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Divisional Activities Commence for Allied Jewish Campaign
Conclusion of the pre-campaign phase of the
Allied Jewish Compaign-Israel Emergency Fund,
at a session last week at the home of the Samuel
Frankels, marked introduction of the divisional
functions, with all sections of the drive getting into
action to reach the goals necessary to assure sup-
Racism
Has No Place
in American
Society:
A Plea for
Fair Play
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port for the United Jewish Appeal and mainten-
ance of the local and national agencies supported
by Detroit Jewry's philanthropies.
Samuel Frankel and Paul Handleman, co-
chairmen of the 1973 Allied Jewish Campaign,
gratified with the newest total of pledges an-
nounced on Feb. 7 which reached the SUM of
$8,173,400, shared a feeling of confidence with
their fellow campaigners that a new record in gen-
erosity can be reached with a similar response
from all the working divisions in the drive_
Detailed reports on Page 12
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The 'Key '73'
and Anti - Israel
Propagandists:
Both Need
Enlightening
Cimanientary
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February 16, 1973
Jews in Britain, U. S., Japan
Targets of Terrorist Threats
Status of USSR Jews Arouses New Concern and Protests
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Ten American Catholic, Protestant, Black
LONDON (JTA)—An English radio ham picked up a new Arab ter-
and Jewish leaders have charged the Soviet government with blocking their
rorist warning Friday night against prominent Zionists in New York and
nine-day tour of the Soviet Union which was to have begun Sunday. Rep.
London "in their shops, offices, homes and warehouses." Scotland Yard's
Robert F. Drinan (D., Mass.) said that Intourist, the Soviet Union's official
special branch immediately issued a "be on your guard" alert to British
travel agency, had confirmed the group's hoted reservations Jan. 24 but
Jews.
canceled them on Feb. 2. The trip's purpose was "to express the friendship
The warning of a new terror campaign follows threats broadcaSt by
and solidarity of the churches of the United States for the 3,000,000 Jews"
Radio Elghiza, the official voice of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
in the Soviet Union, Drinan said.
Radio Elghiza is the station which last September gave 10 days' warning
He asserted that the group will continue trying to make the trip. He
of the letter bomb campaign which led to the murder in London of the
said the "retraction" of the visas by the Soviet government cannot be "ex-
Israeli diplomat, Dr. Ami Shachori.
plained except by the fear which the Kremlin has that the world may dis-
For this reason the new warning received urgent consideration from
cover that, after denying fundamental religious freedom to the Jewish
Home Office security experts. But Scotland Yard's special branch seems to
people over many years and decades, now, by requiring exorbitant exit fees
be in possession of corroborative information coming from other sources, it
the Soviet government is telling Soviet Jews that they may neither practice
was learned. Scotland Yard asked for the full text of the news broadcast
their religion nor migrate to Israel."
which included this statement:
In addition to Drinan, those who had planned to make the trip includ-
"The victorious freedom fighters are preparing to deliver such a cam-
ed Rev. Edward H. Flannery, executive secretary of the Secretariat for
paign that the world will be galvanized into action. The Jewish aggressors
and their supporters will be visited in their shops and offices, homes and
Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops;
warehouses. They will be driven out. Now is the time for the account to be
Mrs. Ursula Niebuhr, widow of Reinhold Niebuhr; and Rabbi Marc H. Tan-
settled." The terrorists also implied that the campaign would be launched by
enbaum, director of interreligious affairs of the American Jewish Committee.
sympathizers already based in Europe.
Rabbi Tanenbaum said that many in
Palestinian terrorists may strike
the delegation are in the forefront for
next in Japan. Their targets will be
a detente in Soviet - American
NEW YORK (JTA)—Continuing reports that nine Jews in Iraq who were
Israeli
officials and businessmen. Ac-
relations.
arrested last September and October were recently executed have sent shock
carding to information which reached
Sen. William B. Saxbe (R.. Ohio)
waves through the Jewish and non-Jewish communities here and in other cities.
While the Iraqi government has denied these reports, including an earlier
police in Tokyo from Seoul, two mem-
described as "ridiculous" legislation
report that a 10th Jew arrested last year died earlier in an Iraqi jail, sources in
bers of the Black September move-
calling on the Soviet Union to modify
this country, Israel and abroad point to several ominous signs which tend to
ment had attempted to enter either
its emigration policy in return for
corroborate the reports of the executions: the property of the nine Jews has been
Korea or Japan through a Bombay-
trade concessions from the United
confiscated, their families are either in hiding or have fled abroad, and their
Bangkok-Honk Kong route. The two
States. The senator, who favored this
homes have been boarded up and signs with the word "gone" have been painted
men, according to a report in the
legislation four months ago, told news-
on the doors.
Japan Times, were turned back by
men here several days ago that "if
These sources note that similar ominous signs were in evidence in January
Hone Kong authorities.
Zionist Jews believe that we are going
1969 when the Iraqi regime convicted 14 persons, including nine Jews, of spying
The Times also reported that last
for Israel and hanged them in public squares for alleged espionage. At that time
to fight to the last drop of the farmers'
month the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo
there was an international outcry.
blood, I am not going to be part of it."
During
the
past
few
days
a
number
of
organizations
political
leaders
told
the Metropolitan Police Depart-
and
Speaking at a news conference
Ira q Asked to Tell Fate of 9 Jews
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Lxpect Expansion of WSU
Student Newspaper Board
Will Solve Campus Crisis
Revision of the. Wayne State University Student Newspaper
Publications Board, proposed in new regulations announced by WSU
President George E. Gullen and the university's board of governors,
is expected to assure a solution to the serious situation that was
created by the resumption of an anti-Israel policy in the South
End, the campus newspaper. The anti-Israel and anti-Zionist
articles by a Unitarian minister have been condemned as equating
with anti-Semitism.
The present membership of the student publications board
includes four students, two faculty members, the editor and a tech-
nical adviser, the latter two serving as ex-officio members of the
board.
The proposed board, expected to commence functioning by the
end of this month, is to be composed of seven students, a university
dean, another member of the faculty representing the department
of journalism, a student personnel advisor, an information services
adviser and the two ex - officio members, the editor and the techni-
cal adviser.
Charging that "irresponsibility has become something of a habit
on the South End staff," the official statement by Dr. Gullen and
the board of governors "calls for corrective action designed to
prevent future irresponsibility."
The official statement issued last Friday censured the South
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Israel Unavoidably
Devalues Its Pound
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The 10 per cent
devaluation of the U.S. dollar an-
nounced by Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Schultz in Washington Mon-
day night had repercussions in Israel.
A 10 per cent devaluation of the
Israel pound was announced in
Jerusalem despite a statement by top
Israeli monetary authorities Tuesday
that the pound would stand firm.
Experts here said it was too early
to assess the full impact of the dollar
devaluation on Israel's economy.
(A spokesman for the Israel Dis-
count Bank in New York told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency that IL
4.20 for the dollar remained the of-
ficial rate of exchange as of Tuesday.)
Economic authorities conferred
Tuesday night and Wednesday morn-
ing on means to prevent a rise in
commodity prices in the wake of the
10 per cent devaluation of the Israeli
pound. Price increases, especially in
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Mixed Sentintents Mark UlIS
Reopening: Adniinistration
Assurances Balked by Unifbn
Reopening of all branches of the United Hebrew Schools on
Sunday resulted from the signing of a contract which solved some
problems—such as tenure for six-hour teachers, pay increases for
the three-year duration of the contract between the schools and the
Hebrew Teachers Association, granting of hospitalization for fami-
lies of women teachers.
Simultaneous with the resumption of teaching after a lapse of
three weeks, a statement from the schools' administration gave
assurances of uninterrupted community dedication to educational
needs which have been and will continue to be the priority in
communal planning. But there is a continuing expression of dis-
satisfaction from the teachers and parents' groups.
Two lengthy statements were issued this week as an aftermath
to the end of the impasse.
The United Hebrew Schools administration, Forperisitemlent of
Schools Dr. Benjamin Yapko and his associates, declared • their
statement that they view the new contract, which is to expire Aug.
31, 1975, as a fair one, and they express elation over the reopening
of the schools. The administration's statement asserts that many
problems, educational in nature, remain, and that 'tit will be the
task of administration and the board to call open teachers and
parents to join with them in attempting to solve these problems and
thereby contributing to the development of a commumal system of
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