16—Friday, May 25, 1973.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
‘Golda Wanted Surveillance of Her Cabinet to Plug Leaks in '70'
The Art of Insult
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
rarely gets any pleasure
from them.
What's the use of denying
People were delighted
it. Sometimes Jews are a when Leonard insulted them.
smart people. Take the case
He said to Perry Como:
of Leonard Levitzky, a Jew- "You have a very fine
ish boy in Chicago. His voice—too bad it's in the
father was a tailor on the throat of Bing Crosby."
west side of Chicago. His
He said to his friend Ed
father used to say him, "I
think you ought to learn Sullivan: "There's nothing
tailoring too. Remember, An- about you that reincartion
drew Johnson was a tailor couldn't cure."
Art has been defined as
and became President of the
United States." - But papa," that which makes you feel
Leonard said, "Johnson was good. A cake or insult that
gives you the happy feeling
impeached, you know."
"Well, at least be a doc- can be as much art as a
tor," said his father. But good painting.
Leonard Levitzky instead be-
Leonard had his rules
came a life guard and then about the art of insult. In
a dancer. His father was the first place, it was brief.
very worried. Then one day, His insults were reduced to
Leonard Levitzky came one sentence. Then it had
home. "Papa," he said glee- the impact of a bullet. Sec-
fully, "I am going in the in- ondly, Leonard said an in-
sulting business."
sult is only ridiculous if it
"What kind of business is is aimed at a big shot.
that?" asked his father.
On occasion he would vio-
"Have you got a union?"
late the last rule. Once con-
Suffice it to say that fronted by a heckling audi-
Leonard Levitzky, better ence, he said, "If I were
known as Jack E. Leonard, Paul Revere, I wouldn't warn
made a national reputation as you."
the New York Times puts it,
No doubt hi: selection of
"bad-mouthing" people fort the big shot as his target
40 years. Last week, his was his democratic. his Jew-
passing brought sorrow to ish feeling, that it was the
many.
big shot who usually needs
People have been insulting the insult. It was a kind of
one another for a long time. medicine for the sickness
But how many good insulters known as the swelled head.
are there? For ten good
Some rabbis are quite good
complimenters, you can't at this kind of "medical"
find one good insulter. For insult.
one thing, most insulters are
Once the Roshpitzer Rebbe
entirely too verbose. Before visited a wealthy Jew known
they come to the point, the to be miserly in donating for
chances are you have lost a good cause. The stingy man
all interest. And above all, seeing the Rebbe from a dis-
ninety-nine per cent resort tance hid himself behind a
to old cliches. There is an bush, but the Rebbe spotted
utter lack of creativeness, him.
of any originality. A person
"You know " said the
Rebbe, "you are greater
than even Moses himself.
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The The U.S. State Department
newspaper Haaretz said Wed- and the Israel Embassy re-
Meir ordered the security fused to comment on a re-
services in 1970 to place port published in the New
members of her cabinet un- York Times that the em-
der surveillance in order to bassy telephones were tapped
trace the source of leaks of by the FBI.
classified information to the
The report surfaced in con-
press.
nection with testimony by
According to Haaretz poli .James McCord at the Senate
tical correspondent Dan Mar- hearings on Watergate.
McCord claimed that tele-
galit, the order was rescind-
ed after a protest by Gahal Ithone calls made from his
leader Menahem Begin, who home in September and Oc-
s a member of Mrs. Meir's tot;er, 1972 were tapped. Gov-
coalition government at the ernment investigators said
lie was reffering to his ails
;Imo.
The newsparer said that 10 the Chilean and Israeli
the premier was diturbed by ( , mbcssies. the Times report-
a series of leaks to the press ed. According to the Times,
in 1970. The leaks included "Intelliczence officials con-
material sent by the cabinet firmed the existence of wire-
en the Israeli Embassy,"
secretariat to various minis-
ters. Mrs. Meir ordered an under a program code-named
investigation and interroga- "Scope" which was initiated
during the Johnson adminis-
tion of her ministers.
ration.
Most of them cooperated
The Times said a govern-
with the security services. But ment source specifically re-
Begin raised the matter at a called receiving a transcript
cabinet meeting and man- of a conversation involving
aged to convince Justice Premier Golda Meir and the
Minister Yaacov Shimshon then Israeli Ambassador
Shapiro of his point of view. Itzhak Rabin during • the
Begin insisted that the se- Middle East crisis of 1970.
curity services were answer- "Mrs. Meir was discussing
able to the cabinet, not the Secretary of State (William
other way around, and Mrs. P.) Rogers, the source recal-
Meir's initiative was dropped, led," the Times reported.
Margalit wrote. His articel
(Addressing a Foreign
alleged similarities between Press Association luncheon
the 19'70 incident and the ;n Jerusalem Tuesday, Mrs.
current Watergate scandal Meir dismissed the Times re-
in Washington.
port as unconfirmed. But she.
Haaretz recently accused added that only a fool doesn't
the authorities of tapping know that long distance
telephone calls by its military phone calls are listened to
somewhere or other and sen-
correspondent.
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fast enough."
Mrs. Meir said that doc-
tors who examined her dur-
ing a hospital checkup last
week had not advised her
one way or the other but only
begged her not to cite them
as witnesses whatever her
decision.
She played down the im-
portance of differences with-
in her own party. "There are
always differences, but some-
how or other we manage to
live together and do good
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Golda Calls Watergate
Sad for Friends of U.S.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Pre-
mier Golda Meir said Tuesday
she was convinced that Presi-
dent Nixon would not let Is-
rael down in his summit
talks with Soviet Communist
Party Secretary Leonid
I. Brezhnev in Washington
next month.
She said she anticipated no
change in U.S. Middle East
policy and could only hope
for a change for the better in
l'rezhnev's policy.
Mrs. Meir spoke and an-
swered questions at a Foreign
Press Association luncheon
here. She said there had been
"no basic differences of op-
inion on policy with the Nixon
administration" since she
took office. She said that
Mr. Nixon did not doubt the
sincerity of Israel's desire
for peace and that he believ-
ed that a strong Israel was
the best guarantee of peace
in the region.
Referring to the Water-
gate scandal, Mrs. Meir said
it was sad and disturbing for
friends of the U.S. and
friends of Mr. Nixon. She.
said that she "did not know
the first thing" -about the
affair itself but could state
firmly that "Nothing what-
ever has changed" in rela-
tions between Israel and the
U.S. government and betw2en
Israel and Mr. Nixon.
Mrs. Meir evaded questions
as to whether she plans to
remain in office after next
fall's national elections.
"What would Israeli journal-
ists do to me, supposing I
decided to stand for re-elec-
tion, and I told the foreign
press first?" she asked. She
The first package in the Adopt-A-Family Program of
the Detroit Action Committee for Soviet Jewry was sent
recently from Tikva Lodge of Bnai Brith. Several of the
clothing items included in the parcel are shown here by,
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for the package; Al Farber, outgoing chairman of the
Action Committee; and Allan Rosenberg, chairman of the
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