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Union Team Up to Delay
. 1UN Accreditation of Jewish Coordinating Unit
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Libya, Soviet
16—Friday, April 25, 1969
JDC Plays Humanitarian Role in India
— In an Soviet Union. Libya Balled the Bnai
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attack on the activities of private Brith a "subversive organization."
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Dr. William Korey, who has
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represented the board here for 10
Libya suceeded in delaying ac- years, contended that the tie vote
creditation of the Coordinating had been the result of enormous
Board of Jewish Organizations. political pressure by Arab g o ve r n-
ments in foreign capitals.
During its 23 years as an ac-
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credited "consultative" organiza-
tion. the coordinating board has • Complete building protection
using modern rolling
had a significant influence on pro- • • service
grilles and shutters.
grams in the human rights field.
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It includes the chapters of Bnai
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Brith in 40 countries.
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the decision taken by an 11-mem- • Positive prevention of breaking-
burglary, riot de-
ber committee. It is certain to be • • and-entering,
struction, broken windows, loot- •
reviewed next month by the par- • ing, vandelism.
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Council.
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Students at the AIWA Hebrew School in Bombay, India, are
shown lighting the first Hannka candle last December. A modest sub-
sidy from the Joint Distribution Committee provides for snacks
through the year and other festival expenses. Over 1,700 of the
neediest of the 15,000 Jews in India benefit from JDC programs,
which are financed by the campaigns of the United Jewish Appeal.
Peace Corps Nurses Study Techniques
at JDC—Assisted Hospital in Iran
Soviet criticism was focused
mainly on the board's charges that
there is bias against JeWs in the
Young Adults to Gather
Young men and women age 19-
26 interested in joining a Jewish
social, cultural and philanthropic
organization are invited to a meet-
TEHRAN — Five young U.S. an out-patient clinic, mother-child ing. 3 p.m. Sunday, at 19255 \'otro-
beck. For reservations, call Nancy
Peace Corps nurses have just corn- health service. etc.
pleted a training course in com-
One of its outstanding Sea. Block, KE 4-2253. evenings, or
munity health at the Tehran Jew-
tures, they found, was the or- Arlene Green. 39S - 6367, during the
day.
ish community's Kanoun Kheir ganization of the center's staff
Khah Hospital and Health Center.
into teams of a "family doctor,"
two Behyars (local Jewish girls
The hospital's family-oriented
trained in the hospital as visiting
program is unique in Iran. using
nurses'
aides), a social worker
doctor-nurse teams to link health
and a sanitarian.
center and home. Developed with
financial and technical assistance
The Peace Corps nurses noted
from the Joint Distribution Com- that the Kanoun Kheir Khah Hos-
mittee. it serves 1,200 families in pital has pioneered in introducing
the Tehran mahalleh, or ghetto.
the sophisticated techniques requir-
It is part of a countrywide pro- ed for keeping records—indispen-
gram of social welfare assistance sable for modern medical prac-
which, financed mainly by funds tice.
the JDC receives from the United
Jewish Appeal. benefits nearly one
out of three of the 75.000 Jews in
Iran.
The nurses were invited to Iran
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Israel to Determine
Compensation to
Liberty's Wounded
by the government and were
slated by the Iranian Ministry of
Health to do public health plan-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The ca-
ning in Iranian villages. But binet will decide shortly how much
after three months in the coon- , to pay in compensation to wound-
try, they felt they needed to ed crewmen of the American elec-
know more about the public tronic intelligence ship Liberty
health side of nursing and ask- which Israeli jets attacked in
ed the local Peace Corps direc- error and severely damaged off
for if this kind of training was ' the Sinai coast at the height of the
available anywhere in Iran.
Six-Day War.
The Peace Corps referred their
The U.S. Navy has reportedly
request to the ministry of health asked 53.500.000 on behalf of the
which was quick to recommend 166 wounded men. Last year Israel
the JDC-supported health center, paid 53.300.000 in compensation to
where for several years past the families of the 34 American
medical students and social work- sailors who died.
ers from the University of Tehran
The U.S. government has also
have been sent to do their field submitted a claim for the Liberty
work in public health.
itself, but the amount has not been
The volunteers revealed that one disclosed. The vessel. built as a
of the most valuable parts of their Victory-type freighter during
training was the chance to go into World War II. returned home
the homes in the mahalleh and see under its own power and has been
how Iranian families live. laid up ever since.
Its fatal mission off Sinai during
First-hand observation of large
families living in overcrowded the Six-Day War has been likened
courtyard rooms, with minimum to that of the Navy intelligence
cooking and sanitary facilities. ship Pueblo. captured by North
brought home to the young nurses Korea last year.
Israeli pilots attacked the Lib-
the importance of cultural and
socio-economic factors in deter- erty thinking it was an empty
mining the community's health craft. A subsequent investigation
level. they said. in Washington revealed that the
It also convinced them of the vessel had been ordered out of the
value of the family-oriented ap- Middle East war zone but her
proach to community health prob- commander never received the
lems. This approach was intro- order owing to the misrouting of
duced in 1961 to coordinate various the message.
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