THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, Feb. 15, 1974-13 Final Phase of West Bank Withdrawal Set for Feb. 21 (Continued from Page 12) 10017; International Red Cross, 7 Avenue de la Paix, Geneva, Switzerland; and the American Red Cross, 17th and D. St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20006. NEW ORLEANS MALL 10 Mile - Greenfield FINE FASHIONS FOR HER Sizes 3-15, 6-20 Sportswear — Evening Wear Cruise Wear Bank Americard Master Charge TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli forces have completed the third phase of their with- drawal from the west bank of the canal. They have taken up a line snaking through sand dunes to the central portion of the Great Bitter Lake. The Israelis so far have evacuated two thirds of the west bank salient they occupied in the Yom Kippur war. Indonesian and Canadian units of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) took over the evacuated area Tuesday and handed it over to the Egyptians that night. The fourth and final phase of the wtihdrawal is expected to be completed by Thurs- day, when the last Israeli units cross the Suez Canal into Sinai. At noon that day an Israeli officer will hand over the bridge at the Israeli salient to United Nations Emergency Force officers who, six hours later, will turn the bridge and the salient over to the Egyp- tians. Until then, Israeli sources said, Israel will maintain significant forces of paratroops, armor and artil- lery in the bridgehead. Sources here reported that the Egyptians were imple- menting their share of the agreement to the letter. A report from the west bank said that the Egyptians have demolished the SAM missile sites they built on the canal's east bank since the Yom Kippur War. Israeli sappers, meanwhile, continued to deactivate the mine fields they planted with a target of defusing and re- moving 500,000 mines out of the 750,000 mines that were placed. Maps on the location of the still active mines will h€ given to the Egyptians. Maps of booby-trap mines also have been prepared and handed to UNEF and the Egyptians. The remaining 12 days until the completion of the We're looking for Religious songs --Gospel,too. $128,000 cash prizes mom • ▪ NE= IIIIIIININ t _ dim if — tai amPos as ft, %El Aft Auk w. ANL 11=1111=41111)111111=1% WA", vira Vm.6 a - m • -%*- NS al ill•for: • i w ii an international songwriting competition What is it? The beginning of a new era in music —the first annual international songwriting competition for both amateurs and professionals. The. Festival will be crowned with a series of concerts to be held at the prestigious Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where winning songs will be performed by today's most popular entertainers. TV coverage of the Festival finale is planned. An album of the Festival's Best Songs will be released internationally. There are six categories for both amateur and professional: Rhythm and Blues/Soul/ Jazz; Rock; Country & Western; Popular; Folk; and Gospel/Religious. A song may be entered in more than one category. Amateurs compete against amateurs. Professionals against professionals. (Songwriters currently members of performing rights organizations: ASCAP, BMI, SESAC or their foreign counter- parts will be considered professional.) WHAT KIND OF SONGS? HOW ARE WINNERS PICKED? Each song entered will be listened to by experts m the music industry. Thirty-six ni-finalists' songs will be chosen (three from each professional and amateur category) . These then will be judged by an international jury comprised of eminent composers, publishers, artists and other representatives of the recording and broadcast industries. PRIZES: Total cash prizes of $128,000 will be awarded. Each of the 36 semi-finalists will receive $500 cash and be the guest of the Festival for the August 30, through September 2, 1974 finals. Twelve finalists (a winner from each category, each division) will receive an additional $5,000. The composers of the Best Amateur and Best Professional song will each win an additional $25,000. The Laurel Award for best song of the Festival will be a concert grand piano in addition to cash prizes of $30,500. HOW TO ENTER: Start now. Enter as many songs as you wish for an entry fee of $10.85 per song. ($13.85 outside the USA and Canada.) Send the application below with $10.85 for each song to the American Song Festival. Applications must be postmarked no later than April 15, 1974. You will receive the Official Festival Entry Kit, ASF Cassette by Capitol, entry form, and Songwriters' Handbook. This valuable book includes important information every songwriter should know; copyright laws, publishing, selling your songs, etc. Record your song on the blank cassette and return it. Instrumental and lyrical songs are accepted. You don't have to be able to write music—recording the cassette is enough. Elaborate production is not necessary. The song is what counts. IMPORTANT FACTS: You do not relin- quish ownership of a song by entering the Festival. All rights remain with the entrant. The Festival is a competition, not a music publishing organization. Prizes are not tied to publishing contracts. Songs previously recorded and released com- mercially are not eligible for entry. CLOSING DATES: Application for entry must be postmarked no later than April 15, 1974. The recorded cassette and entry form must be returned postmarked no later than June 3, 1974. Enter now—fill out and mail the coupon below today. RULES AND REGULATIONS 1. Competition is open to any person but employees, relatives, agents, independent contractors of the American Song Festival, Inc. (ASF, Inc.). 2. Each entry shall be wholly original and shall not, when used as contemplated herein, constitute an infringement of copyright or an invasion of the rights of any third party. Each entrant shall, by this entry, indemnify and hold the ASF, Inc., its agents, independent contractors, licensees and assigns harmless from and against any claims inconsistent with the foregoing. 3. Musical compositions heretofore 'recorded and released for commercial sales in any medium may not be entered. 4. An entry of $10.85 ($13.85 outside U.S. and Canada) shall be submitted for each entry kit desired (blank cassette, Songwriters' Handbook, and official entry form). After receipt, the entry form duly and accurately completed shall be returned with each recorded cassette. Any number of songs may be entered by an individual provided that a separate entry fee is paid for each song. 5. The entrant must designate the category in which he wants his song judged. A song may be entered in more than one category by sending an additional fee of $6.25 for each additional category. 6. The rights to all songs remain with the entrant or the copyright owner. Not Withstanding, the ASF, Inc., its licensees and assigns shall have the right to cause any song to be arranged, orchestrated and performed publicly in connec- tion with activities of ASF, Inc., at no cost to the entrant. Entrant, if requested, will issue or cause to be issued to the ASF, Inc. and its licensees and assigns a license to mechanically reproduce the song on an original sound track album of the ASF in consideration of a payment calculated at the applicable rate set forth in the U.S. Copyright Act and will also issue or cause to be issued a license permitting the song to be recorded and synchronized with a filmed or video- tape account of the ASF for use in any medium for a fee of $1.00. All materials submitted in connection with entries shall become the sole property of ASF, Inc. and no materials shall be returned to the entrant. The ASF, Inc. shall exercise reasonable care in the handling of materials but assumes no responsi- bility of any kind for loss or damage to such entry materials prior to or after receipt by the ASF, Inc. 7. Each entry shall be judged on the basis of originality, quality of musical com• position and lyrical content, if applicable. Elaborate instrumentation or record- ing is not a factor in judging. All decisions of the screening panels and judges shall be final and binding upon the ASF, Inc. and all entrants. 8. Application for entry must be postmarked no later than April 15, 1974. Recorded entries must be postmarked by June 3, 1974. ENTE R NOW The American Song Festival, P.O. Box 57, Hollywood, CA 90028 6 Enclosed is my ❑ check ❑ money order entry fee of made payable to the American Song Festival. ($10.85 each —outside U.S. and Canada $13.85 each.) Please send Official Entry Kit (s) to: NAME (PLEASE PRINT) L CITY AGE ADDRESS STATE ZIP disengagement on March 5 are to be used for the rede- ployment of Israeli forces along the new defense lines east of the UNEF buffer zone, some 20 kilometers east of the canal. During this fifth and last phase of the disengagement, Israeli forces are to main- tain a bridgehead on the east bank of the canal until the final pullback. The thinning out of Egypt's Second and Third armies on the east bank of the canal to a token force of 7,000 men, 30 tanks and 36 medium range artillery pieces, will also have to be completed by then. Army Chief of Staff Gen. David Elazar, speaking at Bet Sokolow, the headquar- ters for journalists here, de- fended the disengagement agreement with Egypt, said there had been no violations so far and claimed that the new Israeli lines in Sinai were defensible ones. Elazar acknowledged that there were some problems in connection with the separation of forces. But he said all of them would be solved within the 40-day period allotted to carrying out the disengage- ment accord. "We did not leave the critical problems for the end," he said. Elazar stated that the posi- tions the Israeli forces would take up just west of the Gidi and Mitla passes in Sinai were good from an operations point of view, for defense and for the concentration of strength to achieve any de- sired mission. He said that once disen- gagement is completed, the army would concentrate on reorganizing its ranks. He said that some of the lessons of the Yom Kippur War have already been put to practical use and other are still under study. Syrian Artillery Attack on Golan Heights Kills Immigrant, Policeman TEL AVIV (JTA) — A woman immigrant settler in Ramat Magshimim and an Israeli policeman were killed and five soldiers injured in an intensive Syrian artillery attack on Israeli settlements and forces in the Golan Heights Monday. This is the first time that settlements have come under direct fire from the Syrians. In addition, the infants' home at Ein Zivan was dam- aged by a direct hit shortly after the babies were taken to the shelters. The policeman was said to have been killed as he was on his way through Kuneitra to visit relatives. He aban- doned his car and raced for cover when the shelling start- ed but was reportedly struck before he could reach safety. Officials in Tel Aviv identi- fied the woman as Mrs. Ben- jamin Ben-David, 26, who emigrated from Queens 18 months ago with her hus- band. She was walking with her son when she was hit by shrapnel from a Syrian shell. The boy was unhurt. More civilian casualties were said to have been avert- ed as the settlers descended to underground shelters when the shells began to fall. Monday's events along the Syrian front started at about 9:30 a.m. when the Syrians opened mortar and artillery fire on Israeli forces over a wide section of the line. Two hours later the Syr- ians intensified their fire and expanded the line of fire to include the settlements of Ramat Magshimim and Na- hal Geshor as well as the Kuneitra township area. As soon as the Syrian at- tack started, the Golan Heights settlers were ordered into shelters. At Ein Zivan, the settlers had just completed taking the children to the shelters when shells started to ex- plode on the perimeter of the settlement. One shell hit the babies' home moments after they were taken to the shel- ter. Israeli forces unleashed a heavy barrage of artillery and tank fire. Last week it was stated that should the Syrians con- tinue their attacks, Israel may have to introduce air force action against the Syr- ian artillery batteries. The "heating up" of the Syrian line disappointed Is- raeli ski enthusiasts who were looking forward to an extended season on the slopes of Mt. Hermon where the snowfall has been heav- ier than usual. (The ski lifts which were damaged by Syr- ian attacks during the war have been repaired and were to have been reopened this week. But Defense Minister Moshe Dayan has ordered the ski facilities to remain closed until a safer situation prevails in the area). A 20-year-old Israeli wom- an was killed and her soldier companion was wounded Sun- day night when their car was hit by a terrorist rocket on the Kir:rat Shemona-Banias road near Kibutz Dan in Up- per Galilee. The woman died instantly. The soldier was taken to a nearby army camp by a pass- ing vehicle and later taken to a hospital. An Israeli army unit rushed to the scene of the ambush and fired at the re- treating terrorists, who ap- parently escaped across the Lebanese border. The ambush was the sec- ond in the area in recent days. An Israeli soldier was killed in a similar incident last week. Informed sources reported that the United States sug- gested to Israel that it re- frain from any reprisal raids against Lebanon but that 're- ports of strong U.S. repre- sentations against escalating of the fighting on the Syrian cease-fire line were untrue. The sources noted that re- straints ha v e consistently been urged by the United States on responses to at- tacks by guerrillas on Israeli targets from Lebanese bases. Meanwhile, an upsurge of terrorist activity—the first in many months—was reported from the Judaea-Samaria re- gion. In the vicinity of Heb- ron, fire was canned on an Israeli border patrol, wound- ing two policemen. Near Tulkarem on the West Bank, armed terrorists stopped two private cars and m an de d identification. When the occupants proved to be Arabs they were per- mitted to go. Security forces are investigating the incident. * * * 2 Soldiers Suffocate in Golan Heights Mishap TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers were found dead in a Golan Heights out- post Feb. 4, apparent victims of suffocation from the fumes of a kerosene stove.