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Texas Jewish Post
VOLUME 40 NO. 6
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1986 27 SHEVAT 5746
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!•«« fa win Anatoly And Avital
Anatoly and Avital.
Lovers and Freedom Fighters.
Married but kept apart through Soviet oppression.
It was bleak on that Shabbos night of July 14, 1978. Anatoly Shcharan-
sky in true Soviet fashion was given his manufactured sentence of 13 years
in prison for “treason.”
Now, after eight long years of heartache and longing — and of never
forgetting, Anatoly and Avital may be united.
News from West Ger-
many and also reports
in the New York
Tims again reported
agreement on a major
prisoner exchange with
the Soviet Union which
would include the re-
lease of Shcharansky
by the middle of next
week.
The West German
tabloid Bild said that
an agreement has
been made to swap
an unspecified numb-
er of East bloc spies
for Shcharansky and
12 former Western ANATOLY ... is freedom realy near?
agents. Some reports
state the exchange may
take place as early as next Tuesday on the Glienicke Bridge which divides
West Berlin from communist East Germany. See Jess Jawin Page 18
Israel Forces Libyan Jet
Down In Hunting Terrorists
Syrian officials are fuming
over Israel forcing a Libyan
executive jet to land in
northern Israel Tuesday
following an interception by
jet fighters near Cyprus in
international airspace.
Though it is conjectured
that Defense Minister Yitz-
hak Rabin, who helped
mastermind the Six Days
War, also ordered the opera-
tion, Israel is taking some
flak as to whether the
operation was guts or goof.
The Israelis, still vowing
to capture those respon-
sible for the Dec. 27 attacks
on the Rome and Vienna
airports which killed 20,
were searching for Abu
Nidal believed to be res-
sponsible for that action and
other major terrorist acti-
vities which are planned or
emanate from Libya and
Syria.
The Israeli military com-
mand said the action was
taken because the Libyan
jet, which was flying from
Tripoli, was “suspected to be
carrying persons who were
involved in planning attacks
against Israel.”
One Israeli spokesman
said Israel had every right
to intercept the plane if it
deemed its occupants were
on a terrorist mission to
cause destruction in Israel
or to harm Israeli citizens.
He said this was guaranteed
to nations under Interna-
tional law.
As it turned out, occu-
pants of the plane included
Abdullah al-Ahmar, assis-
tant secretary-general of
Syria’s ruling socialist Baath
party and other Syrian poli-
ticians.
Syrian armed forces Chief
of Staff Gen. Hekmat Chah-
abi saidWe will answer this
crime by teaching those who
committed it a lesson that
they will not forget. We will
choose the time and place.”
See Libyan Jet page 16
Britain Ends Processing Of Documents
On Behalf Of The Arab Boycott Office
McConnell Slated To Speak
At Federation Leadership Dinner
Mitch McConnell, United
States Senator from Ken-
tucky will be the guest
speaker at the Leadership
Dinner of the Jewish Feder-
ation of Fort Worth and
Tarrant County Sunday,
February 9 at Ridglea
Country Club. McConnell is
the first Republican to win a
state-wide race in Kentucky
since 1968.
The gala dinner is open at
no charge to anyone in the
community who pledges a
minimum of $2000 to the
1986 Federation campaign.
Heading the dinner is Jerry
Wolens, dinner chairman,
and his committee of Fay
Brachman, Lee Bernstein,
Erica Hochster, Sheldon
Labovitz, Richard Minker
and Lon Werner. ,
A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Louisville, McCon-
nell continued his law edu-
cation at the University of
Kentucky where he was
president of the Student Bar
if
Mitch McConnell
Association. In Washing-
ton he has served as chief
legislative assistant to sev-
eral national leaders before
becoming Deputy Assistant
Attorney General during the
Ford Administration.
McConnell presently
serves on the Agriculture
and Judiciary Committee
and the prestigious Intelli-
gence Committee. An excel-
lent speaker he is one of the
most sought after speak-
ers on the national scene.
Reservations for the Lea-
dership dinner can be made
by calling Wolens or the
Jewish Federations office.
David Beckerman is Men’s
Division Chairperson and
Karen Brachman heads the
Women’s Division.
BY MAURICE
SAMUELSON
LONDON [JTA] - The
British Foreign Office today
finally stopped its contro-
versial practice of process-
ing documents on behalf of
the Arab Boycott Office.
The documents are part of
the procedure for approving
trade deals with Britain. At
least three Arab countries —
Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia —
insist on signatures on these
documents being authenti-
cated by the Foreign Office.
The certificates confirm that
goods being sold to the Arab
world do not originate in
Israel or contravene the
boycott rules in other ways.
The decision to end this
cooperation by the Foreign
Office was apparently taken
on the instructions of Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher
after being told of Israel’s
long-standing annoyance
about it by visiting Prime
Minister Shimon Peres.
The British decision is
seen as a gesture of goodwill
toward Israel and a reflec-
tion of the good impression
made by Peres on Thatcher
and other British leaders.
Arab Boycott Won’t
Weaken
Although the step was
today warmly praised by
United Kingdom-Israeli
trade circles, there is nu
chance of it weakening the
influence of the Arab boy-
cott over British business
and industry as a whole.
Authentication of the certifi-
cates formerly processed by
the Foreign Office will
simply be practiced by the
British-Arab Chamber of
Commerce in London and
equivalent bodies in Arab
capitals.
Britain is also maintain-
ing two other restrictions on
trade with Israel. Arms sup-
plies to Israel are still
frozen, under the embargo
introduced when Israel in-
vaded Lebanon. Despite the*
present world oil glut,
Britain also refuses to sell
North Sea oil to Israel under
a policy originally intro-
duced because of the 1979
world oil shortaee.
Only a few days before
Peres arrived in London, a
leading British oil company
refused to supply one million
barrels of crude oil on the
grounds that the would-be
purchaser was acting for
Israel. Nevertheless, UK-Is-
raeli trade is running at
record levels.
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Additional Tests Conducted
To Verify Mengele's Death
BY KEVIN FREEMAN
NEW YORK [JTA] - The
Justice Department has sent
to Brazil an expert in
physical anthropology from
the Smithsonian Institution
to conduct additional tests of
the remains exhumed from a
cemetery near Sao Paulo
believed to be those of the
notorious Nazi death camp
doctor Josef Mengele.
The anthropologist, Don-
ald Ortner, said in a tele-
phone interview that he did
not want to comment on the
outcome of the tests he
conducted during his one-
day visit to Brazil earlier
this month. He did say, how-
ever, that he was in the
process of editing a report
that will be submitted to the
Justice Department’s Office
of Special Investigations
[OSI].
In addition, Ortner said he
believed the report would be
incorporated into a final
report, scheduled for release
highly respected forensic
experts who visited Sao
Paulo last summer to con-
duct tests to ascertain
whether the body exhumed
from a cemetery at Embu,
near Sao Paulo, under the
name of Wolfgang Gerhard,
is in fact that of Mengele.
The preliminary report by
the forensic team concluded
that the body uncovered in
the cemetery was that of
Mengele, who is reported to
have drowned in a swim-
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