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Vol.45, No. 13
FRIDAY, MARCH 3!, 1967 -i- 19 ADAR 5727
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Call For Halt To GIA Subsidization
WASHINGTON, (JTA)'— Reslwndlng to indications tliat the Central Intelligence Agency, .despite recent disclosures, may be continuing subsidization of the antt-brael America Friends of the Middle East, Sen. Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, asked President JohVison to "bring an immediate halt" to such financing.
' Sen. Scott asked the President to end the flow of public funds yto "an organization whose principle objective is to conduct antl Israel propaganda in the United
States and to conduct activities that run counter to the stated objectives of American foreign policy."
NAMINO VHB ten foundations that dispensed CIA funds cov¬ ertly to AFME, Sen. Scott told how AFME financed Arab stu¬ dents who conducted anti-Israel propaganda campaigns at over 100 American colleges and unl- veisities. He asked the President to "bring an immediate halt to any U.S. Govemment funds that are going to AFMK and similar organizations, through whatever conduit," as well as to order an investigation on the full amount bf U.S. Government money that has gone to AFME and the pur¬ poses for which' this money was spent."
,The Senator quoted a number
of anti-Israel' and anti-Zionist statements by the AFME direc¬ tor.
AT THB SAME time, Sen. Scott complained to the United States Information Agency here that American books and period¬ icals in the U.S.I.A. library at Damascus are being censored so as to eliminate any references to Israel." However, a spokes¬ man for the USIA denied reports about censorship of books in the Damascus library. The spokes¬ man added that some Syri^ users of 'the library "might be taking such liberties," as Inking out the word "Israel" in a book, noting that such a Situation wafi beyond American control.
CHAIRMEN GIVE COINS TO MAYOR
Toseph F. Kass and Mrs. Joseph L. Schwartz, Goin-. munity and Women's Division chairmen of the 1967 Israel Bonds drive, presented Mayor SeHsfenbrenner with a set of uncirculated coins of the State of Israel lapt Tuesday. The coins are the first to be minted by the Government of Israel after a lapse of over 13 centuries. The coins werea gesture of good will from the Mayor of Jerusalem, ^ Teddy. Kollek, to Mayor Sensenbrenner. The. Mayor, has been a consistent purchaser of Israel Bonds for more than 12 years. ¦\    .
Education Causes Questioned Beliefs
' NEW YOUK, (JTA) — Amajority of college students do not find their religious beliefs affected by higher education, but' about 20 percent have reported that a college education has definitely caused them to question the fixed religious beliefs-tjiat they had held at the time ti>ey entered college,. It vites revealed after a survey of students at Bifooklyiti CoUege.     ;: ¦      '    ¦
The college, part of the City University of New York, has a majority  of  students  who   ai«
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' J&RUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel has asked the Government of Brazil to grant one of the three requests addressed to it for the extradiion of Franz Paul Stangl, the Nazi commandant of the ex¬ termination camps of nebllnlca and Sobibor, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol informed tiie Cabinet here.
The request that BrazU accede to one of the extradition appli¬ cations—filed in Brazil by Aus¬ tria, West Germany and Poland —^was made at a conference by Israeli Ambassador S, Divon with the BrazUian Foreign Min¬ ister, Mr. Eshkol reported. The Foreign Minister in Brazil said he will pass on Israel's requests to hls^ (Sovemment.
BttAZajAS attorneys haye raised doubts about the feasibil¬ ity of Stangl's extradition to aiiy country on the grounds that Bra¬ zU has a statute of limitations barring prosecution for any crime ccnnmitted more than 20 years before the apprehoisioh of the criminal. The case is now before the Brazilian Higli Court which will decide oh whether Stangl virUl be extradited.
ADL Meeting This Weekend
The eighteenth annual meeting of the Ohio-Kentucky Regional Board of "tfie"Aptl-Defamatlon League is taking place in Colum¬ bus this Saturday and Sunday, AprU 1 and 2, at the CSiristopher Inn. ¦ '
Opening with a banquet at 6:30 pjn. on Saturday evening, the meeting will conclude with a luncheon on Sunday. In the interim, there wiU be constant discussion and antdysis of prob¬ lems in the areas of race rela¬ tions and InterreUgious relations in Ohio and Kentucky.
THE KEITNOTX: speaker wUl be Alexander MUler, director of the National Community Ser¬ vice Division of the ADL. Sey¬ mour Ciorchoff, ,ADI< regional director wiU jpbi Milder in add- reissing the Saturday evening ses¬ sion.,,
, Mrs. Jack Resler is serving as chairman of the Reception Com- ihittee at the Saturday evening banquet. The foUowing members of iie ADL Regional Board are serving with her bn this commit¬ tee: Mr, Resler, Mr. and Mrs. MarkD. Feinknopf, Sr., WUUam Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer MeU- mani Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schecter and Mr. and Mrs. Isa¬ dore Topper.
Publication Day Changes
Your next issue of the Chronicle will arriye on Thursday. As a part of our continuing effort to im¬ prove, our service to, the ;Jev?ish community the Chronicle has chang'ed its puWiqation day from Friday to Thursday.   '
The Chronicle will also have a new look be¬ ginning with the next issue. We hope you like it. '
Jewish. Of the 2,471 students pol¬ led ilh the' svfrvey, 76 percent were Jewish, 11 percent CathoUc ahd 2 j percent .l^testant, Tlie total undergraduate, fuiUtlme en¬ rollment at the coUege is about
THE SURVEIT had been or¬ ganized by Herbert H. Strbup, dean 'of students, conducted; by outstahding students who ' hlad had pi«Vious experiehce in doing surveys' on, education; 'style 'of life: and reUgion, and was'com; pUed by Prof.: ^ehle MacGrefeoi*, assistant dean of students,- llie results showed: V ' .
1. More than "75 of those ihter- viewed said their coUege eduica- tion has not affected their con¬ cern with reUgibiis questions. Howevter, 20 percent reported that their coUege cducatioh had definitely caused them to ques¬ tion the fixed reUgious beUefs that they had helf upon .entering coUege andi witiiin this group, "the nature and existence of God was found to be th^ lats^st mat ,ter,:,ot»concem.'?......, i-iv^'.?-:;/.---
2. No inci^ased cbncem With religlouis questions had beeit found anibng 84.7. percent of the Jewish studentsii questioned, 55.T percent of the Protestants, and 51.9 percent of the Catholics.
3. Questions relating to the efr fects of religipn on dating and
The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporis
Campaign Closing Set For April 13 At Center
Marvin L. Glassman, general chainnan of the 1967 campaign of the United Jewish Fund and CpuncU, has announced that the campaign dosing function wlU be held on Thursday, April 13, at 8 pjn, at theJewish Center.
¦  Reports wiU be made that evening by aU Division chairmen, and the over^dl results of the campaign wiU be announced.
IN UROINO.all section and unit ciiairmen to spur their workers on to complete aUi solicitation
prior to the closingr date of AprU 13, Glassman stated: "We are now in the homestretch of the campaign. What we do from now until' AprU 13 wUl i^^termine whether 'ow final results wUl come up to the expectations iwith which-we began the campaign some three months ago, There are stlU people to be seen, pledges to be made,"
Division chaiithen of the 1967 campaign include the foUowing: Sidney I, Blatt, Advance Gifts; Nonnan  Meizlish,  TtradeB  and
Professions; Millard Cummins, Young Men'; Mrs. Alvin Schot¬ tenstein, Women; Mrs. Stanley Katz, (Young Matrons; Carol Glassmah tihd Gary Lewis, Jun¬ iors.
A program has been arranged for the meeting which wUl in¬ clude a musical skit presented Iby the Young Matron's group.
AI,L WORKERS in all divis¬ ion^ are being invited to the campaign closing. Refreshments wUlbe served at the soda) hqur which wiU foUow the meeting.
, , PARIS, (JTA) — Moslems, Christians and Jews from the Mediterranean region heard a prominent French-Jew¬ ish leader. Baron Edmond de RothchUd, of Paris, praise Is.rael's economy at a meeting in Tunis, closing a week-long seminar on the cultural, economic and social aspects of, Ufe in the Miediterranean region. The seminar was the second of a series being conducted abroad by the Institute on, Man and Science, an affUiate of the State University of New ¦YorR.' ¦   ¦       ¦
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Greater comprehension of the Israel Arabs' needs by the Government and the open-door policy pi the Histadrut, Israel's federation of labor, to this minority are creating bridges to peace In the region, Yusuf Khamls, one of Israel's leading Arabs, told the American Histadrut CJultural Exchange Institute here.
V. MONTRBAIi, (JTA) — Israel is prepared to receive more tlian 3,000,000 Jews now living in Russia "with open arms," Ted R. Lurie, editor of the Jerusalem Post told a gathering of the Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce here. Lurie, here as a guest of the Cianadlan government, said there are about 2,700,000 people now Uvlng In Israel and the country is facing economic difficulty, due, In part, to the drop-off in new housing.
LONPON, (JTA) — Preset reports here state that old Nazi marching songs are again being heard on West Ger¬ man parade grounds. Recruits at the Wesendor Air Force base In Lower Saxony are reportedly being taught the Hitierian tunes alth^ough they are on a Ust of songs ban¬ ned by the Bonn Defense Ministry In 1960 as being "politic¬ ally unsulted to the role of the^ German army."
s ' JOHANNESBURG, S. AI<RICA (JTA).— South Africa's seci^rlty police are probing the distribution In this country of fteo-Nazl literature, most of It emanating frpm the ,Amerl' c^p. Nazi Party In.the United States, and some from French sojurces, It was revealed here. It Is.believed that tliere are IfBzl ceUs In South Africa thajt maintain contact -wlth'coUn' Jordan's Fascist party In Britain,,as weU as-with',Nazism ^outh' America and In Europe. ' '    '   '      ,
marriage established that, whUe the majority of students would date someone outside, their Own religion, less than half had ever done so. More than 86 percent said they would not convert to the religion of thefr mates.
IPROF. MAOGREGOR said the figures showed that 74 percent bf the students queried favored the giving of a course on com¬ parative religion at Brooklyn CoUege, and 59 percent said they wpuld take such 0. course if' it was offered. Less than 25 per¬ cent of the students poUed said that their reUgious beUefs or philosophies had had "very much" influence on such matters as "cheating and social activities,"
Generally, Prof. MacGregor said, the survey showed that, OS a student's academic averagie increased, the Ukelihood of his having any fixed religious be¬ Uefs  diminished.
Ben-Gurion Is FuU Of Cheer
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Forniei: Premier David Ben-Gurion re¬ turned home from his journey to the West, which he had begun March 1, fuU bf cheer and par¬ ticularly enthusiastic over the quality of the American Jewish youth' whom he met during his visits to the United Stisites, and Canada.
''I bring you regards from the American Jewish youth," he told the welcoming committee tliat greeted him at Lydda Airport, "•These .youths are as good as those who had Come here during the'Secbhd Allyah," That phrase referred to the Jewish immigra¬ tion wliliih included many who are today the backbone of Is¬ rael's public life,
ABOUT 200 persons met Mr, Ben-Gurion and his wife at the airport. Included.were President Shazar's miUtary' aide; the assis¬ tant dh«ct6r-general of the For^ eign Ministry; leaders of Hista¬ drut, the IsraeU federation, of labor; and leaders of Rafi, the Israel Workers Party headed by Mr, Ben-Gurion. On hand also were members of his kibbutz at Sde Boker.
Lurie To Travel Ohio For *Bond^
Robert Lurie, of St, Louis, prominent figure in the fields of advertising and public relatiqns, renowned radio and television writer, director, producer end actor, and outstanding American Jewish Communal leader, wUl appear in Marlon Ohio, and Lima, Ohio, In behalf of State of Israel Bonds,
Ii^t Lima, he will appear at the
home of Mr, and Mr8<< James 1^
Teltelbaum, 503 Verhon Heights
Blvd., on Saturday, April 8, at
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Report Heard: 0n Visa Procedure
LONDON, (JTA)—The Board bf Deputies of British Jews beard a report here about procedures i^gardlng efforts by Jews in Britain to bring Soviet relatives to this country for a visit or for johihig theto famUles here. The report, given by JuUus Jung, chairman of the Board's AUens Committee, speUed out the pro¬ cedures 08 foUows:
"The Soviet authorities are normally unwilling to consider issuing a passport and exit per¬ mit until they are shown that there is a probability that t^ visa wiU subsequently be forthcoming. In these cfrcumstances, an ap¬ pUcation for a visa for a Soviet citizen to visit-or to Join rela* tives in this country is usually hiltiated lfl' the relatives here,
"IF SUCKl Inquiries as the Home Office Is able Ao' make hidlcate that visa may properly be granted, the British visa of¬ ficer in Moscow wlU be asked to send a letter t6 the .applicant in the Soviet Union, adv^lng him that, if he wlU arrange for a formal visa application to be submitted, it wiU be considered. Provided that the information re¬ ceived from the relatives In the United Kingdom is confirmed when his appUcation is received, a visa wiU be granted,
"If, in due course, ,thi Soviet authorities decide to Issue a pas»> port and exit penqlt, tiiey send the applicant's passport tpgether with the visa appUcation to the Briish visa officer in Moscow for the British visa to<be added."
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