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Cohler received a call from
a Washington-area physi-
cian charging the reporter
had bought Wolpe's argu-
ment that the current Ethi-
opian dictator was worse
than the rebels trying to
overthrow him. The caller
also referred to the Jewish
Week's 1985 article on
Operation Moses.
One letter to the paper, ac-
cording to Cohler, complain-
ed about comments from
Wolpe critical of Israel's
policy toward Ethiopia.

Ford, Fisher Featured
In Vanity Fair

Do two half-Jews equal one
full-fledged Jew? You might
come to that conclusion by
reading Vanity Fair, whose
August issue has two full-
length profiles of actor Har-
rison (Presumed Innocent)
Ford and actress/writer
Carrie (Star Wars) Fisher.
Fisher, whose mom, ac-
tress/singer/hoofer Debbie
Reynolds, is Protestant and
pop, crooner Eddie Fisher, is
Jewish, is convinced she has
"a Jewish demeanor and a
Protestant ethic. I think my
extroversion is the Protes-
tant manifestation, but emo-
tionally I am Jewish, and I
was always drawn to people

who looked like I felt, a little
upset, a little like an out-
cast, uncomfortable, ready to
leave."
"I don't think I would be
played well by a Jew. The
vessel is Wasp, and the pas-
senger is a Jew."
Ford, reports Vanity Fair,
grew up in Chicago as the
"quiet, serious son" of an
Irish-Catholic advertising
executive and a Russian-
Jewish housewife. "The
future Indiana Jones,"
writes James Kaplan, "had
a kosher grandma from
Flatbush who alarmed him
as a small boy by putting her
teeth in a glass."

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investigative story
in the Washington
Jewish Week on
Israel's military support for
Ethiopia drew only two com-
plaints from readers, accor-
ding to Larry Cohler, the
paper's staff member who
wrote the piece.
The paper was widely
criticized in 1985 in the Jew-
ish community for
publishing accounts of
Operation Moses, the secret
rescue of Ethiopian Jews en
route to Israel.
The latest Jewish Week ar-
ticle on Ethiopia was based
on a confidential staff memo
given to Rep. Howard Wolpe
(D-Mich.), chairman of the
House subcommittee on
Africa. It stated that Israel
has supplied Ethiopia with
extensive weaponry and
military advice, partly to

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secure the emigration of E-
thiopian Jews.
The memo also said U.S.
opposition deterred Israel
from agreeing in 1989 to E-
thiopian demands for a
larger arms package.
A recent decline in Jewish
emigration from Ethiopia
has led to speculation that
they are being held hostage
in exchange for renewed
Israeli military supplies.

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"Those brown eyes, thick
mustache, large nose and
chubby cheeks . . . You're
Yassir Arafat!"
"Wrong, honey," would
come a soothing voice. "I'm
Fathi Arafat, Yassir's
younger brother, and I'm
featured in a profile in the
Washington Post."
Unlike Yassir, Fathi, 57,
packs a stethoscope, not a
gun. A physician who found-

ed the Palestine Red Cres-
cent Society in 1968, Arafat
helped establish a medical
and health care system that
now includes about 70
hospitals and 200 clinics for
Palestinians living in
diaspora in the Middle East.
This, he says, is "the other
side of the Palestinians'
struggle."
"The peace process is
taking time, " said Fathi to
Post reporter Caryle Mur-
phy, "so I want people to
wait for it. The strategy is to
decrease suffering, decrease

