Page 4-THE NEWS-March, 1985
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Archbishop of Paris
Recited Mass And Prayer For
Holocaust Victims
PARIS (JTA) - The 40th
anniversary of the liberation
of the Auschwitz death camp
was marked by the French
Jewish community and by
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger,
the Archbishop of Paris, who
recited mass and a prayer for
the Holocaust victims in his
private chapel and later
visited the Memorial to the
Unknown Jewish Martyr.
The Cardinal, whose parents
were Polish Jews, converted to
Catholicism in his youth, told
officials at the Memorial that
he wanted to pay his personal
respects to the Auschwitz vic
tims. Shortly after his eleva
tion to head the Catholic hier
archy in France, he noted in a
newspaper interview that he
had lost many family mem
bers in the Holocaust.
U.S. Dept, of Education
Mailing Deplores Erosion of
* Christian Values*
In Public Schools
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
Department of Education’s
regional office director for
western states, Thomas Tan-
credo, circulated in a mailing
to Christian schools, and ap
parently, inadvertently, to
some Jewish schools, a speech
which deplored the erosion of
“Christian values” in
America’s public schools.
While lamenting the necess
ity for the establishment of
Christian schools, the speech
questioned how this could
have happened in “this land of
freedom, this Christian
nation.”
“What has happened to our
Christian system of values?”
the speech asks. It asserts
that the Christian schools are
being established because of
the lack of Christian teaching
in the public schools. The
speech further stated that “it
is important for Christian
educators not to forget why
our schools are here — to
educate our children in Chris
tian principles and to shield
them from the pernicious
religion of secular humanism.”
The mailing of the speech on
DOE stationary sparkled an
investigation by Rep. Patricia
Shroeder (D. Col.), who will
seek to determine whether the
distribution of the letter at
federal expense violated
federal law.
DOE officials in Denver and
Washington brushed aside
Schroeder’s criticism, blaming
the controversy, partly, on the
“hyper-sensitivity of certain
elements in the Jewish
community.”
Norway Rejects PLO Bid
OSLO (Jerusalem Post &
Opinion) — The Norwegian
government rejected an ap
plication by the PLO to open
an information office in Nor
way, the Justice Ministry said.
The ministry said in a state
ment that the security risks of
a PLO office in Oslo were too
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great and could provoke
clashes between the organiza-
tion’s supporters and
opponents.
ADL Reports Extremist
Groups Use Computers
To Spread Bigotry
Two such computer systems
are currently operating in the
U.S. with access obtained
through home computers £uid
a modem, or phone link up.
The danger from com
puterized dissemination of
hate material “lies not only in
facilitating the spread of
bigotry and anti-democratic
propaganda, but in its poten
tial impact on impressionable
young people many of whom
today are computer users.”
The hate messages on both
networks include anti-Israel
and anti-Zionist propaganda.
In addition to hate propa
ganda, the network supplies,
under the heading of
“enemies,” a listing of the ad
dresses and phone numbers of
the ADL’s national and
regional offices. In the same
category are listed as “in
formers” for the “Zionist Oc
cupational Government,” its
name for the U.S. government.
Another group of “enemies” is
labeled “race traitors” £uid is
accessible, the network clsdms,
only to callers with special
clearance.
Israel Plans For Fighting
Famine Around The World
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israeli
economists and agricultural
researchers hope that a thaw
in the cool relations between
Israel and Egypt may revive
plans for a joint venture which
could help relieve famine in
various parts of the world
such as the one causing hun
dreds of thousands of deaths
in Ethiopia.
The joint venture was based
on the use of an Israeli inven
tion developed four years ago
and already in use in the
Negev for the long-term stor
age of grains.
This invention is a huge
plastic tent-like structure sup
ported on a thick wire mesh.
The plastic is the same used to
protect Israel’s combat tanks
from the broiling suri.
The plastic silos began as an
experiment utilizing dry
desert conditions to preserve
grain stocks without pesti
cides. Wheat stored in the
plastic silos has deteriorated
by only one-tenth of one per
cent over two years.
Food shortages can be pre
dicted six months in advance;
the famine in Ethiopia was
foreseen three years before it
materialized. The United Na
tions Food and Agriculture
Organization (FOA) had
issued warnings well in ad
vance and has since warned of
other food shortages likely to
occur elsewhere in the world.
Israel is ready with its
plastic silos to store the
surpluses of fat years to feed
the hungry in the lean years.
A New Era For Spain*s Jews
PARIS (JTA) — The
Spanish government and the
Spanish Parliament are about
to vote a speci£d law recogniz
ing the Jewish community’s
rights and granting it the
same privileges enjoyed by the
Catholic church and the
various Protestant congrega
tions.
The law would take the form
of a “Concordat,” the special
sort of agreement binding the
Vatican to various stages, and
would grant the Jewish com
munity the legal rights en
joyed by the Catholic Church.
The Jewish community
would have jurisdiction over
matters of personal status
concerning its members. Jews,
just like Catholics, would be
able to undergo only a
religious wedding which would
automatically be registered
with the state registrar’s
office. ,
Rabbis will enjoy the same
privileges as Catholic priests,
such as being exempt from
military service.
Some 12,000 Jews live in
Spain, mainly in Madrid,
Barcelona, Seville, Malaga and
the Costa Brava. Some 70 per
cent arrived from Morocco in
the 1950s while most of the
others stem from Germfuiy,
Central Europe, Latin
r.
America and the Middle East.
There are two rabbis and
five synagogues.
Tid-Bits
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Nature
will have to take its course
before 30 small diamonds
valued at $2,000 can be
recovered. They repose for the
time being in the stomach of a
62-year-old diamond polisher
who swallowed them during
an argument with his employ
er. The polisher agreed to an
X-ray but escaped from his
employer’s car enroute to a
hospital. He was promptly
captured by police who along
with the employer are waiting
for the diamonds to emerge.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Ex
cavations being carried out by
the Institute of Archaeology
of the Hebrew University in
cooperation with the Israel
Exploration Society have
revealed impressive fortifica
tions and a water supply
system at Tel Yoqne’am in the
Jezreel Valley that apparent
ly date from the days of King
Solomon (10th Century
B.C.E.).
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israe
lis, who often describe
themselves as the most heav
ily taxed people in the world
are also the most “pampered,”
according to Finance Minister
Yitzhak Modai. They must be
prepared to accept a drastic
reduction in their standard of
living. Modai said the govern
ment aims to reduce living
standards to the level of 1980
which would be “decent” but
not “comfortable” in order to
implement the massive budget
cuts necessary for economic
recovery.
Israelis visit doctors five
times more frequently than
Western Europeans and use
four times as much medication
per capita.
•
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over 1983 when 354,000
Americans travelled there. A
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visitors worldwide was also a
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