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IN OUR 52ND YEAR OF WEEKLY SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
VOLUME 52 NO. 24
Till RSDAY. June II. 1998
17 SIN \\ 5758
24 PAGES SI.00 PER ISSUE
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Making Sense
■" 1 arlier this week Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, of
pH Mississippi, told reporters, *in an equivalent of
JL^mommaluschen, Senatorial mother tongue, that, for all
intents and purposes the Tobacco Bill was dead for this session.
Wednesday morning, with some compromising on how the
money derived from the proposed cigarette tax would be spent.
Senator Lott changed his mind and is jostling for a compromise
position.
It seems all the hullabaloo was (and is) designed to delay and ob-
fuscate to give the Tobacco Perjury Giants more time to send their
multi-million dollar huckstering messages across the TV screens
and pnnt pages.
The Tobacco companies are still warning Americans that the
government is out to fleece them by taxing cigarettes so we can
pay some of the costs of running the government and its health
care systems.
For years the Tobacco Giants delayed and obfuscated (as they are
presently doing) when they were charged with cigarettes being dan-
gerous to health. As soon as it became legislated and the warnings
printed, the Tobacco Giants used the admonition as a defense say-
ing, "we warned people" therefore we have no liability.
They conveniently forgot how they consistently used statements
see JESS JAWIN p. lO
AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD
Successful German Refugee
Finds Himself Back In Berlin
By Tom Tugentf
LOS ANGELES — The life of
W Michael Blumcnthal reads as
the American success story par
excellence.
A Jewish refugee from Nazi
Germany in 1939 and a survivor
of the Shanghai ghetto during (he
wartime Japanese occupation, he
arrived in San Francisco in 1947
as a 21-year old with $65 in his
pocket.
Within the next three decades,
he earned a doctorate in econom-
ics from Princeton University, bc-
see BERLIN p. 24
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■ INSIDE »
Pres.Clinton Visits Nasher Home In Dallas........2
Israel’s Culture War............................................3
Washington Watch.............................................4
Dallas Doings.....................................................5
Should Tiananmen Square Be Off Limits?.........6
Russian Jews Celebrate Israel’s 50th.............8,9
Adat Chavrim to Dedicate Sefer Torah.............11
Social Events..............................................11,22
My Father, The Publisher............................12-13
TJP's FREE Matchmaker Ads; Catch A Catch .. 14
Rabbi Kushner on National TV Sunday...........15
You and Your Health.........................................16
TJP’s Flavorite Recipes...................................17
Shlomo Riskin’s Torah Portion.........................18
Synagogue Services..................................19, 22
Around the Town..............................................20
Extremists’ Target Netanyahu
Amid Reports of Imminent Deal
By Naomi Segal
JERUSALEM — Posters plas-
tered around Jerusalem depict Is-
raeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in an Arab headdress
and call him “The Liar.”
The posters, which appeared
amid reports that the premier is on
the verge of agreeing to transfer an
additional 13 percent of West Bank
lands to the Palestinians, are remi-
niscent of the hate campaign con-
ducted against Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin prior to his assassi-
nation in 1995.
Netanyahu’s Likud Party issued
a statement that the posters were
being distributed by "crazy extrem-
ists.”
The attack on the prime minister
appears to be an attempt to forestall
any action on the part of the Israeli
government.
There have been conflicting re-
ports in recent days that efforts by
the U S. administration to revive
the long-stalled Isracli-Palestinian
negotiations may be close to frui-
tion.
The United States has been press-
ing Israel to accept a 13 percent
pullback from the West Bank in
exchange for a senes of Palestinian
steps to crack down on terrorism.
The latest draft of the U S plan.
which was published in Israeli news-
papers last week, also makes clear
that Israel will have tocurtail settle-
ment activity.
Netanyahu told reporters after
Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting
that Israel “was workingon an agree
ment’’ to break the stalemated Is-
raeli Palestinian negotiations, but
added, "We are not there yet.”
At the Cabinet session, Netan-
yahu once again refrained from
holding a discussion with all his
ministers about the ongoing negoti-
ations regarding the pullbacks.
A Cabinet statement quoted him
as saying that talks were at a "deli-
cate stage,” a situation that did not
allow for the full Cabinet’s deliber-
ation.
Some Cabinet members have re-
cently criticized Netanyahu for re-
fusing to discuss the redeployment
negotiations with all of his minis-
ters.
Instead, the premier has reserved
such consultations for the three
members of his Inner Cabinet: De-
fense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai,
Infrastructure Minister Ariel Sharon
and Trade Minister Natan Sharan
sky.
While not getting into details
during Sunday's Cabinet session.
Netanyahu was quoted as saying
that the discussions with the United
States on the nature of the redeploy-
ments were in keeping with previ-
ous Cabinet decisions regarding
national security.
Netanyahu told the ministers that
Israel had presented the United
States with a list of concrete com-
mitments Israel is seeking from the
Palestinians, including convening
the Palestine National Council to
annul those clauses in its charter
that call for the destruction of Isra-
el.
Last week, Netanyahu said there
had been “some progress" toward
reaching an agreement, and that
when it was achieved he would not
hesitate to bring it to the govern-
ment and the Knesset.
Meanwhile, Palestinian officials
rejected a reported Israeli proposal
for reducing a further redeploy-
ment later thisycar in exchange for
increasing the amount of territory
to be turned over in the redeploy-
ment now being negotiated.
Dr. Ahmed Tihi, an adviser to
Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat, was quoted as say-
ing, "It is the idea of the Prime
Minister's Office and it is ridicu-
lous."
Naomi Segal is a TJP/JTA cor-
respondent.
Australian Jews Join Political
Fray To Stop New, Rightist Party
By Jeremy Jones
SYDNEY — Jewish groups
in Australia arc making an
unprecedented entry into par-
ty politics.
Led by the Executive Coun-
cil of Australian Jewry, these
groups are publicly urging
voters and mainstream politi-
cal organizations to stop a new
anti-immigration political
party, One Nation, from win-
ning scats in a state legisla-
ture in next month’s sched-
uled elections.
One Nation is participating
in its first election in Queen-
sland, where it is believed to
have its strongest power base
and where its founder, mem-
ber of Parliament Pauline Han-
son, is based.
The party opposes multicul-
turalism and all programs of
assistance to indigenous Aus-
tralians, and portrays itself as
the defender of “Christian
Australia.”
The president of the ECAJ,
Diane Shteinman. said the par-
ty is similar to European far-
right-wing parties such as the
National Front in France.
In Australia, voters are gen-
erally asked to rank the parties
in order of preference. While
several mainstream political
parties, such as the Austra-
lian Labor Party, the Austra-
lian Democrats and the
Greens, have all declared that
their supporters should rank
One Nation last, others have
indicated (hat their support-
ers should place One Nation
above the Labor Party, which
many observers believe will
allow One Nation to gain up
to four seats.
In Australia, voting iscom-
pulsory in all federal, state
and local elections.
Jeremy Jones is a TJP/JTA
correspondent.
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