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P resident Reagan dedicated t he said: "We who did not go their way Three distinguished guests on grey granite cornerstone of t he owe them this: We must make sure the dais who serve on the United States Holocaust Memorial that their deaths have posthumous Museum's Honorary Campaign Museum at a solemn outdoor meaning. We must make sure that Committee were fo rmer Chief ceremony October 5 on the I. 7 acre from now until the end of days all Justice Warren Burge r, Museum site adjacent to t he humankind stares t his evil in the Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick National Mall. face , that all humankind knows and the Reverend Billy Graham. In his address preceding the what this evil looks like and how it T he Honorary Campaign stone's unveiling, Reagan declared came to be. And when we t ruly Committee is chaired by President that, contrary to others who say know it for what it was, then and Reaga n. that t he evil of the Holocaust can only then can we be sure that it will Former President Jimmy Carter. never be grasped, he believes the never come again in a letter read at the ceremony, Holocaust to be comprehensible. T he President and Harvey M. reiterated his deep personal "Indeed," he continued, "we must Meyerhoff, Chairman of the U.S. support fo r the Museum. "I am comprehend it. We have no choice; Holocaust Memorial Council, pleased that the Museum wi ll soon the fu ture of mankind depends on un veiled the 4'9" by 2'1 1" stone take its place in the heart of it. And that's what we are here for inscribed wit h the date of Washington, adjacent to other - to lay the cornerstone fo r the dedication. T he stone will be national shrines," he wrote to Chairman Meyerhoff. The act The Unit ed Sta tes United States Holocaust Memorial placed at the western entrance of Museum, which will help us the Museum on Raoul Wallenberg establishing the U.S. Holocaust Holocaust Memorial understand and make it impossible Place, S.W. (formerly 15th St.). Memorial Council was passed Museum fo r us to fo rget. 11 The building will span the full during Carter's term in office. The President emphasized the width of one city block to 14th In his remarks Council Vice rich educational resources of the street. Chairman William J. Lowenberg, a Museum that will keep the The ceremony was attended by Holocaust survivor who now lives Holocaust memory alive as it an audience of more than 1,200 in San Francisco, turned to brings "together in one place the invited guests, including 400 another speaker at the ceremony, greatest array of information and Holocaust survivors from all over Leon Bass, a U.S. soldier during I_ President Reagan and Holocaust Council Chairman, Harvey knowledge on this necessary the United States. Nearly a dozen World War II who had helped M. Meyerhoff, dedicate the cornerstone of the United States subject." ambassadors, 80 members of liberate a concentration camp. "If Holocaust Memorial Museum. Referring to the millions Congress and several members of I t·oill imH·d 1111 pag1 ' l I t ? Despite 'It's Not Over' Crowd, Israel Kach Barred From Elections: Kahane Appeals To High Court Won't Contest Taba Ruling by David Landau These are Tehiya; Moledet, J ERUSALEM (JTA) - T he by David Landau established recently by reserve incorporated a number of unequivocally that "It is all over. Central Election Committee voted Gen. Rehavam Zeevi; and Tsomet, JERUSALEM (J TA) - "It's electioneering politicians from the We have lost Taba." overwhelmingly to bar Rabbi Meir established by Gen. Rafael Eitan, a not over" was the instinctive, parties of the right, a number of On the Egyptian side, too, there Kahane's Kach party from running former Israel Defense Force chief defiant, wistful reaction in some ill-informed journalists and even has been a distinct and in the general elections November of staff, when he broke with Israeli quarters at the news that an one adviser to the Israeli team at well -orchestrated effort not to I. Tehiya. international panel of arbitrators the arbitration, Professor Yehuda exacerbate tension, but rather to Kach promptly appealed the All three parties are closer to had favored Egypt in its ruling on Blum, a former ambassador to the assume, in public statements, that decision to the High Court of Kach:s ideological stance than is the Taba border dispute. United Nations. the arbitrators' ruling would now Justice, Israel's supreme court. It Likud. Kach's platform calls for These insistently hopeful "Taba is not yet lost," Blum was be smoothly and amicably must render a verdict befo re the eviction of all Arabs from Israel Israelis clung to the fact that the quoted as saying in the weekend implemented. October 12, the deadline for closing and the administered territories, five arbitrators had determined the Maariv. He spoke in Geneva, after This was the thrust of comments the election lists. by force if necessary. location of only the border pillars, attending the brief, formal award by Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel The Central Election Moledet endorses the transfer of with the last pillar being some 990 ceremony in Geneva's Grand Meguid after his meeting with Committee acted on a 1984 Arabs out of the country. Tsomet feet from the sea. Council Chamber. Peres in New York. amendment to the.. Basic Law that calls for the harsh suppression of The arbitrators themselves ruled Significantly,- though, Prime • In Cairo, the Egyptian minister bars parties engaged in incitement the Palestinian uprising. And that they were not authorized Minister Yitzhak Shamir himself of state for foreign affairs, Dr. to racism. Tehiya demands the mass under their terms of reference to and' his top aide, Yosef Butros Ghali, termed the decision The move, not unexpected, has deportation of Palestinian decide on the borderline beyond Ben-Aharon, were cautious and "not a victory for either side, but a suddenly put the High Court of activists from the West Bank and pillar 91 , the last marker. reserved in their comments. consolidation of the peace Justice in the unusual position of Gaza Strip. Rear guarders seized on this as Shamir did blast Labor for process." appearing to be crucial to the But there is also a sociological indicating there was still some forcing the Cabinet to agree to The Egyptian Foreign Ministry outcome of the election. Its factor, political analysts say. leeway, namely the area between arbitration back-in 1986. But, he made a point of denying that an decision on Kach may well Tehiya and the generals' factions the last pillar and the sea. The final added pointedly, "Taba will not earlier leak, threatening a crisis if determine which party will form are viewed in the urban slums and line niight yet be moved around, cause a deterioration in the Israel dragged its heels over Taba, the next government, many new development towns - the they argued fondly. relations between Israel and was "not stated or authorized by political pundits believe. bastions of Kahane's strength - as Perhaps, they reasoned, some of Egypt." any Egyptian official." The weight of opinion here is somehow Ashkenazic, establish­ Taba's half square mile of sand And Ben-Aharon, who has led Privately, indeed, Egypt has that the elimination of Kach would ment parties. might remain in Israel's hands - the fight in Israel against any indicated that it would be ready to send its voters swarming back to Likud, even after 11 years in maybe even, by some geographical concession to Egypt over Taba, suspend the implementation Premier Yitzhak Shamir's Likud office, is still seen by the gymnastics and diplomatic made it clear in his comments to process until after the Israeli bloc, from where most originally sleight-of-hand, the luxury Avia the news media that he regards the election, if this would contribute to underprivileged as the party of came. protest, anti-establishment and an Soneata Hotel that is the site's area as lost, as far as sovereignty is cooling the atmosphere. · According to current polls, Kach authentic expression of popular, main asset. concerned. The clarifications and stands to win nearly 100,000 votes, That was the view, for instance, He and other Israeli policy negotiations in the weeks ahead, gut-level sentiment. which translate into three or four But Kach consistently has taken of Eli Papouchado, main owner of makers would like now to obtain as therefore, will focus on the nuts Knesset seats. It presently has one votes away from Likud in the poor the hotel. He was backed by the favorable conditions as possible for and bolts of the transfer of sover­ seat. suburbs and development towns Eilat town council and by raucous future tourism from Israel to Taba, eignty to Egypt. There will be no In a close election, where every where Likud had painstakingly demonstration of Tehiya and and for the hotel and other serious attempt to challenge that seat is crucial, the diversion of established ascendancy over Labor Likud activists, which failed to Israeli-owned property on the site.
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