Page 4-THE NEWS-August, 1986
WORLD BEAT edited by Marta Garelik
Princeton Plans Center
For Jewish Life
PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA) -
Princeton University plans to
establish a Center for Jewish
Life at a cost of $1.3 million.
The Center will include a
university-run kosher kitchen
and dining hall, chapel,
Judaica Ubrary, sound-proof
nnusic room for choir rehear
sals and Israeli dancing, and
office space for the Princeton
Hillel Foundation, which it will
also house.
A committee of students,
headed by Janine Schloss
(Class of ’88) and Mara Fox
(Class of ’87), has been work
ing since the fall to develop a
plan for the new Jewish
Center. Hillel president Cliff
Stein (Class of ’87) said the
facility will “act as a symbol
of Jewish presence on campus
and a symbol of the Universi
ty’s support for a thriving
Jewish community,” which
the Center will unite. The Ivan
and Seema Boesky Family
Fund has contributed
$750,000 toward the establish
ment of the Center. The couple
has a son in the school’s
sophomore class.
Israel Assures Soviets On
'Star W ars' Participation
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Israel has assured the Soviet
Union that its participation in
President Reagan’s Strategic
Defense Initiative (SDI) was
not directed against the Soviet
Union or any other country.
The Israeli message was in
response to a warning from
Moscow in May that Israel’s
involvement in SDI could en
danger peace in the Middle
East.
It was conveyed through
the Dutch Embassy which
represents Israeli interests in
the Soviet Union.
The reply stressed that
Israel is not a partner in the
military aspects of SDI, pop
ularly known as “Star Wars"
but only a participant in its
technological development.
Neo-Nazis Terrorize Jews
In Chile and Paraguay
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.
(JTA) — Neo-Nazis in Chile
and Paraguay are waging a
war of vandalism and ter
rorism against the Jewish
communities in those coun
tries. There are 30,000 Jews in
Chile and 1,000 in Paraguay.
Both countries are ruled by
rightwing military dictator
ships, and neo-Nazi groups
apparently operate with
impunity.
The recent emergence of
neo-Nazi groups in Chile was
hard to explain but part of the
reason was that the govern
ment, preoccupied with its
campaign against Commun
ists and leftists, gave these
groups a great deal of freedom
for their activities.
Probe Ordered On Students
Doctoral Degree
PARIS (JTA) - The
government has ordered a full-
scale investigation into the
granting of a doctoral degree
by Nantes University to a can
didate whose thesis claimed
that the gas chambers were a
figment of “Jewish imagina
tion” and the Holocaust in
fact did not occur.
Alain Devaquet, Minister of
Higher Education and Scien
tific Research, demanded an
administrative and university
investigation of the pro
cedures which allowed the
thesis to be accepted and gave
it top grades. The author is
Henri Roques, a retired
65-year-old agricultural
engineer and amateur his
torian. He submitted his
thesis to the Paris Sorbonne
and several other major
universities, all of which re
jected it.
But Nantes University ap
pointed an academic jury
which examined the 371-page
work, pronounced it excellent
and granted Roques an aca
demic degree. Devaquet told a
Parliamentary commission
that the government was
“deeply disturbed by the
allegations tending to deny
the existence of gas chambers
and of the Nazi Holocaust
policies.” The episode was
brought to the Ministry’s at
tention by 60 Nantes Univer
sity faculty members who pro
tested acceptance of the
thesis.
Weizmann Scientist Thanked
By Thatcher
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Dr.
Yair Reisner, the Weizmann
Institute biophysicist who
flew to Moscow to help Soviet
doctors treat victims of the
Chernobyl nuclear accident,
received personal and ap
parently impromptu thanks
from visiting British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher
for alerting the West to the
kinds of medical preparations
needed to cope with similar
disasters in the future.
Reisner, ein expert on tissue-
typing and bone-marrow
transplants, said on his return
from the USSR that not only
the Soviets but the Western
nations lacked the necessary
facilities and techniques.
Reisner, in his report to the
Israeli authorities, stressed
that people who work in
nuclear power stations or at
other facilities with a high risk
of radiation exposure, should
have thier tissue group record
ed and filed in case of accident.
He said potential donors of
bone marrow of that same
tissue group should be located
and listed, so that if an acci
dent occurs, transplant opera
tions can be performed with
out delay. He believed these
precautions were not anymore
adequately taken in the U.S.
and other countries than in the
Soviet Union.
Hadassah Hospital To Perform
Heart Transplants
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Health Ministry announced
that the government has given
permission to the Hadassah
Medical Center here to per
form heart transplant surgery.
It has been banned until
now because of the Rab
binate’s objections. The
halachic definition of death
differs from the medical defini
tion. The medical definition is
cessation of cerebral activity.
Many rabbis refuse to acknow
ledge death until the heeu*t has
ceased beating. Medical
science requires the donor
heart to still be beating when
it is removed for transplant.
The ban has forced patients
requiring heart transplants to
seek them abroad. News
papers carry advertisements
from ad hoc aid committees
set up to raise funds for
IsraeHs to have the operation
abroad where the costs can ex
ceed $200,000.
Trees To Be Rooted In Air
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Trees growing out of thin air
instead of the ground enable
botanists at the newly opened
Sarah Racine Laboratory in
Tel Aviv University’s
Botanical Garden to observe
the structure and development
of roots.
According to Yoav Waisel,
director of the Garden, this is
important because root
physiology is a neglected field.
It is hard to study roots
without up-ending the tree.
The two-story lab, which
resembles an ordinary
greenhouse, has a variety of
trees — olive, avocado, palms,
cottonwood — and some
vegetable plants growing out
of holes in the floor. Their
roots hang freely inside an
aeroponic chamber. They are
sprayed for 10 seconds each
minute with water and
nutrients.
The chamber is dark but has
two observation windows for
public viewing.
Virginia Promotes Economic And
Cultural Opportunities With Israel
RICHMOND, Va. (JTA) -
Governor Gerald Baliles an
nounced the creation of a
special commission to promote
and expand the economic
development, educational and
cultur^ opportunities between
Virginia and Israel, in com
memoration of the upcoming
40th anniversary of the foun
ding of the State of Israel in
1988.
Students, public officials,
and individuals of
demonstrated achievement in
the fields of medicine, law,
education, science, agriculture,
business, the arts, reUgion,
communications, and the
media would participate.
Baliles said the work of the
commission would precede his
own visit to Israel, in April of
1988.
A Hot Export Item
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
hottest item on Israel’s export
list to Europe is a personal
radiation detector the size of a
package of cigarettes.
The gamma radiation detec
tion device developed by Am
cor can be worn on the belt line
like a beeper. It emits a beep
ing sound and flashing light
when radiation five times the
normal dosage is present. The
price is $140.
Since the disaster at Cher
nobyl, the Amcor factory has
gone from one shift to three
shifts a day to handle orders
for 10,000 more of the device.
He said a batch of 1,500 was
air-freighted to Holland,
Austria, West Germany and
France in one week.
According to Meirovitch,
the Eurpoeans favor the
Israeli detector because it is
the smallest and cheapest on
the market.
Tid'Bits
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
— Israel offered to share its
expertise in agriculture and
arid zone research with the na
tions of Africa and to co
operate with them in in
novative research and
development.
Israel presently holds
diplomatic ties only with six
African nations: Zaire,
Swaziland, Malawi, Liberia,
Lesotho and the Ivory Coast.
Most of the African states cut
diplomatic ties with the
Jewish State after the 1973
Yom Kippur War.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Spain £ind Israel have conclud
ed an agreement which will
further trade contacts bet
ween the two countries.
Israel imported $80 million
worth of goods from Spain last
year. The imports included
cars, food products and tex
tiles. This is far greater than
Israeli exports to Spain which
consist mainly of diamonds
and some agricultural
products.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Israel’s trade with Japan is
growing — though not as
vigorously as many I sraeli of
ficials and businessmen would
like. According to official
figures issued recently, a $25
million dollar increase in
Israeli exports to Japan was
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