University of the Negev l'Intinsed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A new university that will incorporate
various research institutions and organizations in the Negev region
will be established in Beersheba, it was announced by the ministerial
committee on science and technology, headed by Deputy Premier
Yigal Alton.
Plans for the university call for faculties of technological and
natural sciences, a faculty of humanities and a school for supplemen-
tary instruction in the social and educational sciences.
The university will also embrace
the Beersheba Institute for
Higher Learning, which is sponsored by the Ilaifa Technion.
Philly Council in Standoff With Defense League
PHILADELPHIA (JTA I—Efforts
The weekly declared that an im-
by officials of the Jewish Defense passe developed over the time and
League and leaders of the Jewish place for a meeting.
Community Relations Council of
Nathan Agran. a .ICRC execu-
Philadelaphia to discuss the pros- Live. and Rabbi Harold Novoseller,
pective role of the JIM, in this city pro-tern JDL chairman here, dis-
were unsuccessful, the Jewish cussed a meeting on the telephone
Times reports. but both declined to
"visit each
other's proposed fleeting places,"
the weekly reported.
The two men exchanged "regret
letters" but Agran added that the
.ICRC would meet with JDL offi-
cials at any time and place speci-
fied in the future. Rabbi Novoseller
was quoted as having said that the
JDL would meet with the JCRC if
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Rabbi Novoseller told the Jew-
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that Rabbi /Heir Kahane, founder
and head of the JDL, made a
second visit to Philadelphia, ad-
dressing more than 100 persons
at an organizational meeting
held at the Young Israel of Ox-
ford Circle. Rabbi Novoseller
said Rabbi Kahane spoke for two
hours on the need for a JDI,
chapter here and how to organ-
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He reported also that JDL chap-
ter chairmen were named at the
meeting to serve in various parts
of the city and Montgomery Coun-
ty.
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Fifteen
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American Jewish Congress com-
mission on law and social action
'have volunteered their services to
the Western Center on Law and
Poverty at the University of Cali-
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Friday, November 7, 1969-19
Thant Blows His Cool: THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Reporter Asks If He
Y Begins Sabbath Program for Afternoon
Erred in May '67
I NEWARK (JTA) — The YM- bins. president. He said that there
YWHA of Essex County has start- ! was a "feeling of a lack of suf-
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
Secretary General U Thant lost his ed a program of Sabbath after-1 ficient constructive activities for
temper at a press reception here noon activities after intensive dis- youngsters of the community at a
Monday when a free-lance repor- cussions, according to Saul Rob- time w hen most of them are free."
ter asked whether he might have
acted incorrectly when he remov-
ed the UN peace force from the
Middle East in
May, 1967, on
the eve of the
Six-Day War.
Thant's action.
at the request of
President Gamal
Abdel Nasser of
Egypt, was be-
lieved by many
diplomats to have
precipitated t h e
war. It has been
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widespread criti-
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cism.
Thant
Obviously angered by the ques-
tion from a British reporter, Ed-
win Roth, Thant retorted, "Only
a nincompoop or a malicious dis-
tortionist would still maintain that Ei
I had other alternatives to the ac-
tion I took," He added that he
had "never made a more correct
decision" and that his remarks G
were on the record.
will be outlined at the
The exchange between Thant
and Roth occurred during cere-
monies at the UN Correspondents 13
Association (UNCA) club rooms
just after the secretary general
of
blew out the candies on a cake in
observance of his eighth anniver-
sary in office.
The occasion is a traditional
non-newsmaking event. But Roth.
who later described himself as a 13
free-lance newsman representing
nobody but himself, pressed Thant
with questions on whether the sec-
retary general felt he had made CI
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any mistakes during his tenure.
Thant replied that he was "not
conscious of any mistakes." He
abandoned his usual composure,
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however, when Roth asked if he '
thought he had acted correctly in
May 1967.
UNCA officials apologized to CI
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Thant and called a press briefing
to explain the incident. After a
heated debate between UNCA
members and Roth, who is not a —
member. UN guards were asked
to escort the free-lancer out of the
building. Roth insisted that he had 0
asked Thant legitimate questions
and that if anyone had been ag- ,
gressive it was the secretary gen-
p.
eral.
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Wednesday Evening, December 3, 6 p.m.
at the Shaarey Zedek
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Earlier, Thant took a pessi-
mistic view of the situation in '
the Middle East and speculated
that developments there might 0
be "something like the early
stages of a new hundred years'
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war."
Thant's appraisal came in the ° Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, holder of art
course of a speech to the Navy
Honorary Doctorate from Bar-Ilan, brings important mes-
League of the United States in
sages to this gathering marking Bar-Ilan's• 15th Anniversary
which he bemoaned the failure of ,._.,
UN members to respect resolutions
of the Security Council and of the
Security Council to enforce its un-
animou,s decisions.
UN observers considered that El
Thant's scolding was directed
principally at Israel, which has re-;
fused to accept Security Council : 0
demands that it rescind measures ;
taken in the unification of Jerus-
alem.
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"If the world becomes accus-
tomed to the decisions of the high-
est UN organ for peace and secur-
ity going by default or being ig-
nored," Thant declared, "we shall I:1
have taken a very dangerous step ,
backwards toward anarchy." He
stressed the need for Security ;
Council members to back up their
decisions "with all the various
means at its disposal."
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died Sept. 28, 1964.
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PHILLIP STOLLMAN
National Chairman,
.4nterican Friends of
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