A Challenge to Vietnam Veterans

By Arnold Grossman, Senior Vice Commander, Dept. of Michigan

Unlike other Jewish veterans, are expressed through an organi-
zation, have greater meaning, if
who fought with the full support only
because in a democracy poli-
of the American people in a cause ticians are more sensitive to large
that was deemed just, you Vietnam groups than to individuals. If you
veterans, not only fought in a war have thoughts, and ideas regarding
that has been denounced by a Vietnam, the Middle East, Ameri-
large segment of the American can foreign policy, and a host of
public, but also, by a great many other subjects, how can you best
of the veterans who fought in that express yourself? As an individual
war. Naturally, many of you feel or through an organized group? I
that joining a veterans organization think the answer is obvious, and
will align you with pro-military, the group which is the best vehicle
pro - Vietnam intervention, pro- for the expression of opinions,
"hawk" thinking, and for these which I hold is the Jewish War
reasons you reject, out of hand, Vetettns.
any suggestion that you affiliate
Although you can certainly enjoy
with a veteran's organization. the cultural, social, and humani-
However, it is for these very rea- tarian aspect of membership, your
sons, that you should and must first obligation is to join, so as to
join the Jewish War Veterans.
address yourself to the issues of
As an American, a Jew, and a the day. The Jewish War Veterans
veteran, I consider it my duty to WANT and NEED ALL •Jewish
express my thoughts regarding any veterans, now more than ever. As
and all political issues, which af- a young Jewish veteran, the chal-
fect the world in which I live. I lenge is there; CAN YOU ACCEPT
also know that thoughts, which IT?

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Arabs Bring Ailing
Babies to Hadassah

10—Friday, March 20, 1970

J.W.V. SUPPLEMENT

JERUSALEM — Arabs from the
West Bank and East Jerusalem

Tel Aviv, California Universities
Participate in Solar Flares Studies

a critical condition because of an
umbilical cord. By keeping the
baby in an incubator and using all
the latest medical techniques, the
baby was saved.
Another baby suffering from
septicemia weighed less than its
birthweight at 3 months old,
and the mother had been told that
its condition was hopeless. A friend
of hers, a carpenter from East
Jerusalem, who knew Professor
Alexander Russell, head of the
pediatrics department at Hadal-
sah, from World War II, when

PASADENA, Calif. — Astrono-
mers at the California Institute of
Technology and the University of
Tel Aviv are cooperating in a
unique investigation of the evolu-
tion of sunspots aimed at develop-
ing a way to predict solar flares,
which can be hazardous to astro-
nauts.
Time lapse movies of the sun's
constantly moving and fiery sur-
face can be taken continuously
for as long as 20 hours through
two identical six-inch telescopes
located on opposite sides of the
earth — one in Israel and the
other in Southern California.
If a particularly interesting and
active region appears on the sun,
the solar observers can keep al-
most continuous track of it with
their telescope cameras. They also
have a radio communication sys-
tem with which to alert one or the

continue to bring their children to
the Hadassah - Hebrew University
Medical Center, despite the pre-
vailing tension. Many of these
cases are very rare medically, and
indeed have not been seen by
Israeli doctors for two decades.
An Arab mother from Tulkarem
brought a three-week old baby in

Prof. Russell served in the Royal other observatory.
Harold Zirin, professor of as-
Air Force in the Middle East,
tronomy at Caltech and a mem-
urged the mother to try Hadassah.
ber of the Hale Observatories
After several days of treatment
staff, selected Israel as the site
in an incubator, and with careful
nursing, the baby is recovering and
for a second telescope when he
started the program to film the
will be perfectly normal.
sun In 1967. With the coopera-
One Arab family rushed up to
tion of the Israeli government,
Hadasah with a small child who
Zirin personally set up a tele-
bad been stung by a scorpion.

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POST No. 716

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For the past 13 years of our Post's existence and

10 years for our Auxiliary, the Oak Park Post and

their wonderful ladies have been a source of pride

scope at the University of Tel
Aviv just before the outbreak of
the 15-day war.
"I stayed in Tel Aviv until all
my helpers from the university
left for the war," Zirin recalls.
"Our telescope looked just like
a cannon on top of a building and I
guess we would have been a good

target for an attack."
But the telescope came through
untouched and Zirin returned later
with a dome and additional equip-
ment to complete the installation
of Tel Aviv's first observatory.

Yuval Ne'eman, director of the
University of Tel Aviv and a for-
mer visiting professor in physics
at Caltech, selected Uri Feldman
of the Goddard Space Laboratory
to be the head of the observa-
tory. One postdoctoral fellow
from Caltech spends a few
months assisting Feldman each
year and the University of Tel
Aviv also sends astronomers to
Caltech for postdoctoral work.
Communication between Caltech
and Tel Aviv is conducted on a

daily basis by amateur radio. Zirin
usually uses the radio facilities at
Gordon Marshall, chairman of
Marshall Industries, who lives near
the institute.
"The biggest problem," Zirin
says, "is that the only time we can
Teach Tel Aviv with a radio signal
is at dawn or sunset. But if some-
thing spectacular comes up, we use
the phone or teletype."

Film taken by the Tel Aviv ob-
servatory is sent to California
where it is processed and spliced
together with the film taken at Cal-
tech to produce a continuous record
on film of the life of sunspots.
Results of the Tel Aviv-Caltech
project are of interest not only to
fellow astronomers, but also to a
wide range of scientists. Sunspots
are the source of cosmic rays and
x-rays as well as phenomena such
as radio interference. A better un-
derstanding of the sun is vital to
the success of space travel.

Dutch Opposition to Nazis
Described in New Book

Twenty-five years after the lib-
eration of Holland, Walter B.
Maass, an Austrian refugee who
survived the occupation of the
Netherlands, has written a full ac-
count of that nation's World War
II struggle in' a new book to be
published by Abelard - Schuman,
April 10, "The Netherlands at War:
1940-1945." Photographs and maps
illustrate the book.
According to the author, the
"neutral" Netherlands' greatest

mistake was its avoidance of any
real alliance with the West. Since
it lacked the means to defend itself,
the Nazis were able to take Hol-

land in five days.
Maass says it was the actions
of the Gestapo, rather than the in-
vasion of Holland, which turned
the Dutch against the Germans.
The Dutch resented being told that
they had a common heritage with
the invaders, and bitterly opposed
the restrictions on their freedoms.
The author asserts that the Ger-
mans would have been wiser to let
the Dutch govern themselves. In-
stead, the now famous large and
well-organized resistance move-
ment developed in Holland.

JWV launched a program to ex-
tend its Veterans Services to re-
turning Negro veterans.

for the Jewish War Veterans in the Oak Park area.

We shall dedicate ourselves to continued activities

in behalf of the program of our organization.

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