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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1978 PAGE 2
Knesset Calls
For Trial Speedup
BY GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM [JTA]
— The Knesset called for
a speedup in the trial of
Nazi war criminals who
murdered Jews in the
Maidanek concentration
camp. Discussing two
motions to the agenda,
the Knesset also appeal-
ed for more trials by
West Germany of Nazi
war criminals, and ex-
pressed horror at the
signs of growing forget-
fulness concerning the
Holocaust.
The motions were pre-
sented by Mapam Knes-
seter Chaika Grossman
and Democratic Move-
ment for Change Knes-
seter Assaf Yaguri. The
motions concerned the
proliferation of books and
films claiming the Holo-
caust was a myth invent-
ed by Jews and the slow
pace of the trial of 14
Maidanek murderers in a
Duesseldorf courtroom.
Grossman, a survivor
of the Holocaust, called
for the establishment of a
“World Council Against
Anti-Semitism and Neo-
Nazism” whose primary
objective would be to
monitor all manifesta-
tions of racism and
anti-Jewish activity.
Justice Minister Shmu-
el Tamir deplored the
fact that the Maidanek
trial, which opened in
November, 1975, has still
not been completed. Ta-
mir disclosed that the
Israeli government re-
fused entry visas to five
Germans involved in the
trial who wanted to come
to Israel and talk to
witnesses.
Among the five were
one of the defendants,
Hildegarde [“Bloody Bri-
gitte”] Lacher and Lud-
wig Bock, a prominent
lawyer of the defendants.
The other three were one
more defendant and two
other defense attorneys.
They were all declared
persona non grata in
Israel. Tamir observed
that the Eichmann trial
lasted about three
months. It was therefore
totally unreasonable that
the Maidanek trial should
take more than two-and-
a-half years, he said.
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WOO Attend Israel's Anniversary Fete
BY YITZHAK RABI
NEW YORK [JTA] - The
celebration of Israel’s 30th
anniversary was launched
here last week in a special
assembly at Temple Emanu-
E1 under the auspices of the
World Zionist Organization.
But the celebration was
marred by the tragedy of
the terrorist assault in Israel
and the sense of grief over
the loss of 37 innocent lives.
This clearly overshadowed
what was meant to be a
joyful event and a tribute to
the achievements of the
Jewish State in the last
three decades.
Addressing more than
1000 people, former Foreign
Minister Abba Eban said
that all Israelis are united
behind the action of Israel to
root out the Palestinian
terrorists and their bases in
south Lebanon. His remarks
were received enthusiasti-
cally by the audience and
were seen against the
background of Eban’s — and
other Labor Party leaders’
— criticism of Premier
Menahem Begin’s settle-
ment policy in Sinai and the
West Bank.
Eban said that the recent
atrocities by PLO terrorists
in Israel “must bring some
lucidity to the confused
minds” of those who admitt-
ed the PLO to the United
Nations. He said the recent
events prove that Israel is
alone when it comes to life
and death issues, and there-
fore “we are to decide alone”
on the future of Israel.
But, Eban said, Israel
must now make some
departure from the concepts
of the past in view of
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat’s trip to Jerusalem.
“We are more aware of the
dangers than the opportun-
ity,” he said. But he added
that the Egyptians as well as
the Israelis must exercise
self-appraisal. A national
consensus on foreign policy
is imperative if Israel is to
make decisions on peace —
or its absence — in the
Mideast.
Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson,
chairman of the American
Section of the World Zionist
Organization, who presided
over the assembly, said that
the Carter Administration’s
proposed sale of jet fighters
to Egypt and Saudi Arabia
“is incomprehensible as it is
alarming. Americans cannot
be expected to approve this
immoral package in the
name of peace,” she said.
New York Mayor Edward
Koch denounced the pre-
sence of the PLO in the
United Nations as a “crime”
and urged that the “murder-
ous organization” be ousted
from the UN.
B'nai B'rith Accelerates Study Careers
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BY BEN GALLOB
[Copyright 1978, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.]
Between 180 and 200
academically gifted young-
sters are participants in a
new guidance program de-
signed to accelerate their
educational progress and
early admission to college
developed by B’nai B’rith
Career and Counseling Ser-
vices and available at
BBCCS regional offices in 21
cities.
A typical early beneficiary
of the BBCCS special pro-
gram was David B. who, at
12, scored higher on the
math section of the Scholas-
tic Aptitude Test than most
of the high school seniors
taking the test for college
admission.
Leon Lerner, executive
director of the Baltimore
BBCCS, decided David was
a prime candidate for ac-
celerated studies. Lerner
helped David start college-
level math courses the
summer after he finished
eighth grade and to continue
with evening studies the
following year.
Lerner then helped ar-
range for David’s entry, at
14, into college with advanc-
ed placement. The youth is
now in his junior year,
majoring in economics and
adjusting well.
Lerner developed his
counseling services for gift-
ed teenagers in consultation
with Prof. Julian Stanley of
Johns Hopkins University,
director of the noted Study
of Mathematically Preco-
cious Youth.
Lerner said he regarded
his work, which has since
spread to other BBCCS
offices around the nation, as
an implementation of Prof.
Stanley’s theoretical re-
search. The B’nai B’rith
program also serves verbal-
ly gifted youngsters.
The first step is to identify
youngsters with high-level
academic potential. Usually
standardized tests are eval-
uated along with other
factors. If a gifted youngster
seems to be inadequately
motivated by his own school
program, BBCCS officials
consider several options for
supplemental studies.
Parents may be ecnourag-
ed to ask school officials to
arrange an academically
accelerated program for
such a child. Private tutor-
ing may be proposed. In
such a case as that of David,
B’nai B’rith will arrange to
have a youngster attend
college level summer and/or
evening courses for credit in
the child’s special field of
exceptional aptitude, and
early college entrance may
follow.
Lerner said more research
is needed to set up clearer
guidelines for acceleration of
verbally gifted youngsters.
Lerner has arranged for
some children to take college
courses in anthropology,
English and psychology. He
said the results have been
beneficial.
He said parents always
ask whether scholastic ac-
celeration and early college
entrance cause social or
psychological problems for
gifted youngsters.
Israel Requests PLO Activities
In Britain Be Stopped
LONDON (JTA] - The
Foreign Office is studying a
request by Israel that
activities by the Palestine
Liberation Organization in
Britain should be stopped
and that there should be no
more contacts between Brit-
ish diplomats and PLO
representatives. British en-
1
He said the B’nai B’rith
experience is that the
youngsters “maintain their
normal level of social matur-
ation on their own home
ground.” He said the young-
sters usually have well-
grounded personalities and
are highly self-disciplined
and highly motivated, with a
range of interests in addition
to their academic work. He
said they do not generally fit
the “comic book stereotype”
of the bookish student.
He said that in the 20
cases he has followed during
the past five years, he has
not run into such problems
noting that B’nai B’rith does
extensive screening and
testing before recommend-
ing an accelerated program.
He said he sees his role as
a long-tern advisory rela-
tionship. While the truly
gifted are new in number, he
said, they and their parents
clearly need special counsel-
ing approaches such as those
originated by Prof. Stanley,
he said.
Most of the students he
has counseled tend to be
bored with ordinary class-
room work. Officials of their
schools are uncertain about
what to do with them, and
their parents generally ap-
proach BBCCS for help. He
said such inquiries are
welcome at BBCCS offices,
which are now prepared to
tailor long-term counseling
programs to the individual
youngster’s needs.
“We see it as our role to
identify the academically
gifted young people in the
Jewish community and help
meet their needs,” he said.
“We have now identified
some techniques which work
with them and we know
what to do with them and for
them.”
The academically-gifted
youngsters are receiving
counseling at BBCCS re-
gional offices in New York
City; Buffalo; Boston; Salem
and Framingham, Mass.;
New Haven; Cincinnati and
University Heights, Ohio;
St. Louis; Philadelphia, Har-
risburgh, Pa.; Wilmington,
Del.; Baltimore and Rock-
ville, Md.; Union, N.J.;
Huntington Beach, Calif.;
Chicago; Milwaukee and
Madison, Wis.; and Minne-
apolis.
JDC Office in Rome
Closed By General Strike
voys in the Middle East and
at the United Nations have
held talks with senior PLO
officials. Following last Sat-
urday’s outrage, and the
strong British condemnation
of it, Britain is likely to
comply with the Israeli
request to end such con-
tacts, at least for the time
being.
NEW YORK [JTA] - The
offices of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee and HIAS in
Rome closed down this
afternoon after an emer-
gency general strike was
called by the trade union
movement to protest against
the kidnapping of Aldo
Moro, the leader of the
Christian Democratic Party
and former Prime Minister,
by the left-wing terrorist
Red Brigade and the killing
of his five body-guards in a
bloody ambush in Rome. The
report of the closing of the
offices was made known
here by Ralph I. Goldman,
JDC executive vice-presi-
dent.
Goldman reported that
Eleanora Mayer, the JDC
representative in Rome,
advised all the clients,
mainly Soviet Jewish trans-
migrants waiting for visas to
complete their journey to
the United States and other
Western countries, to get
home quickly before trans-
portation facilities were
suspended and to stay home.
Fear was expressed that the
high tension caused by the
kidnapping and murders
could spill over into demon-
strations and violence.
Goldman said the Rome
office hopefully will open
tomorrow depending on
whether the strike contin-
ues. Some 3500 Soviet Jews
are being cared for by the
JDC in Rome and Ostia, a
nearby community, while
HIAS processes migration
papers for them.
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