Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1970-05-14

              Serving Columbus, "Central"and Southwestern Ohio\}/X^
VOL. 48,  NO. 20
Nixon Orders
MAY 14, 1970 — I YAR 8
by Trude B. Feldman
ChronicleWhite House Correspondent ¦
President Nixon reacted to reports that Spviet pilots are bejng'uised to hdp defend Egn>t By promptly calling for ah immediate arid full evaluation of all intelligence reports on~ ahd the im¬ plication of them on the strategic balance in the MiddleEast.
Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said the President is concerned about the Soviet military involvement in Egypt and that it's a matter of serious concern to the U.S.A.
He reaffirmed ' the statement that Mr. Nixon made in his message to Congress on February. IS on : ittie subject, and ,'also the statement which tlie Secretary of State made on March 23, when he an¬ nounced the decision regarding the Israeli arms request, and that is that a close watch will be kept on the military balance in tlie Middle East.
Ziegler reminded repor¬ ters that the President recently empliasized that the Israeli arms decision was an 'interim decision',' and that military balance in the Middle East would be watched carefully. '   '
He refused to comment on w4iether the President beard directly from Israeli Premier Golda.Meir or ffom
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Israel Fights To Live, Soviets For Conquest
LONDON, MAY 5 (JTA) - Premier Golda Meir declared Monday night that if Israel has to fight the Russians "It is because^of their choice.'!
She continued, '"They have decided far away from their borders to join a. war ^ich has nothing to do with fhem. Anybody who stands there against us and wishes to destroy us, whatever his nationality, is ah enemy facing us in battle, and we won'4r run.'-'
Linen Shower At 'e Mouse
Finalizing plans for the Heritage House Linen Shower to be held Sunday, are left to right, Mrs, Dora Abrams, president of<the Auxiliary; Mrs. Lenore Horowitz, chairman of decorations; and Mrs. Beverly Schottenstein, chairman of the Shower.
The Linen Shower is for sheets only. Redemption stamps or money donations .will also be welcome.-
Ihere will alsq be an awards program presenting the Shinbach pins to the volunteers.
In an interview with Alan Hart of the BBC, Mrs. Meir refused to disclose Israeli information sources that revealed that, Soviet pilots are flying interception missions hi Egyptian skies. But she added, "We are convmced beyond any. doubt they fly Egyptian planes, and I thuik dther govern¬ ments know it too."
Egyptian activity in the - Suez Canal zone has become much more aggressive with Israeli aircraft in Egyptian skies, Mrs. Meir said. Israeli planes crossed the ,canal because she quoted Am- Jiassador. Yitzhak, Rabin, they are "flying artillery." and there is no balance' of power on the canal with
Israel. However, other of¬ ficials said that Mr. Nixon had received, a message fiximMrs. Meir in which she stated that the Soviet rble now justified a reappraisal of U.S. policy. She also urged faim. to reconsider his decision to sell Israel the jets - 2S Ft4 Fhamtoms and 100 A-4 SkyhawkiS.
Itfrs. Meir said that Israel doesn't yirant to attack the Soviet pilots but '-'we have no choice,"
When Ziegler was asked- (Contimied on Page 7)
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BONN (WNS)-Franz Paul Stangl, the former commander of the Treblina concentration camp in Poland, wUl go on trial as a war criminal next month, m Dusseldorf under an extradition agreement that limits , any seritence imposed on him to a maximum of 15 years.
LONDON (WNS)-The Soviet Union has given a number of Russian Jews exit visas to leave Russia and emigrate to Israel. The Jews included Yosif Kazakov, father of Yasha Kazakov, a 23-year-old emigre to Israel who staged an eight-day ^unger strike in front of the United Nations last riionth to dramatize his demand that his family be allowed to emigrate. ^^
PARIS (JTA)-Israeli Ambassador Walter Eytan has returned to Jerusalem to consult with the Foreign JUinistry on French "feelers" for improving FVanco- Israeli relations "in all fields" and on an Israeli <td^tsion whether to accept reimbursement of its |SO,000,OOOuisteadof pressing for the 50 French Mirage jets it had bought.
FYance has maintained ah embai:go on the planes' delivery to Israel, despite pre-payment, while selling jets to Libya.
NEW YORK, (jTA)-^Time magazine, in a release to the news media, reported that an unnamed "high Israeli diplomat" has "hinted" in a statemoitto the ihagazme that the government of Israel is gravely concerned about the outcome in Cambodia fearing that th^ fall ofthe new Cambodian regune. would encourage the Russians to hicrease their activity m the Middle
Altercation In New York
NEW YORK (JTA) - A spokesman for one of the city's 26 local anti-poverty agencies, charged this week that black muii^bits shouted anti-Semitic abuse during a spiecial ptfiiiel meetuig last week of the city's Council Agamst Pw(erty and roughed up two Jews with no protests from officials of.the Councils - . _
The panel meeting concerned complaints about distribution of anti^poverty funds hi a section of Brooklyn to poor Jews, blacks and Puerto Ricans.
Dr. Marvin Schick, assistant to Mayor Undsay for inter-group relations, said the city administration was seriously concerned about the problems of anti- poyerty fund handling hi the
Brooklyn section,and was the'jjewish victims planned exploring means dfredu^;|W7fil'eciiarges and, said he tensions in that Sf6a'Jinsing;'liScf'discussed that aspect of from differenc6l'*6aweeh!;'i^'^n^^^ meeting and that J6WS and the otKCT'minbrM', (He had advised iQembers of groups in the alW'ciSi'iort^'w'"t^ community in
IJDverty funds biy that area's'"(he Brooklyn section that he
Egyptian artillery on one side and Israelis, weaker in manpower and gunpower-on the East Bank.
So Israel, accorduig to the Premier, had to try to quiet down Egyptian artillery, .first by hitting the canal and then I by making deeper istrikes. These had two purposes, she said: To relieve the pressure on the canal and to "make it dif¬ ficult for Nasser in war preparations."
President Nasser, she remarked, said his army has been reorganized for a war of attrition and then the big batUe. "We do not thmk it is our duty to sit by passively and'let him prepare for the next war."
Asked by Mr. Hart about the chances of direct in¬ volvement with Russian pilots. Premier Meir said that depended on them and- on the Soviet govemment- "We have no desire to become involved with any pilots nor want to use bur airforce. It is hot our idea to become involved."
But she stressed that Israel is prepared by necessity to do everything absolutely  necessary   to
community corporation, the designation for the locally- elected anti-poverty agen¬ cies.
Panel meet;jngs are arranged by the Council, the city's central anti-poverty ,^ency, on which the 26 community corporations are represented, to hear com¬ plaints about handling of poverty funds by the local corporations,. The panel meeting, held at the Councils Manhattan offices, was arranged' in response.' to protests that poverty funds were going disprbpbr- tionately to poor Jews in the Brooklyn area to the pur¬ ported detriment of poor blacks and Puerto Ricans. "Ihe area is one of two in the ] city in which Jews are represented on the local poverty agencieis.
defend the lives of her people and the integrity .of their country. "We did not go into Russia to fight Russian pilots and they are not naturally stationed in Egypt. This is- not a war fought between Russia and Israel but bet¬ ween Egypt arid Israel, anybody on Egyptian, Jordanidn or Syrian sbil who fights we naturally will fight back." '
Mrs. Men- said Israel did not want to^ anything not absolutely necessary for defehse, but "When our military people or- we come to the conclusion jttiat somethuig is essehti^ffbr our defense, we will have to do it.'' She said it was a choice between self^efense and suicide.       ^
Pressed by Mr. Hart on whether Israel brought Russian intervention oh itself by "yqmano$aai.and bullying tactics) ?:whith humiliated not only the Egyptians but also the Russians by destroying so much of the equuipment the Russians supplied to Egypt,", Mrsv Meir an¬ swered, "Poor Russians! They gayeEgypt ail this hardwareBiowing exactly what the Egyptians want to do with it. The Russians carry the- major respon¬ sibility for the Six-Day War, and we just refused to lose the war, which would have meant death to this people.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency thait his office had beeh in¬ formed about the panel meetmg but that he bad no information that thej-e had beeh use of anti-Semitic language. He was told that
felt they had an obligation fo see to it that the charges were filed and pressed.
At the start of the panel meeting, according to the Jewish source who was one of the seven members at¬ tending the session, there were some 30 Jews present ' from the Brooklyn section and five. or six, blacks at¬ tending .as community representative to hear' the panel arguments. After the meeting wai^ underway, the uiformant said, some 30 additional blacks led by former CORE leader Sonny Carson, canie into the room and began heckling speakers. He said the chairman of the panel, and the Council's executive director, James Greenwich, a Negro, declined to halt the anti-Semitic'Wtatements.
Editorial...
Holocaust At Keiit State
A Seven-Arts Feature
ITiree out of the four students killed by National Guard action at Kent State University were Jewish. Ihe population of the university was nineteen thousand and the Jewish students numbiered about 750. It would be difficult to calculate the number of students massed on the campus before the Ohio National Guard took action.
Ihere is nothing mystical about the fact that out ofa little less than 5 percent Jewish students census, seventy-five percent of the four killed were Jewish. It is even odder that at least two ot the Jewish students were not known as activists, and one even was en route to a class.
From press reports it is safe to assume that the un¬ fortunate students were intune with the tinies, that their sympathies were against the military, against the Indo-C}iina war, against'Mr. Nixon's ordering W United States Army troops into Cambodia,
The presence at the funeral of young Jeffrey Miller of Senator Oiarles Goodell and Dr. Benjamin Spock- would uidicate the sympathies and attitudes bf th^ parents towards a peaceful solution of world and civic' problems.
It is hard to conceive of a studient graduatuig from a high school ui the upper 1/ 2 (nec^sary to enter the University) as bemg one of viliat Mr. Nixon called "bums." Air four will become part of the presait student Rebellion, part of the legend and those who were Jewish, like the two murdered Jewish civil rights . fighters, will become a part of American history hi those iiages which will record a struggle for good.
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