Major Jewish Institutions Joi Project Equality
Detroit's major Jewish institutions have joined Project
Equality, the joint effort of the Jewish Community
Council, Archdiocese of Detroit, Council of Churches and
Council of Eastern Orthodox Churches, aiming to achieve
the goal of equal employment opportunity for all citizens.
Dr. Samuel Krohn, president of the Council, an-
nounced that organizations that have expressed their
endorsement of the program include the Jewish Welfare
Federation, Jewish Community Center, Central Purchasing
Group for Non-Profit Jewish Organizations, United He-
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brew Schools, Sinai Hospital, Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
League of Jewish Women's Organizations, Zionist Council
of Detroit, American Jewish Congress, Council of Orthodox
Rabbis of Detroit, Jewish Labor Committee, National
Committee for. Labor Israel, Congregation Beth Moses,
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation and American Jewish
Committee.
Operating with the support of the four major denomi-
national groups, Project Equality represents an effort
to mobilize the purchasing power of these groups and
their respective communal institutions in indicating to
employers who supply them with goods and services the
moral necessity of a policy of equal employment oppor-
tunity. Suppliers are being advised that, henceforth,
they will be evaluated not only on previous considerations
of price, quality and service, but also on their merit
employment programs and practices. The project is
intended to supplement and reinforce government pro-
grams stemming from passage of the Civil Rights Aot
of 1964.
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'Limited Action' Against Syria
Explained to UN as Israel's
'Reprisal' Against Violence
Jewish Community Given Argentine
Government's Assurances, Amidst
`Dissonance' Over Tacuara Reception
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, president of the
DAIA, the central representative body for Argentina's 500,000 Jews, said
Sunday there was a "dissonance" between the cordial reception given
by President Ongania to a DAIA delegation last Wednesday and the
reception given earlier by the Interior Minister to a leader of the
extremist Tacuara organization.
Dr. Goldenberg made the comment in reply to a question during
a brief interview on a television station concerning the visit made by
him and other Argentine Jewish leaders to the President, the first
with Jewish leaders by the new head of Argentina's military govern-
ment. Interior Minister Enrique Martinez Paz received Patricio Pueyr-
redon, the Tacuara general secretary, the same week.
However, Dr. Goldenberg added that "government policy is only
now being established and the Tacuara interview happened one day
before the audience with the DAIA." La Nacion, one of the most
influential Argentine newspapers, sharply criticized the government
for the Pueyrredon audience.
Gen. Ongania received a delegation of leaders of the DAIA for the
first time on July 15 and assured them that his government intended
to treat all Argentinians alike irrespective of race and religion and
to oppose 'rightist" extremism.
After the 25-minute audience, Dr. Goldenberg responded to the
;ident widespread interest in the session with President Ongania
,-ith a statement to a large number of newsmen that "we are very
tisfied."
An official communique issued by the President's press secretary
„nfirmed the cordial nature of the meeting and said that President
1gania had thanked the Jewish community for the good wishes
.,';,pressed by the DAIA delegation. The President affirmed to the
dewish leaders that his call for collaboration and participation in
the goals of his government was "directed equally to all Argentinians
without distinction of faith or race." The statement was viewed as
implying the continuity of the traditional ethical and religious values
of Argentina.
"Personally, as a practicing Catholic," the communique said,
"President Ongania stated that as President, he is firmly decided
to stimulate the generous efforts of all citizens in the search
for
general well-being and to proceed with full energy against any
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — Ambassador Michael S. Comay, Israel's delegate
at the United Nations, informed the Security Council that the Israeli air attack on
Syrian positions July 14 was a "strictly limited action" meant as reprisal for
the "continual Syrian violence against Israel's population and territory."
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The United States government deplores Israel's bombing of
Syrian territory but it also deplores the infiltration of Syrians into Israel, State Depart-
ment officials declared Saturday. They emphasized that the United States traditionally
deplores all border incidents and had drawn the attention of all parties concerned to the
dangers such action entail.
A State Department spokesman was asked by newspapermen whether the United
States was considering the suspension of arms sales to Israel because of Israel's retalia-
tory action last week over the Syrian border. His answer was that the United States is not
considering such a move at present.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Levi Eshkol reporting to the Cabinet Sunday night
on the air raid reprisal against Syria, stressed that Israel does not interfere with the
internal regimes of Arab countries or their relations with any other powers. The
statement was seen as seeking to assure the Soviet Union that Israel had no intentions
of interfering with the Soviet's close ties with the leftist regime in Syria.
The Premier also addressed a warning to Syria, declaring the Syrians should not
consider their country immune because of its topographical advantages. Despite those
advantages, the Premier said, Israel could always find means to reply to Syrian attacks.
He added that an air strike was only one of a number of possible responses.
He also said the Israel government had hoped that the new Syrian regime
would keep its pledge, given in June to Gen. Odd Bull, Chief of Staff of the United Na-
tions Truce Supervision. Organization, to refrain from opening fire on Israeli targets un-
der any circumstances. He added that after the series of terrorist incursions from
Syria into Israeli territory last week, deterrent action by Israel became imperative.
However, he pointed out,
Anti-Semitism Rejected as Factor
Israel's Chief of Staff had
been instructed to keep
In Looting of Chicago Jewish Stores
casualties to a minimum.
CHICAGO (JTA) — Jewish shopkeepers suffered
He also told the Cabinet that
the most serious damages in the Negro rioting last
Israel's air move was aimed at
Syria's "provocative" diversion
weekend on Chicago's west side, which is now largely
project designed to rob Israel
a Negro area where most of the stores in the once
of its waters by diverting the
completely Jewish area are Jewish-owned.
Jordan River headwaters. The
As peace was restored by the Illinois National
Israeli planes bombed and
Guard, estimates of damages to stores in the area were
strafed seven to eight bulldoz-
given Monday as more than $1,000,000. Officials stressed
ers working on the project at
that there had been no indications that any of the loot-
the tributary.
ing was inspired by anti-Semitic attitudes among the
(At the United Nations
looters. They said there was no evidence — as there
the Syrian delegation submitted
was in Negro riots in other cities last year — of specific
a complaint to the UN Security
anti-Semitic acts and catcalls by rioters.
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Bourguiba Reiterates Plea f a r Negotiated Peace
BRUSSELS • (JTA)—President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia last week reiterated here his appeal to the Arab rulers to negotiate peace
with Israel and asserted that "the time is working in favor of my ideas." The Tunisian leader, whose first appeals for such
negotiations
rocked the Arab world last year and evoked savage criticism from the Arab leaders, spoke out again for the
idea at a press conference at the
Tunisian Embassy. He is currently on an official visit to Belgium.
,
Replying to questions about the Middle East problem, he said "peace in this area will not come tomorrow but my plan will make the
responsibles think it over." He said he had suffered criticism in the past for his suggestions "but after some time my ideas are often adopted.
Anyway, the time is working in favor of my ideas.
"Acceptable solutions," he said, "have to be found for both parties, for the Palestinians who were the subjects of an injustice and lost
their land, and for the Jews—that means the Israelis—who were also the subjects of an injustice." To put an end to an injustice, however,
"one does not create another injustice. I repeat, acceptable solutions for everybody must be found in order that peace may be established
in this part of the Middle East."
Premier Habib Bourguiba
(John K Cooley, Christian Science Monitor correspondent, reported from Beirut, Lebanon: "Palestine Liberation Organization chairman
Ahmed Shukairy loosed a verbal blast at President Bourguiba for the mann& in which the Tunisian president replied to an Israel invitation
to a ceremony in the Israeli sector of Jerusalem July 11 dedicating the Truman Peace Center. President Bourguiba declined because of
'previous engagements' but wished the center 'every success.' "