Hadassah, Wetzma nu Institute Ask for Grants Front Congress Committee
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The House' president-designate of Weizmann
Foreign Affairs Committee heard Institute, elicited a favorable re-
testi mony
a as- sponse when he asked the com-
sah's teaching and research pro- mittee to reinstate $3,000,000 for
gram in Israel and for the Weiz- the institute. That amount was
mann Institute of Scence.
eliminated from the 1970 federal
Mrs. Max Schenk, president of budget by the Budget Bureau, al-
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Or- though sums were provided for
ganization of America, asked the the American University in Bei-
committee to approve a grant of rut and In Cairo.
$5,000,000 over a five-year period
Dr. Sabin said the $3,000,000
for the Hadassah teaching and re- would pay for facilities of graduate
search program.
students from developing countries.
Mrs. Schenk described to the The deleted allocation was in the
committee the function of the budget transmitted by former Pres-
Hadassah hospital in serving ident Johnson last January for the
Arabs as well as Jews. She point- fiscal year 1970.
ed out that even members of El
It was supported by the Budget
Fatah, the Arab terrorist group. Bureau at that time but more re-
were treated at the hospital.
cent recommendations of the bu-
Committee members commented reau eliminated the money, al-
oa the Hadassah medical services though the entire grant would be
to Arab and Jew alike.
In outlining the developing needs
of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Ben-Natan Will Speak
Medical Center, which is to include if Order Kept on Campus
the new Moshe Sharett Institute of
BONN (JTA) — Israel Ambassa-
Encology pertaining to the treat-
ment of cancer. Mrs. Schenk told dor Asher Ben-Natan, interviewed
on
German television, said that he
how the reunification of Jerusalem
had accelerated Hadassah's needs would agree to speak at Frankfurt
with the rehabilitation of the hos- and Hamburg universities if he re-
ceived guarantees from the univer-
pital on Mount Scopus.
Committee members recommend- sities that order would be kept.
At earlier speaking engagements
ed Mrs. Schenk review Hadassah's
request with the U.S. Agency for at the universities, Ben-Natan's
International Development. Mrs. speeches were interrupted by Arab
Schenk said the estimated total hecklers.
cost of the expansion program "is
approximately 66.7 million Israeli
pounds, or about $19,000,000. Of this
about 23.000.000 pounds, or $6,500,-
000, represents foreign exchange
requirements." She pointed out
that pratically all foreign exchange
components would be spent in the
United States for equipment.
Hadassah also requested inclu-
sion in the section of the Foreign
Assistance Act dealing with aid to
American school and hospitals
abroad.
"Specifically," she said. "our re-
quest is for a $5.000,000 grant for
a five-year period."
spent in the United States for labor-
atory equipment, computers, office
machines and other necessary
not only benefittedIsraelbutalso
many developing countries, and
that vital research in scientific
items.
fields of concern to the United
States were under way.
Dr. Sabin told committee mem-
bers that although Israel was elim-
Chairman Morgan commended
inated through the monetary dele- the work of the institute. Rep.
tion for the Weizmann Institute, the Leonard Farbstein, New York
same section of the authorization Democrat, said he could not see
bill now before the committee pro- why the administration can make
vided the American University of grants to institutions in Egypt and
Beirut with $ 9,500 , 000 and the Lebanon but eliminate the Weiz-
American University in Cairo with mann Institute.
$200,000.
The U.S. Agency for Interna-
tional Development is also re-
questing $1,000,000 in Egyptian
currency for the American Uni-
versity in Cairo. Dr. Sabin point-
ed out that Weizmann Institute
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