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VOLUME LXI, NUMBER 23 THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1978 25¢ PER COPY Lubavitcher Ha-sidim· Refuse Arab Youth Held o -n Suspicion To Attend City Hall Meeting Of Setting Off Tel Aviv Bomb By Reena Sl1man Friedman The Council on Intergroup Relations, NEW YORK (JTA): A spokesman for which met for the first time July 26 at By Yltzbak SbaraU terrorist base and training camp in the Lubavitcher Hasidic community of Marymount College in Manhattan, includ TEL AVIV (JTA): Suleiman Abu Lebanon caught the terrorists by surprise. Crown Heights explained that his group ed some 70 representatives of all major Ra'adan, 17, of Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Reports from foreign sources said that at had boycotted a recent mccting of the City raciaJ, religious' and ethnic groups in New Strip, was ordered held for 10 days by a Tel · least two arms and ammunition depots Hall-sponsored Council on Intergroup York City, according to Mike Battenfield Aviv magistrate on suspicion of being the • exploded during the attack and the Israeli Relations due to "the total lack of concern of the Mayor's Press Office. person who set off the bomb in the Carmel : planes also managed to hit tents, barracks on the part of City Hall for the Jews in Formed upon the recommendation of Market here last week, which killed one . arid the kitchen. Crown Heights." Mayor Edward Koch, with John LaCiccro person and injured 50. serving as the Mayoral Liaison, the Council Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, a member of Sixteen of the injured were still in the th_c Crown Heights Jewish community, add seeks to case racial tensions in local neighborhoods throughout the city. In pur hospital, two of them reported in critical Silnitsky Denied ed in a telephone conversation with the condition. Funeral services were held Fri Jewish Telegraphic Agency, that City Hall suit of this objective, the Council will rely upon the advice and cooperation of local day in Bat Yam for Meir Rotman, 73, who also made "our participation impossible by died of the injuries suffered in the blast. Exit Visa including at these meetings, extreme, community leaders to settle neighborhood rabble-rousing radicals not representing the disputes and to establish an "early warning Ra'adan, who worked in a vegetable NEW YORK (JTA): Former Prisoner of Crown Heights community. You cannot system" which would deflate potential store in the Carmel Market, was among 100 Conscience, Alexander Silnitsky, has been crises before they erupt, Battenfield said. expect us to dialogue with people who Arabs who were picked up shortly after the denied both an exit visa to Israel and his instigate racial tensions, overt hatred and Butman, however, noted that "It was un blast. All the others were released after own internal registration papers, the blatcnt anti-Semitism," he said. thinkable to us to participate in such police used chemical sniffers, which arc able Greater New York Conference on Soviet Representatives ' of the Black United meetings at this time." He said that to detect traces of explosives on a person. Jewry has learned. This paperless state may Front were invited to attend the meeting of Lubavitcher leaders would continue to Police said that Ra'adan had traces of result in Silnitsky's imprisonment, with a the Council. This organization sponsored boycott future meetings of the Concil until explosive material on his hands. possible two-year penalty, the Conference the Crown Heights demonstration on July they perceived a change in the Mayor's at said. titude and choice of delegates. 16, in which 2000 blacks participated, in Police Find Emlence j front of the Lubavitcher World Huidlm Uraed To Attend Next Meetina The youth told Magistrate Yehoshua Malcolm Hoenlcin, executive director of Silnitsky was released from labor camp in I Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway. The Diamant that he was working in - the October, 1977- after serving a three year language us~ by speakers at the rally was the Jewish Community Relations Council, vegetable store when he heard people told the JT,'.' th~t Jewish leaders have urged term for refusing to serve in the Soviet ar j ter.med... as inflammatory by Lubavitcher shouting 11nd went out to sec what was my. · He married soon and attempted to spokesmen and Jewish community relations representatives of the lubavitcher com happening. He said his employer called him munity to attend the next session of the register his residence in Krasnador, where organizations. The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, back and as he was returning he was his wife lived. Krasnador officials refused chairman of the Coalition of Concerned Council on Intergroup Relations. arrested. But the magistrate said he received l Hoenlein noted that, while the concerns to process their registration. Silnitsky then I Leaders and Citizens to Save Our Youth, two classified reports from the police which attempted to register in Kharkov his of Lubavitcher leaders are certainly un I had referred to the activities of "Hasidic said there was prima facie evidence that birthplace, but he was turned down th~re as derstandable, it is important that their j terrorists" and called for a boycott of Ra'adan was connected with the explosives. well. j Hasidic stores in the area. absence not be misinterpr¢ted. Police said the bomb, which was placed l beneath an underwear stand, was in a After several fruitless months, Silnitsky I Haaretz Has Blank News Pages plastic bag. The bomb itself was encased in and his wife were allowed to register their TEL A VIV (JT A): Haaretz appeared last failed to appear because of a lockout by a tin can filled with a large amount of metal residence in a small town near Kharkov last week with a slightly different format. Its management of the ·editorial and scraps and nails which increased the May 22 . A few days later, their papers now front and back pages were blank and its in typographical staffs. The English-language casualties and destruction caused by the in order, they were able tc submit their side pages carried only features and adver Jerusalem Post appeared as usual. Last Fri explosion . By Friday morning the Carmel emigration application to the Kharkov tisements as a result of a three-day strike by day most morning papers published only Market looked as if nothing had happened. OVIR. Their residency registration was its editorial staff. The paper's management advertising and feature material because of However, it was more crowded than usual cancelled on June 27, however, on the decided to lower the price of the daily due the strike. Haaretz tried to bring out its since many sightseers came to look at the grounds that their apartment was too small. to the absence of news pages. regular edition, but journalists picketed the scene of the destruction. Within a week the Silnitskys were told that Meanwhile, six foreign-language paper and it finally appeared with blank Meanwhile, it was learned that the Israeli they were no longer eligible to emigrate newspapers published by Histadrut also news pages. reprisal attack against the Dahr el-Tu tah because they lack registration papers. Peace Ta I kS Remain Deadlocked By Barbie Zelizer-Meyouhas tha~ "all parties realize there is no other covering a number of different subjects," JERUSALEM (JTA): The deadlock in way ... and that all other alternatives are far Vance said. It was learned that Yance the peace negotiations between Israel and far worse." expressed his disagreement with Egyptian Egypt continued over the weekend even as Iii an earlier interview with Israel televi reports that nothing was achieved at the U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Yance began sion, Dayan claimed that the parties are Leeds conference "1nd reiterated that his visit to the Middle East here for talks "<;loser .to peace today than ever before. positive achievements had resulted from the with Israeli and Egyptian leaders for what The points of difference have now been talks there. he said was to "get the peace process back clearly set out ... Some hopes have been Begin refused to elaborate on either the on the track again." In spite of his public prov.en false ... but many openings toward contents of the meeting or on the declaration to this effect, it was noted agreement have come to light." In the inter handwritten message he received from privately in some circles here that Yance view, Dayan also noted that he did not Carter. He termed Yance's mission a "dif docs not expect either side to change exp~ct the U.S. to impose its ideas on the ficult and important one," and declined to positions. partjes, although it had unjustly "put Israel reflect on the chances for continuing in the dock and accused her of intran negotiations. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt declared sigence." that there would be no direct talks with The mood in official circles prevailing Israel until Israel commits itself to retur No Future Summit Talks Discussed dur~ng the course of Yance's visit here did "The messages coming out of Cairo were ning all of the territory taken durinl the notJ however, reflect Dayan's cautious op very negative ..