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IN UUH 471H YEAH OF SERVICE TO THE D
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VOLUME 47 NO. 44
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4,1993 20 HESHVAN 5754
32 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
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JES.S,JAWIN: A Letter ,0 ChelseaI Teddy Kollek Defeated in Seventh Term for
Mayor of Jerusalem as Olmert Triumphs
Miss Chelsea Clinton
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington. D.C. 20500
Dear Chelsea:
I have been thinking of you as an only daughter of your
(distinguished parents, Hillary and Bill Clinton, being in the
historic mansion while your Mom and Dad are on a
whirlwind battle to win a Reform Health Care Plan.
Undoubtedly you are guarded by the Secret Service con-
stantly and you probably have thoughts that may opt for a more
normal way of life.
Since you were probably raised in the Governor’s Mansion in
Little Rock, what you are experiencing now may be a graduated
zenith of your former lifestyle. Still there may be that moment,
however rare or often, when you might wish that Mom and Dad
and you could just hop into the car and run over to McDonald’s
for a burger and fries. And you know how Dad loves those
burgers! Or, perhaps, a movie?
In essence, this would be a natural thought.
However there is other togetherness that your family has.
One of the greatest treasures you have is that your parents are
fighters and they are determined to make the United States of
JESS JAWIN p. 14
Jerusalem - After serving surprise to political observ-
nearly three decades as
Jerusalem’s mayor, Teddy
Kollek lost his seventh bid
for the post to the Likud
party’s Ehud Olmert.
The 82-year-old Kollek,
mayor here since 1965,
beaded the Labor-affiliated
“One Jerusalem” faction.
His loss to Olmert by a 3-
2 majority substantiated an
exit poll.
In Haifa, Labor’s Amram
Mitzna won the mayoral race.
And in Beersheba, Yitzhak
Rager of Likud was the win-
ner. Neither result came as a
ers.
In Jerusalem, the exit poll
indicated that Olmert had
garnered 55 percent of the
vote. Kollek received 41
percent, with the remaining
votes going to a candidate
fielded by the fervently Or-
thodox Shas party.
Olmert, 48, was supported
by the National Religious
Party and the United Torah
Judaism Front, whose can-
didate withdrew from the
race Monday night. The
victory was a blow to Prime
DEFEATED p. 19
TRIUMPH - Ehud Olmert, surrounded by
well-wishers In Jerusalem Tuesday fol-
lowing an election plagued by apathy
and bad weather.
Liberals’ Upset Victory in Canada
Is Little Disappointment to Jews
By Bram D. Ebenthal
MONTREAL, (JTA) - Canadian Jews watched the stunning
defeat of the Conservative Party in the country’s general elections
last week with more satisfaction than regret.
Although the Conservative record vis-a-vis Jewish issues was a
positive one, Jews, like the rest of the country ’ s voters, were none too
pleased with the party’s overall performance in recent years.
In the final election results, the Liberal Party garnered a historic
victory, winning 178 of the 295 seats in the House of Commons, the
lower bouse of Canada’s Parliament The Liberals, led by Jean
Chretien, achieved 42 percent of the popular vote.
VICTORY p. 31
Boycott Could Hurt Palestinians,
U.S. Official Warns Arab Gathering
By Deborah Kalb
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - The
continung Arab economic boycott
of Israel could end up hurting the
Palestinians as much or more than
it hurts the Israelis, a high level
Clinton Administration official has
warned an Arab American group.
Dennis Ross, the State Depart-
ment’s coordinator for the Middle
East peace process, told the annual
convention of the National Asso-
ciation of Arab Americans last Fri-
day that the boycott must end.
“We’re at a point where Israelis
and Palestinians are now talking
about real economic cooperation,
not just coordination,” said Ross,
who recently returned from a shuttle
mission to the Middle EasL
“At a time when Palestinians and
Israelis are working together to
mutual economic benefit, it is ironic
that the boycott will end up punish-
ing the Palestinians as much if not
more than it punishes the Israelis,”
he said.
The administration has been
working to encourage private
American investment in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip as the Israeli-
Palestinian accord on autonomy is
implemented.
Ross told the assembled mem-
bers of the important Arab-Ameri-
can lobbying group that such in-
vestment would be hurt by the con-
tinuation of the boycotL
“The boycott is against Ameri-
can law, and at a time when we are
seeing American businesses and
private American iniatives increas-
ingly demonstrated,” he said, “the
boycott is going to be an impedi-
ment to thaL We don’t need rt, and
it needs to be removed."
Ross also spoke of the “mutual
BOYCOTT p. 21
Kohl’s Candidate for Presidency Has Offended Jews and Many Others
By Larry Yudelson and
Miriam W id man
BERLIN, (JTA) - Jews here are
upset that Germany could soon have
a president who believes the time
has come for his country to move
beyond the Holocaust and assume
what he calls a “normal" role in
Europe.
But they draw some comfort from
the fact that the Christian Demo-
cratic presidential candidate,
Steffen Heitmann, has managed to
offend most Germans.
AkL
Taking
Heitmann*s remarks about the
Holocaust, as well as his comments
regarding women and foreigners,
have led to serious doubts as to
whether be will still be the candi-
date of the ruling party when mem-
ben of national and state parlia-
ments elect the president in May.
The Jewish uproar over
Heitmann began in mid-Septem-
ber. when he told the Sueddeutsche
Zeitung newspaper that it was time
to put the Holocaust in its “proper
place” in history.
’The German special role in the
postwar period was, to a certain
extent, continuation of the Nazi
times,” he was quoted as saying,
“That is over,"
Those comments were sharply
criticized by the World Jewish
Congress and by Jewish organiza-
tional leaders here. Ignatz Bubis,
chairman of the Central Council of
Jews in Germany, accused the can-
didate of saying what he thought
people wanted to hear, rather than
setting a moral example.
At the same time, Bubis said it
would be inappropriate to compare
Heitmann to Kurt Waldheim, who
was elected president of Austria in
1986 despite revelations by the
WJC that he had served in a Ger-
man army unit linked to World
War D atrocities.
“You cannot say he’s anti-
Semitic,” Bubis said of the Ger-
man presidential candidate, add-
ing: “He’s a very conservative man,
and that’s it”
Nevertheless, Bubis has both
publicly and privately opposed
Heitmann’s candidacy. He met
privately with Chancellor Helmut
Kohl, at the chancellor’s request
to discuss the issue.
It was Kohl who picked
Heitmann, the obscure justice min-
ister of the eastern German state of
Saxony, as the Christian Demo-
cratic candidate for the largely
ceremonial office of the presidency.
PRESIDENCY p. 30
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