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Page 4-THE NEWS-April, 1985 WORLD BEAT edited by Marta Garelik Israel Beats Out Argentina For Chinese Tank Contract QUITO (JTA) - Military sources revealed that an Israeli armaments firm has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to modernize the People’s Republic of China’s 9,000 aging Soviet- designed tanks. The military experts main tained that Israeli expertise in rebuilding and adapting vari ous features of Soviet battle tanks, in particular, guidance systems, was the deciding fac tor in aweirding the contract. This puts an end to Argen tina’s hopes for a break through contract with China for its TAM tank, produced under a licensing agreement with the German arms manu facturer Thyssen-Henschel. Israel Selling ‘*KnoW‘How” To People’s Republic of China TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel is selling “know-how” to the People’s Republic of China, employing the promotional services of a local public rela tions firm and a PR firm in Hong Kong which specializes in translation. The kind of “know-how” Israel was exporting to China seems to be military, accord ing to reports. Western military attaches in Peking reported several months ago that British-made tanks at a ceremonial peirade were fitted with Israel-made cannons. Foreign Media Abounds In Israel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Some 150 newspapers, journals and radio and television networks from 25 countries are repre sented in Israel by 217 jour- nsdists. The largest group of media outlets represents West Ger many, with 45 papers and broadcasting networks, followed by the U.S. with 43, France with 25, Holland with 23 and Great Britain with 17. Brazil, Japan and Papua- New Guinea are represented by one newspaper each, as £ire East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Measures Considered To Keep (Young) Israelis From Emigrating JERUSALEM (JTA) - The Ministerial Immigration Com mittee, facing the prospect of rising unemployment, conven ed here to consider measures to keep young people from leaving the country, especial ly dischared army veterfms. There is widespread fear that emigration will increase this yeeur because of Israel’s economic crisis. Yordim Returning Home NEW YORK (JTA) - More than 2,350 former Israelis returned to live in Israel in 1984, after residing for many years in the United States and Canada. There are at least some 250,000 to 300,000 former Israeli?* - - or Yordim — living in the United States. This number was carefully arrived at from figures supplied by American immigration author ities and the Israeli Consulate in New York. Program Geared To Improve Civil Liberties In Israel NEW YORK (JTA) - A new program designed to im prove civil Hberties in Israel and increase the number of Israeli lawyers devoted to civil liberties laws, has been under way in Washington since last August. The program, “The Israel-U.S. Civil Liberties Law Program,” is sponsored by the New Israel Fund and the Washington College of Law at the American University. Israel’s main civil liberties problems include a whole range of issues from freedom of speech and freedom of the press, to women’s rights and minority rights. The issue of civil liberties has an added dimension when examined against the issue of national security. Israel To Build VOA Radio Transmitter TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel has agreed to the Reagan Ad ministration’s proposal to build a powerful Voice of America (VOA) radio trans mitter in Israel to relay broad casts to the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin made a verbal commit ment to President Reagan at their White House meeting. Many Israelis feared that would involve Israel directly in the cold war between the superpowers and would have a detrimental effect on the situa tion of Soviet Jews which has seriously deteriorated during the past year. But President Reagan exert ed pressure, and Israel was forced finally to agree. The only condition v/as that no public disclosure be made of the agreement. U.S. Gained $50 Billion In Technological Data NEW YORK (JTA) - Israel has provided the U.S. with $50 billion worth of technological data from captured Soviet military equipment, it was disclosed by Meir Rosenne, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Addressing a meeting of the American Friends of Tel Aviv University, the Israeli envoy said that Israel had saved America “many years of research and billions of dollars” by sharing with the U.S. the planes, tanks, missiles and other Soviet military equipment captured from Arab armies. He said the $50 billion price-tag was an estimate based on a study by two American generals in the Pentagon. Herzog Receives Standing Ovation At Parliament Of Europe Assembly STRASBOURG (JTA) - President Chaim Herzog of Israel received a standing ova tion when he addressed the 10 member-state Parliament of .4 complete experience in fine dining and entertainment. Specializing in \ouvelle Cuisine. 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Seven stamps comprise the series to be issued by the post office under the title of “Jewish Art in Hungary.” The announcement by Hungarian authorities said the stamps would “depict the most beautiful items of the Hungarian Jewish Museum.” The announcement coincid ed with a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial wall in the cemetery next to the Dohany Street synagogue commemorating the 40th an niversary of the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto. The Holocaust As Christian Tragedy NEW YORK (JTA) - Prof. David Wyman, author of “The Abandonment of the Jews” (which documents the “criminal negligence” of the U.S. toward the rescue of European Jews during the Holocaust), said that the Holo caust “is still not perceived by non-Jews as their issue or their loss.” Wyman, who was raised as a Methodist and has two grandparents who are Protes tant ministers, said that while m£my Jews continue to feel that they did not do enough to help fellow Jews, “most Chris tians are oblivious. They don’t even know they failed. Here was a massive failure of Chris tian civilization — a religious failure — a loss of the soul.” Tid-Bits TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel Radio reported that a Hadera man involved in a family quar rel tried to take his own life in various ways — but failed in each. The man reportedly took an overdose of sleeping pills. When he work up and found himself still alive, he opened the gas taps. When this did not work he jumped from the roof of his four-story building. Police, summoned by neigh bors, saw a man get up from the ground and run away — apparently because he feared he would be charged with at tempted suicide. MONTEVIDEO (JTA) - The new Liberal government which took over in Uruguay on March 1, following elections there four months ago, in cludes three Jews in promi nent posts, the World Jewish Congress reported. • WASHINGTON (JTA) - The United States wants Israel to participate in pro grams providing aid to Third World countries, especially in Africa. 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