Grenada Hanuka: Chaplain Visits U.S. Soldiers NEW YORK (JTA) — Nearly 20 U.S. Jewish soldiers stationed in Grenada partici- pated, along with non-Jewish military personnel and the commander of the U.S. troops in Grenada, Maj. Gen. Jack Ferris Jr., in a Hanuka celebration led by Army Chaplain Capt. Jacob Goldstein. Goldstein said he brought to the island packages supplied by the Lubavitch Youth Organization which contained kosher wine, menoras and candles and other items, including candy bars for the local children. Potpourri Good Will With Mutual Respect Among All Faiths, When Hunger is Politicized Unlike the other Caribbean islands where Jewish communities exist, Gre- nada has no Jews at all, an oddity which Goldstein said was relayed to him when he met with the Anglican Archbishop of Grenada. The Archbishop said there was never any Jewish presence in Grenada, an island about 133 square miles with a population of about 100,000. The only Jews who were in Grenada at the time of the U.S. invasion were students in (Continued on Page 3) THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events A Nightmare in an American Community, With a Lesson for Humanism Editorial, Page 4 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIV, No. 17 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 ,$18 Per Year: This Issue 40c December 23, 1983 Arafat and PLO's Evacuation Tied to Hussein, Peace Talks Bond Campaign Hails Eleanor Roosevelt NEW YORK — James Roosevelt, son of the late President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, friends of the Roosevelt family and Jewish commu- nity leaders participated in the launching of the year-long, nation- wide Israel Bond tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt in 1984 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth. A re- ception was held Dec. 16 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. MRS. ROOSEVELT Roosevelt is national honorary chairman of the Centennial Committee which includes Nancy Reagan, Rosalyn Carter, Betty Ford, Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as honorary members. At the reception, James Roosevelt purchased the first Israel Bond of the centennial observance from Mrs. Jan Peerce of New York, national chairman of the Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial Committee. Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yehudah Halevy, president and chief executive officer of Israel Bonds, took part in the ceremony. Mrs. Roosevelt purchased one of the first Israel Bonds in June 1951, when the Bond Organization was founded, from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt and a close friend of the family, who was chairman of the Bond campaign's board of governors in the early years of the organization. Since then, close to $6.4 billion in Bonds and other securities, which help develop Is- rael's economy, have been sold. The Bonds Women's Division is organizing a series of events across the country for the Eleanor Roosevelt Cen 7 tennial. These include major dinners honoring women who have distinguished themselves in business, professional, government, humanitarian, civic or cultural endeavors. WASHINGTON (JTA) — A senior State Department official said Tuesday that the evacuation from Tripoli of Yasir Arafat and some 4,000 of his loyalist Palestine Liberation Organization force, would be "meaningless" if it did not lead to bringing King Hussein of Jordan into the peace talks. The official, answering questions in a year-end review of the Middle East at the Foreign Press Center, said the U.S. "hopes that a way could be found" in talks between Hussein and Arafat to allow the King to enter the negotiations with "credible Palestinian support." "It came very close to an understanding in April," the official said, "and it was -a source of great disappointment to us and to many others" inside and outside the region that the talks failed when Arafat could not get the backing of the PLO executive committee. There was no mention by the official that one of the reasons given by the Syrian-backed group of PLO dissidents who forced Arafat out of Lebanon for their opposition to him was that he had talked to Hussein about participating in negotiations with Israel. - The official noted that the PLO evacuatio n aboard Greek ships flying United Nations flags was good in itself because i t was hoped that it will mean KING HUSSEIN the end to six weeks of bloodshed among Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians in the Tripoli area. "But it will be a kind of meaningless affair if it doesn't lead to some political efforts to get into the peace process," he added. "I think there is a possibility it can. We cer- tainly will work toward that end," the officials said. UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The General As- Those remarks seemed to add a new dimension to sembly on Monday night adopted five anti-Israel the U.S. demands over the last two weeks that Israel resolutions, calling for sanctions against the Jewish not impede the PLO's departure from Tripoli. The state and denouncing the recent agreement between U.S. publicly said that the departure would end the Israel and the United States on closer strategic coop- killing of innocent civilians in Tripoli and could also eration. be seen in the context of the U.S. goal to have all Yehuda Blum, Israel's ambassador, condemned foreign forces leave Lebanon. the resolutions, charging that "instead of defusing tension and promoting reconciliation, the resolutions The State Department official said that the add more fuel to the fire" of the Mideast conflict. U.S. continues to believe that President One resolution, stating that the new American- Reagan's Middle East initiative is the best way to Israeli accord "will increase Israel's intransigence move ahead toward peace in the area and noted and its war potential and escalate its annexationist that nothing has been offered since the policies in the Palestinian and other Arab territories UN Hits Israel in `Palestine Debate' (Continued on Page 7) Sinai, Ford Plan Pact Will Allow U.S. Troops WB Hospital to Use Top Israeli Hospitals Sinai Hospital of Detroit and Henry Ford Hospital are planning to establish an acute care, 200-bed hospital in West Bloom- field on the site of Ford Hospital's Edsel B. Ford Center on Maple west of Drake and across from the Jewish Community Center. Interest in the West Bloomfield area as a site for an inpatient facility dates back to the early 1970s when the Ford West Bloom- " field Center was being planned. It opened in 1975, with Sinai's board president, Maxwell Jospey, on the founding board. The first cooperative effort of the two hospitals was a pulmonary rehabilitation program which has been offered at the West (Continued on Page 10) WASHINGTON (JTA) — A preliminary agreement reached between the United States and Israel in Jerusalem for the use of Israeli medical facilities was hailed as a positiVe step forward by Rep. James Scheuer The agreement which was reached last Thursday between Dr. William Mayer,. assistant Secretary of Defense for Health, and Brig. Gen. Moshe Revach, the Israel, Defense Force Surgeon-General, includes the use of the Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Scheuer and other Congressmen had strongly criticized U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger because the U.S. Defense Department had not used the Rambam facility to treat American servicemen wounded in the Oct. 23 truck bomb attack against the Marine headquarters in Beirut. Scheuer had publicly rejected Weinberger's explanation that the Israeli offer of facilities was not accepted because it had not been needed. "While I regret that Secretary Weinberger is still insisting that the bizarre procedures followed after the Oct. 23 attack were proper and logical, actions speak louder than posturing," Scheuer said. (Continued on Page 10) (Continued on Page 8) Greece Seeks Links to Israel ATHENS (JTA) — Prime Minister An- dreas Papandreou told a delegation of Euro- pean leaders of the World Jewish Congress that he "wants to improve relations with the state of Israel," it was reported here. The premier formally received the dele- gation last week as a follow-up to a private meeting he had with WJC president Edgar Bronfman in Corfu last July. At that time, agreement was reached to continue dis- cussions "with the aim of addressing con- cerns felt by the Jewish community and to build upon these areas of mutual interest between world Jewry and Greece." The meeting last week lasted one hour (Continued on Page 5)