Israel Halts Exports to Romania; Seeks to Balance. Credit Agreement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — . Israel
Monday halted exports to Romania
when the amount of Romania's
credit greatly exceeded the
amount of Israel's purchases from
Romania.
Under the trade . agreement be-
tween the two countries, which is
carried atrt on a clearing basis,
for the period • January - Octo-
ber, Romania had already pur-
chased goods worth $1,250,000
from Israel, but Israel has ordered
only a small quantity of Romanian
goods. Romanian importers have
now ordered $2,000,000 more in
goods from Israel, mainly citrus,
phosphates, pipes and plastics.
However, Israel has ruled that
those orders cannot be filled un-
til Israel buys a sizable quantity
of goods from Romania.
Government statistics released
here Monday showed that Israel's
trade deficit—the balance between
imports and exports — has gone
down. The figures showed that, in
the first 10 months of this year,
the trade deficit had declined to
$321,000,000. The comparable fig-
ure for the period January, Octo-
ber in 1964 was $381,000,000.
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nance Minister Pinhas Sapir, prior
to his departure for a nine-day
visit to the United States. He
spoke at a meeting of board chair-
men and managers of government
corporations here. The finance
minister also declared the govern-
ment would not be intimidated by
threats of wildcat strikes in sup-
port of wage demands.
He said that he would propose
to the cabinet that any manager
who approved wage demands
prematurely should be dismissed
immediately. The meeting was
called at the request of several -
managers who said they wanted-
government backing in opposing
"exorbitant" wage demands.
The finance minister said he
"assumed" that workers in such
corporations who have received
pay increases averaging 25 per
cent during the past year would
agree to forego further increases
for at least another two years. He
also said that wages of produc-
tion workers would have to be
linked to increased productivity
and added that the formulas would
be determined in negotiations be-
ts,veen employers and the Hisba-
drut, Israel's labor federation.
The ministry of housing an-
nounced that Israel will need 30,-
000 new housing' units annually
in the next few years to provide
housing for new immigrants and
shelter for the natural increase of
its population.
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To provide this housing, the
ministry has taken the first steps
toward attracting private housing
developers to cooperate with the
government in an extensive build-
ing program in development areas.
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Berms.
WEST BERLIN (JTA)—The iresi•
ish Congregation of East Berlin,
in the Communist-held section of
the city, has named Edmund Sing-
er to be its new chief rabbi. Rabbi
Singer has been living until now
in Budapest. .
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Government Corporations
in Israel Warned Not to
Up Wages Till Policy Set
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Heads of
government corporations in Israel
are on notice they are not to ap-
prove any new wage demands be-
fore government determines an
• over-:all wage policy. -
The warning was given by Fi-
Publisher Sending Out
Pro-Nazi Literature
From New Cairo Office
PARIS — Flelmut Cramer, pub-
lisher of pro-Nazi literature, who
fled to Egypt from West Germany
last March while on trial for dis-
seminating anti-democratic prop-
aganda, is now sending out his
books from Cairo where he has re-
established his neo-Nazi publishing,
house, Zachariah Shuster, Europ-
ean director of the American Jew-
ish Committee, revealed here.
Cramer, a former unterstrum-
fuhrer of Waffen-SS, who is the
proprietor of the Ring publishing
house, is' now distributing a cir-
cular letter in Germany informing
potential clients that he will con-
tinue his activities from Cairo and
that he will be publishing new neo-
Nazi books in 1966 and also make
available the volumes published
previously, most of which glorify
the Waff en-SS and the Hitler
regime.
Cramer took with him to E,gypt
28,500 copies of works that had
been confiscated by the West Ger-
man police in connection with his
trial—volumes by German SS lead-
er Otto Skorzeny, and by Gunter
Werdorf, whose book "Standarten
Oberjunker Normann" was put on
the list of "publications endanger-
ing youth" by the West German
Federal Review Office in 1963 be-
cause of its approbation of Na-
tional Socialism.
"Egypt, already a known haven
for Nazi war criminals and prop-
agandists in Nasser's employ, can
now be expected to become a lead-
ing distribution center for German-
language neo-Nazi literature as
well since Cramer has installed
his Ring Verlag there," Shuster
declared.
There are more old drunkards
than old doctors. — French pro-
verb.
Stephen Hayman has a mailbox right outside
his office. Most days, that's his daily trip to the
bank. Time means money to him, as it does to
any businessman, and so he takes advantage
of every time-saving service we offer. Bank-by
mail. Night deposits. Drive-in banking. Not to
mention the telephone. Six months ago, he
bought an • apartment building. We financed It
That brought him in to see us. But most of the
details of the transaction were taken care of
on the phone. We provide many ways to make
trips to the bank unnecessary. Stephen Hayman
makes good use of them all. And the kind of
prompt, personal service he gets, you can get.
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