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Candidate For WZO
Post Rejected
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
leading Diaspora philan-
thropists on the Jewish Agen-
cy Board of Governors
unanimously rejected the
candidacy of Knesset member
Haim Kaufman of Likud for
the post of World Zionist
OrganizationJewish Agency
treasurer.
Kaufman had already had
received his party's nomina-
tion, responded that the vote
was "clearly a political move,
not concerned with my full
qualifications for the job."
In another move, the phil-
anthropists last Sunday ac-
cepted the candidacies of two
• Labor Party contenders for
the post of head of the WZO-
Jewish Agency Aliyah De-
partment: Uri Gordon and
Uzi Narkiss.
Simcha Dinitz, chairman of
the WZO-Jeivish Agency Ex-
ecutive, is being pressured to
fill various key WZO-Agency
portfolios, an arduous task
the World Zionist Congress
failed to deal with as it broke
up in discord early in
December. The posts are nor-
mally filled through elections
during the congress, but the
selections are subject to the
"advice and consent" of the
Jewish Agency Board of
Governors.
Last November, the Board
of Governors exercised that
prerogative before-the-fact,
rejecting another Labor can-
didate for the chairmanship
that Dinitz eventually won.
Because'Labor received that
post, the Likud has been
promised the treasurer's post.
Because of the philanthrop-
ists' veto, it now must come
up with another candidate.
ADL Issues Report
On U.S Hate Groups
Palm Beach, Fla. (JTA) —
The Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith issued
its annual report on "Hate
Groups In America," which
detailed an upsurge in
violence by extremist groups
during the past six years as
their membership declined.
The report states that more
than 70 racist and anti-
Semitic organizations are ac-
tive in the United States
while the organization of con-
spiracy theorist Lyndon
LaRouche has made inroads
in Latin America.
According to the report, the
increased violence has led to
sweeping crackdowns by
federal and local law enforce-
ment authorities, sending
many extremists to prison.
According to the U.S. Justice
Department, more than 150
people have been prosecuted
for racially motivated
violence from 1979-1985.
The violence includes
bombings and arson against
Jewish, black or other proper-
ty and religious institutions;
armed robberies and shoot-
outs with law enforcement of-
ficers; counterfeiting opera-
tions; and murders, such as
the fatal shooting of Denver
radio talk-show host Alan
Berg in 1984.
Despite neo-Nazi member-
ship being at its "lowest ebb"
since the founding of the
American Nazi Party in the
1950s, neo-Nazi groups reach
a widening audience through
the nationwide dissemination
of anti-Semitic literature and
posters. They also use radio —
especially call-in programs —
cable television and lately a
computer network.
IDF Dismisses
Officer
Tel Aviv (JTA) — A military
court last week found an
Israel Defense Force officer
guilty of dereliction of duty
and dismissed him from the
army. It was the first
disciplinary action taken by
the IDF in connection with
the attack on a military base
near Kiryat Shmona in upper
Galilee last November.
In the attack, a lone ter-
rorist, who scaled the Israel-
Lebanon border on a motor-
ized hang glider, managed to
infiltrate the base and kill six
soldiers and wound seven
before he was gunned down.
Capt. Ofer Ben-Eliezer, who
was operations officer at the
base at the time, also was
demoted to the rank of second
lieutenant and bound over in
custody for six months. The
court held that Ben-Eliezer
was not responsible for the
deaths of the soldiers once the
attacker had entered the
camp. But it found that he
failed in his duty to increase
the guard at the base after it
received an alert that the
border had been breached.