Detroit-Sponsored Underground Shelter Completed In Israel

Dr. John Mimes, chairman of the Detroit chapter
of American Red Mogen Dovid for Israel, announced
this week that the project undertaken by the local
group for the construction of an underground air-raid
shelter In Ashdod, the new port city V: Israel, is now

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nearing eompletion.
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A full report about the completed project will be
submitted at the annual meeting of the Detroit chapter,
Nov. 9, at Cong. Baal Moshe, Dr. MUMS stated. At
that meeting, the full details about the Ashdod abet-

ter will be outlined, and the honorary chairman of

the local group, Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, will be
presented with an award from Magee David Adorn of
Israel.
(Detailed Stories on Page 5)

THE JuvvisH NEWS

Michigan Weekly

Review of Jewish News

Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Due Honor for
Israel President
Zalman Shazar

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Commentary
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Vol. LVI I I. No. 5 •Olie• in 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075, 356-8400$8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c October 16, 1970

Israel Sees Danger in New
UN Debate; Gets U. S. Aid

Terrorists May Have Gained
United Nations Recognition

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—The Special Committee of
24 concerned with activities during the 10th anniversary of the
Declaration on Colonization submitted to the General Assembly
a draft resolution granting "liberation movements" participation
in United Nations committees.
A subsection resolved that "Representatives of liberation
movements shall be invited, whenever necessary, by the United
Nations and other international organizations within the United
Nations system to participate in an appropriate capacity in the
proceedings of those organs relating to their countries."
The assembly approved the resolution by a vote of 86 to 5,
with 15 abstentions. The United States and Britain were among
those opposed.
Diplomatic sources said that as the majority of the Special
Committee were African nations and the resolution dealt essen-
tially with colonization, a movement like that of the Palestinian
guerrillas was probably not envisaged by the committee. Other
sources noted, however, last week's Soviet proposal to have the
UN label as an aggressor any nation resisting a "national libera-
tion movement." That proposal was seen as an attempt by the
Soviet Union to gain UN support for the Palestinian cause and
improve Soviet influence in the Middle East.
Another plank in the assembly resolution calls for "all
freedom fighters under detention" to be treated under the rules
of the Geneva Convention of 1949.
Delegations were studying a letter submitted by Soviet Am-
bassador Yakob A. Malik last Friday to U Thant in which the
ambassador charges that "It is Israel that is violating the terms
of the cease-fire agreement." Malik declared: "Israeli military
aircraft are violating the air space of the United Arab Republic
almost daily. Israeli troops within the 50•kilometer zone east of
the Suez Canal are continuously building fortifications, setting up
communications lines and carrying out other work using machinery
and motor transport. New emplacements are being built for tanks,
artillery, self-propelled guns and missile installations." Malik
stated that "All this indicates that Israel and the United States
of America, which support(s) it, bear the responsibility for the
fact that Mr. (Gunnar V.) Jarring (the special United Nations
mediator) is in fact unable to proceed with his mission." The
Soviet ambassador said that "The United States must make a
choice with regard to its policy in the Middle East: Will it con-
tinue to encourage Israel's reckless designs or will it really decide
to implement the Security Council decisions of 22 November 1967?"

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel is urgently trying to forestall a Middle East debate at
the United Nations General Assembly on grounds that it would be unproductive and
destroy chances of finding a peaceful solution. The Israel government has been in close
contact with the U. S. State Department and with other Western governments on this
matter, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned reliably Wednesday.
The Egyptian government has indicated its intention of seeking a new UN resolu-
tion on the Mid East that would castigate Israel and embarrass the U. S. Israeli sources
say the Arabs once again are trying to use the UN as the rostrum for unbridled attacks
on Israel. Israel believes that the Security. Council's Resolution 242 of Nov. 22, 1967, offers
sufficient scope for a peace agreement. Arab intentions seem to be to draft a resolution
with the main emphasis on Israeli withdrawal- from the occupied territories.

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Nixon administration sources have let it be known that the
United States is supplying weapons to Israel, including aircraft, to compensate for ,,the
strengthening of Egypt's Soviet missile system in the Suez Canal cease fire zone. The
disclosure was made Monday to news executives by administration officials at a background
briefing in Hartford, Conn. A transcript was released here Tuesday.
It was the first official confirmation of long-standing reports that the U. S. has
been shipping arms and other military equipment to Israel since it confirmed Israel's
charges that the Egyptians were introducing new missiles into the cease fire zone despite
the standstill truce that went into effect Aug. 7.
Release of the transcript was regarded as a deliberate move in the current dipla
matic jousting with Moscow over the alleged truce violations. Major U. S.-Soviet talks start
at the United Nations today between Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
According to the disclosures, Israel is receiving U. S. aircraft air-to-ground missiles,
electronic jamming devices and other weapons. The administration officials said they were
intended to restore the pre-cease fire balance of strength in the canal zone.

Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban told National Press Club luncheon guests here
Monday that if the Russians want peace in the Middle East "they have this week and next
week to prove it by removing the obstacles to it." Eban referred to the Soviet missiles
which Israel charges have been installed in the Suez standstill cease-fire zone in viola-
tion of the 90-day truce due to expire Nov. 5. Eban said that Israel would continue to
observe the cease fire beyond that deadline. He said the four main objectives of Israeli
policy are to prolong the cease fire; to bring about the "correction and rectification" of

the original cease fire violations; to maintain Israel's margin of strength; and to explore
wherever possible the principles and procedures of peace "not as a juridical formula but
as a human condition."
(It was reported Wednesday that Dr. Gunnar Jarring is returning to the UN to
resume efforts for Mid East peace talks).
Rogers reaffirmed Sunday night that the United States has "conclusive" evidence
that "there has been a good deal of construction" of antiaircraft missiles in the Suez Canal
standstill' zone. Rogers, who has appeared together with Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird

StateIDept.Won'tCommentonReport
Israel, U. S. Planned Jordan Action

WASHINGTON (JTA)—The State Department refused to comment on a report
in the New York Times that the United States and Israel were ready to take joint
military action last month to save the regime of King Hussein of Jordan if the King's
forces were unable to halt an invasion by Soviet-made Syrian tanks
Asked by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Wash-
ington correspondent if the report by Times reporter
Benjamin Welles was "substantially true," department
Flint Adopts spokesman
Robert J. McCloskey replied, "no com-
ment." He offered the same reply when asked about
*1,200,000
a report in the Oct. 5 edition of Time magazine which
that the Nixon administration never intended
Goal for UJA claimed
at any time before or after the Jordanian civil war to
Acting unanimously, the intervene in that country.
The JTA was informed by a knowledgeable source
Flint Je wish Comanumity
Council adopted an tmpre- later that no one in the administration wanted to
"leap"
into the Jordanian situation but neither was
eedeated goal of $1.204,40g
for the United Jewish AP- there any opposition within the government to inter-
vention.
A spokesman for' the Israel Embassy, con-
Peal, at an emergency meet- tacted by
the JTA, said he was "not prepared to
Dug Tuesday night. Alfred
deny
or
confirm"
the published reports.
Klein, president of the eon"•
(In New York, a United Nations spokesman said
ell„ and his associates in the
campaign expressed confi- Secretary General U Thant "will not" have any com-
dence that the glad Call be ment on the Times' report.)
According to Welles, plans for closely coordinated
attained.
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Detroit to Mark Soviet Jewry Week
With. Conference, Youth March

Soviet Jewry Week, a communitywide project that is drawing the spirited
participation of youth groups as well as adult organizations, begins Sunday, its purpose
to draw attention to the tragic situation of 3,000,000 Jews in the Soviet Union.
Leading up to a culminating Conference on Soviet Jewry sponsored by the Jew-
ish Community Council 9 a.m. Oct. 25 at the Jewish Center, and to a candlelight
march in Oak Park sponsored by the community's youth groups that evening, Soviet
Jewry Week was programed to coincide with Simhat Torah, the festive holiday
that has become a symbol of peoplehood to the Jews of Russia.
All week, Jewish youth organizations will circulate through the Tel-12 Mall,
collecting names for petitions and funds to further efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry.
The young people, led by Merril Kramer, chairman, have named their annual cam-
paign Project Outcry.
The Oct. 25 Soviet Jewry Conference, to which both adults and youth have been
Invited, will explore ways' to make Soviet Jewry Week a year-round action program.
Guest speaker will be Dr. Zvi Gitelman, assistant professor of political science at the
University of Michigan, who is considered an authority on the Soviet Union.
Dr. Gitelman, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, holds a PhD from
Columbia University, as well as a masters degree from Columbia's Russian Institute.
Only 29 years old, he
has written articles for
leading journals on
such subjects as "So-
viet Jews vs. Other
Minorities: Similiari-
ties and Differences in
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