NEWS
Subpeonas Of
Israelis Quashed
New York (JTA) — Morris
Abram, Chairman of the Con-
ference of Major American
Jewish Organizations, last
week lauded the Justice
Department decision to
quash subpoenas against
Israelis alleged to have illegal-
ly attempted to import
American technology to
manufacture cluster bombs.
The Justice Department
announced that the sub-
poenas issued for eight un-
named Israelis working for
Israelis Military Industries's
procurement offices in New
York were withdrawn in ex-
change for the Israeli govern-
ment's promise to cooperate
in the investigation.
"I have full confidence that
the accusations against Israel
will prove to be without foun-
dation," Abram said."But I
am deeply concerned that the
campaign of rumor, innuendo,
leaks and similar tactics car-
ried out by unnamed sources
in the bureaucracy is intend-
ed to jeopardize the positive
attitude toward Israel that
exists at the highest levels of
our government and among
the American people general-
y."
Abram is not alone in his
suspicion, voiced by both
Israeli officials and American
Jewish leaders in recent
weeks, that strategic press
leaks on alleged Israeli es-
pionage cases in America are
aimed at sabotaging Amer-
ican-Israeli relations.
The Israelis could have
been called to testify before
federal grand juries in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa and in Pennsyl-
vania this week.
The U.S. Customs Service
initiated the investigation
and has reportedly conducted
search warrants at three corn-
panies in Iowa and Pennsyl-
vania last month, according
to a New York Times report.
Israeli diplomats have
categorically denied any
wrongdoing in the cluster
bomb controversy. Israel has
developed its own cluster
bomb design and manufac-
tures them in its own facil-
ities according to Israeli
sources. They also said that
any American technology or
equipment related to cluster
bombs was imported with the
required licenses.
The United States halted
the export of American-made
cluster bombs to Israel after
reports in 1982 that Israel
used the anti-personnel
weapons against civilians in
Lebanon.
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AJCongress Hits
Graduation Prayers
New York — Even though
graduation exercises at a pub-
lic high school take place only
once a year, a religious invoca-
tion or benediction at such
ceremonies violates the United
States Supreme Court's ban on
public school prayer, says the
American Jewish Congress.
An amicus, or friend-of-the-
court, brief filed by the organ-
ization in the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit asserts that by permit-
ting prayers at yearly com-
mencement exercises, school
districts for the Michigan
towns of Plainwell and Portage
contravened the constitutional
prohibition against govern-
ment establishment of reli-
gion.
The brief, released by Alvin
L. Gray, national vice
president of AJCongress,
asked the federal appeals court
to reverse a ruling by the
United States District Court
for the Western District of
Michigan which upheld the
school boards. •
"It is the very significance of
graduation which ; when
prayers become part of the pro-
gram, creates a difficult choice
for some students,' the brief
said, noting that such students
are forced either to listen to
prayers or forego the chance to
attend a major school function.
Such a choice, by having a
coercive effect on a student
who wishes to be part of the
mainstream, serves to advance
one group's religious beliefs
over another's, it contended.
The case originated as a suit
brought in the federal district
court by residents of Plainwell
and Portage who objected to in-
clusion of an invocation and
benediction on the grounds
that these constituted reli-
gious prayers and therefore
violated the Establishment
Clause of the Constitution.
Peace Park
To Open
New York — Taking a "long
day's journey" into peace, actor
Jack Lemmon has been named
honorary president of the
world's first international
Peace Park, sponsored by the
Jewish National Fund.
The park will be situated on
the new Peace Road in the
Israel-Egypt border area of
Ezuz. It commemorates the
Camp David Accord and hon-
ors its signatories, Menachem
Begin, Jimmy Carter and
Anwar Sadat.
Lemmon will be performing
in Long Day's Journey Into
Night in Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem at the end of Oc-
tober.
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