Zuckerman and Pelavin to llold Top Jobs in UJA

The leadership qualities of two Michigan men were recognized by the United Jewish Appeal last weekend
when Paul Zuckerman of Detroit was re-elected g'neral chairman of the UJA and Michael Pelavin of
Flint was named national chairman of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet.
Zuckerman said he will call on American Jews to raise S505,000,000 in 1973 to meet the "continued high
level of immigration from the Soviet Union" and the "immediate need of expanding vital absorption services
in Israel for these new immigrants and the thousands more arriving each month." The goal is almost twice
that raised this year.
"Human needs in Israel and in 30 countries throughout the world cannot be postponed," said Zuckerman,
who added: "With Michael Pelavin of Flint, as chairman of the Young Leadership Cabinet, I hope to reach
the 1,000,000 young men and women of the Jewish community to bring the message of responsibility and service
to fellow Jews in need throughout the world."
Mrs. Bert Siris of New York was re-elected national women's division chairman, and Philip Zinman of
Philadelphia was re-elected president of the Israel Education Fund.
Pelavin is a member of the national board of directors of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds and past chairman of the council's committee of small cities. He serves on the Flint Jewish Community
Council board of governors and is council vice-president.

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Israel Cracks Sabotage Ring
Directed From Syria; Jews
and Christians Among Them

TEL AVIV (JTA)--Israelis are stunned by the disclosure that
young native-born Jews were among the members of a Syrian-directed
Arab spy and sabotage ring that took its orders from Damascus.
Four Israeli Jews were among 46 persons arrested when security
forces cracked down on the spy ring that had been under surveillance
for the past four months.
"The ring must be viewed as one of the most dangerous ever
uncovered in Israel," Commander Shoon Eshed of the Northern
District Police said.
The suspects represent all the major religious denominations in
Israel—Jewish, Moslem, Maronite Christian, Catholic and Druze.
The existence of an extreme left-wing organization called the
"Red Front" which preaches violent revolution was disclosed Tuesday,
It has only about 20 members, including Ehud Adiv and Dan Vered,
two of the Jewish suspects arrested in the crackdown, Israeli news-
papers reported.
According to the reports, the Red Front ideology was imported
by Vered, a schoolteacher, from his days as a member of the Students
for a Democratic Society at the University of Miami in Florida.
It maintains that "socialism cannot be implemented without a
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Final Score of UN Sessions:
Zero for Peace in Mid East

UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—A resolution passed Monday by the General Assembly's
sixth (legal) committee withholding UN action against international terrorism pending
a 40-state study of root causes was excoriated by Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah, who
said the measure has "crippled the organization and rendered it unable to act equitably
and effectively."
The resolution, he said, "makes a sheer mockery of the secretary-general's request
that the General Assembly take effective measures to prevent international terrorism, and
is an affront to the worldwide interest to stamp out the plague of wanton murders and
barbaric atrocities."

Tekoah said the Afro-Asian-Arab-Soviet-backed resolution, approved by a vote of
76-34 with 16 abstentions, was "a further indication that the United Nations have reached
a point of virtual incapacity to deal seriously and constructively with the principal prob-
lems which today confront the international community."
The U.S. and Britain voted against the resolution. China joined the Soviet Union

in voting yes. France abstained.
In some of the strongest remarks yet made about the world organization, Tekoah
said that governments interested in combating international terrorism "can no longer expect

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Our Nation's Birthday Party Emphasizes 'Pluralistic Society'

Bicentennial Communications Division Rejects WASP Inference

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON, D.C. — America's im-
mense birthday party, the 19'76 Bicenten-
nial, will not be a WASP affair. This be-
came a certainty when the American Re-
volution Bicentennial Commission commu-
nications division mobilized its forces at its
organizational session for involvement of all
racial, ethnic and religious groups as par-
ticipants in events to mark the 200th year of
the American Revolution during the coming
four years.
Emphasizing the "Heritage '76" rale in
the approaching celebration—planned as
"a nationwide summons to recall our her-
itage and to place it in its historical per-
spective" — David Goodman, the staff di-
rector in charge of planning this element in
the procedural program, rejected a claim
that the celebration will be "little more than
a WASP affair." His rejection of fears that
the celebration will be dominated by the
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant groups re-
ceived substance from the participants in
the inaugural planning session in which
Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Spaniards, Ger-
mans—blacks as well as whites—assumed
active roles in
GeNTENA,
the mobiliza-
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tion of Amer-
ican forces for
LO the forthcom-
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tee directorial

staff, indicated that the most effective
responses to the call for participation in the

Bicentennial came from Jewish groups.

Among the first to react with plans for
emphasis on the Jewish role in the 200-
year-old American historical functions to

receive emphasis in the Bicentennial was

extend the Bicentennial into a world cele-
bration, lending it a universalism that rec-
ognizes the roles of the many nationality
and religious groups that t.:lped build
America.

Hope was expressed by Jewish repre-
sentatives at the inaugural planning ses-
sions that the Institute for Jewish Life
of the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds will be an active participant
in the celebrations, and it was announced
that the Bnai Brith Women and the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women have al-
ready joined forces for Bicentennial proj-
ects. Perdita Husten, in charge of this pro-
gram, reported on a large-scale women's
organizations role. She joined with David
Goodman, who had already obviated the
fear of a WASP influence. in rejecting the
idea that the Bicentennial will be "little
more than a male affair. We have al-
ready refuted such an idea with the many
women's groups enrolled in our ranks,"
she stated.
Declaring the occasion to be one for
"innovative thinking," Bicentennial plan-
ners reported that encouragement will be
given for all communications media to be
factors in the great event which has already
been proclaimed by President Nixon as a
major cultural function to be pursued dur-
ing his second term in office.

the American Jewish Historical Society
which reported advance plans for special
research and publications and to devote its
AJHS Quarterly issues during the coming
three years toward this project.
Welcomed by the commission also was
the annoncement of special features in pre-
paration by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
for syndication in the English-Jewish press
throughout the world as well as the Hebrew
and Yiddish periodicals and newspapers
served by JTA.
Daniel S. Buser, director of communica-
tions for the Bicentennial, stated that much
of the material in preparation as literary
products to define the significance of the
celebration will be made available in other
languages, and it was stated that many of
the features will be provided in Hebrew and
Yiddish translations.
This aspect of the Bicentennial gained
added importance in the proposed provisions
that the celebration should serve as "an
invitation to the world"—that: "The move-
ment of people and the concomitant expos-
Dr. Abraham Karp, president of the
ure to other people as well as the chance
to explore and experience different cus- American Jewish Historical Society, Dr.
toms, to discover the familiar far from Stanley Chyet, associate director of Ameri-
home and to fully savor the richness of can Jewish Archives, and other leaders in
cultural American Jewish movements have
our land, the scenery and its citizens, are
valuable assets of the Festival USA pro- already reported on advance planning for
gram." This declaration was framed to the celebration.

The aim to assure a multi-cultural em-
phasis as a recognition of the American
"pluralistic society" was emphasized in the
statement by James Copley, chairman of
the American Revolution Bicentennial Com-

mission communications committee, that:
"Festival USA is a nationwide joining of
hands, which finds its impetus in the pat-
tern of the present. Yet, it is also a thanks-
giving for our cultural pluralism and an
affirmation in a belief in a dynamic spirit
that will continue to nurture our unfold-
ing civilization. Festival USA then is a
solemn celebration of people and the multi-
plicity of their ideas, their expressions,
their interests which best convey the diver-
sity of our culture, the warmth of our hos-
pitality, the vitality of our society, the tradi-
tions we draw on and those we create."
Active roles are being played in the
planned celebration by the black commu-
nity. whose representatives are enrolled
in directorial and volunteer staffs.
The Jewish Press Association has joined

in evidencing a deep interest in the planned
programs, and special editions of all Eng-

lish, Hebrew and Yiddish newspapers and
periodicals will be encouraced.
There was an added indication that
Israel's interest will be invited as part of

the international participation. Planned
American tours will be directed also to-
ward Israelis and to Jewish communities
everywhere as a method of enrolling world-
wide interest and to indicate that America
does not forget its millions of citizens who
"have roots in other lands"—a phrase em-
phasized in the guidelines formulated for
the Bicentennial.

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