"Quite a contrast, eh?"
was all I said.
Dad didn't answer. He
was sweating from the
walk and the ascent of the
wall and he had scraped
his knuckle on the brick.
He sucked on the back of
his hand and surveyed the
scene below.
"Go and try to find
them," commanded Dad.
He pulled a handkerchief
from his pocket and wiped
his face and his bald spot.
What little hair he did
have was sticking up

slightly, moving slightly
in the gentle breeze. "Go
ahead."
I eased myself off the
wall and landed softly on
spongy ground. I went
from grave to grave —
there were perhaps 40
stones in all — but aside
from an occasional faint
Hebrew letter or part of a
date, the stones were
unreadable. Wind, water
and time had combined
with the vines to erase the
epitaphs.
"I can't read any of the

stones," I called out. "All
the inscriptions are worn
away."
"Take a few pictures
anyway," he ordered.
"Why?" I asked, a bit
frustrated. "You'll never
know which ones are
theirs!"
"Just do it," he said qui-
etly. And I did. U

Dan Schoenholz writes
from Walnut Creek, Calif.
This story appeared in
"Side Show" (Somersault
Press).

Tentative Trial Date Set
In Trade Center Bombing

New York (JTA) — A ten-
tative trial date of Sept. 14
has been set for the four
main defendants accused of
bombing the World Trade
Center, including one who
was just indicted this week
and is still a fugitive.
In setting the date, U. S.
District Judge Kevin
Thomas Duffy rejected
defense motions to hold the
trial within the normal 60-
day period required by fed-
eral law.
Judge Duffy ruled that the
case was extraordinary and
that government prosecutors
needed the additional time
to examine evidence from
the Feb. 26 blast that killed
six and wounded more than
1,000.
The fourth defendant in
the indictment, Ramzi
Ahmen Yousef, 25, is an Ira-
qi-born former roommate of
another suspect in the bomb-
ing, Mohammed Salameh,
also 25.
Federal prosecutors have
issued a warrant for the ar-
rest of Mr. Yousef, who is the
focus of an intense interna-
tional search effort, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
sources said.
Mr. Salameh, Mr. Yousef,
Nidal Ayyad, 25, and
Mahmud Abohalima, 33,
were indicted on charges of
"maliciously" damaging the •
World Trade Center with
others "known and
unknown" to the grand jury.
A fifth suspect, Bilal
Alkaisi, 26, has not been in-
dicted by a grand jury, but
has been named in a com-
plaint brought by pros-
ecutors. He is accused of
aiding and abetting the

bombing.
A sixth person, Ibrahim
Elgabrowny, was accused of
obstructing justice by battl-
ing investigators in the case,
but has not been charged
with participating in the
bombing.
The CBS Evening News
reported that investigators
are considering a theory that

the bombing was an eye-for-
an-eye retaliation for the
U.S. missile attack on
Baghdad's Al Rashid hotel
January 17.
This interpretation of the
bombing holds that the true
intended target of the bomb-
ing may have been the Vista
Hotel next to the trade
center's twin towers.

•

Dutch Protestors
React To Vandals

Amsterdam -(JTA) — A
monument here corn-
inemorating the liberation of
the Auschwitz death camp,
which was recently van-
dalized was completely
covered with flowers placed
there by hundreds of persons
protesting the desecration.
The flowers were brought
in response to an appeal
made at the time the
memorial was to have been
dedicated, at a ceremony
which took place despite the
destruction. The date is
observed annually to re-
member the day the Nazi
death camp was liberated.
The monument's six hori-
zontal glass plates, measur-
ing about 20 square feet,
were struck by a hard object,
probably a pickax, so that
the glass splintered and its
mirror effects disappeared.
A silent protest march
against the desecration took
place between the Moses and
Aaron Church and the
monument. Among the mar-
chers were Amsterdam
Mayor Ed van Thijn and

Dutch Justice Minister Ern-
st Hirsch Ballin, as well as
other political represent-
atives.
The entrance gate to the
Wertheim public gardens,
the site of the memorial, will
be permanently guarded
from now on. A team of eight
police investigators has been
detailed to try to find the
perpetrator or perpetrators
of the desecration.
The monument had been
situated in a municipal
cemetery since 1977, but it
was decided to move the
sculpture from the cemetery
after plans were made to
build a crematorium at the
cemetery.
The vandalized monument
was actually an enlarge-
ment of the original
sculpture, a design of six
mirrors containing small
cracks, facing the sky.
The sculptor, Jan Wolkers,
placed the cracks in the
mirrors to bring to mind the
sentiment that after
Auschwitz, the heavens re-
main forever violated.

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