Even Holy City Freedoms Fail to Teach Human Lesson to Terrorists An Appeal to the President to StriVe for Approval of Genocide Convention THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Editorial, Page 4 Commentary, Page 2 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIV, No. 16 17515 W. Nine Mile, .Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $18 Per Year: This Issue 40c December 16, 1983 Israel Has PLO in Quandary Over Evacuation Intentions . Jewish Youth Is Charged in Four Connecticut Fires WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (JTA) — A 17-year-old Jewish youth who was a psychiatric in-patient in a Connecticut hospital was arrested Tuesday and charged with an arson fire that damaged a local syna- gogue of which he was a member as well as three-other arson attacks. Barry Dov Schuss surrendered voluntarily to authorities and was charged with four counts of second degree arson. Police said his arrest closed the cases which had caused widespread concern and fear in the local Jewish community. The fires were set on Aug. 11 at the Young Israel Synagogue, of which the defendant and his family were members; on Aug. 15 at the Emanuel Synagogue; on Aug. 16 at the home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka, rabbi of the Young Israel congregation; and Sept. 16 at the home of state Rep. Joan Kemler, who is Jewish. The fires caused extensive property damage but no injuries. Judge Joseph Morelli of Superior Court ordered the youth returned to the un-named Connecticut hospital pending another court appearance on Jan. 4. Bail was set at $15,000. Frances Reynolds, the West Hartford police chief, said the youth had not given any specific reason for setting the fires. The state's attorney, John Bailey, said Schuss gave officials a complete statement "about his connection with the arson attacks and that he took full responsibility for them." Reynolds said the police believed Schuss had acted alone, based. on the information he provided about the fires. The chief said Schuss had been the prime suspect in the case for some time. Court officials said conviction on second-degree arson was punish- able by a maximum penalty of 20-years imprisonment on each of the four counts but John Downey, the youth's attorney, said he would try to have Schuss tried as a youthful offender. The maximum penalty for such an offender would be three years in prison on each count. Rabbi Stanley Kessler, president of the Greater Hartford Rabbinic Fellowship, said "a nightmare for the community" was over. He called Schuss "a troubled young person." Judge Morelli sealed the court papers, the defendant's statement to authorities and the name of the hospital where the youth was being treated. Drowney said the papers were being sealed for security reasons — "and because of the fragile state" of the youth. The police said they did not know how long he had been a patient or the nature of the treatment he had been getting. Members of the Schuss family and representatives of the Jewish community, including Rabbi Krupka, attended the court hearing Tuesday. The rabbi appeared at the hearing with Schuss, his father and their attorney. They left the court room without speaking to reporters. The West Hartford community, with a large Jewish population, had feared that the series of fires had been set by hate groups. . TEL AVIV (JTA) — Three Israeli Cabinet ministers have made conflicting statements about Israel's intentions regarding Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat's planned evacuation from northern Lebanon under United Nations protection. Communications Minister Mordecai Zipori, addressing army officers Wednesday, said Israel has made no promises that it would allow Arafat to leave Tripoli. He added, however, that as a law-abiding country, Israel would not attack foreign naval vessels, presumably referring to those that would escort Arafat and his 4,000 PLO terrorists to safety. Zipori stressed that it was still Israel's policy to seek out and hit terrorists wherever they could be found. Energy Minister Yitzhak Modai, addressing a forum of Likud's Liberal Party wing, spoke in a similar vein. He said that Israel not only has given no promise to allow Arafat to leave Lebanon but it has not promised to refrain from attacking the PLO evacuees when they leave. He stressed that Israel's policy is to wage "a war of destruction" against the terrorists. Zipori and Modal were less forthright than Deputy Premier David Levy, who was quoted in a French newspaper interview as saying that no action would be taken against Arafat's departure. That statement apparently annoyed other government leaders who would prefer to keep Arafat guessing about Israel's intentions. But no one has contradicted Levy, presumably because of the tense relationship between Levy and Premier Yitzhak Shamir. The U.S. has urged Israel not to do anything to impede the departure of Arafat. State Department sources said Monday that Israel has been officially notified that the U.S. supports the arrangement to allow the PLO to leave Tripoli in ships carrying the United Nations flag. . Department deputy spokesman Alan Romberg did not mention Israel by name in his statement stressing U.S. support for Arafat's departure. But when asked if the U.S. had conveyed its views to Israel, he replied, "Our views are quite clear awl quite well known to the Israelis. They are aware that we are in favor of the departure from Lebanon of Arafat." Secretary of State George Shultz, after ending two days of talks in Tunisia and Morocco in which the U.S. was strongly criticized for its_new strategic alliance with Israel, said in Rabat that the U.S. "expects" Arafat's evacuation to be peaceful. Shamir has strongly objected to the use of UN flags to protect Arafat, particularly in the wake of last LONDON (JTA) — In light of continued attempts to week's bus bombing in Jerusalem deny the facts of the Holocaust, the World Jewish Congress on Tuesday reported the publication in Germany of an which killed five Israelis and for important book entitled "National-Socialist Mass Killings which the PLO first took credit and by Way of Poison Gas: A Documentation." then denied it. However, the Israelis According-to the WJC research arm, the Institute of have not actually said that they will Jewish Affairs, the book is the first systematic collection of fire on the ships carrying the PLO to documents and reports by witnesses of that gruesome chap- North Africa. ter of Nazi policy. Romberg made clear the U.S. The report was a major undertaking, the collective supports the evacuation of the PLO work of 24 authors from Germany, Israel, France, Poland, in order to spare the residents of Austria and The Netherlands. State Attorney Dr. Alex , . Report Documents Nazi Gas Chambers Ruckert of Germany chaired the work. (Continued on Page 3) Group Asks Ann Arbor City Council Detroiter on U.S. Team for Referendum on U.S. Aid for Israel for Pan Am Maccabiad A group calling itself People for Re-assessment of Aid to Israel(PRAI) asked the Ann Arbor City Council on Monday night to put an advisory referendum on the April election ballot requesting a cut in U.S. aid to Israel. PRAI told the council that it has gathered 4,000 signatures on a petition requesting the referendum. The group wants aid to Israel reduced by the amount it has cost Israel "to occupy" and administer the West Bank since 1967. PRAI says that cost equals $300 million. Rabbi Allan D. Kensky of Ann Arbor's Cong. Beth Israel told The Jewish News that the Ann Arbor Jewish Community Council has been conducting a "quiet campaign" opposing the referendum. He said the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Community Council "does now want to stimulate discus- sion or controversy for them (PRAI)." The committee has met with individual members of the city council and has given the council position papers on the subject. Based on those discussions, Rabbi Kensky believes that the council will not approve placing the referendum on the ballot. Rabbi Kensky said three PRAI spokesmen gave a 10-minute presentation before the city council Monday evening during the time period set aside for questions or comments from the audience. He said the presentation was not on the agenda and there was no cross-discussion. The rabbi said the community council may request time in January to make a presentation of its own if the Community Relations Committee believes it necessary. (Continued on Page 10) A young athlete from Michigan has been selected to compete in the fifth Pan American Maccabi Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dec. 23-30. Nicole Rival of Bloomfield Hills, who will soon be 15, has been named to the women's tennis team for the U.S. delegation to the games. Jewish athletes from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, the United States and Venezuela will participate. Miss Rival is the daughter of Dr. Jan and Eva Rival, and has been playing competitive tennis for less than three years. She attends Lahser High School and won the third singles title in the 1983 Michigan high school girls' tennis championships. She is ranked 40th in the Midwest and practices 2-3 hours per day, six days a week. Miss Rival will participate in the international Orange Bowl tour- nament next week in Miami before leaving for Brazil. Her sister, Anita, won several swimming events two years ago at the World Maccabia Games in Israel, and hopes to participate in the 1985 Maccabia. Anita is now a member of the Harvard University girls swim team.