Exclusion Leads Israel to Pull Smithsonian Exhibit

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Smithsonian Institution has canceled an Israeli ar-
cheological exhibition scheduled to open next May after the Israeli government asked to
be released from the undertaking. The Israelis objected because the Smithsonian decided
to exclude 11 items from the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem on grounds that
their ownership is disputed by Arab governments.
The museum, which the Israeli government took over after the capture of East
Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967, was established by the Rockefeller family in the 1920s

Balfour and the
Rothschild Family:
Fascinating

Historic Records

and was privately owned until 1948 when it was nationalized by Jordan.
Danny Kyram, a spokesman for the Israel Embassy, said the Smithsonian was
believed to have come under pressure from Arab and other sources which do not recognize
Israel's sovereignty in East Jerusalem, but said he had no firsthand knowledge of such
pressure.
Kennedy Schmertz, director of the Smithsonian's office of international ac-
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Armaments for Saudi Arabia
Criticized by German Media

By DAVID KANTOR

Chile Jails Klarsfeld
During Rauff Protest

NEW YORK — West German Nazi-hunter Beate
Klarsfeld was arrested briefly in Santiago, Chile on Tues-
day after she led about 30 Chileans in a demonstration
urging Chile to expel Walter Rauff, a former Nazi officer.
Mrs. Klarsfeld and six men were taken to a police
station, where they were charged with disturbing the pub-
lic order. Mrs. Klarsfeld was freed after appeals by the
Roman Catholic human rights office and by West German
consular officials.
The demonstration,
held in Constitution Plaza
across from the Moneda
presidential palace, backed
a request by the Israeli gov-
ernment for the 77-year-old
Rauff's expulsion so he can
stand trial on charges of
gassing 97,000 East Euro-
pean Jews in mobile death
trucks during World War II.
Chile's military govern-
ment has not replied to the
Israeli request.
The Chilean Sup-
reme Court in 1963 re-
jected a West German bid
BEATE KLARSFELD
to extradite Rauff for
trial, citing Chile's 15-
year limit for prosecution of such crimes.
Mrs. Klarsfeld says there is no legal barrier to Rauff's
expulsion because he is not a Chilean citizen and because
he failed to disclose his Nazi activities when he entered
Chile in 1958.
Since her arrival two weeks ago, Mrs. Klarsfeld has
met with political leaders and human rights activists.
Last Thursday she led about 30 members of Chilean
Jewish youth groups in a demonstration outside Rauff's
home in Santiago. Those joining her Tuesday were older
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BONN (JTA) — The West German media is taking a critical look at the government's plans to sell
advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia. National television, which has been consistently pro-Arab in the
Middle East conflict, has demonstrated "understanding" of Israel's position which is vigorously opposed to
the arms deal.
Welt Am Sonntag, a weekly friendly to the regime of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, observed in an editorial
that while the transaction with the Saudis will be financially profitable, it will cost Bonn international
credit and create image problems. The Hamburger Abendblatt noted pointedly in an editorial Monday that
Kohl's visit to Israel last week was widely viewed as an effort to separate German responsibility for the past
from Germany's current policies in the Middle East.
Kohl, who returned on Sunday from his five-day stay in Jerusalem, has been put on the
defensive with respect to the Saudi arms deal. He declared in a television interview that Bonn will
not accept a double standard on arms sales to Middle Eastern countries. Such sales which are
considered legitimate for the United States, France and England, cannot remain taboo for West
Germany alone, he said.
Kohl repeated in numerous interviews with the media while in Israel and on his return that there is no
question of reneging on the earlier promises made to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. He reiterated that such
decisions are made in Bonn, not Jerusalem.
Government sources concede now that Israeli opposition to the arms sales had been underestimated.
They said that on one hand, Israeli diplomats went out of their way to present a rosy picture of German-

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More Hand Grenades Found in Jerusalem
Dismay Israeli Leaders and Investigators

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli police have stepped up their investigation of an attempted attack on Islamic shrines
on the Temple Mount following the discovery Monday of three more hand grenades near the Lions Gate at the eastern
entrance to the Old City.
The grenades were concealed in a water container and are of the same type as the 18 grenades found on the Temple
Mount last Friday along with a large quantity of high explosives. Those grenades were also in water containers.

They were brought to the area Friday night by intruders who escaped after Moslem guards sounded an alarm.
Police believe a large scale attack was planned for Friday, the Moslem Sabbath, when the Temple Mount would be
crowded with worshipppers. The attack would have coincided with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's visit to
Jerusalem.
Jewish extremists are held responsible although no arrests have been made. The grenades are of the same
manufacture (Israeli Army issue) as the booby-trapped grenades discovered near Moslem and- Christian religious
shrines and institutions in the Jerusalem area during the past few weeks. In those cases, anonymous telephone callers
claimed a group calling itself "Terror Against Terror" was responsible. The police are not sure such an organization
exists.
But they said Monday that the large quantity of grenades and explosives found on the Temple Mount improved the
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German, U.S. Munitions Await Arab Cries of 'Jihad'

National Institute on the Holocaust
By REV. FRANKLIN LITTELL
PHILADELPHIA — The strategy of isolating Israel and preparing a new war has
taken a new direction since the IDF police action in Lebanon destroyed the PLO infras-
tructure, split the terrorist movement and eliminated the terrorist training camps.
Egypt is being courted, after the years of isolation which followed President Sadat's
agreement on an armistice in the Camp David Accords. Sadat's "defection" then tor-
pedoed the plan for another massive assault on Israel, which had been prepared and was
all ready to go.
Israel, on this fifth occasion, would have had to fight PLO and Syrian forces on the
north — for two-thirds of Lebanon had been taken over by the invaders during the
1975-1976 civil war. Major Haddad and his forces could not have withstood a full-scale
assault, although they were serviceable for policing an area.
When Sadat broke the plan of military assault and came to the peace table the
Arab despots and dictators vowed publicly "to pursue him to the ends of the
arth and kill him." And indeed they succeeded in doing it.

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t'resident Mubarak has been in a difficult situation. His own life is in jeopardy so
long as he makes peace and does not join the jihad against Israel. With by far the largest
population, rapidly growing, of the countries surrounding Israel, he has been unable to
master the problem of feeding his people. And with small exceptions — such as the Abu
Rodeis oil fields developed by Israel and turned over, with the Sinai — his one-party
regime controls no natural resources. Before Sadat's peace action, Egypt has depended
heavily upon the militants, especially Saudi Arabia.
Whether the resumption of membership in the Arab League means a sliding repudi-
ation of the peace-process or not, the situation is ominous. Saudi Arabia, acclaimed by the
appeasement experts in the State Department as "moderate," is stockpiling enormous
quantities of aggressive arms. U.S. arms dealers have been making a killing in profits,
especially in supplying sophisticated airplanes. Now a deal is being sought with the
German Federal Republic.
The last time the Saudis sought major equipment from West Germany, Chancellor
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