Draur, who replaced
Dorothy McIntosh as super-
visor after McIntosh's
sudden death, is gearing up
for an election in November.
The primary is slated for
August. She can't take a
vacation until then. There is
too much work to do.
Her now defunct OUST
group is well represented
within the township head-
quarters, with six members
holding government offices
— one elected, five ap-
pointed. The three Jewish
OUST appointees are Budaj,
chairman of the Woodlands
Review Board, and Schwartz
and Spokojny, members of
the Wetlands Review Board.
They will help with the
campaign. On Draur's agen-

da are plans to incorporate
the township as a city, put a
lid on growth and run the
township as efficiently as
possible.
She suspects Holtz may be
running against her. If not
Holtz, Draur says, another
qualified opponent. Holtz
says she doesn't want the
job. She is facing a tough
enough dilemma as it is.
"A lot of Jewish people in
West Bloomfield think this
is about anti-Semitism,"
Holtz says. "It's not. It is bad
timing. And it will get
worse. As the Jewish
population continues to
move out here, more and
more people are going to
want their institutions to
come with them." ❑

NEWS

I

Arafat's Right Of Return
Gets Mixed Reviews

Jerusalem (JTA) — Signs
of new flexibility from
Yassir Arafat, conveyed in a
letter to a Jewish peace
group here, have received a
mixed reaction among
Israelis.
In the letter, the PLO
chairman expresses a will-
ingness to negotiate on the
right of return for Palestin-
ians and says that Soviet
Jews have a right to im-
migrate to Israel, but not to
uproot Palestinians.
The letter also appears to
endorse proposed
preliminary talks between
Israel and a Palestinian
delegation that would ex-
clude the PLO.
The Israeli political center
and left find the letter con-
ciliatory and believe it con-
tains a promise of further
moderation on the part of
the PLO. But the right wing
has been dismissive, and
reaction from Palestinians
in the administered ter-
ritories has been sparse.
The six-page letter,
transmitted by a facsimile
machine, was sent to the
International Center for
Peace in the Middle East,
which was holding its an-
nual board of trustees
meeting in Jerusalem.
The center, composed
largely of dovish Israelis and
American Jews, arranged
the controversial meeting
between Arafat and five
American Jews in
Stockholm in December
1988.
Arafat wrote that the PLO
supports the rights of all
people, including Soviet
Jews, "to free movement and
travel" and "to choose the

country in which they wish
to reside, [but] "this right,
like all others, has its limi-
tations. It ends where other
people's rights begin. The
other people in this case are
the Palestinians. They too
have a right to live in their
homeland and resist all at-
tempts to uproot them."
That is followed by a
sentence which appears to
threaten violence if the
Israeli government forces
Soviet Jews to settle in the
administered territories.
"Jewish emigrants have
the right to choose their des-
tinations without being forc-
ibly directed to any other
place," Arafat wrote. "Any
attempt to deny them that
right could provoke
dangerous explosions and
deal a fatal blow to peace
efforts."
The letter heartened such
Knesset doves as Michael
Bar-Zohar of the Labor Par-
ty and Yair Tsaban of
Mapam, the United Workers
Party of Israel.
Bar-Zohar, who represents
the activist element in
Labor, claimed the persis-
tent refusal to negotiate
with the PLO had softened
Arafat's stand. He suggested
that the only remaining
obstacle between Israel and
the PLO is the Palestinian
demand for an independent
state.
Tsaban predictably urged
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir to reconsider his
refusal to talk to the PLO.
Uzi Baram, former secre-
tary-general of the Labor
Party, suggested the letter
was another signal of change
inside the PLO.

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