Red China Denies Phone Link With Israel Now or Ever LONDON (JTA)—The legation Tel Aviv but on each occasion of Communist China issued a state- the Shanghai operator replied, ment here declaring that the Peo- "We cannot accept this call." ple's Republic has had "no con- There was no information as to tact whatever" with Israel, past who in Israel placed calls to Com- or present, and intends to have munist China or for whom the none in the future. calls were intended. Albania and The statement was prompted by the Arab states are the only other wire service reports last week that countries refusing to accept Is- Israel would have direct telephone raeli calls.) The legation's statement said, communications with Peking be- "The question of instituting tele- ginning July 1, via the internation- al communications satellite. The phone communications with Israel statement accused Israel of spread- simply does not exist. As is known ing rumors to that effect which it to all, the Chinese government and called a "groundless and willful people have consistently given firm support to the just struggle fabrication." of the Palestinians and other Arab (Officials in Jerusalem report- peoples against the U.S. and Is- ed Friday that Peking refused raeli aggressors. The Chinese gov- to accept calls from Israel al- ernment and people have no con- though the communications sys- tacts whatever with the Israelis. tems is in "perfect order." The This has been the case in the past officials said the international and will remain so in the future. telephone supervisor in London This stand of the People's Republic accepted calls for relay from is firm and unshakeable." Soviet Jewish Poet Gaponov in Israel at Last, Has Incurable Cancer TEL AVIV (JTA)—Boris Gapo- nov, the Soviet Jewish poet who arrived here May 28 suffering, from meningitis and has been im- mobile ever since, has incurable cancer, it was learned here Tues- day. The 37-year-old Gaponov, who won Israel's Tchernichosky Award for his 1969 translation into Hebrew of a 12th Century epic poem, is critically ill in Tel Has- homer Hospital. He was taken there 39 days ago on a stretcher after reaching Israel. His emigration applications had been consistently turned down un- til he developed meningitis, it was reported then by his mother, who has maintained a round-the-clock vigil at his bedside. He was oper- ated ,on in Leningrad, and all his manuscripts were confiscated be- fore he left. On Tuesday, poet Avraham Shlonsky told Gaponov that he had been admitted to member- ship in the Hebrew Academy of .Jerusalem. Meanwhile, an international ef- morning, Mikhail and his mother fort is under way to save the life flew to London for treatment at of another recent Soviet Jewish the Oxford Medical Institute. immigrant, a victim of hemo- philia. He is Mikhail Alshvilli, age 7. He was cut a few days ago, and Israeli physicians have been unable to stop the flow of blood. Special treatments obtained from the United States and West Ger- many failed to help. Tuesday Israeli Wages Up 10 Pct. in 1970 6—Friday, July 9, 1971 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS li resen PRINCE EDWARD For the Look of today 1st Annual in Black & Grey Cut Velvet • Bell Bottoms • Flares • Boots • Colored Shirts 1/2 For Proms & Weddings Tuxedo Sales & Rental JDL Plans to Open Israel Headquarters; Maps Protest TEL AVIV (JTA)—A spokesman The legal issue raised here is for the Jewish Defense League whether U. S. agents can con- told a press conference here that fiscate a passport on foreign terri- the militant organization will soon tory. The U. S. Embassy has made no official comment but American open headquarters in Israel. According to Neil Rothenberg. sources here observed that the a 20-year-old New Yorker who pre- passport was U. S. property and sented himself as the "interna- therefore could be confiscated. tional coordinator of the JDL The Israeli Foreign Ministry may youth movement," its functions intervene. Miss Canziani refused to say will be entirely educational. Roth- enberg denied reports that JDL who gave her a forged passport. was shifting its headquarters to She claims she wants to convert Israel to escape harassment by to Judaism and is living with an Orthodox group in Hebron. Her American authorities. He claimed rather that the aim boyfriend, who was not identified, is to form a headquarters in "the international center of the Jewish nation—Israel" to help by educa- tional means to "bridge the gap between various groups." JERUSALEM (JTA) — Demand The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned that one of the first has risen in the Israeli economy activities planned by the JDL this year, pushing up interest rates in Israel is a demonstration in by 1 or 2 per cent, according to a Jerusalem within the next two report by the Bank of Israel. weeks to pressure the Israel Wages went up 10 per cent in government to demand the ex- 1970 and wage costs per hour rose tradition of Abraham Hershko- 14 per cent, the report says. witz. Hershkowitz, a JDL mem- They have risen another 5 per ber, was convicted of passport cent in normal terms since then, fraud in New York and sen- not including "social benefits," tenced to five years imprison- many of which are in fact dis- ment. guised pay increases. The JDL has already caused Consequently, visible imports — Israeli authorities a headache. excluding direct arms imports — U. S. Embassy security men rose 10 per cent in the first quar- seized the American passport of ter, compared with October - De- Christina Canziani, a non-Jewish cember 1970. The bank believes dollar expen- Italian girl who came to Israel eight months ago with her ,Ameri- ditures would have been greater can Jewish boyfriend, a JDL but for the taxes of last August which made imports more expen- member. The American agents claim her sive. The most striking improvement passport was forged. which Miss Canziani freely admits. She is be- this year has been in tourism. Exports rose rapidly in the sec- lieved to be wanted by the Ameri- can police on suspicion of using ond and third quarters of last explosives and participating in the year, but since November have harassment of Soviet diplomats. settled at around $67,000,000 monthly. There was an improvement in Photograph Exposes the first quarter of this year compared to the corresponding Nazi Hiding in Argentina period last year; but this im- TEL AVIV (JTA)—Tuvia Fried- provement derives from in- man, the journalist who heads the creased orders in late 1970, the Haifa Documentation Center, told report stressed. a news conference here he had a Industrial exports continued to photograph of an Argentinian con- increase, but there was a flagging tact of his posing with escaped in the agricultural category. Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. "Invisible trade" showed an in- "The contact," said Friedman, crease last year in the form of knows where Dr. Mengele is arms purchases and higher out- hiding." going payments because of the Friedman demanded urgent ac- swelling foreign debt. tion by the Israeli government to Foreign exchange reserves have bring the Nazi to trial, adding that been kept stabl e, rising from he had approached the West Ger- $341,800,000 at the end of March, man government with a view to a 1970 to 8388,500,000 at the end of joint Israeli-German effort. May, 1970. Friedman noted that his Argen- tine contact wanted a large sum Nothing is more costly, nothing for providing the details of the is more sterile, than vengeance. Nazi's whereabouts. —Winston S. Churchill. - 0111ED 6I:1.1.1D5 • DETROIT. U S A • 12 Fg90/ Sale on Tuxedos & Men's Suits Men's Clothing 126 S. Woodward (1st Block South of Maple on Woodward) is facing charges here of alleged- ly extorting money from fellow students at Bar-Ilan University. 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