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 The Key in Russia's Hands in the Escalating Middle East Dangers THE JEWISH NEWS Review of Jewish News Michigan Weekly Editorial Page 4 Sensation Seeking Commentators and Statesman's View on U.S. M. E. Position Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075, 356-8400 July 10, 1970 - (217 ,Ta6, „.., 27 VOL. LVI I, No. 17„ U.S. Sources Confirm USSR's Role Against Israel in Egypt; Thant's Prejudices' Assailed MEDITERRANEAN SEA 20 0 BALTIM MILES • PORT -"ItSAID PORT • FUAD • ALEXANDRIA SUEZ . CANAL Ar•-• Aar-- • • U. A. R. • EL QANTARA SINAI OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL ISMAILIA (EGYPT) SOVIET HEADQUARTERS , 07. CAIRO La 5 e RUSSIAN MANNED AIRFIELDS <>SAM 3 SITES Ar-- GUNS es GULF OF SUEZ BENI S1JEF 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 (Continued on Pages 8 and 9) 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 (Continued on Page 5) Power confrontation and agreements among themselves," 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 (Continued caa Page 3)