World Opinion on Endless Discriminatory Policies Pursued by the Kremlin THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Editorial, Page 4 of Jewish Events Passover Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere Copyright (C) The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIII, Na. 5 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35' April 1, 1983 Israel Battles ManyObstacles in Path of Lebanon Pull-Back 80 Years Since Kishinev Changed Jews' Thinking By MAURICE SAMUELSON LONDON (JTA) — Worldwide commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising will obscure the fact that Easter and Passover this year also mark the 80th anniver- sary of the Russian pogrom in KishineV, immortalized by Chaim Nachman Bialik's poem, "In the City of Slaughter." Following malicious reports that Jews were using Christian blood for their Passover feasts, primitive mobs in Kishinev, capi- tal of Bessarabia, turned on the Jews on Sunday, April 6, 1903. There followed three days of carnage which, according to official figures, left 49 Jews dead and 500 injured, 700 houses destroyed, 600 businesses looted, damage to property worth 21/2 million gold rubles and about: 2,000 Jewish families homeless. The hatred of the Jews had been whipped up in "Bessarebtz," Kishinev's only newspaper, whose editor, P. Krushevan, was fi- nanced from a slush fund by „gr Von Plehve, the Russian Interior Minister. The paper's printing house had published the blood libel pamphlets which were used to trigger the massacre. The government believed that by fomenting hatred against the Jews it could divert the rising tide of revolutionary feeling throughout Russia. As soon as the news was CHAIM BIALIK published, large protest meet- ings were held throughout Europe and North America. The Ger- man Kaiser and the Austrian Emperor sent personal protests to Czar Nicholas II. A joint resolution was passed by both houses of Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt voiced his country's horror in a personal letter which the Czar refused to accept. In Russia itself, Count Leo Tolstoy arraigned the government as the chief culprit. The deepest impact, however, was on the Jews them- selves, and especially on the newly-launched world Zionist movement. Theodor Herzl, its founder, wrote prophetically to an American statesman: "Think of it. Seven million out- lawed human beings who have begun to tremble. After what has happened we have no right to reproach them with their fear. They dare not arm, they are not defended, they feel themselves surrendered up — and to what a rabble." In his anguish at failing to win Palestine for the persecuted (Continued on Page 14) , By DAVID LANDAU JERUSALEM (JTA) — The 12 weeks of talks between Lebanon and Israel appeared to be heading toward a conclusion this week but it remained uncertain whether or not they will culminate successfully in an agreement. Signs of growing frustration and impatience were evident in both Jerusalem and Washington over the weekend as the Israeli, Lebanese and American delegations held their 24th meeting at Natanya last Friday and U.S. special envoy Philip Habib continued his diplomatic shuttles between Jerusalem and Beirut. The Cabinet, at its regular weekly session Sunday, discussed Habib's report of his two days of talks in Beirut with President Amin Gemayel and Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem. Cabinet spokesman Dan Meridor told reporters afterwards, "Much is being achieved . . . There are problems to be solved, but we hope it won't be long." Government sources said there had been progress on all issues. But the atmosphere was less optimistic after Habib met with Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir on Sunday evening and flew back to Beirut, apparently to convey the latest Israeli position to the Lebanese government. Israeli sources said Shamir had been "very firm" on Israel's insistence that Major Saad Haddad and his Christian militia, armed and financed by Israel, retain control of security in south Lebanon after Israeli forces withdraw. The Lebanese government refuses to assign such a role to Haddad and its position has been backed by the United States. Meridor said after Sunday's Cabinet meeting that Haddad's future role was not the major obstacle to an agreement, as some sources had said last week. "It is not a personal problem of Maj. Haddad. It is a very basic security question for Israel," he said. Israel has reportedly rejected a Lebanese offer to incorporate Haddad's militia into the Lebanese army but send Haddad himself on a diplomatic assignment abroad or allow him "honorable retire- ment." Haddad has been Israel's principal ally in Lebanon but circles in Beirut regard him as a deserter and renegade who is "too close to Israel." The Lebanese, for theirpart, adamantly refuse Israel's demand to maintain surveillance outposts manned by Israeli troops in south Lebanon for an indefinite period after the bulk of (Continued on Page 3) Arabs Try to Keep 'Golcia' Off French TV PARIS (JTA) — The Arab League representative in Paris, Mohammed Yazid, has formally complained to the French Foreign Ministry against the scheduled airing this week by French television of the American TV series, "Golda," which portrays the life of Israel's late Premier Golda Meir. Yazid, in a written note, said that broadcasting this program is tantamount to "glorifying Israel and its expansionist aims." He asked Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson to try and prevent the state-controlled TV from going ahead with its program. Several pro-Arab organizations have also appealed to the "High Authority," a state-appointed body responsilYe for the television's political neutrality and ethics, to have the ,series, which stars the late Ingrid Bergman, banned. One such organization, the Franco-Arab Solidarity Association, said in its letter to the High Authority's President Michelle Cotta: "France, which is favora- ble to a just solution to the Middle East conflict, should not use television to present a biased view of the problem." The association's president, Lucien Bitterlir also called for a program on the Palestinian question and said it should be Lilowed by a debate between the representatives of all the concerned parties. GOLDA MEIR Windup April 19 U.S. Holocaust Survivors' for the AJC-IEF Event Contrasts With USSR Heartened by the positive responses to the urgent current philanthropic -needs, as the 1983 Allied Jewish Campaign - Israel Emergency Fund nears its climax, the lead- ership in the scores of causes being aided by this fund-raising effort under the supervi- sion of the Jewish Welfare Federation, this week emerged heartened by a high record being set under crucial conditions here and globally. Asserting that this year's fund-raising (Continued on Page 5) By BORIS SMOLAR — Editor-in-chief-emeritus, JTA NEW YORK — Every year since 1979 the United States commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and honors the survivors at ceremonies in Washington and in a number of states and cities throughout the country. The national ceremonies have been addressed each year by the President and members of Congress of both parties. This year's ceremony in Washington will take place April 13. It will be part of the Days of Remem- brance proclaimed for April 10-17; it will be inte- (Continued on Page 12) BORIS SMOLAR Memorial Set for Holocaust Shaarit Haplaytah Organization of Metropolitan Detroit — Survivors of the Nazi Genocide — in cooperation with Cong. Bnai David, the Jewish Community Council and the Greater Detroit Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, will hold the annual Holocaust Memo- rial Academy 1 p.m. April 10 at Bnai David. Leon Halpern, president of Shaarit Haplaytah and the Holocaust Memorial Center, and Mrs. Leon (Sonia) Popowski, (Continued on Page 12)