Page 4-THE NEWS-May, 1988
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Panama's Jews Fear
Anti-Semitic Reprisals
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
Jewish community of Panama
is wary of the potential of an
anti'Semitic backlash to the
political and financial crisis
boiling in the Central Ameri
can country, according to Jew
ish officials who have been in
touch recently with some of
the 1,800 Jews there. The
Jews are supportive of a re
turn to democratic govern
ment.
The Jewish community will
donate to a food relief program
recently established by the
Catholic Church.
It has also been noted that
Delvalle attends a Reform
synagogue in Panama City,
but that you hear virtually
no mention of the fact that
Delvalle is Jewish. In the face
of a crisis, there is no tell
ing if Delvalle’s Jewishness
might become a focus of anti-
Semitism.
Names of Suspected Nazi
Guards to be on “Watch List”
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Justice Department asked
the Immigration and Naturali
zation Service to place the
names of 9,800 suspected
former concentration camp
guards on its “watch list.”
Those individuals, whom the
department determined as
sisted or otherwise par
ticipated in Nazi-sponsored
persecution, would be barred
from entering the United
States under the Holtzman
Amendment.
The names were compiled
from captured war records.
post-World War II wanted
and detention lists and ex
tradition requests. With the
aid of a new sophisticated
computer database, OSI’s
listings of suspected war
criminals will be “more
systematic” than ever before.
Preventing alleged Nazi per
secutors from entering the
U.S. is an important aspect of
OSI’s mandate, along with the
denaturalization or deporta
tion of those illegally residing
here. OSI currently is inves
tigating 700 suspected war
criminals, has brought to trial
about 70 and has lost just one
verdict.
JWV Campaigns for Veteran
to Receive Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Jewish War Veterans of
the USA has launched a
nation-wide campaign to en
sure that Tibor Rubin, a
Hungarian-bom survivor of
the Nazi death camps, receives
the Congressional Medal of
Honor.
The JWV will work through
its 450 posts across the nation
in the effort for the 58-year-old
Rubin, a fully disabled veteran
living in Garden Grove, Calif.
Eighteen months after arriv
ing in the United States,
Rubin enlisted in the Army.
Nine months later, in Novem
ber 1950, his unit was cap
tured in Unsan, North Korea,
and he spent the next 44
months as a prisoner of war.
Although badly wounded
himself, he is credited with
saving the lives of 35 to 40
other prisoners. Rubin pro
vided medical care for the
wounded and stole food £uid
supplies for them.
Rubin was released in a
secret exchange of the most
badly wounded POWs. He
smuggled out in a leg cast the
names and whereabouts of 500
prisoners.
Japanese Want to Sell to Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Japanese manufacturers, es
pecially automakers, want to
sell to Israel, but neither the
government nor any leading
company is willing to openly
buck the Arab boycott.
In an article called “Under
the Arab Thumb,” the March
issue of the English-language
publication Business Tokyo
notes that unlike the United
States and West European
countries, Japan has not
passed any legislation to bar
compliance with the boycotts.
Japan is nearly 100 percent
dependent on Arab oil, and if
it were cut off, its economy
could be destroyed. Japanese
companies do buy Israeli prod
ucts, particularly diamonds,
with Israeli diamonds making
up 25 percent of Japan’s dia
mond imports, according to
the magazine.
Israel could be an important
market for Japanese C£u-s. Fu
ji Heavy Industries Ltd., the
only Japanese carmaker that
exports openly to Israel, sold
20,000 Subaru cars in Israel in
1987.
Israel and Hungary Establish
Reciprocal Interest Sections
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel
and Hungary established in
terest sections in Budapest
and Tel Aviv respectively. It
is the lowest level of diplo
matic representation, but
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nevertheless marks a resump
tion of diplomatic ties broken
by Hungary during the 1967
Six-Day War.
The freeze between Israel
and the Communist bloc coun
tries seems to be thawing.
Israel and Poland established
interest sections in Warsaw
and Tel Aviv last year. A
Soviet consular mission has
been in Israel since last June
and an Israeli mission of
similar rank will be going to
Moscow.
But Israel and the Soviet
Union have not reestablished
ties, even on the interests sec
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diplomatic relations with only
one Eastern bloc nation: Ro
mania.
India Won't Send
Tennis Team to Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The In
dian government, reversing an
earlier decision, announced
that it will not send its Davis
Cup tennis team to play in
Israel because of Israel’s
“atrocities against the Palesti
nians in the West Bank and
Gaza.” The International Ten
nis Federation informed India
that as a result, it will be dis
qualified from the 1989 Davis
Cup matches.
Israel and India met in last
year’s Davis Cup matches
played in India, but only after
the Delhi government suc
cumbed to international pres
sure and withdrew its threat
to deny visas to the Israeli
players.
Israel Still Favorite
Getaway for Swiss
GENEVA (JTA) - There
are fewer Swiss tourists going
to Israel this year than in
1987, but there have been no
mass cancellations because of
the troubles in the Israeli-
administered territories. El A1
has flights every day gind
Swissair operates nine flights
a week to Israel.
50,600 Swiss visited Israel
in 1987, compared to 40,200 in
1986, a 26 percent increase.
The Red Sea resort of Eilat
was the preferred destination.
Israel remains a favorite
vacation spot for the Swiss;
they identify with a small
country like their own, admire
it and sympathize with Israel
despite its current difficulties.
EPA Bars Use of Nazi Data
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The administrator of the
U.S. Environmental Protec
tion Agency decided to bar
scientists from including data
on World War II Nazi experi
ments in a forthcoming report
on a deadly toxic gas. The gas,
known as phosgene, is used in
manufacturing plastics and
pesticides and had been de
ployed as a poisonous gas in
World War I by the Germans.
EPA Administrator Lee
Thomas received a letter from
agency scientists questioning
whether it was ethical to use
data from Nazi doctors, and he
decided to exclude the infor
mation.
Tid-Bits
GENEVA (JTA) - Over
riding objections from several
European countries, particu
larly West Germany, the
United Nations Human Rights
Commission adopted a resolu
tion by consensus calling for
the prosecution and punish
ment of all Nazi war criminals
still at large.
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
Knesset legalized homosexual
activity between consenting
adults, and raised to 20 years
the maximum p>enalty for rape
of either sex under aggravated
circumstances.
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U.S. Secretary of State
George Shultz for his
“diplomacy, motivated by a
blend of humanitarian feelings
and practical political con-
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