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NEWS I

Eban Excluded From
Labor Party List

Jerusalem (JTA) — There
was a stunning surprise in
the Knesset election list pro-
duced by the Labor. Party —
the omission of one of its best-
known and revered members,
Abba Eban, who was left off
the list because of the party's
apparent striving for a fresh
image, reflected by new faces
and young blood.
Eban, former foreign min-
ister, elder statesman and
current chair of the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense

He is followed by Defense
Minister Yitzhak Rabin;
Education Minister Yitzhak
Navon, a former president of
Israel; Histadrut Secretary-
General Yisrael Kessar;
Knesset Speaker Shlomo
Hillel; Uzi Baram, secretary-
general of the Labor Party;
and Ezer Weizman, a
minister without portfolio
who heads the Yahad faction,
now part of Labor.

Congratulations

New York — The American
Jewish Committee sent con-
gratulations to the two
Americans who have just
been appointed to the College
of Cardinals, noting that both
had been active in building
relations between Roman
Catholics and Jews.
The two are
Archbishop James A. Hickey
of Washington, D.C., and Ar-
chbishop Edmund C. Szoka of
Detroit.

Remember the
11th Commandment:

"And Thou
Shalt be
Informed"

'1 OBITUARIES I

Barney Gordon

Abba Eban:
Humiliating rejection.

Committee, failed to win a
place on the first batch of 10
candidates chosen last week
by the party's 1,260-member
Central Committee, which
met at Efal, near Aviv.
He was defeated for a spot
on the second batch of 10 and
refused to stand for the third
batch, whose election to the
Knesset is problematic.
It was a humiliating rejec-
tion of Eban, whom many
Jews consider to have been
Israel's most eloquent spokes-
man when he served as its
ambassador to Washington
and to the United Nations.
Eban is a political dove. But
according to party insiders,
his elimination from the elec-
tion list was due to other fac-
tors, such as his frequent
absences abroad, his detach-
ment from party affairs and
probably most important, his
age, which is 73.
The first seven candidates
constitute Labor's top leader-
ship, whose spots were
guaranteed by election rules,
not by the Central Commit-
tee. They can be certain of
election. The ticket is headed
by Shimon Peres, currently
foreign minister, who would
be premier in a Labor-led
government.

Barney Gordon, owner of
the American Supply Co. in
Highland Park, died June 21
at age 80.
Born in New York, Mr. Gor-
don lived 47 years in Detroit.
He was a member of the Yale
Alumni Association, the
Detroit Power Squadron, the
Moslem Shrine and Tuebor
Lodge of the Masons.
He leaves his wife, Paula; a
son, Arnold M.; three
daughters, Mrs. Jerry
(Marilyn) Levy of Atlanta,
Ga., Mrs. Edward (Esta)
Bloom and Mrs. Leo (Corrine)
Egan of Erie, Pa.; two
brothers, Mac of Warwick,
RI., and William of Miami
Beach, Fla.; 14 grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren.

Cyril Silver

Cyril Silver, an accountant
with the firm of Kellman,
Rosenbaum and Levitsky,
died June 19 at age 63.
Born in Poland, Mr. Silver
was a certified general ac-
countant and a chartered ac-
countant in Canada.
He leaves his wife, Adele; a
daughter, Mrs. Manny (San-
dra) Glazier; a son, Neil; his
father, Berek Selber of Wind-
sor, Ont.; two sisters, Mrs.
Fred (Rose) Stein and Mrs. Al
(Anne) Markowitz of Pitt-
sburgh, Pa.; a brother, Sam;
and two grandsons.

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