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Tarbuth Foundation and World Zionist Organization THE JEWISH NEWS tx:xt A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper Per Year; This Issue 25c 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Presidential Campaign and the Nonpartisan Obligations Voice of Americ'a and Senatorial Shenanigans Editorials Page 4 May 1 2, 1 972 Israelis, Hostages, Relatives Jubilant Over Hijack Defeat Ilonianian-Israel Relations Reaffirmed, but Mediation Speculations Are Scotched JERUSALEM (JTA)—Romania reaffirmed its postion that a Middle East peace settlement requires the total withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied Arab territories. That view was contained in a state- ment attributed to President Nicolae Ceausescu which was broadcast by Bucharest radio only hours after Premier Golda Meir returned to Israel from her three-day visit to Romania. Officials here would not comment on the broadcast but stressed that the Romanian position was well known and was spelled out by Ceausescu and Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer during Mrs. Meir's visit. It was not contained in the joint communique released Sunday night simultaneously in Jerusalem and Bucharest. That communique stressed desire the cordial atmosphere that attended Mrs. Meir's visit and the for continuing close bilateral relations between Israel and Romania. On international matters, including the Middle East conflict, the joint state- ment resorted to generalities. The Ceausescu statement was broadcast immediately following the reading of the text of the joint communique. It said that the Middle East problem should he settled within the framework of the Security Coun- ' cil's Resolution 242 which Romania regards as calling for the total withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Arab territories occupied in 1967. It also said that Romania counts the Palestinians among nations entitled to self determination. Mrs. Meir returned Sunday from her three-day visit to Romania amid indications that the friendly relations between Israel and Romania will become even closer in the future although the two countries are far apart in their assessment of Middle East peace prospects. Landing at Lydda Airport. she was greeted by President Zalman Shazar and members of her cabinet and the diplomatic corps. Mrs. Meir expressed thanks for the warm 'reception she received in Bucharest but scotched speculation that Romania might assume a mediating role between Israel and the Arab states. "Not now and not in the future," Mrs. Meir said at an airport news conference when asked about such prospects. Romania, she said, is in no postion to be regarded as a mediator. She refused to reply to questions about Roma- man President Nicolae Ceausescu's recent talks with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, saying that only the parties to those talks could answer. (Continued on Page II) e o e dC 0 TEL AVIV (TPA)—An Israeli army unit,employing a ruse, seized control of the hijacked Sabena jet at Lydda Airport early Tuesday afternoon, liberated its 90 passengers and 10 crew members and killed two of the four Arab terrorists who had held them hostage for 24 hours, threatening to blow up the plane. Five passengers have been hospitalized after being wounded by ricocheting bul- lets during the brief but fierce gun battle inside the airliner. The two other terrorists, both women, were captured. One was seriously wounded. The condition of one passenger, Meri Colberg, 22, was described as critical Wednesday. She was hit in the head and eye by a bullet reportedly fired by a ter- rorist. Vilfred Kordovski, another passenger, suffered a severe stomach wound. Paula and Nahum Rubin, an elderly couple from Antwerp, were slightly in- jured as they alighted from the aircraft. One of the two terrorist girls, Terez Halsa. an Acre-born nurse, was seriously wounded and underwent surgery at an Israeli hospital Tuesday night. The action climaxed a night and morning of fruitless negotiations with the ter- rorists, who demanded that Israel free 300 terrorists—later reduced to 100—held in Israeli jails in exchange for the hostages. The Israeli cabinet met in emergency ses- sion Tuesday morning. Israeli authorities flatly refused to make a deal, but fear for the safety of hos- tages kept the negotiations going for hours as plans were laid to overpower the terrorists. Those plans bore the stamp of Israel's top military leadership. including Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Army Chief of Staff Gen. David Elazar, who ar- rived at Lydda Airport shortly after the Belgian Boeing 707 landed at 7 p.m. local time Monday, its passengers and crew held at gunpoint by the terrorists. Israeli soldiers gained entry to the big jet disguised as El Al repair men after the terrorists, described by one witness as morenervous than their captives, were con- vinced that Israel would give in to demands and permit them to fly the plane to Cairo. The Arabs had requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross play the role of intermediary. Elazar said the Red Cross role permitted the Israelis to play for time. The disguised soldiers pulled out weapons and commenced firing as soon as they were in the plane. The terrorists returned the fire. but their leader. Kamal Rifaai, was killed instantly and the other male terrorist fell dead a few moments later. The sudden, dramatic end of the episode—in the style of a Hollywood movie cavalry charge—was greeted throughout Israel with a collective sigh of relief. The families of passengers, who had maintained a night-long vigil at the Lydda Airport Terminal, were jubilant as their loved ones left the iet, exhausted but safe and well. tension Only a short while before, the scene at the airport had been grim and the almost unbearable. President of Federation Aiparrtme mats Entvisitoras2sidilusildisagforSessi ■ brAdaiIts By CHARLOTTE DUBIN When Federation Apartments is formally dedicated on Sunday. it will mark not the culmination of a com- munity effort, but in many ways a beginning. Or so it is hoped by the president of Federation Apartments. Joseph Jackier, who last week advised the Jewish Welfare Federation's health and welfare division of his and his board's hopes for a second building house senior citizens of modest income. The logical site, he feels. is adjacent to the present building on to Mile lid Jackier. an attorney whose enthusiasm carried him through thousands of hours of planning and execution of Oak Park's only highrise, is convinced that the need for a Federation-spon- sored senior-adult apartment building is as real today as it was seven years ago. when the germ of an idea was planted. There are 202 residents in Federa- tion Apartments—primarily single per- Federation Apartments. the senior adult facility Welfare Federation, will be built by the Jewish formally dedicated 10:15 a.m. Sunday at the 10 Mile Rd. site. The public is invited to participate in the ceremony. after which there will be refresh- ments and a tour of the building. (Continued on Page 101 sons but including a number of couples — who were chosen out of a total 1.100 applicants early last year. They moved in during August. Rent starts at S85 a month and moves up, depending on the floor and whether the apartment is an efficiency or single bedrocm. There is an additional charge of $40 per person to cuter five kosher meals a week per month. Carpeting. draperies and kitchen facilities are sided. along with all utilities except phony. Each resid.- furnishes his Own apartment. Jackier speaks with pride of Federation Apartmem- and he con s at, rs the results—contentment for the pendent aged of the Jewish community well worth i:, fight it required to build it (ince Leonard Simons' committee had established the desirability of such a eia' Jackier's 1171 element at ton committee went to ware iv selecting the •Ite, drawing up the plans. organizing a: agency and carrying the project through the governrcer• Building finally got under w;* mortgaging chiinnel. the fall of 1969 The total cost of the structure cano• to $3,000,00 including the land. which was donated by United Jewi i. Charities The figure Was rock bottom "When we put this building up, the contractors said. 'You should put up two towers. not just on•.' But we had enough problems with one. We ren into tremendous cost, because of the 1969 labor market. The bids turned out to he 5400.1551 higher than the original costs of 12,300.00o So we had to go back to the government for approval (Continued on Page 50