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^-^bfi^S -q^TH 'S. 2I8T •¦'/Tt Servina CelumbuS;^*Centrar and Sotithwfe^tern Ohio \WK VOL. 47 NO. 33 AUGUST. 14, 2969-30 A\^ / ^i I JLC Appecils To Soviet Writers New York, N.Y. - lii an appeal initiated by the Jewish Labor Committee, an atganiz^icn rejiresenting moore tlian 500,000 J6WS in American trade unions, niore tiian 30 jprmninent American writers, university prcfessoriS, and artists iiave called en the Soviet Writers' Union to telp in the restoration dC Jewish cultural treedom in tiieir countiy. This acpeal is being circulated on the occasional tin 17th Anniversary d the murdeir of 24 leading Soviet Jewish writers, intellectuals and artists on August 12, 19^2, by Stalin's secr^police. Among them ~ Beigelson, Feffer, Zuskin, NussincfL The document charged, "Qiacial Soviet practice still perpetuates the oppressive pdUc^^s widch deprive Jews d any continuity with their past and any h<9eofafMure. Alone among the multitude of Soviet nattaoalily and reli-.. tdoaa groups, Jews are singl¬ ed dut for discrimination, hostility and d^radaUon." "Now", tlie statement con- . tinues, "tbe Soviet position on the Middle East has har¬ dened tiie campaign d anti- Semltlsm still more^ and " threatens to completely era- dcate an entire culture." Ih their appeal the signa- tors vxeed m Soviet Wrtt- . ets\. Untion "to' assume a ,morat;.burden en .behalf d^-MdfM'i^m^'^y/srr^'^ the BJtfeiSt'JeW^ottlir&oviM^lttiiifi^ Union." The Soviet Writers' . Union was asl^ to mobilize its inftuehce for ithe restoira- tioii d Jewish schools, pnb- ligMng facilities, periodi¬ cals, titeatres and social clubs. '¦. ,,;^ '. _ / ;¦¦¦ ¦ Those iriio-signed tiie ap¬ peal were: Coiu^ Aiten, paniel Bell, Saul Bellow, Theodore Bflcel, Claude Browiv Noam ChomisIiyf'Ba- liette Oeutsch, James Didcey, Ralph Elllsan, GerddFranl^ ¦Ell Ginzberg,Nathan Caaicr, , Herbert Gold, Michael 4lar- rington, Nat Heintofl; Gran? TiUe Hides, Milton HhidUs, Sidbey Hook, Jryj^ Howe, H. Stuart Hughes, Elia Ka¬ zan, Milton R. Kcnyitz, Nor¬ man Mailer, Ashley Montagu^ Robert Motherwell, Howard Nemerov,' Bamett Newman, Kemieth Patchen, Leo Ros- teiviManrice JSamuel, Theo- ^x^Sdatardt^ Rex Stout, ' Wlilliam: Siyn^ 'wAk Observe Ceiii^MFif^' ^ U Thant Pleol , UNITED NATIONS (JTA) -- iSecretaiy General UThant, in a report to the Security Council oil the death last weds of a' United Nations cease-Qre ob^rrer at the Suez Camd, re¬ iterated Ms past pleas to the parties to obf^erve tlie cease¬ fire. He did not, however, indtcatethathe was contemplating asldng the Council to withdrawr the cease-fire obseirvatioa mission. He termed the death d 'Ma]or Bo Roland Plane of Swe'den a"dramaticsymp- ton of the breakdown cfthe cease-fire" and warned that this breakdown threatened not ody Middle East region¬ al and world peace but risk¬ ed settbig a precedent tliat would Jeopardize the 20- year-old UN peace observ- -ation operations wiiichhave been in force pn tiie^world. The reporjt included in great detail the flndings oC a UN Truce Supervision Or¬ gan! zation Investigatinb board d the circumstances surroundliig the death of Ma¬ jor Plane, who^ it said, had been strode by sfarapnelfirom an artilleiy shell that landed in tiie street dhrectly out¬ side a window of his obser¬ vation post The report did not, however, place blame on Israel for his death, thijugh it faidicated that there had been a lull "in Israeli fir- ii^' just before Major Plane headed toward the window and that Israeli firfaig con¬ tinued after Israel had been notified d his death. Mr. Thant said that "dur¬ ing the Vecent escalation of firing... each of the parties has accused the other d floutii^the decisions of ttie Security CouncU. Without passing Judgement on their respecUye positions, I can only note tlut both parties, Hliatever tlielr reasons may • be, have been violating the .. .cease-ficc, with the result that the situation in tbe Suez Canai sector has greatly de- terionated' and a United Na- tiioas mil^aiy observer has died.'' fiillds extensive re¬ port tte Secretary General afpealed; "once again that the inenviers tfthe Security Council,: both individually and ccdUcctiv^ly, to do aU within their power to influ¬ ence evoits in a new-and constructive direction. He also said tiiat "tlie ab-. sence ofthbij^i^mentaUorf' ottiie Securii^liUvmcU'sre-. solutian d tit(f^^}^m7"iB one <tf tlie fat^is whiidi tbnds to Increase tiie'incideiioe of cease-fire violations not only in the Suez Canal sect¬ or but also in other sectors ¦> of the Middle East."' IsraeU Ambassador Vosef Tekoah said that tbe Thant report "fails to remind the world that tbe deterioration d tbe situation in the Canal sector iias been b r ought about 1^ the otpen disavowal by the United Arab RepubUc of the cease-fire. EJgypf s pubUcIy-procialmed pcdicy d undenratning tfie cease¬ fire and pursuing armed at¬ tacks against jtlie Israeli forces .is the cause of the: present Evidence d which Mi^or Ilane was the victim. No irepdrt on the situation is .adequate if tt omits the UAB's responsibiUty for tin increased tension along the Suez CanaL The report does draw attention to the fact that.'UARhniiitaiy positians Local Reporter Goes OnVjA Israel Missibh Mr. Edward ScU^siner, presidrat of the UJFC, re¬ ported that Stan Wyman, wen known staff repwter o^ the . Columbus Citizen-Journal, is now in Israel reportingoh his (d»ervations; in dally re¬ leases, in the local news- paper.'V , ¦ Mr. Wyman wais selected' ¦ by theotficialsotthe'citizen- Joiimal to participate in a United Jewisii Appeal News- paperineii's Sfaidy Mission. A similar Study Mission tobk idace last year in wlitcfa the Colunibus Dispatch soit a reporter. . Mr. Wyman Is a IdgWy. trifled and experienced reportor with 20 years of newspaper work and' wiite newspapo: reporting ex- p^ieBeg^ haviiiig been asso^ elated With thQ following newspeg^s; Lima News, New York Post, BrooUlyn Eagle, Aihur^iaerque Joor- nal, Casper (Wyoming) Tri¬ bune-Herald, and the Grand Junction (Gplorado)SaiUiiel. - Currently Iw, serves' as a political repoiW covering city h^U activities. f) Thiis, misMaDf Mr« Sdde- ; 'zii«;^;:.6t{tod,il.s.-apt a .f^j^ .keb'''''1|t;':is%;8*iou8;tiEto«i* " ^n!i<tl^pl_:;8;grt»)p^;i^ ;sil>ie^^^wspap(>f1^^ '.' ten from Vart isee, h^ ahd report ibe stnry of Israel todaqr as ti^. viiBW it. We think, be stated, tint tiie story that they will find is one of ireal Importance to aU Amoricans, not Just to American Jews. Two years . after tile June War, tiiere is no peace in the Middle East situation, witlKNit even tlie Armistice ajgreement that existed in May, 1967, re¬ mains. The ndssion person¬ nel will be given a (UUoP- portunity, we liave been t(dd ty UJA, to see and ledm about israel in its present state pf "no war but no, peace." Press conferences WiU be held wifli top.lsraeli government figures including Primei MIMster Golda Meir, Deputy PrimeMUdster,AlMi M«iyar, Teddy KoUdc of Je-. rusalem and others. . The Unitedi Jewish Appeal is a major'blfibfi^iaiyVoiCthe UIFC, ,. „ are situated' in 'the nearby vicinity* of tbe observation post in wUch Major Plane was UUed. "In fact M^ Plane was Ut by fragments of a sheU which exploded sho]^ d these UAR posi¬ tions, tt will be recaUed that, as reported ty the Sec¬ retary (jeneral in the pasi^ the UAR authorities reftised to remove tiwir mUitaiypo- siUons firam the inunediate proadmity d UN observation posts," the envoy said. "We dso.aded thatthe Secretaiy-General's; report indicates that irom June 1, to July 29,1969, there were 74 instances of firing at or near UN posts or personnel ly UAR forces and oOty 15 such instances of firing by IsraeU forces. Thishasbeen the ease despite the factthat the . IsraeU forces do not maintain milltaiy positions (Continued on Page 4) U.S Ending Israeli Research; Money Goes To Arab Refugees WASHINGTON'(WNS)-'State Department officials have on administration, admowledsed that-the IftiBed States is slowty endii« its The decision by the State soKkirt ,fo«r ainde range d research projects inlsiraeU Deparfiment and AlDtophase universities aiadre-approi>riatii« the funds asthe American "* ^ ^-^ research in Is- share of contjtibutions|pthBUnitedNationsReUef and Works ^^^ financed under Public Agency td aid to-Arab^refugees. Widle political impiicaticns have, so far, not been drawn by Senators and Congress¬ men, it was noted tbat tlie Nixon .administration's de¬ cision waS'-niade wldle the State itepartment has just asked for laige newappro- jpriaUons for Arab univer¬ sities in tie autliorizaUan Mil'for foreign aid now be¬ fore Congreas. Specific regueWcaUfor $9.05 mHUon foHhe Ameri¬ can IMversity at Beirut to help pay salaries for faculty members wboreportedtyin- cjbide. many anti-Amc»rIcan aid pro-F at ah "teadiers. Anotiier new r^uest is for $200,000 for tiie American. University in Cairo. M,Jadditian, the Agency for mtemational Develop¬ ment is asking $1 miUlon eqidvalent in Egyptian cur¬ rency from counterpart fimds for the Cairo Univer=' sity. AID has refiised to aUocate counterpart fimds. sought by Hadassah, the Wo- metfs Zionist Organization of America, to improve its medical school at Hebrew university. Tiie Johnson Administra¬ tion last January transmitt¬ ed to Congress a bu%et amendment for fiscal 1970 "in the amouitf of $3 milUon for f^ilities for gradiidite stodents from developing countries at Vbe Weizmann Institute" but tids request was not' siQiported by tbe Budget Bureau in its latest recommendations tothe Nix- The Wo*ld':s5^iii Law 480 counterpart fimds wiU tie completed in fiscal 1973. Ah estbnated $7-^ miUion per year in such funds was being diverted to UNRWA from hundreds o( research projects .linked with the US, urbaq crisis- including education of the disadvantage^ nutrition for the poor, water pdUutioi^ air contamination and cancer research. / The canceUed American ^" ftmds are being diverted to "UNRWA to pay Arab camp salaries and for purciiase of food firom abroad fbr the refugees. A number of Government agencies are conceirned about tbe phase-out in addition to an estimated 1,200 Israeli scientists and technicians working on vital problems. The U.S. Office d Educa¬ tion has already droppedone Hebrew University project to help American schools edu¬ cate the culturaUy deprived. In jeopardy also^ it was re¬ ported, are such loragrams as a Hebrew University ef- .<v tort to find a.vaccine a^dnsi malaria for" tiie V.S. Army medical corps and a project requested by the V.S, Bu¬ reau of Fisheries after Is¬ rael; discovered much infor- (Contihued on Page 4) TEL AVlV,'1ClTA)>-'0atehse:]^^ Moshe Dayan stild tiiat Israel must tdie offensive measures against Egypt in tiie Saat. Canal, zone, but within carefiiUy circumscribed limlt^ Geik Dayan addressed the convention ofthe Israel Labor' Party on securitjr probtems. He said tliat Israel is fi^btiiv what amounts to a "smaU war" on banks of tiie Suez Canal in order to, avert a big w^ which would fOUow an Egyitian attempt to cross the .canal.in fOrce under cover of ; , ", ,;, ,. its airforce and wtineiy. He said it was necessary for Israel . . to make selective use of its air and ground forces with air J\amm. J ^t-ff raids against Egyptian mllitaiy tugets and <;(Mumaado^ ^ t^f^ JL^"! t thrnste deep into Egypt /^ -^ I UNn<EDNATI(»IS,N.;Y.,,(JTA)--lMtedNationsSecretary-C^Offt]?lO'lClQ£'$ Genend U Thant, through his spokesman, reminded Is^I that the Noiv. 22, 1967 resoIuUon adopted lor the Security CouncO caUed for the withdraiiral of Israel's armed forces trom the territories they occupied in the Six-Day \Var, TEL AViV, (JTA) ~ IsraeUmiiitaiy sources reported a sharp iueiease in terrorist activities along the eastern v; ,~,—^ —— -—¦a-g. ceiase-fire Unes and ridiculed reports in tiie foreign press fJi? *^r?!"S •"* Arabguer- tbat Jordan was curbhe guerriUa forays against Israel flroan "Ha fighters at secret camps BOSTON, (JTA)— About 150 students; Of the NeWLdF^ mostly fi:om Wiestern coun¬ tries, have fornied a sort cf "lliiternationEd brigade" and. its territory. Accarding(btfaesauroes,S6 incidents occurred along the eastern border dmringthewedt that ended August 2, compared to onty 23 incidents during tlie week of June 29- Jtdy 5 widch foUoned a series of IsraeU attecks oa guerriUa .XXHitions insidS Jordan. Terrorist incidents were alsp ion the, increase alcng the Lebanese border and antlie.denuircation' line. Vdth Sijnr^ .Mllitaiy officials iflaced tie number of guerriUas in'Lebanon at 400-500. UNTTED NATICmS, N.Y., (JTA)--The United IVatiOns is stm unable to round up memlwr nations who are willing; to^ serve on a General AssiAnbly mission jto investigate the conditions among Arabs in IsraeU-Occupied territories. Fourteen cowtries have dedinedrequests. Amongthose who tuned down regieste recentiybyPeruvianAnibassadorLuis Alvardao^ lAo, made them on belialf of tiie Assenibty, have been Italy, Mexico and ChUe. Tfae.ndUlpines and Rumania have not responded. The Arab delegations j[iere liave pressed for earty action. PARIS, (JTA)-.rAnibassador Walter Eytan of Israel was scheduled to meet with French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann recentty. It was reported that the two diplomate would discuss tiie possfMlity, raised by President GeorgOs Pompidou last nmiai^ thatFranco might partially res.cind the total embargoOnmUitaryc^pmentand spare parts, imposed- by former President Chairles De Gaulle lastJan.I9idter Israel's retaliatory raid on Beirut Airport' ' BOSTON^ (JTA)—CatiioUc and Protestant spokesmen joined Boston Jewry in a vigU at Boston Common to protest the arrest and''conviction in'the Soviet Union: of Boris KocfaubiyevslQr, the Jewish engineer wiio. was sentenced to three years, imprisonment on charges of slandering the Sovid: State and social.system. The Rt Rev. Francis J. Lally, Editar <)f the Catholic, organs The Pilot;"Bishop John M^ Binsesis of tlie Episcopal Diocese of Massticinisetts ; and Lewis il; Weinstein; chaiimaii.of the American-vlewish Confe^nee; on Soviet Je«nry> addressed the protest mOetiii«gr ^sponsored tiy tiie Jewish Conimunily.CdunciliitfMe^ Boston.'' in Jordan for combat aisiainst Israel, Cbrlstiai Science Monitor correspondent John K. CooleyrepartedthunBei- rut this week. According to Mr; Codey, their training is sponsored by El Fatah, tlielangest Palestiniancom- .mando group. "If El Fatah's normal training cycle is fol¬ lowed, tlie volunteer^ should be ready for combat mis¬ sions by October," Mr. Cooley wrote. He saidthat, according to informants, tliey include four Americans; 30 Britons, including 10 gfa:ls; 20 Irisi^- 20 French; 10 West^ Germans; and teight Swedes. The remainder are from Hol¬ land, Itaty, various Eastern European countries, Guyana, Guiiiea and India. <: El Fatah spokesmen and Jordaiiian authorities deny tlie existetico of the volun- teeirs, or thc'ir training camp6 but Mr.' Cooley reported he had' spOken to persons di- rectiy involved with them. (Mr. Cooley's dispatch con¬ firmed reports published in the London Telegraph and tlie New York Times last Sunday that young European leftists were training with the- Palestinian guerrillas. (Continued on Page 4) '"
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^-^bfi^S -q^TH 'S. 2I8T
•¦'/Tt
Servina CelumbuS;^*Centrar and Sotithwfe^tern Ohio \WK
VOL. 47 NO. 33
AUGUST. 14, 2969-30 A\^
/
^i I
JLC Appecils To Soviet Writers
New York, N.Y. - lii an appeal initiated by the Jewish Labor Committee, an atganiz^icn rejiresenting moore tlian 500,000 J6WS in American trade unions, niore tiian 30 jprmninent American writers, university prcfessoriS, and artists iiave called en the Soviet Writers' Union to telp in the restoration dC Jewish cultural treedom in tiieir countiy.
This acpeal is being circulated on the occasional tin 17th Anniversary d the murdeir
of 24 leading Soviet Jewish writers, intellectuals and artists on August 12, 19^2, by Stalin's secr^police. Among them ~ Beigelson, Feffer, Zuskin, NussincfL
The document charged,
"Qiacial Soviet practice still
perpetuates the oppressive
pdUc^^s widch deprive Jews
d any continuity with their
past and any h<9eofafMure.
Alone among the multitude of
Soviet nattaoalily and reli-..
tdoaa groups, Jews are singl¬ ed dut for discrimination,
hostility and d^radaUon."
"Now", tlie statement con- . tinues, "tbe Soviet position
on the Middle East has har¬ dened tiie campaign d anti-
Semltlsm still more^ and " threatens to completely era-
dcate an entire culture." Ih their appeal the signa-
tors vxeed m Soviet Wrtt- . ets\. Untion "to' assume a
,morat;.burden en .behalf d^-MdfM'i^m^'^y/srr^'^
the BJtfeiSt'JeW^ottlir&oviM^lttiiifi^
Union." The Soviet Writers' . Union was asl^ to mobilize its inftuehce for ithe restoira- tioii d Jewish schools, pnb- ligMng facilities, periodi¬ cals, titeatres and social
clubs. '¦. ,,;^ '. _ / ;¦¦¦ ¦
Those iriio-signed tiie ap¬ peal were: Coiu^ Aiten, paniel Bell, Saul Bellow, Theodore Bflcel, Claude Browiv Noam ChomisIiyf'Ba- liette Oeutsch, James Didcey, Ralph Elllsan, GerddFranl^ ¦Ell Ginzberg,Nathan Caaicr, , Herbert Gold, Michael 4lar- rington, Nat Heintofl; Gran? TiUe Hides, Milton HhidUs, Sidbey Hook, Jryj^ Howe, H. Stuart Hughes, Elia Ka¬ zan, Milton R. Kcnyitz, Nor¬ man Mailer, Ashley Montagu^ Robert Motherwell, Howard Nemerov,' Bamett Newman, Kemieth Patchen, Leo Ros- teiviManrice JSamuel, Theo- ^x^Sdatardt^ Rex Stout, ' Wlilliam: Siyn^
'wAk
Observe Ceiii^MFif^' ^ U Thant Pleol
, UNITED NATIONS (JTA) -- iSecretaiy General UThant, in a report to the Security Council oil the death last weds of a' United Nations cease-Qre ob^rrer at the Suez Camd, re¬ iterated Ms past pleas to the parties to obf^erve tlie cease¬ fire. He did not, however, indtcatethathe was contemplating asldng the Council to withdrawr the cease-fire obseirvatioa mission. He termed the death d
'Ma]or Bo Roland Plane of Swe'den a"dramaticsymp- ton of the breakdown cfthe cease-fire" and warned that this breakdown threatened not ody Middle East region¬ al and world peace but risk¬ ed settbig a precedent tliat would Jeopardize the 20- year-old UN peace observ-
-ation operations wiiichhave been in force pn tiie^world. The reporjt included in great detail the flndings oC a UN Truce Supervision Or¬ gan! zation Investigatinb board d the circumstances surroundliig the death of Ma¬ jor Plane, who^ it said, had been strode by sfarapnelfirom an artilleiy shell that landed in tiie street dhrectly out¬ side a window of his obser¬ vation post The report did not, however, place blame on Israel for his death, thijugh it faidicated that there had been a lull "in Israeli fir- ii^' just before Major Plane headed toward the window and that Israeli firfaig con¬ tinued after Israel had been notified d his death.
Mr. Thant said that "dur¬ ing the Vecent escalation of firing... each of the parties has accused the other d floutii^the decisions of ttie Security CouncU. Without passing Judgement on their respecUye positions, I can only note tlut both parties, Hliatever tlielr reasons may
• be, have been violating the .. .cease-ficc, with the result
that the situation in tbe Suez Canai sector has greatly de- terionated' and a United Na- tiioas mil^aiy observer has died.'' fiillds extensive re¬ port tte Secretary General afpealed; "once again that the inenviers tfthe Security Council,: both individually and ccdUcctiv^ly, to do aU within their power to influ¬ ence evoits in a new-and constructive direction.
He also said tiiat "tlie ab-. sence ofthbij^i^mentaUorf' ottiie Securii^liUvmcU'sre-. solutian d tit(f^^}^m7"iB one |
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