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Israel Studies
Jordan Move to
Unify Its Front

Our Democracy
in Danger Over

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli sources took the view Tuesday that Jordan's agreement to join Egypt and Syria in a reactiva-
tion of the eastern front and to place its forces under the over-all command of an Egyptian general, was less important for its
immediate military consequences than for the motivation behind Jordan's action at this time.
Some observers here wondered whether the move, announced just 10 days before King Hussein is scheduled to meet with
President Nixon in Washington, was intended to strengthen Hussein's bargaining hand by ending his isolation from his fellow Arab
leaders. Others said Hussein could be jeopardizing his chances of receiving American financial aid.
Most observers agreed that
the Jordanian move was a setback to what had appeared until this week to be an improved climate for a Jordanian-Israeli settlement.
Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan both agreed that Israel would
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THE JEWISH NEWS

Threatened

Reimposition of
Numerus Clausus

A Weekly Review Ex:1 of Jewish Events

Editorial
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"A town without
schools is doomed

to destruction."

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Vol. LXI I. No. 21

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Sabbath

February 2, 1973

Armed Forces' Radio-TV Service
Pulls Out Anti-Semitic Program

Rebuke to WSU Paper Inflames Anti-Jewish Issue

BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
JTA Washington Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Department of Defense information admin-
istrators repudiated Friday a program featuring Gerald L. K. Smith, the
professional anti-Semite and racist, which had been breadcast over the
Armed Forces Network Jan. 23 and they reported that the New Jersey
Council of Churches, which had been associated with the program, had
directed its producer not to use the council's name with his production.
The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service had picked up the
broadcast, prepared by Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with
the council's radio and TV department, and transmitted it to its 492 radio
and television stations serving some 2,000,000 American military and
civilian personnel. Mutual had broadcast the program on Jan. 21.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which first reported the story,
was told by John Broger, director of the Defense Department's informa-
tion for the armed forces, that "obviously the broadcast will not be re-
peated. Normally a program is recycled. This one has been pulled out
of service.

Hoyt Wertz, chief of AFRTS and Broger's subordinate, told the
JTA that he had been informed by James Roberts of the New Jersey
church council that the council had cooperated in the production of the
first four programs in the series but forbade the producer three months
ago to use the council's name in connection with the series. Roberts is
production manager for the council's communications department in East
Orange.
Wertz said Roberts told him that the council had cooperated
with Bill Bertenshaw on the preparation of the first four programs
in the series, called "Suggested Solutions," but not on any programs
after that. According to Wertz, Roberts said the council had supplied
personalities for the four programs in a contract- (Continued on Page 46)

A rebuke to editors of South End, Wayne State University's periodi-
cal, by the university president, Dr. George E. Gullen Jr. and the board
of governors and a statement stipulating proper procedures for a paper
financed by the university, brought counter-charges from the paper's
editors who have raised the black-white issue and accuse the university's
administration of interfering with the paper's right to exist.
The statement of the WSU board of governors, published in Mon-
day's issue of the South End, signed by Gullen and the board members—
Leon H. Atchison, Wilbur M. Brucker Jr., Augustus J. Calloway Jr.,
George C. Edwards, Kurt R. Keydal, Max J. Pincus, Alfred H. Sokolowski
and Norman 0. Stockmeyer, declared:

"The board of governors and president of Wayne State University
feel a sense of outrage over the recent series of articles which were
printed in THE SOUTH END regarding Zionism.
"These articles, together with the appearance of a Nazi swastika
imprinted over the Jewish Star of David, are an affront to the Jewish
community. This insensitive treatment of symbolism of historic signifi-
cance is, therefore, an embarrassment to the University.
"The board of governors deplores the publication of materials in
the official student newspaper of Wayne State University which may be
injurious to or which infringes upon the personal rights and liberties of
a segment of the population whether it be of race, religious belief, creed,
or color.
"The anti-Semitic attitudes expressed throughout the articles in
the South End are, in our judgment, in NO way representative of the
feelings and attitudes of the majority of the faculty, the students, and the
administration of this University, whether they be white, black, or of any
other group designation.
"We urge the members of the Student Newspaper Publication Board
and the editor and staff of the South End to act
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Parents Demand Reopening of Detroit's Hebrew Schools:.-
Protest Decision to Close Borman and Colin Branches

Discussions Stalemated;
AFL-CIO Participates

Major decisions reached at a meeting of the board of
directors of the United Hebrew Schools may have a serious
effect on deliberations for an end to the strike now in
effect and as a result of which the schools and the high
school have not operated for two weeks.
The decision to close the Borman and Cohen branches
of the schools in September, by a close vote of 14-10,
and the 29-3 vote to discontinue second classes in the
Bnai Moshe and Beth Achim branches are expected so
seriously to affect the incomes and the teaching hours of
teachers that the situation remains critical.
Demands now are being made for resumption of ne-
gotiations and for a speedy end of the strike.
Although the superintendent of the schools had denied
t hat there were or that there will be negotiations — he
called the discussion just talking in his comments to The
Jewish News on Jan. 24 — there were meetings between
t eachers and administration all day Sunday and again on
Monday evening of this week. The renewed talks may have
been the result of entrance into the case of the AFL-CIO,
whose representatives, Tom Turner, John Shreier and
Norman McKay participated in the meetings as observers.
Representing the teachers were Joseph Baras and Rabbi
C. H. Rosenczveig. Representing the administration were
Norman Katz, UHS president, and Milton Lucow, with
George Zeltzer and Julian Tot las as observers.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the discussions stalemated,
lthough there were assur-
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The Scoreboard on
Closing of Schools

As matters stand now, the United Hebrew Schools,
and its high school, are not operating.

The teachers maintain there is a lockout, that they
offered to teach while negotiations are conducted. But
the administration, insisting there is a contract, expect the
teachers to return to work without further elaboration.

Upheld on the question by the AFL-CIO, the teachers
insist there is no contract.

Meanwhile, at the meeting of the board of directors
of the sch000ls, Tuesday noon, the closing of the Cohen
branch in Livonia and the Borman branch in Detroit was
ordered, as of next September, by a vote of 14-10.

Parents of children in these two branches protested against

the closing of the schools.

By a vote of 29-3, the board voted to abandon the
6 to 8 p.m. classes in the Bnai Moshe and Beth Achim

branches of the schools, over protests from teachers and
some parents.

Parents who met to deal with the issue, Tuesday
evening, at Bnai Moshe, decided to conduct a community
campaign to demand reopening of the schools.

Demands for a Din Torah — for a rabbinic court of
law to help resolve the issues — brought an offer of its
services from the Detroit Rabbinical Commission.

Major Issues Receive
First Public Hearing

Immediate reopening of the United Hebrew Schools
attending a meeting called
by UHS teachers Tuesday evening at Cong. Bnai Moshe.
The 21/2-hour meeting drew more than 350 persons,
the majority of them parents whose children have not
been able to attend Hebrew school classes because of a
two-week-old strike. The teachers said they are willing to
return to classes while negotiations are held, but the ad-
ministration has refused, arguing that the union has
reneged on a contract.
A meeting was called by the parents for 9,30 a.m.
Sunday at the Midrasha Building, at which time they
will ask administration and board members to reopen the

was demanded by parents

schools on Monday.
Representatives of the five elementary branches and
the high school have been asked to attend, along with
school officials and Mandell Berman, president of the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
Although the teachers had arranged the forum to ex-
plain their side of the continuing dispute with the UHS
board of directors and administration, they did permit
Norman Katz, president of UHS, to speak.
Katz, who said he was present at the meeting as a
parent, not as UHS president, defended the board's ac-
tion that afternoon in voting to close the Borman and
Cohn (Livonia) branches of the UHS and to end the
traditional 6-8 p.m. second session of classes. He cited
financial reasons for both (Continued on Page 5)

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