Greek Govt. Criticized for Delaying Trial of El Al Attackers JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Is- demand the adoption of aggressive raeli Foreign Ministry Monday measures to restrain, put on trial sharply criticized the Greek gov- and punish the perpetrators of pi- ernment for postponing the mur- racy in the air, a trend that has der trial of Arab commandos who found energetic support in the attacked an El Al airliner at United Nations General Assem- Athens airport last December, kill- lbly." ing one passenger and wounding a The Athens attack was followed hostess. up by an Israeli retaliatory raid The commandos have been ac- on Beirut Airport in Lebanon, cused of premeditated murder in where the Arab commandos came the death of the late Leon Shirdan, from. More than a dozen planes an Israeli, and the attempted mur were destroyed in the action, der of other passengers and crew which brought Israel a censure by members aboard the airliner. the UN Security Council although In a statement issued here, no lives were lost. the foreign ministry said "To The Greek government's action postpone the legal proceedings was contrasted by observers here required for the punishment of with that of Switzerland, which criminals of this kind is to ignore will soon try three Arab comman- the due process of law and jus. dos who attacked an El Al airliner tIce." The ministry's statement at Zurich airport Feb. 18, fatally also condemned the Athens gov- wounding an Israeli pilot trainee. ernment's motive in granting a postponement—Greece did not carries a maximum penalty of 10 air and later set off a bomb in its years imprisonment. The three cockpit after passengers and crew Arabs face life sentences. were evacuated at the Damascus Meanwhile, the Syrian news airport. agency Sana reported that repairs have been completed to the TWA THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS jet airliner that was badly dam- Friday, November 21, 1969-19 aged after it was hijacked to Damascus by Arab commandos last Aug. 29. But there was no indication that the two Israeli passengers held captive by Syria will be permitted to leave when the airliner finally takes off for the United States. The Israelis, Prof. Shlomo Sam- ueloff and Salta Muallem, were OF HARVARD ROW detained after all the other pas- sengers and crew members were Designers of Fine Furs released last August. Also re- Complete Fur Service leased by Syrian authorities were 11 MILE AND LAHSER the two Palestinian commandos Phone: 358-0850 who seized the Boeing 707 in mid- WE DISCOUNT want to damage ties with Arab countries. "This is surprising, yielding as it does, the legal principles that oblige all governments to prevent acts of terror and murder against a friendly nation on its soil in favor of political expediency," the ministry said. It added, "The postponement of the trial comes at a moment when all enlightened governments, and with them the air-traveling public, That trial is scheduled to open Thursday in a Zurich district court sitting in Winterhur. Some 200 journalists have applied for accreditation to the trial, which has already brought threats from Arab groups. The Arabs claim that the Swiss conducted their pre-trial investiga- tions unfairly. The Arab defend- ants, two men and a woman, were formally charged with murder in the death of Yoram Peress, an Israeli pilot trainee who died of wounds he suffered in the attack. Also attracting wide attention is the forthcoming trial of Mordehai Rahamim, an El Al security guard who gunned down a fourth Arab terrorist. 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Moderate Blacks Remain in Majority, Says Study NEW YORK (JTA) — The mod- erate attitude of most Negroes toward whites generally and Jews in particular that prevailed several years ago remains basically un- changed, according to a Harvard sociologist whose 1964 study of protest and prejudice in the black community was conducted under a grant from the Bnai Brith's Anti-Defamation League. But Dr. Gary T. Marx reports that his earlier conclusions that most Negroes favor integration. oppose indiscriminate violence and are not consistently anti-white or anti-Semitic still hold in 1969 but "perhaps not as strongly." Dr. Marx's original study was conducted by the University of California's Research Center un- der an ADL grant and published in 196'7 as a book "Protest and Prejudice: A Study of Belief in the Black Community." Now an assistant professor in the department of social relations at Harvard, Dr. Marx has updated his findings. He has based his latest conclusions on 15 studies of Negro opinion made in 1967 and 1968 involving two national and 34 city samples. He observed that 1, the lack of change in mass atti- tude does not mean that "black : anger is insignificant." According to Dr. Marx, while Moderation still prevails. - 5 to 20 per cent of the black popula- tion (from 1 to 4,000.00 0 people) hold attitudes indicating a depth of estrangement and bitterness unique in American history." to the DETROIT B nai Services Appeal The Fund Raising Arm of Detroit B'nai B'rith Lodges and Chapters 19951 Livernois, Detroit, Michigan