Church Council Repudiates Documeit Accusing Israel of Maltreatment of Arab Prisoners NEW YORK (JTA)—A document submitted by an official of the Syrian Red Crescent Red Cross to the United Nations special commit- tee investigating human rights in Israeli-occupied territories, which purports to provide evidence by the World Council of Churches of mal- treatment of Arab prisoners, was 'IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! MR. EDGAR'S Wair Styling Salon for Men Now At HONEYWELL BLDG. Nine Mile & Southfield Leading Competitive Hair Stylists With Complete Tonsorial Service BARBERING by Bill 'Doe and Paul Broughton repudiated Tuesday by the church group. During the committee hearings in Damascus, Shawkat Shatti, the Red Crescent official, said the doc- ument was signed by citizens of the United States and Great Britain who "must be regarded as impar- tial." He told the committee that the Church Council had not sent an investigation team into the area but had sent relief workers who had witnessed many of the "facts" contained in the document. Shatti added that the "president" of the WCC had himself visited the area, had seen the results "of Israeli aggression" and "can testify tc it." A digest of the committee hearings was released by the UN's information officer accompanying the committee and distributed to the news media at UN head- quarters in New York. A spokesman for the World Council of Churches in New York denied Tuesday the authenticity of i the document submitted in its name by Shatti. The spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency WCC never issues documents signed by individuals in any coun- try and the one in Damascus could not possibly have come from it. The spokesman suggested that it might have been signed by mem- ' hers of a particular church affili- ated with the council and that sometimes in such instances the WCC's name is "tossed about." The spokesman said there was no president of the World Council of Churches but six co - presidents, none of whom has visited the Middle East. She suggested that Verna) ELECTRONIC GARAGE DOOR OPENER Manicurist Helen Doe CALL 354-3170 For Appointment CONVENIENT PARKING SPECIAL SALE TOYOTA NEW 1970 73 HORSEPOWER & 30 ONLY S M.P.G. 150 DOWN 986 PER MONTH For 36 Months—at 51/2 c'n Interest Best Selection in Town— Come in and check the shape ... the statistics ... 73 hp 87 mph Up to 28 mpg Wagon Fastback Your Humble Servant PAGE IMPORTS Telegraph at 9 1/2 Mile 1970 This Year of The Toyota Shatti might have been referring to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, gen- eral secretary of the WCC, whose headquarters is in Geneva. Dr. Blake visited the Middle East in March 1969. But he made no state ments whatever on the alleged maltreatment of Arab prisoners by Israel and in fact leveled no charges against either side, the spokesman said. Rabbi Marc H. Tannenbaum, national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish committee, one of a 14-man dele- gation to the World Council of churches meeting in Geneva last February, told the JTA that the conference dealt extensively with the Middle East situation but that "at no time did anyone make any assertions of such Israel maltreatment of Arab prisoners) a character." Rabbi Tannenbaum said that among those participating in the dis- cussion on the Middle East were WCC specialists in that area and several who are in charge of Arab refugee camps. Rabbi Tannenbaum recalled that the last document issued by the WCC on the Middle East was in December 1969 at a meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, of representa- tives of Arab and Christian churches in the Middle__ East and other countries. "That conference was dominated by representatives Of the El Fa- tah," said Rabbi Tannenbaum, "who sought support from the World Council of Churches." Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah has protested to the UN O'fice of Public Information for publishing "the anti-Israel diatribes" submit- ted in London to the special com- mittee to investigite human rights by Michael AdamS and John Red- daway. Tekoah said Adams is "a well- known Arab propagandist in the employ of Arab information ser- vices in London" and "receives regular remuneration from them." The Israeli ambassador said that Reddaway, former deputy com- missioner of UNRWA, had "al- ready gained notoriety by his hostility to Israel and that his ac- tivities were the subject of an offi- cial complaint by Israel to UNRWA it was shortly thereafter that he left the agency." The fact that the special com - Your levellers wish to level down down at far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves—Samuel Johnson. committee, its spokesman added, placed paid notices in the news papers of all the countries which it is visiting and in two Israeli newspapers, the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz, requesting persons with evidence to testify. Statements submitted to the committee by Reddaway and Adams denied the charges. A Palestinian guerrilla who spent two years in an Israeli jail, told the special committee in Beirut that he was mistreated and was personally aware of other prison- ers being subjected to cruel tor- ture. The testimony was presented by Ahmad Khalifa, a 33-year-old former English' literature student at Cairo University, who served (Continued on Page 21) Call Evenings Until matzo balls! 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