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Refusenik ABE STOLAR, a U.S. Citizen, waiting 11 years for an exit
visa from the Soviet Union, will be 75 years old on December 19,
1986.

Terrorism

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lage which the terrorists
entered in attacking the Is-
raeli team.
Rivers also reveals in this
book that the PLO has re-
cently purchased the duty
free shop at the Dar Es
Salaam airport in Tanzania
and their purpose is not pro-
fits. Goods from the duty free
shop may be transported to
aircraft without going
through the normal baggage
inspection.
According to Rivers, the
terrorist network has been so
successful in intimidating the
United States that Marines
have been issued instructions
to wear civilian clothes when
travelling by air. They are
also encouraged not to carry
anything which might iden-
tify them as military person-
nel. Even the traditional
close-cropped hair cut is dis-
couraged in marine in-
structions to prevent their
easy identification by ter-
rorists.
Rivers believes that the
war against terrorism can be
won. It has, he says, in some

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of the world where the
parts of
authorities were willing to
demonstrate their resolve to
exercise Draconian justice in
the defense of democracy.
Rivers points, interestingly
enough, to the invocation of
Canada's War Measures Act
in 1971 as an appropriate
gesture which helped Canada
rid the country of Quebec-
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based separatist terrorists.
He also refers to the Rus-
sian practice of dealing with
terrorists in Lebanon. When
one of their people was killed
in a kidnapping in 1985, the
Russians sent parts of the
bodies of several Lebanese
they took in custody and sent
them to Moslem terrorist
leaders. The Russian hos-
tages were released un- In
harmed a short time later.
In the final section of his
important book, Rivers de-
ploys an elaborate plan he
has for consolidating demo-
cratic action against the in-
ternational terrorist network.
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It's a plan every government
should consult.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

`If I Were A Rich Man'
Is Israel Lottery Dream

JEFF BLACK

Special to The Jewish News

erusalem — Were Fiddler
on the Roof to be set in
modern day Israel, the
major song would not be If I
Were a Rich Man but "Tsarich
Payis b'Chaim," the advertising
jingle of the Israel State Lot-
tery: Wherever you are in Israel
— on the bus, at home watching
television, or reading a news-
paper — this slogan is never far
away. Roughly translated it
means "you need luck in life,"
`payis' being the Hebrew for
good fortune, and the body
which operates the lottery is
called Mifal HaPayis.
Menachem Dotan, Mifal
HaPayis' public relations officer,
does not deny that he. is selling
a dream, but claims it is one
that is shared by the majority of
the Israeli public. Once or twice
a year, when the prize money
for the "Lotto" competition (a
game based on successfully
guessing the six winning num-
bers) is held over from one week
to the next, the first prize can
reach up to $1 million. When
this is the case, practically
every family in Israel invests in
at least one attempt to guess the
numbers and a mild hysteria
sweeps the country. For a few
days, all problems are forgotten
as people concentrate on how
they would spend the $1 million
prize. In a recent drawing ten
people won such a prize, their
joy at winning slightly tempered
by the knowledge that the prize
had to be split ten ways.
On an average week, Mifal
HaPayis sells about 550,000 tic-
kets, and people buy for two
main reasons. First, everyone

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believes that some day a bit of
good fortune has to enter their
lives; second, they know that
the money they spend will be
put to good use. Over the years,
the money gained from the sale
of lottery tickets has contributed
greatly to the building up of Is-
rael's medical, educational and
recreational structures.
Since the beginning of the
State Lottery, 34 years ago,
Mifal HaPayis has authorized
projects in the health and edu-
cation spheres to a total value of
5,239 million New Shekels. It is
the only source of financing for
repairing and restoring the
country's school buildings, and
for the purchase of equipment
and furniture for them.
Mifal HaPayis was estab-
lished not just as a way of in-
creasing various government
budgets, but also as a means of
preventing illegal gambling.
The existence of a State Lottery
ensures that gambling in Israel
is, in Menachem Dotan's words,
"strictly legit" with all the pro-
ceeds returning to the public
either as prize money or
through new hospitals and
schools. In a sense, it is a
gambling institution where no-
body loses.
It seems that most Israelis
hardly view the three games of
Mifal HaPayis — the weekly
draw raffle ticket, the "Lotto"
and the "chisgad", a scratch and
win card — as gambling. Occa-
sionally there has been scat-
tered grumbling in certain Is-
raeli sectors about the state
legitimization of gambling, but
when people see the facilities
built through Mifal HaPayis
money, the criticism tends to die
down.

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