Nobel Prize
in Economics-
For Dr. Arrow
Stein, Cooper Nobel Prize Winners
Dr. Wiliam Stein
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Dr. William Howard Stein and Dr. Leon N. Cooper are among the Nobel Prize winners in
physics and chemistry announced this week. Dr. Cooper, who was born in New York, Feb.- 28, 1930,
is a member of the faculty of Brown University since 1958, and has been Henry Ledyard Goddard
University Professor there since 1966. Dr. Stein, a professor at Rockefeller University in New York, is
a member of the medical advisory board of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in
Jerusalem and a trustee of the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.
Dr. Christian Boehmer Anfinson, another of the Nobel Prize winners, a non-Jew who is a
biochemist at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, is a member of the board of governors
of the Weizmann Institute and chairman of the institute's scientific and academic advisory committee.
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
Editorials
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Vol. LXI I, No. 7
Dr. Leori Cooper
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Dr. Kenneth Arrow,
51-year-old Ha r yard
professor, shared the
Nobel Prize in econom-
ics this week.
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October 27, 1972
Israel Intercepts Letterbombs
Intended for Nixon, U.S. Leaders;
World Alert on Terrorists Launched
GOP, Democratic Spokesmen
Clash Over Political Issues
NEW YORK (JTA)—High-ranking campaign officials
fof President Nixon and Sen. George McGovern clashed
over their respective candidates' positions on Israel,
Soviet Jewry and appointment of a Jew to the Supreme
Court in a face-to-face confrontation here Sunday.
Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's national political di-
rector, and Rita E. Hauser, a former U.S. representative
at the UN who is a co-chairman of the Committee for the
Re-Election of the President, were principals in a question-
and - answer debate, sponsored by the Zionist Organization
of America, on issues of specific Jewish concern in the
presidential election. They spoke before more than 600
persons at the New York Hilton.
Mankiewicz warned that the Rogers plan, calling for
Israel to withdraw to pre-'67 boundaries as a precondition
to Middle East peace talks, "remains the policy of the
Nixon administration" and "will go into effect as public
policy" if Nixon is re-elected. He said that McGovern "has
never supported the Rogers plan, and does not support
it now."
Mrs. Hauser said that administration support of
Israel rests "on the issues" and not on any appeal for
the Jewish vote. She said U.S. backing of Israel is predi-
cated on the administration's belief that "a free and
strong Israel" serves the cause of peace in the Medi-
terranean and the world.
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—Letter bombs addressed to President Nixon and to Secretary of State
William P. Rogers and Defense Secretary 'Melvin Laird were discovered Wednesday at the post
office in Kiryat Shmona, a village near the Lebanese border. The bombs containing high explosives
and an activating device were safely defused. Police said they believe the letters were placed in the
post office's outdoor mail drop by one or more terrorists who managed to infiltrate into Israel from
Lebanon.
According to police, postal officials at Kiryat Shmona became suspicious of a letter addressed
to President Nixon with no return address. The envelope seemed to contain a hard object. It was
sent to the Tiberias police station for examination but before it arrived two more similar letters
were found addressed to Rogers and Laird.
Police suggested that the terrorists were try-
ing to implicate Israel in attempts on the
lives of President Nixon and the two cabinet
members.
USSR Is Believed Adhering
to Tax; 'Invisible Diplomacy'
Policy Adopted by State Dept.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish sources here said
there seemed to be no change in the official Soviet
attitude that those Jews being given permission to leave
the USSR without having to pay the education tax are
the exception, not the rule.
The sources noted that while many Kiev Jews are
being let out, there have been no visas granted in Novosi-
birsk for months, and many Jews there have been told
they will never get out.
The sources quoted a Jewish activist as urging
Diaspora Jews to concentrate on efforts to have the tax
rescinded.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States policy on
the emigration of Soviet Jews has shifted from "quiet
diplomacy" to what was described Wednesday by State
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Meanwhile, Israel authorities have warned
Arab notables on the West Bank, including
Sheikh Mohammed Ali Jaabari, the mayor of
Hebron, of possible terrorist attempts on their
lives. The authorities said they learned of
plans by extremist terrorist groups to assassi-
nate the Arab leaders of Samaria and Judea
either by direct attack or with letter bombs.
The Arab dignitaries were warned to turn
over to police for inspection all mail and gift
parcels reaching them, unexpected or other-
wise. Police said the letter bombs addressed
to the American leaders were similar to those
sent to various Israeli personalities here and
abroad from Amsterdam last month.
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Accelerated Decline in Jewish Schools' Enrollments
Reported by AAJE; 91.000 Drop Shown in Five Years
of 13.5
The American Association for Jewish
Education, in advance of the publica-
tion of its biennial school census for the
1970-19'71 school year, reported that the
decline in Jewish enrollment appears
to have accelerated.
Dr. Hillel Hochberg, director of the
AAJE department of statistical research,
revealed that reported school enrollment
in 33 cities .cleclined from 319,811 to
278,508 (12.9 per cent from 1966 to
1970, an average decrease of 3.3 per
cent per year. In 24 of these communi-
ties, there was a mean decrease of 4.9
per cent from 1969 to 1971, substantially
more than the previous mean annual
drop of 3.3 per cent.
These statistics reportedly confirm
sporadic reports from various parts of
the country, indicating the tapering off
from the high water mark of more than,.-- --
600,000 enrolled students estimated in
the national study of the AAJE in 1959.
Interim censuses conducted by the
AAJE during the following decade re-
vealed that the school population was
decreasing. The latest report considers
it safe to deduce that there has been a
drop of at least 20 per cent in reported
and estimated figures since 1959-1960.
Dr. Hochberg said that an attempt
was made to estimate the total Jewish
school enrollment on the basis of en-
rollment reported by 42 communities.
On the assumption that percentages were
comparable in communities for which
data were not available, it would be pos-
sible to guess that about 460,000 children
received some kind of Jewish education.
In the 1967 census, the Jewish school
population was estimated at 554,000, in-
dicating a decline of 17.5 per cent by
1971. Dr. Hochberg emphasized that
since this decline is computed on the
basis of two estimates, it must he re-
garded with a great deal of caution.
According to Dr. Hochberg,. even the
smaller communities of the country are
beginning to show a smaller school popu-
lation, although, as might be expected.
the decline here is not as great as in the
metropolitan Jewish centers. Thus. for
example, in the period 1966-1971, the 12
Strikes Threatened in Our Schools
grievances
United Hebrew Schools' teachers' demands for arbitration of new
and a continuing Impasse in the Real David school situation are threatening strikes in
both school systems. The teachers' grievances and the position of the UHS adminis-
and IS. .
tration are stated on Pages
large communities show a decline
per cent, the eight intermediate-size cities
a decline of 10.1 per cent, and the 13
smaller communities a decline of oniy 0.9
per cent. For the year 1970-71 alone. the
12 largest cities showed a decline of 5
per cent: five intermediate cities a de-
cline of 5.2 per cent; and seven smaller
cities a decline of 1 4 per cent However.
for the period 1966-1970, while the 12
large cities and the five intermediate
Mitres showed a decline of more than 9
per cent, the 13 smaller communities
had shown an increase of 6 9 per cent.
Dr. Hochberg. moreover, was cautious
about the reliability of such reports in
the absence of reliable demographic
statistics about the size and location of
the Jewish population. lie suggeOed that
the decline in reported enrollment may
be due to a combination of factors. sue h
as aging population and fewer young
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