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Einstein College, Montefiore Hospital Merge
NEW YORK (JTA)—Two Jew-
ish-sponsored voluntary hospitals
in the Bronx—the 375-bed hospital
of the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University
and the 773-bed Montefiore Hos-
pital and Medical Center — have
merged, with Montefiore assuming
full responsibility for both hospi-
tals.
Officials said the goal was to
assure more effective use of the
Paul Chevigny's 'Police Power'
Reviews Law Enforcement Needs
While "Police Power" by Paul
Chevigny, published by Pantheon
Books (437 Madison, NY22), deals
with "police abuses in New York
City," the overall study serves as
a guide for reformation of existing
conditions in all of the American
communities.
Chevigny, who is staff attorney
for the New York Civil Liberties
Union, did not concern himself in
this book with "a general survey of
police work" but directed it "to
finding out what is wrong, and the
reasons for what is wrong, with
law enforcement, chiefly in the
streets."
The thoroughness with which
he probes arrests and defiance,
mass police action, the numerous
problems relating to prostitution,
homosexuality, firearms and
other issues makes this a most
significant evaluation of a most
serious need for improvement of
a vital community function.
Referring to the urgency of solv-
ing the problem of police abuses.
Chevigny declares: "They are
hardly only the acts of oppression
in our cities, but they are the easi-
est to recognize. The anger they
instill is part of the fuel for the
violent uprisings in our cities dur-
ing the past five years. As an in-
dispensable condition for ending
those uprisings, the police must
change their allegiance from a pri-
vate code to a publicly recognized
rule of law, and it is when society
itself demands this change that it
will take place."
The many approaches already
made to solutions and the issue
around which the gr.:at challenges
revolve are presented in the vast
accumulation of data and the
question of the need for an educa-
tion in training police forces is
thoroughly discussed. The author
declares on this score:
"The impulse to require more
academic training for policemen
is rooted in the hope of getting
men with a new orientation who
cannot be so easily molded to the
police ethic. While I sympathize
with this endeavor, I think that it
Is a little besides the point. A
direct attack should be made
upon monolithic adherence to the
police ethic and the unofficial
code of secrecy. One way this
can be done is by selecting offi-
cers for command positions or
specialized jobs by different
standards than those by which
patrolmen are selected. The in-
novation would not prevent quali-
fied patrolmen from rising in the
ranks, but it would require them
to obtain proper specialized
training in order to do so. Such a
reform has been suggested by
Prof. Richard Blum and enthusi-
astically expounded by the Pres-
ident's Commission on Law En-
forcement. The change would
serve a twofold purpose: it would
encourage educated men to enter
positions where academic train-
ing might be useful, and it would
tend to reduce the monolithic
secrecy of the police."
Paul Chevigny was asked by the
New York Civil Liberities Union to
head a two-year investigation into
police complaints in New York
City. His study, "Police Power,"
documents and analyzes the pat-
terns of abuse cases and provides
conclusions which are applicable to
a police force in any major Ameri-
can city.
In case after case Chevigny
shows that the real difficulty of
police abuse—most often taking the
form of false arrest — lies in the
conflict between what our society
pretends it wants and what it real-
ly wants. He concludes that "so
long as society desires oppression,
the police will be oppressors. So
long as society denies that it de-
sires oppression, the police will
lie."
Paul Chevigny, 34, a graduate of
Yale and Harvard Law School,
began his career in a Wall Street
law firm, worked for CORE and in
1964 joined the Mississippi Sum-
mer. In 1965 he ran a neighborhood
law office in Harlem where he did
a variety of civil and criminal
work for poverty clients, especially
emphasizing police problems. He
undertook the study of police abuse
in early 1966.
Ohio Collegians to Study
Kibutz Life First-Hand
NEW YORK — Seventeen stu-
dents from Muskingum College in
New Concord, 0., left Jan. 5 to
spend 17 days in Kibutz Yotvata
near Eilat and to tour the country
for another two weeks. They will
participate in the life and work of
the kibutz and prepare papers
about various aspects of kibutz
life.
The students left for Israel to-
gether with their teacher Prof.
Stuart Hills of Muskingum Col-
lege's sociology department, who
will conduct a credit course on
"The Kibutz as a Unique Society"
in Yotvata.
resources of both institutions in a
move described as a further exten-
sion of the ties between Monte-
fiore Hospital and the college of
medicine which was started five
years ago. At that time Monte-
fore was designated as the main
voluntary affiliate of the college
of medicine. The unification was
announced by Edmund A. Rosen-
thal, president of the board of
Montefiore Hospital; Dr. Samuel
Belkin, president of Yeshiva Univ-
versity; and Charles C. Bassine,
chairman of the board of overseers
of the Einstein College of Medicine.
To achieve better use of beds,
the officials said, the admitting of-
fices of the hospitals will be in
daily contact so that a doctor af-
filiated with both institutions will
be able to use beds available at
either institution. In keeping with
this objective, an exchange of
medical records has been set up,
and eventually all of the medical
records of the two hospitals will
have a common numbering sys-
tem, it was explained.
Washington Family Gives
$50,000 to Midwest Camp
LEONARD HORWITZ 1?
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A gift of
$50,000 has been made by Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Perlman of Washing-
ton, toward expansion of a Bnai
Brith camp in the Midwest.
Bnai Brith officials said the gift
was part of a larger sum the Perl-
mans are making available to the
Bnai Brith. The proposed new
camp is intended to supplement
the facilities of Camp Bnai Brith
at Starlight, Pa.
now with
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Old Phoenician Grottos
Israel Tourist Attraction
ROSH HANIKRA, Israel — The
Grottos of Phoenicia, an ancient
element in the landscape of the
Holy Land, are enjoying a con-
temporary popularity as a result
of the construction of a recently
inaugurated cable railway. The
railway makes the descent to the
previously inaccessible grottos in
a matter of minutes.
The illuminated grottos have
been carved out of the soft white
chalk cliffs by the Mediterranean
tides. The sparkling sea offers a
continuous display of green, blue
and black; but it is at night when
the illumination has the greatest
affect.
Interest in the grottos has been
so great that the sponsors of the
project, the settlements of the
Rosh Hanikra area, are already
planning to double the capacity of
the railway.
The grottos are located near the
Israel border with Lebanon. Tra-
velers can stay at nearby Kibutz
guest houses, camping grounds
and youth hostels or in the cities
of Nahariya, Acre or Haifa.
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Center Bans Smoking
Among Youth Members
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., (JTA)—
A ban on smoking by persons of
high school age or younger in the
Jewish Community Center of
Poughkeepsie has been ordered by
the board. In announcing the ban,
the board said that since smoking
had been proved to be a health
hazard, "the Jewish Center must
not encourage youth members to
begin to smoke or to continue
smoking."
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Eli Partosh (left) and Saadya Shaul, pictured above last June
prior to their graduation from the Mosad Aliya Children's Village
in Petah Tiva, were among those killed in action in the "little"
war on the Suez last month. Both boys, close friends, were students
of scientific farming at the village sponsored by the Mizrachi
Women's Organization of America. Both joined the Israel Defense
Force last summer, following their 18th birthdays. Both were felled
by Egyptian sniper fire at their defensive posts on the Suez Canal.
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