NY Jewish voters boosted Mondale 10 Reagan and Shultz fight U.S. Embassy move 20 o Jewish Association for Retarded Citizens 'Wish Book' 49 56 - Synagogue up from the ashes 25 E JEWISH NEWS APRIL 6, 1984 SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY 40c PER COPY CLOSE-UP Terror in Jerusalem continues tragic spiral BY BARBARA PASH Special to The Jewish News Mideast experts insist on putting last Monday's terrorist attack on a busy Jerusalem street in "its proper, historical context" — a tragic but ac- cepted fact of life in Israel. At the Is- raeli Embassy in Washington, Consul General Yosef Yaakov told The Jewish News, "Jerusalem has never been free of these terrorist incidents, but the vigilance of Israeli forces has thwarted them.' This is the same brand of ter- rorism that has been practiced in Lebanon for so may years," Yaakov continued, "and which caused the col- lapse of that country. The PLO calls it `armed struggle' but it is really armed terror against innocent civilians." The terrorist attack occurred around 10 a.m. on King George Road near the busy intersection of Jaffa Road in the Jewish, West Jerusalem area. Two Arab men entered a small clothing store and asked, in English, to try on some clothes. Police and the shop owner gave the following account: The second man suddenly drew a hidden automatic weapon, ran to the shop door and began firing indiscriminately at passersby. The first man, who also was armed, soon joined his comrade and began firing. Stepping outside the shop onto the street, they continued firing. One terrorist threw two gre- nades into the crowd. Meanwhile, Is- Continued on Page 8 Calm mood dominates Arab-Israeli dialogue BY HEIDI PRESS Local News Editor The impish world of Art Buchwald BY ARTHUR MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News The outer sanctum could be a front for a numbers operation or a fly-by-night publishing company. A few file cabinets crammed next to each other. A wooden chair almost blocks the door, loaded with several feet of old copies of the Washington Post and the New York Times. The walls are lined with framed letters that one could easily assume were flowery testimonials to whatever product is hyped in these parts. But hold on. Take - a good look at those letters. No compliments here. No encomiums. No accolades. No sky-high praises. This isn't fan mail. This is hard stuff, the sort of material you would send home to mother only if you were conspiring to give her a coronary. "Smart Aleck; Sadist; Stupid," goes one epistle. "Check one or more." "Compassion, sympathy and understanding is totally lacking in your makeup," "Take a good look at yourself in mirror and then bang your thick skull into it." Another writer notes that he "read your sickening attempt at What dubious sense of humor gets a kick out of papering his walls with this venom? humor on Monday, August 8th. We are not a family that usually writes to socialist slobs like you . . . You're a jackass." A few inches down the hall is another letter from the hinterlands. By now, you know enough not to ex- Continued on Page 14 Calm prevailed Monday night at what liad the potential for being an explosive forum on the topic of "Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue: Pros- pects for a Negotiated Peace." Held at the Birmingham Temple, the forum, which featured Mordechai Bar-On, an activist in the Peace Now movement in Israel and member of the Hebrew Univerity faculty, and Mohammed Milhem, expelled mayor of the West Bank town of Halhoul, only drew one outburst from the audi- ence. (Mounir Fasheh, who was an- nounced last week as the speaker for the Palestinian viewpoint, was re- placed by Milhem when Milhem's scheduled allowed him time for the Detroit engagement.) The outburst came following re- marks by Milhem when he said that although the Arabs and Palestinians are divided now, "in 15-20 years they won't be divided and that will be the end of Israel." A voice from the back room shouted "all right" to which the audience responded with a loud hum of disapproval. The evening began with a wel- come by Jan Sherman of the temple, who introduced the guest speakers thus: "Mordechai Bar-On, a distin- guished Israeli, and Mohammed Milhem, an equally distinguished Palestinian." Bar-On opened his remarks by denouncing Monday's attack on civi- lians in Jerusalem. He called it "a stupid act even in terms of Palestinian interests . . . Those who made the at- tack this morning don't want to kill Mordechai Bar On - Israelis, but to kill peace." He said the attack highlighted what he called a zero-sum conflict, "everything I win you lose, everything you win I lose," which he said was a viewpoint that prevailed both among Continued on Page 12