Hungarian Center Receives Threats FARMINGTON 31205 Grand River 476.0730 W. BLOOMFIELD 5731 W. Maple 855.3400 BERKLEY 2109 N. Woodward 543.4046 For Additional Savings Please refer to Jewish News Coupon Book (7/26 Issue) FALL COLORS OF BENETTON. UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON. Benetton and Sisley. Italy's famous makers of colorful woolens and cottons for women and men. Introducing Back to School Fashions and Fall Collection 1991. The Boardwalk OPEN SUNDAYS West Bloomfield Orchard Lake Rd. • South Of Maple 737-3737 Livonia I-275,Expressway at W. 6 Mile Rd. OUR NEW FALL LEATHER LINE IS IN! BrickerAlmis Furs And im F? L EATHER 6335 ORCHARD LAKE RD. • ORCHARD MALL 855-9200 WEST BLOOMFIELD 24 FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1991 Laurel Park Place 953-0500 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 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.