10 Friday, June 8, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS DON'T LET SORE FEET RUIN YOUR SUMMER Anti-Catholic posters Continued from Page 1 "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. Greece improves Israel ties BY SHELDON KIRSHNER Dr. Rives is a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery. His prac- tice covers all areas of foot and ankle problems with special attention to the patient with Diabetes. Proper foot care is very important for these people. • Dr. Rives offers Hospital-Based LASER SURGERY; and complete AMBULATORY SURGERY in his office. Convenient office hours available Kristen Towers Building 25900 Greenfield Suite 139 10/2 Mile and Greenfield I I New, patients presenting this certificate I to receptionist are entitled to a I I 967-2929 Dr. Rives participates with Medicare, Blue Shield and other major medical pro- grams. CONSULTATION AND COMPLETE FOOT EXAM AT NO CHARGE Xrays and treatment if necessary will be billed to your insurance company I I 25900 Greenfield, Suite 139 Oak Park 967-2929 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.