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New York (JTA) — The
Jewish Welcome Service of
Vienna is sponsoring an April
visit to Austria for grand-
children of former Austrians
who fled Nazi persecution.
The free program is the
brainchild of Holocaust sur-
vivor Leon Zelman of Vienna,
who has devoted his life to
preserving the memory of the
Eastern European Jewish
culture.
Applicants must be over the
age of 16. They will be hosted
by families, most of them liv-
ing in Vienna, for a 10-day
stay. Flights are being
scheduled to accommodate
Passover observance and will
leave April 3, 6, 9 and 10.
The visitors will fly on
Austrian Airlines, which has
donated their service on the
occasion of the inauguration
of a new flight route from
Vienna to New York.
Zelman, born in Lodz,
Poland, in 1926, survived the
Lodz ghetto and the concen-
tration camps of Auschwitz,
Mauthausen and Ebensee.
In 1984, he organized an ex-
hibit in Vienna, "Disap-
peared World," and a sym-
posium, "The World of Yester-
day."
Zelman is planning to host
a Seder for those on the April
9 and 10 flights.
Deadline for applications is
Feb. 28. The tour is being of-
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Send applications to Susi
Schneier, U.S. Representative,
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Washington (JTA) — The
United States believes that if
Israel had a trained riot-
control force, it could have
prevented human rights
violations in dealing with the
Palestinian uprising on the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, a
senior State Department of-
ficial said last week.
Richard Schifter, assistant
secretary of state for human
rights and humanitarian af-
fairs, was commenting on the
State Department's annual
"Country Reports on Human
Rights Practices" in which
Israel was accused of "a
substantial increase in
human rights violations" in
the territories last year.
"The situation in the Israeli
occupied territories is sui
generis," Schifter said. He ex-
plained that Israel faces a

situation in which the "occu-
pying army responds to
serious disorder" by an "ex-
cessive" use of force.
This is largely due to the
fact that the Israeli army is
untrained for such a situa-
tion, Schifter said.
He contrasted this to South
Korea, where security forces
were able to contain riots
against the government
without any loss of life in
1988.
The State Department's
human rights report found
that 366 Palestinians were
killed in 1988, mostly by the
Israeli army, but some also by
Jewish settlers.
Schifter said the situation
was also better in Jerusalem,
where Palestinian rioting is
contained by the police force,
rather than the army.
But Yossi Gal, the Israel
Embassy's spokesman, re-
jected the analogy with South
Korea.
He said there is a basic dif-
ference between students
demonstrating on a specific
issue in South Korea and the
situation in the territories,
where young people and
women and others throw
rocks at Israelis.

Soviet Shows
For Wallenberg

Brussels (JTA) — A Soviet
diplomat has for the first time
attended a ceremony honor-
ing Raoul Wallenberg, the
Swedish diplomat who
rescued Hungarian Jews from
the Nazis during World War
II and disappeared into the
Soviet Gulag.
Piotr Bogdanov, Moscow's
ambassador to Belgium, was
one of the many dignitaries at
the solemn ceremony organ-
ized jointly by the Belgian
committee for Raoul Wallen-
berg and Foreign Minister
Leo Tindemans.
The Soviets have studious-
ly ignored Wallenberg since
his arrest early in 1945, when
the Red Army entered
Budapest. •
After first denying any
knowledge of him, the Krem-
lin's official line has been that
Wallenberg died of a heart
attack in a prison near Mos-
cow in 1947, at the age of 35.
But persistent reports have
surfaced over the years that
he has been seen alive.
His half brother, Guy von
Dardel, told the gathering
that "the presence of the
Soviet ambassador is a signi-
ficant gesture that shows that
(Soviet leader Mikhail) Gor-
bachev's glasnost (openness)
policy gives us hope for a
change of the Soviet attitude
toward the Wallenberg case."

