Klarsfeld Corroborates WSU Prof. on U.S. Protection of Barbie 2 PARIS (JTA) — Serge Klarsfeld, the Nazi-hunter who was the first to locate Klaus Barbie in Bolivia in 1971, said Monday that the former Gestapo chief had been an Ameri- can agent in the immediate post-war years. Wayne State University Professor Erhard Dabrin- ghaus told NBC News Saturday night that as a U.S. intelli- gence agent in Germany after World War II, he transmitted monthly payments of $1,700 to Barbie in exchange for information about Soviet forces in Germany. Prof. Dabrin- ghaus said on two occasions he was ordered not to mention Barbie to French officials who inquired about him. Dabrin- ghaus said Rsrhie would not have been able to flee to Gallery of the Righteous Who Risked Their Lives to Expose Nazi Terror Commentary, Page 2 Bolivia without the U.S. payments. In an interview with Le Monde, Klarsfeld charged the U.S. with having protected "the Butcher of Lyon" and of having turned down repeated French requests that he be handed over to French justice. Klarsfeld said Barbie apparently joined the American Secret Service in Dortmund, Germany where the American forces found him. He served in the anti-Soviet section and was also used, according to Klarsfeld, in an operation con- nected with Romania. The French, according to the Le Monde interview, even failed to obtain Barbie to come as a witness to France. The American officers who protected him, Klarsfeld charged, refused to let him go unless the French undertook to return him to the American zone in Germany immediately after the case. The Americans also turned down an official French diplomatic request in 1950 in Washington. The State De- partment told the French Ambassador that the American occupation forces could "no longer locate" Barbie. The former deputy head of the Lyon Gestapo was returned to France Saturday and is detained in the same prison where he held thousands of French resis- (Continued on Page 6) An Attempt at a `Decision' While Emphasizing the Urgency of Unified Concerns THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Editorial, Page 4 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXII, No. 24. 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c February 11, 1983 Israel Public Opinion Is Firm Behind Beirut Inquiry Report JERUSALEM-- Israel public opinion was firm this week in the wake of the report of the inquiry commission into last fall's mas- sacre of Palestinian civilians in Beirut. Demonstrations were held outside the Prime Minister's office both for and against Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, but most obser- vers, newspapers and public figures called for the government of Prime Minister Menahem Begin to follow the commission's findings and oust Sharon for not showing concern in advance and not halting the • massacre of Palestinian civilians by Christian Phalangist militia. A decision by the Israeli Cabinet was expected Thursday eve- ning. The Cabinet's session Wednesday was described as one of the most tense ever held. Ministers were said to be deeply divided on the steps to be taken. Sharon left the meeting after about two hours to attend a previously-arranged reception for the defense minister of Zaire, Rear Admiral Lomponda, who arrived on an official visit Tuesday. A surprising development shortly before the meeting was the announcement by the political committee of the Agudat Israel Party opposing implementation of the inquiry report. Shlomo Lorencz said that Agudat Israel had been against estab- lishment of the commission and was against its findings, which it said could only be bad for Israel and the Jewish people as it would - cast a general slur as an admission of guilt. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who ret-ured from Germany shortly before the Cabinet session, having cancelled his planned visits to Belgium and Luxembourg, declined to comment until after he had read and studied the report. He and other ministers were in favor of a postponement of a decision until at least next week, by which the time the Herut Central Committee could have met and hammered out a policy. The possibility of the government's "tactical resignation" appeared to loom large on Wednesday as the way out of the impasse caused by Sharon's refusal to resign and Begin's reluctance to dismiss him. By "tactical resignation" coalition politicians mean that Premier Begin would resign, thereby automatically triggering the resignation of the whole gov- ernment, and then the same government would be reconsti- tuted — minus Sharon. A variation of this scenario is that Sharon might be able to stay on in the Cabinet, but not as defense minister. The condition for the successful implementation of this scheme is the loyalty of the four small parties which are Likud's partners in the coalition. Within Likud the fears are that the National Reli- gious Party and Tami could be the "weak links" in the scheme, and could be wooed away by Labor from their alliance with Likud. MENAHEM BEGIN (Continued on Page 3) ARIEL SHARON JWF Forum Speakers See Long-Term Israeli Gains * * Students Query Carl Levin on Lebanon, Oil at Forum By HEIDI PRESS Participants in the Middle East Forum included, from left, former Ambassador Joseph Sisco, U.S. um, Senator Henry Jackson, former Ambassador Sol Linowitz, moderator Merle Harris at the podi Detroit News Editor William Giles, Detroit Free Press Executive Editor David Lawrence Jr. and newscas- ter Byron MacGregor of WKBD-TV and WWJ Radio. By ALAN HITSKY He said Israel now has greater assurance that its Upbeat assessments of the Middle East situation northern borders will be free of threats and there is a were offered Sunday by former U.S. envoys Joseph Sisco brighter future for Israel-Lebanon relations; Lebanon and Sol Linowitz, and U.S. Senator Henry Jackson at now has an opportunity to put its own house in order; the Jewish Welfare Federation-Allied Jewish Cam- and the U.S. has a fresh opportunity for Mideast diplo- paign community forum at Adat Shalom Synagogue. macy because "the environment has been altered in a Sisco's assessment of the aftermath of the events in significant way." The PLO, he said, was significantly weakened Lebanon was very favorable to Israel. He summarized his 30-minute speech at the outset by stating, "The militarily and politically. Sisco told the audience of more than 2,000 who Christian massacre of Palestinian civilians in two Be- irut refugee camps has tended to blur the long term packed Adat Shalom's main sanctuary and watched on implications." (Continued on Page 26) Questions on the Lebanon crisis, energy, defense spend- ing and on topics concerning Jews and Israel were asked by youth in grades eight-12 in the student session of Sunday's Jewish Welfare Federation-sponsored forum on "The United States and Israel in 1983: Time of Decision" at Adat Shalom Synagogue. More than 250 students from the area's religious schools fired questions at session leader Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). James Safran, president of the Junior Division of Federation, was the moderator. Participating religious schools included those of Cong. Beth Shalom, Adat Shalom Synagogue, Cong. Bnai David, Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, Cong. Shaarey Zedek, and the United Hebrew Schools High School, Jewish Parents Institute and the Independent Hebrew High School. Unaffiliated students or those studying in religious schools not participating in the forum attended on their own accord. Prior to taking questions from the students, Sen. Levin talked about the Levin family's role in civic affairs, citing his own involvements, the election of his brother Sander to Con- gress and other Levin relatives who are among the area's noted judges. (Continued on Page 25)