Business fm1YRs .. — .05...155Sm . paying high interest rates on savings be- We'd like to give you a great reason cause that's important to you. to switch to Sterling Bank & Trust. It's So we've made it important to us. c.11ed exceptional service. Please stop in at one of our offices At Sterling, we've Mone Market and let us show you how we can be of gown over the years 4.60% real help with personal and corporate b ecause we're family banking, investment and personal owned and run. We treat our customers the way we'd trust services, corporate and pension fund management, and of course, like to be treated like family. We've become known for consistently commercial lending. Annual percentage yied effective as of 2/02/98 and subject to change without notice. 52,E minimum balance required on money mkt accounts. Statement fees may reduce earnIngs if minim balance not maintained. ©1998 Sterling Bank & Trust, F.S.B. Berkley (248) 546-2590 • Birmingham (248) 646-8787 Clawson (248) 435-2840 • Commerce Twp. (248) 669-3993 Farmington Hills (248) 489-9580 • Rochester (248) 656-5760 Southfield (248) 948-8799 • Troy (248) 649-3883 West Bloomfield • (248) 855-6644 FDIC Visit our website www.sterlingbankcom Owned and operated by the Seligman Family. 50% 70% OFF The Manufacturers Retail Price of EVERY Sofa, Sectional, Love Seat, and Chair Chair & Ottoman • MEE LOCAL DELIVERY Not Shown • 100% TOP GRAIN LEATHER • OVER 60 STYLES & 75 COLORS *Starting grade leather GALLERY Fine Leather Furniture Honestly Priced 4/10 1998 148 29555 Northwestern Highway • SOUTHFIELD (At La Mirage Mall) • (248) 223-9877 Hours: Mon., Thurs., Fri., 11-8, Sat. 11-6, Sun. Noon - 5, Closed Tues. & Wed. vicentertammaya Get Results... Advertise in our new Entertainment Section! Call The Sales Department (248)354-7123 Ext. 209 DETROIT .TEWISR NEWS JN landed, she was occupied by thoughts of the hectic workweek that lay ahead of her — phone calls that needed to be made, meetings that had to be arranged, projects that were on the verge of completion. But when she pre- sented her passport at customs control, the authorities seized the document and hauled her into custody. Against the backdrop of the Azzam Azzam spy crisis\ and increasing tensions between Arab countries and Israel, the Egyptian authorities kept Ganani locked up with- out food or drink or explanation. Throughout the ordeal, Ganani remained calm, never fearing that she might wind up in a cell next to Azzam. Although she did not know why they were holding her, Ganani, who says she still trusts the Egyptians, was more disappointed that they did not see her as a friend, than she was afraid that they would harm her. Eventually, the guard in charge of watching her slipped her a telephone. She managed to call her son, as well as longtime friend Ehud Barak, the Labor Party chief, who happened to be in Egypt. Barak successfully intervened, but Ganani, scared about the lack of job prospects in Israel, did not want to leave. "I kept saying to him, Thud, what am I going to do in Israel?' And then he told me that if I decided to stay, I would be doing so at my own risk," says Ganani, adding that she would gladly return to Egypt and to her busi-, ness, which has collapsed in her absence. "I'm not afraid to go back. They never accused me of spying or gave any reason why I shouldn't be allowed back into the country. I guess I was just a pawn in a political game." People familiar with her situation agree. Tawhied Maggdy, a longtime friend of Ganani's and a reporter at the anti-Israel Rose el-Youssef newspaper ii i ; Cairo, says that Ganani was caught in a political trap. According to Maggdy, Ganani never paid income tax and did not have the right license to work in Egypt. However, had the relationship between Israel and Egypt not deteriorat- ed, Egypt would have continued to turn a blind eye as they had since she began operating in Cairo. Maggdy has been central in helping Ganani fight her former employee, who has successfully managed to forge bank documents and siphon money from her accounts. Ganani's 23-year-old son, Amos, with the approval of the Egyptian Embassy, spent a week in Cairo to recoup his mother's assets.