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10 Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Thursday, July 14, 1963 Victim of 'redneck financier says Ethnic cooking set mm 1 RvHk.akdKt vdRHRLlkm Hk 'UZmm fBjgyT vaVBk IERaawJL: le ai Kp Hfl KJk RKOBaaRKmr Jv rrrbbI Raw v' Mm mmmm bbbbK: AVON PARK, Fla. (DPI) "ft Kafkaesque," said the Canadian financier kidnapped almost two years ago in Toronto and forcibly brought before a Florida court that reduced him to Inmate No. 062007. Indeed, when Sidney Leonard Jaffe tells his version of why he is doing 35 yean of hard time in a bleak prison in Central Florida he looks am sounds for all the world like a despairing character in a nightmarish tale by Austrian writer Franz Kafka. "How much can I bear?" Jaffe asked rhetorically during a prison interview.

"How much can my family bear?" said the entrepreneur who once wheeled and dealed on most of the continents, a former yachtsman and patron of the arts, now gaunt and ailing. "They tell me I've got Alzheimer's disease," said Jaffe, 59, referring to a brain-deteriorating affliction. The state of Florida convicted Jaffe on land sales charges and locked him up 20 months ago in its Avon Park Correctional Institute 80 miles southwest of Orlando. The case quickly escalated into an international incident. The Canadian government repeatedly has demanded Jaffe 's release, arguing that snatching him violated its long-standing extradition treaty with the United States.

Ottawa's protest notes support but fail to prove Jaffe's charge that Florida authorities were involved in the kidnap scheme. Under pressure from U.S. and Canadian authorities, the Florida governor's office looked into the charge and rejected it after an investigation Jaffe calls a "whitewash." Two agents of a Florida bailbond company have been extradited to Canada to stand trial for kidnapping Jaffe. "They both beat me savagely," Jaffe said of Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear, the Americans now free on bail and facing a Nov. 30 preliminary hearing in Toronto on charges of kidnapping him.

On Sept. 23, 1981 when he returned to his apartment building after jogging, Jaffe was accosted by two men who identified themselves as Canadian law enforcement officials. Jaffe desperately hopes his pending appeal of his conviction or a parole angular, sinewy arms and thin ankles jutted from his blue prison uniform. He clasped a sheaf of documents, just a few of the hundreds the one-time law student has prepared in an effort to prove his innocence and win freedom. Jaffe learned enough about electronics in the U.S.

Army Reserve and the Merchant Marine during World War TJ to work on small radio stations and then open a radio repair shop in Jamaica, N.Y. When he discovered he could cut a deal, he knew he was destined for bigger things. "The war was over," he explained. "There was a doom on. A lot of things were in short supply.

For example, there was a big demand overseas for refrigerators. I became aware that to sell five refrigerators was one thing, but to sell 50 of them was quite another. Exporters would pre -finance you if you could get hold of them." Jaffe could and did. "I would beg, cajole and wheedle," he said. "I'd say 'I can get you 25 refrigerators' and then I'd go out and buy them from builders who had more than they needed." Jaffe branched out into other products, shipping electrical conduits to Canada, scrap metal to Japan.

"The Korean War had started," he said. "The Japanese were making shell casings. I was hustling. I was running. I'd fly to Akron, go to the freight car.

I'd give a guy 20 bucks and say 'You and me can load this freight car It was during this period that Jaffe, bright but then not well educated, began what was to become a life-long love affair with the ballet. "A friend in New York invited me," he recalled fondly. "It was 'Giselle'. We got there for the second act. I just sat there like I was in a dream." Another life-long interest was playing basketball.

He contends that an injury on the court, suffered at the age of 57, was what prevented him from making that court appearance in Palatha. "I like the competition of basketball," he said. "I've tried to play some with the boys in here but I can't any more. It's like I'm Mr. Slow Motion.

I have this terrible lethargy." As a young man Jaffe opened an office in Tokyo where he learned fast from more experienced international exporters. for festival July 21 A free ethnic cooking show in conjunction with the 22nd Annual International Festival of the Pacific is scheduled for 7 to 9 m. on July 21, at the Helco auditorium. Eleanor Hirano and Maureen C. Thiele will be guest demonstrators in the show, "Ethnic Cooking and You." Hirano is a graduate of Hilo High School and holds a bachelor of science degree in Home Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

She is currently chief dietition at Hilo Hospital and has held that position since 1968. Her community activities include: Nutrition chairman of the American Heart Association-Hawaii Unit, Board member of the American Cancer Society and a member of the Zonta Club of Hilo. She has also received recognition for cancer education programs and nutrition programs for the Hawaii Heart Association. Thiele holds a bachelor of Science degree in food and nutritional sciences and a master degree in public health and nutrition. She was a former assistant specialist and field training coordinator for the School of Public Health at the University of Hawaii-Manoa and has been a public health nutritionist and registered dietition for the State Department of Health since 1979.

Her community activities are: Big Island representative for the Hawaii Public Health Association, volunteer for Hawaii Heart Association nutrition programs, volunteer for Easter Seals Infant Program and a member of Zonta Club of Hilo. Don Kakazu of Laupahoehoe will be master of ceremonies for the program. He is a graduate of Farrington High School on Oahu, holds a Bachelor of arts degree from Iowa Wesleyan University and received a master's degree in public health from the University of Hawaii 's School of Public Health. Kakazu' diverse work experiences include being a teacher and counselor for the United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, former health educator for the United States Public Health Service and a health educator with the State Department of Health. He is also a member of the American Cancer Society, Awareness House, American Public Health Association, Hawaii Public Health Association and Hawaii Health Council.

Recipes to be featured by Hirano are: Hawaiian stew, tinola, and tossed sukiyaki salad. Thiele will present: Fish with sweet-sour sauce, Bara sushi and pineapple, macadamia nut cake. Two dishes to be featured will be shared in recipe form. From HAWAIIAN STEW 2 tablespoons salad oil 1 clove garlic 3 lb. lean stew meat 2 cups water 2 tablespoons low sodium soy suace 1 bay leaf Vi teaspoon pepper 1 cup sliced round onions 1 cup cubed o-ya-imo 2 cups cubed potatoes 1 cup cubed carrots 1 cup poi 2 tomatoes, quartered Japanese taro In a large saucepan, heat oil, brown garlic; discard.

Brown meat, add water, soy sauce. bav leaf, nenoer and onoins. Simmer for 2 hours or until meat is tender. Add potatoes and carrots, o-ya-imo, poi, and tomatoes. Simmer 30 minutes longer.

Makes 12 services. From Thiele: FRIED FISH WITH SWEER SOUR SAUCE 2 lb. mahimahi 2 tablespoons salad oil Vi cup water SIDNEY JAFFE beaten, jailed will free him to testify in person that Johnsen and Kear threw him into a rental car, beat, bound and handcuffed him and drove him to Niagara Falls, N.Y., where they hustled him into a chartered jet which flew him to Orlando. Still in his jogging suit, Jaffe was placed in the Putnam County Jail in Palatha, where authorities claimed he had skipped his $137,000 bail on 28 counts of unlawful land sales practices. Five months after his abduction Jaffe became the first person convicted and sentenced under a tough new Florida land sales law.

Jaffe and some of his defenders contend he is a victim of "redneck justice." They say the "good ole boys" who comprise the establishment in rural Putnam County ganged up on him. They hint darkly that anti-Semitism played a part in the fall of the formerly wealthy entrepreneur born to a poor Jewish family in Manhattan. Florida officials responsible for putting Jaffe behind bars scoff at those charges, insisting that justice was done. They continue to work vigorously to block the release of a man they insist is a "swindler." It is a label that enrages Jaffe, who points out that he never was charged with fraud. He was convicted of procedural violations of the land sales law and of jumping bail when he failed to return for trial after pleading ill health.

Specifically, he was charged with issuing quit-claim deeds to lot buyers instead of warranty deeds which guarantee clear title. Jaffe is a man as complex as the case that wrecked his life and shattered the dreams of those who bought his lots. It is perhaps significant that his friends and enemies employ some of the same adjectives to describe him. Among those are "arrogant," "abrasive" and "brilliant." "I started with zero," said Jaffe. "You could say I was lower middle class." His six-foot-three frame filling a straight-back chair, Jaffe constantly chewed a cigar.

Puffing seldom and inhaling not at all, he had difficulty keeping it lit as he unleashed a torrent of words in his defense. His graying hair was touseled. His II oUalUac'i Ahu I Co. 3 tablespoons vinegar 3 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch teaspoon sesame oil 1 clove garlic 1 slice ginger root 2 green onions, minced. In a skillet, saute fish in oil until lightly browned.

Drain on absorbent paper and place on serving dish keep warm. In a saucepan, combine remaining ingredients except onions. Cook, stir constantly until mixture thickens. Add onions. Pour over fish.

Makes 6 servings. There will be free recipe booklets and door prizes. The public is invited to this free demonstration. Co-sponsors are Hawaiian Electric Light Company, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hawaii, Hawaii Chefs and Purveyors Association, and the Hawaii Heart Association. The Sound of Music to be shown The University of Hawaii-Hilo Theater will hold a special children's matinee of the summer musical, "The Sound of Music," on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Children will be admitted to the theater for a reduced price. The show is in its final weekend as the main offering of the UHH's three-show season, which also includes the adult play, Hot Baltimore, and the touring children's show, One Inch Fellow. "The Sound of Music," is designed as family entertainment. Call the University Theater for further information. I I 'Oj "Oobins rirfS DOWNTOWN 216 KAM.

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