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THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1968-28 ADAR
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UaS.S.R. VisHor Reveals Arrests
liONDON OVKS) A British traveler wbo recently re. turned firam a visit to tbe Soviet Udon tas reported tliat a iDumber at Jews were arrested tiiere in tbe wake of last June's Sbc-Dagr War and tbat tbeir families to tbis day bave not been told tii? reason for tbeir arrests. Tbe rnddentified traveler said tte arrests were preceded b/ bouse searches.
ONE OF the arrests oc¬ curred in Vilna, cs^iial of the Soviet Republic of Lit- Iniania, wbere a Jew Igr die name of Israel Leites was arrested last June afier a boose search that was said not to have produced a sing^ incriminating bit cCevIdence Dgaiiiist the man. His family, the traveler said, does not knoiirtn this day where Mr. Leites is being held. The only possiUe crime of die I«ites family, be noted, was fln fact it bad an exit permit for Israel it obtsdned firam tbe VOna inunigraUaa oiBce in - Goaformity wiUi Soviet res- tdations.
Anatber arrest toolc ilace in Moscow. The detained Jew wasValentinFrumakow, a young man i^bo lived wfflt Us'mother.; A search,of bis Inme uncovered a. booklet with Jewisb natiooal songs. Be was arrested early in sparing ct 1967 and nothing ,has been heard from trim..
SIMILAR post-June 1967 arrests were reported in oOer Soviet areas.
Tbe Jewisb situationinthe Soviet Uidan also erqpled in¬ to debate on tlie floor (f the House of Commons and at a "teach in^' on the pl]^ tf Soviet Jewry under tbe aegis tf tbelnter-Universily Jewish Federation and the youth section tf the Jewish National Find.
IN TBE Bouse tf Com¬ mons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson declared in r^ply to an inquiry that he did not "tliink there would be any advantage in making, finrdier rqresentatinnH at jp%sent",to Itemier Kbsy- ^ tf the Soviet Udon on the treatment tf Jews in
Russia. Tbe Prime Minister bad spoken to Mr. Kosygin OD tlie Jewish situation wiien he visited the Soviet Union In January. On his return, be bidicated thatSovietlead- ers were adamant in their refiisal to permit Jews to leave the country.
France
Pledges
Planes
PARIS, CJTA)  ~ The French Government has promised Israel a definite dedsioa earl;^, iln Aprfl^'on the .release' of '50 Mirage ' IV JetQgitertboinbers wiiich Israel ordered early last year, delivery tf vbieb bas beoi blocked by tbe embargo - on sUpments tf armstotbe Middle East InqiosedlorGen. ¦ de GedUe last June.
The Qiestifln tf release tf the ploies was discussed by Israel Ambassador Wai- - ter Eytan and Prime AQn- ister Georges Pcnnpidou, it was learned.
THE ISRAEU envoy, it was understood, pcdntedoot to the PriioB iMinister tliat under the terms tf Israel's contract irith DessauU, the builders tf the Mirage planes, Israel is scheduled to make a stibstantial fior- thar payment oo account and wants aane.assurance, be¬ fore making tids payment, tbat tfae French Government will permit delivery tf tlie aircraft.
Campaign Results Continue To Rise
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MEETS WITH LADY BIRD
Mrs. I^ndon B. Johnson, Mrs. Arthur Goldberg, wife tf tbe UJS. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mrs. Leonard' H. Weiner of Detroit, National President of the National CouncU of Jewish Women, adndre a leather-bound copy of NCJW's 75th Annir versary book which was presented to the first iady at a Widte House tea for NCJW. Council women were invited to the White House during their recent three- day legislative institute Iwld bi Washington.
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BONN (WNS) Foreign Minister WiUyBrandtcoupled a demand for a courttesttf the legality of the National Democratic Party with a charge tbat neo-nazism was treason to tbe country.'
However, there were indicatiaos tbat if the Bonn govemment moves for a court determination, it will act cautiously since- a neg^ve finding fay the~^Idgh court would enhance the party's stafaue.
STUTTGART (WNS) .One tf the Ioi«est war crimes trials ended here tids week withthe prosecutloncaUing for atjidlty verdict and the imi^iQen of life ternis on seven tf tlie eight defendants and a foUryear term for another: The defendiuit$,;all tf them form^ Nazi officials, were charged in tiie indictment with responsibility for the mass murder tf'Jews in tiie diy tf Lemberg, nowLwow,duringthe>Nazi occUpaticn tf PoIand.'''lPour other defendants are expected to . be-acquitted on motion of tbe prosecutlan.
TUSCON (WNS)ResidentstfthiB.cityhavebeenurged fay a committee tf leading Christians to demonstrate their "true ciiristlan brotherhiDo4 fellowship, and charity" fay contributing to Tucson's Combined Jewish AppeaL William R. Matliews, editor tf the Arizona Daily-Star, is chairman tf the committee. Tuscon's Combined Jewish Appeal includes the lAdted Jewish Appeal, the Israel Emergency Fund and the regular budget tf the Jewish Community CounqlL
As the 1968 Campaign of the United Jewish Fund and Council enters its final stages every division is hard at work completing its as¬ signments so that, the sue- > cess of the'early efforts may be maintained in both the Regular and the Emergency Fund Campaigns.
Accordbig to Sidney I. Blatti General chairman,the' campaign lists are alreiidy replete with increased gifts to boUi drives. Now, men and women in all'divisions, at all levels of giving, are being called upon to join with those.who have already made their pledges, to see to it that they match in- creaised costs and increased " needs for the on-going work at home and abroad with in¬ creased giving.
Blatt emphasized thatthe emergency now in Israel, evident to anyone who reads papers or listens to radio or watches T.V., makes im¬ perative additional gifts to the Israel EmergencyFund.
Blatt expressed his satis¬ faction jvith, the results to date', in every Division, he especially commended the Women's Division, including the Young Matrons, which Irais already sinr^sed any j^evloiis fund-raising effort. He also called attention to the remarkable achievement of the Junior Division^ which, as the: result of several in¬ novations and ti lot of %rd work, has mpre.yiandoubled, past perfwmaQces.
THE DATE-ftir the Cam¬ paign Fimde has been set for Ainrll 15. Htfore that.dato. It ir'the aim of every Di¬ vision leader. Section Chair¬ man and Worker, to have every ])rost)ect seen, andthe highest possible gifts se¬ cured to both the Regular and the Emergency Fund
Campaigns, if Columbus is to* measure uP to the greatness: of the  chaUenge  in 1968.    '
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HE SAH) thatthree^bases [ of El Fatali were destroy^-- | the largest center inthe Car- j, ' an^eh village north tf Jer- ! Icho and Safl and Hirbet ] Hinzir. $outh of the Dead.,; i Sea. He reported that 150 } Fatah members were kiUed \ in action and others were { taken for questioning. In ad- | ditim to captured weapons, | he said, maps and opera¬ tion schedules were found. ,
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The Tragedy That Might Have Been Disaster
BYI.SHARGIL BEES QRAH, NEGEV
A crippled bus, leaning at a sharp angle brtween two desert bushes on a remote bat hearily travelled Negev Ugfainy, gave nudp evidence tf a tne^edy tiiat micM have been a disaster.
Only a ton hours earlier the bus ms filled witbyoang- stDrs—seventh and eiE^di- graders firom Tel Avlf'a H^^l^^^^^ah academy—In Ug^ siArits on the second daytf a five day sight-seeing ex¬ cursion tbat was intended to aoqpaint tbem with the ge- Qgrt^fy and natural beaottes tf ttelr coBitiy. S was the final trip tf tbe scboDl year, < one they bad anticipated for
months.
THE BIB, a late model Leyland, was tfae secood in a convoy tf three. The 24 year-tfd driver decided to pass tbe bus ahead to avoid the dkist it was raising.^He accelerated. His left firont wteel strode an anU-vefalcle mine, one tbat experts later identified as a Britlsb-made Mark vn consisting tf 71/2 kilograms tf Idgh explo¬ sives. , N
We heard anex^oslot. We wbre showered wttb glass splinters. Everything was blade, IbeardsomebodS^ cry¬ ing and Bomebody shouting, 'it's a ndnel*" a 17 year- I old girl wlio was apassenger dn tbe bus ttfd me .later in EUat. Her blouse and Uue jeans were covered wttb dust
and spots tf Uood as she' vraited in line to use a tele¬ phone to caU her parents and teU them that she was safi9.
SHE was one tf 20 young-' sters wdio suffered minor injuries and were treated at a first aid station hi'EUat. Nine seriously Injured were taken to EUat airport where , a Nordatias transport plane ' was called to fly them to bosidtals in Tel Aviv. Hun¬ dred tf EUat citizens came to-'^the airport offering to donate Uood.
Two tf the bus passen¬ gers were dead. Or. Pesach Meilin, one tf several phy- ' aiclans vdio accompapledthe youngsters on the excursion and'Hannan Kalev,* a Herz¬ liah graduate who had vol-'
unteerfed to serve as a coun¬ sellor occupied seats direct¬ ly over the front left wheel. ' OBS^VERSat the scene said thn only amlraclepite- vented more injuries and deaths. Nevertheless, It was the worst disaster to lot a civilian vehicle hi the mount-; /ing campaign'tf terror and sabotage coming from across the. Jordanian bor¬ der. There' were fbw here today who dldi^t predict that tt would have dire conse¬ quences.
' The road near Beer Qrah Ues less tban 2 1/2, miles from the Jordanian frontier. The land is rocky, arid and largely deserted, ideal for intUtrators and their Ut- and-run tactics. Only Sun¬ day, three occupants tf a
civUian taxi were injured when the vehicle struck a mine inthe same area.
THE DAMAGED school bus was StiU fiUed withthe belongings tf Ite occujiants when I inspected it. There were dufflebagS^d camping kite strewn over>tiie floor, a girl's shoe here^^other there. Tbe driver escaped injuxy when he was Un^oMn clear by tfae explosion.
There was no panic, J was told. The youngsters quickly recovered ftom the shock and had started to tend the Injured when other cars came along and, soon, am¬ bulances firom EUat. Army engineers arrived on the scene quickly to search for more mines. Within a half- hour, aU tf the youngsters
were on tbeir way back to EUat.
¦QBVIOtSLY the marauw^ ders wlw planted the mine were Intent on causing ci- viUan casualties. The road is weU traveled by cIvlUan vehicles Including many scbool busses. It was near a bus stop that the taxi struck a mine Sunday, a mine that waci apparently intended for a crowded bus.
.TMi9 latest incident may weU made anewtuming point in Israel's struggle with her enemles—a turning ptfnt sucl) as that reached in 1956 whenthe Fedaheon campaign against civilians reached ite Uood peak.^''At least, that Isv j what everytXK here believes.   ,
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