A Page 2- - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 24, 1986 Conference Day highlights Israeli society By AMY GOLDSTEIN Seventeen student, University, and community organizations pooled resources to present various dimen- sions of Israeli society through the Second Annual Israel Conference Day in the Rackham building yesterday. The day-long conference brought 23 scholars from Israel and the United States to speak on topics including religious pluralism, medical advan- cements, Israeli industry, literature, and the legal status of the Israeli oc- cupied territories. "THE IDEA here is predominantly to, give a panoramic view of a burgeoning society," said Joseph Kohane, assistant director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, a co- sponsor of the event. The conference, which attractred 350 participants opened with a keynote address by Prof. Ephriam Yaar from Tel-Aviv University who is a visiting professor at the University of California. Yaar classified Israeli society into four conflict areas: ethic - between European and Oriental Jews; religious - between different levels of religiosity; ethnic and religious nationalism - between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs; and political - the Arab-Isreali conflict. THESE conflict areas not only have internal developments, Yaar said, but also interact with each other. The conference also included a display of educational opportunities for university students in Israel. "There is no shortage of spaces" in Israeli universities, said Dov Kerem Ya'ar, the North American represen- tative from the Committee for University Studies in Israel. "The idea is that students will come for one year," he said. Israeli universities are among the most respected in the world, Ya'ar said, and students need not worry about their safety in the country. OF THOSE students who attend a year or semester program in Israel, twenty-five percent eventually im- migrate to Israel, according to Ya'ar. "The youngsters are the potential future of Israel," he said, touching upon another theme which University political scientist Zvi Gitelman ex- panded. Gitelman said that due to the high birth rate among Arabs living in Israel and the occupied territories and the relatively low birth rate of Israeli Jews, which is typical of a modernized society, there will be an equal number of Arabs and Jews in Israel in the year 2015 if all factors remain equal. SUCH A balance would call the Jewishness of the state into question, he said. "If one wanted to maintain the Jewish character, you need im- migration." Immigration of Jews also helps maintain the state's security by en- suring manpower for the military and the dispersal of Jewish population throughout the country. Immigration also has benefits for Israel's advancement, Gitelman ad- ded, citing the contribution to the Israeli economy by Soviet Jews who immigrated. Forty percent of those immigrants came with some degree of higher education, he said. But the absorption of immigrant Ethiopian Jews, who now number 15,000, has not been as successful, University education Prof. Tehame Wagaw pointed out. Wagaw told the story of one Ethiopian Jew who maintained his religious practices while in the Ethiopian army and a Sudanese prison where his execution sentence was commuted. He immigrated to Israel, only to find that the Chief Rab- binate of Israel refused to recognize Ethiopian Judaism and demanded that he and other Ethiopian Jews con- vert. The Ethiopian said he would rather face death than the humiliation of conversion, according to Wagaw. The professor used the story to exemplify the feelings of Ethiopian Jews who have recently immigrated to Israel. The conference ended with a second keynote speech by political science Prof. Raymond Tanter, who called the Middle East a "conflict garden," where fertile soil for successful peace. measures has usually resulted from circumstantial war. Robinson urges economic action against S. Africa (Continued from Page 1) policy-makers have been primarily concerned with governments that op- pose communism "no matter what they do to their own people." "If we can't have a policy that's right, let's at least have a policy that's smart," he said. "If we don't want the Ayatollah, then we shouldn't have supported the Shah. If we don't like what comes out of Haiti, we shouldn't have supported Duvalier. If we don't like the ANC, we shouldn't have sup- ported Botha." U.S. foreign policy is flawed, he said, by a lack of knowledge of dif- ferent cultures and beliefs. "Karl Marx, whether you agree with his ideas or not, has probably been the .most important figure in 20th century politics. I can guarantee you that I can go out and find someone who will swear on the Bible that Karl Marx was one of the Marx brothers." About Africa, Robinson continued, "I watched Happy Days in Zimbabwe. I drank Donald Duck orange juice in the Sahara. They know everything about us, we know nothing about them so our policy, by this very fact, is flawed." "Racism and arrogance cause us not to see other people and cultures around the world," he said. "To fight racism abroad and at home, we have to raise hell. We have to make people comfortable with racism uncomfortable," he said. Robinson also urged blacks to con- sider other blacks who have fought for. civil rights. Correction University Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Niara Sudarkasa expressed disappointment last Thursday at the University's current level of minority enrollment, although she predicted that this level would rise in the long-term. 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For additional information please call 662-5529 r THIS WEEK AT GUILD HOUSE 80 2 MO NROE UA NN ARBOR, MI 48104 GUILD HOUSE WRITERS SERIES Monday, March 24 8:00 p.m. KATHRYN GLASGOW and ANDREW TANG READING FROM THEIR WORKS *Cosponsored by the Michigan Student Assembly FOR MORE INFO CALL 662-5189 mmmm-'s IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Ortega warns U.S. advisors MANAGUA, Nicaragua - President Daniel Ortega warned yesterday that U.S. military advisers "are going to die" if they are sent to Central America to train Contra rebels fighting to overthrow his leftist San- dista government. Ortega told a group of neighborhood defense committees that the United States is conducting a military buildup in Central America to prepare for an invasion of Nicaragua. U.S. troops holding joint military maneuvers in Honduras and U.S. Navy warshps on exercises in the Pacific threaten Nicaragua, he continued. "We are living the war. Our enemy, the American government, Reagan, is on top of us," Ortgega told the committee members on Saturday. His comments were taped at the meeting and broadcast yesterday. "They are there, looking for the least sign of weakness to enter ... dividing the Nicaragua people to dominate them," he said. Pakistanis protest Zia govt. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - People by the tens of thousands shouted anti-government and anti-U.S. slogans yesterday and opposition leaders said that President Mohammed Zia ul-Hag's pro-American government was in its last days. The Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, an alliance of 11 op- position parties, held one of its biggest rallies since martial law was lifted Dec. 30. About 60,000 people marched through this city of about 1 million and listened to anti-government speeches. The opposition staged dozens of smaller demonstrations across the nation to commemorate Pakistan Day, celebrated as independence day here. "Did we create Pakistan so the army could rule? Did we create Pakistan so the people could be whipped? Did we create Pakiston so the people could be oppressed? one speaker asked the huge crowd that waved the red, black and green opposition flags. Speaker after speaker asserted that Zia's military government will fall soon for lack of support, and said this entire nation of 88 million people hungers for the return of democracy. The United States was repeatedly criticized for supporting Zia, the ar- my chief of staff who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977. Cancer Society calls for end to tobacco advertising DAYTONA BEACH, Fla - The American Cancer Society is calling for elimination of all advertising of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, its president said yesterday. That includes an end to cigarette company sponsorship of events that attract audiences of young people, Dr. Charles LeMaistre told the society's seminar for science writers in Daytona Beach, Fla. The proposal, similar to those endorsed by the American Medical Association and American Lung Association, was approved recently by the cancer society's board of directors, LeMaistre said. "As a first step we have called for the elimination of all models and scenery in this advertising, and asked that illustrations be limited to a simple depiction of cigarette packages," LeMaistre said. "The society does recommend that advertising copy should merely feature the tar and nicotine content of the product, one of the four rotating warning messages from the surgeon general, and the price of the product." The board's resolution sets no timetable for the proposals, but notes the society's commitment to a "smoke-free young America" by the year 2000. Union Carbide agrees to pay Bhopal leak damage claims DANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. said yesterday it has agreed to pay $350 million in damage claims from a poison gas leak at its plant in Bhopal, India, that killed more than 2,000 people and injured another 200,000 in the worst industrial disaster in history. The tentative settlement was reached with lawyers for victims of the disaster, which occurred when methyl isocyanate leaked from the com- pany's pesticide plant in Bhopal Dec. 2-3, 1984, said Harvey Corbert, a Union Carbide spokesman. "The $350 million paid over time will produce a fund for the victims of Bhopal of between $500 million and $600 million" because of accrued in- terest, Corbert said. The class action settlement covers everyone harmed by the disaster whether or not they have filed suit against Union Carbide, headquartered in Danbury. OPEC fails to reach accord GENEVA - OPEC oil ministers failed yesterday to reach an accord on a way to fairly share a proposed production cutback designed to boost slumping prices, but agreed to extend their marathon crisis talks for a ninth day. The 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed "in principle" Saturday to reduce combined output by about 14 percent, from the current level of about 17 million barrels a day to roughly 14 million barrels. The ministers said cutbacks are needed to bolster the price of oil, which has plunged more than 50 percent in the face of production quota violations and price discounting by OPEC members trying to compete with non-OPEC producers. But the ministers yesterday could not agree on national production quotas needed to meet the cutbacks. 01 be Lxcbipan B nat Vol. XCVI - No. 117 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. 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