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Page 4-THE NEWS-June/July, 1986 WORLD BEAT edited by Marta Garelik Antidote To Neo-Nazi Propaganda BONN (JTA) — A visit to the site of a former concentra tion camp has been declared mandatory for all pupils in State-run schools in Bavaria, psirtly as an antidote against neo-Nazi propaganda. The precedent-setting deci sion was taken by the ruling conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in cooperation with the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD). The idea originated with an SPD member of the Bavarian legis lature, Peter Kurz, a trade union activist. It is part of the preparations for and studies about the Nazi era and may include students meeting with survivors of Nazi persecution. Kurz said the timing of his initiative coincided with the increased efforts by neo-Nazi groups to attract members among Ger man youth. Medical Care Agreement Reached TEL AVIV (JTA) - Blue Cross-Blue Shield, the American health insurance eorpontiim,^ htis siffied rid# oUtti,Or'' American tourists #)i6 ne^. medial attention while in Israel. The agreement is reported ly the first of its kind with a foreign hospital since Blue Cross-Blue Shield signed an agreement with the American Hospital in Paris during World War II. The agreement presently covers only subscribers from the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut areas but other regions are expected to be included later. The Herzliya Medical Center, founded three years ago, is staffed by 150 physicians who conduct their private practice at the center. Proposal For British Actors To Boycott Israel Is Defeated LONDON (JTA) - A call by actress Vanessa Redgrave and a group of 38 supporters for a cultural boycott of Israel was defeated at the annual meet ing of the British actors union, Equity, which broke up in chaos in a London theater. The motion was read to the some 300 union members by Redgrave’s brother, Colin. The proposal demanded a ban on performing in Israel and an end to sales there of television and film material involving Equity members. It referred to Israel a# “occupied ’ ami fie law the jproposal wtfjt greeted wit^ a barrage .id shouts of “anti-Semite” and “Hitler” from angry op- OEEDEE DAUMIT Producer For 1985 Two names you can trust in Real Estate ponents. The motion was sub sequently overwhelmingly defeated by a show of hands of those in attendsmce. Pamela Memson, a Jewish actress, described the motion as “Marxist and racist” and said that the union would be “disgraced forever” if it sup ported it. “This creed of anti- Zionism not being anti-Semi tism is a ploy,” she said. Israeli Expert Helps Chile TEL AVIV (JTA) - A Weizmann Institute of Science expert, who developed techni ques to discover water re sources in the Arava desert area in Israel, is presently in Chile applying his methods to tap ground water in that coun try’s arid northern regions. Prof. Mordechai Magaritz was sent to Chile by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. He is working with a Chilean team to demonstrate the feasibility of drilling for water as an alter native to piping it from the high Andes, which would pose difficult technological prob lems and great expense. Several years ago, another team of Weizmann Institute experts, headed by Prof. Joel Gat, Advised the . ^azilian 'goverail|^ how to mve the water problems in iMoorth- eastern Brazil. ■ IstMeli Energy Minmter In C/.S. To Discuss Oil Prospecting In Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) - Energy Minister Moshe Sha- hal dedicated the second solar energy plant built in southern California by an Israeli firm for a local electric utility. He also discussed American oil prospecting in Israel with U.S. Energy Secretary John Herr ington and with Armand Hammer, head of Continent^ Petroleum. The soleu- station Shahal visited was built by Luz, an Israeli firm. It cost $90 million and 50 percent of the materigd that went into its construction was imported from Israel. Sha hal will take part in negotia tions to export an even larger Israel-made solar energy plant, to cost about $120 million, to a South American country. Tid-Bits CLEVELAND (JTA) - Anti-Israel films produced by the PLO — some of them us ing themes and footage from Nazi anti-Semitic films — are flooding college campuses, private clubs and church groups across the U.S. The PLO films, which run from five to 45 minutes, in clude some that incorporate Nazi-produced footage, one, for example, makes use of clips from “The Eternal Jew,” an infamous anti-Semitic film made durinc ^e Hitler Cfp. *^^thenswa) - (||m « and Israel a iMfpiiSiaiir tific and coHtral cooperation ’ agreement. The three-year pro gram provides for exchanges in the fields of education, science, culture, the media, youth activities and sports. It was signed by Ambassador Spyros Chrysospathis, the Foreign Ministry’s Cultural Affairs Director, and Am bassador Yehezkel Barnea, Israel’s diplomatic represen tative in Athens. • NEW YORK (JTA) - At torneys in 10 states and the District of Columbia have volunteered to assist Na’cunat, the largest women’s organiza tion in Israel, in obtaining child support payments for Israeli women from Israeli fathers now living in the U.S. • JERUSALEM (JTA) - Egypt, which supplies Israel with one quarter of its oil, has reduced prices by approxi mately 25 percent, thus saving the Treasury over $50 million a year. • NEW YORK (JTA) - A Jewish engineer who charged the Ralph Parsons Company, a California-based interna tional contracting firm, with religious discrimination for turning him down for a job in Saudi Arabia, has received a $72,500 settlement from the company. 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