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shering in the new year at the
Kingsley is a Bloomfield tradition. This
year, dance the night away with
"Persuasion", a 6 piece variety band.
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njoy dinner while you dance. A select
limited menu will be served in the
ballroom throughout the evening. Party
favors, champagne toast and midnight
snack bar included. Cash bar available.
35.00 per person. Pre-paid cover charge.
fter the party's over, plan on
spending the night with us. Our holiday
rate on all accommodations will make it
possible. Plan now. Reservations
recommended.
Of Yassir Arafat
And George Shultz
D inner and dance in the Grand
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Ballroom with the "Persuasion",
champagne toast, party favors, 3
cocktails, overnight stay, Sunday
brunch, second night free. $97.00 per
person plus tax and gratuity.
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pecial menus will be featured in all
the Kingsley restaurants. You can plan
your evening the way you want. Entrees
from 19.95.
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uite, overnight dinner and dancing
package, second night free. $117.00 per
person, plus tax and gratuity.
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Kingsiep Inn
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See us for all your
holiday celebration needs.
Woodward at
Long Lake Road
Bloomfield Hills
644-1400
New Year's Eve
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Compri
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plus tax
Celebrate the New Year in comfort and style at
the new Compri Hotel Southfield.
Package Includes:
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Full cooked-to-order breakfast
Two complimentary cocktails per person
Complimentary hors d'oeuvres 5-7 p.m,
Free late night snacks
Party favors
Split of champagne
Late Check-out 3 p.m.
Use of indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna and exercise room.
For further information or reservations
call (313) 357-1100
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26000 American Drive across from American Center at Franklin Rd.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1988
Special to The Jewish News
S
ecretary of State
George Shultz's deci-
sion to bar Yassir
Arafat from the United States
after he announced he would
speak at the United Nations
may have been one of the
U.S?s more recent pyrrhic vic-
tories: Shultz sacrificed a
diplomatic win for a moral
victory.
If one were to extrapolate
from the reaction in the press,
Americans oppose Shultz's
decision by about 99-1. The
secretary's move, for instance,
spurred Time magazine
senior writer Walter Isaacson
to urge the United States to
establish direct contact with
Arafat. This, Isaacson wrote,
would help Washington
"break the logjam blocking
mutual recognition between
the PLO and Israel. Like
most of its Western allies, the
U.S. could have dealings with
the organization without ex-
tending formal recognition!'
American prerequisites for
formally recognizing the
PLO, said Isaacson, would re-
main the same as they have
been since 1975: "No matter
how painful it may be for
Arafat to offer an unqualified
acceptance of Israel's right to
exist and to renounce all
forms of terrorism, these are
not unreasonable demands. If
he proves unwilling to accept
them, the U.S. can always
break off contact and, with no
apologies, ostracize the PLO
once again."
Among the reasons Isaac-
son offers for the United
States engaging in talks with
the PLO:
• The Palestinian intifada
has "moderated" PLO goals
"because the residents of the
occupied territories who are
involved in the uprising are
more willing than exiled
Palestinians to accept coex-
istence with Israel!"
• By solidifying his leader-
ship during the last year over
those involved in the intifada
as well as Palestinians in ex-
ile, Arafat has established the
PLO "more firmly than ever
as the sole representative of
the Palestinian people. Israel
can no longer hope that a
group of West Bank or Gaza
leaders unaffiliated with the
PLO will emerge."
• Arab countries' "tacit ac-
ceptance" of Israel's existence
has made a diplomatic settle-
ment "more conceivable."
• King Hussein's decision
in July to curtail Jordan's role
•
George Shultz: Praised and
damned.
in the West Bank "removes
for the near future the option
of letting Amman act as a
reluctant surrogate for the
Palestinians."
The Klinghoffers
Offer Praise
One of the few voices prais-
ing Shultz for barring Arafat
has come from the daughters
of Leon Klinghoffer. Klinghof-
fer was the wheelchair-bound
American Jew shot to death
and then thrown overboard
during the 1985 hijacking of
the Italian liner, Achille
Lauro. Taking credit for the
Klinghoffer murder was Abu
Abbas, who sat in the front
row at last month's Palestine
National Congress as it
declared an independent
state of Palestine.
Writing on the New York
Times' op-ed page last week,
Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer call-
ed Shultz "a hero for his con-
sistent stand against ter-
rorism."
Resting on Shultz's deci-
sion, they said, was the in-
tegrity of America's battle
against terrorism and
"whether the United States
can be taken seriously as the
leader of the struggle against
terrorism if it speaks out of
both sides of its mouth."
"Stick to your principles,"
the Klinghoffers urged
Shultz. "As Americans, we
are best off when we do so
and, in the end, despite
criticism from abroad, the
world is best off when
America takes the lead in
fighting this evil!'
Arafat Still
"Talking War?"
Of all the comments on the
Shultz/U.N./Arafat flap, vir-
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