NEWS

Arens Resigns
Over Lavi Issue

Jerusalem (JTA) — Likud
Minister-Without-Portfolio
Moshe Arens (Herut) handed
his resignation to Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir last
week after a Likud
ministerial caucus on the
Lavi issue.
Even though the Likud
Ministers resolved to "fight"
the Cabinet decision scrap-
ping the Lavi project, Arens
went ahead with his threat-
ened resignation. He is un-
derstood to believe that the
Likud Minister's resolution
was largely declarative and
would not in fact lead to a
vote in the Cabinet.
Labor Ministers, mean-
while, meeting separately,
came out firmly against any
attempt to procure a Cabinet
re-vote. Labor sources said the
party would resist any such
effort by insisting that the
issue go to the Inner Cabinet
— where, with Likud's Moshe
Nissim, Minister of Finance,
voting against the plane, the
Lavi would once again be
defeated.
In another development,
senior defense sources said
that no more than 1,500 to
2,000 Israel Aircraft In-
dustries (IAI) employes will
be dismissed as a result of the
cancellation of the Lavi
warplane project.
The sources said that IAI in
any event had intended to
soon dismiss about 1,500
employes as part of efficiency
measures. Also, any IAI
employe who is fired because
the Lavi project has been
ssrapped will receive an
average compensation of
$55,000, according to Defense
Ministry data that has been
conveyed to the Ministries of
Finance and Economy and
Planning.

U.S., Soviet
Lawyers Meet

New York (JTA) — Twenty
U.S. lawyers arrived in the
Soviet Union last week as
delegates of the American
Bar Association (ABA) to
meet with members of the
Association of Soviet Lawyers
(ASL) and other Soviet
teachers and legal experts for
in7depth seminars and a tour
of the Soviet Union to include
observation of courtrooms
and other institutions. The
scope of this particular ex-
change is unprecedented,
says Eugene Thomas, im-
mediate past president of the
ABA who was instrumental
in hammering out the details
of the seminar.
The arrangement arose

from the much disputed
"declaration of cooperation"
entered into by the two
lawyers' groups in 1985.
Many Soviet Jewry activists
in the U.S. have criticized the
agreement, arguing that the
Soviet lawyers work directly
for the Soviet state and that
within the group are in-
dividuals responsible for anti-
Semitic propaganda.
However, a number of at-
torneys personally involved in
the struggle for human rights
in general and Soviet Jewish
rights in particular have ex-
pressed cautious optimism for
the 'accord, viewing it as a
possibility to work, albeit
guardedly, with the Soviet
system.
The ABA, at its annual con-
vention last month in San
Francisco, resolved by voice
vote that any agenda drawn
up between the American and
Soviet lawyers must include
the issue of human rights.
The agenda of the initial
two-day seminar, held in
Moscow, encompasses meth-
odical interchanges on the
two nations' legal approaches
to the issue of individual
freedoms

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Support Up

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Sheffy
Gabai, the Arab affairs cor-
respondent of Maariv,
reported that the number of
young Arabs in the ad-
ministered territories who
are adopting Khomeini's doc-
trine is growing year to year.
They are organized in cells
throughout the territories
and occasionally try to in-
timidate other Moslem
believers, Gabai says, quoting
a Moslem cleric in East
Jerusalem following the re-
cent capture of a terrorist
squad that planned to plant a
car-bomb in Jerusalem.
According to the cleric, the
young Khomeini followers in
the territories are heavily
financed by the Iranian
leadership, which wants to set
up a Khomeinist core in both
Jordan and the territories.
It is known that Hizbullah
leaders in Lebanon have
received permission from Iran
to cooperate with Fatah in
perpetrating terrorist attacks
in Israel and in kidnapping
foreigners under the rubric of
"Al-Jihad Al-Islami for the
Liberation of Palestine."
It was under this name that
two recently apprehended ter-
rorist squads operated in
Israel: the car-bomb squad
and the squad that carried
out the Dung Gate attack late
last year, the Maariv repor t er
said.

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