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'SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
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asuring Fallout
m Achille Lauro
OCTOBER 18, 1985
They Don't
Make Israeli Leaders
Like They Used To
out of their way to try to differ..
entiate between what the U.S: had
done and what Israel had done in
the past. There was no direct men-
tion of Israel or of any specific inci-
dents: But their message was clear.
Thus, when Reagan was asked
. BY WOLF BLITZER
at a news conference Oct 11 why
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' the - U.S. had not •responded so di-
Washington — Last week's spec- rectly to earlier terrorist outrages,
:Monier American force-down of the he replied: "Well, our ptoblem in the
'Egyptian plane carrying four Palei- past has not been'a lack of will Our
tinian hijackere of the cruise ship problem has been=in terrorist attacks
Achille Lauro to freedom provided a , . that have taken place in th e past
hadly-needed shot in the arm for a
country losing more and more
ground ,in the battle against interna-
tional terrorism• Americans how-
ever,' weren't the only ones brea-
First of all, in a number of theni,
'thing a collective sigh of relieflin the
such as the terrible tragedy with the
knowledge that "the 'good guys" had
Marines (in Beirut), the perpetrators
finally scored.
Iaraeli officials also reeognized of the act went up with the bomb;
the potential benefits for Israel's . they were suicides. So you couldn't
own image since it, very often, has — you were faced with, Veil, who
resorted to similarly unorthodox re- were their Collaborators? Who was
sponses to international terror. behind them. How do you retaliate?
They're gone.
There were comparisons with the
"And the other thing is in a
1976 Entebee rescue operation.
But that Israeli -pleasure- was number of incidents where to re-
taliate would simply be an act of vio-
tempered by the fact that Preaident
Ronald Reagan, Defense Secretary. lence without any knowledge that
you were striking the perpetrators of
Caspar Weinberger and 'other senior
Administration officials seemed to go Continued on Page 40
srael's harsh, anti-terrorist
stance gets an
unexpected boost from
the U.S.
Israel's rising young officials are strong on
intelligence, administrative ability and
experience, but can you name three?
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er Meeting'
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hree generations pledge
$7.3 million to the Allied
Jewish Campaign.
probably not anothet meeting like' it
in the country. .
Fisher said he was particularly -
gratified - by' the presence of firstsec-
ond- and 'even third-generation lead-
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ership. , Among them was Jaion Hon-
The meeting format was simple: ig-man; with whom Fisher helped or-
ganize the first.7Suchet Meeting" for
.nosimakers, just friends who share a
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sense of communal responsibility.
years
ago '(so named because it was
tut
the
annual
"Fisher
Meet-
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-hie held last -week at the home held at the home. of William Sucher).
With 'Honigman last week' were his
of Max`and Marjorie Fisher was
son Daniel and giandchildren Kay,
a n y thing but ordinary. At the end of - JOAnn
and State Rep. David Honig-
an, hour, 50 persons spanning three
man.
generations had pledged $7,365,000
This year's. Campaign"chairmen, _
to the Allied Jewish Campaign, an Stanley
Frankel and Paul D. Bor-
incre . ase of $1.1 million over what
man,'
are
themselves of the second
contributed
last
year.
fey:
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