THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10 Friday, August 20, 1982
Mitterrand Promises to Combat Terrorism
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among others."
Mitterrand said that
France's effort to help
evacuate the PLO forces
from Beirut to ensure a_
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in that city stemmed from a
desire to play an
evenhanded role in the
Mideast. He pointed out
that he supported the Camp
David peace accords be-
tween Israel and Egypt,
that he had opposed com-
mercial boycotts of Israel
and that he believed the
PLO had to give up its "ob-
session with destruction"
and formally recognize Is-
rael.
Recalling that he be-
came the first European
leader to address Israel's
Knesset last March, the
president said that he had
put all his "cards on the ta-
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ble" at that time. "My con- blamed the French press for
duct is that of a friend of Is- "creating the climate for
rael," he said, "but only as this attack" by constantly
far as I recognize it has to referring to the Israeli siege
intervene in the affairs of of West Beirut with
terms such as 'genocide,"
the Middle East."
and
Asserting that France "massacre"
would maintain its "holocaust."
In New York, a 15-
"presence and balance"
in the Mideast, Mitter- member delegation of
rand declared: "I shall Jewish leaders, repre-
not give it up under senting the Jewish Corn-
threats and obviously I munity Relations Council
intend to organize the of New York met with
country in such a way Deputy Consul General
that this terrorism (in of France Paul
France) is at least Guyomard to express
punished." "grief and outrage" over
Among measures de- last week's attack in
signed to mobilize a na- Paris,
tional effort against ter-
The delegation also de-
rorism, Mitterrand an- manded that the French
nounced the creation of post government increase its
of secretary of state for pub- protection of its Jewish citi-
lic security. He said that zees.
In Washington, a delega-
Commander Christian
Prouteau, head of the elite tion of the Conference of
Gendarmerie Intervention Presidents of Major Ameri-
Brigade, would coordinate can Jewish Organizations
the efforts to combat ter- told Acting French Ambas-
rorism. Joseph Franceschi, sador Claude Harel that the
a junior minister, will be the recent wave of anti-Semitic
secretary of state, coor- outbreaks in France was not
dinating the work of an internal French matter
France's numerous police but symptomatic of a
departments with intelli- "rapidly-spreading infec-
gence services. tion" that deeply concerns
One of the criticisms of Jews the world over.
France's anti-terrorist ef-
In reply, Harel expressed
forts in the past, as well as his government's "deep sor-
under the present socialist row" at recent events in
administration has been of France and promised to
the diversity of services in- transmit the Presidents
volved and the lack of coor- Conference message to
dination between the police, French Foreign Minister
the paramilitary gendar- Claude Cheysson. . He
merie and the intelligence added, however, that he was
service. -
doubtful the French gov-
Other measures Mitter- ernment would publicly
rand mentioned to combat condemn the PLO.
terrorism include the estab-
Meanwhile, French
lishment of a centralized
police
sources revealed
anti-terrorist data bank,
tighter frontier controls, a that one of the weapons
ban on the sale of certain which was used in the
weapons, and closer cooper- terrorist attack on Gol-
ation with other European denberg's restaurant has
been found.
police organizations.
The Polish-made "WZ-
Regarding Begin's
criticism of France as a 63" submachinegun was
center of anti- found in the Bois de
Semitism, Mitterrand Boulogne in western Paris.
said "it is not healthy, it is Fingerprints have been
not just to accuse France found on the weapon and
of having wanted to prac- French police are currently
tice in this business of checking with several west
anti-Semitism which re- European countries trying
pels me. With Mr. Begin to establish the identity of
and the others (involved the attackers.
A seventh attack against
in the Mideast conflict),
we would do better to
study in common how to Israeli Soldiers
arrive at peace."
Buried in Syria
Mitterrand also rejected a
suggestion by Begin that if Still Unidentified
French authorities cannot
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
defend its Jewish citizens, Israel Defense Force is try-
the Jewish youth of France ing to clear_up the mystery
might have to defend the of the identity of Israeli
Jewish people. "I know that soldiers buried by the
our brothers, Jews in Jewish community of
France, have confidence in Damascus last month,
the laws of their country whose names as reported by
without needing other pro- the Syrians to the •Interna-
tection."
tional Red Cross have pro-
Mitterrand's television ved to be those of soldiers
appearance was the second still living and serving with
since he took office 15 the Israel army in Lebanon.
months ago and the first in
An army spokesman said
response to a critical situa- that eight soldiers are re-
tion.
ported as still missing from
Alain de Rothschild, fighting on the eastern sec-
president of the representa- tor of the Lebanon front.
tive council of Jewish in- The men, officially assumed
stitutions in France, to be prisoners of the Sy-
charged that "French dip- rians, include six members
lomacy supporting the PLO of ground troops and two
is responsible" for the members of a Phantom jet
anti-Semitic attacks. He crew shot down on July 24.
Tradition is the joyful
memory of a people._
Paris' Jewish community
took place over the weekend
when an arson fire damaged
the Beth Rosh Pinah syna-
gogue. No one was injured
in the incident.
In a related development,
Shimon Peres, Israel's
Labor Party leader, said
after a meeting with Mit-
terrand that he did not be-
live France was a center of
rampant anti-Semitism.
"I myself believe that
there may be anti-
Semi.tes in France but
France herself is not
anti-Semitic, neither by
culture, neither by phi-
losophy, nor by tradi-
tion," Peres said after a
90-minute meeting with
the president.
Peres is in France in an
effort to relieve the strains
developing between Paris
and Jerusalem in the wake
of several terrorist attacks
against Israeli and Jewish-
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