awwwwwvoitot•woonlytwo,ayt-ww „ ....:ts.0,0s403,;?Weataltr1011P' .. _ _ - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS LETTERS 25% OA! • Mitzvah madness As a fellow Jew, I found your article in the June 22 Jewish News quite disturb- ing on , how our young- families are going to the limits on bar-bat mitzvahs. Whatever happend to "tra- dition"? Have they forgot- ten their roots? We must draw the line as to how far we will go with these elaborate Hollywood-style parties .. . C. Katz Kick out PLO Secretary of State George Shultz states that govern- ments opposed to terrorism organization in the world. The PLO long should have been kicked out of our coun- try and their fundraising and recruiting for terrorist activities etopped. America, by allowing the PLO to have offices in New York and Washington and to freely operate throughout the country, means we have condoned the rule of the gun. It tells people that vio- lence and the threat of vio- lence against innocent people is legitimate and re- spectable. If we are serious about curbing international. terrorism, we must kick out the terrorist PLO from our country. Hymie Cutler, chairperson, Metro Detroit Americans for a Safe Israel Israel labor strife seen - easing Tel Aviv (JTA) — The labor strife that has plagued Israel this month eased somewhat last week, but not all of the public sector has returned to normal and threats of strikes and work slowdowns persist. Striking Electric Corp. employees were back on the job Friday, restoring full power after a week of sporadic blackouts around the country. They appar- •ently failed to achieve any major benefits from their • walkout. Foreign Ministry staff, on strike since the beginning of the month, obeyed a court order and returned to their jobs. But about 300 of them •sported buttons proclaim- ing, "I am working under the coercion of a back-to- work order." Striking clerks of the rabbinical courts who created havoc two weeks ago by refusing to issue marriage licenses or divorce decrees have also returned to work at the urging of the Chief Rabbinate which promosed to help adjudicate their wage dispute.' The rabbinical court workers are demanding the same pay as civil court clerks. Life guards are back on the job on the Tel Aviv beaches, just in time to cope, with peak summer crowds. The Haifa oil refineries are functioning after a four-day work stoppage, but only with skeleton crews ordered by the courts to fill tank trucks with fuel for delivery to gasolin •stations and fac- tories. Striking meterolOgists have resumed their weather forecasts, but only on a limited basis. Radios and television screens came alive again this month as broadcast journalists reached agreement with the state-owned Broadcast Authority for a wage scale equal to that of print jour- nalists. But administrative employees of the Broadcast EAR PIERCING e FREE All Imitations waitrh4gurscIpasreercilfari)cieorncsinegnt DEBORAH'S INVITATIONS must be willing to take "appropriate preventative actions." Shultz cited the Palestine• Liberation Organization for terrorist actions and added that the Soviet Union and its allies provided "financial, logistic and training support for terrorists world-wide." It was 31/2 years ago that President Reagan an- nounced that combatting terrorism would be his first national security priority. Is the Administration still just talking? If the Reagan Adminiq- tration really means what they say, as a first step they should close the American offices of the Palestine Lib- eration Organization, the most bloodthirsty terrorist Authority are continuing their sanctions and many scheduled programs have yet to return to the air. The Supreme Court has ordered that the nightly half hour allotted to the political par- ties for their campaign mes- sages must not be inter- rupted. Some 60,000 govern- ment-employed engineers and academicians in the so- cial sciences remained on strike this week in a dispute with Histadrut and the gov- ernment over a wage agreement concluded last month which they refuse to accept, Clerks at the Israel Dis- count Bank threatened a 24-hour strike and junior high school teachers are warning of sanctions that may delay the opening •of the new school year in Sep- tember. In other economic de- velopments, the govern- ment opted for a very mod- est rise in prices this month, laying it open to charges of "election economics" by the Labor opposition. The prices of basic com- modities were raised by just eight percent and the price of gasoline by ten percent. Government subsidies will cover the gap between those rises and the real cost in- creases which are 20 per- cent for basics and 30 per- cent for gas. This is not more than a continuation of the policies adopted in April im- mediately after the Knesset voted to hold early elec- tions. In April the consumer price index rose by 20.6 per- cent but the price of basic commodities went up only 14 percent, thanks to sub- sidies. The pattern was re- peated in May when the CPI was up 14.3 percent but the actual cost of basic, items went uif only nine percent. The country's dollar re- serves fell by $350 million in June, largely as a result' of heavy purchases of foreign curreny by the pub- lic fearful of further devalu- ations of the shekel. The shekel was devalued by 17.2 percent last -month and now stands at an official rate of 236.4 to the dollar. The black market rate over the weekend stood at 350 shekels to $1.00. The government is ex- pected to take an "overnight loan" from foreign sources, the Jerusalem Post reported last week, so that when offi- cial statistics are released later this rmonth foreign currency situation will not appear too bad. The Knesset elections are less than weeks off. The public rushed to buy •dollars and other foreign currency befo re the shekel sank so low as to put them out of reach. The buying spree was financed in part' by the government's injec- tion of 40 billion shekels (about $169 million) into the economy in June and partly by the conversion of some 25 billion shekels ($106 million) of private as into dollars. According to treasury figures, the total monetary infusion by the government between January and June was 190 percent higher in real terms than in the same period of 1983. The excess of government spending over revenue — the nationalde- ficit — was about 280 per- cent higher. Meanwhile, the Bank of Israel is considering the' printing of a 100,000 shekel note, the Jerusalem Post re- ported Sunday. The paper said the bank had planned a 50,000 shekel note aa the highest denomi- nation, but inflation was outstripping its plans and now an even higher de- nomination was con- templated. . The 5,000 shekel note is expected to come into use next month but the 10,000 note will not be ready until the end of the year. Friday, July 13, 1984 5 La required under 18. EVERY SATURDAY FROM 124 IRMO THE MONTH OF MILY 12 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE eMeRYS See Our New and Exciting Invi- tations Direct From The New York Stationery Show. 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