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EPTEMBER 1991
K ^ WASHINGTON — Saying
he isjusl “one lonely guy” in the
face of 1,000 pro-Israel lobby-
ists on Capitol Hill, President
Bush warns Congress he will veto any
attempt to provide Israel with $10 billion in
loan guarantees before the 120-day delay
he has requested.
TEL AVIV — A Ramla magistrates
court finds Abie Nathan guilty of meeting
with Yasir Arafat and other members of the
Palestine Liberation Organization, in vio-
lation of Israeli law.
SYDNEY —Two residents of Adelaide,
one German and one Ukrainian, are charged
under the federal War Crimes Act with
mass murder during the Nazi occupation of
the Ukraine.
TEL AVIV — The remains of Israeli
Defense Force soldier Samir Assad, who
was captured in southern Lebanon in 1983,
arrive here as a multinational exchange of
prisoners, hostages and bodies continues.
WASHINGTON — After meeting with
a dozen Jewish leaders here, Polish Cardi-
nal Jozef Glemp says he understands that
remarks he made in a homily two years
earlier “may have caused pain to the Jewish
community and were seen as fostering ste-
reotypes of Jews and Judaism.”
PARIS—Convicted war criminal Klaus
Barbie, the Gestapo Chief in Lyon during
World War II dies of cancer while serving
a 30-year sentence in the city where his
relentless cruelties earned him the epithet
“butcher of Lyon.”
LOS ANGELES — The Huntington
Library in San Marino decides to provide
widespread access to photos of Dead Sea
Scroll manuscripts that have been tightly
controlled by a small group of scholars for
four decades.
CTOBER 1991
W NEW YORK — Soviet
B M President Mikhail Gorbachev
condemns anti-Semitism, re-
ceiving a welcome response from Jewish
organizational leaders.
PRAGUE — Chaim Herzog becomes
the first Israeli president to visit Czecho-
slovakia.
TEL AVIV — The Soviet Union for-
mally resumes full diplomatic relations
with Israel, giving the Jewish state its first
diplomatic payoff for agreeing to attend a
Middle East peace conference in Madrid.
TEL AVIV — American hostage Jesse
Turner is freed by his Lebanese captors as
part of a complex exchange that began with
Israel receiving definite information that
Pvt. Yossi Fink, long missing in Lebanon,
is dead.
NEW YORK — David Duke, a former
neo-Nazi and grand wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan, emerges as one of the two remaining
contenders for Louisiana’s governorship,
but is later defeated in a runoff by Demo-
crat Edwin Edwards.
ZAGREB, YUGOSLAVIA — The
Jewish community in the war-ravaged
Croatian town of Osijek appeals to Jews
around the world to try to stop the “sense-
less war” in the breakaway Croatian repub-
lic.
JERUSALEM — Arab extremists de-
termined to block peace negotiations kill
five Israelis and wound 12.
MADRID —Eor the first time ever, Is-
rael, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Pales-
tinians sit down together to discuss peace,
launching a series of bilateral and multilat-
eral negotiations.
WASHINGTON —The Bush adminis-
tration confirms reports that it refrained
from punishing Israel for selling ballistic
missile components to South Africa in vio-
lation of an international convention.
LOS ANGELES — Veteran white su-
premacistTom Metzger, leader of the White
Aryan resistance, is convicted for his role
in a 1983 cross-burning ceremony in sub-
urban Los Angeles.
A n OVEMBER 1991
1% 5 NFW YORK —Jewish or-
I ^B ganizations decry the City Uni-
| versity of New York’s decision
not to dismiss Professor Leonard Jeffries
Jr. as chairman of the black studies depart-
ment at City College.
TEL AVIV — The first direct flight of
immigrants from the Soviet Union lands at
Ben-Gurion Airport, marking a quicker,
safer and more economical route than the
indirect flights through Eastern European
capitals that had been used previously.
NEW YORK — Media tycoon Robert
Maxwell, 68, is found dead when his body
is recovered in the Atlantic Ocean, off the
Canary Islands, near Spain. He is give^
state funeral in Israel.
NEW YORK — President Bush se<hr- t
ing to make peace with the American Jew- ^
ish community, apologizes for making
statements in September that were per- |
ceived by the Jewish community as a direct j
attack on the pro-Israel lobby. n 1
JERUSALEM — F. W. de Klerk B 4
comes the first president of South Africa to |
visit Israel since 1975.
JERUSALEM—Israel rejects the Bush 1
administration’s sudden finding absolving fc
Syria, Iran and Palestinian terrorist groups '
of responsibility for the December, 198j
i
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 o\|| t
Lockerbie, Scotland. *
VIENNA — Appealing to prejudice and
xenophobia, Jorg Haider’s rightist Free-
dom Party reaps an unexpected victory in
municipal elections.
JERUSALEM — President Bush snul
Yitzhak Shamir by issuing invitations |
bilateral peace talks hours before the Is-
raeli prime minister goes to the White ^
House to express his opposition to holding
them in Washington. As a result, Israel |
refuses to show up on the scheduled Dec. 4
opening.
ECEMBER 1991
^ NEW YORK — Syria re-
B leases four Jews imprisoned for
Bi^F attempting to leave the country,
in the first tangible success of diplomatic
efforts on behalf of Syrian Jewry. S
JERUSALEM — The last three AmeB
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