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1971

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Kam JEW= *WS Voice of America NYANA Provides _Resettlement Aid

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Three Faiths"'View 7 Refugee Needs

Officials of three refugee-aid orianhations recently aired their
problems and discussed their global activities during a telecast in
Washington, D.C., sponsored. by the Georgetown University Fawn.
' Gaynor I. Jacobson (center), executive vice president of United Hiss
Service, the worldwide Jewish migration agency, is flanked by John
E. McCarthy (left), director of Migration and Refugee Service, Unit-
ed States Catholic Conference, and the Rev. John Se.haner, director
of the immigration and refugee program, Church World Service. The
moderator (back to cement) was Wallace Fanning of NBC News.
The program, which also was featured on radio in both the Wash-
ington and New York areas, was the second in a two-part series de-
signed to re-examine national policy towards immigrants and rein-
gees and to revitalize national concern about solving the global refu-
gee problem.

Haifa Rabbinical Court Seeks
Lebanon's Help in Divorce Case

TEL AVIV (JTA)—A Hall:Crab-
binical court has applied to- Leb-
anese authorities to facilitate di-
vorce proceedings brought by an
Israeli woman against her hus-
band who fled to Lebanon to es-
cape trial for fraud.
_ The court's request was con-
veyed to Beirut through the Mixed
Armistice Commission and the In-
ternational Red Cross.
The case involves David Hador,
27, of Haifa, who disappeared
during a trial in which he was
charged with obtaining money

ORT Commended
by Nixon, Golda

‘' NEW YORK—In a message to
the National Conference of the
American ORT Federation, Presi-
dent Richard Nixon singled out for
particular notice the technical edu-
cation projects conducted in newly
developing nations by ORT, in con-
junction with the U.S. Agency for
International Development
"I particularly commend your
excellent cooperation with the
Agency for International Develop-
ment in African countries," the
President said. He related this to
"hope and opportunity you have
brought to thousands of impover-
ished persons and refugees" in
Israel and in Jewish communities
around the world.
Matthew Schoenwald, chairman
of the ORT Committee of Govern-
ment Contracts, stated that at
present there were in operation
ORT projects in seven African
countries. Funds for them come
from the U.S. government.
Israel's Prime Minister Golda
Meir, in a message to the confer-
ence, described the network of
more than 75 vocational and tech-
nical schools in Israel as "Impor-
tant" since this "is providing bet-
ter futures through occupational
and technical training to thousands
of our people, young and old, In
Israel and in Jewish communities
the world over."

Aid Troubled Teen-Alters

MIAMI (JTA)—More than 100
Jewish young people from local
primary and high schools and area
colleges have visited an "out-
reach" storefront project, created
by the Jewish Family and Clul-
dren's Service to help teen-agers
with emotional and social prob-
lems, in the first six months of the
project, the agency reported in its

current bulletin. Officials said the

assort received Jewish Federation

approval a- year ago to set up a
program of prevention and treat-
ment to be available to any Jewish
teen-ager without fee and, if BMW
sary, without parental approval.

from a woman unden false pre-
tenses.
He turned up in Lebanon claim-
ing to be an American but was
arrested when his identity was
discovered and was sentenced to
a month in jail.
His wife appealed to the rab-

binical court to help her obtain
a divorce before the Lebanese
authorities turn him loose. If
be disappears again, his wife's
status under Jewish law would
be that of an "agues," a desert-
ed wife.

The rabbinical court has asked
Lebanese authorities to see to it
that Hador signs certain papers
in the presence of a Beirut rabbi
so that his wife may obtain a di-
vorce valid under Jewish law.

Blast Rocks Home
in Galilee; None Hurt

TEL AVIV (JTA)—A two-story
private home in the Upper Galilee
was rocked by an explosion last
week which was caused, accord-
ing to authorities, by explosives
placed under the structure by ter-
rorists penetrating from Lebanon.
None of the residents were at
home during the time of the ex-
plosion, which was reported to
have seriously damaged the inter-
ior of the home.
Pollee reported that the ter-
rorist attack was one of the
deepest penetrations by sabo-
teurs from Lebanon. A resident
of Relish in the Gaza Strip was
reported injured by an Israeli
patrol after he ignored the call
to halt and started to flee.
The injured resident was hos-
pitalized.
Meanwhile, another Arab, Fayek
Aduwan, was sentenced to 10
years' imprisonment by a military
tribunal in Nablus for heading a
smuuggling ring which pro-
vided terrorists in the Samaria
district with arms. Aduwan re-
portedly smuggled pistols with sil-
encers in watermelons whose In-
teriors he carved out and smug-
gled explosives in taxis and cars.

Tells Soviet People

Truth About Trials

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(C01397101 1971, .1TA. inc.)
To one who follows the news in
the non-Communist world, the out-
cry against the harsh sentences
meted out to the 11 defendants—
nine of them Jews — in the first
Leningrad trial is by now stale in-
formation.
But what do the people in the
Communist world, particularly in
the Soviet Union, know about the
protests and about those who were
making them?
Tass, the Soviet News Agency,
repeatedly accused Zionists of try-
ing to create the impression "that
the Soviet Court tried the criminals
not for -the crime" of hijacking but
"for their national origin." Tass
also said the trial and conviction
of the 11 was held in compliance
with a "United Nations resolution
last month which called on all
countries to take steps to curb hi-
jacking" of planes.

What Tass says can be accepted
as official guidance to the Soviet
media everywhere.
Thus, if left to their own coun-
try's media, the vast majority of
the Soviet Union's peoples would
not have known that most of the
defendants had unsuc c e s sf ully
sought permission to emigrate le-
gally from Russia to Israel; that
foreign correspondents were not
allowed to attend either the trial
or the appeal hearing at which
the two death sentences were com-
muted; that appeals for clemency
were -reaching the Kremlin—but
not the Soviet public — from the
Vatican and the World Council of
Churches, political leaders in
dozens of countries including Com-
munists in France, Italy, Sweden
and Belgium, and Chile's Marxist
President, not to mention the
countless thousands — Jews and
non-Jews — who participated in
demonstrations as private citizens.

But this void of news in the
Soviet Union did not go complete-
ly unfilled. The Voice of Amer-
ica poured in extensive news

reports and commentaries Into
the Communist orbit in the lan-
guages of Its population.
VOA told about how the non-
Communist moral and political
leadership was shocked by the ver-
dicts in Leningrad and by the
death sentences imposed on six
Basque nationalists in Franco's
Spain, too. The elements in the
Tass output met strong rebuttals
from the U.S. Information Agency's
radio arm by the simple device of
reporting what newspapers on all
the world's continents were saying.
Even in Africa, the Daily Na-
tion of Kenya observed "it Is a
strange concept of justice indeed
which condemns a man for want-
ing to emigrate to a country of his
choice and yet this is precisely
what has happened in the Lenin-
grad case . . . It is a sad com-
ment indeed on the insecurity of
the Soviet Union that the South
African regime can let its dis-
affected leave while the Soviet
Union dare not let hers go."

'PH Talk With Fatah'
Says Israeli General

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gen. Ezer
Weizman, chairman of the limit
executive, offered last week to sit
down and talk with Yassir Arafat
or Dr. George Habash if either
declared that his guerrilla group,
El Fatah or the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, truly
Israeli Boy Survives
wanted a political settlement of
the Middle East crisis.
Air Crash at Zurich
Weinman, addressing a student
PARIS (JTA) — A 12-year-old
Israeli boy whose family name is audience at Bar-Ban University,
went
so far as to say he would
sur-
was
one
of
two
Furmanovitz
vivors of the crash of a Bulgarian rather talk with Arafat than with
King
Hussein
of Jordan.. The lat-
airliner at Kloten Airport, Zurich,
Jan. 18 in which 35 passengers and ter, he contended, has no real af-
finity for Palestine.
crew-members were killed.
Reports in the semi-official
The youngster was taken to the
Zurich Cantonal Hospital, -suffer- Egyptian newspaper "Al Abram"
said
the central committee of the
ing from severe burns and mult-

iple fractures in both leg& HIs
father was killed in the crash. The
boy and his father were on a flight
from Santiago, Chile to Sofia, Bul-
garia.

Packaging toothbrushes Isn't bard work, but It's taken seriously
by this group of elderly and handicapped Jewish immigrants in the
Work Center of the New York Association for New Americans.
Small assembly jobs like this are solicited from manufacturers.
NYANA, supported by the United Jewish Appeal, also provides
English language courses for these elderly newcomers, as part of
its comprehensive program In resettlement asaistanc.

Apathy Viewed as Eroding Jewish
Culture in U.S. by the Year 2000

Joseph Mlotek, educational dir-
ector of the Workmen's Circle,
told his organization's Jewish
schools luncheon that "those who
protest, as they should, against
the pad-locking of Soviet Jewish
cultural centers, should recognize
that their own apathy is molding
the padlocks on Jewish secular
Israel Refutes
educational institutions in the
States."
Charge of Aiding United
Mlotek said that a pattern is
emerging that could, at the pace
Uganda's Rebels
it is going, erode all vestiges of
for- present Jewish cultural institu-
JERUSALEM (JTA)
eign ministry- dismissed as "utter tions byt he end of this century.
nonsense" Tuesday night a charge
"At the very names! Blacks

NEW YORK (JTA)—A Jewish
secular educator warned that
"from the earmarks of apathy
prevalent at this moment, Jewish
cultural activities in the United
States may cease to flourish and
even exist by the year 2000."

,

by deposed President Milton Obote and Spanish-spealdag citizens
of Uganda that Israel was involved are taking hvreased pride in
in the military coup that led to the their history and heritage. Jew-
overthrow of his regime. A minis- idt eammenities are showing in-
try spokesman stressed that "Is- creased signs of apathy toward
rael never interferes in the internal their own contributions In litera-
affairs of other countries."
ture, the arts, the sciences and
The basis of Dr. Obotes' charge social advancement both In this
apparently was the fact that one
country and abroad," be de-
of the coup leaders, Gen. Idi Amin, dared.
took a parachuting course in Israel
"Tao many Jews have substit-
in 1963. The course was given•
as sufficient
within the framework of a technical uted a pride in Israel
participation
in Jewish secular af-
aid program carried out by Israeli
experts over the past ten years in fairs." This, however, is not suffi-
Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Is- cient to maintain and nourish a
raeli officers helped train Uganda distinctive culture which has con-
tributed vastly to other cultures
military units.
Jerusalem's relations with the and is now fighting for its own
East African nation have been ex- survival, Miotek stated.
But, concurrently with "ear-
tremely friendly and the coup is
not expected to affect them.
marks of apathy," there also is a
wide curiosity on the part of

young people which is spurring
an appreciation of Jewish secular
values, he noted, adding: "The
key issue is whether adult apathy
TEL AVIV' (JTA) — Two Arab will surrender to youthful appre
saboteurs were killed - Tuesday dation."
night in a clash with an Israeli
patrol on the Golan Heights. There Arms Race Predicted
were no Israeli casualties.
The encounter occurred about by Defense Official
200 yards west of the Israel-Syria
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The di-
demarcation line. Arms and ex- rector general of Israel's defense
plosives were found on the bodies ministry predicts an arms race to
of the slain men.
introduce new weapons systems
Several arrests- were made in into the arena of conflict between
Haifa Tuesday night after a police Israel and Egypt.
sergeant discovered a parcel con-
Yeshayahu Levy said on a radio
taining explosives in a local movie
house. The suspects were all re- Interview that Soviet weapons sys-
tems now deployed in Egypt con-
leased after questioning.
fronted Israel -with a new chal-
-
Argentiniin Poet Borges - lenge.
rael's abil-
According
Wins Jerusalem Prise
ity to keep pace with modern de-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jorge velopmeats in mammy depended
Luis Borges, . the famed Argentin- on the developing ei its own arms
ian poet and writer, has been industrY.

2 Saboteurs Die-
in Israel Clash

named this year's winner of the
"Jerusalem prize," the biennial
award given by the Jerusakan
Municipality to the author.t wins
has contributed most to "the-free-
dom of the individuaL" • ---
The 71-yearrold pdet, who *Med
the International Publishers Prise
of 19
61 with Samuel Beckett, .and
was .professor of English god-
American Literature at the Uni-
versity of Buenos Aires, wM.
awarded the - $2,000 prize in then
preemies . of President Zalman
Shazar- at Use opening of the .Fifth
Palestine Liberation Organization Int/Stations', "Book: Fair here
had agreed to seek a political
solution in the Mid East. The rep- • Rollie "Me*. and . Other
orts were denial, however, by Storise". was • reviewed in last
week's Jewish News.
some Palestinian leader's.

As long as it continues, he said,
Israel grows_ less vulnerable to
threats of arms embargo. from
abroad.
Levy said the government has
drawn "apppropiate eoncluskas"
about the danger of depending on
foreign arms sources. He warned,
however, that the application of
these lessons depended on the pace
of industrialization in Israel. Al-
though the latter is fairly rapid,
asvenbaien, he said, it would
take Easel some time to become
self-sufficient in armaments.
Lag said that Israel faeid a
potential shortage of mmileeers and

scientist& "Those available to us
must meet the challenges," he