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Rights Unit
Forced Out
MOSCOW—The Moscow
Helsinki group, formed to
monitor Soviet compliance
with the Helsinki human-
rights agreements of 1975,
claims it was forced to end
its activities last week,
when one of the panel's
three free members was in-
dicted for slandering the
government.
Sofia Kallistratova, a
lawyer, was told by Soviet
authorities that she would
be tried under an article of
the Soviet criminal code
dealing with slander
against the Soviet Union. It
provides for a prison term of
up to three years.
A statement by Yelana
Bonner and Prof. Naum
Meiman, the two members
still at liberty, claimed the
rights group could not "ful-
fill its duties" and would be
"forced, under pressure of
the authorities, to end its
work." Mrs. Bonner is the
wife of Nobel Peace Prize
winner Andrei Sakharov.
Nun Defends Begin, Israel's Role
By SISTER MARGARET
ELLEN TRAXLER
(Editor's note: Sr. Mar-
garet is director of the In-
stitute of Women Today
and founder of the Na-
tional Coalition of
American Nuns in
Chicago. This article is
excerpted from the Sept.
20 Chicago Tribune.)
It is presently fashionable
to forget that Menahem
Begin returned the Sinai
Peninsula — with an area
three times larger than
pre-1967 Israel — to Egypt
less than five months ago.
Why did he do such a thing?
For peace.
In post-World War II his-
tory, no other nation has
made such a concrete ges-
ture for peace. The Soviets
still hold parts of Japan, the
United States occupies
Pacific Islands wrested from
the Japanese. Much of
Germany is now Poland,
and Northern Ireland is as
yet still British. No other
leader in memory has vol-
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untarily returned land —
when not at the point of a
gun — to a previously hos-
tile neighbor, and where
war and a bloodshed once
reigned there is now peace.
Yet Menahem Begin is
considered a warmonger
The suffering of the
Palestinian and
Lebanese civilians in the
conflict was indeed hor-
rible and reprehensible.
The media have amply
brought home the fun-
damental fact of war into
our houses every night —
people do die during war-
time. But the media never
did adequately cover the
bloodshed of the last six
years in Lebanon — more
than 100,000 killed by
most estimates — and this
double standard is their
hyprocrisy and shame.
Before the Israeli inva-
sion (and no matter what
the semanticists call it, it
was an invasion), the
Lebanese had no hope. They
were destined to an unend-
ing horror of fratricide and
civil war. The Syrians occu-
pied half the country
through "invitation" and
armor, primarily the latter.
The Palestinians, origi-
nally granted refuge from
the rest of the Arab world by
the benevolence of the
Lebanese people, repaid
that charity by plunging the
nation into civil war, killing
untold tens of thousands of
innocent Christians and
Moslems in the process,
mocking Lebanese sover-
eignty by creating a state
within a state — all to at-
tack civilian Israelis. Yet
the PLO is considered a
humanitarian organiza-
tion.
And Menahem Begin is a
warmonger.
The media have also
failed adequately to report
the ongoing terrorist out-
rages perpetrated by the
PLO against innocent Is-
raeli civilians during the
last 12 years.
Does anyone re-
member Kiryat Shmona,
1974? PLO terrorists
based in southern Leba-
non burst into an elemen-
tary school in that town
and murdered more than
20 Israeli schoolchildren.
And then there was the
attack on a civilian bus on
the coastal road in 1978,
where a dozen stalwart PLO
fighters machine gunned
and grenaded that bus, kil-
ling 35 innocent people.
The baby-killer Arafat is
now a humanitarian and a
hero.
And Menahem Begin is a
warmonger.
Now there is the peace
plan proposed by President
Reagan. What does it ask of
the Arabs? Nothing. What
does it ask of Israel? That it
withdraws to terribly inse-
cure borders — at one point
leaving the country less
than 15 miles wide — in ex-
change for assurances from
tyrants who have amply
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proven they cannot be
trusted. The United States
has told Israel that it will
assure its security. But do
you want to send American
troops if such a responsibil-
ity must be honored?
We also made assur-
ances to the Shah of Iran.
He died a hounded exile.
We made assurances to
the South Vietnamese.
Now there is no South
Vietnam. We made as-
surances to Taiwan.'Now
we are very quietly cast-
ing that country adrift in
favor of improved rela-
tions with Mainland
China.
Unfortunately, our as-
surances do not mean much
anymore, and Prime Minis-
ter Begin does not want to
risk the very existence of his
nation upon them. So
Menahem Begin is a war-
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monger.
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