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JANUARY 10, 1986

SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN. JEWISH COMMUNITY

THIS ISSUE 50c

Sanctions
Make Libya Heel?

Officials insist Qaddafi was behind the
Rome and Vienna terrorist.attacks.

Washington International ob-
servers were skeptical in the wake of
President Ronald Reagan's an-
nouncement Tuesday night of a
near-total U.S. trade ban against
..Libya and its "flaky" and "barbaric"

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terror-supporting leader, Col.
Muanimar Qaddafi.
Analysts do not believethe US.
action will have much effett if it is
not basked by'the 'European nations.
0*, Israel and. Australia have, so
far, announced that they will comply
• with. the U.S. effort to punish Libya
for its complicity - in the Dec. 27 ter=
rorist attacks on the Rome and Vie-
nna airports. Israel has no trade or
diplomatic - ties with-Libya, which is
a leader of the ,hard-line; anti Israel
nations in the Arab world..
Reagan told reporters. at a
White House press conference that
he take seriously. Qaddafi's
weekend threat of terror attacks in
the United States if the United
States retaliates for the December
airport attacks. The State , Depart-
ment said Monday it does not accept
Libya's weekend attempts to back
away from earlier statements of
support-for - the terrorist assaults.
"Any effort by the Qaddafi re-
gime to portray itself as. somehow
backing away from its earlier posit
tion is disengenious at best," State
Department Deputy Spokesman

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Two Detroit Activists
Face Judge Thursday

.• October arrests at Soviet
:ErnbaSsy could bring a
fine or jail terms:

BY ERIC WEXLER
Special to The Jewish News

fought against," said Southfield resi T s,
dent Mahlin who, along
Graham, was arrested on Oct. 22 for
demonstrating within 500 feet of a

Continued on Page 22

Better to light one little candle,
s-than to serve the darkness.

For Detroit activists Dorothy
Mahlin and Bill Graham, what used
to be one little candle of letterwrit-
big now has turned into the flame of
.-- arrests in their protest against \ the
.. imprisonment of Soviet Jewish pris-
, _
oners of conscience.
More than 160 arrests, including
Mahlin and Graham, have taken
place in front of the Soviet Embassy
in Washington, D.C. from May to
November 1985.
"Any government who deprives
-
its people of basic freedomb has to be

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