22—Friday, February 13, 1970 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Sen. Percy Calls Guerrillas Danger to Arab Countries Camp Gan Israel Adds New Building n - ea 1:2 [79E9 oji Pd Seventy additional Detroit children will be accommodated in the two-story building at Camp Gan Israel in Linden, Mich. The upper- level dining room has a porch facing Pine Lake, and modern sleeping quarters and washrooms on the lower level. Registration for the summer season is under way for the camp, located 60 miles from Detroit on a 27-acre site. Daily activities include swimming, boating, baseball, arts and crafts, tennis, basketball, music, motor boating and horseback riding. Interested parents may contact the camp office, 399.9222. Mapam Party Leader Opposes Annexation Creation of West Bank Palestinian State NEW YORK (JTA)—Simha Fla- pan, a leading member of Mapam (United Workers Party) in Israel and founder and editor of the Mid- dle East monthly New Outlook, told the JTA that he opposes perma- nent annexation by Israel of the territories it occupies since the Six-Day War and expressed oppo- sition to the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state on the West Bank. Flapan, an international Socialist- Zionist leader and former director of Arab affairs for Mapam, has been touring the United States to complete research on Middle East problems for a book he is writing on the Israel-Arab conflict. He spoke here under the sponsor- ship of the Jewish Liberation Project, described by its spokes- man as a Socialist-Zionist group devoted to the building of Israel- Arab friendship in the Middle East and support for this policy within the American Jewish community. Focusing on his opposition to a West Bank Palestinian Arab state, Flapan said, "I don't think this would solve the problem either for the Arab people or the state of Israel. It would artificially dis- member the Arab people who live in more than just this area." He Soviet Yiddish Journal Explores Jewish Past LONDON (JTA) — An historical survey dealing with the Jewish past in a scholarly, non-political context, is featured in the current issue of Sovietish Heimland, the officially sanctioned Yiddish peri- odical, just received here. The issue also contains articles, essays and poems by Ezra Finen- berg, Aron Vergelis, Moto Grubian, Yechiel Falikman, Chaim Matin- sky and Meir Yellin. Also featured are hitherto unpublished photo- graphs of the late David Bergel- son, a Soviet-Jewish novelist who was one of the victims of the Stalinist purges of the early 19505. There is a note on Boris Gapo- nov's Hebrew translation of "Man in the Tiger Skin" by the Georgian poet Rustaveli. The magazine re- ports that Gaponov is working on a Hebrew translation of Lermon- tov's poetry which will appear in two volumes and on an anthology of Georgian poetry. 1 ALLEY OOP WANNA FIGHT?) SO DO I. l_ST16— said such a state would be an artificial attempt to unify the Palestinian Arabs on the basis of geography rather than on the basis of historic rights and economic and political needs. On-Job Training Rule for Federal Construction Urged to Fight Bias NEW YORK—The American Jew- ish Committee has urged Secretary of Labor George P. Schultz to set up a mandatory program under which on-the-job training would be required on all contracts for fed- eral or federally-assisted construc- tion. In a letter signed by Mervin H. Riseman, chairman of its domestic affairs committee, the AJC de- clared: "This is needed not only to remedy the ills of the past but to provide the skilled workers the nation must have for the future. Only in this way can the entire nation be mobilized for a total assault on bias in the building trades and, at the same time, create a full-integrated construe. tion program to fill the nation's unmet construction needs in the 1970s." Similar letters were sent to the governors of the 50 states and to the mayors of the nation's 32 largest cities, urging them to insti- tute similar programs on state and local levels. In addition, Riseman expressed the hope that private builders would work with unions and minor- ity communities to develop the same approach on all private con- struction. Federations Urged to Cut Capital Funds in Favor of Day Schools, Israel WASHINGTON — Sen. Charles H. Percy (R.-111.) said the Arab guerrilla omvement may be more of a threat to the Arab states than to Israel. He advised Arab leaders meeting prior to the Cairo meeting Saturday to consider the threat posed to themselves by these guer- rilla groups. Percy noted that George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, had predicted a 20-to-30 year struggle to subdue Israel, followed by creation of a new Palestinian state operating on Marxist-Leninist prin- ciples. Habash had said that then "Palestine will be free from Zionism, Lebanon and Jordan will be free from reaction, and Syria and Iraq from the petty bourge- oisie." The Habash statement, Percy said, "is typical of the arrogance ;and recklessness of the Arab guer- rilla leaders who not only threat- en Israel, but also threaten the Arab states." The Illinois Senator cited the present struggle between the government and the guerrillas in Lebanon and the danger posed to the government of King Hussein ; of Jordan by the Palestinian guer- ' rilla movement. "Arab guerrillas may actually be more of a threat to the Arab states than to Israel," Percy said, I "because Israel is a strong, united nation, while many of the Arab governments are weak and vulner- able to intimidation and pressure by the guerrillas." Percy quoted Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, as saying in Jordan on Jan. 23 that, "the only solution is that which comes from the muzzle of a gun," and he advised that "question of legitimate self- interest should be the real issue in Cairo." t JDC Aids Yeshivot of Israel This Talmud Torah student is at Etz Chayim Yeshiva in Jeru- salem, one of 134 yeshivot sup- ported by the Joint Distribution Committee in Israel, with United Jewish Appeal funds. Etz Cha- yim, the oldest yeshiva in Israel, has been receiving aid from JDC continuously since 1914. • • • Continuing its support of cultural and religious institutions in Israel, the Joint Distribution Committee will provide over $800,000 in finan- cial aid to more than 130 yeshivot in the Jewish state in 1970, it was - School Built With Funds Raised in Argentina JERUSALEM (JTA)—Argentin- ian and Israeli dignitaries attend- ed the dedication here of a new elementary school built in the Kir- ' yat Yovel suburb with funds raised by Jews and non-Jews in Argen- tina. The school was officially named for the republic of Argen- tina. The Argentina government was represented at the ceremonies by Prof. Dardo Perez Guilho, minis- ter of education. Navaho Reservation Experience Depicted in Dramatic Style A remarkable story of an Indian reservation is told in a Random House volume by Vincent Crapan- zano. "The Fifth World of Enoch Maloney—Portrait of a Navaho" is a dramatic account of the Navaho reservation in Arizona- New Mexico. On land the size of West Virginia, 115,000 Navahos represent a fast growing com- munity. But it is a struggling one, hardly eking out a livelihood. Despite their difficulties, the Navahos remain on their land. The Americanization problem in its ex- tremist form is described here by Crapanzano, who lived among them to get first hand knowledge about a problem and a people he describes with sympathy, under- standing, a desire to help. announced by Samuel L. Haber, JDC executive vice chairman. "This continues unbroken a tra- dition which was begun in 1941,the very first year the JDC was creat- ed," Haber said. "The subsidies, which will amount to approximate- ly 15 per cent of the operating costs of the yeshivot, often mean the difference between maintaining minimum standards and facing constant financial crises." In addition to the funds alloted to the yeshivot, Haber said an- other $54,000 has been reserved for aid to refugee rabbis, schol- ars engaged in research and for approximately 90 teacher-train- ing scholarships. JDC's Malben program on behalf of aged, ill and handicapped newcomers to Israel will provide a broad range of health and welfare services for some 30,000 beneficiaries at a cost of more than $6,000,000, he added. funds for these and JDC other programs benefitting over 300,000 needy Jews in 27 countries around the world mainly from the campaigns of the United Jewish Appeal. During the past year, Haber said, JDC aided 134 yeshivot with a total enrollment of over 18,000 students. Another 31 yeshivot, which do not receive regular subsidies, were provided with special holiday grants. Adding some 7,500 depend- ents of married students, the total number assisted was more than 25,000, Haber continued. JDC also provides funds for feeding programs and for the pur- chase and improvement of kitchen equipment and dining room and dormitory facilities, he said. Portions of Bible Translated Into S. African PRETORIA (JTA)—Portions of the Old Testament and the Ten Commandments are being trans- lated into one of the major Bush- man dialects. According to a re- port from this fourth largest South African city, Prof. E. 0. J. Westphal of Cape Town's Univft- sity School of African Studies has undertaken the task with the aid of a Kalahari Desert Bushman. The translation of the Old Testa- ment and the New Testament was initiated by a group of mission- aries, academicians, and the South African Bible Society. The dialect used in the translation, Kung, is spoken by only a few thousand of the estimated 50,000 Bushmen sur- viving in southern Africa. Revolving Doors at Hadassah-Hebrew U. Center NEW YORK—A year's morator- ium on capital expenditures for new projects was asked of Ameri- can Jews by the head of the coun- try's largest Orthodox rabbinical group. Instead, Rabbi Zev Segal, president of the Rabbinical Coun- cil of America, wants the funds to be channeled into Jewish education and Israel's needs. Rabbi Segal said Israel and the day school movement both are in danger, and he criticized Jewish federations and welfare funds "for continuing to treat Jewish educa- tion as a stepchild." He estimated that $100,000,000 is spent annually by American Jews on new construction. Spain Firm: Recognition of Israel Not Forthcoming e by NU. TM. 1.4 ht. Olf. fight birth defects 'MARCH OF DIMES MADRID (ZINS) — Spain for- eign minister, Gregorio Lopez Brava, on a visit to Cairo, pro- claimed that the government of Spain will under no circumstances give recognition to Israel, nor will there be any relations whatever between the respective countries. Lauding the Security Council resolution of November 1967 as the best hope for peace in the Middle East, the minister also declared his support of the El Fatah terrorists. He announced that Spain has agreed to permit the Arab League to open an in- formation bureau in Madrid. Israel's foremost religions leaders attended the ceremonies marking the installation of revolting doors in the Hadassah-Hebrew Univerisity Medical Center in Jerusalem, so that religions "kohenine can now enter the hospital as patients or visitors, in compliance with Jewish religious law. Dr. Zer- ach Warhaftig, Israel's minister of religious affairs is shown addressing the gathering, (from left) who are: Rabbi Jacob Katrenellenbogen, deputy director of the Jerusalem Rabbinical Connell; Rabbi Jacob Vainstein, director of the religions council; chief rabbi of Israel Issar Yehnda Unterman and Prof. Kal- man J. Mann, director-general of the Hadassah Medical Organization.