28 Friday, November 9, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 'Kathy Smith IS NOW AT NEWS 41 . 1 F (1/111.14) er.r 356-7070 Applegate Square, 29783 Northwestern at Inkster Southfield 131_ \ZERS, KILTS, WOOLENS, estminster atillerg Distinctive Chits from the British Isles EI)INI3L RGH CRYST\L : FINALLY. A FAST, SAFE AND EFFECTIVE WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF, FOREVER! Call today for a free consultation Southfield 569-2669 Troy 435-5555 W. Bloomfield 855-3430 DIET CENTER® 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.