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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLIII
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, February 2, 1968
AT EASE — The Submarine “Dakar” in her
berth at Portsmouth in England, where the craft
was extensively refitted before her eventful voy-
SPIT ‘N’ POLISH — One of the “Dakar’s”
crew making the name of the submarine proudly
shine, in keeping with naval meticulous attention
DEEP ANXIETY — A distraught mother and
father awaiting news of their son, a crewman on
the “Dakar” outside a naval base somewhere In
age.
to tiny detail.
Israel.
White House
Denies Eshkol
Got Pressure
International Air-Sea Hunt
On for Missing Israeli Sub
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
White House spokesman George
Christian rejected charges by
the Republican Congressional
Committee that President John
son had exerted pressure on
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol of
Israel to urge American Jewish
political support of the Presi
dent’s Viet Nam policy and re-
election as a condition for the
sale of Phantom jet bombers.
Mr. Christian told the JTA:
“Yesterday I called it ridiculous.
Today I will call it buncombe.”
Rep. Edward J. Derwinsky,
Illinois Rep., a member of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
called in a speech in the House
for immediate sale of Hie P-4
Phantom jet tighter-bombers to
Israel. He warned that “our
failure to act indicates to the
Russians that they may brazenly
fill the vacuum created by the
Administration’s foreign policy
ineptness.”
Despite denial from the White
House and official Israeli
sources that President Johnson
had made sale of the planes con
tingent on American Jewish
support of his policies, the Re
publican spokesman repeated
the charges in his speech and
warned that President Johnson
may be playing politics with
free world security” by holding
the aircraft “in ransom for the
votes of Americans of Jewish
faith.”
Rabbi to Instruct
Catholic Students
ROCHESTER, N. Y. (JTA) —
St. John Fisher College, a
Catholic-sponsored liberal arts
college for men here, has an
nounced that students will have
the opportunity to study Jew
ish theology in a course to be
taught for the first time by a
rabbi in the spring semester.
Rabbi Abraham J. Karp, spir
itual leader of Congregation
Beth El here and vice-president
of the American Jewish His
torical Society, has, been named
Visiting Professor of Theotogy
by Rev. Charles J. Lavery,
president of the school. He will
teach a course on medieval and
modem Jewish thought this
spring.
Medal for Hero
GENEVA (JTA) —. Jean
Deffaught, a former loader of
(he French resistance movement
who rescued 32 Jewish children
from the Gestapo in 1944 at the
risk of his own life, was pre
sented with the Award of
Righteousness, a silver medal
and illuminated scroll symbo
lizing Jewish gratitude for acts
of bravery by non-Jews in their
behalf.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
massive multi-nation air and sea
hunt continues over a huge sec
tion of the Mediterranean sea
for the Israeli submarine, Dakar,
missing and unheard from since
Thursday, January 25 on a voy
age from Britain to its base in
Haifa.
The 1,280-ton submarine, one
of four in Israel’s navy, has a
crew of 69 officers and men. An
Israeli official said the last
signal from the Dakar—Hebrew
for “shark”—was received at
Impasse Seen
For Jarring
Peace Mission
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
peace mission of Gunnar Jar
ring, the United Nations special
envoy to the Middle East, has
reached an impasse at the end
of its first phase during which
the Swedish diplomat solved a
number of marginal problems,
according to Haaretz, the Israeli
newspaper.
Quoting “political sources,”
the newspaper said that the UN
envoy had brought about an
Israeli agreement with Egypt
on clearing the blocked Suez
Canal so that 15 stranded for
eign vessels will be able to
leave, and the agreement under
which all prisoners of war were
exchanged between the two
countries. However, on the
basic issue of peace in the reg
ion, there has been no progress,
Haaretz asserted. Jarring has
conferred repeatedly with Israeli
and Arab officials, except those
of Syria, which refuses to talk
to him.
. The Arab states were under
stood to have rejected Israel’s
position t that direct talks must
precede all other matters and
Israel, in turn, has rejected the
Arab demand that Israeli forces
must be withdrawn from occu
pied areas before other matters
can be considered. The envoy
was reported to have agreed to
Israel’s stand that the UN
Security Council resolution au
thorizing his mission did not
call for unconditional with
drawal by Israel.
The Haaretz report was in ef
fect confirmed by the semi
official Egyptian newspaper, A1
Ahram, whose editor, Hasseinen
Haikal, is known to be dose to
President Nasser. Haikal wrote
that Jarring’s mission had
reached a deadlock.
noon from a position southeast
of Cyprus. The submersible was
scheduled to report again the
day it disappeared but failed to
do so. When nothing further was
heard during the night, Israel
launched a huge sea and air
search. All of the four Israeli
submarines are British-made.
The Dakar had been sailing for
home after extensive refitting in
Portsmouth, England.
After a day of futile search
ing, Israel asked for interna
tional aid. United States, Brit
ish and .Greek naval units join
ed -with Israeli forces to comb
an area extending 250 miles
from Haifa. Heavy rain and 45-
mile an hour winds hampered
the search. The British destroy
er Diana sailed from Malta with
decompression equipment and
two British Argosy transport
planes with parachute rescue
teams joined the search.
An American destroyer from
the Sixth Fleet joined the
search, as did a Greek D-C
plane. The submarine Levia
than, the Dakar’s sister sub
marine, moved into the area
with the Israeli destroyer Jaffa,
which had been on maneuver in
the eastern Mediterranean, and
two other Israeli vessels took
part in the search. The search
operation was coordinated by
the British Air Forces on Cy
prus. •
The Dakar was to have docked
in Haifa after a maiden voyage
following recommissioning last
November at the Portsmouth
naval base. Purchased from
Britain in 1964, the Dakar was
almost completely rebuilt in
Portsmouth and did not arrive
in Israel until a few weeks ago.
The total disappearance
sparked rumors that the sub
marine might have come into
violent contact with Soviet
naval units patrolling in the
area but Israeli spokesmen said
there was no evidence to indi
cate that the submersible was
either s6nk or sabotaged. Of
ficials said that the missing sub
marine was equipped with the
modem emergency devices and
could remain underwater for a
considerable period pending res
cue.
Soviets in Mediterranean
Alarm Leaders of Congress
W A S H I NGTON (JTA) —
Members of Congress of both
parties have charged the Ad
ministration with failure to meet
the growing Soviet challenge in
the Middle East and asserted
that pre-occupation with Viet
Nam has spread U. S. forces so
thin that the Communists are
tempted to push in other areas.
Sen. Stuart Symington, Miss
ouri Democrat, who served as
U. S. Air Force Secretary,
voiced apprehension over over
commitment in Viet Nam in
connection with the North Ko
rean seizure of a Navy ship.
He referred also to the dang
erous Soviet role in the Medi
terranean and contended that
U. S. defense resources may be
spread too thin because of Viet
Naim to meet Communist diver
sions in the Middle East. «
Senate Republican Whip
Thomas H. Kuchel, who substi
tuted for Senate Minority
Leader Everett M. Dirksen on a
GOP “State of the Union” pro
gram, said the USSR was ex
ploiting Administration foreign
policy weaknesses by moving
into the Middle East. He said
the Russians were “playing off*’
American support of Israel ex
tremism.
Rep. Seymour Halpem, New
York, Rep.-; said “the failure of
the Administration to immedi
ately authorize the sale of
Phantom Jets to Israel indicates
to Moscow and the Arabs the
weakness of the U. S. position
in the Middle East and tempts
further Russian naval build-up
in the Mediterranean and move
ment of arms and advisors to
Egypt.
Lubavitcher Center
To Open Exhibit
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) —
An exhibition oi the works of
Ohassidic artists, sponsored by
the Philadelphia Friends of
Lubavitch, is scheduled to open
at the Lubavitcher Center here
on Feb. 4. The exhibit will
include works by ChenoA Lie-
berman and Zalman Kleiman of
the United States and religious
artists from Israel and other
countries. The opening cere
monies will be attended by the
sculptor Jacques Lipchitz who
has created an original litho
graph for toe art show.
Czechs Said -
Reopening J
Jordan Case
LONDON (JTA)—The Sunday
Observer asserted in a dispatch
from Prague, that Czechoslovakia
bad unexpectedly reopened the
case of Charles H. Jordan, the
Joint Distribution executive vice-
chairman who died mysteriously
in Prague last August during a
vacation visit. The dispatch said
that Czech authorities, strength
ened by recent changes in the na
tion’s Communist party leader
ship, were “giving strong hints”
that those responsible for Jor
dan’s death were not Czech se
cret police, as had been rumor
ed, buit "Russian counter-intelli
gence.”
The dispatch said the Czechs
were “openly linking" Jordan’s
death with the “murder” in Zu
rich last year of the Swiss path
ologist Ernest Handmeij:,,.wfao did
a postmortem on Jordan's body.
Dr. Hardmedr was found, frozen
to death, near Zurich, but Swiss
authorities said then there was
no evidence of foul play. It was
reported here that there was no
evidence from any other source
in support of the Observer dis
patch. The Czech Government
took the position that toe post
mortem had shown no evidence
of violence and -that Jordan died
from drowning.
EL Fatah Leader
Gets 30-Year8 Term
TEL AVTV (JTA) — A mili
tary tribunal in Nablus has im
posed 30 years imprisonment on
the leader of an El Fatah gang
which ^was captured in caves in
the Nablus area. Eleven mem
bers were given terms of from
five to IS years. The group,
which infiltrated into the West
Bank from Syria via Jordan,
had orders to aarry out many
attacks but was able only to,
engage Israel forces in shoot
ing affrays before toe members
were captured.
An Israeli soldier was slightly
injured when his patrol inter
cepted an El Fatah intruder
group near Kleuth. One of the
intruders was killed in an ex
change of fire. Two companions
eodaped across the Jordanian
border. ri*"’ TX‘.
Earlies' in toe evening; Israeli
naval vessels observed two Jor
danian speedboats urn lrjng to ap
proach the Eiath port from
Akaba, the nearby Jordanian
part on the Gulf of Akaba. - The
Israeli sailors fired a number of
machinegun bursts in the direc
tion of the speedboats which
turned back.