European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday. September 12, 1987 George f. Will everybody against smoking but the smokers i have  Richard longshore but 1 like i imagine dial the California  is rugged i Hill for the physical defense of Liberty and Florid from the rhetorical defense of it. During the debate in a Bill in him smoking t h Public transportation in Call forr tra. The Chain smoking legislator said i think this is really a Rel rights Issue. First you say. Smokers get to the Back of the bus and now you re Tell ing smokers in gel of Floc  this analogy was not received politely by Ami smok ing activists. They increasingly resemble the Man Joseph Epstein the essayist says could not be described As irascible because he was permanently iras cd. But opponents of smoking on airlines Are right. The Sci ence is Clear and so therefore is the i hic of the Mailer. The most Hii ardous aspect of air travel aside from inc drives to and from airports is breathing Cabin air. Inhalation of smoke by smokers is inc nation s largest single preventable cause of death and disability. For non smokers closely confined with smokers As in air planes smoke exhaled by smokers is bad. Even worse is sides ram smoke thai comes from a cigarette s burning tip bal when puffs. The temperature of combustion that produces Side treant smoke is lower than during puffing and produces More pollutants. Smoking on air planes intensifies when the no smoking Light goes off thereby producing High concentrations of pollutants. The separation of smokers and non smokers in planes where air is recirculated does Little to protect non smokers. Carbon dioxide and Carbon momus do both increased by smoking accumulate in the dry Cabin air. To counter inc effects of passive smoking a passenger needs 50 to 75 cubic feel of clean air per minute. Passengers generally gel a maximum of 20. Right attendants arc inhaling smoke at the Rale of a person living with a pack a Day smoker. They arc beginning to file workers compensation claims and suits about ailments caused by Long term exposure to Cabin smoke the Legal vulnerability of airlines will increase after forthcoming studies of the metabolized residue of nicotine in non smoking flight attendants. Smoking also increases airlines maintenance costs. Tar from smoke up. Except Juicy fruit. Festering Pollard spy Case dragging Israel Down throughout the United Stales government. The cause of Israel has suffered a sleep decline. At the defense department jubilation prevails at the shooting Down of Israel s bid for technological Independence in the International aircraft Market. The United Stales which had been paying the Bills for developing the Luvi fighter forced the israeli Cabinet to Bow to the inevitable. At the stale department the Star of Syria s Hafez Assad is rising. The most potent and implacable of Israel s enemies is no longer being exposed As the Center of Tenor ism instead. Damascus is being courted at foggy Bottom As if us Savage regime had t Umed Over a new Leaf. At the National Security Council in the White Home the decision was made to support Arab Iraq against persian Iran in the Gulf War a strategy bitterly opposed by every visiting israeli Cabinet official. Oliai s the reason for the fall of israeli influence some Point in the backlash from he Iran arms for hostages Swap or the Ascendance of inc Arab leaning National by curly adviser Frank curium. Others find the cause in the two head l univ of the coalition government. The underlying reason for Israel s new impotence is in information Siil being developed Al the Justice depart ment the festering Pollard spy Case and inc refusal of Israel s agma Leaden to Faro up to the urgent need to real he source of infection makes possible the defeat of Struch Ivy u Mit. It and strategic arguments All through the . Government Pollard was t the american traitor hired to pro vide a roomful of secret documents to Israel convicted and jailed was t inc israeli general who handled inc operation indicted Here and induced to resign his air farce commission most americans and israelis think the Slon ended with that and with the absolute Gua Rantee from inc Shamir Peres coalition thai such spy ing has stopped. But the poi.1-Ard Case is far from Over. While the jailed spy is conveniently forgo Lien by inc govern ment that used him two prominent former israeli officials remain protected by the political establishment. Kafi Hilan and Avraham Bondor arc legendary Fig ures in the world of espionage. Together they led the team that kidnapped Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1%u and brought that War criminal before inc bar of israeli Justice tight years later the same two my Vad operatives appeared at an Apollo pa., nuclear processing Plant and following their visit. Ss7 pounds of us. Weapons Grade uranium Ai reported missing. Bendor. Using the alias Avraham  Rose to the lop of the internal Security service. Shin Beth. When a news photograph provided evidence that his Man murdered u couple of palestinian terrorist prison ers in Agency was caught trying 10 Frame an of inv commander however. Is nor and his aides resigned and received a presidential Pardon. Rafi Eitan did fairly Well too. He headed Lekom an intelligence unit set up outside Mossad to provide to ten Iab Lily by High officials which recruited the pollards land perhaps inti her american unknown 10 inc pollards to meal . Secrets. When the operation blew up Eilan also resigned and was rewarded with a top state owned Industry Job. To give the appearance of an investigation. Prime minister Shamir who served a decade in the mos sad appointed a non judicial Board which issued the expected Whitewash a Knesset committee under Abba Eban merely waggled a Finger Teloh Vracr. . Officials who talked to Eilan under Agrant of immunity believe he lied to them As a result a grand jury in Washington May indict him one of these Days along Lmh two israeli diplomats who were Spiri Ted oui of the country As the pollards were caught. None of the israelis charged with espionage in the United siak. Will be returned  trial instead they will continue to be protected by a coalition of cider up in Jerusalem that puts a  Fedorof he exposure Ofemi material involvement ahead of inc Long term Security Ime reits of the Kiaie. What has inc ugh Iasi Bonawe Sam calling Don for Israel it v wi1. Air Rufi workers Are . Syria s Asci i int Are muted to inc pro Arab till m the Gulf , had s supporters in the 1 Nih it stairs in Sid i heart