New Laws Advocated in U.S. War Against Terrorism
By REV. FRANKLIN LITTELL
—
National Institute on the Holocaust
PHILADELPHIA — Although the extent of overt anti-Semitic incidents is disputed,
even a single incident of violence should cause concern among loyal citizens. Sniper shots
at students of Yeshiva University, the vandalizing and burning of synagogues, the
desecration of Jewish cemeteries — these are but outward signs of a deadly poison that
flows through the hidden recesses of our society.
Some of these incidents, like the dousing and burning of a sleeping vagrant by
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juvenile delinquents, are isolated cases of viciousness. As such, they are police matters
under present law. Some of them, and the more sinister for the rights of citizens and the
security of the republic, are the calculated terrorist acts of disloyal organized groups. As
such, they are not yet adequately met by existing laws.
Led by Barry Morrison of the Anti-Defamation League, aroused citizens of
New Jersey and Pennsylvania last year won legislation making "ethnic intimida-
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Jerusalem Bombing Shatters
Civilians' Lack of Vigilance
Stronger U.S.-Israel
Ties Are Announced
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Doctors are fighting to save the lives of victims of Tuesday's bomb blast which
destroyed a crowded Jerusalem bus, killing four persons and injuring 46.
The dead, announced Wednesday, are Nurit Pollack, 14; Eti Adi, 11; Yehuda Kaplan, 77; and Lasslo B.
Danisky, 50, all of Jerusalem.
Among the injured, 28 are still undergoing treatment at the Shaare Zedek Hospital and Hadassah
Hospital's Ein Kerem facility, the hospitals nearest the scene of the explosion. Ten are reported to be badly
hurt and one is listed in critical condition.
According to hospital sources, the most serious problems are burns, multiple cuts, eye
injuries and respiratory damage. Nearly all of the victims suffered hearing problems and many
have punctured eardrums due to the intensity of the blast. The bus was reduced to a charred
skeleton.
Police rounded up suspects for questioning on Tuesday. All but four were released. The Palestine
Liberation Organization has claimed it was responsible for the carnage. The claims have come from both
the faction supporting PLO chief Yasir Arafat and PLO dissidents who have been battling the Arafat
loyalists in northern Lebanon. The PLO claimed the bus was a military vehicle and that 40 Israeli soldiers
were killed.
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Soviet Emigration Decline Is 'Deliberate'
WASHINGTON (JTA) — "The drastic decline" in Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union is the result of
"deliberate Soviet policy," not a drop in requests for emigration, the Reagan Administration charged Tuesday.
"The Soviet authorities publicly claim, in fact, that the Jewish emigration question has now beers `solved,' " the
Administration said in its 15th Semi-Annual Report On Implementation of the Helsinki Final Act. "In the face of all
evidence to the contrary, the Soviet authorities claim there no longer
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are any Jewish refusniks in the Soviet Union," the report said.
The report was submitted Monday by Secretary of State George
Only 56 Jews were
Shultz on behalf of President Reagan to Rep. Dante Fascell (D-Fla.),
allowed
to emigrate from the
chairman of the Commission On Security and Cooperation in Europe
Soviet Union in November, the
which monitors the Helsinki accords. It covers the period June 1-Nov.
30, 1983.
lowest figure in nearly 20
According to the report, approximately 850 Jews received
years.
exit visas to emigrate to Israel from April 1 through Sept. 30.
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While this is compatible to 741 for the previous six months, it was
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Israeli Pre-
"a significant decline" from the 1;286 who emigrated during the corresponding period of 1982.
mier Yitzhak Shamir are shown announcing
About 1,500 Jews are expected to have emigrated from the USSR by the end of this year as compared to 2,671 last
strengthened ties between the U.S. and Israel, follow-
year, 9,127 in 1981 and 20,345 in 1980, the report said. The peak year was 1979 when 50,461 Jews left the Soviet Union.
ing two days of meetings at the White House last week.
The Administration reports said the Soviets are claiming that "letters of invitation received by Soviet Jews from
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abroad are fraudulent, the fabrications of groups in the United States and Israel who wish to 'prove' that the Jewish
emigration question is still current and to discredit the
Wiesel's Interpretations Under Challenge
Soviet Union in the process."
There have been articles in the Soviet press "asserting
that Jewish agencies in the West are no more than front
organizations for U.S. and Israeli intelligence and that the
deliberate efforts of these agencies to stimulate Jewish
By PROF. JOSEPH COHEN
emigration by transmitting vyzovs (letters of invitation) en
NEW ORLEANS — Probably few Jewish contempor-
masse is in essence an intelligence gathering exercise."
ary literary figures are as well known as Elie Wiesel, or as
The report also notes that "the Soviet authorities
highly respected. Because he emerged after the Holocaust
continue to harass Western visitors who wish to have
as the first major, articulate spokesman of the ordeal
contact with Soviet Jews, particularly outside Mos-
through which he had himself passed, and because he pos-
cow. Visiting Americans have had their luggage
sessed the ability to transform into words a compelling
thoroughly searched and materials confiscated on
sense of the horror of the six million dead, his voice con-
internal Aeroflot flights where no immigration or cus-
veyed their doom into our consciousness in unforgettable
toms regulations apply."
ways.
The recently formed Anti-Zionist Committee of the
The haunting power he possesses to influence others is
Soviet Public is seen by the Reagan Administration as a
not vouchsafed to many. A special privilege, it carries with
means of developing the Soviet "line" that there is no
it the accolades of fame. It also carries certain obligations.
longer a Jewish emigration problem. The report also points
One of these obligations, particularly for a writer whose
out that the committee's anti-Zionist "diatribes" are aimed
entire reputation rests upon the believability of his stories,
at discrediting Israel and to lessen its attractiveness for
is verisimilitude, which requires a careful adherence to the
ELIE WIESEL
DR. JOSEPH COHEN
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Prof. Cohen Delineates The Golem' Legend