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___, - - Jewish Hist orical R . I. Asso ciation 1 1 13 0 s essio ns street Inside: Providence , RI 029 06 From The Editor, page 4 Around Town, page 8 THE ONLY ENGLISH0 JEWISH ,W EEKLY IN R.I. AND S OUTHEAS T MASS. VOLUME LXXIII, NUMBER 15 FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1986 35t PER COPY Carl Sagan: "Star Wars" Outspoken Lawyer Not Afraid Endangers Israel To Take Stand On Rhode Island national survival? Would t hat by Aviva Cantor by Susan Bostian his role as lawyer in the retrial that NEW YORK, N.Y. (JTA) - have an acceptable (justification) Lawyer Alan Dershowitz, the declared Claus Von Bulow an Dr. Carl Sagan, the space scientist fo r people siding with the Nazis in whirling, fireball of controversy, innocent man, his perceptions of known for his struggle against t he World War II? What did Jews recently of the Von Bulow trial what justice means to t he citizens nuclear arms race, has voiced think about t hat?" fame, illuminated the stage at of Rhode Island, and t he Attorney strong opposition to Israel's T he same "survival justifies Rhode Island College, last Monday General w horn he describes unlike joining the U.S. "Star Wars" everything" view by some U.S. night with provocative glimpses of any other as he has met in 22 (Strategic Defense Initiative) government agencies .after World his soon to be released book. For years, Arlene Violet. program, which Israel has War II led them to import German the more sensitive residents of the With a wiry, mass of curls indicated it is ready to do. scientists who had worked with practically jumping out from his the Nazis, for t he purpose of Weakest Little Ego State in the "Star Wars is bad for t he world, head, and a look more of building rockets here. "It goes Union still shivering from which includes Israel. Anything bemusement than annoyance, straight to U.S.-Soviet enmity," Geoffrey Wolfe's too-real-for- that is bad for the world is bad for Dershowitz explains why everyone he said, which is also the issue 'in comfort book, Providence, being Israel . .. If the world is destroyed, else attending the Providence the nuclear arms race. "The overlooked may be preferable to Israel is destroyed as well, Jews the recognition the outspoken Journal Book Fair is unveiling are destroyed as well," he told t he question is, is anything Dershowitz has bestowed on them. beautifully bound words, while he Jewish Telegraphic Agency. permissible in the case of opposing Sporting a Cheshire Cat grin, this is clutching a massive collection of Sagan expressed these views in the Soviet Union?" charming master of debate with a pages that are headed back to the an exclusive interview with JTA Sagan believes that t he most editor again. It is a story with plot likely conclusion that would lust for confrontation, waved a set on the eve of his receiving t he twists that would make emerge from an independent of galleys in front of him as he took Shalom Center's first Brit Shakespeare jealous. commission's investigation of the his place at the podium. He arrived HaDorot (Convenant of t he Escaping the tightest fifteen minutes late, having just Alan Dershowitz Generations) peace Award at the importation of those scientists and restrictions and exclusive other experts - proposed by disembarked from a delayed train. Plaza Hotel here. The Award, embargoes, early drafts of his Brooklyn District Attorney He began his winding, engaging bosses influence. Not being captive shared wit h Boston's Jewish tales of his efforts and love for to any superiors he says he also evolving book found t heir way to Coalition for a Peaceful World, Elizabeth Holtzman, a former David Marriott, a mysterious New York Congressional poking the system in the belly. He feels no obligation to appease was recently presented to Jews people or win friends. Cherishing chameleon in the Von Bulow case Representative - would be t hat proudly declared his who work to prevent a nuclear the opportunity for a few rounds of and still a contender for exhibitor "we thought it more itnportant to " independence and commitment holocaust. oral boxing, Dershowitz of the most out rae:eous behavior have weapons to fight the to several career paths" has T he scientist and author, who is established his as beyond his announces he has written about (l'ontinul'd on page> !)l t he David Duncan Professor of Russians t han to prosecute the Astronomy and Space Sciences criminals of World War II." and Director of the Laboratory for The development of rockets, Planetary Studies at Cornell and of nuclear fission, were not Here We Live Again: A Moving University, is engaged in the only " legacy" of Nazi researching and alerting the world Germany, said Sagan. In a major to the threat of a " nuclear winter" address at t he World Jewish Portrait Of R.I. Holocaust Survivors as the consequence of an atomic Congress convention in Jerusalem couldn't get a job. And people war, and to preventing such a war. earlier this year, he said that by Robert Israel Fink passed out a pamphlet didn't want to talk about t he Sagan rejected the theory, "Nazi Germany has provided us PROVIDENCE - Around fifty featuring essays and letters by the Holocaust. T hey didn't want to advanced by some J ews, that a with an armory - the means and people crowded into t he third floor Holocaust survivors, many of know about it. And why should reduction of nuclear weapons by the attitudes sufficient for nuclear screening room of t he Rhode whom were in the room seeing you tell t hem ~ to have pity on us the United States would create an obliteration." Sagan continued: Island School of Design themselves in t he fi lm for the first was not what we wanted." "imbalance" vis-a-vis t he Soviet " I am struck by how profoundly Auditorium here on Tuesday time. The survivors, who are Another survivor says: Union and t hus leave Israel more (the U.S. and t he USSR) are night , March 18, to view the working together to create a "And someone else said to me vulnerable in t he Middle East. influenced by Adolf Hitler. Each premiere of Here We Live Again, a memorial archive t hat will be built that if this happened to me, I must nation acts as if a Hitler is in one-hour documentaty film about on the grounds of t he J ewish "All this is simply buying the have done something wrong." baloney of the Reagan charge of its adversary. Each t he lives and experiences of the Community Center in Providence Administration," he said. "The threatens t he other with this year, expressed excitement actual situation is t hat t he Soviet instruments of mass destruction upon seeing t he pamphlet. Several Union can dest roy t he U.S. many developed in Nazi Germany. Each of the survivors pointed to the times over, and t he U.S. can uses propaganda techniques stills reprinted in t he pamphlet, destroy the Soviet Union many refined in Nazi Germany." which show them as they are today times over. Both sides have an Sagan was asked by JTA and as they were in t heir youth invulnerable nuclear capability, whet her ,Jews, because of the wit h t heir families, families t hey and therefore the idea of an Holocaust, should have some lost in t he concent ration camps in imbalance is silly." He called t he special perspective on nuclear war Germany during t he Nazi Reich. number of nuclear weapons in the - or a "duty to warn that t his Their emotional reactions could world - 60,000 - "obscene." planet can be t ransformed into a also be heard throughout t he Furthermore, Sagan said, it is a crematorium/' as one rabbi put it. screening as t heir stories in t he "mistake to think of Israel's He replied: film unfolded. survival ... as determi ned only by "Those who have experience The film begins with several what happens in the Mideast. A with mass murder organized by frames showing t he Holocaust nation can be utterly dest royed in the nation-state, but also with survivors as owners of small a nuclear war even if no nuclear propaganda and deceit organized businesses in Rhode Island, weapons are dropped on its by Hitler Germany, ought to be including Beau James restaurant, Marty's Meat Market, and others. territory. We a re all dependent on especially sensitive to similar each other." Avoidance of nuclear act ivities by various Michael Fink, who serves as narrator, tells us, "They are a part war must be the fi rst priority fo r nation-states." Michael Fink Peter O'Neill But at the same time Sagan, of us now. T hey are among us and the .Jewish community - and After we are introduced to the when asked whether his being Holocaust survivors of Rhode they are apart from us." This everybody else, he said. survivors in a group - they are Jewish innuenced his efforts to Island. theme of men and women who Sagan was severely critical of shown at a social gathering, help prevent nuclear war, The film, co-directed by RISO have endured t he most horrific of Israel's alleged military a nd playing cards at the home of a answered, "not especially." T he faculty members Peter O'Neill and crimes against humanity is nuclear collaboration with South fellow survivor - we meet with worl d, he told ,JTA, is at grave Michael Fink, was funded by a interwoven throughout.

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