Receives Butzel Award Luria Wins Nobel Prize Dr. Salvador Edward Luria, professor of microbiology at. the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shares the $75,000 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine with Dr.. Alfred May Hershey and Dr. Max Delbruck for their dis- coveries in the field of research in virus and viral diseases. Dr. Luria. 57. a native of Turin, Italy, came to the United States in 1940 as an escapee from Nazism and fascism. He did research and taught at several universities before joining the MIT faculty as head of the microbiology de- partment. Ile haS played a leading role in the movement against the war in Vietnam. (Related story Page 9) Paul Zuckerman, whose services to the Jewish community assumed worldwide propor- tions with his leadership in the United Jewish Appeal as well as participation in major Jewish causes in Detroit, will receive the Fred M. Butzel Award for distinguished service here, at the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation at the Jewish Center Wednesday. Zuckerman held major positions here. as head of Allied Jewish Campaigns, as president of the United .Jewish Charities and currently as a national chairman of the U.JA. (Detailed stories on l'ages 28 and 48) THE JEWISH NEWS UJC Anniversary and Honors for Paul Zuckerman Bnai Brith Varied Services Appeal 1:=)E -T- MCA -T- Israel Bonds' Major Role A Weekly Review I Editorials Page 4 IN./1I 1--11G.A.1 ■ 1 of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME LVI—No. 6 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364—October 24, 1969 Non-Proselytizing Christian Acknowledgments of Prophetic Heritage of Israel Commentary Page 2 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c State Dept. Repudiates 'Gross Distortion' About Aid to Israel French Studying Refund: Israel Demands Planes PARIS (JTA)—A French ministerial committee is study- ing ways to refund an estimated $60,000.000 that Israel paid for 50 Mirage III supersonic jets that were never delivered because of the embargo imposed by former President Charles de Gaulle after the Six-Day War, it was learned here. Most observers here believe the government has already decided in principle to keep the planes and return the money to Israel. The committee's task is to devise a way of accomp. lishing this without creating serious economic, diplomatic and military repercussions, it was reported. Official French sourcesstaid, however, that no decision has yet been made by the government. Israeli diplomatic circles here said they knew nothing of the matter beyond what they read in the local press. (An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Jerusalem that Israel would rebuff any refund offer because "we want the 50 Mirages for which we paid. They belong to us." Ile said France has made no approaches to Israel about a refund.) Israel has repeatedly demanded that France honor the contract for the Mirages which it ordered from the Marcel Dassault works in 1966 and for which it made final payment last year. According to French defense ministry sources.: a. study of the consequences of a refund was initiated by President de Gaulle's defense minister. Pierre Messmer. and is being continued in the Pompidou administration by Defense Minis- ter Michel Debre. f. special committee was set up for the purpose several weeks ago consisting of representatives of the foreign affairs and defense ministries, members of the general defense headquarters and representatives of the three armed services, reports here said. The main problem facing the committee is how to dis- - pose of the 50 Mirages. It is generally assumed that they wilt be turned over to the French air force although they were built to Israeli specifications and do not fit into France's strategic needs. Israel had the planes designed for tactical infantry support whereas the French air force is built 12) around long-range bombers. (Related story Page WASHINGTON (JTA) — A wave of anti-American fury mounted in the Arab world last weekend over charges that the United States was permitting its citizens to fight for Israel. The charges were made on Friday by Dr. Mohammed H. el-Zay ■ at. permanent representative of Egypt to the United Nations, in a letter to Secretary-General U. Thant. Dr. el-Zayyat charged that an "official statement" by the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed that U.S. citizens are per- mitted to serve in Israel's armed forces without losing their American citizenship. He charged that this "does not differ much from the method by which the United States began its war in Viet- nam." A State Department official said here Saturday that the charges. widely published in the Arab press, represented a "gross .distortion" of American policy and were intended to incite Arab opinion against the U.S. Officials here disclosed that the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Charles W. Yost. handed a letter to Thant denying that American military personnel were serving in Israel's armed forces. State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said Arab allegations that Americans are flying U.S. Phantom and SkyhaWk jet aircraft recently sold to Israel "are absolutely without foundation, and we totally reject them." Syria Gains Council Seat: UN's Group May Face Israel Boycott JERUSALEM (JTA)—Two Israeli newspapers reported Tuesday that Israel may boycott the United Nations Security Council because of the election of Syria to it Monday. The reports in Haaretz 'and Davar came in the wake of the statement by Foreign Minister Abba Eban Monday that Israel would "reconsi- der her stand" toward the council if Syria was elected and until it frees the two Israelis de- tained since the Aug. 29 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines jet to Damascus. Haaretz reported that it is likely that Israel will not appear before the 15 - member council under present conditions either as a plaintiff or in answering charges made against her by other states. (Continued on Page 9) General Clay Heads Committee of Concern Aimed at Rescuing Imprisoned Iraqi Jews Committee of Concern to focus world NEW YORK — The formation of a attention on political trials and hangings of Jews. Christians and other minority middle East countries, was announced elements in Iraq, and discrimination in other of here by General Lucius D. Clay, corporate executive and former commander figures in American business, U.S. armed forces in Europe. The committee includes universities, public affairs and religion, arts and sciences, civil rights. Announcement of the organization of the committee fol- lows the execution Aug. p in Baghdad of 15 men, including 'two Jews and two Christians. on charges of spying for the U.S. and Israel. Last January nine Jews, three Moslems hanged in Iraq after a and two Christians were publicly ecret trial- on espionage char:4es. his announcement, General Clay explained that the In he is the chairman, would Committee of Concern, of %%Melt of Jews in prison in Iraq, release work to help secure of the movement for the 2,500 Jews within to ensure freedom emigration for those who wish that country. and to facilitate pointed out that several countries, in- t o go e l sew h e re . li e and Canada, had already indicated , cluding the United State their willingness to accept refugees from Iraq if the Iraqi authorities would permit them to leave. Gem. Clay (Continued on Page 9) Another high State Department official reas- sured 10 Arab envoys at a-special meeting at the department that the United States policy seeks "friendship with both Arabs and Israelis" and that the U.S. does not favor the service of American citizens in Israeli armed forces. Joseph J. Sisco. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, met with the envoys of Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan. Morocco. Libya, Tunisia, Egypt. Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Sudan. Egypt, Algeria and Sudan. which severed diplomatic re- lations with the U.S. during the June. 1967 Arab- Israli war, were represented respectively by India. Guinea and Somalia. A State Department announcement after the meeting said that Sisco denied that the U.S. en- couraged citizens to take part in military ac- tivities in the Mid East. He told the Arabs that "some very few Israeli citizens who hold dual Is- (Continued on Page 7) Clergymen Asked to Join Drive On Synagogue Vandals NEW YORK — (JTA) — The president of the Brooklyn Board of Rabbis appealed to Catholic and Protestant clergymen to join him in con- demning vandalism against houses of worship after a Coney Island syna- gogue was found desecrated last week. Rabbi Kurt Klappholz made his appeal after Morris Glassman, president of Congregation Chevra . Bikur Cholem, reported that the synagogue has been ruined. Rabbi Mendel Epstein said that he and a member of the congrega- tion, which has. 30 regular worshipers, most of them elderly, found the vandalism when they arrived for morning services. It was the second time that the synagogue had been vandalized in a month. Damages were esti- - mated at thousands of dollars. Angry congregation members, asserting that abandoned homes in the neighborhood were hiding places for drug addicts. muggerS and vandals, demanded that- the three mayoral candidates visit the synagogue. Rabbi Epstein said "we found prayer books throivn all over the place. and human excrement smeared in the aisles." He added that the Torah Scroll and the Ark in the sanctuary had been left untouched. Police said they were look- ing for a gang of six Negroes and Puerto Rican youths suspected of the vandalism. A patrolman was placed on guard at the synagogue.