— cultural, economic,
political, even racial — were
grafted on to the trunk of
religious anti-Semitism. He
called upon the Church to rec-
tify the historical and moral
errors it had committed long
ago and had allowed to sur-
vive into the modern era.
The French educator-
scholar made it plain it was
not too late to do something
about past evils. Together
with two noted French chur-
chmen he established an
organization designed to
remove offensive passages
from textooks, from the
liturgy, and find ways of
presenting in an historical
light the relationship of Jesus
to the people from whom he
issued.
The popes read and heard;
Cardinal Bea was appointed
to head up the Vatican section
on Jewish relations. The rest
is history and, while not ade-
quate even now, the founda-
tion has been laid — mostly
due to the ground-breaking
work of an assimilated Jew,
almost dismissive of his
Judaism, who learned the
hard way that the world
would not let him forget his
Jewishness. His achievement,
coming in his 60s to 80s, is in
many ways unique in human
history.
NEWS 1
Neo-Nazi Penetration
Up In Latin America
New York — Neo-Nazi
penetration of Latin America
is increasing, according to the
current issue of "Latin
American Report", published
by the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith.
In making the report public,
Morton M. Rosenthal, direc-
tor of ADDs Latin American
affairs department, said that
the Nazi activities reflect the
strong influence of CEDADE,
a neo-Nazi organization bas-
ed in Spain.
The report detailed a well-
organized Nazi network
which seized upon the death
of Rudolf Hess to organize
mass demonstrations and to
paper walls with posters
eulogizing Hitler's henchman
in Argentina and Chile. Pro-
minent Nazis including
Miguel Serrano in Chile ad-
dressed more than 100 brown-
shirted men who offered Nazi
salutes.
Another area of concern
highlighted in the report was
the presence of well-known
Palestinian terrorists among
the 240 delegates gathered in
Lima, Peru, for a meeting of
COPLAC (Palestinian Con-
federation of Latin America
and the Caribbean). Among
them were Farouk Kaddoumi,
Monsignor Hilarian Capucci
and Zakia Shamout, who was
introduced as "one of the most
recognized combatants of the
Palestinian Liberation
Organization."
The report noted COPLAC's
claim that Peru was chosen as
the conference site because of
President Alan Garcia's
"Palestinian sympathies."
During the meeting,
COPLAC said that it would
seek to increase Latin
American governments' sup-
port for the Palestinian cause
and to strengthen their com-
mercial relations with the
Arab world.
Among positive develop-
ments cited in the report was
the election — for the first
time in Argentine history —
of a Jew as a provincial gover-
nor. Nestor Perl, Justicialista
(Peronist) Party candidate,
won the governorship of
Chubut province. An editorial
in the Buenos Aires Herald
noted, however, that the
Argentine Constitution
would bar Mr. Perl from run-
ning for President because he
is not a Catholic.
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Jerusalem — A team of
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Prof. Itamar Willner is suc-
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In this way, the team has
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