I OBITUARIES Couple Dies In Cairo Fire Its not your problem. But you made it your problem. You gave to the 1989 United Way Torch Drive. And because you did, 153 agencies in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties can continue helping those in need. Thank you for giving. United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way Michigan State Solicitation MICS 2123 YOU'RE.::1111,1KING: ATA--LETHALWEAPOIL Before you take another bite, think about the fact that a diet high in cholesterol and fat can load your blood with cholesterol, which raises your chance of heart attack. In fact, more Americans may die by the fork than by any other weapon. 7. American Heart Association WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE This space provided as a public service. 132 FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990 Tel Aviv (JTA) — Marver Bernstein, 70, the former president of Brandeis Univer- sity, and his wife, Sheva, 68, were among those who died March 1 in a fire at the Sheraton Hotel in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. Sixteen people perished in the blaze. The Bernsteins, who kept a home in Jerusalem and one in the United States, had flown to Cairo to join a tour of Egypt, with a visit to the Nabatean archeological re- mains in Petra, Jordan, organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Bernstein, who received his doctorate in political science at Princeton University, serv- ed in several academic posts. He was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Interna- tional Relations at Princeton. He served as president of Brandeis from 1972 to 1983. Shortly after the establish- ment of the State of Israel in 1948, Bernstein was invited by the new government to ad- vise it on the establishment of its public services and to draw up plans for the office of state comptroller. Following his retirement on pension from Brandeis, Bern- stein continued an academic association with Georgetown University in Washington. Born in Mankato, Minn., he was the author of three books, including one titled The Politics of Israel, and the co- author of another work. At the time of his death, he was professor of political science at Georgetown University. Sheva Bernstein, born in St. Paul, Minn., was an economic statistician. Both held various lay leadership positions with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. Ya'acov Tsur, JNF Veteran (JTA) — Ya'acov Tsur, a distinguished Israeli diplomat and fomer chairman of the Jewish National Fund, died last week. He was 84. Tsur was born in Vilna, the son of a well-known writer and journalist, Shmuel Czer- nowitz. He came to Palestine in 1921. After graduating from the Hebrew High School in Jerusalem, he attended the University of Florence, Italy, and embrarked on a career in journalism. During the 1930s, Tsur was employed by the JNF, for whom he traveled extensive- ly abroad. When Israel declared its in- dependence in 1948, Tsur joined the new nation's foreign service. He subse- quently was Israel's am- bassador to Uruguay, Argen- tina, Paraguay and Chile. In 1953, he was ambassador to France. He actively assisted the mass immigra- tion of North African Jews to Israel by way of France, and helped establish the Franco- Israeli alliance and special relationship, which lasted un- til the 1967 Six-Day War. Despite President Charles de Gaulle's imposition of an arms embargo on Israel, Tsur developed warm personal relations with him. He was awarded the coveted Legion d'Honneur. Tsur assumed the chair- manship of JNF after retiring from the Foreign Service. I NEWS Court To Hear New Evidence Jerusalem (JTA) — The High Court of Justice has agreed to consider new evidence which might sup- port the alibi of convicted war criminal John Demjan- juk, who was sentenced to hang two years ago. It is scheduled to hear his appeal on May 14. Demjanjuk's Israeli defense lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, will interview a witness in West Germany before trying to corroborate the claim that Demjanjuk is a victim of mistaken identi- ty. The Ukrainian-born former automobile worker from Cleveland was found guilty by a Jerusalem district court in 1988 of responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews between 1942 and 1943, when he was a guard at the Treblinka death camp. His brutality earned him the moniker "Ivan the Terrible." Demjanjuk, 69, claims he was a German prisoner of war at the time. Sheftel said he learned only in December of a West German woman, Josefine Dolle, whose testimony might give credence to that claim. Dolle, 70, was a clerk at the German military camp in Heuberg. Dolle's evidence does not include photographs of Dem- janjuk, nor does she claim to have known him. But she can testify that there were Red Army defectors at the camp at the time Demjanjuk says he was there.