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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1988

Soviet delegation
which has been in
Israel for a year has
been playing "an elaborate
charade," according to Robert
S. Greenberger, staff reporter
for the Wall Street Journal.
Ostensibly in Israel to
check on Russian-owned prop-
erties in the Holy Land, the
delegation's real purpose is to
establish a "diplomatic
beachhead" in Jerusalem.
The USSR severed diplomatic
relations with Israel after the
1967 Six Day War.
"The properties provide the
perfect cover," writes
Greenberger. Israeli and
Soviet officials "argue titles,
rentals and property rights in
order to get reacquainted."
The Soviets are attempting
to reclaim properties that
Russian pilgrims originally
acquired centuries ago for
churches and hostels. Among
these is the building that
houses Israel's Supreme
Court. Unfortunately for the
Soviets, "an arcane rent-
control law keeps revenues at
a paltry level.
"The Russians also claim
ownership of a lavish palace
built by a czar's cousin,"
writes Greenberger, "but the
Israeli Agriculture Ministry
occupies it and pays no rent.
The city of Jerusalem garners
the profits from a municipal
parking lot on a choice Soviet-
owned parcel on bustling
downtown King George
Street."
The head of the delegation,
Giorgi Martiorosov, seems
"over-qualified" to dicker
about properties, writes
Greenberger. The Russian is
a career diplomat with a doc-
torate in Mideast studies. But
"his credentials suggest that
the Soviets might harbor
more interest in diplomacy
than real estate."
Martiorosov "feigned sur-
prise" that his mission might
be diplomatic. "What do you
think we're doing here," he
asked with a grin, "playing
cat-and-mouse?"
Jerusalem will soon dis-
patch a delegation to Moscow
to check on a building for
which Israel holds a long-
term lease and pays $60,000
rent a year.

Chicago's Blacks
Blast Jews

Art censorship, minority
sensitivities and black-
Jewish tensions have coalesc-

ed in Chicago, all over a
satirical, iconoclastic paint-
ing of the city's late mayor,
Harold Washington.
At face value, the painting
of Washington has nothing to
do with Jews. The 4x3-foot
painting, entitled "Mirth and
Girth," depicts a frontal view
of Washington, clad only in a
bra, bikini underpants, garter
belt and stockings. It was on
exhibit recently at a private
student show at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago.
According to a story syn-
dicated by the New York
Times and carried by the
Milwaukee Journal, among
other papers, the painting
was "arrested" after an "ex-
tensive discussion" between
nine black Chicago aldermen
and Anthony Jones, president
of the art school. The painting
was taken to police head-
quarters. When returned to
the artist, David Nelson, two
days later, it had been
damaged.
In a resolution, the City
Council denounced the paint-
ing as a "disgrace to the city."
A proposed resolution had
claimed the artist had
"demented and pathological
mental capacities."
According to the Milwaukee
Journal story, black alder-
man Alan Streeter had said
"the fellow who drew that pic-
ture is Jewish . . . The Jewish
community tried to keep our
people silent," yet "we cannot
speak out against an in-
justice."
The artist, 23, is not
Jewish. A graduating senior
at the art school, he has gone
into seclusion.
Streeter's reference to
Jewish efforts to "silence"
blacks alluded to Steve Coke-
ly, a black mayoral aide who
recently made "a number of
highly provocative state-
ments about Jews, including
one that accused them of in-
jecting black children with
the AIDS virus."
By the time Cokely was
dismissed from his post on
May 6, many Chicago blacks
claimed he had been denied
his First Amendment rights.

ADL Honors
Turkish Envoy.

New York — A former
Turkish diplomat who saved
42 Jews on the Island of
Rhodes from deportation to
Auschwitz in 1944 has receiv-
ed the Anti-Defamation
League's Courage to Care
Award.
The award was presented to
Selahattin Ulkumen.