14 Friday, October* 29, 1982 -
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
El Al Employees Close Airport
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Ben-Gurion International
Airport was officially closed
down Wednesday when
thousands of El Al em-
ployees, together with their
wives and children, milled
about on the runways and
parked aircraft, fuel tan-
kers and mobile stairways
on the landing strips as
police stood by helpless.
Economic Minister
Meridor termed the
workers action as "pure
sabotage" and he blamed
the pilots committee,
which failed to sign the El -
Al management's
memorandum of princi-
ples, for the deterioration
of the situation.
But Histadrut Secretary
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE
VOTERS OF OAKLAND COUNTY
We unequivocally endorse our colleague, the Honora-
ble Fred M. Mester, as judge of the Oakland County Circuit
Court. He is doing an- outstanding job as judge. He is by far
the best qualified candiate. Judge Mester received the
highest rating of the -Oakland County Citizens League and
Civic Searchlight, Preferred and Well-Qualified.
Judge Mester's -experience as a trial judge, trial lawyer
admitted to the Bar in 1967, Assistant U.S. District Attorney
and Court Administrator of Oakland County eminently qual-
ify him as a judge. A family man of unimpeachable integrity,
Judge Mester has already demonstrated wisdom, vitality,
professionalism in legal analysis and judicial temperament
in the position of Oakland County Circuit Judge.
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General Yeruham Meshel wings.
According to some re-
said that while he disagreed
with the actions taken by ports, hydraulic fluid
the El Al employees, he said was bled from aircraft.
their extreme disorder was
The situation on the air-
due to the fact that they had field closed down the last
been "pushed into a corner" remaining section of El Al
by the government whose still flying, the export of ag-
spokesthen have issued con- ricultural produce to
tradictory statements about Europe aboard freight air-
the future of the national craft.
airline and the fate of its
Farmers estimated their
employees.
losses in millions of dollars.
Late Wednesday, the
Scores of El Al employees
Pilots' Association agreed to stormed the company's
allow Histadrut to headquarters at Ben-
negotiate for them. In ex- Gurion Airport on Tuesday,
change for that agreement, accusing the airline's man-
the government announced agement and the govern-
that it would negotiate with ment of refusing to
the El Al employees in an negotiate with them in good
effort to re-open the bank- faith on the future of the air-
rupt airline.
line. Barricades of burning
Cleanup operations were tires blocked roads ap-
extensive. Tires of the sev- proaching the airport,
eral 747 and 707 aircraft creating traffic chaos. '
parked on he runways by
The fate of the
the workers had been flat- grounded carrier will be
tened. Flights into Ben- decided within: the next
Gurion Airport had to be di- few weeks. The Cabinet
verted to a smaller field decided on Sunday to put
near Jerusalem or to Eilat, the airline into voluntary
• liquidation unless its em-
or were cancelled.
The scene at at the airport ployees agree to far-
was of general chaos. At one reaching changes in
point the whole vast area labor-management rela-
resembled a state fair or an tions. A'three-week dead-
air display, with El Al line was set.
workers, accompanied by
The El Al board of direc-
their wives and children, tors has scheduled a share-
some of them in baby car- holders meeting for Nov. 17
riages, strolling along the to take the final step toward
runways, dodging careen- voluntary liquidatiori, but
ing fire trucks, fuel tankers, that would only be a formal-
tractors and staircases.
ity inasmuch as the gov-
The emergency chutes ernment holds 98 percent of
were dropped out of the air- El Al shares. The balance
craft doors and inflated, are held by Histadrut and
allowing the children to by Zim, the national ship-
slide down them as their ping company which is itself
fathers sat on the aircraft government-owned.
FREDERICK C. ZIEM,
Circuit Judge
FRANCIS X. O'BRIEN,
Circuit Judge
JAMES S. THORBURN,
HILDA R. GAGE,
ROBERT L. TEMPLIN,
GENE SCHNELZ,
RICHARD D. KUHN,
GEORGE LaPLATA,
JOHN N. O'BRIEN,
ROBERT C. ANDERSON,
STEVEN N. ANDREWS,
DAVID F. BRECK,
Circuit Judge
, Circuit Judge
Circuit Judge
Circuit Judge
Circuit Judge
ALICE L. GILBERT,
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Circuit Judge
Circuit-Judge
Circuit Judge
Circuit Judge
Circuit Judge
Circuit Judge
Paid for by the Committee to Retain' Circuit Judge Fred M. Mester
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Next Tuesdayis Election Day and we hope you will vote
to Retain Judge Fred M. Mester as your Circuit Judge.
Sincerely,
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President Mobutu of Zaire became the first leader
of an African nation to re-establish ties with Israel
since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Mobutu, who was
trained as a parachutist in Israel, said completion of
the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty necessitated his ac-
tion.
Don't Hesitate
By CHARLES LUKACS
Don't hestitate to speak
nor should you fail
to write, or be afraid to stand
up! and be identified
for who you are
or what you believe is right.
Don't keep quiet, to be on "safe side"
when you see. evil prevail.
Don't try, like Jonah, to hide
and flee to a distant isle
and think you can escape
the storm's dark waves
and still end up _
in the belly of the whale.
. . . the guilt of your silence
will bear down on your head,
like the sin for compliance
of the woman corrupted,
for not screaming for help!
When her cries could be heard
by someone, and-her honor saved.