,: , ; C RIUMMINEW Attention! • • • • • Peruvian Minister Takes National Role New York (JTA) — In Peru, a predominantly Catholic country, it is a time-honored tradition that when Cabinet members take their appointed places, they kneel before the president and a large crucifix. So when Efrain Goldenberg- Schreiber was named foreign minister last August, he offered to step to the end of the line of new appointees so as not to in- terrupt the flow of events. Mr.Goldenberg, a Jew, was not going to kneel before the cross. President Alberto Fujimori would not hear of it and removed the cross especially for Mr. Gold- enberg, replacing it for the ap- pointees coming next in line. This past February, Mr. Gold- enberg was named prime minis- ter, the first Jew to hold the post. Since he was first in line this time, the president withdrew the cross at the beginning of the cer- emony, probably a first in Peru's history. The story was one of several tales of being Jewish in Peru that Mr. Goldenberg told here to a gathering of the American Sec- tion of the World Jewish Con- gress. And among his accounts were assurances that Peru appears to be moving toward stability after years of military rule, economic woes and murderous terrorist at- tacks by two powerful indigenous groups, Sendero Luminoso (Shin- ing Path) and Tupac Amaru. Mr. Goldenberg, a striking- looking 65-year-old former busi- ness executive, spoke confidently about Peru's future. He said that President Fuji- mori, a Japanese-Peruvian, had "done two good things for the country — acted against hyper- inflation and against terrorism." He said "it is now safer to walk on any street in Lima than in New York." Mr. Goldenberg, who is on the board of the Lima Jewish com- munity association, is the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who came impoverished to the coun- try. He was born in the small Pa- cific Coast city of Talara, where there were only two Jewish fam- ilies, and he was the only Jewish child. He attended primary school there, but his family moved to Lima in time for him to celebrate his bar mitzvah in the Peruvian capital. Asked about anti-Semitism, Mr. Goldenberg said it was not a major problem in Peru. In fact, he pointed out, the government is quite mixed in this multieth- nic nation. Not only Mr. Fujimori, but Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka, the very popular speaker of Congress, come from non-indigenous eth- nic groups — in their case, Japan- ese families. And he rattled off a list of names of government figures with clearly non-Hispanic names. He acknowledged that about Add Beauty & Dimension ... The government is quite mixed in this multiethnic nation. 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French Name Jewish Leader Paris (JTA) — The French gov- ernment has appointed Jean Kahn, the leader of the European Jewish Congress, as the French representative to the newly cre- ated European Consultative Commission on racism and xeno- phobia. The appointment of Kahn, who is also head of CRIF, the um- brella of France's Jewish organi- zations, was announced by French Minister for European Af- . fairs Alain Lamassoure. The member states of the Eu- ropean Union ratified the cre- ation of the new anti-racism commission, at the suggestion of France and Germany, during the latest E.U. summit, which was held June 24-25 on the Greek is- land of Corfu. Each member of the E.U. — in- cluding the four newest mem- bers, Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden — will have one rep- resentative on the new commis- sion, which is charged with assessing national and commu- nity policies in the struggle against racism and xenophobia. 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