GOSSIP! GOSSIP! GOSSIP! I'm always amused and entertained by the gossip about ShoonaKidsTM. I'm so busy running my company I can't imagine having the time to gossip about other stores. The most amusing yet is that ShoonaKidsTM Sylvan Lake store has closed. WRONG! We have been quietly preparing ourselves for the upcoming spring, summer season and all of the innovative new products for our fall ShoonafleeceTM line. Sorry to disappoint the old "rumor mill", but we've opened an additional store, not closed one. We look forward to seeing all - of our regulars and welcoming new customers to our 2nd store in Birmingham. The daily compliments received in "130TH" stores brings pride & satisfaction knowing our hard "work" is well respected by our customers. I'm in this business to provide you with great garments, fair prices and the rule that all customers are treated fairly and equally with kindness exactly the way I would want to be treated. My staff and I would like to thank all of our wonderful customers for their encouragement and sup- port. We look forward to many years ahead of new friendships, giggles and squeals from all of the adorable faces and providing great clothing & gifts at great prices. Stop in and see us and don't forget to bring the kids!!! (810) 738-0579 ■ ■ Sylvan Lake 2454 Orchard Lake Road Sylvan Lake, Mi. 48320 At The Loading Dock (1 BLOCK WEST OF MIDDLEBELT) MON - SAT 10:00-6:00 SUN 12:00-5:00 (810) 594-8557 • Birmingham :S1-1.0 ON A 1313 S. Woodward Avenue Birmingham, MI. 48009 Directly across from The Original Pancake House MON - SAT 10:00-5:00 S onissm"min— assitmsasl SARA TUGMAN BAIS CHABAD Detroit's Premiere Custom Clothier Since 1949 BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD BAIS CHABAD Rix viv 99T Come celebrate the holiday of Purim with hundreds or Jews of all ages and denominations at our annual Gala Purim Dinner Celebration • Sunday, March 23rd 6:00 p.m. at the Plaza Hotel 16400 J.L. 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BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Yassir Arafat got the red carpet treatment in Washington for his sixth meeting with top officials, but he came away with only bits and pieces of the top items on his agenda. The Palestinian leader's emo- tional complaints about Israel's decision to build new housing in the Har Homa section of east Jerusalem did produce a presi- dential rebuke on Monday. "I would have preferred the de- cision not have been made, be- cause I don't think it builds confidence," President Clinton told reporters. "I think it builds mis- trust. And. I wish that it had not been made." But administration officials also signaled that they are unlikely to go much beyond that level of crit- icism — publicly or privately. And Mr. Arafat was told explicitly by American officials that new threats of violence or promises to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state in response to the Har Homa decision would be counterproduc- tive. Speaking recently to a gather- ing ofArab-Americans, Mr. Arafat said that "not one single house should be added" in east Jerusalem, and that the Arab part of the city would become the "cap- ital of Palestine." But Mr. Arafat met with spe- cial Mideast envoy Dennis Ross just before that speech; there were reports that Mr. Ross urged the Palestinian leader to temper his rhetoric and avoid threats, advice the former terrorist seemed to take to heart throughout his vis- it. In a session with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Mr. Arafat offered a "very emotional but also very well put and very ar- ticulate presentation" on the Har Homa issue, according to State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. But that pitch also failed to gen- erate the kind of strong U.S. pres- sure that the Palestinians had hoped for. On a more positive note for the Palestinian leader, Mr. Arafat and Ms. Albright did announce the cre- ation of a joint U.S.-Palestinian committee, with themselves as co- chairs, to regularly "take stock of where we are in the region ... to make sure each of us is meeting our commitments — economic, po- litical and otherwise — to each other," said Mr. Burns. The new committee mirrors similar arrangements with Rus- sia and South Africa. Palestinian sources said that the committee, which will meet several times a year, represents a