Page 4-THE NEWS-August, 1984
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Costa Rica Boycotted
By Arabs, Moslems
GENEVA (JTA) - The
delegations of Arab and
Moslem countries walked out
of the annual conference of the
International Labor Organiza
tion in a gesture of protest
against President Louis Alber
to Monge of Costa Rica which
recently moved its Embassy
in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem.
The delegates, joined by
representatives of a number of
African and Asian countries,
filed slowly past the rostrum
and out of the hall as Monge
rose to speak. The Costa Rican
President received a standing
ovation however from the
Western nations, led by the
United States.
About the First Jewish
Woman Astronaut
(JTA) — Judith Resnik’s
Jewish background goes back
to Kiev, Russia, which her
paternal grandparents fled in
the late 1920s. They first settl
ed in Palestine where her
father attended a yeshiva.
Later the family moved to
Cleveland, Ohio, where her
grandfather, Jacob, was a
shochet, and her grandmother,
Anna, worked for many
Jewish organizations. Her
father, optometrist Dr. Mar
vin Resnik, is also active in
many Jewish causes.
Israel U.S. Forces Hold First
Joint Medical Exercise
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The
Israel Defense Force and U.S.
armed forces have held their
first joint exercise under an
agreement by both countries
to provide medical assistance
in cases of accident or natural
disaster to the forces of either
in the region.
Voice of Israel Radio,
quoting an IDF spokesman,
said the exercise involved the
transportation of hypothetical
wounded American service
men from a U.S. vessel at sea
in the Eastern Mediterranean
to an Israeli hospital ashore.
The agreement between the
two countries, concluded
several months ago, came
about after Israel reproached
the U.S. for not using its near
by medical facilities for
marines wounded in the truck
bomb attack on their head
quarters in Beirut last
October.
Nazi Hunter Denies
Mengele Hiding
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Tuvia
Friedman, who heads the Nazi
war crimes documentation
center in Haifa, claims that
the notorious Auschwitz doc
tor, Josef Mengele, is not
hiding out in the jungles of
Paraguay but in fact makes
frequent visits to the United
States.
Friedman told a press con
ference that Mengele has
assets in the millions of dollars
in the U.S. and maintained
that a combined effort by the
governments of the U.S., West
Germany and Israel could af
fect his capture.
NY Governor Signs Law For
Disclosure of Foreign
Gifts To Schools
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Governor Mario Cuomo sign
ed a bill requiring public
disclosure of gifts by foreign
sources of more than $100,000
to New York state institutions
of higher learning.
The new law requires the
state’s colleges and univer
sities not only to inform the
State Education Department
of grants from foreign sources
which exceed $100,000 in any'
given year, but also about the
accompanying conditions and
purposes of the gift.
The new law will ensure that
such grants “do not under
mine academic integrity”.
The measure was drafted by
the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith. ADL became
concerned several years ago
by reports of large gifts from
Middle East countries being
made to American colleges
and universities which con
tained conditions which
breached academic respon
sibilities. Some tried to control
the hiring and firing of facul
ty, admission of students and
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Other gifts appeared to have
been made on condition cer
tain public stands or actions
be taken by the recipient
school.
The measure was approved
in the State Senate by 52 to
6 and by the Assembly, 139 to
zero.
Europeans Concerned About
Soviet Jews
STRASSBOURG (JTA) -
A formal declaration express
ing concern over the treatment
of Jews in the Soviet Union
and viewing the curtailment of
their rights to emigrate as an
impediment to improved East-
West relations, was released
here bearing the signatures of
240 members of the Parlia
ment of Europe.
• Latin American Jews
Target of Leftists
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Jewish businessmen in Central
and South America Eire special
targets of left-wing guerrillas,
according to Richard Stone,
President Reagan’s former
special envoy to Central
America. He said they have
become victims of kidnapping,
extortion and anti-Zionist
propaganda.
Formation of Arab
Political Party
JERUSALEM (JTA) - An
expert on Arab affairs
predicted that Israeli Arabs,
seeking a channel for political
expression, may soon form
their own independent Arab
political party. Given Israel’s
Arab population of close to
600,000, it would have the
potential to win 12 Knesset
seats.
Israeli Scholars
NEW YORK (JTA) - Five
Israeli students will par
ticipate, along with 50 high
school students from 46 states
in the United States, at the
Rickover Summer Science In
stitute (RSI) which will hold
its first courses from July 8 to
August 18 in Leesburg, Va.
These students “were selected
for excellence in their studies
and also for their participation
in extra-curricular academic
activities and their capacity to
be worthy good-will am
bassadors of Israel.”
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Prof. Shmuel Shoshan, a
Hebrew University scientist,
has been invited by the Euro
pean Space Agency (ESA) to
submit proposals for bio
medical experiments in space
related to the phenomenon of
weightlessness.
The scientist is recognized
as an expert in the field of con
nective tissue, of which the
body’s bone tissue is a part,
and for his research on col
lagen, which is one of the ma
jor materials comprising con
nective tissue in the body. Col
lagen and connective tissue
play an important role in the
body’s process for healing of
wounds.
Anti’Semitism in the V.S.
and the World
WASHINGTON (JTA) - A
New York Federal Court has
awarded $550,000 in compen
sation and punitive damages
to the family of Yaakov Elkon
of Long Island, N.Y. who for
two years suffered “a wave of
violence, intimidation and
hsu-assment” motivated by
anti-Semitism.
The judgement was issued
against Brad Barry, also of
Long Island, accused of
harassing Mr. and Mrs. Elkon
and their children.
According to the complaint,
the Elkon’s home was defaced
with swastikas and anti-
Jewish slogans; fires were set
on the Elkon’s property; win
dows were shot out and
broken; firecrackers were
thrown into the house; and
obscene and anti-Semitic
statements about Mrs. Elkon
were spray-painted on a public
street.
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IRELAND (JTA) - The
Jews of Northern Ireland,
with Harold Smith, an Officer
of the British Empire, as their
head, are in Belfast and Lon
donderry, and number bet
ween 400 and 500 persons.
They intermingle freely with
their Protestant and Catholic
neighbors and are highly
regarded.
One of life’s ironies is that
while the other faiths live in
constant tension and crisis, be
ing Jewish in Northern Ireland
means being relatively safe.
There is even less anti-
Semitism in Belfast than in
the Irish Republic where in
cidents are scarce and pose no
real problems.
TORONTO (JTA) - The
Canadian government has
banned the importation of a
book, “The Hoax of the Twen
tieth Century,” by Arthur
Butz, an associate professor of
chemical engineering at North
western University in Evans
ton, Illinois.
Butz claimed that the at
tempt of the Nazis during
World War II to exterminate
Jews and that the Nazis kill
ed six million Jews was a hoax.
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GLASGOW (JTA) - The
Church of Scotland has joined
the Jewish Representative
Council of Glasgow in a strong
condemnation of anti-
Semitism and an acknowledge
ment that the Christian
church has been guilty over
the centuries of fostering anti-
Semitic attitudes.
Israeli Industry^ Agriculture
and Medicine
TEL AVIV (JTA) - IsraeU
industries have received
orders from the U.S. totalling
$1 billion to offset the large
defense purchases Israel has
made in the U.S., Defense
Minister Moshe Arens said
here.
During 1981-82, Israel ex
ported 66 percent of its celery,
35 percent of its melons, 46
percent of its oranges, 28 per
cent of its grapefruit, 41 per
cent of its lemons, 82 percent
of its avocados and 21 percent
of its carrots.
Israeli physicians believe
they have made an important
breakthrough in the treatment
of burns. Medical researchers
at the Hadassah-Hebrew
University Medical School and
doctors at Shaare Zedek
Hospital, both in Jerusalem,
are reported to have perfected
a new technique for culturing
skin tissues. The Israeli
researchers say thay can grow
a 4 by 8 inch sheet of skin from
a few cells in about two weeks.
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