Acclaim for Max Fisher's Leadership Tribute to Gus Newman Commentary, Page 2 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events USSR's Failure to Adhere to Universal Declaration for Human Rights Editorial, Page 4 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIII, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $18 Per Year: This Issue 40c July 8, 1983 Reagan Begin Meeting Vital to Re-Deployment in Lebanon Technion Instrument Finds Vision Trouble By DAVID LANDAU JERUSALEM (JTA) — Plans for a redeployment of the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon were reviewed by the Ministerial Defense Committee on Wednesday morning. The meeting was held only hours before the arrival of Secretary of State George Shultz who was in Damascus meeting with President Hafez Assad of Syria. There have been no indications that Syria will budge from its refusal to-pull its own troops and the Palestine Liberation Organization out of Lebanon, thereby allowing Israel and Lebanon to implement their own withdrawal agreement signed May 17. The U.S. has reiterated its commitment to the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. It is therefore opposed to a unilateral pullback by Israeli troops to shorter lines on grounds that such a move would establish the permanent partition of Lebanon: Shultz met with Israel Premier Menahem Begin, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Moshe Arens on the matter. If the government makes a firm decision to redeploy the IDF, the new line is expected to run along the Awali River to the Lebanese coast just north of Sidon, about 40 kilometers north of the Israeli border. But no redeployment orders will be issued before Begin's meeting with President Reagan in Washington July 27. When Begin Coalition Protest leaves for the U.S. it probably will be with "a decision in principle" by the Cabinet to redeploy in Lebanon but with authority to be flexible over the implementation of that decision. Lebanese officials warned Shultz, before he There have been several days of continuing, bitter left for Damascus, that Lebanon would not ac- attacks on The Jewish News this week in angry resentment cept a partial Israeli withdrawal unless it is over publication in its July 1 issue of the statement by the accompanied by a timetable for a full with- Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith and the Jewish WXYZ Talk Shows Will Be Scrutinized Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technol- ogy in Haifa have developed a new instrument which will enable doctors to detect vision problems at an early, treata- ble stage. The device, which can be wheeled to the patient's bedside, measures the electrical activity in the brain asso- ciated with vision. As an image on a television screen is altered, the responsiveness of the patient's visual pathway can be measured, enabling physicians to detect the slightest degeneration of nerves, as well as the early onset of multiple sclerosis. The vision diagnosis device is easier to use and less expensive than models currently in use. Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit charging prejudicial treatment of Jewish and Israel-oriented issues by some talk show moderators on WXYZ Radio. A coalition of interested organizations joined forces this week to make similar charges against WXYZ Radio and secure a correction of the policies of the station. Representatives of the Detroit Association of Black Organizations, the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, the Detroit Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Wel- fare Rights Organization expressed support for the charges raised by the ADL and JCCouncil. Richard Lobenthal, Michigan regional director of ADL, said he received a telephone call this week from Michael Packer, operations manager of WXYZ Radio, requesting a meeting to discuss the issue. It was Packer's refusal to respond to previous complaints and a June 15 letter detailing the charges that led the JCCouncil and ADL to publicize their complaint July 1. Anger over the two agencies' demand that WXYZ ex- pl ain its policies in the conduct of talk shows predominated Monday, and continued on Tuesday and Wednesday during the programs conducted by Mark Scott. While the cause for the anger was the statement issued jointly by the Jewish Community Council and the Anti- Defamation League, listing Mark Scott together with Kevin Joyce as the moderators whose approaches caused biased responses from their listeners, Scott turned his (Continued on Page 5) • (Continued on Page 3) Norman Allan Endows Yale Young Israel House Detroiter Norman Allan was honored in ab- sentia recently for endowing the Young Israel House at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Allan has been invited to attend the facility's 25th anniversary dinner in the fall. Shown dur- ing the plaque presentation marking the Allan endowment are, from left, Alan Mond and Gerald Weisberg of the National Council of Young Israel, Yale students Barbara Horwitz and Myron Tanin, Rabbi Jacob Mendelson, stu- dent Jordan Lurie and Mrs. Ruth Saperstein of the Women's League of the National Council of Young Israel. • Distortions in McCartney Article Are Documented (Editor's note: A series of reports on Israel by the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain's Jarhes McCartney have come under increasing criticism. The latest re- port, on a General Accounting Office "audit" of U.S. aid to Israel, received front page banner headlines in the Detroit Free Press and similar treatment in Knight-Ridder newspapers around the country. The following criticism of the McCartney article was prepared by media specialists.) The article is tendentious, misleading and basically attempts to sensationalize and distort well-known and unremarkable facts. The writer takes quotes and facts out of context, attributes non-existent statements to the report and conveniently omits the positive comments on aid to Israel which form the bulk of the report's findings. McCartney's lead sentence is the best example of such misleading reporting. He states that the GAO report revealed higher U.S. aid figures to Israel than had previously been disclosed in public government reports. That is simply untrue. The GAO figure — $24 billion — is consistent with that previously made public in numerous public docu- ments, including the "Congressional Presentation Documents," published by the State Department, and charts issued by the Library of Congress. They report a figure close to $24 billion in overall U.S. aid to Israel from 1948 to the present, including Export/Import Bank loans which the GAO study includes. There is not, nor ever has been, anything secret, clandestine or surprising about these figures. Nor does there exist a contradiction between the report's estimate of U.S. military aid to Israel and official government estimates. "Congressional Public Documents" list a total of $16 billion in military aid through fiscal year 1982, which is identical to the GAO's "findings." The military sales agreements which McCartney cites would well be less than the $16 billion approved by the Congress because actual sales agreements signed and delivered have long lead times. They are thus naturally less than total military aid voted. McCartney glaringly omits the fact that a large portion of the total U.S. aid package is in the form of loans which Israel has been repaying regularly. Over $5 billion has been (Continued on Page 5)