20—Friday, March 8, 1974
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
War Taught U.S. About Russ Armor
Seminary Gets Detroiter's Gift
Philippine Attacks on Jewish
Journalist Astound U.S. Officials
WASHINGTON (JTA)=An
open attempt by the Philip-
pine government to pin the
blame for a setback in Phil-
ippine relations with Arab
oil countries on the Associat-
ed Press bureau chief in
Manila, Arnold Zeitlin, be-
cause he is Jewish, has as-
tonished U.S. officials here.
The State Department told
the Jewish Telegraphic Ag-
ency that it was awaiting a
report from the U.S. Em-
bassy in Manila on the situa-
tion.
An informed American
source here said that the
Philippine government may
be using Zeitlin as a scape-
goat to convince Arab diplo-
mats that it is not mistreat-
ing the country's Moslems.
The charge against Zeitlin
came from the Philippine
Consulate General in Hong
Kong, which issued a press
release carrying the text of
a letter, dated Feb. 20, by
Philippine Foreign Secretary
Carlos Romulo to the foreign
ministers of Egypt, Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait.
In it, Romulo described
Zeitlin as "suspected of be-
ing a Jewish journalist," and
claimed Zeitlin's dispatches
last month on fighting be-
tween Moslem rebels and the
Filipino government troops
were false.
Primitivo Mijares, chair-
man of The Philippines Media
Advisory Council which was
set up last May by President
Ferdinand E. Marcos to li-
cense and control the press,
accused Zeitlin of trying to
"alienate the Philippine gov-
ernment and people from the
Arab world."
Zeitlin refused a summons
to appear for a hearing be-
fore the council last Thurs-
day..
Observers here said a pat-
Arabs Get More
U. S: Wheat
tern seemed to be developing
of selecting Jewish journal-
ists in key points abroad as
targets of such charges:
Arabs demand the removal
of Arrigo Levi, editor of the
Fiat-owned La Stampa be-
cause he was Jewish; Saudi
Arabia recently refused to
permit Eric Rouleau, Le
Monde correspondent, to ac-
company French Foreign
Minister Michel Jobert; and
three or four Jewish report-
ers accompanying Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger
to Saudi Arabia last Decem-
ber were told • by him that
they could not enter the
country because of the anti-
Jewish bias' of its rulers.
They nevertheless entered
without incident.
The Philippines has been
shaken by numerous out-
bursts of violence by work-
ers, peasants and radical
students protesting against
rampant inflation, corrup-
tion, bureaucratic ineffici-
ency and a per capita in-
come of about $200 a year
for about 75 per cent of the
total population of some 38,-
000,000.
About 5 per cent of the
population are 'Moslems.
There are some 500 Jews in
the country.
Publisher of Kahane
Book Hit for Label,
`Jewish Mein Kampf'
NEW YORK (JTA)—David
Fisch, executive director of
the Jewish Defense League,
strongly criticized the use
by the • publisher of JDL
founder Meir Kahane's new
book, "Our Challenge," of
the phrase "A Jewish Mein
Kampf," in promotion of the
book.
Chilton Book Co. of Rad-
nor, Pa., the publisher, issued
a news release which in-
cluded the following state-
ment: "Our Challenge, called
a 'Jewish Mein Kampf' by
some, is a battle plan for the
reshaping of Jewish des-
tiny . . ."
Benton Aronvitz, publicity
director for Chilton, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the phrase "some" re-
ferred to "a couple of Jew-
ish friends in Philadelphia."
He said he could not recall
whether the descriptive
phrase was his suggestion or
came from one of his "Jew-
ish friends."
Aronvitz disclosed that the
Mein Kampf comparison also
will appear on the jacket of
the Kahane book, which will
be published in April. He
quoted from the jacket at
follows: "Our Challenge is
not a Jewish Mein Kampf,
though some readers are sure
to think so."
He said he did not know
whether the phrase would be
used in advertising the Ka-
hane book. He said its use
for the book jacket had been
cleared with the JDL by
Shifra Hoffman. Miss Hoff-
man was identified by Fisch
as a JDL volunteer who, he
said, had no authority to give
such approval.
WASHINGTON (ZINS) —
Political circles have voic-
ed surprise at the lack of
stronger opposition to the
continuing shipments of U.S.
wheat to Arab countries, at
a time when the Arabs have
embargoed oil shipments to
this country.
John Farker, a spokesman
for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, defended the
sale of $800,000,000 worth
of wheat to various Arab
countries stating tha t they
must make up a drought
deficiency to feed their popu-
lations. For many years the
Arabs have imported wheat
from America, but now their
requirements have increased
and costs have gone up,
he said.
Saudi Arabi will be buying
wheat for $100,000,000, as
compared with purcaiaaz of
only $36,000,000 a year ago.
Iraq's order for $60,000,000
an increase of $3,000,000
over last year. Egypt's pur-
chases will total $120,000,000,
as compared with $83,000,-
000 in 1973.
Israel's purchases of U.S.
wheat are estimated to be
More men die from worry
$200,000,000 this year; last than work—so work harder
year they were for $145,000.- and spend less time worry-
ing.
000.
Detroiter Peter Weisberg, center, is shown with Dr.
Gerson Cohen, left, chancellor of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, and Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor
emeritus of the seminary, at a recent reception in Miami
Beach. Weisberg announced the creation of the Peter and
Clara Weisberg Scholarship at the rabbinical school of
the seminary. Weisberg had previously established an en-
dowed student aid fund at the rabbinical school. The semi
nary's 15th annual convocation dinner in Hollywood, Fla.
was highlighted with the seminary's presentation to Sen.
Henry M. Jackson of the Herbert H. Lehman Medal as "a
guardian of human rights." He was cited for his sponsor-
ship of the Jackson Amendment, which would deny favored
nation trading status to the USSR unless it extended the
right to Soviet citizens to emigrate to lands of their choice.
WASHINGTON (ZINS) —
In testimony before the
House Armed Services Com-
mittee, U.S. Chief of Staff
Gen. Creighton Abrams dis-
closed that the U.S. had
learned a great deal from
the encouters between Rus-
sian and U.S. armor during
the Yom Kippur War.
The Soviet weapons used
by the Egyptians and Syrians,
said Gen. Abrams, proved to
be of high caliber and most
effective in combat. The
general also said that he
believed the U.S. is behind
the Soviets in chemical, bi-
ological and radiation war-
fare.
The Israelis captured in-
tact large quantities of So-
viet-made equipment design-
ed to protect against such
warfare as well as arsenals
of chemicals and other dead-
ly items long since outlaw-
ed by international conven-
tions in the conduct of war.
ON GUARD
No one can compel you to
love your enemies, but it's a
good policy to respect them.
IN MEMORY
of
those Profits
you could have
made
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Israeli POWs in Syria Reported
by Red Cross in OK Condition
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Red
Cross representatives in
Damascus who visited Israeli
prisoners of war in Syrian
camps and hospitals have
reported that their condition
is satisfactory.
The first letters from
POWs to their families were
being distributed MOnday by
the army's manpower divi-
sion. The letters were handed
over in Beirut Sunday to
Michele Conyers, the IRC
representative in Tel Aviv,
who brought them to the
manpower division.
Israel has asked Syria,
through the Red Cross, to
locate and deliver the re-
mains of 18 Israeli soldiers
whose names were not on the
POW list provided last week
and are presumed dead.
It is believed that some of
them may have died in POW
camps or hospitals but others
are believed to have been
_murdered by the Syrians
when they were captured.
Some of the missing men
are said to be flyers who
were seen bailing out when
their planes were hit. They
are believed to have been
murdered by the enemy
when they touched the
the ground.
Meanwhile, Israel said it
traded 65 convicted Arab
guerillas to Egypt Sunday
for two alleged Israeli spies,
one of them imprisoned for
20 years.
An Israeli army spokesman
said the exchange came "in
the framework of_the disen-
gagement agreement be-
tween the Israel and Egyp-
tian armies," completed in
the western Sinai earlier in
the day.
World. ORT Union
Gets Norway Funds
OSLO — A grant of about
$18,200 was made to the
World ORT Union by the
Norwegian Refugee Council.
Earmarked for language
training in Israel, the grant
will help to finance a num-
ber of specialized Hebrew
courses in Israel designed
to give refugee immigrant
technicians — primarily Rus-
sians, a working vocabulary
in their specific skills.
It was the first such trans-
action since shortly after the
1967 Middle East War.
The searches by mixed
Israel -- Egypt-UNEF-Red
Cross teams for Israeli sol-
diers still missing will pro-
ceed at least until the end
of March, UN sources have
stated.
Israel requested the exten-
sion beyond the disengage-
ment deadline because not all
the missing men have yet
been accounted for.
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