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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 18, 1986

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Terrorism

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outcry at the time of the Gulf of
Sidra episode when the press
reported that these cadets had
volunteered to return to Libya
to form suicide squads to attack
Americans but Prime Minister
Thatcher's government did noth-
ing although Mrs. Thatcher had
voiced support to the U.S. naval
action.
The Wall Street Journal has
taken a much broader view than
the Administration on the issue
of responsibility for terrorism. It
'calls for stronger sanctions
against "the Tripoli-Damascus
axis, with its terrorist war
against the people of Europe
and the U.S." It points out that
"the carefully measured action
against Mr. Qaddafi (the naval
exercises in the Gulf of Sidra)
obviously has not ended ter-
rorism; no one ever said it
would. But inaction and ap-
peasement clearly have failed
totally."
It declared in a recent edito-
rial that "given the history of
Syria's involvement in the
nefarious deeds of the Middle
East, the truly remarkable
thing is how little the U.S. has
troubled itself to inflict any
punishment on Syria. To be

sure," it commented, "Syria's
economy is something of a bas-
ket case, in pqrt because of
President Assad's tendency to
spend every dollar in sight on
the expensive hardware offered
in Moscow's supermarket.

"It is also true," it added,
"that Mr. Assad is a far more
clever man than the wild Mr.
Qaddafi, in that he practices
seduction on U.S. diplomats at
the same time he is practicing
destruction against hapless civi-
lians on U.S. airplanes or in the
streets of Beirut.. "But," the
newspaper asserted, "these
would hardly seem to be reasons
to exempt him from the stronger
sanctions that will ultimately
have to be taken against those
who harbor terrorists."
Not to be overlooked in any
calculations on Libya is the
Qaddafi-Soviet relationship. The
Soviet Union stood by during
the Gulf of Sidra action, of
which it had forewarning from
Washington, but it remains a
question whether it would not
intervene to prevent the elimi-
nation of an ally of potentially
considerable strategical and
geographical importance.

Tbilisi Synagogue Open

Staff Report
A Detroit activist in the
Soviet Jewry movement has just
returned from the area of Tbilisi
in the Soviet Union. The city's
synagogue, which has become
the focus of a tug-of-war be-
tween Communist' officials and
Soviet Jews, is presently open.
The activist, who asked to
remain anonymous, said Soviet.
officials will allow the
synagogue to remain open if. 20
Jews register to regularly
attend services. The synagogue
had 24 persons on the list, but
several died and others were in-
timidated into removing their
names. Recently, however, the
officials included the names of
three out of nine applicants,
raising the registration to the
minimum Soviet requirement of
20.
Detroit Soviet Jewry activists
have been conducting a letter-
writing campaign on behalf of

the Tbilisi synagogue, writing to
Soviet and U.S. officials.
Another activist, Rae
Sharfman, visited Anatoly
Shcharansky last week during
meetings in Jerusalem of the
Union of Councils for Soviet
Jewry. .
Mrs. Sharfman worked for
Shcharansky's release from the
Soviet Union since his arrest in
1977, and hosted Avital
Shcharansky during a Detroit
visit. Mrs. Sharfman reported
that Shcharansky has gained 15
pounds since his release, and
takes daily walks outside
Jerusalem (to avoid well-
wishers) in an effort to regain
his strength. .
Shcharansky is planning a
U.S. visit in May, but Detroit is
not on his itinerary. He is also
filing the necessary paperwork
to have his mother, Ida Mil-
groin, emigrate from Russia.

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Israeli police are using a new Israeli-made robot to check out
suspected explosives. The device can climb stairs, and is equipped
with a remote - control rifle and two television cameral.

