.), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and
Roger Jepsen (R-Iowa) — said they still intend to vote against the AWACS sale after seeing the
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Jewish Chemist, Ladino-Speaking Author Win 1981 Nobel Prizes
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Roald Hoffmann, a professor of physical sciences at
Cornell University, will share the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry-with Kenichi Fukui of
Japan for theories developed independently on the course of
chemical reactions.
Elias Canetti, a Bulgarian-born Sephardic Jew, has been
awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 76-year-old
Ladino-speaking author who has lived at various times in
Switzerland, Austria, Germany and France before settling in
England in 1939 has produced seven books, only one a novel.
Hoffmann, a naturalized citizen who is Jewish, was
born in Zloczow, Poland in 1937 and emigrated to the
United States in 1949. His research aimed at theoreti-
cally anticipating the feasibility of chemical reactions
have been applied in many fields, including the de-
velopment of special plastics and other materials. He is
best known for his work in the 1960s at Harvard Univer-
sity with the late Prof. Robert Burns Woodward, winner
of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961.
ROALD HOFFMAN
Catietti has received high acclaim from literary critics
despite the sparsity of his output and the obscurity of his work
among the general public. Interestingly, he has a chemistry background, having earned
his PhD in chemistry in Austria in 1929. Only a few years later he fled Austria during the
rise of Nazism.
Canetti has been likened to James Joyce. Henry
James, Bertold Brecht and Franz Kafka. As an essayist and
philosopher, the area of most of his writings, he has been
compared to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Oswald
Spengler.
Canetti's first and only novel, "Die Blendung" ( The
Blinding), was published in Germany in 1935 and appeared
in English translation much later as "Auto-Da-Fe" ( the
Spanish.lnquisition ritual burning). English translations
of his other books have been available in the United States
only since 1978, published by Continuum Books, a small
firm specializing in intellectual writings. Only a few
thousand copies have been sold.
Canetti has been described by prominent British and
American novelists and essayists as "a solitary man of
genius" whose work reflects a life "rich in displacements"
and the theme of death and the Nazi regime he fled.
ELIAS CANETTI