The Jewish Mother Glorified in Fact/ and Traditionally Jerusalem's Status Under International Debate: Vatican's ;ole Deplored —See Commentary, Page 2 A woman of valor, who shall find? For her price is far above rubies . . . She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness is on her tongue . . . Her children rise up, and call her blessed . . . Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in her gates. —Proverbs 31: 10, 26, 28, 31 Oil as an issue in USSR Puzzlement THE JEWISH NEWS Michigan Weekly Commentary Page 2 Vol. LIX, No. 21 Delightful Jerome Weidman tale about his mother and W. Somerset Maugham... An established glory reaffirmed. Positive Approaches to Jewish Solidarity Review of Jewish News Editorials Page 4 iigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle -V-- 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c August 6, 19711 Sisco.,Tomponsation for Flexibility' Proposals Hit Snat... Report Meir's Opputition.. 100 Jets Sale. Anti c i pated Israel Facilitates Arab Mayors' Bally to Discuss Actions Against Boycotts JERUSALEM (JTA)—The military authorities in the West Bank agreed Tuesday to allow the area's mayors to meet to discuss common problems—the first time approval has been given for such a re- quest, after numerous rejections, since the Six-Day War. The mayors will convene Aug. 18 in Bet Sachur, a village near Bethlehem, to consider practical meas- ures against the Lebanese-proposed Arab boycott of West Bank agricultural products. The chairman of the West Bank Chambers of Commerce will not participate in the meeting, which they consider a political maneuver that will only complicate the issue. They have, instead, requested a permit to hold their annual meeting in Beth1e- - 7. 1 -hem on Aug. 15 to discuss the same problem among themselves. The failure of the West Bank leaders to come to a mutual understanding has caused Hamdy 'a:ICanaan, former mayor of Nablus, to initiate a public drive for democratic elections in the occupied terri- tory. He and his followers are soliciting West Bank- U.„ ers' signatures on a petition to that effect. A spokesman for the military authorities said • t policy is to hold elections in the area only if the majority of the residents want them. So far he said the authorities are not convinced of such a desire. • JERUSALEM (JTA)—Contrary to previous expectations, United States Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco probably will not extend his stay here for another week and will leave today, eight days after he arrived, informed sources said. One possibility, they said, was that he would return home before visiting Egypt, and maybe even double back here between his Wash- ington and Cairo stops. In Washington, State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said it was "highly unlikely" that Sisco would go to Egypt this time. American sources here had said that Sisco would remain here an additional week because of resistance by Israeli officials to his reported proposals for Israeli "flexibility" on terms for an interim Israeli-Egyptian 1 agreement on reopening the Suez Canal. eny i. gnew s Reportedly He is said to have recommended that Israel agree to a limited pullback from the Suez Sadat-to-Nixon Message Canal West Bank positions—between 20 and 25 miles—and a token Egyptian mili- WASHINGTON (JTA)—The office of Vice President tary reoccupation of the vacated area, in Spiro Agnew Wednesday flatly denied a persistent report return for assurances of Egyptian readi- that Mr. Agnew had carried a communication from Egyp- tian President Anwar el Sadat to President Nixon, last month, on his tour of African and Asian countries. "Mr. Agnew was not in Cairo, he did not meet with Mr. Sadat and at no time did he carry any presidential message for him or have any other message for him from the President," Press 'Secretary Victor Gold said. Gold said he could not disclose the substance of Agnew's discussions with the heads of state with whom he had met, but did acknowledge that Sadat's name had come up in them. During July, Vice President Agnew met with, among others, the Emir of Kuwait, ,King Feisal of Saudi Arabia in Jidda, King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, and President Joseph Mobutu lof the Republic of the Congo in Kenshasa. Gold described I the Ethiopian monarch and the Congolese leader as "very friendly to Israel" and noted that they were leading members of the Committee of African Unity concerned with the Middle 'East crisis. ness to extend the cease fire—which will be one year old Saturday—for two to three years. Sisco conferred for 75 minutes Wednes- day with Premier Golda Meir, Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Ambassador to the U.S. Itzhak Rabin, the U.S. envoy here, Walworth Barbour, and other officials. The reported plan for Egyptian troops to enter the parts of the Sinai evacuated by Israel was apparently the main stum- bling Nock at the conference. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned that even the so-called doves of the left- (Continued on Page 14) Jerusalem's Status Becomes Major Issue at Congressional Hearings USSR Punishes Tisha b'Av Observers; RepuutInte Black Pro-Soviet Apologist WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish, Catholic and Moslem witnesses testifying at a House subcommittee hearing on Jerusalem agreed that they were opposed to a divided city but differed over who should have sovereignty over a unified Jerusalem. Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of the department of inter-religious affairs of the American Jewish Committee, said a divided Jerusalem would be a "moral and human disaster." He insisted that Jewish claims to the city took priority over the claims of other faiths because Jerusalem is an entirely necessary and indispensible part of Judaism as it is not for Christianity and Moslems." I Different views were expressed by Dr. James Kritzeck of the Institute for Ad- vanced Religious Studies at Notre Dame University; Rev. Joseph L. Ryan, S. J., of the Cambridge Center of Social Studies, Cambridge, Mass.; and Dr. Muhammad Abdul Raul director of the Islamic Center here. All of them gave testimony at a hearing of East subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. the . 1 r Vea Lee: - Hamilton (D., Ind.). The two Roman Catholic leaders declared that the city of Jerusalem should be internationalized, and said that the U.S. "must do everything possible to see that Israel withdraws from the territories occupied in June 1967." Father Ryan said that "this would be only the first step to peace in the Holy Land, but Christians are praying that it will be taken in recognition and application of the requirements of justice." After would be only the first step to peace in the Holy Land, but Christians are praying that and the State Department which call for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories, (Continued on Page 5) NEW YORK (JTA)—The 20 Jews arrested in Kiev and Wilna on Sunday when they tried to commemorate Tish b'Av by visiting Jewish mass graves have been sentenced for "hooliganism," Jewish sources reported. The 10 Kiev Jews received 15-day terms, and the 10 from Wilna were offered similar terms or fines. The Kiev Jews were identified by the sources as Aron Naivelt, Isak Kleisinger, Nathan Remenik, Leichenko Velednitskaya, Edward Davidovich, Abram Zingerman, Igor Raiz, Evsei Rabinovich, Leonid Governovsky and a man surnamed Vanseter.. They were charged with resisting the police.. Illya Libman of Riga, who participated in the recent hunger strike in Moscow, returned there to press for an exit visa, was detained half a day, was ordered back to Riga and was warned not to continue demanding emigration, the sources said. Dr. Thomas W. Matthew, leader of a black U.S. self-help group that has sent a delegation to the Soviet Union, was described by Jewish spokesmen here as "naive" and "unfamiliar with the facts of Jewish life" in Russia. Richard Maass, chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, offered that explanation of Dr. Matthew's remark at a Moscow press conference July 28 that according to statistics furnished him by Soviet authorities, which he accepted, Jews in the USSR are better off than blacks in America. Dr. Matthew, who heads the National Economic Growth and Reconstruction Organization (NEGRO), and Rabbi Meir Kahane, national chairman of the Jewish Defense League, met in Harlem last May to announce what they termed at the time (Continued on Page €.= .