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NEW YORK — A 71-year-old Englishwoman, a New England
schoolteacher and a college professor from Texas are the first-prize
winners of $1,500 each in the 11th international literary competition
for blind writers sponsored by the Jewish Braille Institute of America.
Jessie Hickford won first prize in the non-fiction category for her
essay titled "What Is Progress?," an account of the changes in the
quality of life in her village in the English countryside.
Ned Ryerson, a 63-year-old schoolteacher in Cambridge, Mass.,
had the prizewinning short story, "Across the Great Salt Pond," which
evokes the Cape Cod seascape as it explores a blind man's struggle with
the memory of vision and his relationship with the present.
John M. Slatin, 30, a member of the English Department at
the University of Texas in Austin, won first prize in poetry for a
23-line poem "Phototropism."
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November 5, 1982
Massacre Inquiry Assuming
Widened Scope of Witnesses
Hate Groups Become
Violent, ADL Is Told
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HOUSTON (JTA) — Organized racist and anti-
Semitic groups have increasingly turned to violence in the
past few years, according to a 90-page report made public
by the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith.
The ADL report, titled "Hate Groups in America: The
Record of Bigotry and Violence," focused on
the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi organizations and such
hatemongering fringe groups as the Christian Patriots De-
fense League; the Covenant, the Sword, the Arm of the
Lord; the National States Rights Party and the Aryan
Nations organization.
Seymour Reich, chairman of the ADL's national
civil rights executive committee, who presented the
report to ADL's national executive committee meet-
ing in Houston last weekend, said the document is a
comprehensive study of violence-prone hate groups.
The study, Reich said, exposes the extremists' organ-
izational and ideological links, and details their record of
violence, lawlessness, intimidation and threats of force
since the late 1970s, which includes: assaults and conspir-
cies against blacks, Jews and other minorities, sometimes
involving firearms and bombs; establishment of paramilit-
ary camps and training courses to teach adherents weapons
training, demolition and guerrilla warfare tactics; and use
of inflammatory hate language directed against
minorities, including calls to arms and warnings to adhe-
rents to prepare for civil strife or race wars, allegedly in
self-defense.
"If America is to meet the challenge of violence by
organized bigots," Reich asserted, "all institutions of
American society, including law enforcement officials,
schools, churches and business and labor organizations
must unite against them."
One of the "most disturbing" elements of the
trend to violence, Reich said, is paramilitary training
that takes place in camps operated by Klan organiza-
tions and other extremist groups, such as the Chris-
tian Patriots Defense League.
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Israel's official inquiry into the events in Lebanon, with emphasis on the massacre in the -Beirut
refugee camps involving the Phalangists, assumed an unlimited scope in its second week of hearings,
which were opened to the press and the public.
Not only the military, but available witnesses from foreign countries as well as journalists who
observed the occurrences prior to and immediately following the mass murder of Muslim Palestinians by
Christian Phalangists are being called to :the witness stand to assist in clarifying the issues.
Foreigners who were in Lebanon, doctors and nurses, regardless of country of origin, are considered
qualified to testify at the hearings. Members of the press are- expected to be invited to present their
impressions and relate their experiences.
Two British doctors and an American nurse testified Monday. They were the first non-Israeli
witnesses to appear before the panel. All were volunteers working at the Gaza Hospital in Beirut
where Palestinians from the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps were treated for wounds.
Their testimony coveredevents in the camps from Sept.15, just before the Israeli army occupied west
Beirut, until Sept. 18, by which time Christian Phalangist units had been ordered out of the camps by the
Israelis. The massacres occurred Sept. 16-17.
The witnesses were Dr. Su Chai Ang, a
Malaysian-born British subject, Dr. Paul Mor-
ris, and nurse Ellen Segal from the U.S. who is
Jewish. They said they had not witnessed the
massacres directly but saw many Palestinian
men, women and children brought to the hospi-
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S.
tal suffering from wounds, beginning the night
Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the goal of
of Sept. 16.
Israel's attackers at the United Nations is "the annihila-
tion of Israel; her destruction. It is that simple."
The doctors said thousands of Palestinians
The envoy spoke at a luncheon honoring Howard
came to the hospital asking for help and told of
Squadron for his service as chairman of the Conference of
atrocities committed by the Phalangists.
Presidents of Major Ameri-
The commission released testimony
can Jewish Organizations.
taken earlier in closed session from an Is-
Kirkpatrick
de-
raeli tank commander, Lt. Zvi Grabowsky,
scribed the attacks on Is-
who said he witnessed the Phalangists kill
rael at the UN as "com-
five women and children from his position
prehensive, vicious and
500 yards outside the camps. Grabowsky
continuous." She said
said that when members of his crew re-
that the attacks are not
ported
this to their commanding officers,
caused by this or that act
they were told, "We know. It is not to our
by Israel but they are
liking. Don't interfere."
part of "a delegitimiza-
tion" campaign against
Gen. Amin Drori, commander of Israeli
Israel. Through that, she
forces in Beirut, told the commission Sunday
said, Israel's enemies
that Israeli soldiers were under strict orders not
Foes of Israel in UN
Want Her Destruction
JEANE KIRKPATRICK
want to achieve its liq-
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to enter the camps.
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New Congress Is Expected to Be 'Basically Friendly' to Israel
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REP. LE V IN.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (JTA) — Hyman Bookbinder, the American Jewish Com-
mittee's Washington representative, predicted that the new Congress would be "basically
friendly" to Israel in the coming months. but he cautioned that unqualified American
support for Israel on all issues could not be taken for granted and he admonished those
concerned about Israel to heed American thinking if they wanted to champion Israel's
cause effectively.
In remarks prepared for delivery at the AJCommittee's annual national executive
council meeting, which opened Thursday and concludes Sunday, Bookbinder asserted also
that, despite its rejection by both Israel and the Arab nations, President Reagan's peace
plan would be the "basic vehicle for Middle East diplomacy" in the months ahead.
Thirty-three Jews were elected to Congress on Tuesday, four to the Senate and
29 to the House. The election brings to eight the number of Jews in the Senate.
The Senate victories included two incumbents who won their second terms, Sens.
Howard Metzenbaum (R-Ohio) and Edviard Zorinsky (D-Neb.), and two newcomers, Frank
Lautenberer (D-N.J.) and Chic Hecht (R-Nev.).
The House victors included 22 incumbents and seven newcomers. The seat of one
incumbent, Rep. Eliott Levitas (D-Ga.) will not be decided until Nov. 30 because of
redistricting difficulties. Rep. Bob Shamansky (D-Ohio) was the only incumbent to be
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SEN. METZENBAUM
SEN. LAUTENBERG