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Temple Israel plans homeless youth help
Libya seeks missiles wttli German lielp By Rirtk B. GraiMr ROMfi (JTAI-LOqrtn kadar Moianmar QadbidS, with Oennui he^, is appanotly trying to build a factory for the productioD of ground-to-grooad miasilas cqMbfe <rf atriUng larael, aoecrding to an article in the Milan daily CorrieredeBa Sera. The miaaOea would have a range of 1,000 Idlometcra, or 620 adlae. IfiaaOae find from libya'a aaatem border would be capable of striking anywhere in I«nwL The revelatiooa ccmie at a tine of ongoing admiaafama at a trial in Mannheim, Germany, that a German diemicala company knowingly helped LB^boUd a poison gas plant Other German firms hava been aocosed of helping Libya manufacture iy)Hn)f|MMiM«»Mil ^pfiwia
"Saaptdoiis and nmura about the aacret plane of the nqiradietable Libyan leader ware abwdly drcula^ig in the paat inr WWHtlH, ~tlBt'~Only'BOW have now efammts oome to light." wrote Oakk> (Mimpio. He wrote that at the ead 01 duty, rnatoma oCBoara in HamborgaeiMd a Libyan afa^ whoee cargo waa later determined by esperta to couist of machinery fbr
ground-toground ndssflee. The machinery .came from the Frits Werner factory inRheingau. "Later investigations showed that this firm had aabatantial buainaaa dealings with libjra, naturally cwried out behind a amokescreen of tridu snd false declarations," he wrote. Olimplo wrote that Wamar aigned a cootraet with Libya at the end of 1990for"afaKtoryforthe cooatruction of pfpaa for eewcra and aqnadneta." According to the Cor^ riero artiela, "aooNea in the Libyan oppoaition" have edd the factory, which is located near 1^:^011. is a workshap for the productkn of Al Fatah The artida quoted Ger^ man taehnkd stafi aant to work in Libya aa aaying this factory ia anrroondsd by bugs aaonrity meaauna, "certainly not vay oaual for a afanpla pipe feetary."
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qnotad as saying the parts uaed in the tetory are high-teehnology inatruSomeea at Frits Warner toUCorriara that the firm baa kmg esperieoce in faigb^ech and adaaQe conatnictian.
n Professor awarded our grants for'91-'92 Dr. lUehard A. Freund, aaaodate profeaaor in the DepartoMDt of FUkMOphy and Religion at the Univnitar ofNefaraaka at Omaha, has been awarded four grants for the 1991-92 academic year. Dr. Frannd waa awarded a Buma Ethica Grant, from B'aai B'rith HiUal National Fouodatieaa to ftaad a ooBfaraoce on the Holocauat at UNO on Oct S7 antitied, "Thm Jawiah and CauMan BtUea of Caring: A New P«apaettv« on the KMocauat'^ llda confaranca will be condoctad in ooonUaatioo with the Anna Frank exhibit due to b^^ in Omaha in lata Oetobarv The Jawiah Stodaota Gr!-"«•««<«•' of UNO and Croidkton directed by Dr. mund waa awarded a Bchrtflv Foundation Grant, ftrom the Jawiah Fsdaratioa of Omaha, in addition to the ongoing funding of campus aetivrtiae of the Henry MoaMky B'nai B'rith Lodata of 09iaba,Nebr.
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Dr. Freund was alao the rei^iait of a Unlveraity of Nahraaka at Omaha Research Grant for the Fafi somester entitled: "A Study of Reaearch Diractions of Faculty in a Comfatead PhikMOiAy and Religion Department in the 1991a." Fioalty, Dr. Freund will be part of a Natkmal LOly Grant of piofaBaora of religion in American univerMm wbk^wfil meet to plan the teaching of religion, aepedaUy Judaiam and BibUeal stodieB in U.S. Univeraitiea, for the year MOO. In additioa to his teaching raeponeibilitiae at UNO and in the community, Dr. Frannd was recently appointed codirector and correaponding aecntary of the Betb-
0M*, Itntt awavatkm nraeantly being carried out by a conaortium of eight unlveraitiaa worldwide, apoarheadedbyUNOand Crai^ton Univaraity.
The diaper Olympics Oattty the lay ef the land iwr tfis Septg 'djyer lift «• liikt, frwt to back, Andrew Tayiaa^ Joey Kdhn. Andngr Garbar. Hewy GhaJiarg, Matttew IDag, BacBMl Garden and Anna InnBannMiBsar, Tna a crairilBg race, a
Temple lerael ia coqM»8oring a new program whkh will change the Uvee of homeloBs chiUien in the Omaha area, according to a Temple qrakaeman. The AlUanoe of FamQy Ifflielters, in cooparatkn with Crdc^itan University and the Nebrdaka Department of Edncatkm, hu devdoped a multt<lisci|dinary academic/cultural experience for theee homaleee youth called "The Pa»ssgee PK>}ect." TIM chUdien wiO woik to produce a newspaper fillad with pictoree and atoriee which will be written and developed by themsefves. nds aspect of the project will be organised and facilitated by KatUein Havlik, the director of the Paasagea Project, dong with aeveral CMi^ton Unhrar sity students. In additkin to provfaling apace and eupport for Paaeagaa, Tmiple larael has crsetad a paraBal project caOad "Mentor* for Honeleee ChBdren," funded
counselor and friend, accompanying the child to the mo^des, a {day, a apcrting event or a muaeum. Fw many of the children, theee ezcursionB will be first-time events. The Mantors wiB slso hi^ plan and supervise aivenigfat retreats and fiekl Uipti tat the entire group. The Mentors project will give Jewish youth the opportunity of efiect change through Mitsvah w«ifc in a concrete manner. Mentors will ha^ these homaleee cUhfaon buiU ssifwitsfiw n^ flulf-ieapoct by acting as positive rolemodels ""^ friends. AdditianaUy, eadi Mentor will be meettng once or twice a month with Mr. Zwattiacfc and a profaaaional counsslor into will* serve as project consultant Toflsther thay will study the aanotional tranmas common to the bomaaaoaitive waya of wnrUng with thaaadiflilnn. Mentors wiO alao a^ndy varf
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Early deildiines TUs year, moat of the Jawiah holUayB fan on Monday and Tuaaday. the ofBcae of the Jawiah Fteea will be doeed. TUa wfll neceesitate earily deadtttiee f or the entire loonth <rf September and the first week k October. TlwdaadUnee are: I of 907 .9 ajn., Twaday, »17 of 1«4 9ajn., Wednaaday,905 Yeareeepanrtfanlnadhwh^totbaairlMrffiaiawffl be greatly appredated by the ataf f of the Jewlah Praoe.
Foundation and coordi- itytothel Am«na intaraatad hi be-' nated by Temple larad Youth Director, Joeh Zwd- coming a Mentor or lean^ big more about the proback. Bach program vohmteer, gram abould contact Joah 10th-12th grade Jewish ZweOMck at Temple leyouth, win be paired wiUi rael, 6664686. Donations one of theae homaleaa chfl- of darkroom equipment dren and act aa hia/her snd photographic auppUea mentor. Each mentor wiU wouU be greatly approliM isim the Iwiiielaea rhlM'i dated.
Lithuania denies war criminal pardons By
Soviet storks migrate ByHi«hOrgd TEL AVIV (JTA) Tans of thousands of visitors fawn the Soviet Unkn flew over larad on llmraday, but thay wera not new dim and th«y cauaed no prd>lons with housing or ampkijrment HM vidtore were a flock of eome 60,000 storks, winging their way in maaa formation in thair anmul migration from their aummer dachaa in Ruaaia and Eaatem Bnopa to their winter habitat in Africa. Oflidals of the Bird Watch aection of the Society for the Preaervation of Nature in larad aaid it was the hugaet Qodc of atofks •<>>» the startitf the migration ssaaon and the laigtA (rf a dnsis apeciM of birds ever eeen fai larad dnoe the aanmdbira watch bagaa The flock stretched some 60 to 70 adlea. Radar operators at Ban-Gurion Airport who keep a spedd watch for the birds, add ths flock had t^ midday fonnad a kng bladk band acraaa their ecreens. Air fbree pOota are ordered to evade the ffecks. Ths Urds wars weO on thsir way out <A Israeli air spsos in the Nagev Inr evening. Hie Urds fly over ue Israeli land bridge betwaan Europe and Africa on the eame datee eadi year and uae idantical routee. Thay are beUaved to navigate by following the Earth^a gravitationd and alactromagnetks Unae of force.
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NEW YORK (JTAITlis praddnt of Lithuania baa stnni^y denied s report that his newly independant government is pardoning Lithuanian dtlsana irao ooUaborated in Nad But the Simon Wieeenthd Canter hi Loe Angalee says it haa tha avklence to prove it. In a letter to Edgar Bronfman, preeklent of the Worid Jewish Congrees, Vytautas Landsbergie caUed "Dtftkularly provoking" daims made fai The New York Tbnee that Lithuania ia exonerating war crimtaiala. He denied "tha indnuaUone, that there are thouaaads of Hotocanat anapacts Uving ban, who now ara being legaUy abadved aa patrlota of Lithuania. GNich an image ie not only falae, a is unjust." The chargee war* made
by the Wieaanthd Center, idiich tuned over informatkm to the Tbnee. The center's daan. Rabbi Marvin Hier, add Ua organhatkm had received a aimUar etatemant from Lithuanian offidals on June 24. Neverthdeea, he the Lithuaniana "have, in fact aueMratad at laaat three individuale" who "confeeeed to participation in maaa murdara against Jews."
ARAFAT DKNIAL ROME (JTAh-In what was daeoribed aa Ua firat putaUahed intarvlaw sfaMS tha faOad ooim ki Moaooi!w. Pdaatine Liberation Of ganisation chief Yi AralM denied that PLO had oongratulatadi Cotnmuniat hard-linfrt who attSBBptad to ouat MUdudl Gorbachev.
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