The Neighborhood Project and the
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
1ST ANNUAL INDOOR

ALL AmERICAN
BASKETBALL
CLINIC

Thursday, September 22, 1994
5:30-8:00 p.m.

Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
K-6th Grade Basketball Player

SPECIAL ATTRACTION

New Year Focus:
What Will Be

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Learn to play basketball the right way!
Lot's of Action!
Emphasis on fun & skills!

•Passing
• Shooting
•Game Play
• Dribbling

Do you collect sports cards?

Bring them to the clinic and do some trading!
"Experts" will be here to answer your questions
about collecting, trading or selling sports cards.
No Charge.
6:00-8:00 p.m.

Wear a professional team color

Cost of Clinic & Pizza Dinner: $2.50
Dinner Served at 6:30 p.m.

Win Piston Tickets

For information call The Sports & Fitness Departmernt at 967-4030.

An Israeli soldier adjusts an olive branch on his jeep.

Registration Form
Neighborhood Project - JCC All American Indoor Basketball Clinic
5:30-8:00 p.m.
September 22,1994

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Return form and payment (payable to Neighborhood Project) by. September 19

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Next time you feed your face,
think about your head.

Go easy on your heart and start cutting back on foods
that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol. The
change'll do you good.

American Heart Association

WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE

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ince they celebrate two new
years in each annual cycle,
Israelis have twice the op-
portunity to assess, reflect,
and take stock, and usually do it
with alacrity.
The media trots out a string of
pundits, to review what has
passed, and then a collection of
"future-watchers," including as-
trologists, to project what will en-
sue.
This year, however, it seems
that the future that has attract-
ed far more attention than the
past. As if loath to look back on
the most fruitful year of the peace
process, most of the media has fo-
cused on what's yet to come.
Rather than reveal his choice
for Man of the Year, for example,
Ha'aretz columnist Yoel Marcus
chose to write about the "Man of
Next Year," Syrian President
Hafez al-Assad, and ventured
that if 5754 was the "Year of the
Dove," its successor would un-
doubtedly be the "Year of the
Lion" ("assad" being the Arabic
word for lion).
And in fact, hardly had the
Rosh Hashanah holiday passed
when Syria was clearly spotted
in the wings after a long absence
from the stage.
The peace process with Syria
has followed a pattern very dif-
ferent from that with Jordan and
the Palestinians. For one thing,
there have been face-to-face talks
between Israel and the latter two
parties all along, while the direct
talks between Israel and Syria
were suspended over a year ago
and subsequent contacts have
been conducted mostly through
the good offices of Secretary of
State Warren Christopher.
Israelis, Jordanians and Pales-
tinians have also had ample op-
portunity to see their respective
leaders engaged in peace-mak-
ing in Europe, the United States

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and finally the region itself and,
in the case of King Hussein, on
land, on sea, and in the air.
But Mr. Assad remains aloof,
cryptic, and thus continually sus-
pect to the great majority of Is-
raelis. Early last month, after
returning from his latest shuttle
mission in the region, Secretary
of State Christopher told the New
York Times that there had been
a "psychological breakthrough"
on the Israeli-Syrian front.
He was referring to the fact
that, for the first time, Syria had
broadcast the high points of the
Rabin-Hussein visit in Washing-
ton and the opening of the border
between Israel and Jordan.
Israeli monitors had to break
the news that the voice-over ac-
companying these broadcasts
was filled with venom. There
never seemed to be any good
news, coming out of the Syrian
track.
Now, however, we seem to
have reached the end of the
"apres-vous syndrome," in which
each side expected the other to
reveal its intentions first (Israel
the depth of its withdrawal, Syr-
ia the scope of peaceful relations).
In quick succession last week,
the two countries began a public
exchange of terms, with each giv-
ing -the other at least part of what
it wanted to hear.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
stated that Israel would be pre-
pared to have the peace treaty
with Syria executed over a three-
year period (down from a May
proposal of five years) during
which the normalization of rela-
tions could be tested before the
final withdrawal "from" (rather
than the earlier term "on") the
Golan Heights.
In turn, Syrian Foreign Min-
ister Farouk a-Shara told re-
porters that his country was
interested in having a "warm

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