Simmering Conflict in Crown Heights Erupts in Bombing NEW YORK (JTA) — The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council—a storefront operation in this Brooklyn area—and a nearby two-family residence were fire bombed early Monday morning. There were no injuries, but the interior of the store was heavily damaged, according to a Jewish community spokesman. Mayor John V. Lindsay sped to the scene and conferred with com- munity leaders. He ordered inten- sive police and fire department investigations to determine who was responsible. A spokesman for the Jewish community, who requested anony- mity, said this was the latest in a series of about 10 fire bombings in the past two weeks. According to witnesses, a car containing three Negro teen-agers pulled up in front of the council headquarters about 5:35 a.m. One got out and tossed a home-made bomb through the window, then got back in the car, which sped off. The landlord, who lives above the store, called in the alarm. The private residence, which has no Jewish occupants, was fire bombed at 6:05 a.m. Damage was slight. Mayor Lindsay met with Jew- ish and non-Jewish community leaders and police and fire de- partment representatives at the nearby office of the local Urban Task Force. Community leaders, black and white, who have been attempting NY Rabbis Assail Japan Airline for Bowing to Boycott to stabilize the area—once almost entirely Jewish—and prevent the flight of Jewish families from Crown Heights, said this latest in a series of "harassment" fire bombings might undermine their efforts of the past few years and cause a renewed flight of Jewish families from Crown Heights, thereby turning the area into a new Negro ghetto. The Mayor, who called the sta- bilization effort a model for both the city and the entire country as evidence that different groups can live together in harmony, di- rected the police and fire depart- ments to conduct "thorough inves- tigations" to determine who was responsible for the harassment which might jeopardize the stabil- ity of the area. Jewish community leaders In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn Tuesday charged the city had ignored their warnings last week that "something was going to happen" unless steps were taken to halt the harass- ment of Jewish families. "I was tempted to send the mayor a telegram saying I told you so when I heard of the fire bombing of our headquarters yes- terday," Rabbi Sol Eisner, secre- tary to the board of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Coun- cil, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Abraham Gelb, acting executive director of Operation Belfreye (Better Living for Residents of Yiddish - speaking Environments), an antipoverty agency sponsored by the community council, said community leaders had met with Sid Davidoff, an aide to the mayor and head of the Crown Heights Urban Task Force, last Thursday to complain of the harassment. The city took the attitude it was all a teen-age prank . . . "Wait and see, and if anything happens, we will investigate," Gelb said. Trouble over funding Operation Belfreye has been brewing since last April when Sonny Carson, a black militant from Bedford-Stuy- vesant, led a sit-in at the offices NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York Board of Rabbis, in a letter signed by the board's executive vice president, Rabbi, Harold H. Gordon, called Japan Air Lines to account for delaying the arrange- ment of a mutual air agreement with Israel's El Al Air Lines, charging that it was thus partici- pating in the Arab League's econ- omic boycott against Israel and of the Crown Heights Community capitulating to the league's threats Corporation (the parent umbrella against Israel. organization of the area's anti- Since other major air lines have poverty organizations) and accus- an agreement both with Israel and ed the director, Simon Levine, of Arab states, the rabbis noted that granting more funds to "minority" Japan's refusal to deal with El Al Jewish sponsored programs than amounts to capitulation to "black- to "majority Negro-sponsored pro- mail on the highest international grams. level." Levine, black and Protestant. the Turkish-Russian border was scaled last year by a six-man expe- dition that found several pieces of hand-hewn wood dated variously as between 7,500 and 5,000 years old. Ralph Lenton, chief of the expe- dition organized by the Search Foundation of Washington, D.C., said he was .attempting to have the Turkish decision changed by applying to the ministry of foreign affairs. Members of his expedition hope to be able to identify the wood find as remains of the ark built by Noah and his three sons to shelter them during 40 days and 40 nights Jewish communities simmered until recently when it was an- nounced that Operation Belfreye was budgeted for $143,000 for the coming year and one black-direct- ed antipoverty program, Operation Discovery, was being dropped be- cause of "fiscal irregularities." Levine began receiving telephone warnings that "the community would retaliate" unless Operation Discovery was refunded. Gelb said the harassment and recent fire bombings were "out- side directed" efforts to render Operation Belfreye inoperative. "It will not succeed." 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Moreover, the board stated, the said funds were allocated on the policy which Japan Air Lines is basis of the census data. Most pursuing "is destructive of the principle of freedom of world trade and world peace . . . in U.S. Excavators contravention of the United Na- tions Charter ... strengthens the After Noah's Ark Arab leaders in their war-like preparations against Israel, in- Left High and Dry creases the possibility of prolong- ANKARA, Turkey—A U.S. expe- ed warfare between the Arab states and Israel and lessens the dition seeking Noah's Ark has chances of peace in the Near been forbidden to climb Mt. Ara- East, and, ultimately, throughout rat by Turkish officials citing "security reasons." the world." The 16,945-foot-high mountain on If Japan Air Lines boycott policy continues, the rabbis said, "It will be our sad but bounden duty to ask our rabbis to notify, from the pul- pit, their 3,000,000 congregants in New York and its environs, and the millions more throughout the coun- try, as well as the hosts of friends of all faiths, that Japan Air Lines is in league with the Arab League, and unworthy of the friendship of peace-loving people." The rabbis concluded with the hope that Japan Air Lines would amend its present policy "for the sake of the good name of Japan and its fine air line and for the sake of world peace." TEL AVIV (JTA)—The possi- bility of interesting Japanese in- vestors in the construction of a railroad between Elath and Ash- dod will be explored by Ramon Harel, general director of the ministry of transport, who left Sunday for Japan. Once before the idea had been explored with- out success. 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