THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14 Friday, February 26, - 1982 OfiEH , Morris Buick IS THE GUY IS THE BUY OPEN MON. & THURS. 'Ill 9 P.M. WHERE EVERY DAY IS SALE DAY 342-7100 . WASHINGTON (JTA) — Moshe Arens, making his first public address as Is- rael's ambassador to the United States, stressed Wednesday that one of his tasks in Washington is to convince the U.S. not to sell sophisticated weaponry to the Arab countries. Israel, like the U.S., wants the Arab countries to "be inclined towards the West and not toward the East," The envoy told some 800 persons attending the closing day of the interna- tional biennial convention of Bnai Brith Women (BBW), "The best way of ob- taining that objective is not by selling them more sophisticated arms." Although Arens did not deal with specifics, the women at the convention who came from throughout the United States, Canada, Israel and Ireland, adopted a resolution expressing to the Reagan Administration and to Congress the organ- ization's "profound concern with the Administration's ATTENTION ALL JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS • WOMEN'S LEAGUES • MEN'S CLUBS • JCC GROUPS • YOUTH GROUPS • SYNAGOGUE GROUPS 11E JEWISH THE JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE is offering DEFENSE FREE Gun Training & Weapon Familiarization Classes LEAGUE -NEVER AGAIN- 357-5449 Call Now For Reservations Certified & Licensed Teachers Available THE DI2E66 SKI T &ALE Reg. $22.50 & $25. $ 15 99 2 for $30. NECKWEAR Reg. to $18.50 $ 0 99 2 for $20. • :i" IMO Moshe Arens Says He'll Try to Convince U.S. to Halt Sale of Top Arms to Arabs See "THE LEADER" Today W 7 Mile At Lodge X-Way 1 - AIAL 3 Days Only Fri., Sat., Sun. 3 Days Only Fri., Sat., Sun. 4 Orchard Mall. Orchard Lake Rd. at Maple Rd. 851-9444 • Middle East policy of selling arms." The resolution which delegates presented to their Senators while visit- ing them on Capitol Hill Tuesday, noted that the Administration sold AWACS to gaudi Arabia and now some adminis- tration officials "propose to sell Hawks to Jordan, which has never recog- nized Israel nor the Camp David peace process and which is negotiating with the Soviet Union." The resolution added, "The deeds of the Adminis- tration seem not to match its words that promise to maintain the military edge of Israel in the Middle East, both in terms of quality and quantity of arms." The BBW resolution stressed that the organization be- lieves "the interests of the United States require maintaining a strong and secure Israel." In his speech Wednesday, Arens also stressed that the situation in Lebanon is "not a struggle between left and right" as has been depicted in the U.S., but a "latent and brutal attempt by Syria and the PLO to take over what once was an indepen- dent country." He said the reason they have only been 70 percent successful is due to Israel's help for indigenous forces and because Israel has been a deterrent to both the Palestine Liberation Organization and Syria. Arens maintained that the U.S. and Israel objec- tives and interests are the same. He listed them as the prevention of Soviet penetration into the Mideast, peace or at least stability in the area, con- tinuation of the oil flow to the industrialized na- tions and a strong Israel. But he noted that this "doesn't always mean you agree on-how you obtain ob- jectives" since the two coun- tries have different percep- tions. "I will do my level best to close the gap be- tween the perceptions." But he stressed that wh . "we have had many ups downs" in the U.S.-Isra relationship since the estab- lishment of the Jewish state, "on the whole the re- lationship is getting stead- ily better." Meanwhile, President Reagan said that the U.S. was trying to end the arms race in the Middle East by continuing from where "Camp David left off and bring about a peace in the Middle East." U.S.. policy is "to try to persuade, particuarly the more moderate Arab states, to join in the peacekeeping process with Israel," the President said in re- sponse to questions at a nationally televised press conference in the East Room of the White House. Reagan maintained that if this peace was achieved, then the only weapons that would be needed by the Middle Eastern countries would be to meet an "exter- nal threat" from countries such as the Soviet Union. In Bal Harbour, Fla., cal- ling Israel "America's reli- able friend and ally in the Mideast," U.S. labor leaders expressed opposition to the sale of advanced mobile missiles and F-16 fighter jets to Jordan. In a related development, Sen. Alfonse D. Amato (R- N.Y.) sharply criticized the Defense Department for "ill-timed and ill-advised" suggestions calling for the sale of F-16 jet fighters and mobile Hawk missiles to Jordan. D'Amato addressed more than 1,200 people at the 74th annual awards dinner of Bnai Zion Sun- day night where Char- lotte Jacobson, chairman of the World Zionist Organization - American Section and president of the Jewish National Fund, received the 1982 Dr. Harris Levine Memo- rial Award "for outstand- ing public service." D'Amato spoke as a last-minute substitute for Sen. Bob Packwood (R. Ore.), who had bec scheduled to receive Brik... Zion's 1982 America-Israel Friendship Award, but could not attend because of illness. D'Amato accepted the gold medal on behalf of his colleague. In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfor- tune there are 50 advan- tages.