The Candidates tic Their Views on to the Middle East ship wish eeds stu- earn e of State - nce 73 'ense does for be- t he nion iture is in ere- of rice, cent year n .rps. was I be mid- nter win yan he ex- on See Commentars Page 2 THE JEWISH NEWS CX A Weekly Review :X of Jewish Events Serious Lesson for War Mongers See Editorials Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper VOL. LXI. No. 14 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c June 16, 1972 National Council of Churches Calls on Its Members to Travel to Israel NEW YORK (JTAJ—The National Council of Churches asked its members Sunday to engage in "continued travel to the Holy Land . . as a direct way for Christians to witness with courage for peace there and to stand against the isolation of Israel." Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee, an official observer at the council's national board meeting, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the appeal was "un- precedented" for the council. The unanimous resolution was keyed to the Lydda massacre, which the council called an "act of terror" that "shocked the world community." Such "slaughter," it said, "cannot be tolerated either as a technique for discouraging travel .. . to a Holy Land sacred to the three world religions or as an appropriate strategy in the struggle to find a solution to the problems of the Middle East." families and for Israel and her people in this time of sorrow for all of us." The measure called on the United Nations, world governments and airlines to "devise and maintain more effective security measures." In one passage, the resolution said that "As Christians we cannot justify any terrorist attacks regardless of the provocation" in Vietnam, Northern Ireland, the Middle East or elsewhere. It was reliably understood that this passage—implying Israeli re- sponsibility for the Lydda Airport shootout—was a gesture to the Syrian Orthodox Church, which put "tremendous pressure" on the council for a strong anti-Israel measure. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, plans for more "Lydda style" massacres at air terminals in New York and in Europe were disclosed by Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese gunman captured in the May 30 massacre at Lydda A Japanese Embassy official, Jun Matsufuji, who visited Okamoto The council urged "all Christians" to "join in prayer for the victims' in jail, confirmed that the prisoner had related the plan to his interrogators. The Japanese diplomat also confirmed that Okamoto. and his two fellow gunmen slain dur- ing the airport shooting, trained in Lebanon together with two other Japanese. At least one of them, identified as Osamu Maruoka, returned to Japan shortly before the Lydda massacre, re- portedly on an assassination mission whose victims were to be the Israeli ambassador in Tokyo, Eitan Ron. and other prominent persons. Switzerland' became the focal point in an international manhunt for Maruoka. The Swiss federal prosecutor's office issued a statement saying Maruoka was in Bern as By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ recently as June 5 after spending. one night at a hotel there. Swiss police were put on alert for TEIIRAN—An impressive lesson in the historic values the 21-year-old Japanese. Maruoka was identified as the leader of the Japanese team by Okamoto. JOINT, ORT Spell Life for Iran Jews of American Jewry's philanthropic aims and standards is best taught by the tasks of our representatives in Iran. When the American Jewish Joint Distribution Com- mittee first began operating, as a great relief movement, during World War r, there were the antagonists, the skeptics, those who did not trust the rich and the yahutrun who were at the helm of this relief effort. Because the Schiffs and the Warburgs and the Rosenwalds and the leaders of the so-called German-Jewish stock were the leaders of this movement, the Orthodox posed many questions; labor—then very strong through the Jewish unions—wanted relief conducted its way, the People's Relief Committee was formed, and other groups functioned through the then strong landsmanshaften. Who would have believed, then, that the move- ment that was judged, more than half a century ago, as assimilationist, would today serve the major Jewish spiritual and cultural needs in a land like the one where we are learning a new lesson in Jewish involvements? In spite of the negatives so long ago, AJDC, or JDC, gradually became the beloved movement among im- poverished Jewries who needed our help. "Joint" a symbol of generosity, the interpretation of highest gz., - in relieving the needs of oppressed. When "Joint" was uttered, it expressed respect and admiration for •vr- petuated humanitarianism. Yet few could have imagin that a relief movement would in the course of time become the spiritual rescuer of a community that has because both spiritually and scci3lly impoverished. Iran is Exhibit One in a serious effort to assure identity in a community that at times lives in tit' , fear of its eventual security—because the population. Muslim—and at the same time suffers from a lack traditions which would give its.strength for Jewish so vival. JDC has stepped in to perform the herculean t: r.. and its role becomes more easily understandable 351- . it is realized that Iran has no ordained rabbis, tha' hahamim are elders with a modicum of knowledge: the hahamim are the shohtim, mohlim, haste tefila, is knowledgeability is meager, and without the link emit , I by JDC there also would be isolation from world Jew,. Morris Rombro. country director of the Arne, o Joint Distribution Committee in Tehran for the p p.r I s , . years, supervises a chain of functioning ageri.iit- rt has raised the standard of living among man. Iranian Jews, has helped eradicate infectious diseases through the services provided by the K.K.K. (Kanune-Kheyr-Khahl Hospital it supports and is assuring a Jewish education for thousands of the country's Jewish youth. It is the latter function that deserves deepest app7e- elation from world Jewry. Starting with the kindergartens supported by JDC—for children 3 to 5—the Jewish spirit is brought into the homes. One would imagine that in the land of Mordecai and (Continued on Page CO All West European airports have been put on a state of alert following reports that a small group of Japanese kamikaze volunteers were preparing an attack against an Israel-bound plane, authorities reported Monday in Paris. In Copenhagen, Danish authorities were informed that a group of members of the Japa- nese Red Army were planning to attack an Israel-bound plane at the Copenhagen Kastrup Airport. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban was due on a plane from Norway. Officials expressed fear that terrorists would try to seize Eban as a hostage for Okamoto. In response to the threat, authorities ordered armed guards, police and soldiers to be sta- tioned throughout. At Paris Orly Airport, hundreds of airport police and border guards have been checking all passengers and luggage. Passengers are required to pass individual personal checks during which their pockets are searched and luggage opened for examination. A Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporter who flew in yesterday from Geneva reported that such checks were being applied to all Air France paseengers, including those flying on European lines only. At Geneva and Zurich airports, passengers are required to pass a metal detecting device. Po- lice armed with submachineguns surround all planes from the moment they land until they take off. Customs officials and police search all passengers and luggage at Rome's Fumicino Airport. (Continued on Page 51 — Israeli-Japanese Pact Termed Major Economic Breakthrough TEL AVIV (JTA)--Israel's largest industrial holding company, the Ilisladrut-owned Koor Industries. has signed an agreement in Tokyo with the giant Japanese firm of Koichi Ishikawa for the establishment of a joint trading company, to develop commerce between the two nations and expand their commerce in other parts of the world. particularly Africa. The contract was signed by' Meir Amit, general director of Koor, and Koichi Ishikawa. oresii!ent of the Japanese concern. . Israeli circles hailed the deal as a major economic and political breakthrough for Israel. The Japanese firm has connections with large steel plants and will enable Israel to import steel :it much lower prices than it pays now. Economic circles here said the agreement would result in doubling Israeli imports from Japan to about 5100.000.000 as -early as next year. Another immediate effect of the agreement will be to increase the importance— and hence the development—of Eilat. Israel's Red Sea port and its major outlet for trade with Africa. Asia and the Far East. Eilat will serve as the port of entry for raw materials purchased by Israel in .lapan and as the shipping port for the re-export of finished products. The Japanese connection is expected io assist the entry of Israeli products into the Japanese market. Koichi Ishikawa has commercial outlets in 32 'Japanese cities. It is especially interested in breaking into .African markets where Koor Industries already has substantial outlets. Politically, the agreement was seen here as breaching the Arab League boycott of Is- rael which has hitherto kept many Jar-l•se firms from entering into large-scale business rela- tions with Israel.