THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Detroiter Helps Build Bases for Israeli Air Force in Negev By BERNARD MALMUD (Editor's note: Mala- mud is chief of the Tech- nical Branch, Detroit Dis- trict, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has just re- turned from four months temporary duty in Is- rael.) From what was once bar- Caricatures for your party By SAM FIELD Call 399-1320 ren wasteland in the Negev Desert, two complex air bases, comparable in size to small cities, are nearing completion. These are the highly-sophisticated bases that the U.S. agreed to con- struct as part of our com- mitment to the April 1979 Camp David peace treaty. • One base at Ramon is lo- cated just south of Beersheva. The other, called Ovda, is north _of Eilat. These are to replace the existing Israeli bases in the Sinai which Israel abandoned when it turned over that area to Egypt last Sunday. Facilities of this mag- nitude normally would take six to seven years to con- struct. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, using an innovative method called "fast-track" is getting the job done in three years. The Testament' Paperback Edition Due Next Month Friday, April 30, 1982 FACIAL HAIR PERMANENTLY REMOVED Eyebrows, Neckline, Arms Elie Wiesel's "The Tes- lack of motivation a Soviet Recommended by Physicians This takes botli Manpower tament" Will be published citizen surely must feel." and know-how. In addition as a paperback by Bantam FREE CONSULTATION Wiesel's novel, according to the corps, others involved in May. to the reviewer, "is an im- SHIRLEY PERSIN include the Israeli Air Registered Electrologist The novel was inspired by plicit call to action in behalf Force, the U.S. Air Force the ordeals of the unknown of the Russian Jew today, - ADVANCE BUILDING and U.S. and Israeli support poets and novelists who caught yet behind a barrier 23077 GREENFIELD. Room 260 Near gorthland & Providence Hospital and construction contrac- perished during the Stalin of silence in a labyrinth of PHONE 557-1108 tors. For the Ramon base, purge of 1952. The story is unpredictable and inex- Over 20 Years Experience the workforce _consisted in the form of a diary writ- plicable madness." 411=111 ■ 11 ■ 11.11111M1M. mainly of Portuguese and at ten by Paltiel Kossover, a Ovda, Thais. fictional Soviet poet await- SINCE 1959 The designs for the new ing execution. Call Now For bases were faken and Free Home Estimates The hardcover edition of RESIDENTIAL-COMMERCIAL upgraded from the two the book, published last existing sites in the Sinai summer, was reviewed in at Etam and Etzion. the Jewish News by Bette Naturally, since the plans Roth (Aug. 21, 1981, p. 22). were originally prepared That review stated: in Hebrew, they had to be "In 'The Testament,' translated to English. As Wiesel turns his attention part of the "fast-track" to yet another Jewish system, materials were tragedy, Stalin's sense- CUSTOM SHUTTERS CUSTOM WOVEN WOODS ordered and construc- less execution of Russia's Horizontal & Vertical tion started before the finest Jewish poets and by Joanna, Delmar, By Joanna, Mastercraft designs were complete. Graber novelists . . . "Kossover, a fictionalized Initially, Israel had limited capacity in doing character,. can be seen as a FREE INSTALLATION the job since they were composite of all of the Yid- loaded with work in Iran. dish artists who fell victim They asked that the U.S. to Stalin's rage . . . The contractors meet their per- reader feels the tedium and - VERTICAL BLINDS HORIZONTAL 1" blinds sonnel and material re- aluminum decorator quirements from non-Israel Maimonides' two most many decorator colors cloths & suedes, P.V.C. sources. When the Ayatol- famous works are "The by LEVOLOR macrame, wood lah Khomeini came to Guide for the Perplexed," a power in Iran, the late Shah philosophical work, and excluding previous orders and Israeli contractors were "Mishne Torah," a compila- HOUSE of 559-4668 persona-non-grata. Return- tion of the laws of the Tal- SHUTTERS 25511 SOUTHFIELD RD., SOUTHFIELD h ing home hungry for work, mud. the Israelis pressed for and received some of the con- struction and material pro- curement. The Ramon base is sited on a mountain range with much drilling and blasting required to clear and grade the area. Much care had to be taken since this was also a former artillery range. Shells, live and duds, were found during the construc- tion. The Ovda base is in the lower Negev Desert and lies in a large wadi. A flood con- trol channel was required to divert poetntial flash floods. Both sites are approx- imately 6,000 acres in area. Strict religious standards were main- tained in construction of the mess facilities. Two kitchens, one for meat and one for dairy, were built and turned over to the military. Living quarters for con- struction personnel at the bases consisted generally of 10-person trailers with pri- vate small bedrooms and bathrooms and a shared liv- ing room. Commissary, mess halls, barber shop, medical facilities, in addi- tion to a recreation hall, The Highland Scots, so the story goes, have laid claim to baseball diamond, tennis being descendents ofthe Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Whether they courts and a swimming pool really are or not, we'll never know But one thing we do know for allowed for all the comforts sure is that the first Jews of modem times came to Scotland in the of home. In addition to the base 1600's, found it much to their liking, and settled there. quarters, we also converted OnCe established, the settlers undoubtedly discovered the Palace Hotel in Tel Aviv one of Scotland's most fartious pleasures, 1&B Rare Scotch. to serve as both living and office space for government Carefully blended from a selection of the finest scotches, and contractor personnel. J&B has such a smoothness and subtlety that it can truly be The construction said to whisper. No wonder it's become the favorite scotch schedule made the bases here in America. Serve J&B to your-tribe, clan or-mish- "operational" by Sunday. Our objective was to phase pocha. One delightful sip will see the start of a tradition construction so as not to that will never be lost. have one Israeli fighter plane out of service for even one hour during the move to 86.Proof Blended Scotch Whisky. . 1982 The Paddington Corp . NY the new bases. 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