Project Renewal' Launched at Regional UJA Conference
The three-day United Jewish Appeal East Central Region conference, held here last
weekend at the Sheraton Southfield Hotel, assumed national significance.
Inaugurating "Project Renewal" as a major addendum to obligations to be fulfilled in
behalf of 40,000 impoverished families in Israel whose needs demand urgent immediate
action, the 300 delegates from scores of communities set into motion efforts to assure the
raising of the necessary funds to solve the problem that calls for immediate solution.
The East Central Region, composed of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, thus
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took the initiative, prior to the national launching of "Project Renewal," at the UJA
conference in New York in December, to launch the campaign in this part of the country.
Delegates from 47 cities in these four states, including representatives of the major
communities in Michigan, participated in the sessions.
Merle Harris, Joel Tauber and Mrs. Stuart (Edie) Mittenthal headed the or-
ganizing group that convened the conference and prominent national leaders
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VOL. LXXIV, No. 7 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30' Oct. 20, 1978
Israel Disputes UN's Version
of Lebanon Kidnap Incident
Progress for Peace
But No Quick Treaty
JERUSALEM (JTA) — While the Washington peace
talks do not face a crisis, there are still major outstanding
problems and therefore they are unlikely to be concluded
quickly — despite earlier more hasty prognoses. This is the
informed assessment in official Jerusalem after reports
from Washington were analyzed at a lengthy special
Cabinet session Tuesday evening.
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman had said Monday on
television, in a filmed report from Washington that the
Egyptian negotiators believed the talks could be over by
Wednesday. But now it seems clear that they will go on at
least another week.
One central issue still unresolved is that of "linkage"
between the Israel-Egypt treaty and progress on the West
Bank. The Israeli position is that there should not be a tight
linkage between the two. In other words, there should not
be a clause in the treaty with Egypt specifying linkage to
progress on the West Bank autonomy, so if that progress is
for some reason slowed or disrupted Egypt could claim
non-fulfillment of the treaty and suspend the normaliza-
tion clauses in return.
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At the same time, Israeli negotiators are aware that
Egypt needs some form of linkage between the treaty
with Israel and the eventual "comprehensive settle-
ment" between Israel and all the Arab states. Cairo
requires this to "protect its flank" from criticism by
Arab hardliners that she is abandoning — or even
betraying — the Palestinian cause.
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UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Secretary General Kurt Waldheim delivered a
"strong protest" to the Israeli government Tuesday over the presence of Israeli
military personnel during a demonstration by the Christian militia at the
headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in
Nakoura, South Lebanon, on Monday.
A UN spokesman told reporters that Waldheim's protest was conveyed to
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Yehuda Blum. He said that Blum was called to
discuss the matter with Undersecretary Brian Urquart. A statement issued on
behalf of Waldheim said that "the Secretary General takes a very serious view"
of the incidents.
According to the statement, all four Lebanese military personnel serving as
liaison with UNIFIL who were abducted during the demonstration have been
released. Two were released Monday and two others were released in Metulla,
Israel, early Tuesday.
It added, "The Secretary General is making a strong protest to the
government of Israel concerning the presence of Israeli military person-
nel during this violent interference in the working of the UN peacekeep-
ing operation and over the abduction of Lebanese army personnel serv-
ing in a liaison capacity with UNIFIL headquarters."
Waldheim issued another- statement Tuesday declaring that he attaches
"great importance to the efforts now being made in the meetings in Beirut of the
ministers of foreign affairs of some Arab countries in the overall context of the
Arab deterrent force. The Secretary General hopes that this meeting will find
ways to assist the Lebanese government and people to find peace and national
conciliation."
That meeting to end the fighting, however, accomplished little, according to
Lebanese observers. The ministers reviewed - "specific security arrangements,"
vowed to neutralize the Christian militias and threatened to use force if neces-
sary "to end collaboration between the Christians and Israel."
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American Scientists of Jewish Descent Are 1978 Nobel Laureates
NEW YORK — Three more Americans of Jewish descent have been awarded 1978
Nobel Prizes for their work in microbiology, economics and physics. Last week, Yiddish
author Isaac Bashevis Singer was named the Nobel Laureate in literature.
Dr. Daniel Nathans, 49, director of the microbiology department at Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine in Baltimore since 1972, is one of three scientists to share the 1978
Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Among Nathans' numerous distinctions as a scientist was his selection by the Ameri-
can Cancer Society in 1969 to be a scholar in the Department of Genetics at the Weiz-
mann Institute of Science in Israel.
nomics. Simon, 62, was cited by the Swedish Academy of Sciences "for his pioneering
research into the decision making process within economic organizations.
While primarily an economist, Simon, who has been affiliated with Carnegie-
Mellon since 1949, has been prominently associated with science theory, applied
mathematics, statistics, operation analysis and business administration. He was
not immediately available for a telephone interview, but Janet New, his secre-
tary at the university, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Simon is "not a
practicing Jew religiously" and that he "belongs to the Unitarian Church."
Reading from autobiographical material
in his office, Ms. New said the professor's
father was Arthur Simon, who emigrated
from Germany. His mother, Edna Merke, a
native of Missouri, was "a third generation
German" of the 1848 German emigration
wave, whose forebears came from Prague.
The passage in the material on her descent,
New reported, was followed by the name
Goldsmith and "Jewish" in parenthesis. Her
grandfather and the Nobel Prize winner's
great grandfather is identified in the au-
tobiographical material as Alexander
Goldsmith, "a civil war veteran" New said.
Whether on the union or confederate side
she was unable to say.
Dr. Arno Penzias, who as a child narrowly
Nathans, who is on the editorial
ards of two medical journals, and
Alas been a leader in research on biology
and virology for a generation, was
chairman of the American Cancer
Society committee on cell biology and
virology and on the advisory committee
of the National Cancer Institute's virus
cancer program. He was awarded the
Selman-Waksman Award for mic-
robiology in 1967 and is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sci-
ences. Dr. and Mrs. Nathans are mem-
bers of Temple Emanuel in Baltimore.
Prof. Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie-
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, whose
forebears, including a civil war soldier, were
Jewish, won the 1978 Nobel Prize for eco-
DANIEL NATHANS
HERBERT SIMON
ARNO PENZIAS
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