THE JEWISH NEWS Israeli Women Suffer High Rate of Breast Cancer c_ NEW YORK— Israel has one of the highest -rates of breast cancer in the world. Close to 600 Israeli women contract the disease each year and about half of them_ die as a result. Many V these women could have been saved through early detection and treatment. The Shifra Kutner Early Breast Cancer Detection Clinic in Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital, which has just completed three years f service, has taken on the hallenge of educating Is raeli women to the need for regular cancer check-ups and speedy' treatment. Functioning inconjunc- tion with the Israel Cancer Society, the_clinic is helping to revolutionize the ap- proach to cancer"treatment in Israel. It is the first such hospital-based clinic in the center of Jerusalem. \ Unlike the local clinics which must refer women to other institutions for treatment, the Shifra Kut- ner Clinic can make use of -Shaare Zedek's hospital facilities and provide the patient with all the serv- ices right on the premises. The same doctor who per- forms the initial examina- tion can follow through with treatment and sur- gery if necessary. The clinic is free and open to any woman who walks in off the street and asks for an examination. Since its inception in Jan- uary 1972 the clinic has been operating at capacity with'reception hours in the evenings so that work4ng women as well as all others over 35 years of age might conveniently utilize this life _ saving facility. The clinic open to all women, and re- porting for examinations are Arabs, - Jews, Moslems and Christians and no refer- rals are necessary. The facility is named in memory of Shifra Kutner, the late wife of Rabbi Sey- mour Kutner who was ac- tive all her life in civic and charitable activities in Memphis, Tenn. The project now receives the continuous support of the Memphis Jewish Community. McGovern Denies He Urged U.S. Recognition of PLO WASHINGTON (JTA) — 1Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.) has relayed word to his office in the Capitol that he has not made any of the statements attributed to him on his meeting with PLO chief Yasir Arafat, a McGovern press aide re- ported. The aide said that accord- ing to McGovern "any state- ments attributed to him re- garding his meeting with Arafat are not reliable be- cause he has made'no state- ment." The aide also said the questions attributed to the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1972 by Middle Eastern media are "incorrect." McGovern, he said, does not plan to make "any offi- cial statement" about his . Middle East travels until he returns to Washington Wednesday and holds a news conference. Israel will be the last stop on his tour. He will be there Sun-d-ay - through Tuesday. According to the aide, McGovern spoke with an administrative official in his office here Tuesday regarding news- reports ncerning his 90-minute eeting with Arafat in Beirut including one by the Palestinian news agency WAFA that "American policy should take into serious consider- ation the question of rec- ognizing the Palestine Lib- eration Organization." ar . McGovern also was quoted by the Beirut news- paper An- Nahar as saying it was "imperative for some kind of Palestinian national entitity to emerge because it is-difficult to achieve stabil- ity in the area unless the Palestinians exercise an ef- ficient political existence." "These reports include statements I did not make, they put words in my mouth," McGo-vern's press aide reported the senator as saying. The aide stressed that the half dozen American media persons in McGovern's press aide en- tourage were not permitted to attend the Arafat-Mc- Govern meeting and only Lebanese newsmen were allowed to be present. - Traveling as chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee's subcom- mittee on Middle Eastern affairs, McGovern included Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt,- Iran and Le- banon on his tour. Arafat has praised McGovern for being "the first responsible American official" to visit him publicly, according to an interview in the Wash- ington Post. Rabbinic Assembly Plans Convention NEW YORK — The past, present and future of Con= - servative Judaism will be explored at the five-day an- nual convention of the Rab- binical Assembly' to be held April 20-24 at the Grossin- ger Hotel. - A 75th anniversary vol- ume will be published by the Rabbinical Assembly in connection with its diamond jubilee. Edited by Rabbi Ed- ward T. Sandrow, special counsel of the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Sem- inary and a former presi- dent of the RA, the volume will detail the history, guid- ing principles and contribu- tions of the 1,100 member rabbinical group. — Friday, April 4, 1975 15 39 Israeli Dead Returned by Egypt TEL AVIV (JTA) — Thir- ty-nine Israeli soldiers killed during the Yom Kip-. pur War and buried in a common grave by Egyptian soldiers were returned to Israel this week by the Egyptian Red Crescent, the equivalent of. the U.S. Red Cross. "THE NAME MEANS QUALITY" Egyptian President An- war Sadat mentioned the mass grave in a speech to the Egyptian People's As- sembly (Parliament) Satur- day. There were still 57 Israeli soldiers listed as missing in action on the Sinai front when the Egyptians, several months ago, called off the body search that was being conducted by the Israeli ar- my's -chaplaincy corps. Israeli requests to renew the search, conveyed through U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. 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