Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1970-05-21

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VOL.48; NO. 21
AAAY 21, 1970— I YAR 15
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Pilots
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - New intelligence reports indicate an increase in the number of Russian pilots in Egypt, il.was disclosed here this week.
American and other Western sources report that about 100 Soviet pilots were sent there in recent weeks to man three or four squadrons of jet interceptors. They are in addition to'-.70-80 pilots known to have been in Egypt.
Some intelligence sources estimate the strength of the Soviet military advisory force in Egypt at 8000Ji),000 men. Oth& sources place it at 6000 men who, with their families, comprise a 20,000- member Russian qolony in Egypt. At the beginning of¬ the year there were believed to have been no more than
¦ State Department spokesman Robert ,J. Mc¬ Closkey said that there was no -confitriiation   of   the
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Population Survey Is Ready
JERUSALEM (WNS) - Israeli Relations with African states has grown since the Sjx-Day Vlar to the point where Jerusalem had 30 diplotnatic missions and ^ development cooperation programs on that' con¬ tinent. Foreign Minister Abba Eban reported.
Ckimmunication was one area where Israel was active and Israeli phone installations have been in-' stalled in six West African coutries and Ethiopia.
JERUSALEM (WNS) - Israel has asked Paraguay to punish to the full extent of the law two Arab terrorists who killed ah Israel,worker at the Embassy in Asuncion during an attack on ithe diplomatic mission. Another Israeli was wounded in the brief incident.
-Two men, who said they were '^filiated with the Arab El Fatah terrorist movement v^ere captured by police as they tried to escape.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - The Department of Agriculture has announced it will deliver $43.2 million worth of farm products to Israel by year's end. The shipments are authorized under PL-40, tlie' United States'food-aid program.
NEW YORK, (JTA) - The 100th anniversary of the Yiddish press in the United States was celebrated here by-more than 2,000 peirsons. The celebration was arranged by J. L. Peretz Verem, the Yiddish writers Union,   -
President Nixon, in a message addressed to the gathering, lauded, the role yrhich the Yiddish press played in the development of Jewish cultural, social and econiom'ic life in the country and in bringing Jewish irnmigrants closer to American life.
Eb^n Appeal Rejected
Mrs, Samuel Mi Melton, Chairman of the Demographic
Study Committee of the United Jewish Fund and Coiincii, has
announced that the Study, which was conducted during 1969,
has been completed and is now ready fdr distribution and ¦¦•study;. ,.,>;;. ,     ¦¦¦ ;,¦¦ ¦
The -Population Survey of the Jewish Community of
Columbus was prepared by Dr. Albert Mayer, sociologist at ,, the University of Arizona, who has done studies of other
Jewisli communities, including Detroit, Flint, Michigan, and
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The  survey   data   was
secured fromquestionnaires
completed  by  a  teaiii   of
interviewers,.largely trained
volunteers. This part Covers
a wide range of subjects of
interest and importance to
the communfty. Di".    May^    was    in
ColuQibus  lasi  week, ] to
discuss the results of the
-sitfvey with several groups
antkcommittees consisting of
lay and professional people:
He met with the executive
Directors of the beneficiary
agencies of the UJFC. Other meetings Were held
with    the     Ohio     State,
Uniyersity Faculty. Dr. Si
Dinitz  and  Rabbi  Nathan
Gayjior   arranged,  these
meetings. Dr.  Mayer also
met with the Council of Jew¬ ish Educators, the Columbus
Board    Of    Rabbis,    the
CDlumbus  Chapter  of  the
National   Conference   of
Jewish Conimunal Servicie,
and with key leadership of
the UJFC and the boards of
the other agencies involved
Mrs. Samuel AAelton
in the study. Presidents and the delegates of the Council of Organizations were also invited t6 meet with Dr. Mayer, to hear hinv review his findings.' '
This is- the first com¬ prehensive demographic study   ever   made   ofythe
Columbus Jewish com¬ munity; it includes basic population facts, socio-< economic, characteristics and conmiuhal activities, as well ets attitudes and views of the community.
With the growing and changing needs of the Jewish community, the Study was undertaken by the UJFC and financed by the Columbus Jewish Welfare Foudation, to secure objective and basic information and knowledge about the Jewish population, so that community planning could take place in¬ telligently, rather than by trial and error.
The. demographer, /D,r, Mayer, is' a Professor of Sociology at Arizona State Universiiy. The professional staff of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fund also served as con¬ sultants. Professional lay leadership and volunteers, who assisted in the planning and served as interviewers.
The' information gathered will be made available to agencies, institutions and' organizations. Thc results of the study will aid the UJFC in building and maintaining
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ixon
Greets
Israel
JERUSALEM (WNS) -El Fatah, the Palestinian terrorist organization which claims to speak for the Arab refugees, has rejected a peace appeal by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban,
While the terrorist group was rejecting Israeli peace ef- forts j its attempt to deny the existence of a sovereign Jewish nation has started to receive some support from non-Arab religiousgroiips, reports by Western newsmen from Lebanon
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urged the Palestinians to take the lead in forming an independent Palestinian Arab state in parts of the former Mandated territory to co<'xist with Israel.
His reference was to Jordan, .formerly Trans- Jordan, which weCs split off by the British for political reasons from the Palestine mandate given to Englaiid by the League' of Nations. Some reports of the Eban remarks said that he in¬ dicated parts of' the West Bank might be included in a reconstituted Jordan Palestine.
Mr, Eban's suggestion was also opposed in Israel by some leaders on the Gahal (Herut-Liberal) Parly who consider all of the former Mandated territory- including tlie West Bank and Jordan-part of the Holy La'nd, Menahem Beigin, Gahal Minister-Wilhout- Portfolio, has threatened to break up, the Ciovemment coalition if the Cabinet adopts even the more moderate Allon plan which calls for partition of the West Bank wilh the establishment of Israeli settlements only in uninhabit^ areas.
El Fatah radio in Cairo called  the  Eban  proposal
President Richard Nixon congratulated Israel on ils 22nd: anniversary. The following letter, daled Apr. 28 was senl to Zalman Shazer, President of Israel:
Dear Mr. President: On the occasion of the twenty-isecond anniversary of Israel's independence, the people of the United Stales share your satisfaction in your country's achieveipents.
Israel's courage ^prdgress continue to my respect, and achievements have impressive. It is my that the coming year will be crowned with the peace we all seek and desire.
It is a pleasure on this occasion to send you my congratulations and sincere bestwishes.
Sincerely, Richard Nixon
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"just andlher Israeli maneuver" while Jordan's scimiHifficial newspaper, Al Destoiir, urged Palestinians to increase their resistance.
Political observers in Israel noted the El Fatah's reaction was consistent with its rejection of the idea of a sovereign Jewish state. The terrorist groups have con¬ tended in their public pronouncements that they were fighting against "Zionist expansion" and for the establishment of a multi¬ racial Palestinian slate. This, in effect, means an Arabic Palestine.
Arab' attempts to develop political pressure to deny Israel the right to exist as a sovereign Jewish slate has begun lo show results among some religious and lay leaders of Christian groups. About 250 clergymen and laymen represent^ing Protestant,, Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches all over the wprld held the first Wiirld Conference of Christians for Palestine in Beirut 'and called for '"the total liberation of Palestine" while severely condemning Israel..
The statement of purpose of t|ie Conference, Western newsmen reported from ' Lebanon, "reaffirmed the solidarity bf the participants wilh the Palestinian cause," and pledged the-group to "fight for justice with the Palestinians" and "denounced erroneous in¬ terpretations of the Bible tending to serve a parlisan policy."      "
Never'~' Harmed Anyone
DUSSELDORF, (JTA) - Franz Stangl, former commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, told a court here this week that he never harmed anyone.
The prosecution charged that he sent more than 400,000 Jews to the gas chambers or had them shot at Treblinka, in 1942 and 1943.
According lo the prosecution Stangl was promoted and decorated as tiie death camp, com¬ mandant who contributed . most to the extermination of Jews.
The 62 year old former SS officer is the firsl com- mandantj of a Nazi ex- termination camp to be tried • by,a West German courl.
A spectator in the court was Simon Wiesenthal, director of tlie Nazi war crimes documentation center in. Vienna, who flushed Stangl out of his haven in Brazil three years ago,
Wiesenthal told newsmen, "In my eyes he is the number three Nazi criminal after Marlin Bormahn and Gestapo chief Mueller, if they are still alive,"
UN Maneuver
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JTA) - The United Nations Secuirity Council quickly adopted this week at an emergency session a resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon and remained in session in response to Soviet-Arab maneuvers geared to inoves to seek a resolution imposing sanctions on Israel.
Prospects were Considered slim for adoption pf a sanc¬ tions resolution, particularly in view of the fact that Israel had started withdrawal from its anti-querrilla foray into the Mount Hermon Lebanese border area almost simultaneously with adoption of the Spanish- sponsored withdrawal . resolutioii^.
However^ observers viewed the effort as part of a developing Soviet global strategy, aimed at diminishing United Slates influence throughout the world, particularly in the Mideast.
The Council meetings were extraordinary in many respects, ^hey included a series of sharp exchanges
H United States envoy Yost, Britain's Lord and Soviet^ envoy Yacob Malik over respon¬ sibilily for the Mideast deadlock.
Anotlier development was, a complaint by Israeli envoy^ Yosef Tekoah that ttie UN was treating the Soviet Union "like Red Riding Hood's grandmother rather than like the bloodthirsty wolf that it. is."   ,
Tekoah, responding to a description of Israeli leaders ,by Malik as '"military maniacs," retorted that the Soviet   Union   should   be
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"placed on the defendant's bench to answer for Its dangerous and nefarious behavior" in  the Mideast.
Still another novelty was a ', flat charge by Lord Caradon, that Malik lied in charging the U. S. and Britain were showing "reluctance" about insisting that Israel with¬ draw from occupied Arab territories. Yost said the same thing in gentler language.
Another unique eyent was citation by Syrian Am¬ bassador George Tomeh of dispatches in the Jewish Telegraphic Agehcy daily bulletin in support of a charge that the Israeli raid into Lebanon was of the "same patlern" as the United States thrust into Cambodia, He read a JTA dispatch of May 5 which quoted Time hiagazine as; saying that Israeli diplomats feared that-if the U. S, did not aid Cambodia, the Kremhn Would be encouraged to step up its activities in the Mideast.
Dr. Tomeh cited another JTA slory of the siame date which quoted Rabbi Balfour Brickner, dirtctor of inter¬ faith activities of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, as warning that the failure of organized Jewry   to   join   in   anti-
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