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Jerusalem Candidate
Seeks End of 'Teddy Era'

DAVID HOLZEL

Staff Writer

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S hmuel Pressburger wants to
build a subway in Jerusalem.
Sounds farfetched? He also
wants to be mayor of Jerusalem.
Pressburger, the Likud candidate
for mayor, believes the end of the
22-year reign of Mayor Teddy Kollek
is in sight. The 78-year-old Kollek has
been challenged before, but he and his
Labor Party-oriented list of local can-
didates, called One Jerusalem, have
always been returned to power by
wide margins.
Pressburger acknowleged during
a fund-raising visit to Detroit last
week that he has a lot of work to do
to make his candidacy a viable one.
He said he wants to usher in the post-
Teddy era, not because of what Kollek
has done in the past, but because of
what he is not doing now.
"He did a wonderful job in his
time, but I believe things must be
changed," said the 57-year-old
businessman and former career army
officer.
First on Pressburger's list of
changes is how to raise money for
Jerusalem and where the money is to
be spent.
"Teddy built up a wonderful city,
full of museums and theaters. But it's
used by 10 percent of Jerusalem's
population. Most people get nothing
from this."
Pressburger said he would concen-
trate on building up neighborhoods
and would construct local cinemas
and cafes to serve the average
Jerusalemite near his home.

Kollek is adept at coming to
America and raising fistfuls of money,
Pressburger said, "but we are using
the money and asking again for
money. I cannot show what the money
has given us."
Pressburger said he is in the
United States on a different kind of
fund-raising mission. He is looking to
fund his uphill campaign against
Kollek, and he is seeking out past
contributors to Jerusalem, asking
them to invest in the city through
capitalistic — rather than charitable
— efforts.
"I'm trying to interest them in
projects in housing, in industry. They
must see some profit. If there is no
profit, I don't want them there:'
Industrial development "is not on
Teddy's list," Pressburger said. "But
it's on my list:'
Jerusalem's biggest problem, he
said, is not the Palestinian uprising
but relations between Jews. His solu-
tion to tension and violence between
secular and ultra-Orthodox Jewish
Jerusalemites is to build special
neighborhoods for the religious.
These neighborhoods would be self-
contained and would not be crossed by
major thoroughfares. In this way, all
neighborhood roads could be closed on
Shabbat without affecting those
Israelis who wish to drive.
At the same time, the rights of
Israel's non-Orthodox majority would
be protected. While the status quo
would remain in the city center, with
all businesses closed on Shabbat, ma-
jority preference would apply in
secular neighborhoods as in religious

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ROUND UP

Sara Lee Settles
Boycott Case

New York (JTA) — The
Chicago-based Sara Lee cor-
poration has agreed to pay a
$725,000 penalty in order to
settle charges that it violated
U.S. anti-boycott laws.
If approved by a federal
judge, the settlement would
be the second largest in the
10-year history of the Export
Administration Act. The act
prohibits American firms
from cooperating with the
Arab boycott of Israeli goods
and services.
Sara Lee was charged with
furthering the Arab boycott
by providing 235 items of
boycott-related information —
including names and nation-
alities of 39 corporate officers

— to Kuwait and other coun-
tries during its 1982 efforts to
register its L'Eggs trademark
in Kuwait and other Arab
nations.
Despite the settlement,
Sara Lee maintains it did not
participate in boycott actions
against Israel.
"This settlement does not
constitute either a determi-
nation of guilt or an admis-
sion by the company of any
violation of the law," said Gor-
don Newman, senior vice
president and general counsel
for Sara Lee.
According to Newman, Sara
Lee and its subsidiaries
strongly oppose the Arab
boycott, and have been black-
listed by the Arab states for
several years.
But according to Will
Maslow, general counsel of

the American Jewish Con-
gress and editor of its Boycott
Report," Sara Lee's settle-
ment offer is the equivalent of
a plea of no contest.

Israel, USSR
Reach Pact

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel and
the Soviet Union have agreed
to set up bi-national
chambers of commerce in
both Moscow and Aviv.
The decision, reported in
Tuesday's Jerusalem Post,
was reached Monday in Len-
ingrad by visiting Israeli Dan
Gillerman, president of the
Federation of Israeli
Chambers of Commerce in Tel
Aviv, in agreement with
Soviet officials during Gillen
man's two-day visit.

The possibility of opening
trade links between the
Soviet Union and Israel were
also discussed at the
meetings, which were describ-
ed as "encouraging," as well
as the improvement of
diplomatic relations between
the two countries.

Peres Draws
Security Border

Jerusalem (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres said
Tuesday that if he were to
lead the next government, he
would support the Jordan
River as Israel's eastern
security border.
Talking to a group of
visiting American journalists,
Peres was not specific in

describing a political border,
nor his plans for evacuating
portions of the administered
territories.
But he did say that any
evacuated territory would be
demilitarized, and that the
security border would include
early warning stations set up
along the Jordan River to pre-
vent a surprise attack against
Israel.

Labor Party politicians
have traditionally distin-
guished between security
borders and political borders.
Peres' position appears to be
that while Israel should be
prepared to relinquish
sovereignty over parts of the
West Bank, the Israel
Defense Force would retain
control over all territory up to
the Jordan River.

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