14—Fridar, Saptseier 18, len 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. 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