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avon Says: I Warned Reagan About
New Egyptian
Intransigence
HITS IS N
Countdown Begins for Third Annual
Tampa Jewish Federation Super Sunday
The 1983 Tampa Jewish
I Federation-United Jewish Ap-
peal Campaign will hold its third
annual "Super Sunday" on
I Sunday, Feb. 13.
Volunteers will make over a
thousand telephone calls in an
attempt to reach as many Jewish
households as possible to seek
commitments to the regular
campaign and the Israel Special
Fund.
This year the "Super Sunday"
rally will be held at the offices of
Thomson McKinnon Securities
located at 501 East Kennedy
Blvd., in downtown Tampa.
According to Les Barnett,
Campaign Chairman, "This will
give us the opportunity to utilize
more telephone volunteers with
the large number of telephones
available, and therefore to reach
even greater number of Tampa
families."
The all-day event will begin at
10 a.m. and end at 6 p.m.
Volunteers are needed for two
hour shifts and you are asked to
contact the Federation office at
875-1618 to participate in this
important community event.
Ambassador Yosef Tekoah to Keynote
Federation Pacesetters Dinner Febuary 19
Saturday evening, February 19
[at the Tampa Hyatt Regency wfll
Ibe the scene of the 1983 Tampa
Jewish Federation-United Jewish
IAppeal Pacesetters Dinner, Les
|Barnett, Campaign Chairman
announced this week.
Former Ambassador to the
United Nations and presently
Chancellor of Ben-Gurion
University, Yosef Tekoah, will be
the guest speaker for this annual
event.
Barnett also announced the
appointment of Cynthia Wright
as the dinner chairman. A dinner
committee is being selected and
arrangements are being made for
a gala dinner dance that
traditionally highlights the
Federation campaign.
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON -
(JTA) President Yitzhak
Navon of Israel said last
week that he had warned
President Reagan at their
White House meeting that
Egypt's refusal to expand
peaceful relations with
Israel threatened chances
for broadening the Middle
East peace process.
"If this is the moaei, u cms is
what happens to peace, what sort
of encouragement is that for the
peace process?" Navon said in
answer to questions at a National
Press Club luncheon. "What sort
of contribution does it give to the
will for peace, the will for sacri-
fice, the will for giving up
things?"
NOTING THAT Israel has
given up Sinai, two air bases and
its oilfields and forcibly removed
settlements for the sake of peace
with Egypt, Navon said that
Egypt has "frozen" its agree-
ments with Israel. He said not
only does Egypt criticize Israel,
but the Egyptian press is full of
anti-Semitic articles and car-
toons.
In addition, he accused Egypt
of discouraging President Amin
Gemayel of Lebanon from
reaching a peace agreement with
Israel when it should be en-
couraging another Arab country
to have peace with the Jewish
State.
Navon stressed that he
believed the late President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt was a
"courageous leader" who moved
for peace with Israel, not for
Israel's sake but because he
believed that instead of war,
Egypt needed to concentrate on
improving its economy. He said
he has met three times with
President Hosni Mubarak of
Egypt and believes Mubarak
wants peace for the same reasons.
Navon said he was optimistic
that the Egyptian-Israeli peace
could succeed and that would
"lead to additional peace steps."
NAVON, who refused to
answer political questions, said
he also warned Reagan that two
statements in his Sept. 1 peace
initiative could go against the
consensus in Israel. He said that
while Ragan opposed a Pales-
tinian state, his other proposals
could lead to one. In addition,
Navon said, Reagan's statement
about more Israeli withdrawals
for more peace could be inter-
preted as total withdrawal for
total peace, but no Israeli sup-
ports withdrawal to the 1967
boundaries.
The Israeli President denied
that settlements on the West
Bank are an obstacle to peace. He
said that while there is contro-
versy in Israel over where to
place the settlements, there is no
controversy over Israel's right to
establish them. He said it was
"absurd" to claim that there is
any place in the Holy Land where
no Jews can live.
With respect to King Hussein
of Jordan joining the autonomy
talks, Navon said Hussein could
make a contribution if he came as
an independent spokesman
representing his own people. But
if he comes as a surrogate for the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization, the pre-conditions for his
participation would create diffi-
culties.
ASKED IF Israel would nego-
tiate with the PLO if the latter
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ADL Report_____
Anti-Semitic Vandalism Took Drop in '82
NEW YORK (JTA) -
After more than doubling
for three years in a row,
anti-Semitic vandalism in
the United States declined
noticeably in 1982, accord-
ing to the annual audit con-
ducted by the Anti-
Defamation League of
B'nai B'rfch.
The survey disclosed 829 re-
ported incidents this year in 36
states and the District of Colum-
bia as compared to 974 in 31
states and the District in 1981 
a drop of 14.9 percent.
In making the findings public,
Nathan Perlmutter, ADL's na-
tional director, noted that the
number of arrests in connection
with the anti-Semitic episodes in-
creased nearly 50 percent from
114 in 1981 to 167 in 1982. Of
those arrested, he said, more than
80 percent were under the age of
20.
THE ATTACKS included the
defacement of Jewish institu-
tions, stores, homes and public
property with swastikas, anti-
Jewish slogans and graffiti. Of
the 829 total, there were 14 cases
of arson or attempted arson as
against 16 in 1981, and three
bombings as against four last
year.
The audit was prepared by the
Research Department of ADL's
Civil Rights Division based on
information provided by the
ADL's 27 regional offices in this
country. It attributed the decline
in vandalism, arson and bomb-
ings to a nuclear of factors, in-
cluding:
 Exposure of the facts about
anti-Semitic vandalism and other
anti-Jewish activity, leading to
public awareness of the problem;
 The enactment of laws in
several states against religiously
motivated vandalism;
 Stricter law enforcement in
problem areas;
 Security conferences 
many sponsored by ADL in
cooperation with law enforcement
authorities, educators and reli-
gious leaders which have led to
increased police and civilian
vigilance;
 Educational programs in the
schools that have focused on the
evils of bigotry and prejudice.
THE AUDIT also revealed
that while there was an increase
in the number of harassment*
against individual Jews or their
institutions 693 as against 350
recorded for 1981 the rate of
increase was lower. In 1982, the
rate of increase was 69 percent
higher than the previous year.
The 350 recorded in 1981, how-
ever, was 212.5 percent higher
than the 1980 total of 112.
In assessing the results of the
report, Perlmutter warned that
"the downturn in vandalism,
welcome though it is, should be
*ept in perspective. Hundreds of
anti-Semitic episodes sadly sug-
gest that any relaxation of
vigilance or of prosecution of of-
fenders would be premature."
He went on to point out that
while anti-Semitic vandalism was
declining in the United States,
there was a "disturbing increase"
in anti-Jewish violence in West-
ern Europe which resulted in the
deaths of six persons and the
wounding of 216 others in 1982.
ACCORDING TO an ADL
survey made public in October
there were 41 episodes of terror-
ism including bombings and
shootings in six West Euro-
pean countries in 1982 compared
to 15 such terrorist attacks
against Jews and Jewish in-
stitutions in 1981. The overseas
audit was conducted by ADL's
European office headquarters in
Paris.
Almost two thirds of the 829
anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S.
occurred in four states.
New York, with 272 down
from 326 the year before still
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