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sian, he is a former member
of the communist party, a
self-described agnostic, and
enjoys jokes about the in-
ternational "Jewish con-
spiracy."
He recently requested in-
formation about Israel for
his sister who will move
there to join her friends. He
and his family will stay put.
He remembers that his
mother understood some
Yiddish. That weak link is
apparently the final one in
the chain of Jewish life of his
family.
When she was 15, his old-
est daughter Natasha asked
her mother a question. "Is
Papa Jewish? Does that
mean that I'm Jewish?"
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1992
With the gray clouds of a
Moscow winter day above,
and its brown slush below,
the car drove on. Its passen-
gers sat silent for a moment,
the statue of Lenin fading
into the dull skyline behind
us.
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As our car passed the tow-
ering statue of Vladimir
Ilyich Lenin on Leninsky
Prospekt, Mr. Katznelson re-
sponded without hesitation.
"No, never," he said.
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searcher, did not declare her
nationality as Jewish.
Communism did not de-
stroy the Jews here, but it
virtually annihilated Ju-
daism.
At the conclusion of a
nine-day visit from a guest,
Mr. Katznelson was asked if
Jews would ever have a nor-
mal life here.
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Bonn (JTA) — A German
freighter bound for Syria
with a cargo of Soviet-model
T-72 tanks was intercepted
by a German navy frigate in
the western Mediterranean
last month and forced to
return to a German port.
Legal action may be taken
against the ship's owners,
government sources said.
A senior aide to Chancellor
Helmut Kohl, Bren Schmid-
bauer, said the incident
should serve as a warning
that Bonn fully intends to
implement its new, more str-
ingent regulations against
the illegal export of arms.
According to information
released here, the ship,
Gotewind, loaded 16 T-72
tanks at a Polish port on
Jan. 12. The tanks were
manufactured in
Czechoslovakia, which has
had large-scale arms trans-
actions with Syria.
They may have been part
of a shipment specifically
denounced last month by
Czechoslovak President
Vaclav Havel, who vowed it
would be the last.
Government sources here
said about 300 tanks were
involved in the deal. They
implied that ships of various
flags were transporting
them, along with other
weapons systems, ammuni-
tion and spare parts to Syria.
The Gotewind called brief-
ly at Hamburg before sailing
for Syria. It was intercepted
in international waters near
Malta by the German navy
frigate Bremen, which was
participating in NATO war
games in the area.
The frigate used its two
helicopters to locate the
vessel with the illegal cargo.
It was ordered to return to
Germany and was reported
due at Kiel or Hamburg in
the next five days.
Legal experts here differ
over whether the diversion
was consistent with interna-
tional law. But a govern-
ment spokesman rejected
criticism, saying the princi-
ple of preventing the illegal
trafficking in arms took
priority.
Meanwhile, an investiga-
tion has begun in Kiel into
the activities of the
Gotewind's owners, the
Karl-Heinz Basse shipping
company, which is based in
Rednsburg.
The owners could face up
to four years in prison if con-
victed of violating export
regulations and transpor-
ting arms illegally.
In a radio address from
Prague on Jan. 26, Mr.
Havel warned that the con-
tinued export of heavy
weapons to countries like
Syria posed a danger to
Czechoslovakia.
"I am not pleased with our
deliveries of tanks to Syria
at all," he declared, adding,
"We have been assured that
the present deliveries are
the last ones."