Page 4-THE NEWS-December, 1988
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
One-Legged Stork
Crash Lands in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) - A stork
arrived in Israel recently, but
it was not delivering a baby.
The migrant — on its annual
flight from the approaching
winter in Europe to the
warmer climates of Africa —
crash-landed minus one foot.
Officials and bird watchers of
the Nature Reserves Authori
ty had seen the bird flying
with its flock but apparently
missing one leg.
_Bird watchers throughout
the country were immediately
instructed to be on the lookout
for the injured bird and report
its landing. A group of ob
servers saw it crash-land and
watched as it keeled over,
unable to fly again or barely
even move. They took it to a
kibbutz in the Galilee, which
has an animal and biM sup
port center, where the stork
was outfitted with an artificial
leg made of wood and plaster.
The stork is now taking off
and lemding normally, but is
being kept in a nature pre
serve in the kibbutz for fear it
might not survive in the wild.
The stork appeared on Israeli
television looking well, but
surprised by the bright lights
and cameras.
Store Helps Celebrate
Israel’s 40th
NEW YORK (JTA) - Jor
dan Marsh, the New England
department store chain, re
cently concluded a successful
two-week promotion event in
its 26 branches, marking the
40th anniversary of the State
of Israel. Jordan Marsh sold
more than $2 million worth of
“made in Israel’' merchandise.
A display of Israeli goods
and sever£d mounted exhibi
tions were at the main branch
of the store in Boston. The
Israeli goods included fashion,
textile products, food, wine,
flowers, jewelry, art and gift
items.
Jordan Marsh featured an
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exhibition of old maps from
the collection of Jerusalem
Mayor Teddy Kollek, and an
exhibition of old lamps and
ethnic clothes from the Israel
Museum in Jerusalem. An en
tire floor at the Boston store
was transformed into a mar
ket, or shuk, which resembled
the colorful market in the Old
City of Jerusalem.
Scholarship Honors
German Officer
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
$50,000 scholarship memori
alizing Georg Ferdinand
Duckwitz, the German officer
who alerted the Danish under
ground to the impending de
portation of Danish Jews to
concentration camps during
World War II, has been estab
lished by Thanks to Scandi
navia on its 25th anniversary.
The organization, founded
by Rich£u-d Netter and enter
tainer Victor Borge, provides
Scandinavians with scholar
ships and other grants for
educational opportunities in
the United States.
It was created to show an
appreciation for the people,
churches and governments of
Denmark, Finland, Norway
and Sweden who rescued thou
sands of Jews during the Holo
caust.
Thanks go to Scandinavia
selected Duckwitz, who died in
1973 at the age of 69, because
of his heroic aid to Danish
Jews during the war. Duck
witz served as an official at
German headquarters in Co
penhagen in 1943 when secret
word spread that the Nazis
planned to round up and de
port all Danish Jews during
the celebration of Rosh Hash-
£mah. Defying orders, Duck
witz alerted the Danish re
sistance leaders, allowing for
more than 6,500 Danish Jews
to escape to Sweden.
Inquiries regarding the
Duckwith scholarship should
be addressed to Victor Borge,
do Thgmks to Scandinavia,
745 Fifth Ave., New York
City 10151.
American Jews Win
Nobel Prizes
NEW YORK (JTA) - Three
American physicists, who
were once referred to as “the
Jewish mafia at Columbia”
(University), are recipients of
this year’s Nobel Prize in
Physics.
Leon Lederman, Melvin
Schwartz and Jack Stein-
berger were given the pres
tigious award for discovering
the presence of a “ghostlike”
particle in the building blocks
of matter.
The three “ghostbusters”
will share the $390,000 prize
for their work on the neutrino,
defined as “ghost-like consti
tuents of matter.”
A Jewish woman, formerly
from the Bronx and now resid
ing in N.C., was named a co
recipient of the 1988 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medi
cine.
Gertrude Elion, 70, was
awarded the prize, to be
shared with her colleague
George Hitchings, 83, with
whom she has worked in drug
research since 1945.
Senate Adopts Anti-Genocide
Law After a 40-Year Crusade
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Senate adopted enabling
legislation that will allow the
U.S. to comply with an inter
national treaty outlawing gen
ocide.
The measure was approved
by voice vote. President Rea
gan, who supports the treaty,
is expected to sign the bill in
to law.
The Senate vote was the
final step in a process that
began 40 years ago when Pres
ident Harry Truman first pro
posed the treaty. Since then it
has been adopted by 97 coun
tries.
But the U.S. failed to ratify
the pact, largely because of op
position from conservatives in
Congress, who claimed it
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might infringe on America’s
sovereignty.
The Senate finally approved
the treaty in February 1986.
The measure will amend the
U.S. Criminal Code to include
penalties for genocide, which it
defines as deliberate intent to
destroy all or part of a na
tional, ethnic, racial or re
ligious group.
The treaty was a direct
response to the Nazis’ exter
mination of six million Euro
pean Jews during World War
II, which gave the term geno
cide wide currency.
The maximum penalties for
genocide under the amended
U.S. code are a $1 million fine
and life imprisonment for a
killing, and a $1 million fine
and 20 years’ imprisonment
for attempting to cause phy-
siced or mental impairment.
The enabling legislation was
blocked in the Senate Judici
ary Conmiittee for six months,
mainly by Sen. Strom Thur
mond (R-S.C.), who insisted
that the legislation impose the
death penalty on those con
victed of genocide.
Sen. William Proxmire (D-
Wisc.), who crusaded for the
treaty daily during his 19
years in the Senate, argued for
enabling legislation with life
imprisonment.
Thurmond withdrew his de
mand after committee Demo
crats agreed to expedite the
confirmation of federal judges
appointed by Reagan.
Israel is Largest Foreign
Participant in Star Wars
Research Program
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
granting of a $160 million re
search and development con
tract makes Israel the largest
foreign participant in the
American Strategic Defense
Initiative, the so-called “Star
Wars” program.
The grant is for research in
volving the Arrow anti-tacti
cal ballistic missile, which is
designed to destroy incoming
medium-range ballistic mis
siles at their highest point in
flight.
European Parliament Ratifies
Trade Agreements with Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Six
cities in the Soviet Union have
become accessible to Israeli
telephone users by direct dial
ing. Until now, calls to the
USSR had to be booked
through the international ex
change operators, with fre
quent delays.
Israelis may reach Moscow,
Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi,
Tashkent and Kishinev. The
cities were chosen because of
the frequency of past operator-
ordered calls. Reciprocal direct
dial service from the Soviet
Union to Israel is not yet
available.
The direct link was made
possible by British Telecom
International. Israelis can now
direct dial to 107 countries
around the world.
European Parliament Ratifies
Trade Agreements with Israel
STRASBOURG, France
(JTA) — The Parliament of
Europe voted overwhelmingly
to approve three economic
agreements with Israel it had
rejected in March.
The accords were signed by
Israel and the 12-nation Euro
pean Community in 1987. The
first, known as the financial
agreement, was endorsed by a
314-25 vote, with 19 absten
tions. Ratification requires a
minimum of 260 votes. In view
of the strong showing, the
other two accords were carried
by a show of hands, without
count.
This was a major victory for
Israel and reversal of senti
ment in the 518-member par
liament, which is the Euro
pean Community’s legislative
body.
German Church Condemns
Kristallnacht Silence
GENEVA (JTA) - “What
happened in November 1938
happened in public, in full view
of everyone... And no one could
say he or she knew nothing
about what was going on,” the
German Evangelical Church
declared. The statement noted
the 50th anniversary of Kris
tallnacht, the first organized
Nazi pogrom against German
Jews. It acknowledged and
condemned historic Christian
guilt for the persecution of
Jews, and its support, indif-
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