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Best Friends
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I took her on the grand tour of
the house. The green carpet,
checked wallpaper, gold gilded
moldings looked vaguely
obscene. I didn't try to explain
away the vacant rooms and
dirty furniture. After all, they
weren't left here by the previous
owners.
We sat on the floor of the up-
stairs bedroom I had made into
a playroom. My two-year-old's
toys looked spartan and few.
Her son acted bored and dis-
tracted. The children wouldn't
share.
We talked superficially about
our husbands and our children.
Of our childhood friendship, we
remained silent. After an hour,
she politely looked at her watch
and stood up to leave.
We walked downstairs
quietly. I thanked her for corn-
ing and held back my tears.
Long ago, at overnight camp,
we used to hold hands - around
the campfire and chant, "Make
new friends but keep the old.
One is silver; the other is gold."
Long undulating shadows flic-
kered in and out of the friend-
ship circle. We would be held
suspended within the glow of
the fire. I would look into faces
around me. No one here was my
best friend. I would think of
home and Betsey, anxious to re-
turn.
Waldheim Faces
Run-Off Election
Yom Hazikaron
Yom Ha•Atzmaut
(Israel War Memorial Day)
Monday, May 12, 1986
7:30 P.M.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road
Southfield, Michigan
Coordinated by the
Israeli Community of Detroit
(Israel Independence Day)
Sunday, May 18, 1986
1:00 p.m.-5:30 P.M.
Jewish Community Center
6600 West Maple Road
West Bloomfield, Michigan
Yom Ha•Atzmaut
Keynote Speaker:
1 :30 p.m.
(Israel Independence Day)
Sen. Donald Riegle
Kickoff
• Youth Quiz
• Maccabiad athletes'
- procession
Wednesday,
Noon-1:0;
Kennea, Y.4uare
Downtown Detroit
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Israeli folk dancing and singing
Family Fun Day
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• Entertainment by
Abraham Ben Zesev Band and
Hora Aviv Dance Troupe
• Israel Products Fair
• Display of work, study, and
travel opportunities in Israel
Sponsored by
Jewish Community Council in cooperation with the Detroit Zionist Federation and
the Jewish Welfare Federation
All events open to the community
No charge
Vienna (JTA) — Kurt Wald-
heim, whose alleged participa-
tion in Nazi war crimes pro-
voked a bitter worldwide con-
troversy, narrowly missed vic-
tory in Austria's Presidential
elections last Sunday and will
face a run-off election on June 8.
The final returns broadcast by
Vienna Radio gave Waldheim,
the candidate of the conserva-
tive People's Party, 49.66 per-
cent of the vote against 43.66
percent for his Socialist rival,
Kurt Steyrer. A vote of 50 per-
cent or more is required to avoid
a run-off.
Early projections had indi-
cated that neither candidate
would gain 50 percent of the
vote. With more than three
quarters of the ballots counted,
it appeared for a time that
Waldheim would take the elec-
tions by a 51 to 42 percent
margin. But officials refused to
predict the outcome until the
final count, noting that Wald-
heim's vote had oscillated by
more than three points in the
course of two hours after the
polls closed.
Waldheim, who served as Sec-
retary General of the United Na-
tions from 1972 to 1981, had
been a clear favorite according
to public opinion polls during
the past month, even as evi-
dence continued to unfold that
he may have been a participant
in and certainly knew about the
murders of Yugoslav partisans
when he was a Wehrmacht intel-
ligence officer in the Balkans
during World War II, and about
the deportation of Greek Jews
from Salonika, Crete and
Rhodes.
Waldheim flatly denied the
charges, but his explanations
were less than unequivocal. He
finally admitted knowledge of
atrocities but insisted that he
had no part in them.
The inconclusive results of the
'elections are attributable to the
votes garnered by two minor
candidates, Freda Meisner-Blau,
an environmental activist, and
rightwing nationalist Otto
Scrinzi.
In another development, in
Tel Aviv Prime Minister Shi-
mon Peres said he has , in-
structed the Justice Ministry to
collect all information pertain-
ing to the allegations concerning
Waldheim's war-time activities
as a Wehrmacht officer and to
conduct a through legal analysis
of the charges against the
former UN Secretary General.
"We are not a newspaper, we
are not an institution," Peres
declared in an address to stu-
dents from development towns
meeting at the Hebrew Univer-
sity. "We are a government. We
must give an answer both
serious and substantiated. And
if indeed the legal material
which we collect and analyse
proves that Kurt Walheim
served in the Nazi army and
acted against partisans of Jews,
we shall draw from this all the
appropriate conclusions."
Israel has remained cautious
in the Waldheim matter, al-
though it did request and re-
ceived last month a file on
Waldheim from the archives of
the UN War Crimes Commission.
Meanwhile, in Washington,
the Senate passed a resolution
calling on the Justice Depart-
ment to consider barring Wald-
heim from the United States. In-
troduced by Sen. Pete Wilson
(R-Calif.) last March after the
World Jewish Congress publi-
cized findings about Waldheim's
activities, the Sense-of-the-
Senate resolution was passed by
a voice vote.
The resolution called on the
Department of Justice to "care-
fully and expeditiously review
the documents brought forward
by the World Jewish Congress
concerning former United Na-
tions Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim, to ascertain his role,
if any, in Nazi war crimes, and
treat appropriately."
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