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The Day of Judgment...

is at hand ... On Tuesday, the American electorate will again express its
preference between parties and will choose its Chief Executive for the
coming four years . . . The judgment of our people is usually wise . . . The
voice of the people is sacred . . . We are confident that America's choice
will be wholesome, that the decision will be decisive for our people's wel-
a . May the high ideals of our democracy again emerge strengthened
throug ballots, and may our hopes be fulfilled that it should never be
through bullets.

President Johnson

Senator Goldwater

THE JEWISH NE

M ICHIGA IV

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Weekly Review

Approaching the
Day of Judgment:
Tuesday's Inevitable
Result and the
Election's Aftermath

of Jewish Events

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Latin American Nations Back
Israel in Arab Fight Against
State's '7 7 Group' Membership

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Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

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UNITED NATIONS—Israel Tuesday lodged a sharp protest with the
chairman of the latest and largest bloc of United Nations members, the
so-called "Group of Seventy-Seven of Developing Countries," for being
excluded from a meeting of the group Tuesday morning and for "unworthy
strategems and manipulations"- which were employed to keep Israel out of
the group.
The protest was sent in a letter from Michael Comay, Israel's per-
manent representative here, to Syd Amjad Ali, of Pakistan, chairman of
the Group of Developing Countries. The group consists of 77 Afro-Asian
delegations, including Arab states, and Latin American representatives.
Ali had announced last week that a full-scale meeting of the entire
group would be held Tuesday afternoon. However, upon the insistence of
the Arab bloc and fellow-Moslem members, Ali suddenly called the group
to a meeting without inviting Israel. The right of Israel to full membership
in the group was to have been on the agenda of the meeting originally

scheduled for Tuesday.
"I did not attend the meeting which took place this morning," Comay
wrote to Ali, "because of the short notice at which the time was changed.
However, to avoid any misunderstanding, I wish to state categorically that
we shall continue to exercise our right to participate in the work of the
group, and I must formally request that we be given full capacity to do so,
including notification of meetings, and any change in their time and place.
"There can be no bona fide and objective ground for our exclusion
from the group," Comay continued. "The unworthy strategems and manipu-
lations to which we have been subjected have nothing to do with the
merits of our status in the group but reflect the pursuit of political aims
in a context in which they should have no place."
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(Owners of 43 ships flying the flags of 13 countries—including one
American boat—have canceled trade with Israel, yielding to the Arab
boycott. Detailed story on Page 3.)

Omission of Term `Jew
From U. S. Broadcasts
Admitted by Air Force

New Soviet. Rulers Continue Khrushchev 's Pro-Arab
Policies; Reject Criticisms of Treatment of Jews

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Air Force admitted
that American television programs rebroadcast for Air
Force personnel at Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya,
delete the word "Jew" or "Jewish" or any other ref-
erence to Judaism, in order not to offend the "sensi-
tivities" of Libyans.
The admission was made in a letter from Libya by
CoL B. M. Kilgore, chief of the Air Force information
division, to Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Republi-
can, who had complained against such deletions. Asserting
he had not checked specific complaints made in a letter
to Sen. Javits from a Jewish serviceman in Libya, Col.
Kilgore said he was "sure they (the deletions) were
made." He denied, however, that there was "censorship"
Of U.S..m
Air Force broadcasts in Libya.
sure we will be- guided by whatever is required
"I
to keep our relationship proper with the Libyan govern-
ment," he added in his communication to Sen. Javits.
"We have great stakes there. We are doing the best we
can to keep our relationship good with the government
and ensure that there is no 'discrimination against any
of our men."
According to the complaint received by Sen. Javits,
and forwarded to the Air Force, one American television
program rebroadcast in Libya had the word "Jew"
deleted 18 times. The serviceman also told Sen. Javits:
"There was one show that had a bar mitzvah o _ n it. My
wife cried when they cut the whole thing." Another
serviceman wrote that, in a re-broadcast of a program
dealing with the life of Albert Einstein, the Air Force
deleted "all reference to his Jewishness."

LONDON (JTA)—Assurances that the change in Soviet leadership marked by the ouster of Premier
Khrushchev will not affect "Arab-Soviet friendship" have been given by Soviet envoys in four Arab capitals this
week, it was reported from Cairo.
The strongest assurance to that effect was given to President Nasser of Egypt, according to Al Ahram,
the Cairo daily which is close to the Nasser regime. Al Ahram reported that President Nasser was sent a
Soviet note declaring that the Soviet Union would maintain strong ties with Egypt and would continue to
recognize President Nasser's "vanguard role" in Asia and Africa.
Similar messages were delivered in person by Soviet ambassadors in Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut, the
capitals of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. A Syrian military delegation is now in Moscow negotiating for Soviet
to the Arab countries.
arms. Under Khrushchev, the Soviet Union was a major supplier of modern weapons

Russian Publications Counter Western Criticisms

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)—Soviet publications circulated entirely among readers outside the USSR
were seen here as having undertaken a campaign to counter Western criticisms against the denial of religious
and cultural rights to the Jews in the Soviet Union. Articles in the publications, distributed here by the Soviet
mission to the United Nations, picture Soviet Jews as enjoying freedom of religion as well as full political
and cultural rights.
The latest issue of USSR,' an illustrated magazine printed for distribution solely in the United States,
carries an article and photographs depicting the recent celebration in Moscow's Central Synagogue of the '70th
birthday of the capital's chief rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda-Leib Levin. The article states that the chief rabbi's birthday
observance was attended by Israel's ambassador in Moscow, Yosef Tekoah, by rabbis from Moscow and Odessa,
and by leading Christian clergymen representing the Russian Orthodox Church.
Rabbi Levin delivering a sermon on behalf
Featured is a portrait taking up almost a full page showing

of peace, The podium in front of the rabbi is decorated with a cloth showing the dove of peace and the
Hebrew word "Shalom." Other photographs show Ambassador Tekoah, other members of the Israeli Embassy
congregation and a Rabbi Geshl Gevich, identified as "an alumnus
staff in Moscow, members of the synagogue's

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