For Openers
Tehotchkes For Israel's
First Astronaut
hen Israel's first astronaut
boards a U.S. space shuttle
in about a year, he will
carry with him artifacts
that "emphasize the unity of the people
of Israel and the Jewish communities
abroad."
Col. Ilan Ramon isn't yet ready to
reveal precisely what "things" he will
take along, but he sees his two-and-a-
half-week mission in space as a "good
stage to proclaim that we [in Israel] need
you, and you [in the diaspora] need us."
The boyish-looking 45-year old fight-
er pilot and squadron commander made
his announcement at a reunion Sunday
of Machal West, which consists of
American and other overseas volunteers
who fought in Israel's 1948 War of
Independence.
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Identifying himself as the son of a
refugee father from Germany and a
mother who survived Auschwitz, Ramon
laid that serving as his country's first
astronaut was part of a "miracle" that
stretched back 50 years, to when the
people in his audience left their safe
homes to fight for the nascent Jewish
state.
"I'm proud of you," he said. "What
you've done for Israel is much greater
than what I have done."
Ramon is now in training at the
Johnson Space Center near Houston and
the precise date of his mission has not
yet been set.
However, he does know that he will
be in charge of an experiment, devel-
oped at Tel Aviv University, to measure
aerosol particles, whose distribution in
the atmosphere affects global cooling
and warming. P1
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Quotables
"Doesn't he understand? Doesn't he know I'm a Jew from
Brooklyn?"
— Actor Dan Heydaya, who portrays Richard Nixon in the new
movie Dick, recalling his reaction to learning the film's producer
wanted him for the part.
Dan Heydaya
"I walk around the building and people are smoking
everywhere.
— Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, announcing that
Israeli lawmakers who light up in the corridor will
face a $62 fine.
"Zyklon [in Italian] means fast ... kind of like our word 'cyclone.' We're not
a Nazi organization. We're just a roller coaster company — and a darn good
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— William Allen of Fratelli Pinfari, Italian manufacturer of the Zyklon, largest
portable roller coaster in the U.S. Critics claim the company tries to associate the ride
with the Zyklon B lethal gas that was used in German death camps.
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Yiddish Limericks
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Is once I'm there, gai gedaink** why!"
* (literal) a year and a Wednesday
(idiomatic) forever and a day
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(This limerick was rerun to correct an error
as it appeared Aug. 13.)
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