CLEARANCE! $1 Billion Goal Sought For 'Exodus II' ALL TABLECLOTHS OVALS - ROUNDS - OBLONGS ALL BED SHEET' DRASTICALLY REDUCED FOR CLEARANCE! TELEGRAPH AT MAPLE ROAD Studio In Harvard Row Mall Barry's Let's Rent It PARTIES EXCLUSIVELY • Tents • Tables • Chairs • China • Paper Goods 4393 ORCHARD LAKE RD., N. OF LONE PINE IN CROSSWINDS 855-0480 S FETY FIRST • • • • Vertical Blinds Levolor Blinds Pleated Shades Wood Blinds Provide Hours Of Safe, Healthy Coordination...Building Playtime For Your Kids 7"€ Doll Vieortal & • Seldert Siefr 3947 W. 12 Mile Rd. • Berkley 543-3115 21728 W. Eleven Mile Rd. Harvard Row Mall Southfield, MI 48076 Free Professional Measure at No Obligation Free in Home Design Consulting Mon.-Sat. 10-5 • Friday 10-8 352-8622 ew Rochester Hills 651.5009 A DAVID ROSENMAN'S Allf110 Aim PILIRCHASERS NEW & USED CAR BROKER (313) 851-CARS (313) 851-2277 \ 34 FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1991 NEWS Larry Paul makes FURNITURE NEW. Custom Restoration, Lacquering, Refinishing of new or old furniture, antiques, office furniture, pianos. For Free Estimates 681-8280 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY' Help us keep winning. Jerusalem (JTA) — The leaders of the Jewish Agency for Israel have asked the United Jewish Appeal to raise $700 million over three years as the next phase of Operation Exodus, but it ap- pears that the actual goal for this special campaign will be considerably lower. Jewish Agency leaders Mendel Kaplan and Simcha Dinitz asked the United Jewish Appeal and the organization that raises money for the agency out- side the United_States, Karen Hayesod, to agree to a $1 billion goal for what is be- ing called "Exodus II." UJA is being asked to raise $700 million and Keren Hayesod $300 mill- ion. The $1 billion request was made last week during sessions of the agency Board of Governors. Mr. Kaplan, who chairs the Board of Governors, said that even if this billion dollars is raised over the next three years, the agency will still be short several hundred million dollars for its programs of immigration and absorption, education, settlement and Diaspora Jewish education. The Board of Governors approved a budget of $555 million for the nine months of fiscal year 1991, which starts April 1. The fiscal year, which normally runs from April to March is being switched to correspond to the - calendar year. ipagot anticipates that 225,000 Soviet inainigrants will come to Israel during this period. The Board of Governors decided to pare down regular Jewish Agency programs and institute economy mea- sures, in order to make more money available for Soviet aliyah and immigrant ab- sorption. The agency covers the full cost of transporting the Soviet immigrants and their belongings to Israel, as well as a portion of their living and basic absorption ex- penses during their first year in Israel. Palestinians Await The New World Order Jerusalem (JTA) -- Influen- tial Arab leaders in the ad- ministered territories are beginning to recognize the need for a "new Palestinian order" in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war, within the context of the larger "new order" that is likely to emerge in the Middle East. Some are quietly sug- gesting that the Palestin- ians scale back their aspira- tions for an independent state and be prepared to seek some measure of autonomy over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Already there are signs of distancing between the local Palestinian leadership in the territories and the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization leadership, which resides overseas. While the Palestinians in the territories may continue to accept Yasir Arafat as a symbolic "president of Palestine," his authority is increasingly being challeng- ed. But Saddam Hussein of Iraq will continue to be a factor. The Palestinian masses who hailed him as their savior will not easily admit they backed the wrong "hero." Palestinians do not readily admit mistakes. They simp- ly rationalize that there was "no alternative." However humiliating the defeat that awaits Hussein at the hands of the allied military coalition, he will be revered by the Palestinians. "The Western mind will say that Saddam committed suicide. But the Arab mind will say he died a martyr," Dr. Mehdi Abdul- Hadi, head of the Palestine Academic Center for International Af- fairs in East Jerusalem, told the Jerusalem Post this week. There is some rational dis- sent from that viewpoint, notably from Elias Freij, the veteran mayor of Bethlehem, who spoke out from the start against Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. But voices of reason are a rare commodity in Palestin- ian political discourse -- at least in terms of Israeli thinking. Freij's influence does not extend much beyond his office in Manger Square.