46 Friday, February 6, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Trite 'Hump on My Brain' Kissinger
Jackson Bill
Book Rated G Gruesome
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Amateurish at best, and
by the author's own admis-
sion, is the way Detroiter
Max Simon's "Hump on My
Brain" can be described.
Published by Vantage
Press, Simon's book de-
scribes his hard luck as a
gambling addict. Only 128
pages long, "Hump on My
Brain" describes Simon's
initiation into the gambling
world at age 9 right through
his massive losses in Las Ve-
gas during his adult life.
In an unpolished style,
Simon, the son of a gambler,
relates his sad story and
peppers it with references to
his romantic activities, none
of which have any relevance
to the story.
He describes, often col-
loquially, his feelings of
remorse after losing huge
sums and his relationships
with other gamblers. In
detail, he relates the de-
grading experience of hav-
ing to cash a check as an
out-of-towner in Las Ve-
gas when all of the casinos
have marked him as a bad
risk.
Many references are
made to Detroit personali-
ties and landmarks that
would not mean much to a
person unfamiliar with De-
troit past and present.
Despite the banality of
his presentation and the
occasional crudness, Simon
offers a warning to persons
obsessed by a bad habit:
"Quit Cold! Stop! Don't do it
anymore, whatever it may
be. Get involved in some-
thing you really enjoy
doing. When you feel right
about it, if you wish, try the
moderation approach. Keep
it under control ! It's your
life !"
Max Simon's "Hump on
New JNF Movie
Shown in Senate
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The new ,Jewish National
Fund film, "From Every
Mountainside," was
screened in the Senate last
week to acquaint Congress-
men with the JNF's current
project, the American Bi-
centennial National Park in
Israel. The screening was
co-sponsored by Sen. Rich-
ard Schweiker (D—Pa.) and
Sen. Gale McGee (D-
Wyo.).
In addition to Congress-
men, representatives of the
Israel Embassy, American
Revolution Bicentennial
Administration, and leading
members of the Washington
and Baltimore Jewish com-
munities also attended.
The film surveys a region
in the vicinity of Jerusalem
which has been a wilderness
since Biblical times, which
will be converted into a na-
tional park including roads,
observation posts and an
observation tower atop the
highest peak in the southern
Judean mountain chain.
The park, which will take
three years to complete, will
be dedicated July 4 by a de-
legation of hundreds of
American Jewish leaders
and top representatives of
the U.S. and Israel govern-
ments.
My Brain" is more appro- .
priate for the Thursday
night card game and not
recommended for polite
company.
—H.P.
Klarsfeld Finds
Another Ex-Nazi
PARIS (JTA) — Nazi-
hunter Beate Klarsfeld said
here that a former Gestapo
chief sentenced to death in
France is living in West
Germany.
Mrs. Klarsfeld said Fritz
Merdsche, who was twice
sentenced to death in
France in absentia for
crimes committed while
serving as Gestapo chief in
Orleans, is now living in
Frankfurt.
In Bonn, Ernst Wilm,
the retired pastor and
chairman of the West Ger-
man Evangelical Church,
who spent three years as a
prisoner at Dachau for
anti-Nazi activities, has
renewed his call for the
release of the last three
Nazi war criminals still
imprisoned in Holland.
He said on a television
interview that he was con-
sidering a hunger strike to
obtain publicity for the pris-
oners because he believed
their continued incarcera-
tion does nothing to alle-
viate the suffering of Nazi
victims.
The three prisoners, being
held at the Breda prison, are
Ferdinand Aus den Fuen-
ten, 66; Franz Fisher, 74;
and Joseph Kotaella, 67.
Athlete Charged
With Anti-Semitism
BALTIMORE (JTA) —
The Baltimore Jewish Coun-
cil has accused Ilie Nastase,
the Romanian tennis star,
of an anti-Semitic remark
during a tennis match last
week and asked the United
States Tennis Association to
take "appropriate discipli-
nary action" against the
athlete.
Nastase was accused of
saying "there are too many
Jews here" when he become
upset, during a game in the
international indoor tennis
championship in Catons-
ville, Md., by the strong vo-
cal support from the audi-
ence for his opponent,
Harold Solomon of Silver
Spring, a Jew.
Nastase reportedly said
he was "surprised" by the
council's complaint. He did
not deny he had made the
comment, but said he had
made it "to myself, no one
else."
Tug Pulls Barge
From U.S. to Haifa
HAIFA — A U.S. sea-
going tug towing a giant,
18,000-ton barge arrived in
Haifa after a 48-day voyage
from Mobile, Ala.
The barge contained
13,200 tons of soya beans. It
was the first attempt to
transport bulk cargo in this
way over so long a distance
to Israel, according to the
-Jerusalem Post.
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger Tuesday charged
that Congress acted
"without subtlety or under-
standing of Soviet politics"
in adopting legislation in
the trade act of 1974 and the
U.S. Export-Import Bank
law that linked U.S. trade
benefits to the Soviet Union
to Soviet emigration policy.
"The human rights issue
is a matter of deep and legit-
imate concern to all Ameri-
cans," Kissinger said, but he
added the congressional ac-
tion "deprived us of eco-
nomic levers and sharply
reduced Soviet emigration."
Last week, Senator
Henry M. Jackson said
that he will "never re-
treat" from his determina-
tion to promote freer emi-
gration from the Soviet
Union and the Eastern
European nations.
"If we back down on the
Jackson Amendment now,"
Jackson told the Queens
County (N.Y.) Council on
Soviet Jewry, "we lost all
right to call ourselves the
leaders of the free world."
Israel Developing
Anti-Ship Missile
Veto Explanation,
Aid Cut Attacked
Immigrants Print
Bilingual Magazine
NEW YORK — A super-
sonic sea-skimming anti-
ship missile that can be
launched from helicopters,
aircraft or ships is under de-
velopment by Israel Air-
craft Industries, to replace
the present Gabriel Mk. 2,
now entering service with
the Israeli navy.
Aviation Week reports
that the target date for ini-
tial operation of the new
missile is 1983-84. It will
have a range longer than the
present 25 miles of the Ga-
briel and will utilize an im-
proved guidance system.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr.
Joseph P. Sternstein, presi-
dent of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America, was criti-
cal of the U.S. explanation
of its Security Council veto
of a resolution on the Middle
East.
Dr. Sternstein said the
U.S. explanation that the
resolution "blocked the
surer and tested way to a
peace settlement" made no
mention of the fact that the
resolution would have legi-
timitized non-existant Pa-
lestinian "rights."
Sternstein said he felt
that the speech was an at-
tempt by the Administra-
tion to demonstrate even-
handedness "and this,
coupled with the unprece-
dented budget making
practice of announcing
now that it will cut aid to
Israel in 1977, makes us
see this as an attempt to
appease the Arabs for the
U.S. veto."
Democratic presidential
hopeful Birch Bayh of Indi-
ana also criticized President
Gerald Ford's proposed
budget cut in military aid to
Israel, calling it "not only
extremely unrealistic, but
comes at a crucial time in
Middle East negotiations."
JERUSALEM — The As-
sociation of Jewish Reli-
gious Professionals from
the Soviet Union and East-
ern Europe have published a
bilingual newsletter in Rus-
sian and English to serve as
link between Russian immi-
grants in Israel and Jews in
Western countries.
The first edition of the
2 0-page illustrate'
"SHAMIR" contains articles
about the organization's in-
ternational leadership semi-
nar on Soviet Jewry
several months ago, a
on Soviet immigrant n
Rome, a critique of the lead-
ership of the Soviet Jewish
community in Israel and a
description of SHAMIR's
activities.
For information about
the organization or the
newsletter, write Prof. El-
mer Offenbacher, 451 West
End Ave., New York 10025.
JNF to Plant
1 Million Trees
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Jewish National Fund
plans to plant one million
new trees in the Negev-Raf-
iah area during the current
planting season which be-
gan at Tu b'Shevat, two
weeks ago.
Radio Iraq Begins
Apart from tree-planting,
JNF is investing major ef-
Hebrew Broadcasts
forts in the Rafiah region in
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
earth-moving work to give
Radio Baghdad has begun
the young settlements in the
broadcasting in Hebrew,
area greater stability and
following the practive pre-
greater protection from the
Poalei Aguda Event elements. Further south, at
viously adopted by Egypt,
Syria and Jordan, which
Has Large Turnout Di-Zahav on the Eilat-
have been broadcasting He-
Sharm el-Sheikh road, the
brew programs on a regular
From Labor Party
JNF is laying the infra- West Africa Seeks
basis.
structure for a skin-diving
Help From Israel
The first transmission by
JERUSALEM (JTA) — club intended to promote
Iraqi
radio in Hebrew was a
tourism.
The large turnout of Labor
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — A call to Iraqi Jews to "return
Party ministers at the open-
senior
Histadrut
official
home."
ing of the Poalei Aguda Is- PLO State Threat
said several West African
rael National Convention to Israel, Jordan
countries requested more Weizmann Institute
Monday has aroused specu-
Israeli help but were not
NEW YORK (JTA) — The ready to renew diplomatic Stages Science Fair
lation that the Rabin Gov-
ernment may be seeking to creation of a Palestine Lib- relations.
REHOVOT — An
broaden its political base by eration Organization-con-
Israel Herz, vice chair-
wooing the ultra Orthodox trolled state on the West man of the Histadrut's in- 11-year-old boy who built a
Bank would endanger both ternational department, has model demonstrating the use
splinter faction.
Israel and Jordan, according
of solar energy to heat wa-
Justice Minister Haim to Chaim Herzog, Israel's just returned from a three- ter was one of the winners
Zadok, delivering the gov- Ambassador to the United week visit to Nigeria, in the science fair recently
ernment's greetings to the Nations. "It would be a sui- Ghana, Siera Leone and organized by the youth ac-
convention remarked that cidal act for Israel to agree Gambia.
tivities section of the Weiz-
"We've always seen you as a to the establishment of a
mann Institute's science
'U.S. Must Uphold teaching department, in
natural coalition partner."
PLO state," he declared.
Herzog's remarks were Moral Principles'
cooperation with the Israel
The Poale Aguda with
made in an interview for a
Discount Bank.
two Knesset seats and the
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
local WABC-TV program.
First prize was awarded
Aguda Israel with three
The Israeli envoy noted Sen. William Brock (R- to three winners: Daniel
seats comprise the so called
"Torah Bloc" in the Knesset, that the West Bank and Tenn.) called upon the Pfeffer, for his solar heat-
a faction well to the right of Gaza were under Arab con- United States to use its eco- ing model; Avital Virzeva,
the National Religious trol from 1947-67 and there nomic resources, including 15, for an original game de-
Party and uncompromising Was not one move to create a food, as a means of support- vised as a learning-aid for
Palestinian state during ing its moral principles in mathematics; and Shai Is-
in its religious zealotry.
raeli, 18, for a research pro-
Were the Poale Aguda to that time. He said the Pales- the world.
Addressing 500 Orthodox ject and paper entitled
enter the coalition, the tinian state is a new
"torah bloc" would be bro- "gimmick" that has been rabbis at the bicentennial "Research on the Immune
ken. The faction served in introduced in the last three Torah Convocation of the Response in Very Young
several coalition govern- or four years. The root of Rabbinical Council of Mice."
ments in the 1950s and the problem is the Arab re- America, Brock said the
1960s after the Aguda fusal to accept the existence U.S. has not upheld its Tel Aviv U. to Host
moral commitments to Is-
seceded over the issue of of Israel, Herzog stressed.
rael in "dealing with Arab Students From U.S.
army service for women.
NEW YORK — Thirteen
General Zionists potentates."
Rabbi Israel Miller was American college stue
honored
by
the
Council
for
Score Victory
Elias Gilner,
left to spend their spi___ 6
his efforts on behalf of Is- semester at Tel Aviv Univer-
MONTEVIDEO
(ZINS)
—
Helped Hagana
rael.
sity.
Following are the results of
The participants in this
NEW YORK — Elias Gil- an election in Uruguay
program, sponsored by the
ner, author and a founder of which was held recently Sephardi Group
American Zionist Youth
Hagana died Monday at age after a bitter campaign:
Appoints Director
Foundation, in conjunction
87.
Labor (Mapai) — 534
NEW
YORK
—
Eli
Amir,
with the American Friends
Born Elihu Ginsburg, Gil- votes; General Zionists —
recently was appointed di- of Tel Aviv University, will
ner was a well-known con- 470; Herut — 379; Indepen-
rector of the American Se- be earning 15-18 college
tributor to the Anglo-Jew- dent Liberals — 293; Mizra-
phardi Federation. A writer credits.
chi
Hapoel-Mizrachi
—
192;
ish and Yiddish press in the
and journalist, Amir's work
In addition to the regular
U.S. and the author of sev- Bund — 178; and Mapam —
is included in school read- courses offered at any uni-
eral Yiddish plays. He also 81.
ers. He is known for his versity, such as those in psy-
The election results are
wrote autobiographical
pieces about his leadership seen as a victory for the writing on Israel's economic chology, sociology, world
policy and social structure politics and Hebrew, the
in protests against the Bri- General Zionists despite the
for the Israel Broadcasting students are able to select
fact
that
they
came
in
sec-
tish government during the
Authority's Arab language courses in the areas of Juda-
mandate period in the time ond in the voting. The Labor
program, and is an expert ism and the state of Israel
of Arab riots in pre-state Is- party spent large sums cam-
on
social problems in Israel._ and Middle East affairs.
paigning.
rael.