20 Friday, February 18, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS El Al Blamed for Tourist Drop Haddad's Militia Extends Its Control to Litani River JERUSALEM (ZINS) — The Central Bureau of Statistics figures show that the war in Lebanon last summer was not the cause of the drop in tourism to Is- rael. According to the bureau, tourism to Israel dropped for several, years after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but tourism began falling in the present cycle in 1981, well before the war in Lebanon. Observers believe that labor problems at El Al Is- rael Airlines was the major factor in declining tourism. WATCH FOR OPENING OF COMPLEMENTS at Hunters Square Orchard Lake Rd. at 14 The Ultimate in Junior Apparel ✓ ile SIDON, Lebanon (JTA) — Maj. Saad Haddad, leader of the Israel-backed Christian Free Lebanon Forces, has extended the area controlled by his militia to virtually all of south Lebanon from the Is- rael border to the Litani River, an area far larger than the border strip he originally controlled. At the invitation of the Is- rael Defense Force, Haddad held an impromptu press conference in this Lebanese seaport on Tuesday, the country's fourth largest city, for members of the American Jewish Press Association/ United Jewish Appeal mission travelling in Lebanon. — i IN IN 11111 get them (Haddad's forces) to take care of Israel's northern border because it is good for all of us." He said Haddad had demonstrated an ability to unite Leba- non's diverse elements to "stop killing each other and work together against the PLO." The IDF spokesman said, "We think it's time for him to help us do our job." He added, "It's a question of principle. We must try to Haddad said he was "not too optimistic" about the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon. "The political situation is too NEW YORK — Pro-Arab propaganda is "one of Argentine Jewry's most serious problems," accord- ing to Luis Comisarenco, the acting president of DAIA, the Argentine Jewish community's um- brella organization. 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He de- Speaking in Spanish to a scribed as "a breakthrough" meeting of ADL's Commit- the distribution in Catholic tee on Interfaith Affairs churches and schools of a here, Comisarenco said that Spanish version of booklet, DATA's educational efforts "Abraham Our Father in to counteract Arab prop- Faith," which was prepared aganda are proving effec- by the _ Archdiocese of tive. He asserted that Philadelphia in cooperation greater understanding of with ADL. Israel's policies and actions Comisarenco em- was being developed among Jews as well as Christians. phasized, however, that the He said that for the first situation in Argentina re- time in the nation's history mains "difficult and com- rabbis are beginning to plex" because of a reluc- serve as chaplains in the tance among some Jews and Argentine armed forces. Christians to establish in- Another significant de- terfaith relationships. ignation of Defense Minis- ter Ariel Sharon. "This is Is- rael's problem," he said. Asked about the dis- covery of some 15 more bodies in and around Si- don, Haddad observed: "Many people still have weapons. I- hope such things will stop. It is not to the benefit of anyone in Lebanon that this ven- detta go on. This is a real crime." The IDF spokesman elaborated on the killings. "There is a distortion in the way the deaths have been reported," he said. "There was no discovery of a great mound of bodies at one time. They were found singly over a period of one month. These people have been killing each other for years," he added, noting that "There are still armed gangs roving the area. Although the car- rying of arms is outlawed, there are many weapons available." - - - EXCALIBUR1 Hair Styling Salon 1 1 Basel Hit by Anti-Semitism 1 GENEVA (JTA) — Swiss Simon Dreifus, 1 police are investigating the president of the Jewish at 9 Mile. Southfield at 9 Mile, Oak Park one 1 On ALL Drycleanine 1 complicated. I don't think the Syrians will pull out," he said. He cited the intro- duction of new Soviet-made SAM-5 missiles as a sign the Syrians are not consid- ering an imminent with- drawal from Lebanon. Haddad expressed satis- faction that his forces had been cleared by the Israeli commission of inquiry of any involvement in the west Beirut refugee camps mas- sacre. But he refused to comment on the forced res- Argentine Bias a Major Problem They were assembled in the courtyard of the IDF compound here, flanked by a dozen freshly painted Sherman tanks provided Haddad's forces by Israel. With an IDF spokes- man, identified only as Maj. Shlomo, standing by, Haddad, responding to questions, told the Ille MN MN NB MI Me IN Me MI lie Ell American Jewish jour- nalists that the presence of the tanks represented "a redeployment of forces." He was referring obviously to his pro- nouncement, made hours later, that he was broadening his base of operations. recent emergence of what appears to be a well- organized campaign of viru- lent anti-Semitism in the city of Basel near the Ger- man border. Its targets are not only Jews but non-Jewish families who have Jewish friends. The campaign is aimed particularly against faculty and students of the medical school in Basel, Jewish and non-Jewish. Vicious anti-Semitic slo- gans have been daubed on the walls of the local synagogue, the Jewish cemetery, public telephone booths and on the walls of underpasses near the uni- versity. Several prominent members of the Jewish community and their non-Jewish friends have received anonymous let- ters or telephoned death threats or anonymous calls telling them that their sons or daughters are' dead. Some of the slogans read, "Jews Out"; "Jews Are Swine"; "Auschwitz was in- vented by the Jews." On the bulletin board of the medi- cal school faculty, someone wrote: "Jews, sons of prosti- tutes, out of here." The campaign has been described as without prece- dent in Switzerland and the Jewish community is deeply concerned. There was a bomb scare at the medical school. Jewish students have been advised not to attend a faculty party next week be- cause their lives may be in danger. community in Basel, said there have been a few anti-Semitic incidents in the city since Israel's in- vasion of Lebanon last summer, but they were primitive. He suggested that there might be a connection be- tween this outblirst and the 50th anniversary of the Nazis' ascension to power in Germany. GUY MINNELLA International Hair Styling Award Winner 353-4848 Call for your appt. 24901 Northwestern Suite 111 Heritage Bldg. S.W. 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