Page 4-THE NEWS-Junie/July, 1988
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Woman Arrested
for Desecration
JOHANNESBURG (JTA)
— Police arrested a 38-year-old
Irish woman in connection
with the so-called pigs’ head
incident which took place
April 20, the eve of Israel's In
dependence Day and the 99th
anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s
birthday. Pigs’ heads marked
with swastikas on their
foreheads and Stars of David
on each ear were placed on the
doorstep of the Great
Synagogue and at the Jewish
Club in Durban.
The woman, Yvonne Tina
Malone, believed to have been
in the country for two and a
half years, was arrested after
South African detectives
worked around the clock.
The incident prompted
South African President P.W.
Botha to issue a strong warn
ing to neo-Nazis in South
Africa, that he was no longer
prepared to tolerate their
antics.
U.S. Air Force to Test Drone
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Israel Aircraft Industries
(lAI) is urging the U.S. Air
Force to test the Harpy, a new
radar-tracking drone, for pos
sible inclusion in the U.S. Air
Force to test the Harpy, a new
radar-tracking drone, for pos
sible inclusion in the U.S.
arsenal. The effort comes
within a year after Congress
required the Pentagon to buy
$38 million worth of Pioneer
drones from Israel for use by
the Navy.
A Capitol HUl source said
the initial U.S. testing of six
Pioneers has gone “remark
ably well,” with the possibili
ty that an additional 40 drones
could be deployed.
The six drones, which are
unmanned remotely piloted
vehicles, have been used by
the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the
coast of Lebanon.
The Harpy, which is propeller-
driven, is currently in produc
tion. Israel is asking the Pen
tagon to test the Harpy at
Eglin Air Force Base in
Florida under the U.S. foreign
weapons evaluation program.
The H£u*py is designed to fly
missions similar to that of the
U.S. Seek Spinner, another
drone, which may not receive
funding in the next fiscal year.
Israel’s Harpy is two to three
years closer to being deployed
than the Seek Spimier; the Air
Force has determined that the
Seek Spinner would be inferior
to the Harpy.
Photos Recall
Warsaw Ghetto Tragedy
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
More than 100 photographs
taken by a German soldier in
the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941
went on exhibition at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Center.
The exhibition, titled “A
Day in the Warsaw Ghetto —
A Birthday Trip Into Hell,”
was opened by Education
Minister Yitzhak Navon on
the occasion of the 45th an-
niversaiy of the Warsaw Ghet
to Uprising. The pictures were
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taken by Heinz Joest, a ho
telier and amateur photogra
pher who was stationed at a
German army camp near War
saw.
The “birthday trip” referred
to in the title was Joest’s
birthday in 1941 when, as he
told the West German maga
zine Stern years later, he first
ventured inside the ghetto to
find out what was going on
behind its walls.
He recorded the sights in
129 photographs which are
starkly horrifying and em-
pathetic. Stern reported that
Joest was so deeply shocked
that he told no one of his ex
perience. “I didn’t want to
upset my family. I thought,
what sort of world is this?”
the ex-Wehrmacht soldier was
quoted as saying.
Joest gave his pictures to
Stern two years before he died
in the early 1980s. The
magazine never published
them, but gave them to the
Yad Vashem archives last
year.
They depict hunger, beg
gars, the indignities heaped on
the dead. The photos are
displayed here according to
subject matter: children,
street life and burial pits. Ac
companying the exhibit are
sections from the “Warsaw
Diary” of Chaim Kaplan, an
eyewitness account of what
the Jews in the ghetto en
dured.
Navon went to Poland with
a delegation of some 1,200
Israelis to commemorate the
1943 uprising on the site of the
ghetto. The group included
seven Knesset members and
600 teen-agers, some of whom
were awarded the trip in a na
tionwide quiz on the Holo
caust.
The trip is the first by
Israeli officials to Poland since
that country severed diplo
matic ties with Israel in 1967.
They traveled as individuals
and, while not guests of the
state, were expected to meet
with members of the Polish
government. It was antici
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State Dept. Refuses
to Help on Libel Suit
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Justice Department is
refusing to help Austrian
President Kurt Waldheim pre
pare a libel suit against World
Jewish Congress President
Edgar Bronfman.
John Russell, a Justice
Department spokesman, ac
knowledged that Waldheim
had asked for assistance in
preparing a slander case
against Bronfman, but s£iid
the department declined
because it would constitute a
“conflict of interest.”
Russell explained that the
conflict existed because the
department had been compil
ing “adverse information”
about Waldheim, and had
placed him on its “watch list”
prohibiting entry into the U.S.
The New York Times re
ported that Austria’s chief
prosecutor is gathering evi
dence to sue Bronfman for ac
cusing Waldheim of being
“part and parcel of the Nazi
killing machine” during World
War II. Those comments were
made when Bronfman arrived
in Budapest, Hungary for a
meeting of the World Jewish
Congress's governing board in
May 1987.
A similar statement by
Bronfman appeared in an op
ed piece in The Times Feb. 14,
in which Bronfman called
Waldheim “a liar and an un
repentant man who was part
and parcel of the Nazi killing
machine.”
Army Remembers 6 Million
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Twenty-six members of the El
Paso, Tex., Jewish community
were the guests of the U.S.
Army at a special Holocaust
Remembrance Day ceremony
at the White Sands Missile
Range, New Mexico.
The April 15 ceremony was
followed by a week-long ex
hibit of Holocaust memora
bilia at the base. The idea for
the ceremony came from the
Pentagon, which sent mes
sages to bases encouraging
them to mark the death of 6
million Jews at the hands of
the Nazis in some significant
way.
On the Friday of the cere
mony, White Sands sent a bus
to transport the Texan par
ticipants to the base. The
ceremony featured prayers, a
candle lighting, and remarks
by the base commander, Maj.
General Thomas J.P. Jones,
who shared his own memories
of the soldiers who liberated
the death camps at the end of
World War II. The soldiers
and civilians who attended the
ceremony were quite shocked
to see their rough and tough
general wiping away tears as
he talked of the Holocaust.
U.S. Police Chiefs Tour Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) - Six
American law enforcement of
ficials who visited Israel to ex
change views and techniques
with the country’s national
police force returned recently
with a positive report. “We ex
pected smoke, tanks and gun
fire, but saw safe and peaceful
streets,” said Miami Chief of
Police Clarence Dickson at the
end of the week-long visit.
“Streets in Israel are safer
than in the U.S.”
Maxwell Greenberg, hono
rary national chairman of
ADL and a former Los An
geles Police Commissioner,
reported that “the entire
group was impressed by the
professionalism of Israel’s na
tional police. We were amazed
how they could perform the or
dinary police work and at the
same time address themselves
to problems of national securi
ty.”
Convicted Murderer to
Serve Time on Kubbutz
TEL AVIV (JTA) - An
American Jew serving a 25-
year-to-life prison sentence for
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