St. John Will Address
Campaigners' Reception
Campaign Concludes
Wednesday Evening
The cocktail reception for the cam-
paign workers, at Temple Beth El, Wednes-
day evening, will be addressed by the emi-
nent author, broadcaster and lecturer
Robert St. John. The series of articles by St.
John, in The Jewish News, on his visit to
Cairo, drew national interest. They also
were widely syndicated.
The 1975 Allied Jewish Campaign-k-
rael Emergency Fund will close Wednesday
evening, at a reception for_volunteer work-
ers at Temple Beth El. Another high record
in Detroit's philanthropic efforts is expected
to be set in this year's drive.
Open Covenant
Issue, Facing
Facts in the •
Middle East
Situation
ROBERT ST. JOHN
Detailed campaign stories on Page 48.
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Ford's Policies of 'Even Handedness'
Are Causing Grave Concern for Israel
JTA Exposes
Evans, Novak
`Plot' Column
By MURRAY ZUKOFF
Editor, JTA
NEW YORK (JTA) — Nationally syn-
dicated columnists Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak this week charged the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the
worldwide Jewish press with a conspi-
racy to defame an ambassador and to
manipulate the fears and emotions of
the Jewish people.
Their Monday column began by stat-
ing that "a worldwide campaign to paint
the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. as
publicly advocating "extermination" of
all traces of "Judaism in the Middle
East shows the dangerous intensity of
the propaganda battle now being waged
by militant friends of Israel following
collapse of the U.S.-Israeli-Egyptian
peace effort."
The ambassador referred to is Ashraf
Ghorbal and the alleged campaign has
been conducted, according to the col-
umnists, by the Jewish Telegraphic
gency and "the worldwide Jewish
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Ford's televised remarks on the Middle East Monday night were viewed by
some observers as re-statement of the long-muted American policy of "even handedness" in the Arab-Israeli conflict and
almost as an invitation to the Arabs to harden their position. They felt also that the President's reference to the inevita-
bility of another oil embargo in the event of a new-Middle East war clearly encouraged the Arabs to employ their oil
weapon to force the U.S. to apply stronger pressure on Israel for territorial concessions.
The President made his remarks on the Middle East in the course of an hour-long interview in the Blue Room of the
White House with three CBS reporters.
(There was no official reaction in Israel to Ford's remarks and political circles in Jerusalem were wary of comment.
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon who returned from the U.S. Tuesday morning made no reference to the Ford interview.
Sources in Jerusalem said he may not have been aware of its contents and certainly had not had a chance to study its -fun
text.)
(Unofficially, however, observers in Jerusalem were particularly disturbed by Ford's implication that any
future meeting he may hold with Premier Yitzhak Rabin would be balanced by meetings with Arab leaders. They
were also concerned over the President's deli-
berate speculation over a new Arab oil em-
bargo and his non-corn-
mital attitude on possible
future U.S. recognition
of the PLO.)
The President told his
CLEVELAND (JTA) — Hunger strikes and demonstrations in
interviewers — Walter
support of the fast being conducted in Moscow by Jewish activist
Cronkite, Eric Severaid
Vladimir Slepak and his family are spreading to major cities in the
and Bob Schieffer — that
United States and Canada. In Cleveland, 35 persons marched in
he would not make "any
front of City Hall during the lunch hour Monday, including seven
commitment" on a meet-
members of the Case-Western Reserve University Jewish Student
ing with Israeli Premier
Coalition who are fasting in sympathy with the Slepaks. Among
Yitzhak Rabin until "we
the demonstrators were -Mayor Ralph Perk and Earl Williams, di-
are further along in our Wm.
rector of community relations for the city, who is a leader of the
GERALD FORD
reassessment" of U.S. pol-
black community here.
icy in the Middle East. He.
In Cincinnati about 70 local Jews began a hunger strike Sun-
said, "If we meet with one" head of state "we
day and Monday were joined by the mothers of Mark Nashpitz and
certainly ought to give others an opportunity to
Boris Tsitlionok, the two Moscow Jewish activists who have been
Hunger Strikes Spreading
in Sympathy for Slepaks
.
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U-M Habad House Begun
JNF Bicentennial Forest Approved
The Habad—Lubavitch of Michigan have purchased a 25-room Ann
Arbor home to be converted into a Habad House for the University of
Michigan campus. The group estimates the Orthodox Jewish home for
students will cost $100,000 per year to operate. Purchase price plus re-
novations are expected to total $250,000.
The Lubavitch have planned a June 1 reception at the Sheraton-
Southfield Hotel to honor the .70th birthday of Emma Schaver and an-
nounce the establishment of the new men's kosher boarding house.
- The building will have a subsidized kosher restaurant, with
food priced the same as non-kosher foods; a 24-hour per day
"hotline" service for students seeking help; a Jewish library and
reading room; a built-in stereo system with a Jewish record library;
and the Lubavitch " "reach-out" program of counselors offering
courses, discussion and rap-sessions and counseling.
The new building, at 715 Hill St., will also have the normal Habad
activities, including classes, counseling and Sabbath activities.
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• WASHINGTON (JTA) — At a ceremony in the headquarters of the
American Revolution Bicentennial Administration here, the American
Bicentennial National Park in Israel, a project of the Jewish National
Fund of America, received the official endorsement of the government of
the United States. A citation granting official recognition.of the new JNF
project and the flag bearing the Bicentennial emblem, were presented by
the Bicentennial administrator, John Warner, to Meyer Pesin and Abram
Salon-ion, national president and executive vice-president, respectively, of
the JNF.
.
The park, which will cost $6 million, will link a large region south-
, west of Jerusalem with 200 years of American independence. It was
formally initiated at the last national assembly of the JNF. The project
also marks the 75th anniversary of the JNF.
This region, to be improved over a three-year period, will develop an
ecological and forestry infrastructure in an area located within 25 miles
of Jerusalem, with the immigrant township of Beit Shemesh as its cen-
ter. Beit Shemesh serves the surrounding network of settlements.