24 Friday, July 22, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS GAO Attacks Arab Unit's Version of Report on Assistance to Israel WASHINGTON (JTA) — A controversy has de- veloped over the report re- leased last month by the General Accounting Office (GAO) assessing U.S. aid to Israel. The flap developed when an Arab group released what it claimed was the un- censored version of the GAO report. The America-Arab Anti-Discrimination Corn- mittee (ADC) said that the portions deleted from the GAO's released report CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRUCE "QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHS WITH THAT PERSONAL TOUCH PACKAGES TO MEET MOST BUDGETS" • Weddings • Anniversaries • Bar and Bat Mitzvahs • Special Occasions 15-30% OFF INVITATIONS 557-4257 HOURS BY APPOINTMENT y,OStico IS OFFERING THE e FINEST .toGLATT KOSHER Ta„ CATERING IN THE HOME - OR HALL OR YOUR CHOICE • Weddings • Bar Mitzvas, • Showers • Anniversaries • Sweet 16s • Etc. • Etc. 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She said that the GAO had re- ferred "the matter," the ADC document, to the Justice Department for appropriate action. - A spokesman for the ADC told the JTA that his organ- ization "stands behind (its version of the report) as accurate. It is clear that the GAO is attempting to de- stroy the credibility of its own report." He refused to say how the ADC obtained the deleted portions of the GA docu- ment. The GAO spokesper- son said that copies of the classified draft report "had been circulating around" Washington. (They were apparently the basis of front-page accusations against Israel in the Detroit Free Press written by Knight-Ridder Newspap- ers' Washington correspon- dent James McCartney.) The ADC, the GAO JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT UNITED STATES POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: CURRENT DIRECTIONS Speaker: RANDALL T. ELLIOTT Political-Military Affairs Analyst/Middle East United States Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1983 8:00 P.M. UNITED HEBREW SCHOOLS AUDITORIUM 21550 WEST TWELVE MILE ROAD SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN . Cosponsors: AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE, Detroit Chapter AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS, Michigan Region ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI B'RITH. Michigan Region JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE, Michigan Region The Community Is Invited No Charge spokesperson said, probably "interpolated their own in- terpretation of the draft and of the (final) published ver- sion "to produce its docu- ment. "A draft is subject to change, she added, noting that the ADC "cobbled to- gether a report." The ADC spokesman said the GAO had told his organization this week that it "was not challeng- ing the contents of the re- port" (the ADC released), only the manner in which it was distributed. He said the documentwas sent to 2,000 news organ- izations nationwide and to all members of Con- gress. It contained "30 or 40" items not in the offi- cial report that the ADC felt the American public should know, he said. According to the ADC version, the GAO report had stated: "The Israeli gov- ernment is concerned about U.S. efforts to assist various Arab countries to imporve their military forces and thus achieve a strategic consensus against the threat of Soviet incursion into the region. "Israeli officials believe that another war . with the Arab countries is likely and that the U.S. regional ef- forts can contribute to threatening Israeli secu- rity. Another portion, accord- ing to the ADC version, cites the CIA as warning Orators Group Elects Eban NEW YORK (JTA) — Abba Eban, Israel's former Ambassador to the United Nations and now a Labor Party member of Knesset, was one offive 20th Century speakers recently elected to the International Platform Association's Orator's Hall of Fame. President John F. Ken- nedy led the 1983 list which also included Adlai Steven- son, Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur and William Jennings Bryan. - The five best orators in history elected last year were: Daniel Webster, Ab- raham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King._ When informed of his election to this prestigi- ous organization, Eban quipped "You realize I am the only one still alive." The International Plat- form Association (IPA) was founded in 1831 by Daniel Webster and has been the professional association of those who run thousands of organizations which corn- pose the American lecture platform. , It claims a nation-wide bi-partisan membership of more than 5,000. Members of the Orator's Hall of Fame are elected by a poll of the IPA. Edward R. Murrow was a former chairman and nuclear physicist Glen Sea- borg is the current chair- man. that U.S. military sales to Arab states "could exacer- bate concerns about the Arab threat and could foster Israeli preemptive attacks in future crises." Other deletions in the report indicate a di- vergence of opinions about how much of a threat the Arab world poses to Israel. Accord- ing to the report, "While Israel perceives the threat to be grave, the DOD (Department of De- fense) officials believe it is overemphasized at this time." • The censored version also contained passages saying that Israel had broken promises to the U.S. that it would not invade Lebanon, according to the ADC spokesman. The report, he noted, said Israel would ask for an increase from the $1.4 billion in aid it receives from the U.S., and that is expects the U.S. to finance half of its military budget. The report as the GAO re- leased it, entitled "U.S. As- sistance to the State of Is- rael," found the aid program to be effective from political, security and economic vie- wpoints. The report was taken at the initiative of the GAO which is the auditing agency for Congress, as one of a series on U.S. assistance to key Middle East coun- tries. It stated that peace is the real solution to Israel's bur- den of defense and debt. It found no evidence of abuse or waste in the administra- tion of U.S. aid. German Town's Chronicle Has Anti-Semitic Overtone BONN (JTA) — An offi- cial chronicle of the West German town of Moringen which claims that Jews pro- voked the infamous "Kris- tallnacht" in 1938, has drawn an angry protest from Heinz Galinski, chairman of the Jewish community of West Berlin to Prime Minister Ernst Al- brecht of the federal state of Lower Saxony. Galinski charged that publication of the chronicle was a scandal and an insult to the Jewish victims of Nazism and Jews in gen- eral. The chronicle was written by the town archivist, an honorary position, to mark Moringen's 1,000th an- niversary. It states that "The so-called Reichs- kristallnacht in November 1938, was the outcome of worldwide Jewish provoca- tions." According to the writer, German businesses in the United States were stoned and damaged at the Seven Wounded. Near E. Beirut TEL AVIV (JTA) — Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded, two seriously, when their patrol was am- bushed Sunday night in the Kfar Ein Anub area near east Beirut. Two uniden- tified Lebanese were killed by Israeli soldiers when their car tried to crash a roadblock set up in the vic- inity while a search was conducted for the attackers of the patrol. A military spokesman said the army has appointed a commission to inquire into the shooting incident at the roadblock. An Israel army position on the Jebel Barukh in the Shouf mountains came under fire but there were no casualties. It was the first time in several weeks that fire was opened on Israelis from the direction of Syrian positions in eastern Leba- non. The army is trying to determine whether the fire came from Syrian units or from terrorist groups operating in the area. instigation of Jews and a number of assassination at- tempts were made on the lives of German representa- tives aborad. The German people were not willing to tolerate this and "several radical elements of the SS and the SA lost their temper" and reacted with "the madness which was later labelled by some as the Reichskristallnacht." It was so labeled because of the shattered glass that littered the streets of Ger- man cities after a nightlong rampage in which Nazi gangs smashed the windows of Jewish shops and homes and destroyed other Jewish property. The chronicle contains another passage with anti- Semitic overtones. It states that there was a Jewish youth named Willi who "enjoyed in Moringen full recognition because he was the only Jew there who worked with his hands." The town authorities have told reporters that they have no intentions of chang- ing any part of the chronicle. Galinski warned in his letter to Albrecht that if there is no suitable retrac- tion the chronicle will further encourage neo-Nasi activities and other anti- Semitic manifestations in the federal republic. Bar-Ilan Gets $3 Million for Business School RAMAT GAN — Two gifts totalling $3 million, have been earmarked for Bar-Ilan University's new School of Economics and Business. The donors — S. Daniel Abraham and Jerome L. Stern, both of New York — are founding chairmen of the new school, which will stress American methods of management and business administration in training future executives and ad- ministrators for the private and public sectors in Israel.