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Pace Sixteen
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, March 4, 1966
Israeli Officials Grapple with Spiral
Of Price Increases in Inflation Fight
JERSUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli of
ficials spoke out repeatedly in ef
forts to curb an upsurge of wide-
ranging price increases stemming
from equally wide-ranging tax
increases in Israel’s new nation
al budget.
Interurban road transport com
panies, which provide most of the
transport for Israelis, increased
fares five to six percent to cover
new taxes on motor fuels. Tnuva,
the major farm products distri
bution company, notified the Gov
ernment that the fuel tax in
creases were directly increasing
farm production costs and de
manded that its prices be re
examined. Zalman Suzelev, pres
ident of the Israeli Industrialists
Association, warned that a gen
eral price Increase was inevitable.
New price increases were posted
daily. • •
The pressures were expected to
bring a general boost in the cost
of living despite a pledge by
Trade and Industry Minister
Haim Zadok that the Government
would try to minimize the anti
cipated price boosts as much as
possible.
Steep price rises for meat prod
ucts also followed announcement
of the new budget. Cigaret and
liquor prices rose 20 percent.
Gasoline prices rose 30 to 40 per
cent and diesel fuel prices more
than doubled. Night clubs and
bars raised prices because of the
increase in liquor taxes.
Zadok issued a warning, in a
radio address, that price increases
forced by the new taxes in some
areas should not be used as an
excuse to raise pnices in other
areas.
Aharon Becker, Histadrut sec
retary general, warned the His
tadrut executive committee that
if wage restraint were not main
tained, inflation and “ultimately
unemployment” would follow.
Zadok acted on another front
in the anti-inflation battle when
he rejected a manufacturer’s
plea for reinstatement of export
premiums. Speaking at a meeting
of the Export Institute, he prop
osed other incentives. He warned
that export premiums would only
lead to more taxes, direct and
indirect, if they were financed
from the national treasury, or
higher domestic prices if financed
by excise taxes.
He noted that Israel was still
suffering from an imbalance of
foreign trade, having imported
goods and services in the past
year totalling 1,250,000,000 dollars
compared with 750,000,000 dollars
in exported goods and services.
BEHIND UN SCENES By David Horowitz
Eban Explores A Turning-Point
Sees ‘Tashkent’ As Peace Pattern
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
It is not surprising that, immed
iately upon his assumption of the
post as Foreign Minister, Abba
Eban should have embarked on a
fresh, new enterprise in a possi
ble break-through of the im
passe with the Arabs in the Mid
dle East. His massive and dy
namic intellect has always moved
like a comet-force in plunging
forward to new opportunities.
What makes his present initi
ative, which encomposses what he
calls “nomadic” diplomacy in vis
iting statesmen in the capitol
cities of Paris, Washington and
London and. significantly, UN
Secretary General U Thant—so
different, is that he now enjoys
the power and authority and
primary responsibility for the in
volved and highly complex for
eign affairs policy of Arab-sur
rounded Israel. Now he can not
only blueprint policy but also im
plement it with a construction
plan to match the architecture.
Eban's current explorations of
new peace potentials are not
based on any false hopes about
changes in Arab thinking. Rather
It is more realistically pivoted on
the world s'tuatin, on a new srurit
in the world among the Big Pow
ers, that *he global tension spots
can be resolved or reduced to a
“no-war” relationship.
As an example, Eban sees enor
mous implications in the recent
dispute over Kashmir but agreed
to ban war in their search
for a solution of their com
mon differences. This, to him, is
•ignificant, especially because the
India-Pakistan dispute consti
tutes a close analogy to the Arab-
Israeli situation. Both are related
to the UN, both protracted over
tome 18 years, both caueht in
violent conflicts during this per
iod, and both charged with an in
tensity of emotion which compli
cates political effort.
But what is even more instruc
tive about Tashkent is that it is
the product of the initiative of a
Big Power effort — the Soviet
Union, which played such an im
portant role as peace-maker in an
area where her interests could
only be crushed by the conse
quences of a war between two of
her friends. Of course, in this
effort, Moscow had the tacit sup
port of the Big Three Western
Powers whose Interests likewise
could only suffer by continued
war on the sub-continent.
But if these assumptions are
true, are they not even more
valid for the Middle East? Abba
Eban thinks so. Hence he lost no
time In exploring what he con-
aidered to be a happy opportun
ity for diplomatic initiative. Is
rael has consistently pleaded for
a conference-table approach, for
the beginning of a dialogue, and
Tashkent, it appears, lends con
viction to her feeling that such
a dialogue need not be in vain.
There is only one difficulty
which Eban slurs over—at least
on the surface, and not without
some hint that he is aware of it.
It is Moscow. His current de
marche does not include Moscow,
and yet it is the Soviet Union—
with no colonial or petroleum or
military interests in the area—
which is the most plausible Pow
er to initiate a Middle East ‘Tash
kent.’
It may be that Eban’s order of
procedure is the logical one—to
get the Western Powers to signal
Moscow that any initiative she
takes will be welcomed by them.
But this involves their own inter
ests, bedevilled with scores of
vital implications.
However, Israel’s new Foreign
Minister is undoubtedly on the
right track. If this gets him no
where it is because the Big Pow
ers are not yet ready to coordi
nate their signals for peace in the
Middle East.
In the meanwhile Abba Eban
will insist that in the current
arms race Israel should not be
left by an iota of strength on the
deficit side of security.
Washington, Paris and London
have been alerted. The next move
should be in the direction of Mos-
Salmon Rounds
Simple meals are often the best, like our biscuit-wrapped
special, Salmon Rounds.
With plenty of appetite appeal, these flaky biscuit rolls
boast salmon, celery, onion, a touch of lemon juice and other
seasoning to make an especially flavorful main dish. Add crisp
relishes, a vegetable and your favorite dessert to the menu.
To save time, bake the biscuit with enriched self-rising
flour. You’re assured of baking success because self-rising
flour already contains the proper blend of leavening and salt.
Nutritionally, it’s important too, as a valuable source of
calcium, iron and three essential B-vitamins.
SALMON ROUNDS
4 to 6 aervinga
1 can (8 ox.) aalmor.,
drained and flaked
14 cup dry bread crumba
y 4 cup chopped celery
$4 cup chopped onion
1 tablespoon lemon julca
>/ 4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
y 4 cup shortening
1 / 2 cups sifted enriched
self-rising flour*
y 2 to % cup milk
Combine saJtnon, bread crumbs, celery, onion, lemon Juice and
Stir In egg; set aaide. Cut shortening Into flour until mix
ture resembles coarse crumbs. Blend In enough milk to make a soft
dough. Turn out dough on lightly floured board or pastry cloth and
knead gently 80 seconds. Roll out to 9-lnch square. Spread salmon
mixture evenly over dough. Roll up Jelly roll-fashion; seal edges se
curely. Cut Into 1-lnch slices. Place slices, cut side down, In greased
8-lnch round cake pan. Bake In preheated 425° oven 25 to 30 minutes,
or until golden brown. Serve hot with favorite creamed vegetable
sauce.
*lf you don’t sift and In the absence of other directions, spoon
floor directly from container into a one-cup dry measure, level off,
then remove two level tablespoons, according to USDA recom
mendations.
BBYO President Greets
South Vietnam Ambassador
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WASHINGTON—Shown greet
ing the Acting Ambassador of
South Vietnam, Luong Nhi Ky,
at B’nai B’rith Youth Organi
zation headquarters is Susan Jo
Wilen, 17, Atlanta, who serves as
International President of B’nai
B’rith Girls.
The local youth is in the Na
tion’s Capital to participate in
meetings with the other 20 top
international youth leaders of the
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization,
world’s largest Jewish youth
group.
The B’nai B’rith Youth Organ
ization presented $500 to the Em
bassy of South Vietnam here for
the South Vietnamese Red Cross.
The money will be used to aid
displaced persons in the war-torn
Asian land.
The Embassy thanked the
youth representatives for the
“wonderful contribtion and for
the moral support which the
South Vietnamese people feel
when teenagers donate money to
assist the people in our home
land.”
The gift is part of the $50,000
raised and distributed annually
by the youths to various char
ities, health research funds, and
leadership training programs.
Chaplain Alan M. Greenspan
Assigned to Vietnam
NEW YORK—Chaplain (Capt.)
Alan M. Greenspan, Jewish
chaplain on duty at the Infantry
Training Center, Fort Benning,
Ga., has been assigned to the
U. S. Military Advisory Com
mand in Vietnam, with head
quarters in Saigon, where he is
due around March 9, according
Jewish Chaplain
Wins Air Medal
SAIGON, Vietnam—By direction
of President Johnson, Chaplain
(Major) Richard E. Dryer, sen
ior Jewish chaplain with the U. S.
Armed Forces in Vietnam, has
been awarded the Air Medal for
“meritorious achievement while
participating in sustained aerial
flight in support of combat
ground forces of the Republic of
Vietnam” from Feb. 10, 1965 to
Dec. 26, 1965.
Chaplain Dryer, one of three
Jewish chaplains in Vietnam, ar
rived in Jan. 1965 and in March
of this year will be reassigned to
Germany. Chaplains Robert L.
Reiner and Harry Z. Schreiner
are the other two Jewish chap
lains serving in Vietnam.
The citation accompanying the
Air Medal notes that from Feb.
to Dec. 1965 Chaplain Dryer “ac
tively participated in more than
25 aerial missions over hostile
territory in support of counter
insurgency operations. During all
of these missions he displayed the
highest order of air discipline and
acted in accordance with the best
traditions of the service. By his
determination to accomplish his
mission in spite of the hazards
inherent in repeated aerial flights
over hostile territory and by his
outstanding degree of profession
alism and devotion to duty, he
has brought credit upon himself,
his organization and the military
service.”
Actually, Chaplain Dryer has
flown 117 aerial missions as of
Jan. 28, 1966, to bring religious
comfort, JWB religious supplies
and gift packages and religious
literature to Jewish military per
sonnel In the Vietnam war zone.
to word received by the National
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB)
Commission on Jewish Chaplain
cy. Chaplain Greenspan will re
place Chaplain (Maj.) Richard
E. Dryer, the senior Jewish chap
lain in Vietnam, who is being
transferred to Germany.
A native of Bridgeport, Conn..
Chaplain Greenspan is a career
chaplain whose first assignment
was at Fort Knox, Ky., in 1962.
soon after he was commissioned
a First Lieutenant. In 1963 he was
promoted to Captain and reas
signed to Fort Benning, Ga. This
was followed by a tour of duty
in Korea in 1964 where he won
the Army Commendation Medal
While in Korea he went on a
special temporary mission to
Vietnam to serve Jewish military
personnel there in February
1964.
Chaplain Greenspan graduated
from Yeshiva College in 1958 and
was ordained a rabbi by the Is
aac Elchanan Rabbinical Semin
ary of Yeshiva University in
1961. While a college student he
represented Yeshiva University
at the first World Jewish Youth
Conference in Israel in 1958
Rabbi Greenspan is married to
the former Gala Judith Morgen-
stem and they have one son.
In addition to Chaplain Green
span, two other Jewish chaplains
are serving in Vietnam: Chaplain
(Lt.) Robert L. Reiner, USNR
who is with the Third Marine Di
vision, and Chaplain (Capt.)
Harry Z. Schreiner who serve*
Army personnel.