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VOL. 51 NO. 22
MAY 31, 1973 - IYAR 29*
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BONN (WNS)--Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohammad Hassan el Zayyat said Egypt would not
negotiate with Israel until it has whithdrawn from all
the occupied territories. Asked on a West German
television interview, whether there would be war now
that political and diplomatic possibilities Were
exhausted, Zayyat said: "We are in a state of war. We
fight every day. We pay daily for armaments. We shall
not sit with the Israelis. They will not dictate con¬
ditions to us." Zayyat insisted that Cairo could not
leave the coming generation with what he called an
occupied Egypt. .     . „
TEL AVIV (WNS)-A tourist who said he saw Dori
Kashkesh in Baghdad said she has made several
suicide attempts and is still in a state of shock ■...
following the slaying of her parents, two brothers and
sister by Iraqi police April 12. The tourist said the girl
is living with an elderly Jewish woman and no longer
attends classes at the university where she was tiie
morning her family was murdered. He said Iraqi
authorites have confiscated her passport and that her
life is in danger. He suggested that student
organizations throughout the world be alerted to her
situation.
NEW YORK (WNS)-Mrs. Tanya Levich, the mother
of Evgeny Levich who was abducted on a Moscow
street May 16 and sent to a Siberian military camp, has
written to President Nixon to intervene with Soviet
authorities on behalf of her son, the Student Struggle '
for Soviet Jewry reported. In her letter, Mrs. Levich
said her son was drafted into military service without
any proper medical examination, that he was un- .
. dergoing medical examinations by the Moscow Cancer
Dispensary and receiving x-ray treatment for a tumor,
and that his induction under such circumstances could
be menacing for his health-" and perhaps for his life."
She appealed to Nixon to "be concerned with the fate of
tiiose seeking to emigrate to Israel.
Ford Warns That Arabs May
"Blackmail" U.S. Over Oil
Moscow Jews Appeal To Americans Not To Be
Lulled By Token Offers For Brezhnev Visit
NEW YORK (WNS) - A
Freedom. Assembly for
Soviet Jews will take place
on the ellipse in Washington
June 17 on the eve of Soviet
Communist Party Secretary
Leonid I. Brezhnev's arrival,
the National Conference on
Soviet Jewry announced. A
spokesman for the NCSJ, the
general- sponsor of the
assembly, said it will
represent the concern of
millions of Americans for
Soviet Jews, and will initiate
a week-long series of events
around the country.
In other developments on
Soviet Jewry, Congressmen
are asking President Nixon
and Brezhnev to bring about
the   release   of   Evgeny
Levich, the 25-year-old
Soviet Jewish astrophysicist
abducted last week and
reportedly Bent to a military
camp in Siberia. And 1000
medical specialists from 50
states attending the annual
conference of ttie American
Gastroenterological Ass¬
ociation signed a petition to
Brezhnev urging Lievich's
immediate release: because
"we believe that his health
will be severely deteriorated
and place him in grave
jeopardy of survival." The
specialists said Levich was
suffering from "serious
ulcerative colitis and
possible concerous tumor
development."
Forty-two  Moscow  Jews
have appealed to American
Jews not to be lulled by
Soviet offers to grant token
concessions on emigration
rights if American Jews
refrain from demonstrating
during Brezhnev's visit? The
jNCSJ reported that Soviet
Jewish activists staged
simultaneous hunger strikes
last weekend in Kishinev,
: Riga and Leningrad to
protest against the in¬
creasing number of Jews
who are refused exit visas.
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Fact-Finding Program Set
To Evaluate Center's Needs
Fulbright, Jackson Clash
Over U.S. Mideast Policies
BOSTON (WNS)-Hpuse
Minority Leader, Gerald R.
Ford told a Zionist
Organization dinner here
that various Arab sources
have threatened the United
States that it must abandon
.Israel if it is to continue
receiving oil. He warned,
therefore, that the U.S. must
reduce its dependency on the
Arab states for oil or risk the
■ possibility of Arab economic
"blackmail" attempts
against its foreign policy in
the Middle East. "If we open
ourselves to blackmail, we
will never know the timing
' or extent of future ex¬
tortions," the: Michigan
Congressman said, adding
tte U.S., must develop its
own energy sources. Ford
also urged President Nixon
to discuss the sale of Soviet
arms to Syria and the
Soviets' "widespread
harassment" of Jews
seeking to emigrate during
his June meeting with Soviet
Communist Party Secretary
Leonid I. Brezhnev. He said
the temporary suspension of
the education tax did not by
itself resolve the problem. In
addition Ford said President
Nixon should bring up "the
recent transfer of French
military jet aircraft to Egypt
from Libya" in his scheduled
May 31 meeting with French
President George Pompidou
in Iceland.
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
Sen: J. William Fulbright
(D. Ark,) Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, and Sen.' Henry
M. Jackson (D. Wash.) took
diametrically opposing
views in speeches on the
Senate floor May 21 on U.S.
policy toward^ the Arab-
Israeli conflict and the need
for the U.S. to continue its oil
imports  from  the  Middle
. East. Fulbright proposed the
U.S. work toward a "United
Nations imposed solution" to
"serve all our interests" in
the area. He said that since
the U.S. may be largely
dependent for a decade or.
more on large oil imports,
"our present, policy makers
and policy influences may
come to the conclusion that
military action is required to
' secure the oil resources of
the Middle East, to secure
our exposed 'jugular.'" State
Department spokesman
John King said "the idea of
using force mentioned in\-
(Fulbright's) speech does
not reflect in any way any
thought of this Ad¬
ministration."
. Jackson said Fulbright's
conclusion that the U.S.
must deliver the future
stability of the Middle East
into the hands of the Security
Council to ensure an
adequate supply of energy
"is based on a dangerously
oversimplified appreciation
of both the nature of our
energy deficiency and of the'
politics of the Middle East
conflict, to say nothing of a
most fanciful view of the
powers of the U.N."
Fulbright said the present
Mideast situation is due
primarily to "the refusal of
the US Administration,
backed by a heavy
Congressional majority, to
modify its commitment to
the present policy of Israel."
He described Israel as
"already a garrison state"
that faces the prospect of
mounting terrorism "which
no amount, of 'counter-
terrorism is likely to sup¬
press." He asked if it was not
U.S. policies which are
"driving America's Arab
friends toward
radicalization and
revolution.*1
A special two day fact¬
finding program to evaluate
the Jewish Center's long
range Capital Needs
program.has been set for
June 3 and 4, it was an¬
nounced by David Derrow,
Center president.
William Gould and
Associates, a Cleveland firm
involved in architectural
design and master facility
planning for institutions,
new communities, local and
state governments, business
and industry, will conduct a
series of interviews on
Sunday afternoon with
various segments of the
Jewish community and
Center membership.
. The purpose of the study is
to seek opinions of the need
for future services, facilities
and programs, clarify ob¬
jectives and identify key
issues in terms of location
and program, - central
facility improvement and
extension services. Persons
interested should contact
Mayer Rosenfeld at the
Jewish Center.
A native of Cleveland, Mr-
Gould holds a bachelor's
degree in architecture from
the University of Michigan.
He received a diploma in
architecture from the Ecole
des Beaux in Foun-
tainebleau, France, and was
awarded his master's degree
from Cranbrook Academy of
Art in Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan. "■'.;.;
Prior to founding his firm,
Mr. Gould was chief planner
of the Celveland City
Planning Commission and
served on the faculties of
Case Western Reserve
University and Kent State
University.
A corporate member of the
American Institute of Ar¬
chitects and a past director
of the Cleveland chapter, he
is a member of the national
American Institute  of Ar-
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, JACKS.RESLER
Resler Re-elected
Jack S, Resler was re¬
elected chairman of the\
Ohio-Kentucky Regional
Board of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith,- for. a third term, at
the Board's annual meeting
in Cincinnati, May 19-20.
First elected to the chair¬
manship in November, 1970,
Mr. Resler currently serves
' as a member of the National
Commission of the League,
and as a National Vice-
chairman of its Society of
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AMERICAN NEWS REPORT
Black And Jewish Students B^ Group Status
BYBENGALLOB
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
For two months last
spring, Slack students and
Jewish students at Indiana
'University met regularly to
exchange views and to
debate the issues of each
group's minority status in a
project sponsored by the
campus Hillel Foundation
aimed at improving mutual
under-sanding, according to
Rabbi Larry S. Moses, the
Hillel director.
The project was climaxed
by an evening on the theme
of "The Survival of a People-
-a Joint Effort of Blacks and
Jews," sponsored by Hillel
and the local Office of Afro-
American .Affairs. The
undertaking was described
by the Hillel director in a
report in "Clearing House,"
the B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation's professional
bulletin.
The assumption for the
experiment, the director
said, was that "Blacks and
Jews share many concerns
about ethnic and -cultural
survival,. assimilation, the
need for community con¬
sciousness" and related
problems.     Another
assumption was that "there
are serious conflicts between
the two; communities,"
ascribed:; to "myth,
misunderstanding, lack of
communication, and other
deep and serious failures."
The director said one goal
of the project was "to
recognize the commonalities
and bonds, expose the in¬
valid barriers which stand in
the way of dialogue, and
discuss the barriers which
are real and valid." He said
another objective was "to
raise each other's con¬
sciousness, teach about our
histories of persecution and
struggle while living on the
periphery of society,.and
explore the political and
social ramifications of our
unique statuses."
■.... He declared that, from the
beginning, "the program
avoided the extreme of
backslapping and an¬
tagonism." He added that
while he regarded the
evening event as important,
he considered of higher
priority the two months of
meetings in "a social
situation" during which
many participants became
friends, "even through
heated debate, because the
Interchange was genuine
and mutual."
The first part of the
evening program was a slide
and sound presentation,
using slides prepared by the
Hillel Foundation "from a
great number of pictures of
both the Jewish world-the
Holocaust, the shtetl and
contemporary shots-and the
Black world-slavery riots
and contemporary leaders."
The slides were intermixed
in the showing "in such a
way that the parallels bet¬
ween the two peoples could
clearly be seen. For sound
we used the music' of both
Blacks (spirituals, mainly)
and Jews (the Kaddish,
Holocaust songs). We also
taped various Black and
Jewish voices doing relevant
readings and impressions."
The second part of the
program consisted of six
brief dramatizations,
presented alternately by
Blacks and Jews. Each actor
did a guerrilla theater
presentation dealing with
various aspects of Jewish or
Black life. The director
cited, as an example, one
actor doing the Yossele
Rackover confrontation with
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