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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Histad-
rut and private sector em-
ployers signed an agree-
ment Sunday night for the
payment of a 15.9 percent
cost-of-living increment on
June salaries, due July 1.
Agreements with private
employers are auto-
matically accepted by pub-
lic sector employers, includ-
ing the government.
The June increase in-
cludes a 4.5 percent boost
still due on May salaries
plus an additional 11.4 per-
cent. This represents four-
fifths of the 14.3 percent rise
in the consumer price index
last month.
Last month's inflation
rate, which exceeded even
the most pessimistic proj-
ections, has brought infla-
tion to the fore as the most
serious immediate problem
facing Israel's economy.
former Finace Minister
Yigael Hurwitz, who is
running for the Knesset,
warned this week that "fi-
nancial chaos will fan out"
unless runaway inflation is
halted.
If the economic situation
continues to deteriorate, in-
flation in September and
October will hit 20-25 per-
cent for an annual rate of
about 1,000 percent, he
said. The current inflation
rate is about 400 percent.
In other economic news,
Israeli television screens
went dark and radios were
silenced last Friday as jour-
nalists employed by the
state-owned Broadcast
Authority began a three-
day strike for higher wages.
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Who'll Get Stung
By Our Stingers?
It is time America stopped feeding Saudi Arabia's insatiable
appetite for weapons.
The Saudi regime already has a huge arsenal of American
arms: Redeye surface-to-air missiles, Hawkeye surface-to-air
missiles, F-5 fighters, F-15 fighters, AWACS command planes and
a vast array of other war materiel—$40 billion worth.
Four hundred Stinger antiaircraft missiles and 200
shoulder-held launchers are the newest addition to the Saudi military
storehouse. Meanwhile, the feudal kingdom continues to frustrate
American policy by providing $1 million a day to the terrorist PLO
and by financing Syrian military purchases from the Soviet Union.
What "emergency" impelled the President to waive the rule
requiring Congress to approve arms sales to foreign governments?
The New York Times reports that even some Administration officials
admit there was no intelligence information showing a likely Iranian air
attack on Saudi oilfields. The Stingers, it turns out, were really sent
"to reassure the Saudis, politically and psychologically."
A frightening risk.
Whatever the purpose, this sale poses a special peril.
The Stinger is compact, lightweight, portable. You can bet the PLO
is already attempting to get hold of it. That would not be the first
time American arms have fallen into terrorist hands. Immense quantities
of munitions we sold to the Saudis were part of the hoard of
PLO weapons discovered by Israeli forces in Lebanon.
But this time the danger is especially grave. The Wall Street
Journal calls the Stinger "a perfect weapon against civilian aircraft'
In catering to Saudi Arabia's unquenchable thirst for
military hardware, the Administration has created a new and
frightening risk.
We pray that our country and its allies are not stung by
our own Stingers.
N.Y. Times, June 10, 1984
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They are demanding im-
mediate negotiations for
new contracts to bring their
pay in line with that of print
journalists. If not satisfied,
the newscasters have
threatened to black out
political broadcasts in the
summer election campaign,
expected to be in full swing
shortly. They have also
threatened, if necessary, to
prevent Israeli coverage of
the Olympic Games in Los
Angeles next month.
Last week, elementary
and junior high school
teachers returned to their
classrooms, ending a one-
day strike after an all-night
bargaining session with the
Education Ministry. But
the 60,000-member civil
servants union has an-
nounced another work stop-
page in two weeks.
The Likud Party has
charged that the sudden
series of work stoppages,
strikes and threats of
strikes to come was
fomented by the Labor
Party and Histadrut to em-
barrass the government and
further injure the economy
with elections less than two
months away.
'
Labor spokesmen fiercely
deny this and 'accuse the
government of grossly mis-
managing the economy and
reneging on promised im-
provements in wages and
working conditions.
Meanwhile, Hillel Dudai,
the Finance Ministry offi-
cial in charge of labor
negotiations, was fired last
week, apparently in a wage
dispute of his own.
According to Finance
Minister Yigal Cohen-
Orgad, Dudai made unac-
ceptable demands and
wanted a free negotiating
hand in the current labor
crisis. Treasury sources said
he was seeking severance
pay equal to that of a deputy
minister and the argument
over whether or not he was
entitled to it led to his being
severed.
Reconstructionists re-affirm
'68 patrilinea1 descent vote
Buffalo, N.Y. (JTA) —
Delegates to the 24th an-
nual convention of the Fed-
eration of Reconstructionist
Congregations and Havurot
(FRCH) reaffirmed a 1968
resolution which grants full
Jewish status to a child
whose father or mother is
Jewish and who is raised
and educated as a Jew.
In another resolution, the
200 delegates declared that
Reconstructionist rabbis
and congregations should
offer counseling to a Jew
and non-Jew expressing an
intention to marry. The
resolution said such assis-
tance should be offered to
enable the mixed couple to
explore the lifetime impli-
cations of mixed marriage,
such as education in relev-
ant matters of Jewish cus-
tom, including the dif-
ferences between Jewish
law (Halachah) and the Re-
constructionist philosophy
which does not accept
Halachah.
The resolution also pro-
posed that appropriate
counseling should also be
made available to the par-
ents of the couple.
Another resolution de-
clared that the traditional
rites of the Jewish wedding
ceremony (kiddushin)
should be reserved for the
marriage of a Jew to a Jew.
Another resolution de-
clared FRCH rabbis should
encourage in every way the
marriages of interfaith
couples committed to estab-
lishing a Jewish home and
educating their children as
Jews.
Among the suggestions
for such encouragement
were the possibility of Re-
constructionists attending
civil marriage ceremonies
and, after the ceremony, ex-
tending to the newly-
married couple remarks of
welcome into the Jewish
community "and encourag-
ing their continued in-
volvement in the life of the
Jewish people."
Jewish religious and lay
leaders should never take
part in a joint inter-
religious wedding cere-
mony, another resolution
declared.
In another resolution, the
delegates said that the
Jewish community should
reach out to intermarried
couples and provide them
with opportunities to
explore their relationship
and that of their family "to
the Jewish people" by spe-
cial educational programs,
invitations to home Shab-
bat and holiday programs
and assistance to such
families to find suitable
congregations when they
must relocate.
The reaffirmed 1968 reso-
lution appeared to be almost
identical with the resolu-
tion approved by the 94th
annual convention of the
Central Conference of
American Rabbis (Reform)
in Los Angeles in 1983.
That resolution was a
non-binding recommenda-
tion on Reform rabbis
authorizing them to accept
the child of a mixed mar-
riage as being under the
"presumption" — with the
consent and cooperation of
the parents — of being of
Jewish descent, to be
validated "through appro-
priate and timely public and
formal acts of identification
with the Jewish people."
Like the CCAR resolu-
tion, the FRCH resolution
would end the historic
Halachic rule under which
only the mother can trans-
mit Jewish identity to her
children. The_ Reform
movement came under
u
se-
cure condemnation, ini-
tially by Orthodox rabbini-
cal and lay organizations,
and subsequently by the
Rabbinical Assembly, the
organization of Conserva-
tive rabbis, for that pro-
posal.
Lillian Kaplan of Silver
Spring, Md., was elected to a
two-year term as FRCH
president, reportedly the
first woman to head a major
Jewish denomination. She
succeeded Samuel Blu-
menthal of Roslyn, -N.Y.