UP FRONT
Fundamentalists
Seek Retaliation
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
Shi'ite fundamentalist Hez-
bollah, retaliating for the
assassination last week of its
leader, Sheik Abbas
Musawi, has hurled a bar-
rage of Katyusha rocket fire
at northern Israel and the
Israeli-controlled security
zone in southern Lebanon.
About 40 rockets fell in
Upper Galilee and the
security zone on the
weekend and scores more
followed Monday night and
early Tuesday.
Many residents were forc-
ed to spend the night in
bomb shelters. But no in-
juries were reported and
property damage was minor.
Schools opened late Tues-
day because many
youngsters had a sleepless
night, but no classes were
canceled.
Two major salvos fell at
4:40 and 7:15 a.m. local time
Tuesday. Fragments in-
dicated they were 122mm
rockets, which have a range
of about 12 miles.
Another salvo fired at
noon Tuesday fell short of
Israel and landed in the
security zone. Hezbollah
sources in Lebanon claimed
65 Katyushas were fired.
One landed a few feet from
a post manned by
Norwegian soldiers of the
United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon. But it did
not cause any casualties, ac-
cording to a report from
UNIFIL headquarters in
southern Lebanon to the
United Nations in New
York.
The Katyusha rocket
strikes by Hezbollah had
been expected following the
killing of Musawi on Sunday
in a precision attack
mounted by Israeli
helicopter gunships.
Israel acknowledged
publicly that the attack was
a carefully planned opera-
tion intended to get rid of the
Shi'ite fundamentalist
leader, whom it held respon-
sible for most anti- Israel
guerrilla action in southern
Lebanon and attempts to
disrupt the Middle East
peace process.
Experts in Arab affairs
and anti-terrorist specialists
have warned that Hezbollah
may not confine its response
to the dangerous but largely
inaccurate Katyushas.
These experts predicted
more numerous and violent
incursions along Israel's
borders and retaliatory
strikes against Israeli and
Western targets in Europe
and elsewhere abroad.
Israel has been bracing for
such attacks, stepping up
security on the borders and
on the so-called Green Line
dividing the administered
territories from Israel prop-
er.
The IDF chief of staff, Lt.
Gen. Ehud Barak, warned
"those on the other side"
Monday that they would pay
a heavy price if the
Katyusha attacks continued.
Lt. Gen. Barak said the
IDF would not confine itself
to defensive measures, but
he did not elaborate.
will be forwarded to the Red
Cross' Holocaust and War
Victims Tracing and Infor-
mation Center in Baltimore.
Desert Storm in January
and February 1990. He said
the pressures of the 1992
presidential elections and
the nation's economic prob-
lems "were factors signall-
ing the need for vigilance."
ROUND UP
When It Pays
To Be Sick
Do you want to be paid for
having heart disease?
You can be if you meet the
guidelines of Sinai Hospital
of Detroit.
Sinai will pay $100 to vol-
unteers who participate in a
three-week study which in-
cludes 10 brief medical ex-
aminations and five Holter
monitors. The hospital's
cardiology department is
studying a more convenient,
twice-a-day dosage of the
medication Procainamide.
To be eligible you must al-
ready be taking Procan SR
or Pronestyl in a dosage of
less than 4,000 mg daily —
under doctor's supervision,
of course.
For more information, call
Sinai's Kathy Faitel, 493-
6999.
Jumping Into
The Test Tube
Israel for years has been
trumpeting its science and
technology industries. But,
despite its highly educated
population and an influx of
firsthand knowledge of the
industry. They have also
received an assist from
Israel's Ministry of Edu-
cation and Culture, which is
now requiring students
majoring in chemistry to
study a unit on industrial
chemistry.
Guided tour for Israeli students.
highly trained Soviet Jews,
Israel Chemicals Ltd., the
Israel Manufacturers
Association and the Weiz-
mann Institute are
recruiting students to com-
bat a personnel shortage in
the chemical industry.
The organizations are
expanding a pilot program
from 10 schools to 50 in an
effort to give high school
students and teachers
Red Cross Flooded
By Holocaust Calls
After the American Red
Cross announced this month
that it had copies of National
Archives documents that
could shed light on the fate
of 300,000 - 500,000 Holo-
caust victims, the organiza-
tion received 1,060 inquiries
in two days.
At the New York office,
275 callers requested infor-
mation about 825 victims of
the Nazis. The Detroit office
has not broken down similar
requests in recent weeks,
but has fielded 111 requests
since 1990.
Persons wishing to make
inquiries can call the
Southeast Michigan Chapter
of the Red Cross, 833-4440
ext. 2500. Callers will be
sent an inquiry form which
Bias Incidents
Up 11 Percent
It was a record year for an-
ti-Semites, according to the
Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL recorded 1,879
acts of violence and harass-
ment against Jews in the
United States last year, an
11 percent increase over
1990 and the most since the
ADL began its annual audit
13 years ago.
In Michigan, ADL record-
ed 20 vandalism incidents —
up four from 1990 —and 24
harassments, threats or
assaults. The latter figure is
one less than in 1990.
Nationally, the number of
incidents against in-
dividuals (950) exceeded the
number of incidents against
property (929) for the first
time.
Abraham Foxman, na-
tional director of the ADL,
said many acts of politically
related anti-Semitism oc-
curred during Operation
On a state-by-state basis,
New York led the nation
with 254 vandalism in-
cidents, up 68 from 1990,
and 191 incidents against
individuals, an increase of
81. It was followed by
California, 124 vandalism
incidents and 122
harassments; New Jersey,
102 and 93; Massachusetts,
68 and 69; Pennsylvania, 49
and 26; Florida, 43 and 48;
Maryland, 41 and 37; Il-
linois, 27 and 46; Texas, 24
and 21; Connecticut, 21 and
26; and Michigan's 20 and
24.
There were 101 incidents
reported in 1991 on 60 U.S.
college campuses, including
a a vandalism incident at
Oakland University last
May and a harassment issue
at the University of Mich-
igan in November.
Compiled by
Alan Hitsky
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