Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1970-05-28

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VOL. 48. NO. 22
AAAY 28, 1970 - I YAR 22
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Russia Admits
Stepup
LONDON, (JTA) - Soviet Premier Kosygin acknowledged this week that the Arab states were receiving "extensive aid" frdm^ the Soviet Union sd. "Jhey can successfully defend their legitimate ' national rights."
He declared, however, that
the Soviet Union  "is con-
¦ 6istently working to have the
earliest political settlement
in the Middle East."
Kosygin's statement, distributed by Tass, the ' official Soviet news agency, was in reply to a letter sent, to him by the chief of s(ate of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan who held a non-Arab Moslem "summit" meeting at Izmir,' Turkey two weeks ago.
llieir letter, dated May 7, 'was also sent to the heads of the Western Powers. The three leaders appealed to, them to "insure undelayed withdrawal of the Israelj armed forces from the territdries occupied by them in June, 1967."
Ihey said, according to thq Tass version, that "this would be fully in compliance with'all provisions of the Security Council resolution of Nov. 22,1967. The heed; of such action is becoming evec more pressing now."
According to Tass Kosygui replied that the Soviet government agreed "with the demand expressed by you that it i^ necessary ;tp
WASHINGTON (WNS) -The United States will supply Israel by the end of 1970 with $43.2 million worth of farm products under the PL-40 food-aid program, according to a Department of Agriculture an¬ nouncement.
JERUSALEM  (WNS)  - Hanna Maron, one pf
Israel's favorite actresses, returned home after three
months in a Munich hospital where she was recovering
from an Arab terrorist attack on El Al passengers at
, Munich Airport which resulted in her losing a leg.
' < Miss,Maron, after a tearful reunion with her
childreii; promised she would return to the stagd. She
I    has been fitted with an artificial leg.     ,
LOS ANGELES (WNS) - The. Israeli Intemational Tennis Foundation has received a $10,000 gift from Armistead B. Carter for the building of the Carter Tennis Center in Israel.
The center is already under construction and will consist of,two-tennis ciDurts.Th^ donor is a resident of ' San Diego and brother of-Admiral Carter of the United ' States Navy.
LONDON (JTA) - Nelly Sachs, 78, the Berlin-born
Swedish poet who shared the 1966 Nobel Prize for
Literature, died in Stockholm, Miss Sachs escaped
' from Berlin in 1940 with her mother to avoid detention
by the Nazis.
Ihe West German city of Dortmund established the
'   Nelly Sachs Foundation for young writers in 1961
marking her 70th birthday.
JERUSALEM (WNS) - An^pic era in Israel may
' have cdAie to an end with the announcement by former
¦' t>remier Dayjd Ben-Gurion that he had resigned from
' ihe tOiessetlbecause he found it "impossible to spare
-v-i any rtipre of my time for parliament^y work."
Eban Meets With US
JERUSALEM (WNS) - Premier Meir was scheduled to make d mStjor policy statement in the Knesset after Foreign Minister Abba Eban returns to Jerusalem to report on his high-level talks with United States officials in Washington.
The Israeli Cloveniment was interested not only in ob¬ taining morie American jets to counter increased Spviet arms to the Arabs, but also in art official U. S. warning to Moscow against further involvement in the Mideast.
The Premier had told the
U. S-Ambassador that Israel would defend the Suez Canal zone "with all its strength" and would oppose extension of Egypt's defense system there < "regardless of who is
nBhe meeting with Am¬ bassador Walworth Barbour, durihg which additional information on Soviet military involvement was suppUed to the U. S., took place' as Mr. Eban was meeting in Washington with American officials.
In Washington, U.S. of¬ ficials continued to report that the evaluation of Israel's needs for more jets was still in progress. But unofficial reports tended to indicate that the Nixon Administration's response 'would be negative and Mr.
Oil Reps Try To Slow Israel Aid
in
iWASHINtrTON, (JTA) - Oil company officials, meeting which carries oilfrom Saudi
privately ¦wi^ Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco, Arabiato the Mediterranean
warned hiin ,that military aid to Israel, especially planes, was sabotaged recently ir
wotild severely damage^ relations between the United States Syria.
^„ „ ^_^ ^ „    and Arab nations and jeopardize U. S. oil interests in,the The   Syrian   government
haVe imdelayed withdrawal   ! Middle East, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned this will hot permit technicians
of the Israeli armed forc^    week.'-,   ,                       effect of politics on  their '""'*''° """"*"'*""'"''''" "
Ten.representatives of the
from the Arab territories
¦rte .reply continued, "It has to be stated with regret that there are still serious obstacles on the road toward relaxation of the tension and toward establishment of a lasting {ieace in the Middle East.
Saudi-Arabian based . Arabian-American Oil Company . and its four owners-Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of California, Texaco and MobU-flew to Washington last wreck  to  discuss  the
interests,    according    to sources.
Representatives of ARAMCO were said to be concerned with efforts to soothe Arabian nerves in the Middle East and to get its Trans-Arabian pipeline repaired.   The   pipeline.
'Hersh L. Adlerstein, Director pttheComimmity Relations Committee of the JUnited Jewish Ftind and C6uHe|l, has been reelected President of the cioliimbus Chapter of the National Conference of Jewish ^Communal Service.
Rabbi Nathan Gaynor, Du-ector of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, is the newly elected Vice President.^
Also newly elected aie Lynn' Nateman, Tifereth Israel Religious School Administrator, Secretary; and Kehath Wiiiiarz, Coluinbus Hebrew School Faci^l^Member, Treasurer"
Ejedted to the Executive Corniiiiltlee " were Dan Harrison, Principal of the Columbus Hebrew School; Leon jsac, Jewish Center. Physical Education Director; Robert Schwartz, ADL Civil Rights Director; Millon Ain, OSU School of Social Work; and Gerald Cohn,     Heritage    House
l-iersh   Adlerstein
Executive Director.
Mi^ Adlerstein has pointed Mr. Harrison chairinan of the Professional Ethibs Committee; Rabbi Gaynor as chairman of the Social   Attion   Committee;
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and Mr. Cohn as chairman of the Program Committee. The Program Committee is responsible for planning and directing next year's in-¬ service training program for Jewish professionals.
The .C;oluihbus Chapter was assigned the respon- sibilitS' of c&nductinga workshop on the Jewish Family" at the National Conference of Jewish Communal Seryice in Boston on May 24 thru 27ir> Mr. Adlerstein served as workshop discussion leader, Mr. Cohn as surhmarizer, and Murray Daninhirsch, Associate Director of the Jewish Family Set-vice ? Sdciqty, as resource?
^Also attending the Con¬ ference ' were Bein 'M. Mandelkom, United Jewish Fund and CSouncil Executive Director, and Rose Sch¬ wartz, Jewish Center Fire- school Director;
into the country to repair it The ARAMCO.officials were reported to Have told Mr. Sisco that patching up diplomatic relations and patching up the pipeline can be accomplished only if. the U. S. eases its "strong support" of Israel.
They expressed the feeling that the sabotagel was a direct result of American support ofiisrael, according to these jspjiirces. / ttAinip^«(ipiiient Protestant .thiQplogi^iehiBrged this week IthatVhCli^tian churchmen across the United States wer,e being "flooded" with propaganda from oil firms "ready to sell out American interests in the Middle East for the sake of temporary profits in pealing with Arab League d§spots."
Dr. Franklin H. Uttell, professor of religion at Temple University, ad¬ dressing the biennial con¬ vention of the American Jewish Congress here, also warnied of "a rise of anti- Semitistn in liberal Protestant circles and the appearance . of anti- Zionism."
He also told the 500 delegates that "Christian thinking has been unable, to date, to comprehend the Jew who is a winner. This is the problem of Israel vis-a-yis the church establishment."
Eban supported this when he told newsmen that hpjjad^npt.. seen any sign that jets would be released to Israel.
The official State Department spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey, told the press that it was his "understanding" that the U. S. didn't have any agreement to even replace downed Israeli planes. Previous interpretations of stotements by Secretary of State WjUiam P. Rogers indicated that the Nixon Administration was prepared to do this as a step short of sale of the 125 jets that Israel wanted to buy.
An attempt to explain the Nixon Administration's inaction on Israel's feqiiest was offered by Sen. Hugh Scott, R.-Pa., diiring a tialk-to the "Americah Jewish Congress meeting in Washington;
The minority leader asserted that the jets were being held up because the Nixon Administration was using them as a "bargaining point" in the SALT ((Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) with the Russians in Vienna. He said there was a 50-50 chance of success and credited the improvement in the telks to the delay in selling the jets to Israel.
Sien. Scott in his talks then guaranteed that there would
be "jets on long term credit ' for Israel'* but didn't give * any time for such a sale.
Mr. Eban, in his talks with Mr. Rogers, enumerated three factors to substantiate Israel's claim that the jets, were needed to reestoblish a military, balance in the Mideast changed by these specific Soviet actions:.
Construction of Soviet- made SAM-3 antiaircraft missiles sites operiated by Russian personnel at bases ' deep inside Egypt. These have resulted in Israel halting deep raids into the Arab country.-
Evidence that Soviet combat pilots have been flying operational missions over Egypt in Egyptian pGs.
; Evidence that the Russians have begun ' building SAM-3 sites along the Suez C^nal wbich Israel , considers as a major threat, to its defensive actions in the area. Use of these missiles to . neutralize Israeli jet raids along the waterway would enable JBgypt to further build up its artillery iin the area and destroy Israel's defense lihe along the canal. This, in turn, would open the way for an Egyptian strike across the waterway into the Sinai and through the desert to Israel proper.
American officials have acknowledged the first two,, points but question the last Israef assertion. The evaluation by civiUan of¬ ficials was that Israel still enjoyed sizable airpower superiority despite the Russian aid to the Arabs.
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Saphir Speaks At Bond Dinner
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Josef Saphir, Minister of Commerce and Industry.of the State of Israel will be the guest speaker at the Sixth Annual Ciovemor's Dinner and Dance on Sunday evening, June 14, at the Sheraton Motor Hotel at 6:30.
The event will' hail Israeli twenty-second anniversary and accord special honors to the past 21 Men and Wbmen's Chairmen of the (Tolumbus Israel Bond drives since their inception 20 years ago.
A member of Israel's Knesset (Pariiament) since its first session, Mr. Saphir is a leading statesman and public figure. He is Oiair¬ man of his country's.Liberal Party and has held various key government posts. He was TWinlster of Tran¬ sportation from 1952 to 1955 and Minister with Portfolio from 1967 to 1969.
Admission to the Dinner* Dance is. through the pur¬ chase in 1970 of a minimum $250 in State of Israel Bonds.
Joseph Saphir .
Reservations may be secured through any of the Columbus Israel Bond <3ominittee or by calling the Israei Bond office at 237- 0341.
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