Mandell L. Berman Named Federation President
Mandell L. Berman has been elected president of the Jewish Welfare Federation to succeed Alan E. Schwartz at a board of gover-
nors meeting last Friday. Berman, president of Dreyfus Development Corp., parent company of B. I.. Smokier Co. of which he is executive vice
president, is the immediate past president of the Builders Association of Metropolitan Detroit. He is a board member of the National Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and American Association for Jewish Education.
Elected to the executive committee were Irwin Green, Mrs. Merle Harris, Erwin S. Simon and Hyman Safran. Re elected to the
executive committee were Joseph H. Jackier, Milton J. Miller, Irving Rose and Herbert P. Sillman.
Max M. Fisher is honorary chairman of the Federation executive committee. Paul Zuckerman is an honorary committee member.
The nominating committee report was prepared by Irwin I. Cohn, Arthur Howard, Julian S. Tobias, Joseph It. Jackier and Mrs.
Norman II. Rosenfeld.
The board of governors paid tribute to Schwartz, Federation's retiring president, for his three years of dedicated service.
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November 3, 1972
Freeing of Terrorists Steps Up
Israel Attacks; Rift With Bonn
Israel-Vietnam Diplomatic
Relations Being Considered
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli officials said Tues-
day that the time was ripe to establish diplomatic
relations with the South Vietnamese regime in Sai-
gon before a coalition government, including Com-
munist elements, takes over in that country. The
Communist countries, except Romania, broke rela-
tions with Israel after the Six-Day War, and it is
assumed here that Israel would find it difficult to
establish relations with Saigon once Communists had
a voice in government there.
The regime of President Nguyen van Thieu has
expressed willingness in the past to exchange am-
bassadors with Israel. but such a move has been
opposed here by Maparn and other elements.
Advocates of a new approach by Israel have
noted that Israel maintains diplomatic relations with
other rightist regimes in Southeast Asia including
Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. They said that Israel
would be willing to establish relations with North
Vietnam, North Korea and other states linked to
the Communist bloc, but none of them is prepared
to establish relations with Israel.
A possible rift with the West German government is one of the results of the freeing of the
Munich terrorists upon demand of hijackers of a Lufthansa plane.
Meanwhile, Israel has stepped up its attacks on terrorist bases in Syria, and there was a sugges-
tion that Libya, having given asylums to the hijackers and terrorists, also may be attacked.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An Israeli army reserve officer said Monday night that Libya could be a tar-
get in Israel's stepped-up warfare against Arab terrorists. Gen. Yeshayahu Gavish made his remarks
on a television program. He said that Libya could be hit even though it is 1,000 miles away if it con-
tinues to give aid and sanctuary to the terrorists.
It was reported, meanwhile, that at least 100 Syrian soldiers were killed or wounded when Israeli
Monday was an encampment of the Ahmed Jibril faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine where Libyan "volunteers" are known to be stationed. Observers here said the raid on that
base could be taken as a warning to Libya.
It was reported meanwhile that at least 100 Syrian soldiers were killed or wounded when Israeli
jets bombed the Syrian army command post at El Kaleh Monday afternoon. El Kaleh serves as head-
quarters for a mechanized brigade. The Israeli pilots reported direct hits and large fires at the camp, pos-
sibly resulting from the explosion of a munitions dump. El Kaleh was raided after Syrian artillery
shelled Israeli positions in the southern Golan Heights Monday.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel was incensed by the West German government's failure to heed its
entreaties not to free the three surviving Palestinian terrorists who participated in the massacre of 11
Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich Sept. 5. The three terrorists were released from their jail cells
and flown to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, to be exchanged for 13 passengers and seven crew members of a
Lufthansa 727 jet that was hijacked earlier by other Arab terrorists on a flight from Beirut to Ankara.
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Day of Judgment
for the American
People Nov. 7
Final words will have been spokes an Monday eveulag
is the traditional emoted for President of the United States.
We are engaged is a two-party fight for power for the coming
fear years. The American esnatitneocy, to its wisdom. is not
easily tooled by rhetoric alone. It looks at the record to be
able to judge wisely. It bas basic primaries mad, on the first
Tuesday of this month it will again be the arbiter an this
Day of Judgment, an the crucial first Tuesday in November.
Whatever the jodgment, the American ides mast remain
secure. The choices, for President, for oar legislators, mast
the long ran abide by the wishes at those who east their -
Wits for their representatives. There is a compelling vigd-
ante that keeps oar people on the alert, that bolds majority
and minority responsible for honorable contact to dealing
with the destinies st the people who name them to act as r
their fuoctinning government. We g• to the pals with eon&
desee that justice will never be abused, that the boomer at ear
people will be upheld, that the country's seeds will not be
sacrificed as an altar of shams or betrayals. In this spirit
the American people will resort to Ms most p•werfosi weapon
—the ballot—for the protection et the bask primaries inherent
Is our American status.
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