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Deep Anguish'
Reagan Decision Upsets Holocaust Unit
By KEVIN FREEMAN
NEW YORK (JTA) -
The United States
Holocaust Memorial
Council met in emergency
session Monday and ex-
pressed its "deep anguish"
at President Reagan's
planned visit to a German
military cemetery during
his forthcoming visit to
West Germany.
But the Council, by
unanimous decision, deferred
specific action pending a meeting
between Council chairman Eli
Wiesel and the President. The
Council was to hold a second
meeting, scheduled for Thursday
in Washington, to review the
situation and for Wieael to
report to them "changes which
may be made in the plans."
WHILE INDICATING that
the cemetery visit "is unac-
ceptable to us," Wiesel told
reporters at a news conference
following the Council's two-hour
meeting at the Hebrew Union
College that he did not believe
Reagan was aware of the
preparations by the White
House staff for him to visit the
cemetery, where some 1,800
German soldiers who died during
the Battle of the Bulge and later
battles are buried.
The Council, in a statement,
expressed its "confidence in the
personal integrity of the
President and urged him to
follow his instincts rather than
the tragic advice that resulted in
the offensive plans."
The White House announced
last Friday from Santa Barbara,
where the President was
vacationing, that Reagan would
lay a wreath at Bitburg cemetery
when he visits West Germany
next month. The proposed visit
was immediately denounced by
the American Jewish community
whose outrage was shared by
other Americans including the
Reagan May Change His
Mind and Make Visit
To Dachau Death Camp
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON -
(JTA) President Reagan
might change his mind and
visit the site of a Nazi
concentration camp when
he goes to West Germany
next month, the White
House indicated Monday.
White House spokesman
Larry Speakes said that White
House Chief of Staff Donald
Regan has asked Deputy Chief
of Staff Michael Denver to
return to Germany to "look at
other opportunities" for a
Presidential visit. Deaver, who is
leaving the White House in May,
was responsible for planning
Regan's visit to West Germany.
SPEAKES conceded that the
move was in response to
criticism from Jewish groups
and veterans organizations over
the weekend about the
President's plan to lay a wreath
at the Bitburg German military
cemetery.
However, Speakes said there
had been less than 100 calls to
the White House complaining
about the planned visit to the
cemetery for German soldiers
who fought U.S. and Allied
troops in World War II.
But Speakes stressed that
Reagan "does intend" to visit
the cemetery. He said the
President received a letter from
West German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl in which Kohl
emphasized the importance for
Reagan to "continue with his
tm
plans to visit" the Bitburg
cemetery as part of the recon-
ciliation of former enemies.
Reagan sees the ceremony at
the cemetery where "young
Germans" are buried as an
"opportunity to demonstrate 40
years of peace in Europe" and a
reconciliation that the President
wishes to make the theme of his
visit observing the 40th an-
niversary of VE Day, according
to Speakes.
AT A PRESS conference on
March 21, Reagan said he had
rejected a proposal to visit the
site of the Dachau concentration
camp because he wants to mark
the anniversary as a celebration
and not use it for "reawakening
the memories" of the war.
When Speakes suggested that
if "logistics" permit, a visit to a
concentration camp site might
be one of the proposals, he was
asked what has changed the
President's views. He replied,
"It was fair to say," that by this
he meant the criticism first of
Jewish groups when Reagan said
he would not visit Dachau and
then of Jewish groups and
veterans organizations to the
planned trip to the cemetery.
Biburg was the staging area
for Wehrmacht tanks used
against the U.S. and its allies in
the Battle of the Bulge in
December, 1944. Speakes would
not comment on reports that
among the German dead in the
cemetery are members of the
Waffen SS. This group was
responsible for the massacre of
115 American prisoners of war
during the Battle of the Bulge.
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memorative gold medal for his
contributions to world peace and
human rights. "To reject such a
generous gift may be an insult to
Congress and the American
people," Wiesel said.
Reagan's planned visit to
Bitburg, meanwhile, drew an
angry response as far away as
Australia where the president of
the Executive Council of
Australian Jewry. Isi Leibler,
urged the President to
"reconsider and abandon" the
proposed visit. "We feel obliged
to emphasize that unlike
previous wars, the struggle
Western civilizatin itself'
IN URGING that Re,
"reconsider" his decision to?1
Bitburg and to pay a visit
Dachau, the president of
Workmen's Circle, Dr. Ra
Zumoff, called on the PteJu
to reveal "who has ill
you. The nation has a riot
know and to judge
motives."
the!
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urged
Brooklyn District
Elizabeth Holtzman
President "to come to hiTl*
and reconsider his decision "S
said, "By electing to (**!
Hitler's soldierS and i**
against Nazism was not merely a visit Dachau, President 
conflict between nations," J^es the clear impression
Leibler said in a cable to Reagan.
"It was a battle against an evil
regime which threatened
Hitler's war machine
. mot
worthy of commemorating thu
the suffering of its victims."
Two Soldiers Killed When Teen
Blows Self Up in Car Bombing
Elie Wiesel
American Legion.
According to Wiesel, the
cemetery contains the tomb-
stones of members of the SS.
"These are and were criminals,"
he said. He suggested that the
President, in his efforts at
reconciliation 40 years after the
end of World War II, might visit
a tomb of the Unknown Soldier
or a university.
WIESEL added, however,
that he viewed a visit to the site
of the Dachau concentration
camp as a sign of reconciliation.
He indicated that the visit to the
cemetery, and the
Administration's refusal to have
the President visit Dachau, as he
had been urged in past weeks,
were not linked to one another.
"Whether he goes to Dachau
or not is for him to decide,"
Wiesel said, adding that it
represents more than the
"Jewish tragedy" of the
Holocaust since many persons
killed at Dachau were of various
faiths and nationalities.
In the telegram to Reagan,
Wiesel said, "It is precisely
because you have so impressed
us in the past with your deep
understanding of the need to
keep the meaning and memory of
the Holocaust alive that we have
been so keenly disturbed by your
plans."
WIESEL TOLD reporters
that some members of the
Council had urged "extreme"
measures in response to
Reagan's planned visit, such as
resignation from the Council
while others urged a more
moderate position. He said he
had been in contact with a "high
official" in the White House,
although he did not disclose the
identity of the official.
Wiesel also sought to separate
the controversy over the Bitburg
visit from a ceremony this
Friday at which Reagan will
present the noted author and
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Friday, April 19,1986
Volume 7
By HUGH ORGEL
TEL AVIV (JTA) -
Two Israeli soldiers were
killed by a teen-age suicide
bomber who blew up her car
when it drew abreast of
their jeep at a road in-
tersection in south Lebanon
last week. Two other
soldiers were wounded, and
a local civilian was killed by
the blast.
The dead soldiers were
identified as Lt. Yiftach Paschor,
21, of Kibbut Ein Hanativ and
Cpl. Mendel Melamed, a 37-year-
old reservist from Alfei
Menashe. They were in a jeep at
the Badr Al-Shouf crosspoint
keeping watch over an Israel
Defense Force convoy that was
removing equipment from the
Jezzine region, the northernmost
through a Druze checkpoint, and
attached itself to the tail of the |
IDF convoy.
HE SAID the car was driva i
by a young girl in a red sweats I
who was the sole occupant
When it approached the guard I
jeep at the crossroad, Lti
Paschor signalled the driva to I
halt. She complied when the
Peugeot was alongside the jeep.
The officer apparently ordered
the driver to get out of the car |
for identification.
According to Roth, "My
driver said, 'Let's see what she |
looks like when she gets out'...
and then, when she didn't gat 
out, he yelled 'she's a suicide'
and then the blast occurred.'
IDF sources estimated that the |
car contained 20-30 kilograms of |
explosives.
They said there was no doubt I
that the driver detonated the
explosives herself. She was not 11
part of south Lebanon still under dupe uged unknowingly to drive
IDF control.
THE SUICIDE bomber was
identified as Sana Mohaydaleh, a
16-year-old Shiite from the
Zaharani region of south
Lebanon. Only recently she
appeared on a Beirut television
program to declare her desire to
become a "martyr" and enter
heaven by killing "the highest
number possible of our enemies."
The Lebanese National
Resistance Front claimed
responsibility for Mohaydaleh's
suicide mission.
One of the wounded Israeli
soldiers, Yoni Roth, 20, of
Kibbutz Mishmar Hayarden,
provided an eyewitness account
of the bombing. He said the IDF
convoy carrying dismantled
equipment was passing through
a roadblock at Badr Al-Shouf
which separates the IDF zone
from the Druze-controlled Shouf
mountains.
He said a white Peugeot-404
car suddenly appeared, was
allowed to pass without stopping
a booby-trapped car.
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Cabbage Patch Dolls For
Ethiopian Children In Israel
28NISAN5745
Number 8
One thousand black Cabbage
Patch Kids weaving a Star of
David in Israel's colors, blue and
white, were sent to Israel by
Coleco Industries and
distributed to Ethiopian refugee
children in absorption centers in
time for celebrating their first
Passover in Israel. El Al Israel
Airlines airlifted the dolls to
Israel free of charge.
The airlift, which Coleco calls
"Operation Childhood,'' was
conceived by Abraham H.
Foxman, associate national
director of the AnU-Datamation
League of B'nai B'rith, during a
trip to Israel.
A Holocaust survivor, Mr.
Foxman's impressions of the
children he saw at one ab-
sorption center "reopened old
psychic wounds." He described
the children as "silent, utterly
silent and seemingly beyond
human reach."
But when Mr. Foxman opened
a flight bag and began passing
out some dolls originally in-
tended for Israeli friends, the
children, he says, "were im-
mediately transformed. Not only
did they stubbornly refuse to
relinquish the dolls, but they
started talking to them their
very first words since arriving in
Israel."
Mr. Foxman was in Israel to
await the airlift and "the
pleasure of taking the Cabbage
Patch Kids home to a happy
Passover with their new
families."
EDITOR, The Jewish Florida*]
As the advisor to BBG
and as a parent of teenage
would like to express
gratitude to the following |
who co-sponsored a very
portent program for the teens
the Tampa area: Dr. Ansd
Weiss and Deborah Miller
Tampa Jewish Social Servid
and Terry Abrahams of
Jewish Community Center.
program was held on Feb. 241
the JCC.
All the teens of the cosj
munity were invited to atteoi|
The program was held
workshop form and the
were asked to pick two
thst they wanted to discussal)
topics ranged through Suioai
Vocational Choices. Stress, l
Drugs, and Parental Issues. M|
the workshops were
experts in each area.
As the BBG adivisor I J|
very happy to see man)r ofM
girls at the center that Sudmh
The program, which wasenW*.
"I Gotta Be Me," has geoen-
discussion between the B'
teens ever since.
As a parent of tsewg^
believe that we of the i
Jewish community must sup
the efforts of the Tamp. jJJ1
Social Services and the J^
Community CenUr and m
other group or any *!**ff
that programs for our tea* 
oneoftliebetwsyswrb"r
our children to meet ****
and that is of the upnoj jf-
portance. We of **Lf
anxiously await the nerf.*
Council" program. w^kt
aee more teens *?^*i
youth groups and those ^
not members of any group 
next program.
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