10 Friday, June 8, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
DON'T LET SORE FEET
RUIN YOUR SUMMER
Anti-Catholic posters
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"During the summer we find in our office an increase in
patients concern over various skin problems such as
• athletes feet • planters warts and
• cracking skin around the heel
These skin conditions can affect children and adults
alike and should be examined periodically. I invite you to
visit our office if you are troubled with these skin condi-
tions.
moved are being covered with an
NCCJ poster that says "Brotherhood
Begins With Respect."
The NCCJ is also trying to or-
ganize a volunteer group to remove
Alamo posters that may be put up in
the future. Persons wishing to volun-
teer, or to report new posters or liter-
ature, can call the NCCJ Detroit
office, 869-6306.
According to Arcand, Tony
Alamo is a former Jew who is now a
born-again, fundamentalist Chris-
tian. He said he telephoned the Ar-
kansas offices of the foundation "to
express my concern that hurting
Catholics is not the way to save the
world." He said the response was that
the foundation and its members
firmly believe that the Vatican is the
root of all evil.
One of the statements in the
Alamo pamphlet alleges that the
mass suicide by cultists in Jones-
town, Guyana several years ago was
a Vatican plot to discredit born-again
Christians.
The Greater Detroit Round
Table of the NCCJ issued a state-
ment repudiating the Alamo litera-
ture. It said that "these vicious mate-
rials are reminiscent of similar at-
tacks on Jews and other minorities in
this country and others. We call on
all citizens to repudiate these pam-
phlets and their message by calling
the number listed on the pamphlets
(1-800-643-2545) and registering
their concern over these libelous at-
tacks.
"We, the Interfaith Steering
Committee of the Greater Detroit
Round Table of the National Confer-
ence of Christians and Jews, hereby
condemn and call upon the Tony and
Susan Alamo Foundation to cease its
campaign to malign Roman Catholic
citizens and their church."
Signing the NCCJ statement
were: Josephine Casgrain, Dr.
Richard Hertz, Rev. James
Wadsworth, Rabbi Stanley Rosen-
baum, Rev. Edward Willingham,
Rabbi David Nelson, Rabbi Dannel
Schwartz, Rabbi Ernst Conrad, Fr.
Arthur Loveley, Imam Muhammad
Karoub, Bishop H. Irving Mayson,
Sr. Mary Ellen Harmon, Imam
Mohamad Jawad Chirri, Rev. Robert
Mitchell, Robert L. Dugas, Rev.
James Lyons, Fr. Alex Brunett, Dr.
Otis Saunders, Dr. Agnes Mansour
and Dr. John Mames.
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Athens (JTA) — Greece,
the only member of the
European Economic Com-
munity (EEC) which has ex-
tended full diplomatic rec-
ognition to the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
has launched a discreet
campaign to improve its
battered relations with Is-
rael.
Israel's normally distant
relationship with Greece
reached an abysmal low
during the 1982 war in
Lebanon, when Prime
Minister Andreas Papan-
dreou likened Israel's inva-
sion to Nazi Germany's
genocide against European
Jewry.
Israel was vilified in the
state-run media, Greek
dockworkers boycotted Is-
raeli ships, the Greek Or-
thodox church joined cul-
tural and philanthropic
groups in donating blood,
food, funds and clothing to
the Palestinians, and the
Prime Minister's wife, Mar-
garet, led a march on the Is-
raeli Mission here.
After being thrown out of
West Beirut by the Israelis
in August of 1982, PLO
chairman Yasir Arafat
chose Greece instead of an
Arab nation as his first stop.
Arafat embraced Papan-
dreou, and Papandreou
said: "I feel deeply moved at
vgcpiying . . . this great
fighter for the freedom of his
people."
Less than a year earlier,
following Papandreou's
election victory, Arafat was
invited to Athens. Papan-
dreou, who was a York Uni-
versity (Toronto) economics
professor when a military
junta ruled Greece, recog-
nized the PLO on a de facto
basis. By doing so, he up-
graded the PLO's diploma-
tic status to match that of
Israel's. •
Greece, which in 1947
cast a vote against the
United Nations Palestine
partition plan for fear of up-
setting the Arabs, thereby
reinforced the pro-Arab
character of its Middle
Eastern policy.
Of late, however, Greece
has sought an improvement
in its relations with Israel.
As one top-ranking official
in the Foreign Ministry put
it in a recent interview:
"Just because we oppose
certin aspects of Israeli pol-
icy doesn't mean that our
bilateral relations must
remain stagnant."
Although Israeli dip-
lomats welcome -the thaw,
they entertain no illusions
about the basic nature of
Greek policy in the Middle
East. "We encourage any
improvement forward," one
source said. "But on basic
issues, we can't go too far."
First and foremost, the Is-
raelis do not expect Greece
to grant Israel de jure
recognition. Nor do they be-
lieve that the Greek gov-
enment will ever reconcile
itself to Israeli positions on
the occupied territories and
the Palestinians.
Nearly two months ago, a
high-level Greek delegation
attended the opening of Hel-
lenic House at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
The Greek party, though
not in Israel in an official
capacity, consisted of a
former Greek President, the
Mayor of Salonika, the
Secretary-General of the
Ministry of Science and
Culture, and about 100
other Greeks.
Last month, the first offi-
cial Greek commercial
delegation visited Israel. It
was led by the president of
the Athens Chamber of
Commerce. Israeli officials
contend that bilateral trade
can easily be doubled to
$150 million a year. Before
the year is out, Israel will
probably play host to the
Undersecretary of the Di-
rector of Political Affairs of
the Greek Foreign Minis-
try.
Amid these signs of rap-
prochement, Israelis are
pleased to note that overt
media attacks on Israel
have all but ceased.