It's a great time to change!
MONEY MARKET
1 YEAR CD
5.05% 4.50%
A.P.Y.
A.P.Y.
Come in to the Sterling
office nearest you:
Clawson — 248-435-2840
Commerce Twp. — 248-669-3993
Dearborn — 313-274-3030
Farmington Hills — 248-489-9580
Grosse Pointe Woods — 313-882-2880
Livonia — 734-462-4106
Lincoln Park — 313-383-4000
Rochester — 248-656-5760
Sterling
trust
Roseville — 810-294-2950
Sterling Heights — 810-268-5200
Southfield — 248-948-8799
Troy — 248-649-3883
Warren — 810-558-4600
Waterford — 248-674-4901
West Bloomfield — 248-855-6644
"We Create Solutions."'
Annual Percentage Yield accurate as of 3/f9199 and is subject to change without notice. One year CD: Interest
compounded monthly, penalty for early withdrawal. Money Market: 52,500 minimum balance required to open and
must be maintained for stated API.. Balances below 52,500 earn Sterling Bank & Trust Interest Checking API'. Fees
may reduce earnings if minimum is not maintained. 1999 Sterling Bank & Trust FSB.
A.*
Click onto People-Voice Connecter Personals via the Internet. You'll be delighted just how
easily our website allows you to read ads, place ads and respond to ads by e-mail. Get
updated or new ads before they print in the newspaper. Find your type over the Internet!
Try it today! Go to
www.detroitjewishnews.com
and click on
47 YEARS IN BUSINESS AND
WE'RE STILL DEVELOPING.
Join The Families That Have Come
To Depend On Us Year After Year
GoR bAc k
6/4
Les Gorback
Ai^
,
South Lebanon Army's withdrawal
may foreshadow an Israeli one.
fighting, the SLA found that rather
than defending civilians, it was mostly
busy defending itself.
Over the years, the SLA suffered
Jerusalem
heavy
losses from Hezbollah attacks.
o Israeli soldier moved an
Since
1982,
when Israel launched an
inch, but this may have
invasion
of
Lebanon
aimed at rooting
been the week that the
our Palestinian terrorists, some 154
Israel Defense Forces' with-
SLA militia members have been killed,
drawal from 'southern Lebanon began.
with another 443 wounded.
The first move came not from
During the past several weeks
Israel, but from its ally in the region,
alone, the SLA suffered 18 casualties
the South Lebanon Army. This 2,500-
in the Jezzine region.
member Christian militia has been
On Tuesday, the first day of the
fighting Shiite Hezbollah gunmen with
which took place under
withdrawal,
arms and money supplied by Israel.
heavy fire from Hezbollah gunmen,
On Tuesday, the SLA began to with-
roadside bombs planted by Hezbollah
draw from its stronghold in Jezzine, a
killed rwo SLA soldiers.
predominantly Christian enclave at the
In some respects, the SLA presence
northern tip of the security zone.
was counterproductive. SLA
in
Jezzine
Optimists in Israel hope that the
caused flare-ups in the
forces
often
withdrawal will create a precedent for
prior coordination with
area
without
more redeployments by the SLA, and
Israel into unnecessary
Israel,
forcing
by Israel, from the security zone.
confrontations with Hezbollah.
Pessimists, however, are worried
In addition, Jezzine had no real strate-
that the vacuum created by the with-
gic value from the Israeli point of view.
drawal will be filled nor by-the regular
For years, the best military and
Lebanese Army, but by Hezbollah.
political
minds in Israel have unsuc-
They fear Hezbollah will turn the
sought a way out of Lebanon.
cessfully
town into another base for attacks
over the best way to do
But
the
debate
against the SLA and the IDF.
so still goes on.
The withdrawal highlights the debate
Israeli officials said this week that
within Israel over how and when to get
they had not been consulted in
out of Lebanon, where seven Israelis
advance about Lahad's decision to
have died in this year alone.
withdraw from Jezzine.
Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak
During a recent meeting with out-
has said he would seek an Israeli with-
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe
going
drawal from Lebanon within a year
Arens,
Lahad presented his decision as
after his election.
a fait accompli, telling Arens he had
Statements like Barak's have so
no choice but to order the withdrawal.
decreased morale among SLA soldiers
"I accepted his arguments and told
that Gen. Antoine Lahad, the 70-year-
him
I would give him full backing,"
old SLA commander, felt he could no
Arens
said this week.
longer keep his soldiers in. place.
Arens
downplayed the hope of some
The SLA took control of Jezzine in
in
Israel
that
the withdrawal will create
1985 — the year that Israel carved out
a precedent for an Israeli redeployment.
the 9-mile-wide security zone at the
"The SLA withdrawal is not the first
conclusion of its war in Lebanon —
step of a general Israeli pullout from
to protect the local Christian popula-
Lebanon," Arens said. "The purpose of
tion from the rival Shiites.
our
presence in the security zone is to
Fourteen years later, with morale
protect"
Israel's northern communities.
down and many of its commanders
"We
do not intend to quit" the
deserting the field, the SLA has all but
region,
he
added.
admitted defeat.
But, with the tenure of outgoing
Jezzine was home to some 40,000
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's
residents in 1985. The town's popula-
government set to expire within a
tion was down to about 4,000 resi-
month, many Israelis are focused on
dents when Lahad announced the two-
Barak's promise of a redeployment.
week withdrawal process this week.
That promise depends on Syria, the
During more than a decade of
GIL SEDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
www.sterlingbank.com
1999
Moving Out?
32731 Franklin Rd. • (248) 626-3666
N