Michigan Participants Take Top Maccabia Honors
Two Michigan residents who participated in the Maccabia Games in Israel last week
won gold medals, while three won silver medals and a fourth participated on a team
which won a silver team medal.
Nanci Goldsmith, who participated in women's gymnastics, won two gold medals
and one silver. In men's master (over 45) tennis, Mark Jaffe won two gold medals and one
silver. Anita Rival took a silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley swimming
competition and a bronze in the 400-meter freestyle event. David Linden, who was a
member of the U.S. squash team, shared in the team's silver award.
The 11th Maccabia Games were concluded when the Maccabia flame, which was lit
at the opening ceremony July 6 at the Ramat Gan stadium, was extinguished at the foot
of Mount Zion. Immediately thereafter a banner containing the words "If I forget thee, o
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Jerusalem" was hoisted on the hilltop.
The various teams, comprised of 3,600 athletes from 35 countries who com-
peted in 31 sports in 58 locations throughout Israel, then marched from Indepen-
dence Park through the center of the city chanting and handing out souvenirs
and insignia pins to Israeli youngsters who trailed along.
At the end of the 10-day Maccabia, the largest since its inception in 1932, Israel had
the most medals, 177, while the United States had 162. But the U.S. was ahead with 73
gold medals to Israel's 59. Israel was also ahead with 64 silver medals to the U.S. 49, and
Israel topped the U.S. in bronze medals with 54-40.
In tennis at the Ramat Hasharon courts, the Americans dominated by taking 16 of
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Cease - Fire Demands Grow;
UN and U.S. Positions 'Tepid'
Design Proposed for National
Holocaust Memorial Center
By SIMON GRIVER
From the World Zionist Press Service
On display in Jerusalem for the World Gathering of
Holocaust Survivors is a model of the proposed U.S. Na-
tional Holocaust Memorial. It is hoped that Congress will
soon give the green light for the start of construction in
Washington, D.C.
It was inspired by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust
Memorial and 12 years went into designing a complex that
can simultaneously serve as a memorial, a culture center
and museum. Unexpectedly, the architect is neither a Jew
nor a Holocaust survivor but a Japanese, Fumikatsu Inoue.
He has entitled his design "Bud of the Earth," to sym-
bolize the living threat not only of further anti-Semitism
but discrimination, destruction, war and death alike, and
also to represent the renewal of life. His plan comprises six
pylons shaped as both the buds of a flower and Jews in
prayer, rising from a floor formed in the image of a Star of
David. In the center are six staircases leading up to a torch
of freedom. The recurring number six represents the six
million Jews who perished under the Nazis. The buds are
open at the top to allow shafts of light through to the
museum and educational facilities below.
But what has motivated the architect from Japan
to identify so Closely with the Jewish people and to
pursue so passionately the concept of ensuring that
the world never forgets the lessons and horrors of the
Holocaust?
"My ancestors were Samurai," explains Inoue.
"Japanese knights with a highly developed sense of right
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A model of the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial in
Washington, D.C., designed by Japanese architect
Fumikatsu Inoue, depicts a Magen David.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The Security Council unanimously adopted Tuesday night a resolution
calling for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon and requesting Secretary General Kurt Waldheim "to
report back to the council on the implementation of this resolution as soon as possible and not later than 48
hours from its adoption." The resolution also re-affirmed the council commitment to the "territorial
integrity and independence of Lebanon."
The resolution, which was drafted by the council's west European members, avoided the mention of
any punitive measures against Israel and did not single out the Jewish state for condemnation. This
enabled the 15-member council to vote unanimously in favor of the resolution, eliminating the threat of a
veto by the United States, Israel's sole supporter in the council.
According to diplomats at the UN, the Arabs were interested in reaching an immediate call for
cease-fire and therefore omitted their original intent to seek sanction against Israel, a move that might
have drawn a U.S. veto. The diplomats, however, explained that those requesting Waldheim to report
within 48 hours on the implementation of the cease-fire, have left him open for seeking punitive measures
against Israel in case the secretary general reports the continuation of hostilities across the Lebanon-Israel
border.
The resolution adopted Tuesday night was slightly different from the first version of the
draft circulated that afternoon. The original draft called on Waldheim to report to the council
within 72 hours from the time the resolution was adopted. This was changed in Tuesday night's
resolution to 48 hours, underscoring the urgency of implementing the cease-fire.
The original text of the resolution read:
"The Security Council, recalling the appeal made by the president of the Security Council on July 17,
1981, is gravely concerned at recent events in the Middle East and at the tragic level of civilian casualties
and the massive destruction, especially in Lebanon, and about the serious implications for peace and
security of continued hostilities in Lebanon, calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities, reaffirms its
support for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Lebanon within its internationally
recognized boundaries, and requests the secretary general to report back to the council within 72 hours on
the implementation of this resolution."
(U.S. rebukes to Israel and the UN resolution are viewed as "tepid." Edwin Meese III, President
Reagan's counselor, stated Tuesday he did not think "this is a time for fingerpointing" at the Israelis.
(An Israeli military officer said in Jerusalem on Tuesday casualties were not expected to be as heavy,
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Begin: Air Attacks Aimed
at Terrorists Not Civilians
Reagan Gives Order to Halt
F-16 Shipment to Israel
(Editor's note: The
following statement
was issued by Prime
Minister Menahem
Begin after Israel's at-
tacks on Palestinian
terrorist bases in Leba-
non.)
"During all the years
of operations, (which were
essentially defensive)
against the terrorist bases
MENAHEM BEGIN
in Lebanon, all branches
of the Israel Defense Forces refrained from hitting the
civilian population. Their fire was aimed only at mili-
tary targets of the terrorists.
"The terrorist organizations always acted in the
very contrary fashion. They directed their attacks ex-
clusively against the civilian population of Israel, men,
women, and children, whether by incursions or
Katyusha rockets and artillery fire.
"On Wednesday, July 15, the terrorist organ-
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— President Reagan has
put on the back
burner any decision on
when to resume shipping
F-16 jet fighter bombers to
Israel, at least until the.
violence across the
Israeli-Lebanese border is
ended. This became clear
Tuesday when State De-
partment deputy spokes-
man Alan Romberg said in
Washington that the U.S.
has no "preconditions" for
resuming the shipment.
RONALD REAGAN
The President an-
nounced from Ottawa Monday, where he was attending
the economic summit, that he is delaying the shipment
of six F-16s which were scheduled to fly to Israel Tues-
day as well as the four F-16s whose delivery was sus-
pended after Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear power plant
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MARCH 27, 1992
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