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Peres Denies Pipeline
Bribe Was Offered
DAVID FRIEDMAN
Washington (JTA) — Israel
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
denied again this week that the Labor
Party was offered a bribe in return for
Israel's consent to construction of an
oil pipeline from Iraq through Jordan
to the Red Sea.
"Ridiculous . . . idle chatter,"
Peres said about the claim made in a
Sept. 25, 1985 "for your eyes only"
memo to Attorney General Edwin
Meese from E. Robert Wallach.
But Peres made no mention of
Wallach's link to the funds which
would make way for increased im-
migration of Soviet Jews as a means
of helping Labor win the next
Knesset election.
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"There is a need to provide Israel
with an increasing flow of Ashkenazy
Jews to help balance the influx of
Sephardic-Oriental Jews who have a
natural affinity and affiliation with
Likud," Wallach said in the memo.
"From the standpoint of American in-
terests, the advantage is evident."
The memo and other documents,
part of a special investigation on
whether Meese acted properly on the
suggestions of bribes, were made
public by Meese's lawyers on Monday.
In the memo Wallach, who had a
financial interest in the pipeline,
reported that Bruce Rapaport, a Swiss
businessman who also was a partner
in the project and had close ties with
Peres, reported on a conversation he
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Detroiters Join In
Fast With Refusenik
ELIZABETH KAPLAN
Staff Writer
As Yuli Kosharovsky began a
17-day hunger strike this week, the
refusenik who has waited longer than
any other Soviet Jew for permission
to emigrate was joined by more than
100 Detroit area residents who hope
to muster support for Soviet Jewry.
The local fast, coordinated by the
Soviet Jewry Committee of the
Jewish Community Council, was
chaired by Celia Wilson and her
daughter and son-in-law Betsy and
Mike Winkelman, who have been ac-
tively working for more than ten
years to help the Kosharovsky fami-
ly get to Israel.
Wilson said the the sympathy
strike was the brainchild of Mike
Winkelman, who learned only last
week of the refusenik's plans to fast.
Since then the couple, together with
Wilson and members of the communi-
ty council's Soviet Jewry Committee,
have been seeking individuals to fast
one day each for each day of
Kosharovsky's strike.
Wilson said she hopes that ten in-
dividuals — thus creating a symbolic
minyan — will join the strike each
day. Several Jewish community
leaders already have joined in the
plight, as have Sen. Carl Levin and
Rep. Sander Levin, D-Southfield, who
will be fasting on Monday, and state
Rep. David Gubow, D-Huntington
Woods.
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