Sixth Fleet's Hole in Middle East
The U.S. Navy announced re the Middle East over Soviet power
cently that it would soon strength- — an absolute superiority that
en its Mediterranean force by would frustrate any Soviet attempts
transferring the helicopter-carrier
"Guam" to the Sixth Fleet on an
interim basis. At the same time,
a force of eight units, headed. by
the aircraft carrier "Intrepid,"
Parochiaid Support
will patrol the Atlantic and Medi-
terranean sectors for the next few
Pits Rabbi vs. Rabbi
months, a Navy spokesman said.
NEW YORK (JTA)—A leading
The Pentagon spokesman ex-
Conservative rabbi of Queens has plained that the added helicopter-
accused an Orthodox colleague of carrier would improve the Sixth
seeking to array Jews against Fleet's marine' landing capability
Catholics in his role as a member and allow for amphibious actions
of a community school board in inland areas.
currently embroiled in a bitter
Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd, com-
dispute over public funding for
mander
of the
religious schools.
Sixth Fleet, said
Rabbi I. Usher Kirshblum of off Naples that
the Jewish Center of Kew Garden Soviet aircraft
GEN. MOSHE DAYAN
Hills, made a charge against Rabbi carriers would
to
obtain
superiority over the pow-
Karl Applbaum of Flushing, who soon appear in
er of the West. This is on its own
promptly rejected the accusation. h e Mediterran-
merits apart from us. I very much
Rabbi Applbaum, as a member ean and contest
hope that I shall not live to see the
the
air
superior-
of Community School Board 25,
day when anyone else will fight for
voted with four other members— ity of NATO
us. So far, although I am 56 years
all Catholics—to endorse the prin- forces.
old, I have not had to witness
Adm. Kidd
Kidd said the
ciple of government aid to non-
others fighting for us. Our wars
Russian
fleet
totalled
an
average
public schools.
of 50 units but reached a high of we shall have to fight for our-
73 last autumn. Soviet conventional selves."
submarines in the Mediterranean
varied from 10 to 14, as against 25
American and Italian submarines
of the same type.
Secretary of Defense Melvin
IS 7HE GUY
Laird said in Washington recently
that there is evidence the Soviet
NEW YORK (JTA)—Rabbi Meir
Union is supplying Egypt with Kahane, national chairman of the
sophisticated weapons. He added Jewish Defense League, was re-
that a new Soviet naval base in leased May 13 on $25,000 bail
the Mediterranean area was being after arraignment in District Court
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established.
on charges of conspiracy to violate
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe the 1968 Federal Gun Control Act.
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Dayan was asked: °Can the rein-
He was released on his own
forcement of the Sixth Fleet be re- recognizance on a related charge
For Less Money !
garded as a reply to our requests of weapons possession.
for more arms." he replied:
Held on $10,000 bail were JDL
"First of ;all, I don't know exact- members Irving Calderon and
. ly what reinforcements the Sixth Chaim Bieber. Released on per-
Fleet has obtained. Secondly. I• sonal recognizance were JDL'ers
14500 W. 7 Mile
have not heard that it is under the Eileen Garfinkel, David Sommer,
command of the Israel defense Alex Sternberg and Dr. Morton
AT LODGE X-WAY
forces. In any case I would very_ ! Winner. Rabbi Kahane, Calderon
342-7100
much welcome American superior- and Bieber also lost their pass-
ity in the Mediterranean and in ports.
.,The JDL chairman has appealed
a Manhattan Criminal Court sen-
tence of last month of $500 or 90
days in jail for disorderly conduct
OPEN
and obstruction at the Soviet Mis-
sion to the United Nations.
SUNDAY
The JDL attorney, Barry Ivan
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Slotnick, charged in court that
Gilbert Laurie, who was arrested
-in February as an alleged pro-
vider of guns to the Jewish
group, was a paid government
informer. Laurie is now re-
portedly in Israel.
Slotnick also charged there was
a "significant" link between the
arraignment of Rabbi Kahane and
the Leningrad trial of nine Soviet
Jews, but he did not explain the
tie.
At a press conference after the
. . . from
arraignment, Rabbi Kahane reit-
our super
erated the JDL's assertion that it
has never possessed weapons.
terrific
Joining him at the press con-
collection of
ference was Joseph Colombo Sr.,
hot pant
president of the Italian-American
styles
Civil Rights League, who declared
for gala
that "those people who do not
occasions . . .
support the JDL had better wake
priced
up." Colombo called the charges
from $42.
against the JDL'ers a "disgrace."
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
reported April 7 that the Italian-
American league has been closely
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.aligned
with the JDL in combat
AMERICARD
against "any form of discrimina-
•
tion and persecution."
MASTER
CHARGE
Also participating in the news
conference was Gordon C. Lynch,
national field director of NEGRO,
Inc. (National Economic Growth
and Reconstruction Organization).
Lynch said that if it had. been
necessary, his group would have
raised bail for Rabbi Kahane so
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16—Friday, May 21, 1971
Secretary of the Navy John
Chaffee said on April 22 that the
Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean
would be reinforced in the coming
months in view of the heightened
Soviet presence in the area.
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