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Receives Threats
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Budapest (JTA) - The Jew-
ish community's central
headquarters here received
an anonymous bomb threat
over the phone Wednesday,
from a caller who said he
planted a bomb on the
premises because of "Jewish
criticism against the pope"
on the eve of the pontiff's
visit here.
The threat, which proved
false, was called an obvious
provocation in a statement
issued by the Jewish com-
munity's leadership.
In its statement, the com-
munity leaders said, "It is
rather sorrowful that the
visit of the pope can be used
as a good excuse to make
provocative actions against
the Jewish community in
Hungary."
• The statement was referr-
ing not only to the bomb
threat but to the televised
appearance of a man, iden-
tified as a Jew, who com-
plained that the pope's visit
was inconveniencing him.
The man said he was being
"deprived of (his) human
rights by the papal visit,"
and that security measures
surrounding the pope's visit,
which include strict curbs on
transportation, were preven-
ting him from attending
synagogue.
The Hungarian Jewish
community leadership,
which goes under the
acronym MIOK, said the
person interviewed might
not even had been a Jew,
and asked for an investiga-
tion about the person.
If the person was falsely
identified as a Jew, "it is a
very serious provocation
against the Hungarian Jew-
ish community," the state-
ment said.
Pope John Paul II is
scheduled to meet with 10
Jewish community leaders
next week. The visit was an-
nounced officially by the or-
ganizing committee for the
papal visit.
The Hungarian Jewish
community had officially in-
vited the pope to visit the
Dohany Street Synagogue,
Europe's largest, but the
Vatican declined the offer. It
also turned down a request
for the pope to pay tribute at
a Holocaust memorial
behind the synagogue to the
600,000 Hungarian Jews
murdered during the Holo-
caust.
A third request, asking the
pope to condemn anti-
Semitism while in Hungary,
was also rejected by the Vat-
ican at a news conference
held by Hungarian Bishop
Keresztes Szilard,
Bishop Szilard said it was
impossible to accept the Jew-
ish community's request as a
precondition of the meeting
between the pope and the
Jews.
The bishop said that
although "it is justifiable
that the pope should deal
with this matter, the organi-
zers cannot give guarantees
that it will be part of the
pope's speech."
But the bishop acknowl-
edged that "anti-Semitism is
one of the greatest problems
of our age."
Israel Sends
Space Cameras
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel
will soon have the capability
of sending satellite-mounted
cameras into orbit, accor-
ding to experts quoted last
week in the Israeli daily
Ma'ariv.
Israel's Ofek (horizon) pro-
gram has to date launched
two satellites into orbit,
neither of which, according
to the Israeli government,
carried cameras or was in-
tended for military use.
Foreign sources, however,-
have claimed that the Ofek-2
probe, launched April 3,
1990, was a spy probe and
did, in fact, carry a camera.
This past March, Defense
Minister Moshe Arens made
a surprise announcement
that Israel would soon be
launching its own spy
satellite. His remark was
the first public disclosure by
a senior Cabinet member
that Israel had a spy
satellite program.
Mr. Arens' announcement
followed criticism by mem-
bers of the opposition that
Israel's intelligence services
had not performed well dur-
ing the Persian Gulf crisis.
During the Gulf crisis and
the Persian Gulf War, Israel
had to depend on U.S.
satellite data for intelligence
about Iraqi troop movements
and Scud missile launchers.
Mr. Arens had countered
criticism by saying Israel
had relayed information to
the United States.
Mr. Arens enthusiastically
supports the project's con-
tinuation, but says Ofek's
fate depends on an increased
defense budget.
Defense sources are saying
the war proved the necessity
for spy satellites.