Hungarian Defector Says He Was Forced
to Spy Against 'Zionists' in Govt., Party

LONDON IJTA)—A Hungarian
actor-television personality who
defected to the West claimed here
that he left his homeland because
he was being forced to act as a
spy in a top secret project intend-
ed to implicate high-ranking Hun-
garian government and Communist
Party officials as "Zionists."

Milo Szakats, 49, told his story
to London Times writer Gabriel
Ronay, who wrote that Szakats' ex-
periences indicated that the secret
police were trying to organize a
purge of leading officials sympa-
thetic to Israel along the lines of
the Polish government's "anti-Zi-
onist" drive.

The defector said that he was
arrested after the abortive Hun-
garian uprising of 1956 and was
forced, with other artists and lit-
erary figures, to spy on Western
diplomats in Budapest. He claim-
ed that this year he was summon-
ed by Col. E. Kiss, head of the
Hungarian counter-espionage serv-
ices, who wanted him to contact an
Israeli diplomat in Vienna who
was a friend and obtain from him
names of "Zionists" in the Hun-
garian government and Commun-
ist Party.

The diplomat was supposed to
be the "guide" to the "Zionist
movement in Hungary."
According to Szakats, Col.
Kiss tried to bribe him with an
offer of the job of director of
the radio and television theater
now under construction in Buda-
pest. Col. Kiss allegedly told
the actor that the Poles and

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Russians had "solved" the pro-
blem of "Zionist" penetration in-
to their eountriesc and that
"the Soviet comrades thought it
tolerable that inveterate Zion-
ists should continue to thrive
in the ranks of the highest gov-
ernment and party leadership
in Hungary.
Szakats said the colonel was
undertaking to gather evidence
against the alleged "Zionists" ap-

parently without the sanction of
the party presidium and without
the knowledge of President Janos
Radar Szakats said he was repeat-
ely warned that the operation must
be kept secret and was threatened
with "dire consequences" if he
betrayed it to anyone, even Radar.
"I just could not hear this life
of threats and bribes and the in-
dignity of being asked to spy on
one's friends, Szakats said.

Israelis Critical of Their Government

By ELIAIIU SALPETER

(Copyright 1959. JTA, Inc.)

A public opinion poll conducted
by the Israel Institute of Applied
Social Research, headed by Prof.
that
Louis Guttman, indicates
more than three quarters of the
public feel that the goveinment
was handling matters "very well"
or at least "well." True, there is
a decrease in public satisfaction,
but it is not very dramatic. While
right after the Six-Day War 89
per cent said the government was
doing very well or well, the ratio
dropped to 72 per cent in the win-
ter of 1968-69 and climbed back
to 76 per cent in the latest poll
in July this year.

One of the questions asked in
each poll since the Six-Day War
was: "How would you describe
your mood these days?" Not sur-
prisingly, the peak in good cheer
was during the last week of June,
1967, when to the happiness over
the victory was added the relief
felt by hundreds of thousands of
families whose sons. fathers or
husbands returned safely to civilian
life: right after the end of the
hostilities 47 per cent said they
were in a good mood "most of the
time. - Their number increased to
60 per cent next week. Then, all
through 1968, 40 per cent said they
were in a good mood and their
number declined further this year
and at the end of July dropped
to 32 per cent.
There were very interesting
shifts in the response to the ques-
tion, "What worries you most?"
Concern over the safety of rela
tives and friends in the armed
forces as prime worry fluctuates
around 10 per cent (minus 3 per
cent) ever since the war. On the
other hand, there were great
swings in the proportion of those
who were most concerned by
terrorism: from only 4 per cent
in early 1968, it rose to 15 per
cent by the end of last year and
reached a peak of 25 per cent
in the spring of 1969.

This, of course, reflected the in
crease in the number of "spectacu-
lar" acts of terror and sabotage
more than their absolute increase.
However, the summer of this year
people were getting used to the
situation: only 8 per cent men-
tioned terrorism as their main
worry, representing a drop much
sharper than the actual decrease
in acts of terrorism.
It seems quite understandable
that Israelis are—even at best of
times—highly critical of the gov-
ernment's information policy.
Right after the war, while savor-
ing the taste of victory, only 51
per cent felt that the government
was doing all it could to explain
its acts to the citizens.
By the end of July this year. the
number of fully satisfied with the
official explanations dropped while
the number of dissatisfied rose
from 15 per cent to 39 per cent.

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Zintriva Invites Choirs to Israel in"70

TEL AVIV — "Choirs of the
world--unite" is a suggested slo-
gan for 1970 when the seventh
Zintriya will sing its way through
Israel. Registration for the tri-
annual event has just been open-
ed, and applications are beginning
to come in from all over the world.

Between July 14 and 31, 20 choirs
from abroad will join 10 singing
groups from Israel in a fortnight's
villages and kibbutzim of Israel.
outpouring of song in the cities,
For reasons of logistics, not more
than 20 choirs can be accepted,
and strong pressure to be included
is expected from veteran Zimriya
participants as well as from new-
comers.
The Zimriya is not a competi-
tion, nor a professional festival,
not a commercial undertaking. It
is a rendezvous for people who
love singing, want to share its joy
with others and make new friends
while doing so. The name stems
from the Hebrew word for song-
Zemer. It is a meeting ground for
Hebrew and Jewish songs and folk
songs from all nations.
The only element of competition
is the possibility that some of the
more proficient choirs may be in-
vited to appear in the opening con-
cert of the Israel Festival in Cae-

HAIFA—A new graduate course
in industrial relations and man-
power administration has begun at
the Technion — Israel Institute of
Technology.
In making the announcement,
Prof. Jay V. Tabb of the industrial
and management engineering fac-
ulty said the course will enable
Israel "to acceutuate its industrial
growth with advanced manage-
ment techniques."
The new graduate course will
lead to a master of science degree
in management sciences, indus-
trial relations and manpower ad-
ministration.
Graduates will serve as man-
power directors in industry, labor
relations and research, said Prof.
Tabb.
At the opening of its academic
year in October, Technion will
have an enrollment of 4,500 under-
graduate and 1,800 graduate stu-
; dents in its 17 departments and
facilities.

the close of the

sarea after
Zimriya.

The first two Zimriyot in 1952
and 1955 were made up of Jewish
choirs only. Since then, the event
has included every conceivable
type of choir. Many choirs are
Zimriya veterans, and some have
come to every Zimriya since the
first one.
Registration for the Seventh Zim-
riya will close at the end of No-
vember 1969. Registration forms
and further details are available
from: Ilazamir, POB 29874, Tel
Aviv. Israel.

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Things Getting lIot
for Col. Nasser

LONDON (ZINS)—The Guardian
and other London periodicals are.
consistent in portraying the
wretchedness of the Egyptian econ-
omy and the bleakness of any hope
for improvement in the foreseeable
future.
English tourists visiting Cairo
and Alexandria depict life in these
two cities as grim and forlorn.
Tens of thousands of unemployed
from the Nile provinces roam city
streets in a ragged and semi-
starved condition. The week con-
tains three meatless days: sup-
plies of rice, flour, oil and beans
are irregular: Cairo's hotels are
half empty: the black market
flourishes; and a used Volkswagen
costs upward of $4.000.
A gag now making the rounds
in Cairo pictures Nasser as arriv-
ing in hell following his death. He
is quickly relieved to note that
hell is far less formidable than
he had imagined.
Hell's fires are out for lack of
fuel: its torture Chamber is on the
blink and remains unrenaired for
lack of spare parts: and its cadre
of guards — like true Egyptian
bureaucrats — check in for work
at 8 o'clock and then go to sleep
for the rest of the working day.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

36—Friday, October 10, 1969

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