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Cancer Expert Will Receive
Beth El Franklin Prize
Temple Beth El and
Wayne State University
will present the Leo M.
Franklin Award in Human
Relations to Dr. Vainutis K.
Vaitkevicius at a noon
luncheon Jan. 16 at the
Engineering Society of De-
troit.
Dr. Vaitkevicius is
chairman of the Depart-
ment of Oncology at the
Wayne State University
School of Medicine. He is
being cited for "his service
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to his patients, to his profes-
sion, to his university and to
his community."
A native of Lithuania, Dr.
Vaitkevicius joined the
WSU School of Medicine as
an assistant professor of
medicine in 1962 and was
named chairman of the De-
partment of Oncology at
Harper-Grace Hospitals.
He was president of the
American Association for
Cancer Education, is an
executive board member of
the Institute of Gerontology
of WSU and the University
of Michigan, and is a board
member of the American
Cancer Society, Wayne
County Unit.
He is also chairman of the
Council of Department
Chairman of the WSU
Wayne School of Medicine.
The Franklin Award in
Human Relations re-
places the annual
Franklin Memorial Lec-
ture that was established
in 1950. The award car-
ries a $1,000 prize and Dr.
Vaitkevicius is its third
recipient.
There is a charge for the
luncheon. For reservations,
by Monday, call Temple
Beth El, 851-1100.
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NORTHWESTERN AT 12 MILE, SOUTHFIELD
Phone 357-1121
Friday, January 4, 1960 41
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Protector of Human Rights
Editor, The Jewish News:
On Human Rights Day,
Dec. 10, the UN Association
of the U.S. urged that our
foreign policy be perma-
nently concerned with uni-
versal human rights and
called for Senate approval of
six measures designed to
enforce them — including
the Genocide Convention
ratified by 80 nations but
stalled in the Senate for 30
years.
Thiry-one years after the
adoption of the UN's Dec-
laration of Human Rights,
the majority of mankind
lives under regimes devoid
of respect for fundamental
human freedoms. The UN is
dominated by a coalition of
totalitarian regimes that
have suppressed human
rights and the rule of law
domestically while at the
same time pretending to
champion those very causes
in the international area.
What greater mockery
than Idi Amin's Uganda
being represented on the
UN Commission on Human
Rights?
The brutalization of
millions worldwide
breeds cynicism, despair,
increasing violence. The
stark truth is that the U.S.
has maintained military
relationships with gov-
ernments that grossly.
violated human rights.
We loaded Iran with bil-
lions in arms while the
Shah brutally repressed
dissidents. Merciless vio-
lations of human rights
persist in Saudi Arabia—
yet we supply tremen-
dous materiel and per-
sonnel to strengthen an
inhuman police state.
Israel, alone in the
Mideast, adheres to the
age-old principle that "he
who preserves the life of a
single person is deemed as if
he saved the entire uni-
verse." Even terrorists
guilty of massacres are not
executed! But Israel gets
cynically condemned even
by democracies. Such is the
power of petropolitics!
S. Norman Gourse
New York
Italians Angered by Appeal
for Nazi Serving in Prison
ROME (JTA) — The Sup- the Italian resistance
reme Military Court of movement.
Reder is incarcerated in
Rome has decided to allow
former SS Commander the Gaeta Military Prison
Walter Reder, the last sur- which housed Herbert Kap-
viving Nazi war criminal in pler, another Nazi war
an Italian prison, to appeal criminal responsible for the
Ardeatine Caves massacre
his life sentence, despite ex-
and the deportation of more
pressions of outrage and
protests from the families of than 1,000 Jews from Rome.
Kappler died last year after
his victims and others.
Reder was responsible for escaping from a prison hos-
pital.
ordering the deaths of more
than 3,000 civilians in the
Some Believe
towns of Marzabotto, Lucca
and Lunigiana in Sep-
Messiah Is Near
tember 1944.
JERUSALEM — Dreams
Last March, the military
by two rabbis of Israel's
court in La Spezia rejected
ultra-Orthodox community
Reder's appeal. But last
has some religious Jews be-
week the Rome tribunal
lieving that the Messiah
nullified that decision on
will come within the year.
grounds that the lower
Recently, 90-year-old
court "did not take into suf-
Rabbi Yisrael Abu Hatzeira
ficient account Reder's re-
dreamed he saw the Mes-
pentence for his deeds." It
siah born in a small house in
returned the appeal to the
his native Morocco. Later,
La Spezia court which will
Rabbi Mordecai Sarabi de-
have to decide whether
scribed a similar dream.
there are grounds for his re-
Rabbi Shabtai Shiloh,
lease.
who is said to have pre-
Reder was convicted in
dcicted the Yom Kippur
Bologna in 1951. Over the
War in 1973 from clues in
years, his lawyers have
the Bible, believes the
filed repeated appeals for
war of Gog and Magog
a commutation of sen-
will erupt soon.
tence. All of them failed,
According to tradition,
due mainly to the refusal
the Messiah will appear at
of the citizens of Mar-
the end of such a war, and
zabotto to see Reder go
some believe that a war in-
free.
volving Russia would fit
The townspeople are
this scenario.
standing firm against his
latest bid. "The gravity of Hapoalim Branch
the crimes committed by
TEL AVIV (JTA) -- The
Reder demands the fullest
Bank Hapoalim, one of Is-
severity of justice," they
rael's three largest banks,
maintain. The release of the
has opened a new branch
ex-Nazi, they say, would
office in Philadelphia, its
disgrace the memory of the
10th in North America.
martyrs and the values of
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