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. THE JEWISH NEWS Heartening Development in Youth - Scholarship - * Exposing an Anti-Israel VOL. LXVII, No. 7 f Jewish Events A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 Canard Editorials Page 4 April 25, 1975 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c 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 . (Continued on Page 9) (Continued on-Page 46) 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. (See Photographs on Page 18) (Continued on Page 13) v..UT I 04 / 462 <<\ ' 2 --I M 2 .' /\ -4- 0 '>?6-19-( • 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.