30 Friday, February 21, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS A Are You Israeli? CHAI Institute RIA MEMOL THE O TO Shcharansky AMERICAN Continued from Page 1 CANCER ing with them after five years of internment. Immediately after SOCIETY this meeting, I was put back in 'normal' conditions. WILL HELP so-called "Then, on Dec. 25 last year, IN THE they again sent me to the hospital. was a good sign because I CONQU_ ST It thought preparing to my mother and OF CANCER. show me they to were Chabad Adult Institute of W. BloomfieldTorah Center invites you to attend a lecture — L'Dovrei lvrit given by Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg on "Torah — Its Constituent Components" Sunday, February 23rd, 8:00 p.m. at the home of Avi & Benaderet W. Bloomfield = 626-1807 Social Hour Following Lecture NEWS For further information contact your local ACS Unit. No Charge • brother once more. "During the past month-and- a-half, I received many dozens of injections of all types of vitamins, my heart became much better thanks to medicine. But what was specially important was the food — I gained almost 10 kilos (22 pounds). So the packaging is much better now." The first hint that something unusual was afoot came at 11 on Monday morning last week — the day before his release — when Anatoly Shcharansky was sitting in his cell reading a work by the German writer Schiller. - "I was suddenly taken from the cell. All my prison clothes were removed and they gave me civi- lian clothes. I understood then that something extraordinary was being prepared. Then I was taken to the airport accompanied by four KGB men and we flew from Perm (where his labor camp was sited) to Moscow. "Then, when we took off from Moscow I understood that some- thing very pleasant was in store: Judging from the sun, I could tell that our direction was west." "After about two hours, I con- cluded we must be near the Soviet border and I demanded to know what was happening. "Finally, one of the KGB men announced that he had the authority to declare that the Sup- reme Soviet of the Soviet Union had deprived me of my Soviet citi- zenship for my very bad behavior — for 'behavior undermining the honor of Soviet citizenship' — and that as an American spy I was being expelled from the Soviet Union. "I made a statement in re- sponse. Firstly, I said that I was deeply satisfied that 13 years after asking to be deprived of Soviet citizenship, my demand was being met. Secondly, I re- peated that my activities as a Jewish activist had nothing to do with espionage or any other crimes of which I was accused." Still, the KGB guards refused to tell him where they were heading, but soon after the plane landed, he noticed a sign that indicated they were in East Germany. "That was a little disappointing because I realized I would not be seeing Avital immediately. When the the plane stopped, one of the KGB men said, 'We have a last request to you. Over there is a car. Please go directly to it because we . Lebanon Continued from Page 1 Premier Shimon Peres on pers of the Beirut Jews call them- Tuesday vowed that Israel would selves "The Organization of the continue the search and other op- Oppressed of the World," but ac- erations in south Lebanon until cording to the experts, Hasballah its objectives are achieved. "Israel operates under a variety of names and will exhaust every possibility to in order to create confusion deflect blame. find them. Every person in Israel The Israeli experts say the is a world on his own and dear to latest rash of kidnappings has us all," Peres said. Defense Minister Yitzhak Ra- ajigered Amal, the main militia bin, who visited the scene of the and political organization of the ambush, told reporters Tuesday Shiite majority in south Lebanon. that large caches of arms have The extremists are trying to show been uncovered in many south up Amal as soft on Israel, the ex- Lebanon villages being searched perts say. Amal was the chief for the missing soldiers. He said source of attacks on the IDF when that when the operation is com- it still occupied south Lebanon pleted, the IDF troops and equip- but became more restrained after ment will be returned to routine the IDF left. , In Washington, the state De- duties in Israel. Only a small number of IDF personnel will re- partment urged Israel and Leba- main in the .security zone to act as non to work out security 'ar- liaison and instructors with the rangements along their common border. ' SLA, Rabin said. 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