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Mondry FOR ELECTION 3-Year Term Ending in 1991 Michael W. Maddin Robert H. Naftaly Dulcie Rosenfeld Other persons may be nominated by petition or petitions signed by not fewer than 25 members of the Federation and filed with the Executive Vice-President of the Federation not less than ten days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting. Only one person may be nominated in each petition and no nomination shall be valid unless the nominees have consented to be a candidate. 1988 NOMINATING COMMITTEE George M. Zeltzer Chairman Paul D. Borman Avern L. Cohn David Handleman Linda Z.Klein THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF DETROIT ARE PROPOSED TO BE AMENDED BY THE ADDITION OF THE FOLLOWING NEW ARTICLE ARTICLE (XI). 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Any repeal or modification of this Article (XI) shall not adversely affect any right or protec- tion of any volunteer member of the Board of Governors of the Corporation pursuant to this Article (XI) existing at the time of, or for or with respect to, any acts or omissions occurring before the effective date of such repeal or modification. The Corporation hereby assumes any and all personal liability of any volunteer member of the Board of Governors of the Corporation to any person other than the Corporation or its members for monetary damages for all acts or omissions of the volunteer member of the Board of Governors occurring on or after the effective date of the adoption of this provision (upon filing with the Michigan Department of Commerce - Corporation and Securities Bureau). JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION Martin S. Kraar, Executive Vice-President 163 Madison Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226 -2180 • 965-3939 I FRIDAY, Continued on preceding page balked at shipping America's newest state-of-the-art battle tank, the M1A1 Abrams, to certain Arab countries. Some time ago, then Secretary of Defense Weinberger entered into secret negotiations with Egypt to create a turn-key tank factory in Egypt to build the M1A1 Abrams. In spite of written contracts to the con- trary, it would be difficult to restrain Egypt from shipping this state-of-the-art tank or subsequent versions to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, or other Arab countries. It also can be assumed that component technology, missiles, optics and lasers would eventually find their way into Arab armories. This U.S. technology open to the scrutiny of Arab states, some of whom are close to the Soviets, could lead to the com- promise of our main battle tank. In conjunction with this technical transfer agreement, Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci and Egyptian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala recently signed an agreement allowing Egyptian companies to bid and furnish arms to the United States. Although this agreement was said to be on- ly symbolic in nature, one can assume that there are plans for greater reciprocity in technology transfer than there now appears to be. This means that Egypt becomes a surrogate manufacturer and transfer agent for a broad range of technology and finished weapons systems to any Arab country, again effec- tively by-passing congres- sional overview. During the Pollards' closed hearings, Weinberger stated that "a stronger Israel would upset the balance of power in the region." This flies in the face of evidence that Syria alone is almost at strategic parity with Israel. Syria's large standing army has 10 divisions on the Golan alone, ready to move at an hour's notice. Adding any other Arab army to the Syrian forces would tip the scales against Israel. The Arabs, perceiving their superiority against an Israel being made vulnerable, would certainly precipitate a full-dress attack. There are many in the U.S. industrial-military complex who would like to see the relationship with Israel severed or at least weakened. A recent article in Jane's Defense Weekly spoke of money being lost because of congressional reviewing of military shipments to Arab countries and frequent rejec- tion of them on the basis that the weapons would un- doubtedly be used against Israel. The deals with Iran for arms, the Iraqi pipeline deal, and the contra supply coverup may be merely the tip of the iceberg of secret government operations. Consider the billions in Arab oil dollars flowing into the hands of cer- tain Americans, government officials, U.S. and multi- national corporations whose special vested interests may have spawned dozens of secret and illegal "rogue" opera- tions. Obviously, the philosophy that a stronger Israel is an impediment to Arab aspirations and demands is true. Where do small cogs like Pollard and his wife fit into the worldwide, geo-political, inteligence/military/in- dustrial tangle? Was their capture and sentencing mere- ly one of a series of events planned to -weaken or even sever the ties of strategic cooperation between Israel and America? Pollard may have unwit- tingly stepped into this quagmire. He grasped that a cut-off in certain intelligence to Israel could spell the dif- ference between existence or obliteration in nuclear or chemical warfare. Pollard's nine months of polygraphing by the FBI must assuredly have been shared and cross-checked by the CIA, the Justice Depart- ment, Naval Intelligence and the Defense Department. Why then would diGenova have been instructed to pur- sue a line of investigation that already had been ex- hausted to find a so-called "Mr. X"or supposed co- conspirators among promi- nent American Jewish leaders? If there was a will- ingness to pursue a line of in- terrogation that was already known to have been un- productive — in fact, false — what motives lay behind the entire pursuit of Pollard to begin with? If, indeed, there was a plot to use Pollard to weaken U.S. links to Israel, it should be ex- posed and the Pollards should have a new, public trial with a new judge. Keeping Pollard in solitary confinement and allowing Anne to sicken un- to death is the kind of cruel and inhuman punishment that will come back to haunt the conscience of America. There is the appearance of dirty work afoot. We cannot allow our judiciary and political system to be tainted by gross impropriety and suspicion of abandoning the rule of law. K