THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 9, 1982 33 Caller Blames JDL for Fire at an Arab Restaurant in NY NEW YORK (JTA) — Representatives of the Brooklyn Jewish commu- nity reacted with "grief and outrage" to the suspicious three-alarm blaze in the Brooklyn Heights section early Monday morning that killed a 75-year-old woman and injured several other persons. An anonymous telephone caller claiming to speak for the Jewish Defense League told local news media that the JDL was responsible for the fire. The caller claimed the JDL "discovered" that the building housed the "secret headquarters" of the Palestine Liberation Begin Sees Parallel in Falklands > JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin used the escalating crisis between Britain and Argen- tina over the Falkland Is- lands to admonish the British government "not to demand" that -Israel sur- render territory it occupies. The Falkland Islands con- flict was discussed during Sunday's Cabinet session where the ministers took note that Britain was ready to fight over a crown colony 8,000 miles from its shores. "This being so," said Be- gin, "we have the right to expect our friends, in England and elsewhere, will better understand, and will not demand of us further that we surrender to tary in protest against the foreign rule parts of our government's heavy de- homeland that are located fense cuts. less than one mile from our Carrington's resignation, capital city, and but a few which comes less than a miles from most of our popu- week after his two-day visit lation centers." to Israel, calls into question British Foreign Secre- British foreign policy of the tary Lord Carrington and past three years, including two of his junior minis- Britain's aspirations to ters resigned from the influence events in the British government Middle East through the Monday in a dramatic European Economic Com- munity. acceptance of responsi- bility for mishandling the There was no official Falkland Islands crisis. reaction in Israel to the res- The new Foreign Secre- ignation. However, few Is- tary will be Francis Pym, raelis expressed regret over leader of the House of Carrington's fall, as he was Commons, who last year never regarded as a friend of resigned as Defense Secre- Israel. His last major political mission was his visit to Israel, last week, during which both he and the Is- raeli officials he met with rigation pipes, grade agreed that they had little building sites and complete to agree on reagrding the the other tasks entailed in Middle East situation. Nevertheless, Car- creating the infrastructure rington's visit was de- for settlement. scribed as a new leaf in the To implement the cam- relatively cool relations be- paign for funds, the JNF is tween Britain and Israel. A conducting a direct-mail tentative dialogue had appeal that underscores the begun and Israeli officials ever-increasing needs said Monday, barely hiding brought about by the with- their grins, that it was too drawal from Sinai. bad he had to resign now. Sinai Evacuation Prompts JNF Fund-Raising Effort Jewish National Fund 2 NEW YORK — The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is launching a major spring campaign to raise urgently required funds to prepare the sites needed for resettlement of northern Sinai settlers now moving to the Negev. The JNF has been hard- pressed to finance the prep- aration of the land for the new homesites for the 350 families moving from ag- ricultural settlements in Sinai to new farming com- munities in the western Negev's Pitchat Shalom- Peace Salient area, accord- ing to Dr. Samuel Cohen, executive vice president. Dr. Cohen reported that JNF crews in Israel have been working to move mil- lions of cubic feet of sand, level terrain, bring in ir- Franklin Shopping Plaza 29145 Northwestern Hwy. (Corner of 12 Mile) 356-2310 Organization. Another cal- ler later told local news media he was a representa- tive of the "Lahame Herut Israel," or Freedom Fight- ers for Israel and claimed they were responsible. The blaze started on the ground floor of the building at 160 Atlantic Avenue at Clinton Street in the Tripoli restaurant, an Arab-owned establishment. It spread through the five-story structure, killing the victim on the fourth floor. The FBI terrorist task force is inves- tigating the fire. The statement issued by Brooklyn Jewish representatives said: "Jews of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Park Slope have long cherished the peaceful co-existence of the Arab Jewish communities in this neighborhood . . . We have lived in a spirit of peace and mutual re- spect, which we hope will continue." At the same time, the Jewish Community Rela- tions Council of New York said in a statement that they were "appalled" by the "apparent act of arson" at the restaurant, adding that "our society has no place for terrorism of any kind." They called for the swift prosecution to the full ex- tend of the law the indi- viduals or groups responsi- ble for the act. The JDL has denied em- phatically that it was re- sponsible for the fire. In a telephone interview with the JTA yesterday, JDL na- tional chairman Meir Jolovitz said the fire "was not a JDL action" nor was it "sanctioned by the JDL." He said he knew nothing of the claim that the restaurant was a front for the head- quarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization. •• ■ ••••,_ • • • . ...0. /011NERSET 11). DINER THEA TRE " ."• • • detroit's Original dinner theatre • • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Altrzdo Jimmy Launce PROductions, Inc. • • • • • • • • How ibe Other Half Loves • • Comedy-Farce by Alan Ayckbourn • • • Performances: Wed. Mat. noon - Group Rates & • • Performances Available & Sat. Cocktails 7pm & Dinner 7:30 pm Show 8:45 pm • • • • Fri. 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