The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 25

12-- 2 Friday, March 18, 1977 THE HERALD State-sent clients to be iunded Regner bill to aid social agencies by DIANE GRANAT State Sen. David Regner, R-Mount Prospect, is sponsoring legislation in the Illinois General Assembly to remove the financial burden nonprofit social agencies are facing because of the large number of clients they are being assigned by the state. Aencies such as Clearbrook Center for the handicapped in Rolling Meadows would benefit from Regner's bill. The bill would require the Illinois Dept. of Mental Health to pay the full cost of social and vocational rehabili- tfltlon and other activities for clients placed by the state.

Regner said the Dept. of Mental Health prefers to place clients in communities that offer social activities and rehabilitation rather than confine them to state institution rather than confine them to state institutions. "EXPERTS CLAIM rehabilitation is easier when the patient is removed from the hospital environment," Regner said. He said, however, putting patients in local communities "can shift the burden of financial support from the state to the community and social agency." If the proposed legislation is passed, Regner said, "communities wouldn't be saddled with the cost of treatment mandated by the state." A report from Clearbrook urging support of Regner's bill said agencies such as Clearbrook, which are supported largely by charitable contributions and community grants, are not receiving full payment from the state for the vocational rehabilitation services they offer. The Clearbrook report said patients placed in profit-making residential facilities that do not have vocational training workshops are sent to workshops operated by nonprofit agencies such as Clearbrook.

BECAUSE THE state does not fully reimburse Clearbrook for providing a i a training and transportation, Clearbrook loses approximately $320 per month on each vocational trainee placed by the Dept. of Mental Health, the report said. The report said Clearbrook also faces the problem of communities reducing contributions because they question whether the clients using Clearbrook's workshop are local residents entitled to local tax money. Palatine Township has refused to make payments to Clearbrook to help the center expand its services for clients coming from for-profit residential facilities, Marc Savard, Clearbrook's executive director said. He died wiDingly Death did not frighten slain Israeli commando by WILLIAM SILBERG ITHACA, N.Y.

(UPI) They named the Entebbe raid in his honor, birt he was somewhat of an Israeli Ifgend even before "Operation Jonathan." the rescue mission which took his life. Dr. Benzlon Netanyahu speaks of his son, Jonathan, with a pride tempered only by the sadness of the young commando's loss to a Ugandan sniper. For it was Lt. Col.

Jonathan Netan- yahu, who led the lightning Entebbe raid July 4, 1976. "Yoni," as Ms friends and family call him, was the only Israeli commando killed in the raid. I A I SCHOOLS, suburbs, parks, foresta and scholarship funds now bear his name as does the astonishing Israeli military operation in which more than 100 hostages were rescued from terrorists at Uganda's Entebbe airport. Distinguished in the 1967 and 1973 wars and other military engagements, Col. Netanyahu uga regarded by Sany as a future candidate for Istel's Chief of Staff.

He also was considered an expert soldier and strategist, endeared to his comrades by what some described simply as his "humanity." The elder Netanyahu has returned to this small upstate New York community after several months in Israel to resume his duties as a professor at Cornell University duties shattered last July by the sniper's bullet. YONI'S PRESENCE, in clippings, letters, documents and medals, is strong hi the Netanyahu home. The material, as his father notes, "is endless." "We got many hundreds of letters from all over the world," he said. "The first outpouring of grief was from the army from the top generals to the common soldiers." There is no bitterness in the voice of the renowned Jewish scholar and Zionist as he speaks of his sdn. He is extremely doubtful that what happened at Entebbe could have been avoided.

"IT WAS THE compulsion of necessity and the force of logic that combined to produce both the achievement and the tragedy," he said. "All considered," he added, "the government of Israel could net em'- bark on any other course. The chiefs of the army could not entrust the rescue but to their choice commando units. And Yoni, given Ms duties and convictions, could not have acted other than he did." The consequence of his commitment was something Yoni understood. "Death does not frighten me." he wrote at the age of 17.

"If it is necessary for me to lay down my life in the attainment of an important goal, I will do so willingly." THE WHOLE OF Israel mourned the young commando's death, as did a majority of Jews across the world. But the letters of condolence came to the Netanyahu home from Jew and non-Jew the world over, from people to whom Yoni and his Entebbe rescue party symbolized free men defying (tie rule of terror. "There ore letters also from those who knew the American-born soldier US a student and friend, either in high school in Philadelphia or in college at Harvard. Mis father says some of these are among the most touching. In tribute to Yoni, Israel's Hebrew University has established a memorial scholarship fund and an award.

A similar scholarship fund has been set up at Cornell University. AN ISRAELI-BASED research organization called the Jonathan Institute also has been created. The public committee which backs institute fa a collection of Israeli no- JONATHAN NETANYAHU tables, chaired by former Prime Minister Golda Meir. An outstanding student and a sparkling writer whom many considered poetic, Yoni loved the academic life. But his love for his studies was not nearly as intense as his devotion to Israel.

"He was dreaming of resuming his studies and planned to do so time and again," his father says. "Yet he always conditioned his return to Harvard on the relaxation of the military tensions." IN FACT, the young soldier had planned to return to Harvard this summer. He indicated his desire in his last letter with the words "if there will be no unforseen surprises." Born in New York City in 1946, Yoni went with his parents to Israel two years later and was raised there. He returned to the United States in 1963 when his father was invited to become a professor at Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Yoni finished high school in Philadelphia and then returned to Israel to join the army.

After being wounded in the 1967 Six-Day War, he came back to the states to study at Harvard. YONI DECIDED to leave Harvard after a year and return to Israel to rejoin the army. "At this time," he wrote in a letter, "I should be defending my country. Harvard is a luxury I cannot afford." He finally returned to Harvard, but only for the summer of 1973. Again his love for the academic life gave way to what he considered his primary duties.

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But he thought his contribution as an expert soldier to the defense of his people could be of some value, and he felt committed to give it." Yoni did not speak of his military accomplishments either with his family or his friends. The Entebbe raid would not have made him a celebrity had he lived to see its completion. Even the release of his name and the details of the operation were breaks with the ordinarily tight-lipped Israeli military practice. THE RESULTING publicity has not been easy for his family. The spotlight can be glaring and harsh at times and the genuinely-felt tributes, while welcome, can hardly ease the grief.

Neither of Yoni's parents has seen the television-movie accounts of the Entebbe raid. They also have not read many of the books and articles either by choice or because there just hasn't been time. "Some of the have read seem to contain a considerable amount of fiction," his father says. "I take much of what I read with a grain of salt. In any case, it is clear that the story of Yoni's life has yet to be told Did Yoni think terrorism could ba checked? "YES," HIS FATHER said, "if It met with a sustained expression of outrage on the part of Western public opinion, and with determined, concerted action on the part of all governments of the free worlds." What would be Yoni's view of the stance some democratic states now take against terrorists? "He would, I think, express great dismay and concern at the weakness and indecision displayed by some democracies toward this phenomenon," his father said.

"He felt that there are principles that must be upheld if civilization itself-is to survive." "FURTHERMORE HE believed that the current terrorism strikes at the foundations of the free world. Some countries are trying to avoid confronting it as if they can escape involvement. But the whole world is already involved." Perhasp they are the words Yoni would have used. They may serve as yet another tribute to his memory, like the powerful eulogy delivered by I a i Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Comparing Jonathan of Entebbe to Jonathan the son of Saul, Peres said at the young soldier's grave: "The same heroism in the man.

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