Chinese Police Shut Down Store gee- s 30% t® 60% Off S'ip96.s 30% 40 TO% Off Sorel • LaCrosse • Bata Stride-Rite • Danexx Sporto Women's & Children's Great Values h Off rMi•Lr 1- - New Cruise & Spring Footwear... Just in time for your vacation! Women's & Children's Shoes & Boots Orchard Mall Orchard Lake Rd. N. of Maple W. Bloomfield • 851-5566 "Smaea, de comotaaetei, iltept 39 veva" CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES WILL BE HOSTING ak COMMEMORATIVE DINNER HONORING RABBI w C/) LU THE DETRO F- 30 2k. IRVING New York (JTA) — A Beijing business that was selling Nazi paraphernalia was shut down by Chinese police. A broadcast on Chinese state television announced the police action. German diplomats in Beijing, commenting on the broadcast, said that Nazi revivalism was vir- tually unheard of in China. "This is worrying," one diplo- mat reportedly said. "This must mean there is a wider problem or they [the gov- ernment] would not be reporting it so widely. They would be keep- ing it quiet." Elan Steinberg, executive di- rector of the World Jewish Con- gress, said in an interview that the announcement was signifi- cant because it indicates that re- newed Jewish and Israeli contact with China "has height- ened China's sensitivity" to this matter. In the past, such an incident would have been ignored, he added. China established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1992. The broadcast, noting that Jan. 27 was the 51st anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi con- centration camp at Auschwitz, began by saying Germany had proclaimed Jan. 27. "a day to re- flect on the persecution of Nazism" in order to teach future generations not to forget histo- ry's lessons. It then provided a list of the Nazi paraphernalia available at the store, including gas masks, helmets and clothing, and badges and medals with the Nazi swasti- ka — "everything but weapons," according to the broadcast. The report did not say, how- ever, who was behind the opera- tion or if it had links to neo-Nazi groups in Europe or North Amer- ica. There was also visible non- Nazi military paraphernalia in the store, according to the report, indicating the venture may have been more commercial than ide- ological. ScHNIPPER UPON HIS RETIREMENT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1996 In honor of Rabbi Schnipper, a commemorative ad journal is being prepared as a keepsake. Your good wishes and ads are welcome. Please call the Synagogue Office at (810) 851-6880 for information about the journal and the upcoming dinner. Settlers Coordinate Campaign Efforts Jerusalem (JTA) — In prepara- tion for Israel's national elections this year, activists from Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights have decided to coordinate efforts to campaign against government policy. The decision comes as Israel and the Palestinians prepare to enter negotiations that include determining the future of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza. It also comes as Israel and Syr- ia resume talks aimed at achiev- ing a peace accord that may involve an Israeli withdrawal on the Golan Heights. The decision was among those made by settlement leaders who met in the West Bank settlement of Ariel to discuss their strategy for the upcoming elections. Yehiel Leiter of the Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza said the co- operative effort was not new. 'We've been cooperating for 3 1/2 years, in most cases in non- public ways," he told Israel Ra- dio. "Because of the upcoming elec- tions," he added, "we've been dis- cussing ways of working together, [to ensure] that we don't go to elections with a fractious front." Police Official Gives Testimony Jerusalem (JTA) — As the mur- der trial of Yigal Amir resumed, a police investigator testified that Amir had asked for cake and wine to toast Yitzhak Rabin's death. Appearing in Tel Aviv District Court, police investigator Moti Naftali said Mr. Amir had asked for the items to celebrate the news that Mr. Rabin was dead, Israel Radio reported. Mr. Amir has already con- fessed to shooting Mr. Rabin at a Nov. 4 peace rally in Tel Aviv. Mr. Naftali said Mr. Amir's de- meanor at the time of the assas- sination was as "cold as a fish: and that he showed no signs of regret for his actions. At the start of that hearing, one of Mr. Amir's lawyers, Mordechai Ofri, announced that he was step- ping down from the case. Mr. Ofri explained the move by saying that "outside elements" were interfering in his preparing a case for the defense. Meanwhile, Judge Edmund Levy told Mr. Amir's other lawyer, Jonathan Ray Goldberg, that the line of defense he was building was "scandalous." The judge added that if Mr. Goldberg continued to try to get the trial postponed, he might have to pay expenses for the tri- al, which began Jan. 23. Mr. Goldberg had wanted to delay the trial in order to wait for the results of a state inquiry into security blunders that allowed the assassination to take place. During the recent hearing, the prosecution presented the pis- tol used in the assassination as well as a video re-enactment of the slaying. Yoram Rubin, a Rabin body- guard who was wounded in the shooting, was scheduled to give evidence.