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SERVING NEBRASKA, IOWA Vol. LXI No. 30
Omaha, Neb., Frl., April 8, 1983
Days of Remembrance proclaimed for April 10-17 By Boris Bmolar Edltor-ln-chlef-cmcrltus, J.T.A. . IM.
Every year since 1979 the United State* commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and honor* the (survivors at ceremonies in Washington and in a number of states and cities throughout the country. The national ceremonies have been addressed each year by the President and members of Congress of both parties. This year's ceremony in Washington will take place April 13. It will he part of the Days of Remembrance proclaimed for April 10-17; it will be integrated within the week when the first American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors will meet in the nation's capital April 11-14. The opening event of the Gathering will lie held in the Washington .Sports Center which accomodates 20,000 people. About 8,000 people, a third of them from the "second generation" — children of survivors ~ have registered for the Gathering weeks in advance: The National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council is of the opinion that this could wind up as the largttt Jewish assembly ever held in the United States. It has called Upon its affiliated groups to assist locally and nationally in securing the maximum impact. Last year, President Reagan spoke movingly at the national commemorative ceremony at the White House. There were also official observances in 45 states, as well as in most major cities. Governors of a number of states issued official proclamations designating "Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust." By a unanimous vote of Congress — at the recommen-
dation of President Reagan — a United States Holocaust Memorial Council was established as an independent government agency in October 1980. It is composed of 55 memIwrs appointed by the President and five members each from the House and the Senate. In addition, there are three non-voting ex-officio members, one each appointed by the Secretaries of Slate, Interior and Education. Elie Wiesel is chairman of the Council. The Council has the mandate to create a living museum and memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and to honor their memories in annual Days of Remembrance. It is also authorized to raise funds from private sources to build a national museum/memorial in Washington and to establish an education foundation. It has already selected a museum Kite and has arranged for transfer of title to the buildings, which are across from the Washington Monument. Consider this action by the U.S. government and compare it with the silent treatment which the Soviet government has been giving all these years even to the hundreds of thousands of its own Jews who were massacred by the Nazis during the German occupation of the Soviet Union and the Baltic countries. Not a single memorial has been put up by the Soviet authorities on the mass graves of Jews. Even the most gruesome two-day slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews in the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev in 1941 has been ignored. No tablet marks the site. A disaster is now being faced by Soviet Jews not only because emigration from the USSR has practically ceased — in January the number of Jews permitted to leave the USSR i.a* HI — but also because virulent anti-Semitism is being expressed in a variety of ways, particularly in the moss media. '
The anti-Jewish cartoons appearing in such leading Soviet newspapers an Provda, Kraanaya Znamia (a military daily newspaper) Komsomolskoya Pravda (organ of the young Communists) and others, are as inciting and as obnoxious OB those which appeared in Der Sturmer, the most vulgar Nazi newspaper.
Local ceremony Gov. Robert Kerrey has proclaimed the week of April 1017, 1983, as The Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust in the State of Nebraska. Gov. Kerrey will preside at the second annual state-wide ceremony to be held in the Governor's Office at 11 a.m., Wednesday, the 13th of April. Sponsored by the State of Nebraska, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the program will include participation of Chief Justice Norman Krivosha of the Nebraska Supreme Court, Attorney General Paul Douglns,-Secretary of State Allan Bccrman, state and representatives of public, private, and intcrfuith organizations in Nebraska. Jewish community representatives participating include Sydney Oaten of Omaha's Anti-Defamation League-CRC, Yale Gotsdiner, CRC Chairperson of the Jewish Federation of Lincoln, and Rabbi Myer Kripke of Omaha, Gerald Grunt of the Jewish Federation of Lincoln, Rabbi Mark Bisman of Lincoln, Rabbi Kenneth White of Lincoln, as well an Cantor Emil Berkovits of Omaha's Beth El Synagogue.
Saudis may cancel
Solidarity Day .Governor Robert Kerry signs a proclamation designating a day of soMdarity with Soviet Jowry during a recent meeting of Lincoln and Omaha/leaders arranged by the ADL/CRC committee in the capitol. Among those participating arc from left. Rabbi Kenneth White, Andio Gordman, Rcba Kucklin, Roberta Stick. Sydney Oaten, Shirley Goldstein, Rabbi Mark Bisman and Gerald Grant. Not in photo were Herbert Gnba, Everett Evncn, and Alan Katchen.
Cyprus new center of PLO propaganda By David Kantor BONN (JTA1) — Cyprus is becoming the new center of Palestine Liberation Organization propaganda since the. PLO was ousted from Beirut last summer, the dailjf Die Welt reported twlay. According to the paper, the PLO has established/at great expense, a new information and communications center in the Greek part of the island which U partially occupied by Turkey. It linn already moved
its news agency, VVafa, to Cyprus along with various publications. ft is now trying to get the Cypriot government to grant a license to the PLO radio station, "The Voice of Palestine," BO that it can resume broadcasts which previously emanated from Beirut. Die Welt reported that several Arab government* are pressuring the.Cypriot nuthoritics to deny the license.
Diplomatlo speak Lawrence Cirossmani^ afltho administrative a m e m b e r 6ftl»»i jf <rfflccr|n«hoU.8,EmUnitcd States Foreign baWy In Ban 8alScrvico will address vador, El Salvador, the Old Timers Club and will speak on tho on April 12, at tho subject of U.S. InJowfsh Community volvement in that naCcntcr. Mr. Gross- tion. Mr. Grossman's man, son of Mr. and next post will be that Mrs. Arthur Gross- of administrative ofmnn, has Just com- ficcr in the U.S. Empleted a one and one- bossy in Copenhagen, half year assignment Denmark.
By Joseph Polakoff WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia miiy hnvo to cancel its eight billion dollar contract for four A W A C B find enhanced equipment for its !•'-IT) wnrjilmiCH that Raw the Ueagan Administration expend much vnluublc political capital to obtain nn affirmative vote in the Senate for the controvenial deal 18 months ago. "The Saudis may weasel out" of their contract for the "spy" planes n« "they pnrc their $20 billion defense budget," according to S. Fred Singer, a specialist on energy and a former deputy assistant BCCretary of the inferior, in a discussion of the oil glut's effects. Saying "we arc witnessing the unraveling of Arab financial power" and that "the consequences of thi.s major geopolitical event are not yet widely appreciated," Singer pointed out that "unlike the oil weapon,
which,was only psychological, financial power him always been real. It has been used against corporations to enforce b o y c o t t s , and against governments to gain political concessions. Even n perception of declining financial power can profoundly change political attituck'H around the world. It in bound to affect Arab-Israeli pence ncgotitionn, and especially the Reagan initiative." In a recent visit to the Middle East, Singer said in The Wall Street Journal, "I found Saudi officials unwilling to accept the bad news, hoping that world oil demand would soon rise 'after the world recession ends.'" "The oil glut isn't a temporary p h e n o m e n o n , " Singer, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on leave from the University of Virginia, said. "Within months, or
even weeks, it should become quite evident to all that the Arab financial reserve of more than $2.r>0 billions — mainly Saudi Arabia's and Kuwait's — is shrinking. Thi.s fact alone could have a startling psychological impact, pnrticuInrly when accompanied by sharp budget cuts, cancellation of major industrial projects, eviction of foreign workers, and cuts in foreign aid, including the war subsidy to Iraq — which already has absorbed more than $20 billions." Singer reported that besides dropping the AWACs deal, Saudi Arabia is likely to disappoint neighboring Arab utatcs — "no support for an Arab arms-industry complex in Egypt, no large arms purchases for Jordan, and reduced payoffs to Syria and the PLO. The resultant loss of friends, within the Middle East and beyond, may be a shattering experience for the Arabs."
Arabs protest airing of Golda on French W By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) - - The Arab league representative in Paris, Mohammed Yazid, has formally complained to the French Foreign Ministry against the scheduled airing by French television of the American TV series, "Golda," which portrays the life of Israel's late Premier Golda Mcir. Yazid, in a written note, said that broadcasting this program is tantamount to "glorifying Israel and its expansionist aims." He asked Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson to try and prevent tho state-controlled TV from going ahead with its program, scheduled to start this week. , Several pro-Arab organizations have also
appealed to the "High Authority," a stateappointed body responsible for the television's political neutrality and ethics, to have the series, which stars the late Ingrid Bergman, banned. One such organization, the Franco-Arab Solidarity Association, said in its letter to the High Authority's President Michelle Cotta: "France, which is, favorable to a just solution to the Middle East conflict, should not use television to present a biased view of the problem." The Association's president, Lucien Bitterlin, also called for a program on the Palestinian question and said it should be followed by a debate between the representatives of all the concerned parties.