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VOL. LXIX, No. 19
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July 16, 1976
International Blackmail Threats
*Unopposed by Security Council
Lovely Miss Israel Wins
World Beauty Contest
NEW YORK (JTA) — Miss Israel, a 22-year-old Tel Aviv Uni-
versity student, won the 1976 Miss Universe crown Saturday
night. The contest in Hong Kong was televised live over CBS
television.
The new Miss Universe is Rina Messinger, a former sergeant
in Israel's Women's Army Corps who is studying aerodynamics.
The brown-haired beauty said she wants to design airplanes.
During the contest, Miss Ni,ssinger was asked what country
she would like to visic and replied, "I would like to go to an Arab
country. But I can't, so I would like to go to Africa." Miss Messin-
ger listed her hobbies as ballet dancing and glider flying.
Contest officials disclosed that they are working on spe-
cial security arrangements
for Miss Messinger, al-
though she insisted that
they would be "no more, no
less" than for earlier con-
test winners. The officials
were concerned about pro-
Palestinian terrorists creat-
ing an incident during her
travels on four continents.
The new Miss Universe
began a world tour Sunday
which includes Thailand,
Australia, Columbia, Japan
and the United States. Asked
if she was concerned for her
safety during her travels, the
blue-eyed brunette stated,
"No. I don't have to worry
about it; I'm not a politician.
I'm going to have a wonderful
year."
MISS UNIVERSE
Miss Messinger plans to
visit her home in Israel after
her world tour and then live
in New York during her reign
as Miss Universe.
Head-on collision between the democratic nations and the Soviet-Arab-Third World bloc at the
UN Security Council spelled calamity for efforts to end international terrorism. While the U.S.-Bri-
tish sponsored resolution to outlaw terrorism collapsed under attack from the pro-Arab-terrorist
forces, the democratic nations declared their determination to press for action to end blackmail, ter-
rorism, hijacking and distortion.
Israel charged in the Security Council that Uganda was "applying the threat of blackmail to
foreign nationals" on its soil in an attempt to influence the debate on the Israeli commando raid that
freed hijacked hostages.
Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog was alluding to a statement made in a broadcast by
Uganda's President Idi Amin that "big mouths talking on behalf of the Israelis, such as the
British, will pay very heavily." There are estimated to be 500 Britons in Uganda.
During the debate Herzog asked, "If there was no connivance, where are the other terrorists?
What has happened to the two or three survivors of the rescue operation at the Entebbe airport?
"Why have they not been apprehended and produced in accordance with the Hague Convention of
1970."
In his speech, Herzog noted that the Soviet delegate, Mikhall A. Kharlamov, talked this week
"about aggression, inviolability of territorial integrity and national sovereignty. I defer to him, having
regard to the Soviet Union's very considerable record in these respects in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia
and in other countries in Eastern Europe," Herzog declared. "My distinguished colleague from China
could doubtless elabor-
ate on this subject."
The United States
LONDON (JTA) — A call to the British government to insist that Uganda
vigorously defended
hand over the remains of Mrs. Dora Bloch was made Tuesday by the Board of
and hailed the Israeli
Deputies of British Jews.
rescue
raid in Uganda
In a message to Anthony Crosland, the British Foreign Secretary, the board
and described it as
urged the government "to continue to press not
"one of the most re-
only to bring her assassins to justice but to insist
markable rescue mis-
that the _remains of Mrs. Dora Bloch be handed
over for decent burial beside her late husband."
sions in history, a
The Nairobi newspaper, the Kenya Nation
combination of guts
and Joe Rodriguez, its managing editor, said
and brains that has
that a Ugandan claimed to have seen the body in
seldom if ever been
a forest 11 miles from Kampala.
surpassed."
It was in one of three places outside the Ugan-
U.S. Ambassador to
dan capital where people are shot or bodies
the United Nations,
dumped and where families go to search for miss-
William W. Scranton,
ing relatives. The Ugandan, who had gone there
with a party of soldiers, had seen the body of a
told the Security Council
white woman, burnt except for its right hand and a
that the Israeli rescue
leg, which was ulcerated.
operation "electrified
Another report claimed that Mrs. Bloch was
millions everywhere,
abducted from the hospital by soldiers accompany-
and I confess I was one
ing the Ugandan soldiers wounded in the Entebbe
of them." Scranton said
raid.
that the Israeli raid was
British Demand Victim's Return
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MRS. DORA BLOCH
Oldest Agency
Observes 75th
6,000 Canadians and Athletes
Attend Solemn Memorial Rites
Fresh Air Society, Detroit Jewry's old-
est community agency, will mark its 75th
year at an anniversary dinner at the Jewish
ommunity Center on Nov. 6.
Numerous functions commemorating
e occasion will assist in tracing
etroit Jewry's important historic
evelopments, according to Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Weiner, who have been named co-
chairman of the committee planning the
anniversary celebration.
MONTREAL (JTA) — Thousands of Canadians and representatives from nu-
merous Olympic teams participated in a solemn memorial service Monday night for
the 11 members of the 1972 Israeli Olympic team who were slain by terrorists in
Munich four years ago. Some 1,800 persons filled the sanctuary of the Shaare Hash-
omayim Synagogue and about 4,000 more persons watched the ceremony on closed-
circuit television inside the building.
(A special Detroit memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Sunday, July 25,
at Cong. Bnai David. There will be a candle-lighting service and a special guest
speaker. Details will be announced in The Jewish News•next week.)
More than 100 Canadian officials, including Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Tru-
deau and six Provincial Premiers lent their names to the Montreal memorial service
project which was co-sponsored by various Jewish organizations throughout the
country after Israeli Olympic officials failed in an effort to have the International
Olympic Committee sponsor a memorial observance as part of the program for the
Montreal games.
Trudeau, who was accompanied to the ceremony by six other federal cabinet
members, read a psalm which he delivered in French and English. In a spontaneous
display of emotion at the conclusion of the memorial service, one of the widows of
the slain Israeli athletes presented Trudeau with an Israeli medal.
Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, the chairman of the memorial service, told the audi-
ence: "The spirit of Munich still roams the world. The time is passed for mouthing
pious words. Unless there is an answer that comes from the nations of the world,
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Fresh Air Society preceded the found-
ing of its present parent organizational
body, the Jewish Welfare Federation, by
24 years. The Federation observed its 50th
anniversary last year.
In the process of planning the Fresh Air
Society's 75th anniversary, the committee is
gathering lists of campers and counselors as
well as photographs depicting camp activi-
ties that began in 1902 on a site near Mount
Clemens.
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Democrats See
Israel Support
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish delegates
to the Democratic National Convention at
Madison Square Garden appear to feel that
their party will emerge with an election plat-
form that is strong on issues of concern to
American Jews, especially support of Israel.
While most Jewish delegates were
pledged to candidates other than Jimmy
Carter many were expected to approve the
former Georgia governor as the Democrats'
candidate for the Presidency. "We don't have
much choice," one delegate quipped.
In this the Jewish delegates echo the po-
sition of'non-Jews who supported other can-
didates. Candidates like Sen. Henry M. Jack-
son of Washington, Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota and Rep. Morris
Udall of Arizona who had strong Jewish sup-
port have all announced their endorsement
of Carter.
Rep. James H. Scheuer, who repre-
sents a district in Brooklyn and Queens,
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