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OPINION
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CLOSE-UP
Making Changes
LINDA ROMAN
Sam and Ofra Fisher have brought
their Israeli expertise to Detroit's
camping and educational programs.
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SPORTS
Year-Round Athletes
MIKE ROSENBAUM
The Special Olympics is more
than a one-day competition
for local competitors.
Re ligious News Service
LIFESTYLES
Exchange Coordinator
CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ
Evelyn Prince's "travel business"
has strengthened the bonds
between America and foreign lands.
Yassir Arafat: A different message for the West.
The True Colors Of The Rioters
Displayed In Arabic, Not English
GEORGE E. GRUEN
y
assir Arafat and other spokesmen
of the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization have recently issued
moderate-sounding statements to the
Western media suggesting that all they
want is an end to Israeli occupation of the ,
West Bank and Gaza and a role in projected
peace negotiations. Since leaders of the
Palestinian unrest inside the territories,
whatever their internal differences,
acknowledge the PLO's primacy in for-
mulating overall policy, the question of
PLO aims is a crucial factor in the formula-
tion of an American peace initiative.
Careful attention to the actions of the
PLO both within and outside of Israel, as
well as the rhetoric of the PLO when ad-
dressing fellow Arabs in the Arabic
language, belie pronouncements made for
Western audiences. The PLO has not
moderated its fundamental stand. Not only
does it seek to undermine the peace pro-
cess, but it still intends to erase the state
of Israel from the map.
While the rioters in the territories have
concentrated their attacks upon squads of
Israeli soldiers, the PLO outside has
reverted to its oldest and most
characteristic tactic to block negotiations:
the indiscriminate murder of civilians
within the borders of pre-1967 Israel. On
March 7, three terrorists from the
"mainstream" Palestinian armed group,
Fatah, penetrated Israel's southern border,
commandeered a car, and shot at a truck
and several passenger cars, which suc-
cessfully sped away.
Dr. Gruen is director of Middle East affairs for the
American Jewish Committee.
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The terrorists finally managed to seize
a civilian bus, which happened to be car-
rying mostly female workers from Beer-
sheba to their jobs at the nuclear plant in
Dimona. The terrorists killed three
passengers, two women and a man, before
they were overcome by an Israeli anti-
terrorism squad. Eight passengers were
wounded in the crossfire. While the bus was
obviously just a random target of oppor-
tunity, PLO chairman Yassir Arafat at-
tempted to claim that his Fatah men had
chosen a legitimate military objective.
The attack followed the attempted
assassination, also claimed by Fatah, of
Secretary State George Shultz, who was in
Israel promoting his latest peace initiative.
The group claimed responsibility for a car-
bomb found on March 4, during the Secre-
tary's visit, near his headquarters in the
Hilton Hotel in west Jerusalem. Yassir
Arafat referred explicity to the incident,
and to his refusal to recognize Israel even
within its pre-1967 borders, when he said
in a press statement in Tunis the day after
the incident: "It is amazing that the U.S.
mockery of the Arab nation should reach
the extent of (Shultz) having his command
center in the occupied land next to the
Ziohist leadership?' The Hilton is near the
Knesset, Israel's parliament. Both are in
the part of Jerusalem that was controlled
by Israel prior to 1967. Fatah had also set
a car-bomb in the Israeli coastal town of
Kfar Saba on March 3.
In the same week, a clandestine radio
station that broadcasts instructions to the
rioters in the territories from somewhere
in the south of Lebanon renewed its denun-
ciation of two pragmatic Palestinian
spokesmen from the territories who had
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ANN ARBOR
Redemptive Art
SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE
Bearing witness
through memory
is a trademark
of artist
Ruth Weisberg.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Sight Reading
VICTORIA BELYEU DIAZ
For composer-musician
Bonia Shur, music should
be seen as well as heard.
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ON CAMPUS
Ivy Oases
SUSAN TAUBER-HYKE
Jewish students on Michigan
campuses increasingly call
Hillel their home.
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