University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 23, 1987
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Shamir urges Jews home
Israeli prime minister decries intermarriages. emigrants
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Jews worldwide share a responsibility to insure the future of Israel by making it their home, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said yesterday.
Shamir, speaking to about 2,000 people gathered outside the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Holocaust Museum, urged non-Israelis Jews to make Israel the focal point of their life and their homeland.
"The state of Israel was established by Jews and for the Jews," Shamur said. "That cannot be the world Jewry is with us in Jerusalem."
Shamir decried the intermarriage of Jews and non-Jews, calling the practice slow spiritual suicide.
"For generations our people strove for equity, and by and large, we've seen this in most parts of the world," Shapiro wrote. "We've regained our sovereignty."
we're losing our identity by our own free will.
"Remember, we are one person." At a dinner Saturday night sponsored by the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Shamar assailed Soviet Jews who used Israeli visas to leave the Soviet Union but then emigrated to the United States.
"Our struggle is for the repatriation to the land of Israel of all the 400,000 Jews who have already applied to leave the Soviet Union." Shamir said. Soviet Jewish emigrants have a commitment to Israel, he said.
The Jewish Federation estimates that 160,000 Soviet Jews are in Israel, a country with a population of about 4.3 million people.
Yesterday, Shamir toured the Holocaust museum, accompanied by Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
concentration camps in which millions of Jews were executed, a map of Europe under Nazi control and graphicographs of emaciated camp survivors.
At 'the end of the tour, Shamir lighted a flame symbolizing the memory of those killed in the Holocaust and the eternity of the Jewish faith.
Shamir studied displays depicting
Shamir came to Los Angeles on Friday after meetings in Washington with administration and congressional officials.
His West Coast sojourn was to end with a speech in Hebrew late yesterday to Israelis who have emigrated to Israel and whose speech at the Sinai Temple in Westwood
He was scheduled to leave for New York today and return to Israel later.
The last Israeli prime minister to
been in Los Angeles was Menachem
Begin.
Children tattling about drugs can wreck family, doctors say
United Press International
OKLAHOMA CITY — Parents who use drugs at home are finding their family secret is not necessarily safe. Children across the country have been sharing the secret with police.
And psychologists say the situation can destroy the family if the drug use is treated only as a crime.
In California, at least eight children, 10 to 15 years old, have reported their parents' drug use to authorities since August when a teenager at the Beach Girl's girl's tip about her cocaine use was widely publicized.
An Ontario, N.Y., couple went to jail last month charged with possession of marijuana after their 10-year-old son told officials he
Parents in Oklahoma. Missouri, New Mexico. Indiana and Tennessee face drug-related charges because of information their children gave authorities.
"One of the problems is that the legal system isn't really developed to deal with this kind of problem," said W. Michael Nelson, a psychologist who studies adolescents social responsibility at Ohio's Xavier University.
Intense anti-drug campaigns, including Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign, and publicity about other children reporting their parents appear to be influencing young people to reveal their parents' habits.
"The tone should not be just
prosecute but to respond to the child's cry for help and hopefully use it as a springboard to look at the family and get appropriate counseling."
In some cases, children have testified against their parents, and many times the children are taken out of the home, at least temporarily.
A 13-year-old Clairemore, Okla. boy who authorities say insisted something be done about his mother's absence not go back home, an official said.
"I suspect it will come to the word of "would you rather smoke dope or have your children?" " said Rogers County, Okla. prosecutor Bob Price, who is handling the case against the boy's parents. "There are some people who would rather smoke done."
The boy went to a school counselor days after a preliminary hearing in a separate case in his hometown for the mother of a 16-year old boy who told a counselor that he was mainly police — about her care, we said.
Within weeks of the first northern California case in August, two unrelated teenagers in Sutter County and children in Yuba City a
The timing of the reports is no coincidence, officials say.
Neil Bernstein, a Virginia clinical psychologist specializing in adolescent behavior, said the phenomenon could be compared to rashces of suicides that occur in high schools following a single
suicide.
"I think kids are to an extent suggestible." Bernstein said, "When one kid does something, and it gets publicized, there is a tendency for others to do it."
Another reason given for the recent flurry of children reporting their parents is an intolerance for drugs brought on by anti-drug legislation and used conservatism and new information about the ill effects of drugs.
"I do think we are seeing the beginning of a very important shift in attitudes about drug use," said Martin Eugene Ford of the Stanford University School of Education.
"A child might be learning in school and in the media 'just say no' and drugs are bad," but they have a rigid and not particularly mature form of reality." Ford said. "They aren't able to understand the consequences of turning their parents in."
But it is important that children understand the ramifications of reporting their parents. Ford said
Price, the Rogers County, Oklahoma assistant district attorney, said prosecutors, school counselors and state welfare officials worked together to make sure the children understood the consequences of their actions and to make sure their motives were above board.
British debate ordination of women
United Press International
LONDON — A Cabinet minister on the Church of England's governing body warned yesterday that he would leave the church if it allowed women to be ordeated as priests — an issue that eventually could split the mother church of the worldwide Anglican movement.
Corp. television, "I and my family view this with very great sadness because we would be driven out of the church. I find myself, like so many others, thrust out and would have to try to find a (new spiritual) home"
John Gummer, minister of agriculture,
said on British Broadcasting
He said many others also might leave the church over the issue.
Gummer is a member of the church's governing body, the General Synod, which will rule Thursday on whether it should give the go-ahead
to church officials for eventual legislation to authorize the ordination of women to the priesthood.
The synod has three houses representing bishops, clergy and laymen. It is thought a majority of bishops, along with many clergy and laymen, agree with the move toward ordination of women in the 1990s.
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