32 Friday, June 10, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS AMI. ■ ,5r Israel to Sell Millions in Arms This Year, IAI President Says Hawlettugaglo Clothier PARIS (JTA)—Israel will export half a billion dollars worth of aircraft missiles and arms systems this year, Al Schwimmer, presi- dent of Israel Aircraft In- dustires (IAI) said. He said that as far as Kfir sales abroad were con- cerned "we have not yet re- ceived a reply from the United States government" to which a list of prospec- tive client states has been sent." Israel sent the list some three weeks ago after the U.S. opposed the sale of the Kfir to Latin American countries. The Kfir is an Is- raeli-made fighter-bomber equipped with American General Electric engines. IAI is one of the 14 Israeli companies attending the In- ternational Air Show at Le Bourget Airfield. Israel is showing its new supersonic Kfir jet, a new model of the short take-off-and-landing (STOL) Arava commercial jet and a large display of missiles and arms systems. Schwimmer told a press conference that Israeli ex- ports have soared from $230 million in 1975 to $500 mil- lion expected during the cur- rent fiscal year. He said half the production is sold abroad and half to Israeli forces. Schwimmer revealed that Israel is currently working on a combat helicopter with anti-armor possibilities. He said IAI and its affiliated firms were also working on a follow-up to the "Ga- briel" missile. Israel is showing an air- borne digital computer for navigation and multimode weapon delivery, a new at- tack indicator and warning system and a complete weapon delivery simulator that trains pilots in various attack methods. 126 S. Woodward, Birmingham Mon., Tues., Wed., Sat. 10-6 . Thurs. & Fri. 10-9 FOR THE ULTIMATE IN FASHION-RIGHT FORMALWEAR RENTALS & SALES Celebrate the occasion with a fresh ap- proach to formalwear. Featuring an exten- sive selection. The newest styles and colors. 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TaMaROFF BUICK- OPEL Telegraph Road just south of 12 Mile / opposite Tel-Twelve Mall We lease all makes and models. Phone 353 1300 - Foreign experts are show- ing a keen interest in the "Shafrir air-to-air missile system known for its kill ratio of some 60 percent, possibly the highest in the world. The "David," a field artillery computer designed to perform all calculations at battery level, is also a big attraction at the Air Show which is attended by viewers from 100 countries including most of the big aeronautical manufac- turers. Irgun Didn't Plan Rebellion: Begin TEL AVIV, (JTA—Likud leader Menahem Begin has sworn that the 900 Irgun vol- unteers who tried to land a shipload of arms on the Tel Aviv beach 29 years ago today were not planning a putsch to overthrow the fledgling government of Pre- mier David Ben-Gurion. Begin made that state- ment at a memorial service last Friday for the 16 volun- teers who lost their lives when Israeli forces shelled the vessel, the Altelena, set- ting the former American landing craft afire. At the gravesite, Begin, who headed the under- ground fighting group Irgun Zvai Leumi during the pre- state period, said, "Stand- ing here among the graves of 16 that fell at the hands of Cain, Iswear to the na- tion here and to the Dia- spora, to the older gener- ation and to the young, that the hands of these fallen men were clean and their souls were clean. There was never any intention to take over the country." Begin said that he was told by a leading Labor Party figure some years ago that Ben-Gurion had been misled into believing that the Irgun was planning a putsch and therefore had ordered the shelling of the Altelena. Mrs. Rabin Pays Fine for Violation TEL AVIV (JTA)—Mrs. Leah Rabin appeared in Dis- trict Court in Tel Aviv to pay the IL 250,000 fine im- posed on her for retaining a bank account in the United States in violation of Is- rael's currency laws. The wife of Premier Yitz- hak Rabin made the pay- ment by personal check one day before the deadline set by the judge was due to ex- pire. She was accompanied by her lawyer, Shimon Alex- androni. Disclosure of the joint ac- count in a Washington, D.C. bank which the Premier and Mrs. Rabin had failed to close when Rabin's term as Ambassador to the U.S. ended four years ago precip- itated Rabin's resignation as leader of the Labor Party. Mrs. Rabin was found guilty of the violation. The premier was not charged. ° Boris Smolar's 'Between You ... and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1 977, JTA, Inc.) AJPA ANNIVERSARY:The American Jewish Press Asso- ciation—the central body of the English-Jewish press in this country and Canada—is observing the 35th year of its existence, at its annual meeting in Denver. Today, the English-Jewish publications are on a much higher level than they were 35 years ago. The local week- ly-whether published by a private publisher or financed by the local Jewish Federation—is today truly a servant of the local Jewish community. It serves the community in many aspects. It reflects local Jewish communal life. The value of the English-Jewish press to the local com- munity is best proven by the fact that more and more corn munities are developing community-financed newspapei in cities where no such organs can exist as a private enter- prise. At the same time the privately-owned newspapers can point with pride to the role they play in their commu- nities and the influence they enjoy there. This is especially true with regard to the Detroit Jewish News, the Jewish Floridian in Miami. the Intermountain Jewish News in Denver, the Sentinel in Chicago, the Jewish Advocate in Boston, the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Her- ald-Voice in Houston, Texas, the Texas Jewish Post in Dallas. It is also true with regard to Herb Brin's pub- lications in California, the Bnai Brith Messenger in Los An- geles, the Ohio Jewish Chronicle in Columbus, the Jewish Ledger in Connecticut, the Baltimore Jewish Times, the American Jewish World in Minneapolis, and a number of other weeklies in the private sector. BIRTH AND GROWTH: Long before the American Jew- ish Press Association was founded, I was wondering why such a central organ did not exist in the field of Jewish journalism as it did in the field of the general press in this country. Then Gabriel Cohen, the editor and publisher of the Jew- ish Post and Opinion—always sensitive to Jewish issues and carrying thought-provoking editorials on national com- munal affairs—came out 35 years ago with an editorial sug- gesting the creation of an American Association of Eng- lish-Jewish Newspapers. He did not leave this suggestion hanging in the air. He followed it up by taking the initiative to arrange a confer- ence of editors and publishers from all over the country in Indianapolis, his home town. The two-day gathering was extremely well attended and I was greatly impressed with the spirit which prevailed there—I was invited as a guest speaker. It was obvious that the formation of such an or- ganization was long overdue. Birth was given at this conference to the English-Jewish Press Association with Dr. Joseph Brin, the late editor of the Boston Advocate, becoming its first president. The re- markable thing, however, was that the association refused to admit Gabe Cohen, its creator, into membership on the ground that his paper sought national circulation, thereby competing with local English-Jewish weeklies in a number of cities where it maintained branches and was even sold on newsstands. The injustice was corrected years later. The association went from strength to strength during the years when Philip Slomovitz, the veteran Jewish editor and publisher of the Jewish News in Detroit, served as its president. It attracted attention of all major national Jew- ish organizations in New York. It also attracted attention in Washington, President Truman received a delegation of the association and President Ford addressed the mem- bers of the association shortly before the Presidential elec- tions last year. The present president of the association, Robert A. Cohn— the editor of the St. Louis Jewish Light—has played no small role in strengthening the prestige of the association. Other presidents of- the Association during the 35 years of its existence included Irving Rhodes, the late publisher of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle; Adolph Rose- nberg, the late editor of the Southern Israelite, Atlanta, Ga.; Joseph. Weisberg, editor of the Boston Jewish Adv cate; Morris Janoff, editor and publisher of the Jewish Standard, Jersey City; and Jimmy Winch, editor and pub- lisher of the Texas Jewish Post, Dallas. . REFLECTIONS IN NEW YORK: The American Jewish weeklies are being read not only locally in the cities where they are being published but also in the headquarters of the national Jewish organizations in New York. American Jewish leadership expects these publications to serve not only their local communities but also the causes of the wider Jewish community. They watch the ex- tent to which the local weeklies are educating their read- ers to understand more profoundly what is going on in Jew : ish communal life in this country; especially whether they are giving the readers an insight into the thinking that makes the American Jewish community—the largest in the world—function efficiently and effectively.