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Protests Punctuate World Palestinian Solidarity Day WASHINGTON (JTA) — $500,000 the United Na- The United States described tions is spending for what is "International Day of Sol- in effect a glorification of idarity with the Palestinian the Palestine Liberation People" as "confrontational, Organization. one-sided and not helpful in Carter said that the the quest for a just regional Congress, by amendment settlement of the Arab- to the State Department's Israel conflict." authorization bill, had The State Department's requested President Car- chief spokesman, Hodding ter to instruct Andrew Carter, gave the Adminis- Young, United States tration's views at a news Ambassador to the UN, to briefing after questions had oppose the continuation again been raised by a re- of both the UN special porter as to when the U.S. unit and the committee. would speak out against the The legislation, he program Nov. 29 and also pointed out, also asked the about the Administration's President, "to use all means continued silence regarding at his disposal to obtain ac- the written pi'otests by 28 tion by the General Assem- Senators against the U.S. bly to terminate" the com- payment of $190,000 of the mittee and the special unit. "We have been doing pre- cisely that," Carter said. Similar views were ex- of pressed to Rep. William Brodhead (D-Mich.) when he objected to the U.S. fund- ing for the Nov. 29 activi- ties. The British Foreign Office gave a similar view to the Board of Deputies of British Jews, saying that Britain opposed the activi- ties but would not cut its UN commitment. SPITZER'S Harvard Row PRE HANUKA SPECIALS :RUMMI GAMES; Reg, x,9.95 co‘P•V $895 s'Oe I RAQUELA A Woman of Israel A ( , s`` $ 795 by Ruth Gruber 1 By DR. MILTON STEINHARDT I .t0 Reg. $10.95 is ow am Ns NE ---owes--- ow av an am Shop Early For Hanuka SPITZERS Hebrew Book & Gift Center 11 Mile & Lahser, Southfield Harvard Row 356- Open All Day Sunday Ambassador to the UN, re- sponding to a reporter's question on Solidarity Day, said: "The glorification by the UN of a terrorist organ- ization bent on the destruc- tion of a member state of the UN is not only a grave breach of the UN's own charter. It is also a grave in- sult to the memory of the murdered athletes of Munich, of the murdered school children of Maalot and of the countless victims of these criminal elements in Israel and the world over. "The UN has never had an international day of sol- idarity with the victims of terrorism. Yet is has seen fit to celebrate its solidarity al Two conflicting tenden- cies in the development of therapy for physical and mental illness are well illustrated in "The Origins of the Healing Art — a Psycho-Evolutionary Ap- proach to the History of Medicine," by Dr. Irving I. Edgar (Philosophical Li- brary Inc.). The first set of char- acteristics is represented in the early phase of medical history, such as: Stubborn dependence upon authority, the superstitious, and supernatural; the other set by the steadfast pursuit of truth with no regard to the consequences. The author details the first phase that presumes that illness is caused by evil spirits, witchcraft, human sins, anger of the gods, and the consequent resorting to therapeutic measures as exorcism, amulets, incanta- tion, magic numbers, plants, and parts of animals and humans. That such magical thinking was not inno- cent is illustrated by an event in the year 1348 in Strassburg during the Black Plague: A Jewish doctor named Balavignus urged the ghetto dwellers to keep their bodies clean, burn the refuse, and remove the buc- kets from the wells. This diminished the rat popula- tion that spread the disease. Levolor Riviera: Only Levolor lets you choose from more than - 150 colors. ALL VERTICAL BLINDS . wich the terrorists them- selves." Some 2,000 people, most of them students, massed in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza opposite the UN headquar- ters to protest Solidarity Day in a demonstration or- ganized by the North American Jewish Students Network. They denounced the PLO and carried signs reading "Israel Wants Peace — The PLO Wants Is- rael," and "Jewish Blood is not Cheap." At the Isaiah Wall, four blocks away, about 150 American Palestinians and their supporters, many dressed in tradi- tional Arab headgarb, marched in support of the PLO. They handed pamphlets to passers-by denouncing the Camp David accords and cal- ling for rallies in major American cities to pro- test "Zionist settlers col- onialism." The pro-PLO rally was sponsored by the Organiza- tion of Arab Students in the U.S. and Canada. The UN events on behalf of the Palestinians included Healing Arts Tied to Jewish Law 16 • =M IN • MB - MI NM OM NM MI • UM MN OM NM MN NM BM The Best Seller A number of Jewish groups in the U.S. pro- tested the Arab celebra- tion. A delegation of Bnai Brith leaders met with Ambassador James Leonard of the U.S. Mis- sion at the UN. Other pro- tests were made by Bnai Zion, the fraternal group, and Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the Ameri- can section of the World Zionist Organization. Yehuda Blum , Israel's INCOM;NG FREIGHT ADDED ISACIMIC dig. WALLPAPER INSTALLATION AVAILABLE PAINT 542-3315 23061 COOLIDGE HWY., OAK PARK, AT 9 MI. As a result, the number of deaths among the Jews was only five percent of the population. A vicious rumor spread that Jews poisoned the wells. This was followed by the torture of the Jewish physician and the massacre of thousands. A memorial honoring the victims of this superstition is presently lo- cated in Strassburg. The positive aspect of human endeavor is shown by the author as exemplified in leprosy quarantine, and especially in the Jewish observance of "kashrut", rules for sex hygiene and the general precept that "cleanliness is next to godliness." The struggle between the arrogance and in- tolerance of the. estab- lished authority and sci- entific research contin- ued to hamper such pioneers as Harvey, Lis- ter, Virchow, and Semelweiss. (The latter fought the bigotry of the medical die-hards, suf- fered the arrows of ridicule and humiliation before his ideas of Puer- pural Sepsis were ac- knowledged.) The section on the Origin and Development of Shock Therapy was most interest- ing and excellent in pre- sentation. Dr. Edgar completes his book with essays on psy- chology, literature, reli- gion, and law — offering stimulating and challeng- ing ideas. The section on Maimonides is a very con- cise analysis of the contri- butions of this great Jewish physician and scholar whose credo is now a model for graduating physicians, replacing the Hippocratic Oath. an exhibition of Palestinian posters, screening a PLO- produced film and speeches by the members of various delegations participating in Solidarity Day and by Sec- retary General Kurt Wal- dheim. Meanwhile, Nov. 29 was used by Jordanian Televi- sion to air a videotape of a controversial Israeli pro- gram aired earlier this year. The film, "Hirbet Hiza," is an adaptation a play by S. Yizhar the expulsion of Arab-v.L.- lagers by Israelis during the 1948 war. Although purely fictitious, the Jor- danian broadcasters have termed the film a documentary account about "occupied Arabs" suffering at the hands of Israeli soldiers. "I can only regret that the film is being used by the Jordanians for propaganda purposes," Yizhar said. 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