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"Most people say, 'Well I'm just a guy on the line and there's really not much else I can do.' " In his wallet, Mr. Ham- burger carries a picture of Paul McCartney standing next to '4 him, holding one of his hand- made guitars. He shows it to I) everyone. The Beatles were his heroes. "This was from back stage at a Cleveland concert," he says. "He played it. He raved about it. Then he said if he bought it, it would end up in a warehouse. And he said the craftmanship was too fine for that to happen." He fantasizes about Paul McCartney buying the guitar and playing it during a con- cert. But it's just a dream. Now he has to go back work — on the line. ❑ NEWS I WEST BLOOMFIELD • MICHIGAN DECORATIVE FABRIC AND WALLPAPER cab and box parts down a con- veyer belt into the trim de- partment where the entire truck is assembled. He runs a machine. "Only my body is there," he says. "Not my mind. My mind is on my family and on my gui- tar business." At the plant, he listens to a radio and contemplates his business. "What will I do to- day to make my business flourish?" he continually asks. "I feel like I am in a straight jacket," he says. "I'm trapped. It's like jail, like being in prison. I keep telling myself I'll be paroled. Three years min- imum and eight years max. "I hate it so much that I hate talking about it," he says. "I'm embarrassed about it. But I'm in too deep to quit now. Pm just praying for a buy-out plan." What Mr. Hamburger ad- mires are people who enjoy their jobs. If he didn't have house payments, a wife and three children, he might go out on a limb in the guitar busi- ness. It's just too risky at the moment. "It's a Catch-22." On the line, he says, work- INTERIORS by COLONY 6215 Orchard Lake Road Sugar 'Thee Plaza W. Bloomfield • 626 - 1999 Exhibit Shows Czech, Israel Ties Prague (JTA) — Czechoslovakia's ties with Israel were acknowledged and strengthened by two events here. An exhibition on the histo- ry of Jews in Czechoslovakia was opened May 11 under the patronage of President Vaclav Havel. On May 12, two memorial tablets donated by the Association of Veterans of the Haganah were unveiled at the Military Museum of the Czechoslovak Army. One honors the memory of Jews who fought in the Czech armed forces and with par- tisan groups during the Nazi occupation. The other expresses ap- preciation to the Czechoslovak republic for its support during Israel's War of Independence in 1948 by training Israeli pilots and paratroopers and delivering arms and military equip- ment. Czechoslovak citizens are seeing for the first time the aid their country gave to the fledgling Jewish state. The tablets were unveiled by Deputy Defense Minister Antonin Rasek and Gen. Karel Pezl, chief of the Gen- eral Staff. Mr. Rasek observ- ed that at certain stages of World War II, the majority of soldiers in the Czechoslovak army were Jews. Israel's ambassador, Yoel Sher, and a retired Israeli air force commander, Gen. Mordechai Hod, attended. Mr. Sher also participated with Deputy Minister of Culture Milan Uhde in the opening of the cultural ex- hibition titled "Where Cul- tures Meet." It was prepared by the Beth Hatefutsot Mu- seum of the Diaspora, in Tel Aviv, in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Prague. The exhibition was originally opened in Tel Aviv in April 1990 by Presi- dent Havel who was visiting Israel. It was brought to Czechoslovakia by the Ronald S. Lauder Founda- tion of New York. Mr. Lauder, former U.S. ambassador to Austria, stressed at the ceremonial opening the educational value of the event.