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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
'Keep Faith With Israel,'
Educators Urge Nixon
Security Guards Blamed
for Rohan's Escape
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A private
firm that provides security guards
for a mental home at Beer Yaacov
was charged with negligence Tues-
day in the escape of Denis Mich-
BOSTON (JTA)—Thirty promi- ers as both hiwks and doves ael William Rohan from the insti-
nent educators have called upon
the Nixon administration to "keep
faith with Israel" and take imme-
diate steps to "restore the essen-
tial military balance between Is-
rael and Egypt."
The statement, which was trans-
mitted to Henry A. Kissinger,
President Nixon's national security
affairs advisor, identified the sign-
Natanya Hit
by Explosions
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Four explo-
sions rocked the seaside resort
town of Natanya shortly before 11
p.m. local time Monday causing
no casualties but some damage.
It was the second time in a
month that saboteurs struck in
Natanya.
One explosive charge detonated
in a trash can. Two went off near
parked cars and the fourth near a
pipeline. Police moved in to keep
curious spectators away from the
blast areas. Most of the damage
was to window glass. Last month,
three people were injured slightly
by explosions in Natanya.
A soldier was wounded when
guerrillas fired bazookas at an Is.
raeli patrol near Biranit In Upper
Galilee close to the Lebanese bor-
der. Israeli security officials dis-
closed that a senior commander
of guerrilla forces in the Gaza
Strip was captured a month ago.
He was identified as Salem Hus-
ein Zrayei, who escaped from the
strip several months ago when Is-
raeli forces rounded up many of
his subordinates. He was captured
as Ile was returning to the Gaza
Sirii. from Lebanon by boat. The
prisoner is considered responsible
for many acts of sabotage in the
Gaza Strip.
"whose views range widely over
the political spectrum."
The signers include John Ken-
neth Galbraith, former ambassa-
dor to India, now professor of eco-
nomics at Harvard; former Assist-
ant Secretary of State William P.
Bundy, now of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Arthur
Schlesinger, former Kennedy ad-
ministration adviser and professor
at the City University of New
York; and Edward Teller, profes-
sor of physics at the University of
California.
The statement, issued in response
to the official U.S. acknowledge-
ment that Soviet missiles had been
placed in the Suez Canal standstill
zone in violation of the truce agree-
ment, noted that Israel had agreed
to the cease-fire only on the basis
of U.S. assurances that it would
not weaken her security. "We be-
lieve it to be the moral responsi-
bility of the U.S., as well as in our
national interest, to keep faith with
Israel and to maintain the sub-
stance of the cease fire," the edu-
cators said.
While they had no specific sug-
gestions, they called upon the ad-
ministration to take "prompt steps
to restore the essential military
balance between Israel and Egypt
to that obtaining at the start of
the cease fire." Without such re-
dress, they said, "there can be no
fruitful negotiations, no stable fron-
tiers and thus, no peace in the
Middle East."
Sioux City Leaders Study
Impact of Population Dip
SIOUX CITY (JTA) — The im-
plications for the future of the
Sioux City, Ia., Jewish Community
of a "precipitous drop" in the
child population of Jewish School
age, as well as of a "steady de -.
cline - in t he Jewish population
generally, were studied at an all-
day retreat of local communal
leaders, the Sioux City Federation
has reported.
Leaders of the federation, the
Hebrew school and Sioux City's
three Jewish congregations met at
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Ameri- a nearby campus Sunday to pon-
can Society of Travel Agents der the problems and decisions
(ASTA) has advised its 3,000 mem- required by the population decline.
Burton Lipshutz, ad hoc chair-
ber agents in the United States
man of the retreat, said that
and Canada to cease arranging
Sioux City Jewish children, age
for travel to any Arab country
8 to 14, this year total 112 and
that harbors or smpathizes with
hijackers
that in 1971, the number will '
drop to 99. Unless many more
The disclosure was contained in
a telegram sent Sunday by ASTA
families move into the Jewish
President Charles B. West to the
community, he said, the num-
ber ,will drop to no more than
governments of Lebanon, Egypt,
Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, Algeria and
62 by 1977. He added that the
drop In the child population had
Syria demanding that they declare
themselves "opposed to the uncon-
been in effect for the past six
scionable hijacking of international
years. Ili 1964, be disclosed,
air travelers and take whatever
Jewish children in that age
steps are necessary to halt these
bracket totaled 183.
acts of air piracy."
Data also were provided for the
West, whose organization is the decline in the total Sioux City
world's largest travel association, Jewish population. In 1953, the
warned in his telegram that "if first year for which the federation
necessary assurances are not re- had accurate census figures, there
ceived from your government this were 740 Jewish family households
week on behalf of our 9,700 world- and a total Jewish population of
wide members, international 2,023 men, women and children.
travelers and the entire travel in-
In 1970, the family total was
dustry, additional severe steps will listed as 524 and the population
be recommended to ASTA mem- 1,367, for a net loss of 216 families
ber agents that can effectively di- and 656 individuals, the officials
vert international tourism from said.
Arab countries with consequent
They added that the drain in
economic hardships and cultural families had been felt by local
losses to that part of the world." Jewish congregations.
Tour Agents Asked
to Boycott Lands
Aiding Hijackers
Egyptian Pound Drops in "Value
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Suspenslon
of the Jarring peace talks in New
York has caused the Egyptian
pound to drop in value relative to
the Israel pound in the Gaza Strip.
• Both currencies have been rec-
ognized as legal tender there since
Israel occupied the strip in the
June 1967 war.
when the Jarring talks began last
month and started to unload their
Israeli currency. Some made mas-
sive purchases of Israeli goods and
others exchanged Israeli for Egyp-
tian pounds. The latter rose in
value from 5-1 to 6-1. When Israel
broke off the talks on grounds of
Egyptian truce violations, the old
Many Gaza residents anticipated ratio of five Israeli pounds to one
an early return of Egyptian rule Egyptian pound was restored.
tution two weeks ago.
The board of inquiry set up by
the health ministry also blamed
the institution's medical staff but
decided that there was insufficient
grounds for legal action against
any individual.
Rohan, a former Australian
sheep-herder who confessed to set-
ting fire to the El Aksa Mosque in
Jerusalem Aug. 21, 1969, was re-
captured by Israeli police several
hours after his escape. He has
since been confined to a mental
ward in the old Crusaders Fortress
at Acre.
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