Condemning Media Bias as a Necessity to Prevent Its Repetition THE JEWISH NEWS A WeekIN Review of Jewish Events Israel in Grip of Terrorized Universe With Mounting Obstacles Editorial, Page 4 Commentary, Page 2 Copyright c The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIV, No. 26 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, MI 48075-4491 424-8833 $18 Per Year: This Issue 40c February 24, 1984 Claims Its PLO Policies _Are Consistent, Unchanged Itj • Jewish Life Exhibit Is Coming to Detroit Part of the "Jewish Life in Michigan" segment of the Jewish Life in America exhibition is this photo- graph of Ben and Max Ellias with a team of horses at the ill-fated Palestine farming colony near Bad Axe around the turn of the century. * The nationally-acclaimed exhibition "Jewish Life in America: Fulfilling the American Dream" will be brought to the Detroit Historical Museum April 12-29 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. The exhibition contains photographs, documents, paintings and memorabilia recording more than 300 years of Jewish contributions to American society. To complement the national exhibition, the ADL Michigan region will focus on the state with "Jewish Life in Michigan" chronicling the growth of the state's Jewish community from the first known settler in the Upper Peninsula in 1760 to the present. "Jewish Life in America" and the Michigan seg- ment have been divided into five chronological eras representing significant waves of immigration to the United States. The first period includes drawings, documents and paintings covering the years 1654- 1819. It begins with the 23 Jewish settlers from Brazil who, fleeing Portuguese persecution, arrived in the (Continued on Page 10) By DAVID FRIEDMAN The Reagan Administration maintained Tuesday that it has been consistent in its policy "both publicly and privately" not to recognize or negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization until it accepts United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and Israel's right to exist. "There is no change in that," State Department deputy spokesman Alan Romberg stressed. "We said if they do these things, then we'll talk to them. There is no change in that." But Romberg would not discuss published reports that the Administration, over a nine- month period ending in June 1982, conducted secret discussions through an intermediary with PLO chief Yasir Arafat. According to the published reports, the intermediary was John Mroz, a specialist on the Middle East and the Soviet Union, who reportedly conducted the talks with the knowledge of then Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Nicholas Veliotes, at the time Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and now the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt. Romberg said, "We havescontact with a variety of people who claim to have contact with the PLO." He said that when they ask what they should tell the PLO, they are told to repeat the U.S. conditions. Robert McFarlane, President Reagan's National Security Adviser, said on a television panel program Sunday, the day the reports of the alleged secret U.S. contacts with the PLO were published, that he has no personal knowledge of any such contact and I'm very confident the President was unaware of any such contact if they took place." McFarlane, appearing on the ABC-TV This Week with David Brinkley" program, said he Was "very puzzled" by the report. Roberg had no comment on a report from Jerusalem of a Jordanian-Egyptian move to form a Palestinian delegation that would include members of the PLO to participate in a resumption of the autonomy talks with Israel, stalled for the past two years. The Israel Radio report said Israeli WASHINGTON (JTA) — (Continued on Page 5) Arens Hits Lebanese Army Performance, Defends Forays Against PLO Terrorits JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Defense Minister Moshe Arens has sharply criticized the performance of the and Shiite Moslem militias. In most cases, he said, the army did not put Lebanese army in its recent battles with Druze up a fight. Unlike the Druze and Shiites, the soldiers had no motivation, he told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee on Wednesday. Arens defended the recent policy of the Israel Defense Forces to send armored patrols north of the Awali River line. purpose was to prevent the return of the Palestinian terrorists to territory evacuated by the IDF and the He said the , fact that there are no terrorists facing Israeli soldiers is proof of its success. At a press conference Tuesday, Arens insisted that Israeli military action north of the Awali and air raids on terrorist targets were not intended to bolster the regime of President Amin Gemayel in Beirut. "We- are not his ally. We do not even have diplomatic relations,". Arens said. Observers interpreted his remarks as a reiteration of the Israeli government's claim that its policies and action in Lebanon are intended solely to ensure the security of Israel's northern borders and have nothing to do with internal Lebanese politics and internecine strife. Arens said an IDF redeployment south of the Awali River was not contemplated "at this stage" but he did not rule out the prospect. "The situation requires that we reconsider (our position) each month," he said. He rejected the idea that Israel would remain in south Lebanon permanently or even indefinitely. But for the present, the IDF must be there because there is no prospect of a Lebanese government which could honor commitments to maintain security in the south, Arens said. (Continued on Page 3) • Springer Warns of Dangers If German Post Backs Story Weapons Are Supplied to Saudi Arabia on Jackson's Slur By AXEL SPRINGER AXEL SPRINGER (Editor's note: This article by German publisher Axel Springer first appeared in Welt am Sonntag, Feb. 5, under the title, "The Rights of Israel and the Duty of the Germans.") One of the four essentials which I postulated in the late 1960s for the work of my publishing house concerns the obligation to promote the reconciliation of Jews and non- Jewish Germans and to stand for the vital rights of Israel. These vital rights are far more than the mere "right to exist" that time and again creeps up in political verbiage. Israel has a right to freedom, to the security of its demo- cratic state, to safe borders and support against her enemies. After the visit of Chancellor Kohl who, unlike his predecessor, did not keep Israel waiting, I wonder: Does the policy of the free part of Germany live up to our special duty toward the state of the Jews? There have been lively discussions in Israel whether or not the Germans take heed of the consequences of the past vis-a-vis the facts of the present — in a way that morale and (Continued on Page 53) NEW YORK (JTA) — The tense relations between the American Jewish community and the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been further strained in the last few days by an alleged reference by the Democratic Presidential hopeful to Jews as "Hymie" and to New York as "Hymietown," as well as to his call on Jewish leaders to repudiate the tactics of some Jewish groups that he said had tried to disrupt his election campaign. Jackson's remarks about "Hymie" or "Hymietown" were reported by the Washington Post last week. But in a meeting Tuesday he had "no recollection" of making these statements. But the Washington Post said it stood by its story that Jackson made his remarks in a conversation with reporter Milton Coleman in a cafeteria at the Wash- (Continued on Page 6)