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LITE YEARS AHEAD..
Israel drops goals in Lebanon
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is
determined to withdraw its forces
from south Lebanon regardless of
whether an agreement is reached
with the Lebanese government
and has apparently abandoned
the idea of using the Israel De-
fense Force to attain political
goals in Lebanon, Defense Minis-
ter Yitzhak Rabin indicated this
week.
He told the Knesset that if no
agreement is reached, Israel
would have to consider unilateral
steps to pull the IDF out of Leba-
non, but in that case it would con-
tinue to hold positions essential to
Israel's security and the Beirut
government would have no con-
trol over the situation in south
Lebanon, Rabin said.
Israel is using the threat of exc-
lusion to induce the Lebanese to
negotiate. Talks on withdrawal
that were to have begun Tuesday
under United Nations auspices
were postponed to Thursday at
the request of Beirut.
Rabin stressed that he favors
"exhausting the military and
political negotiations with Leba-
non" before Israel decides on un-
ilateral withdrawal. He reiter-
ated the government's position
that security for Israel's northern
borders is the sole element in
these negotiations. Not one Is-
raeli soldier will be left in Leba-
non for one extra day for goals
that are not purely military, he
said.
Israel will come to the negotia-
tions with Lebanon with certain
guidelines, Rabin said. These
stipulate that no foreign soldiers,
including soldiers of the Lebanese
army, will be deployed south of
the line presently held by the IDF.
Positions in the south will be
occupied by the Israel-backed
South Lebanese Army (SLA) and
those to the north of the line by
the United Nations Interim Force
in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Rabin said.
The Knesset debate was
marked by angry exchanges be-
tween members of the rightwing
Tehiya Party and the leftist
Mapam and Civil Rights Move-
ment. Victor Shemtov of Mapem
and Yossi Sarid of the CRM ex-
pressed satisfaction that the gov-
ernment no longer seeks political
goals in Lebanon by military
means.
Yuval Neeman and former
Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan of
Tehiya claimed that the govern-
ment's plans would result in the
return of terrorists to south Leba-
non and Katyusha rocket attacks
on Israel.
Newsweek magazine reported
this week that Syrian President
Hafez Assad reluctantly approved
the Lebanese-Israeli talks after
he failed to get backing from the
Soviet Union to break up the new
alliance between Jordan, Egypt
and Iraq. Newsweek said that
Assad can transfer some of his
60,000 troops and 1,000 tanks
from Lebanon to the Syrian-
Jordan border if the Israelis pull
out of Lebanon.
Meanwhile, during the last
week in Lebanon, two Israeli
soldiers and four SLA soldiers
were wounded in four separate
terrorist attacks.
KKK, Neo-Nazi groups losing
membership in U.S., ADL claims
"Every Del Monte® canned fruit
and vegetable has now been
certified kosher. Soon, all their
labels will reflect this fact. But
until they do, please accept the
Del Monte® shield of quality
as your assurance of kosher
certification:'
Denver (JTA) — Ku Klux Klan
membership in the United States
has fallen approximately a third
in the last two years to some
6,000, its ranks depleted by lead-
ership crises, organizational
splits and declining financial con-
tributions, according to a status
report on the Klan and the Ameri-
can neo-Nazi movement made
public last week by the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith (ADL).
But the ADL warned that some
Klan desperados, frustrated by
the KKK's failures are consider-
ing a campaign of terror and as-
sassinations against those they
view as their enemies. This possi-
bility, ADL said, should not be
taken lightly in view of the KKK's
long record of violence and law-
lessness.
The ADL also disclosed a paral-
lel decline in the fortunes of the
neo-Nazi movement, whose mem-
bership was estimated at no more
than 500 across the nation — a
drop of approximately 50 percent
since 1978.
The ADL report was prepared
by the fact-finding department of
the agency's Civil Rights Division
and was made public by Justin
Finger, director of the division, at
a session of the Agency's national
executive committee meeting in
Denver.
The Klan has lost strength, the
ADL said, both in hard core mem-
bers and in the number of sym-
pathizers — where an even
greater decline has taken place.
Klan rallies, which in the late
1970s and early 1980s attracted
large, enthusiastic gatherings,
now pull in much smaller, "dispi-
rited" crowds, the report said. "No
Klan faction today can count on
more than a few hundred," the re-
port said.
L.A. German paper
apologizes for slur
Los Angeles (JTA) — Rabbi
Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, indicated
that he is satisfied with the apol-
ogy he had demanded from the
publisher of a local German-
language newspaper which de-
scribed Mayor Edward Koch of
New York as "Der Jude Koch"
(The Jew Koch).
The
publisher,
Peter
Eichmann, printed a front-page
apology in his paper, Staats
Zeitung, and admitted to "a very
poor choice of words." The slur
was contained in a story in which
Koch, at a recent meeting with
Austria's visiting Foreign Minis-
ter, raised the issue of former Au-
strian Chancellor Bruno Kreis-
ky's favorable attitude toward the
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion. Kreisky is Jewish.