Soviet Youth Press Action Against Israel
World Union of Jewish Students and the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Also
attending are two representatives of the General Union of Palestinian Students.
Some observers here viewed the Soviet delegation's statement on the Middle
East as relatively mild compared to its slashing attacks on the United States and the
Indo-China War. They attributed the mildness to the "delicate" diplomatic situation
in which U. S. and Soviet peace proposals for the Mid East are being discussed here.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—The Soviet delegation to the United Nations
World Youth Assembly Tuesday expressed its "solidarity" and "ardent support" of
the youth of the Arab states in their struggle against Israel. The pledge was contained
in a statement released by the 15-member delegation at a press conference here. The
World Youth Assembly, attended by 623 youth from 109 member states, opened offi-
cially on Thursday.
There is a five-member delegation from Israel and representatives from the
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Israel Chief of Staff Gen. Haim Bar-Lev revealed that missiles from Moscow
fired by Soviet military advisers are zooming up at the Israeli planes from these sites
in Egypt. Shaded area near the Suez Canal is a missile zone 15 by 20 miles, Bar-Lev
reported.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The State Department said Tuesday
that it had "no reason to doubt the substance of the information"
revealed by Israel's Chief of Staff Gen. Haim Bar-Lev in Tel Aviv
Monday night indicating that the Soviet-manned Egyptian missile
defense system was moving closer to the Suez Canal. "We can't
confirm or deny the details of the statement," department spokes-
man Carl Bartch said.
He had no comment on reports that SAM-3 missiles were
deployed near the canal but said "any further movement toward
the canal would be regarded as more serious." He described as
"apparently without foundation" a Washington Post report Tuesday
that the State Department was "dismayed and puzzled by recent
White House statements that could undercut Secretary of State
Rogers' new Mid East peace initiative.
Thant's Pro-Arabism Exposed in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Israeli Foreign Ministry implied
Wednesday that United Nations Secretary General U Thant was
brainwashed on the Middle East during his recent visit to Moscow.
A military statement issued by the government press office said
that Thant's remarks at a press conference in Geneva Tuesday
"certainly seem to reflect the very intensive briefing which the
secretary-general appears to have been subject to during his re-
cent Moscow visit.
The foreign ministry statement referred to newspaper reports
of Thant's press conference which claimed that the secretary gen-
eral had said that the new Soviet plan for the Middle East was
more realistic than the American plan.
A study of the verbatim transcript of the Thant press con-
ference by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York Wednesday
found no such comparison. The transcript showed that Thant took
pains to avoid being drawn by newsmen into making a comparison
between the Soviet and American plans. The following are the
pertinent extracts from the verbatim transcript.
Thant: "If I am to assess the latest proposals, I must say
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Hebrew U. Scientific Irked Pompidou Federation Allocates
Discovery to Combat Upholds Embargo $2,092,565 for Local
PARIS (JTA)—President Georges Pompidou angrily
Agencies' Operations
suggestions that France was prepared to ease its
Deadly Poultry Virus rejected embargo
against Israel. "Israel does not need wea-
arms
JERUSALEM—Israeli poultry farmers learned for pons, what it needs is peace,” he said at a press confer-
ence at the Elysee Palace, his first since July 10, 1969.
the first time on Sunday about a scientific discovery by
He asserted that France has no intention of reverting
Hebrew University scientists in combating the dreaded
Newcastle Disease which caused a 20,000,000-pound — to a policy of "selective embargo," one in which jets
and other heavy military equipment is withheld but not
$6,000,000--damage to Israeli chicken farmers during
spare parts.
the last two years and causes hundreds of millions of
Pompidou appeared irritated by questions on the em-
dollars of damage annually throughout the world.
bargo. "Not a single day passes without someone or other
The announcement was made by Prof. Melech Perek,
questioning me on the subject," he told the newsmen.
head of the department of poultry science and animal
Pompidou's remarks on Israel were regarded here
hygiene at the university's Levi Eshkol School of Agri-
as the harshest he has made since taking office a year
culture-Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot, before a
ago. He warned that peace was more necessary for
gathering of close to 200 members of the Israeli branch
Israel than for anyone else in the Middle East and that
of the Poultry Science Association. The group included
time was working against the Jewish state.
farmers, veterinarians and poultry instructors from all
He conceded that the situation has become more
over Israel.
dangerous than ever before and that "there is a danger
Highlighting the meeting was Prof. Perek's lecture
of a world conflict stemming from the Mid East conflict."
on the achievement of a research team, comprising him-
The French president seemed piqued by the new
self and Dr. Dan Heller, lecturer in the department, to-
American and Soviet proposals for a Mid East solution,
wards protecting poultry against Newcastle Disease Virus
initiatives taken by the two superpowers which seem to
(NDV) by means of ultra-violet (UV) radiation. After
exclude France from the role it covets as a Mid East
the lecture, several Israeli farmers expressed their readi-
peacemaker. Agreement can come only through a Four
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Local agency beneficiaries of the Jewish Welfare
Federation will receive 52.092,565 for their 1910-71 opera-
tions, Alan E. Schwartz, Federation president, announced.
The Federation board of governors gave final ap-
proval of the allocations from money raised in the 1970
Allied Jewish Campaign, after weeks of review of the
agencies' budgets by members of the community rela-
tions, education and health and welfare divisions.
Agencies have been faced with the dual problem of
rising costs and need for increased services. They have
pared requests to a minimum by effecting economies
without impairing services substantially, Schwartz said.
Ten health and welfare agencies will receive the larg-
est portion of the total--$923,099—inciuding a small addi-
tion of $38,106 over the comparable 1969 figure for the
agencies in the division, Dr. Peter G. Shifrin, chairman,
reported.
Hebrew Free Loan Association, Jewish Home for
Aged, Jewish House of Shelter, Resettlement Service,
Sinai Hospital and Fresh Air Society received amounts
which were not significantly different from a year ago.
A first-time request came this year to start up the
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