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i:".I Rhod e I s land J ew ish 1 Inside: Historical Assoc . From The Editor, page 4 136 sessions s t. Around Town, page 8 Prov. R .I. 02906 THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY IN R.I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. VOLUME LXXIV, NUMBER 1 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1986 35¢ PER COPY Israel: No Contra Link Gov. Dukakis Telephones A Soviet Jew JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israeli .. Another country was facilitating Applying indirect pressure to after he applied, Rabinovich was leaders voiced strong assurances those sales of weapons systems" Soviet leaders, Gov. Dukakis rejected on the grounds that his that Israel had nothing to do with and "They then were overcharging telephoned Moscow on Sunday, work gave him access to the transfer of funds from and were apparently putting the December 7 to encourage a Soviet government secrets. American arms sales to Iran to the money into bank accounts of the Jew who has begun a hunger strike Since then he has lost his job as Contra rebels in Nicaragua. But leaders of the Contras." after an eight-year effort to take head of a weather forecasting some Knesset members persisted Reagan did not name the other his family to Israel. laboratory and his doctorate in in their charges that Israel was country. White House Press "You have a great many friends mathematics was taken away from involved and assailed Israeli arms Secretary Larry Speakes said in Massachusetts and we admire him. sales abroad in general. The sales recently that Reagan was not what you're doing," Dukakis told were defended by Defense implicating Israel because he refusenik Michael Fuchs- "Our Best Regards" Minister Yitzhak Rabin. knows nothing about the secret Rabinovich during their Rabinovich and his wife began a Premier Yitzhak Shamir told bank account set up for the three-minute conversation. 20-day hunger strike three days reporters here that Israel has Contras in Switzerland. Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, ago. informed the U.S. government and Two Knesset Motions made the call at the World Trade Rabinovich, who speaks hopefully American public opinion Struck Down Center, where the Combined English, could be heard faintly that there was no link between the MK Chaika Grossman of Jewish Philanthropies of Greater through a telephone monitor government of Israel and the Mapam charged that Israeli Boston was conducting a yesterday. Contras. instructors were helping the fund-raising telethon. After the telephone call, "Our best regards to our good "Israel has never helped or Contras and Israeli arms dealers Gov. Michael Dukakis assisted the Contras in Central were supplying them with Dukakis said even such a brief friends in Massachusetts.... It is America," he said. He hoped that weapons. She said she based her gesture can influence Soviet our dream to see our friends in the investigations to be carried out information on a recent visit to authorities. Nicholas Daniloff, who was Boston again," Rabinovich said, in t he U.S. will reach the same Nicaragua where she met with "Everything we hear is that arrested in Moscow on spy referring to visits his family has conclusion and lay the matter to Sandinista officials. these kinds of efforts really do charges. had from members of a Wellesley rest. The Knesset struck from its produce results," he said. About 15,000 Soviet Jews are synagogue, Temple Beth Elohim, Vice Premier and Foreign agenda two motions to debate the "International pressure ... seems refuseniks, people who have made and other organizations Minister Shimon Peres sale of arms by Israel to Third to make a difference." formal application to imigrate. It supporting his family's efforts to categorically denied that Israel World count ries. MK Matityahu T he governor's words echoed is estimated an additional 400,000 obtain exit visas. reaped financial gains from the Peled of the Progressive List for those of freed Soviet dissident Jews would leave the Soviet "We are very touched with your re-sale of American weapons to Peace said Israel was ashamed of Yuri Orlov. Just a day earlier, the Union, given the chance, said support," Rabinovich said. Iran with the specific approval and its arms customers and they were 62-year-old physicist and human Am ram Ducovny, spokesman for at the request of the Reagan ashamed of Israel, a reference to rights activist told a Boston the Combined Jewish In October, the governor wrote Administration. He insisted, at a the virulently anti-Israel regime of conference on human rights that Philanthropies. to Societ leader Mikhail S. gathering in Pardes Hanna, that if the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the freeing of political prisoners Ducovny said the Rabinovich Gorbachev urging him to allow the any money paid by Iran reached in Teheran. "depends on the pressure from the case is typical. Rabinoviches to come to Wellesley the Contras, it was without Peled said that was why the West." Rabinovich, 49, a meteorologist, to celebrate their son's bar Israel's knowledge. arms deals were kept secret until Orlov came to this country in applied in 1979 to leave his mitzvah. Temple Beth Elohim has "Representatives of Israel" were they leaked out abroad. He said October in an arrangement that country with his wife, Marina, 42, scheduled the bar mitzvah for alleged by U.S. Attorney General the Israeli arms industry was also freed American journalist and their son, Misha, 12. A year January 3. Edwin Meese at a White House overgrown and therefore hungry press conference last week to have for new markets. transferred $10-$30 million of the Rabin, speaking for the Lyndon LaRouche: The Fires Of Hate money paid by Iran for the arms to government, conceded that the by Sal Guglielmino a Swiss bank account maintained defense industry had to export to conspiracy working the interest of Special to the Rhode Island Herald by the Contras, the Reagan survive but he noted that the the United States' most consistent Administration-backed rebels proportion of Israeli weapons "If I had to sum up Lyndon and dedicated adversary, Great trying to overthrow the Sandinista being used in the Iran-Iraq war LaRouche in one sentence, I Britain, and working also in the government of Nicaragua. was insignificant compared to would say he is the leader of a interest of the oligarchical President Reagan, who claims those of the Soviet Union and paranoid-style, anti-Semitic interests centered around the he was not informed that Iranian other powers. political cult," stated Mitchell British monarchy, the money was going to the Contras, Rabin also vigorously denied Notis before a group of concerned Hospitallers, and Isis-centered said in an interview with Time that Israel was providing military B'nai B'rith members at Temple cultism of Scottish Freemasonry." magazine November 26 that aid to the Contras. Am David last Wednesday "Both of these quotes," Notis evening. said, "came directly from 'New Notis, a tall, affable, Solidarity' - a LaRouchian dark-haired lawyer who is propaganda magazine." West Bank Violence Ebbs currently an active member of the Lyndon LaRouche has also been Anti-Defamation League New quoted as saying that Walter BIR ZEIT, Israeli-occupied club-wielding Israeli soldiers and England Region's Civil Rights Mondale, Henry Kissinger, and West Bank - About 1,000 police in the Gaza Strip. Committee, came to Rhode Island McGeorge Bundy, the former Ford Palestinians marched peacefully Several demonstrations were from his law practice in Boston to Foundation president and here to protest the killings of three peaceful, with both sides talk about Lyndon LaRouche - presidential advisor, are KGB Arabs by Israeli soldiers, but at apparently taking care to avoid an extremist political candidate agents, employed by the Soviet least nine other Arabs were another bloody confrontation. whose vacillating affiliations and Union. He has attacked the Queen injured elsewhere in a sixth day of At Bir Zeit University, some 23 hatred for Jews, Zionism, and of England as being a drug dealer, clashes with soldiers and police. miles north of Jerusalem, about anyone who opposes him, make has proclaimed that Adolph Hitler Mitchell Notis The latest violence followed a 1,000 students marched peacefully him a growing problem in was put in power by Jewish UN Security Council vote in New from the old campus buildings to America. financial interests in London, and Labor Committees and was York "strongly deploring" the t he new campus on the first day of Reading from a text of quotes by has denied the extent of the aligned with the SOS (Students Israeli shooting of "defenseless classes since soldiers killed two Lyndon LaRouche, Notis opened Holocaust. for a Democratic Society) - a students" in the occupied West science majors at the school. his speech by painting a Notis continued: "LaRouche's violent radical group involved in Bank and Gaza Strip. The United Israeli authorities ordered t he old disturbing, graphic picture of a fantastic and paranoid statements many student riots in the late States abstained in the 14-0 vote. campus buildings closed until Jan. man clearly constructing his own could fill many volumes. He uses a 1960's. On the sixth day of protests 3. About 1,000 of the university's convoluted reality. number of organizations and "When LaRouche broke with against Israeli authorities, an 2,500 students study at the old "ADL involvement in publications that appear to be the SDS," Notis explained, "He 18-year-old Arab was shot and campus. assassinations and the creation of legitimate, but are just front called his group the N atiooal wounded as he tried to grab a A 14-year-old Palestinian boy anti-Semitic terrorist groups in groups to spread his extremist Caucus of Labor Committees, and soldier's club in the Jabalia was shot dead by the army and a the U.S.