Irony Osiitl Satire in Many Areas

46—Friday, February 5, 1971

TIM DETROIT

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MEWS

Organizer Gets 40-Year Sentence
of the new TV system . - . Jascha however sincere, is not automati- Guerrilla
Heifetz fiddled in Paris for an cally good theater), and the Smith-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Rubhi Hadr bombings. In the El Shatti refugee
In the wake of the Leningra d NBC-TV special . . New York Uris songs are so derivative tin. Abu Hummus, a 25-year-old Pales- camp a terrorist sought by the
cantor Herman Malamood made audience is noticeably amused by tinian terrorist organizer, was sen- Israeli security forces was shot
trial comes this pointed story:
The 200 Russian children wer e his U.S. operatic debut as Pinker- the similarity between "The Alpha- tenced by a military tribunal in and killed when he refused to halt.
being assembled in the school and i- ton in New York City's "Madam bet Song" and Rodgers-Hammer- Lydda to 40 years in jail for scores
stein's "Do Re Mi."
torium for a patriotic pagean t. Butterfly"
of acts of sabotage, including the
One by one, t , ,ey stood at attentio n
Director Lucia Victor has turned double bombing at the local central AJCommittee Assails
The Israeli government has ar-
Executioni in Guinea
and were asked three questions.
ranged insurance for foreign pro- the papery characters into card- bus. terminal..
First, "Who is your mother? • ducers whose films are sabotaged board cutouts. Two fine singers,
The accused, of the village of and Death Penalties
David
Cryer
as
Ari
Ben
Canaan
by
war
or
terrorism
on
Israeli
And the first 199 pupils answered
Isawwiyeh near Jerusalem, did not
NEW YORK—The president of
in turn: "Russia!" Then, "Who i s territory .. . The director of Israel and Constance Towers as Kitty take part in any of the incidents
your father?" To which each re - Radio's "Hit Parade" says his Fremont, are mired in the muddy but was convicted of planning the American Jewish Committee
plied: "Kosygin!" Finally, "Wha t countrymen are "fed up" with war proceedings. Jack Gwillim as the them and sending others to do the declared that the execution on
Jan_ 25 of political prisoners in
do you want to be?" And th e songs. And Six-Day War books are British Gen. Sutherland, Jacqueline actual work.
Guinea was "evidence of the
sought-for response: ."A Commu being outsold by "Portnoy" - . . Mayro as Karen and John Savage
One
of
his
subordinates,
Said
growing tendency to use the death
fist!"
Humorist S. J. Perleman, long- as Dov fare better in secondary
Abu Farrah of Baqa el-Gharbiya, penalty as a political weapon."
t
time
resident
of
Pennsylvania,
re-
roles.
Like
the
land
the
Jewish
It came the turn of the las
was sentenced to 3o years in the
Philip E. Hoffman pointed out
child—and the only Jew—in the as - located in London to escape Amer- emigres struggled to reach, "Ari" deaths of two persons and injuries
ica's 'insanity and violence" . .
is mostly arid.
semblage, little Yehuda,
to 64 others in the bus station that similaritituations had occurred
NBC-TV's
censor
says
"I
serious-
recently
in Cameroon, Spain and
"Who is your mother?" he Iva ;
ly question whether we can ap-
the Soviet Union, and called on
asked.
prove
any
ethnic
jokes
on
"Laugh-
"the
governments
of all nations to
F -Buys Catholic
"Russia," he replied.
In" in the future, because of
renounce this primitive means of
"And who is your father?"
"mounting
pressure
from
all
ethnis
Hostel;
Pope
Objects
punishment."
He
also urged the
"Kosygin."
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A legal United Nations to "make the
"And what would you like to be?' groups" . . .
By RABBI SAMUEL SILVER
strongest
possible
statement
The Friars will fete Alan King
"An orphan." .
(A Seven Arts Weatare)
battle has begun in Jerusalem
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against the use of capital punish-
as "man of the year" next'March
May I share a snippet of a over the sale- of the Notre Dame ment for political activity:"
West German historians are up 28 in New York, with Sen. Ted speech with you?
Hostel by the Assumptionist Fath-
in arms — figuratively speaking. Kennedy as honorary chairman ...
"We fervently pray," he added,
The place is Jerusalem and the ers to Hamentrta, a subsidiary of "that President Sekou Torre. of
More than 9,000,000 feet of Nazi A Pakistani is producing a film
the Jewish National Fund.
speaker is Golda Meir. She had
newsreel s, documentaries and biography of Laila Khaled . TV
Guinea
will seriously ponder the
The Vatican, trying to prevent
just received a doctorate degree
propaganda films are in danger of makes strange bedfellows: Two
the sale, obtained an injunction actions of his government in this
from
Dr.
Nelson
Glueck
of
Hebrew
disintegration, they charge, and the members of JDL, which opposes
case, will heed the world's reaction
Union College-Jewish Institute of last month which Hamenuta is at-
Federal Archive isn't doing much U.S.-Soviet cultural relations, ap-
tempting to overturn. The hearings of horror expressed in the last few
Religion.
to change them. The professors say peared on a New York broadcast
days, and will - find other ways to-
thht
began
in
Jerusalem
District
Sitting in the audience are lead-
East Germany is doing a better with a visiting balalaika troupe ...
Court were adjourned and will deal with his political opponents."
job of preserving the celluloid Presidential spokesman Ron Zieg- ers of the Israeli government, resume today.
record of that era. Ironic as it may ler said of the new TV shows: "The archeologists (like Yigal Yadin) ,
Notre Dame was built by the • nti-Establishment Youth
scientists (like Dr. Albert Sabin),
seem at first, it is in world Jewry's wrong pilots were hijacked."
philanthropists (like -Mrs. Rosaline Assmiptionist Fathers in 1887 Disavow Anti-Israel View
interest to help save all that
to
serve French pilgrims, • but
Feinstein of Philadelphia, who had
Streicherei.
WASHINGTON (ZINS) —In a
Here, There and Elsewhere: underwritten a new building at the its importance has declined he
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recent
years. The Assumplienists survey 'carried out by the Mkt
The
third-ranking
Soviet
diplo-
school), American diplomats, and a
El Al has injected the religious
dation
of Bnai Brith, it was learned
claim they have the right to dis-
issue into airline advertising. Its mat at the UN is named Issraelyan host of rabbinical students.
that a new -grass-roots movement
pose of the property.
travel brochures proclaim: "The . Slovenly picnickers have made
Mrs. Meir tells about the letters
The Vatican claims that only the is growing among American Jew-
Bible Is Alive and Well and Living the Sea of Galilee an ecological she has received from Russian
in Israel-" El Al's current ad cam- disaster . . . For the first Jews yearning to be set free. She Pope has the authority to authorize ish college students.
While strongly anti-establish-
paign, in addition, offers "The best time in its 121 years Union tells the audience that she hopes its sale and obtained a temporary
injunction barring any alteration ment, it disavow the anti-Israel
round - trip price to Israel in 5731 Temple - (Reform) of Brooklyn
Israel will be spared more war.
years."
of the status quo at Notre Dame.
stand
of the New Left and it
featured
an
inter
-r
eligious
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Hamenuta contends that the sale repudiates those who support anti-
But Golda' got reflective and
choir, joining forces with Trinity
Ex-pitcher Jim Bouton, now a Church singers in ,Handel's "Judas reminiscent and she offered this was legal. It plans to use the hostel Semitic Black Panthers.
New York sportscaster, has caused Maccabeus" and Bloch's "Sacred
observation to the audience: "I for Hebrew University students.
Although the movement is still
controversy with his big-league ex- Service" - - . Chess champ Bobby
remember that in my teens I
- nen' and represents a small frac-
pose, a book called "Ball Four." Fischer won a round in Majorca
would often have theological ar- Sioux City Federation
tion of Jewish students, it is be- -
If Bouton were Jewish, would he by default after an, Argentinian
guments with my mother. I
coming more vocal in the academic
have called it "The Ball Four and two, Soviets refused to play
wanted very much to explain Asks More Funds for Old community_
Declaration?"
SIOUX CITY (JTA)--The Sioux
to
her that everything ultimately
According to the Bnai Brith re-
three hours earlier on a Friday so
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comes from nature; that there City Jewish Federation has been port, many Jewish students have
he could observe Sabbath-Eve .. .
Election Addenda: The- youngest Ten huge "greeting cards" outside
is science and that science has asked by- officials of the Iowa been turned off by the self-hatred
official congressional gandidate in the - Moscow airport are appor-
laws. During one of these dis- Jewish Home and the Des Moines evinced by so many Jews in new
November was believed to be tioned as follows: eight anti-Amer- cussions she won the argument' Jewish Welfare Federation for leftist ranks. The "new radicals"
Karen Burstein, a 28-year-old Jew- ican, one anti:South African, one by saying: `Nu, Goidele, let's
greater support of the Iowa Jewish are convinced that Jews cannot
ish woman of New York. She lost anti-Israeli . The bridegroom of
Home where three elderly Sioux rely on the U.S. or, for that matter,
see you make the rain come.' "
. . . Eva Chertok, also Jewish and Joyce Ann Maier of Hicksville,
City Jews are currently in resi- on the other big powers, but should
Added the prime minister: dence, the Federation has reported
28, was a Socialist Worker write-in N.Y., is a telephone switchman and
look mainly to their own resources
candidate for a House seat from ex-Navy torpedoman named Santa "Whenever I see people among us here.
for security and the fulfillment of
who
are educated and clever and
New York. Her party proposed the Claus. •
Representatives of the Home their destiny.
able to explain everything, I ask
"dismantling" of Israel and she
Adrift: Irritated by Otto Premin- them whether one does not at the and the Des Moines Federation met
publicly endorsed El Fatah. She
ger's film version of his "Exodus," end finally reach the unexplain- with local Federation budget com- Marcuse Lifts Voice
got four votes.
which he walked out on, Leon Uris able, the ultimately unknowable. mittee members and pointed out
•
that the $2,000 annual payment by on Behalf of Soviet Jews
has taken the Cyprus section of his It really
not important what the Sioux City -
Media Rare: Otto Preminger, 1959 bestseller and, with composer you call it. is Let
Federation to the
us assume we call
WASHINGTON (ZINS) — ProL
Iowa Jewish Home meets only a
who filmed "Exodus" a decade ago, Walt Smith, turned it into the it spirit." .
small fraction of the cost of caring Herbert Marcuse, one of the lead-
has bought the film rights to Dar musical "An." Had the pair, here
Yes, only God can make the for the Sioux City Jews.
ing lights of the New Left and a
Kdrzman's "Genesis 1948: The making their Broadway debuts,
frequent critic of Israel, added his
First Arab-Israeli War" . . . The been in charge of the original rain. But Golda Meir can bring
Jewish State Theater of Poland, Exodus, it surely would have sunk moisture to your eyes. Her avowal 25 Pct. of Israel's Officers voice to an appeal to Soviet Pre-
that
her
mother
beat
her
in
an
mier Kosygin on behalf of Soviet
formerly headed by Ida Kaminska, forthwith off Cyprus as quickly as
Jewry. The message requested that
has moved into a new building in their show does at New York's argument when she was a teen- Have Academic Degrees
ager throws light on how to bridge
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Gen. the USSR "permit those Jews re-
Warsaw co-financed by the govern- Mark Hellinger Theater.
the
generation
gulf.
Reason
with
Itzak
Arad,
chief
of
Education
for
maining
in Russia.. to perpetuate
ment and Jewish work cooperatives
Uris' libretto has reduced the your children.
the Israel Army, revealed that . 25 their . Jewish faith and culture."
. . . A magistrate fined Penguin
epic
story
of
the
miracle
ship
into
per
cent
of
the
permanent
officer
No
wonder
that'
people
are
not
They
also
called far consent to
Publishing $112 for distributing
"Portnoy's Complaint" in Mel- a near-empty hull, his lyrics seem only singing about Jerusalem of corps of Israel's armed farces have be given to those Jews who desire
to
have
been
taken
in
chunks
from
already
acquired
academic
de-
Gold
but
also
of
Jerusalem
of
to leave for Inlet or to other
bourne and ordered the distruction
grees, and that the day is not far countries of their choice. The ap-
of the 414 copies of the "obscene" Zionist pamphlets (propaganda, Golda.
off when a-majority of officers peal . over Prof. Mare-use's signs-
book seized by the vice squad .. .
will have reached the same educa- fine was- also signed by several
Elliott Gould has bought the screen
tional status. The Israerarmy is, other :academicians, by a judge,
rights to Dr. David Reuben's "Ev-
in fact, an • educatiOnal institute at and al s% by% a British scientist
erything You Always Wanted to
all levels of instruction, from ele- working at the Salk Institute. The
Know About Sex ..." ... The first
NEW YORK—According to a
mentary courses in training and text emphasized that' the -struggle
Israel-made series for U.S. TV may
tures leveled off in 1969, there
result from "Sabra Command." Swedish Iriternational Peace- Re-
were substantial increases in the writing to the most ' advanced tech- of Soviet Jews is' in no: way dir-
being produced by Buddy ("Mud search Institute handbook, the 13 Near East. And the upward trend nological and academia , studies. '
ected agaksf the Soviet Union but
Squad") Ruskin in association with Arab states spent three times as
continued in 1970, when Egypt
is . rather .a struggle for Jewish
the Israeli government . . . The much as Israel in arms procure- received massive arms ship-
identity and 'for fundamental hum-
Fear
Not,-
Soviet
Emigre
audience at the Jerusalem pre- ment in 1969.
ments-SAM-2 missiles and other
an rights.
miere of De Sica's "Garden of the
Counsels Fellow' Jews,
The Arab countries spent a total weapons from the Soviet Valois
Finzi Continis," about two Jewish of $2,430,000,000 in 1969„while Is- —while -Israel expanded her pur-
TEL AVIV (ZINS)
Jerusalem Arabs to Get
families in Fascist Italy, had to rael's expenditures came to $790,- chases Isere.
less fear is the greatest enemy
delay its exit five minutes until 000,000, Egypt topped the fist with
The Soviet Union concentrated- of huinan freedom, even in a coun- Israeli . Welfare Benefits
81-year-old President Shazar fin- an outlay of 8982,000,000. . its weapon supply in 'the Near try of oppression
the USSR,"
JERUSALEM (JTA) Arab
ished weeping .. .
The handbook does not. reveal East• in Egypt, South Yemen and said. .11, A. moor, 2l6, ;a new refuges, --thing -in East Jerusalem
'The Israeli Censorship Board how much the Arab countries re- Sudan: Iraq and Algeria are re- oleh front,tire USSR. who set_up
banned 33 feature films in 1970- ceived in arms gifts' as compared- ducing their dependence on Soviet Hebrevi:tdpkn in Moseow, sifter hal* -been a placed' on the Israeli
Social' Welfare Ministry's relief
22 for "obscenity" and 11 for "ex- with purchases.
sources. Algeria, like other North Which the Soviet airthorities
nOS,withot sdhet an their status
cessive violence." 1314 in view of
The figures are (In millions):
African' states, has turned to riedly decided to allow him to larie as --irecilisids of rehef payments
the cease fire it reversed its ban Egypt
$982 Kuwait
$70 France.
the comity.
!roan
- the UN Relief and Works
on "141°A*S•H" and okayed it with Saudi Arabia 343 Sudan
55
"Most of the people in the USSR
The total expenditures for refu-
cuts . . . A TV series on the Holy Iraq
293 Lebanon
49
are lacking in consciousness of
Theimmiter
of refugees involved,
gees
by
Egypt,
Jordan,
Lebanon
Land's sacred sites is Ming co- Syria
194 Libya
40
their legal rights, and the authori-
produced _by. Israel and West Morocco
148 Tunisia
20 and Syria in fiscal -1970 amounted ties exploit this in order to intimi- bawewx, is not _clear. Under the
Jordallkia
administzittion,
refugees
126 Yemen (est.) 11 to about 818,000,00C In contrast, date and deter those
Germany Israeli theaters and Jordan
who want to
99 Total
movie houses are hurting — and Algeria
82,430 these _same countries spent 81,351,- fight for their rights," Rastas. artha - UNRWIrs rolls were ape-
claret, excluded from governmen-
closing—because of the popularity
While world arms expen4111- 000,000 on arms 'in 1169.

By GEORGE FRIEDMAN

(Copyright 1971, JTA, Ire.)

A Snippet Speech JN
of Goldele Meir

Arabs Outspent Israel 3000 -Pet.
in Arms Proeurement in '69