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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Massacre Inquiry Hears More Testimony
Romania Bases Exit Tax
on Preventing Brain Drain'
JERUSALEM (JTA) — earlier witnesses warned of placed Guy in the situa- script, Sharon responded
Several lower ranking army possible harm.
tion room on Sept. 18. that he had already spoken
NEW YORK (JTA) —
officers on duty at the time
Ilan Schiff, an attorney Kober said he received to the Chief of Staff on the Rabbi Arthur Schneier,
of the Beirut refugee camps representing Chief of reports shortly after matter.
president of the Appeal of
massacre appeared in open Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan, noon that day from David
The commission began its Conscience Foundation,
session Monday before the cross-examined Lt. Col. Kimche, Director Gen- second round of hearings on met recently with President
commission of inquiry. Avraham Kober who re- eral of the Foreign Minis- Sunday, getting testimony Nicolae Ceausescu of
They were questioned by
try. He said Kimche told in closed session from Mor- Romania in Bucharest.
counsels for witnesses who Racial Appeals
him that the U.S. special dehai Gur, a Labor MK and
They reviewed U.S.-
had been notified by the Off L.A. Ballot
envoy in Beirut, Morris former army chief of staff; Romanian relations, inter-
panel last month that they
Draper, had complained Maj. Gen. (res.) Shlomo
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — of massacres in the refu- Gazit, former chief of mili- national issues including
may be harmed if the corn-
the Middle. East situation
, mission reached certain Appeals . to bigotry will no gee camps.
tary intelligence; Maj. Gen. --and discussed at length the
longer
be
allowed
on
elec-
conclusions on the basis of
Kober insisted that he Yehoshua Saguy, current
tion ballots of the city, it conveyed that report to chief of military intelli- new law requiring Roma-
their original testimony.
nian nationals seeking • to
Monday's testimony con- •was announced by Louis Dudai and to Sharon and gence; and a letter from emigrate to repay the gov-
cerned the procedures em- Fox, chairman of the Civil wrote it up in the log. Ac- Foreign Ministry Director ernment for the free secon-
ployed in communicating Rights Committee of the cording to the log tran- General David Kimche.
dary and. higher education
information from the scene Anti-Defamation League of
they received, the Appeal of
NICOLAE CEAUSESCU
in Beirut to -higher eche- Bnai Brith.
Conscience Foundation an-
"As a result of an ordi-
lons. Lt. Col. Reuven Guy,
nounced.
who are leaving at this
who was duty officer at the nance drafted by members
Schneier,
who
is
spiritual
point have not been affected
Defense Ministry on Sept. of the ADL Civil Rights
leader of the Park East by the new law." Ceausescu
17, the day after the killings Committee, the City Coun-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The lent of the Federal Reserve Synagogue in New York, did not refer, in his hour-
of civilians by Christian cil has passed and Mayor
said Ceausescu justified the
and-40-minute meeting
Phalangist units began in Tom Bradley has signed a Finance Ministry and the Bank in the U.S., denied law on the basis of "brain with Schneier on Dec. 9 to
the Shatila and Sabra f law which will prevent Bank of Israel have pre- vehemently that politics drain" and stated that the assertion by Chief Rabbi
camps, was questioned references to the race, reli- vented the United Mizrachi were involved. They were "while the law cannot be re- Moses Rosen of Romania on
closely on alleged shortcom- gion, or national origin of Bank from buying the pri- joined by Deputy Premier pealed, any diplomatic solu- Nov. 24 that Jews seeking
candidates for municipal vately owned First Interna- Simcha Ehrlich, a former
ings in the procedure.
tions that will take into ac- to immigrate to Israel will
One attorney charged office on Los Angeles bal- tional Bank of Israel (FIBI). Finance Minister, who said count the principles of our be exempted from the . edu-
The Mizrachi Bank, which it was unhealthy for a bank
that although Guy had lots," Fox said.
He pointed out that the is owned by the National to float such a large stock sovereignty will be consid- cation repayment law.
drawn up a list of in-
•ered."
Rosen said at the time
structions to improve the ADL's interest in this mat- Religious Party, promptly issue to buy a competitor.
In that connection, that the Romanian .0
Financial leaders
communications procedure, ter was prompted by a re- accused the Treasury of
suggested that the pur- President Reagan has authorities made a distinc-
he had not followed his own cent primary ballot here in political motives.
chase would concentrate named Lawrence Eag- tion between emigration I
instructions. Guy insisted which a candidate for mayor
The Mizrachi Bank Israel's banking business leburger, undersecretary and "aliya." A Jew who goes
described
himself
as
_a
that he passed on reports of
planned to float a $100 mil- in too few hands. Burg of state for political af- to Israel to be reunited with .*
"trouble" in the camps to "Christian businessman."
Fox said that at the lion stock issue to finance replied that the Mizrachi fairs, as a special envoy - his family is not an "emi-
Avi Dudai, an aid to De-
to Bucharest to discuss grant" and "his problem '
the $150 million purchase
fense Minister Ariel Sha- - time, the ADL inquired of price but, at the last minute; Bank and the FIBI com- all aspects of U.S.- was treated in a totally
bined
would
not
control
ron. Dudai was one of the the City Clerk as to why it was denied a license.
more than 10 percent of Romanian relations, in- different way," the chief "4
such a designation was
permitted. "We were in- Interior Minister Yosef the business compared to cluding most favored na- rabbi said.
Schneier
flew
to -
Where
formed that Los Angeles Burg, an •\TRP leader, said the Bank Leumi, the Is- tion status," Schneier re-
he was "extremely angry" rael Discount Bank and ported. According to U.S. Jerusalem after meeting
was
exempted
from
the
Can You
California Election Code and threatened that "the the Bank Hapoalim law, MFN for East Euro- with Ceausescu to report on
Get Books
section barring such de- forces who are pulling the which each control more pean Communist ,bloc his conversations to Pre-
countries is linked to mier Menahem Begin and
signations in state elec- strings against the Miz- than 25 percent.
About
their emigration policies. Foreign Minister Yitzhak
rachi
Bank"
will
soon
be
ex-
One
of
the
main
tions," Fox said.
Computers?
Schneier said Ceauscescu Shamir. He has only re-
"We then proceeded to posed. The purchase would arguments against the pur-
draft a statute which was have made the Mizrachi chase was that the Danot showed appreciation for the cently returned to the .4
introduced by Councilman Bank the fourth largest in group of local industrialists reunification of Romanian United States. He said to-
who bought the FIBI for Jews with their families in day, "It is my clear impreS- • '
Zev Yaroslaysky." The ADL Israel.
Finance
Minister
Yoram
only $25 million two years Israel. The new education sion that President
officials
said
the
law
will
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of mine," said they should West Germany, Romanians he seeks an improvement in
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seen strains in the last
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their time buying and
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A Mizrachi Bank
spokesman said if the pur-
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• FIBI would continue to op-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — a courtesy call." They de-
erate as an independent Jewish settlers of Kiryat nied threatening the
bank and would even be Arba, the Orthodox town- mukhtar with their
I allowed to keep its auto- ship adjacent to Hebron, weapons.
matic tellers open on the claimed they achieved a
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"peace treaty" with Arab
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, controlled Mizrachi Bank residents of the nearby Ein man said later, "These
▪ shuts down completely on Aroub refugee camp after incidents of rock throw-
I the Sabbath.
the Arabs allegedly stoned a ing should be regarded as
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The treaty, or "sulha," be deported."
for West Point
was ceremoniously signed
Meanwhile,
Israeli
Jewish Chapel
by the mukhtar (chief offi-
authorities continued to
WEST POINT, N.Y. — cial) of the refugee camp
crack down on West Bank
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Ground was broken Tues- who came to Kiryat Arba Arabs allegedly responsible
day for a Jewish chapel at declaring he wanted to live for recent disorders in the
Sat. 8-1
the -U.S. Military Academy. in peace with his Jewish territory.
The last legal obstacle to neighbors. He promised to
A second local high
construction of the try to find the. stone-
privately-financed $5.5 mil- throwers and turn them school, Kardi Toukan, was
ordered closed by the Israeli
lion sanctuary, library and over to the authorities.
It was the first time a ref- authorities after its pupils
museum
was
surmounted
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-utilities to the proposed lier by 30 armed settlers Tallal school was shut down
who made it clear they in the aftermath of a violent
structure.
would not tolerate attacks demonstration in which Is-
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