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The Jewish Floridian ofPinellas County
Friday, May 9, 19$
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We Lost More Than Soldiers
FREDK.SHOCHET
Editor and Publisher
SUZANNE SHOCHET
Executive Editor
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THIS IS intended as no dis-
respect for the men who died in
the U.S. effort to free our hos-
tages in Teheran. But the truth is
that more was lost than their
lives.
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Friday, May 9, 1980
Volume 1
23 IYAR 5740
Number 2
Perhaps for the first time since
World War II, we had the Soviets
over an ideological barrel in the
matter of their invasion of
Afghanistan. More than any-
thing else, our Olympic Games
boycott placed great strains upon
>?.v.v.::v::::::*w^ tne Soviets' masters.
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For the first time, visible
cracks began to show in the
Kremlin power struggle between
the "moderate" civilian old men
who rule the Muscovite Empire
in the Kremlin and the young
Turk commanders of their
military machine.
ANDREI GROMYKO flew
into Paris last week with his tail
between his legs for a scheduled
tongue-lashing on Afghanistan
by President Giscard d'Estaing
8
1100 Years for ORT
In Russia the year was 1880, and a small group ,
I of Jewish men met with the Czar to petition him to I
| allow them to open a school to teach Jewish boys a j
I skill so they might find jobs. I
Now we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of (|:
this Organization these men founded named ORT. In 1
the United States, over 140,000 women work to I
support 100,000 students in schools all over the 9
world. Working alongside Women's American ORT pi
there is a group of men organized throughout the |
United States, including South Florida, who support
the worldwide ORT vocational and technical
education program.
Because of ORT, the State of Israel gained a top-
level, dynamic, innovative vocational and technical
education system that became the major force in
turning out desperately needed skilled workers for
Israel's burgeoning economy. Because of ORT, the
Jewish world and indeed the world of all mankind
 was made a somewhat better and more human
place to live.
The year 1980 marks one century of ORT's &
I service as the vocational and technical education I
g program of the Jewish people. j
Because of ORT, more than two million Jews *
5 were given the modern' skills that helped them 1
g attain livelihood and often life itself. Because of |:|:
| ORT, two million Jews were able to lift themselves 
5 up from squalor and hopelessness to productive lives |
S in the societies in which they lived. :j:
 a lesson in chastening so im-
probable in the general design of
simplistic French self-interest
these days that one could only
marvel that it would be taking
place at all.
Gromyko came to "explain"
the Soviets' leadership dilemma
 the young Turk militants who
are taking over control of his
country even before the old men
have died. Theirs was the
Afghanistan decision, he would
bleat; it was not the decision of
Today, ORT operates in some two dozen
S countries on five continents, with an annual student
g enrollment of 100,000. In Israel alone, 60,000
* students study in 95 ORT schools each year, and
:;!: more than a quarter of a million Israelis one-sixth
 of Israel's total work force have received ORT
g training in one country or another. ORT embodies
* the spirit of the ancient Jewish tenets that are quin-
: tessential to Jewish life.
AJCong. Leaders Meet Pope
the old men, who still stand fnr
SALT II and detente. *
All this, of course, was before
the U.S. landing in the deserts of
Iran. By the time Gromyko was
scheduled to meet with
d'Estaing, he was already lee-
turing us before the world on our
reckless adventurism." His
back stiffened, he could not only
push Afghanistan into forgotten
history but give every signal that
a French tongue-lashing would be
an unwelcome political
anachronism.
The U.S. servicemen who died
deserve that we honor them. But
we lost an even more priceless
prize than they .
THE CUBAN community of
South Florida shows a thankless
disregard for the welfare of the
total community in its relentless
drive to transport all of Cuba
precisely here to these shores and
no others.
They are not to be blamed.
Absurd federal laws governing
immigration, education and
welfare have encouraged in them
the strange view that for Cubans
the process of becoming a citizen
is a sacred public trust which the
public must bear in their behalf
and the individual Cuban is
privileged to enjoy with a mini
mum of personal discomfort or
dislocation.
Local community attitudes
have not been any more realistic.
They have created a bilingual
monster, largely destroyed a
public school system that had
none too much quality to begin
with, and bifurcated the area be-
tween opposing Latin and
"Anglo" forces whose festering
rages are finally beginning to
surface.
THE REACTION of the en
trenched Cuban community to
the Castro decision to allow more
emigration shows not a whit of
concern for any of this. Its
flagrant disregard of government
pleas to engage in no illegal alien
activity may be understandable
because, after all, the govem-
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Russians Probing Israel's Ether
Pope John Paul II greets Howard Squadron (center), president
of the American Jewish Congress, and Henry Siegman exeC.
VhTpttT; ^ ^ aUdienCe Ut tke Vatkan Squadron urged
the Pontiff to express strong support for the Camp David
accords and stresses the importance of a unified Jerusalem as
'he capital of Israel, "with free access to all faiths Salem a"
HAIFA It cant be seen for
the windows of my home high up
on Mount Carmel. but
somewhere out there on the
horizon it cruises lazily back and
forth in the Mediterranean, well
outside the territorial waters of
Israel. It is quite safe on the
international high seas, but of
course the little ship has no
aggressive potential. Its ar-
maments, if any, are probably
limited to a few small hand
weapons.
No, this is not a war ship in the
accepted sense of the word. It is
one of the Soviet spy ships which
swarm the oceans of the world
engaged in gathering in-
formation.
There's no secret about it,
either. The Soviet reconnaissance
vessels on assignment to the U.S.
Mediterranean Sixth Fleet are
not at all bashful, and openly
follow the big ships as they sail
back and forth or even during the
midst of naval maneuvers.
AT FIRST glance, one would
think these were simple fishing
boats, except for the fact that
they cruise in waters where there
are no fish. The tell-tale in-
dication is in the antennas which
dominate the decks. These are
not spy ships in the sense that
they "watch" anything. Their
specialty is in their sophisticated
ears. These are "listening" craft
and the intricate electronic
apparatus on board is so finely
tuned that it can pick up
anything and everything that the
Israelis put into the ether.
The space above our little
Cart
AkWH
country is filled with many
electronic signals. They include
ship-to-ship broadcasts, taxi
drivers reporting in to their
dispatch stations, radio hams,
long distance phone calls relayed
by radio, children playing with
their walkie-talkies, and of course
a wide variety of military
communications from tanks,
planes and field stations.
In the ether, this becomes a
chowder of confused sounds and
signals, but the delicate Soviet
equipment which picks it all up
and records it is also capable of
filtering the material and un-
scrambling it so that every
message can be read clearly and
without interference. The in-
formation is all then flashed back
to Moscow where it is carefully
fed into the master computer of
miscellaneous information. It
becomes intelligence on tap, bits
of precious data which may some
day help fill i spaces on a
military jigsaw puzzle.
SOVIET LISTENING ships
off the coast of Israel are not new.
They were on duty here even
before the Six-Day War, when
the Soviet Union was a friendly
nation, enjoying a diplomatic
relations with Israel. Spying has
never been considered a hostile
act. The best of friends do it to
each other. Eavesdropping is
part of the accepted international
game. For some reason, the
Russians stopped "fishing" in
these waters in 1975. Israel's
defense forces weekly.
Bumaham'h, now reveals that
early this year they returned. It
would be safe to connect this fact
with the latest Russian
pansionism into Asia, of which
the invasion of Afghanistan is
but another symptom.
Every scrap of information has
its value at the proper time and
place, and the Russians do not
want to miss anything that
might prove helpful some day.
Language is no problem. As
anyone who has listened to
Moscow's Voice of Kidma
VShalom, Progress and Peace
knows, there is an ample corps of
Hebrew scholars, some of whom
gained their first knowledge of
Hebrew when, as members of the
Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv,
they attended Ulpan here.
A crane operator monitoring
the unloading of special
equipment in the port of Haifa, or
an army officer who phones his
wife from a distant army base
that he won't be home that night
because .... or the banking
communications with Europe 
all are rich sources of valuable
information for the little vessel
idly "fishing" off the coast of
Israel.
A COUPLE of friends of
mine, who occasionally speak to
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