Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1986 Page: 1 of 20
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Shcharansky:
Free! Free At Last!
Texas Jewish Post
VOLUME 40 NO. 7
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1986 4 ADAR I 5746
20 PAGES 50(i PER COPY
!•*« fawia "The Order and ''Legion of Doom"
Retribution.
There is a certain justice in this country, which though it may seem slow
to evolve to its objective, nevertheless, like a river of history, it flows to a sup-
reme balance — a retribution.
This week it was brought into focus by the sentencing of five members
of the neo-Nazi group, “The Order,” who were convicted of racketeer-
ing.
Their crimes ranged from counterfeiting, armored-car robberies, trans-
porting stolen money across state lines and possession of illegal weapons.
The three and a half months trial, which ended Dec. 30, resulted in 10
members being convicted.
Some drew totals of 100 years to run concurrently.
They had vowed that “blood will flow” in order to make America a
white-supremeist country that is pure Aryan.
Closer to home, in Fort Worth, seven teen-agers, accused of vigilante-
style violence pleaded guilty Monday and Tuesday on charges ranging
from killing a cat to making a pipe bomb.
Called the “Legion of Doom,” the members were accused of taking
justice into their own hands on Paschal High School grounds and off-
_ _See Jess Jawin Page 16
NEW YORK - Marilyn
Klinghoffer, whose husband
was killed by Palestinian
hijackers on the cruise ship
Achille Lauro, died Sunday
of cancer at age 59.
Mrs. Klinghoffer, who had
taken up the fight against
terrorism, died at Lenox Hill
Hospital where she had been
confined for about two
weeks. She had been diag-
nosed as having cancer in
1984.
In celebration of their
36th wedding anniversary in
October, Mrs. Klinghoffer
and her husband Leon, who
were Jewish, joined nine
friends from the New York
area for a Mediterranean
cruise aboard the Achille
Lauro.
The Italian ship was
hijacked by Palestinian ter-
rorists Oct. 7, and Kling-
hoffer, a 69-year-old appli-
See Mrs. Klinghoffer Page 18
and Lisa as coffin of Leon Klinghoffer arrived at
Kennedy International Airport on Oct. 20.
pAGE
Bishop Tutu Praises Jews; Blasts Israel..................2
Nicaragua: Guns or Diplomacy........................3
New Anti-Jewish Cult Emerging.......................3
Postorials, opinions, etc................ 4
Dallas Doings.....................................5
You and Your Health...............................6
Single Scene......................................8
Help Your Heart Recipes............................15
Around The Town.................................16
Real Estate.....................................20
With Avital At His Side
Israeli Throngs Greet Shcharansky
As He Realizes Cherished Dream
Free! Free at last!
Former Soviet dissident
Anatoly Shcharansky had a
hectic day Tuesday which
led to his freedom from
Soviet bondage and a happy
reunion at the Western Wall
in Israel after eight long
years of servitude which
included forms of torture
and hard labor.
Jovial in all his public
appearances since he step-
ped onto the Glienicke
[Freedom] Bridge in West
Berlin, he vowed that his
symbolic mission to grant
exit to Russian Jews who
wished to emigrate would
not be forgotten.
In Israel there was a
holiday mood of rejoicing,
which included the singing
of Hatikva, Israel’s national
anthem.
President Reagan was
praised repeatedly and So-
viet leader Mikhail Gorba-
chev was complimented on
their efforts in effecting the
exchange which was predi-
cated on the swap of spies.
These included Jaroslaw
Jaworsky, 43, sentenced to
13 years in prison in Czech-
oslovakia for passing state
secrets and aiding in illegal
escapes; Wolf Georg Frohn,
41, and Dietrich Niestroj, 50,
released from East German
prisoners where both were
sentenced in 1981 to life for
espionage; Detlef Schar-
fenorth, 43, sentenced by
West Germany in June, 1985
to four years for recruiting
new agents; Jewgeni Semi-
jakow, 38, sentenced in
Dusseldorf, West Germany
in September, 1985, to
three years for spying in
highly specialized communi-
cation equipment that was
banned for export to the
Soviet Union; Jerry Kacz-
marek, high-ranking Polish
secret service operative,
who infiltrated the West
German city of Bremen
administration and discover-
ed how West Germany
debriefs its Polish citizens
who settle there and Karl F.
Koecher and his wife, Hana,
released from prison in the
United States where he was
convicted of spying for
Czechoslovakia for 19 years.
The thaw in personality
and results of freedom for
Shcharansky was evident
See Shcharansky Page 20
Avital and Nathan .., home at last!_
Israel Beefs Up Security
To Prevent Terrorist Attacks
BY HUGH ORGEL
TEL AVIV [JTA] -
Israeli Embassies and diplo-
matic missions around the
world were put on alert for
possible terrorist retaliation
as the country’s leaders con-
tinued to debate the wisdom
of forcing a private Libyan
plane to land at an Israel Air
Force base Tuesday because
top Palestinian terrorist
leaders were believed to
have been aboard.
The plane, a Gulfstream
executive jet enroute from
Benghazi, Libya, to Damas-
cus, was released four and a
half hours after it was
intercepted following an
identity check which deter-
mined there were no terror-
ists among its nine passen-
gers and three-man crew.
The incident, in addition
to being an embarrassment
to Israel, raised strong
possibilities that terrorists
would launch new strikes at
Israeli targets. Libyan lead-
er Col. Muammar Qaddafi
vowed reprisals saying all
Israel commercial airliners
are in jeopardy. Ahmed Jib-
ril, one of the terrorists
presumed to have been on
the plane, warned civilians
to stay off Israeli and
American airliners.
A spokesman for El Al,
Israel’s national airline, said
there were no grounds to
fear a terrorist response
because El Al maintains the
most stringent security mea-
sures and its flight paths
take it far from Libyan air-
space.
Some Cabinet Ministers
Not Consulted
Several Cabinet members
stressed they were not noti-
fied or consulted in advance
on the decision to intercept
the Libyan plane. Premier
Shimon Peres told the Knes-
set’s Foreign Affairs and
Security Committee that the
decision had to be made in a
matter of minutes, leaving
no time for general discus-
sion. Only he, Defense
Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and
Chief of Staff Gen. Moshe
Levy were consulted and all
approved the interception.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, the Likud leader,
said he had not been privy to
the plan but would have
approved it had he been
asked. He said, in an Israel
Radio interview, that Israel
would continue to act
against terrorist leaders by
every possible means, and
he was convinced they
would ultimately be captur-
ed and punished.
Rabin made a similar
statement, saying Israel
would continue to combat
terrorism by every means,
even if sometimes it makes
mistakes, as it did Feb. 4.
But Minister-Without-
_See Israel Page 18
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