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Strict attendance is de- manded by Basten, who explains that every member of an act is needed at every rehearsal. An- other Ice Company star,, Jill At- tenson, 12, of Birmingham, sums up Basten's rules: "Work, don't talk, do what he says, and do ev- erything right." For \serious and competitive skaters: such as Brown and Shif- man, who both sometimes skate up to seven hours a day, the pres- sure of a show does not present a problem. "I focus my life on other things besides skating so I don't get burned out," says Shifman, who is president of the sophomore class at Berkley High School and has participated on the track team, the basketball team, and in speech competitions. Her in- volvement in such a variety of ac- tivities causes her mother to re- mark, "She's on a merry-go- round trying to do it all," and adds that Shifman must main- tain a 3.0 average to skate. For Brown, the strategy is "to work on skating when I'm at the arena, but when I leave I don't talk about it or think about it." He adds that his mother supports him and that she asks only that "I take the ice with pride and leave the ice with pride, no mat- ter what happens." Shifman, who says that she will continue skating as long as she improves, believes group skating "makes you learn how to relax and relate to an audience." Although Basten does not nor- mally coach either Shifman or Brown, he too feels that "they're learning to skate to the audience instead of just having music play- ing while they're skating." Both Brown and Shifman con- clude that, above all, the Ice Company is "fun." "Pam and I see other kids at our skating club but don't have time to become their friends, so the Company is a neat opportunity," Brown says. And as for the show itself? "It has to be seen to be believed," he says. Shifman tried to sum it up: "It's theater and athletics and adven- ture." Brown interrupts. "Adventure? Come on, Pam." But on this April Saturday, re- hearsal for "Toy Shop" has ended. Now, suddenly, the ice fills with dancing indians for another routine. The music sounds like a tribal chant, and the ice looks like a stampede. Pam Shifman is right; the Ice Company is an ad- venture. And it does have to be seen to be believed. Papal Visit May Spur Recognition Of Israel Rome (JTA) — Only days after Pope John Paul II paid his historic visit to Rome's main synagogue, ranking Vatican figures hinted last Sunday that one ramification of the Papal gesture could be Vatican recog- nition of the State of Israel. Bishop Clemente Riva, presi- dent of the Ecumenical Commit- tee of the Rome Diocese and a member of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, observed on a television interview that the Vatican's failure to recognize Israel "is perhaps what offends Jews the most." The Pope's visit to the synagogue, he said, should be viewed as one more step toward recognition "which must, is bound to come, even though we cannot say when." Riva added that for some time now it has been said "off the. record" that "the Pope has a great desire to visit Jerusalem and is just waiting for an.oppor- tunity." Italian Jewish leaders feel this may well be the Pope's next step and "he knows he has a standing invitation, Tulia Zevi, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, responded. Cardinal Johannes Wine- brands, who-serves as president of both the Secretariate for Pro- moting Christian Unity and the Commission for Religious Rela- tions with the Jews, noted that "official relations" between the Vatican and Israel "already ex- ist, even if not yet on the highest level of the exchange of Ambas- sadors. He said that, after all, the Jews "are a people and a people expresses itself in the form of a State." It is therefore natural for Israel to want to have rela- tions with all other states." The Vatican -Radio devoted much of its recent broadcasts to Israeli press comments on the Pope's visit. It included, as one of the few "voice" selections in its round-up, the portion of the speech by Giacomo Saban, president of the Rome Jewish Community, during the Pope's visit in which he stressed the Jewish people's deep ties with Israel.