THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Deliberate with caution, but act with decision;, and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. 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 come to the source con- your For venience, we now offer a Gift Registry. Tapper's 26400 W. 12 Mile Rd. 12 Mile & North western Hwy . 357-5578 MALTER FURS IS HAVING THEIR 40th JANUARY FUR SALE 17 P ith 40% REDUCTIONS ON THE ENTIRE INVENTORY. THIS INCLUDES THEIR FINE COLLECTION OF DESIGNER COATS, CONTEMPORARY COATS. 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CONVENIENTLY LOCATED Visa Mastercharge - Open Mon. thru Sat. ti 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I LENOX GIFTWARE LUCITE 40% OFF Readers Forum) 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. OF HARVARD ROW NORTHWESTERN AT 12 MILE, SOUTHFIELD Phone 357-1121 Friday, January 4, 1960 41 I I Materials submitted to the Readers Forum must be brief. The writer's name will he withheld from publication upon request. No unsigned letters will be published. Materials will not be returned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. 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 WE SELL FOR LESS GOING SOUTH! • SEE OUR COLLECTION OF RESORT & CRUISE COORDINATES Kicumti L-Cfspca Advance Fashions Ltd. Nevi Orleans Mall 15600 W. 10 Mile Rd. at Greenfield Cei HOURS 10 - 5 Mon.-Sat. V 569-4030