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Friday, Dec. 13, 1968 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Pag* Phr# Israel Under Pressure Washington Begins Active New Role in War-Peace Situation Transplant Patient Improves, Operation Has Halachic Angles By DAVID HOROWITZ UNITED NATIONS (WUP) — With Gunnar Jarring in Moscow waiting for the Arabs and the Israelis to respond more positive ly to his presumed proposals, Washington last week became un easy and took initial steps to play a more active role in the Middle East situation. As fighting broke out on a large scale between Israel and Jordan, State Secretary Rusk speedily summoned their respec tive Ambassadors and handed them a note urging restraint. Simultaneously, the U.S. Mis sion here and U Thant called in the Ambassadors of the two countries in support of Rusk’s word of warning. Strangely, despite the heavy fighting which threatened to as sume full dimensions, neither party asked for an emergency meeting of the Security Council. From Jordan’s side the reason might well have been that, in the main, Iraqi troops had been involved, and Amman did not feel so bad about the fact that the “unwelcome” Iraqis received a good thrashing for a change. Another interesting aspect to the latest clashes involved Egypt’s passivity and Soviet sil ence. Cairo, apparently, was shy of being drawn into a war not of its own timing, and the Mos- NEW SCULPTURED HANUKA MENORA PERMANENTLY AFFIXED to the front wall of the Sioux City, Iowa, Jewish Community Center, an affiliate of the National Jewish Wel fare Board (JWB), this new bronzed steel menora will be lighted each night during Hanuka. A gift to the Center by relatives of Hyman and Bella Rivin in honor of their golden wedding anniversary, the sculptured menora is the work of David H. West, director of the Sioux City Art Center. Do You Need . . . creative art • design • por traits • brochures • cata logues • direct mail • com plete advertising art service. CaU . . . SOL B E T O N 634-3463 Chile Police Investigate Bombs in Santiago SANTIAGO de Chile (JTA) — Police are investigating two Mol- tov cocktail bombings by anti- Semitic terrorists here. One of the explosives was hurled at dawn last Sunday at the Jewish Hungarian Club. Fire oaused damage before it was extinguish- cow press was quick to reaffirm that the Soviet Union continued to believe in the possibility of a political rather than a military solution. Perhaps! The Russians are playing a dangerous game — and they know it. The danger lies in the stepped- up U.S. — and NATO — inter vention within the Mediterran ean-Black Sea areas — and the Russians have already learned one lesson during the Cuban missile crisis. Their greatest fear, however, lies not so much in what the U.S. and NATO may do in the region militarily but in what the Arabs may do in a possible shift to the West — a matter that is out of the question at present. Czechoslovakia, how ever, it is known, has put some fear into several Arab leaders. With Nixon’s envoy Scranton probing the situation in the area, it is doubtful, after he reports to the President-Elect on his talks with the Arab and Israeli leaders, that the new Administration will embark upon a new course as re gards Middle East policy — a policy, based upon expediency, still not fully satisfactory to Is rael. Israel’s conception of “secure and recognized” boundaries is not the same held by the State De partment, nor is that linked to the establishment of a lasting peace. Israel rightly insists on “direct negotiations”; the U.S. would be satisfied with the con clusion of a single statement rela tive to the obligations of each country toward the other to be signed by each Government but not necessarily to be called a peace treaty. The U.S. has put forth several proposals to the Egyptians in what the State Department be lieves to be in the spirit of a compromise.” Nasser, however, it was learned late last week, has rejected them. As for the Israeli position on the question of Big Power inter vention, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is reported to have stated that a solution imposed by the great powers might be worse for Israel than a war. ed. That night an automobile be- longing to a member of the Bene Schenker Feted Israel (Indian Jewish) commun ity, with fire damage estimated at $500. No one was hurt in either incident. On Emigration HANUKA GREETINGS To One and All This splendid Festival is a wonderful time to say ‘‘THANKS” for your Friendship and Trade. Katz Kosher MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET 1048 N. 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In the presence of Ossie Davis, movie celebrity and civil rights leader, Mr. Schenker praised the world’s black peoples, in Africa and the United States, for their “struggle for liberation.” VERY BEST GREETINGS Peachtree North Apts. Barber Shop 620 Peachtree Street, NE £874-9294 Lee Cobb, owner*. TEL AVIV (JTA) — The out look for Israel’s first heart trans plant patient appeared slightly improved on the third day since surgery was performed by a team headed by Dr. Morris Levi at the Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah. Dr. Levi said he was more “optimistic” than he had been in the past 24 hours although the patient, 41-year-old Itzhak Sullam, was still uncon scious. Dr. Levi said there was no sign that Mr. Sullam’s body was rejecting the heart, that his blood pressure and breathing were normal and he did not re quire the aid of artificial breath ing mechanisms or even oxygen. The patient’s wife was permitted to see him through a window. The Sullams have four children. Mr. Sullam, an immigrant from Algeria who settled in Israel in 1948 and was employed as an elevator operator in the Bank Leumi building in Jaffa, became the world’s 99th heart transplant patient Friday. He was reported in satisfactory condition initially but yesterday his condition was reported to be critical as his body apparently started to reject the new heart. A special anti rejection serum was flown here from France but at noon Monday it was reported that the patient’s condition had deteriorated. To day, however, a medical report said the drug had been used only as a precautionary measure. The heart surgery performed on Mr. Sullam appeared to have complications other than medical ones as a result of questions of Jewish law involved. The Sep hardic Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Nis- sim, expressed best wishes for the patient’s recovery Friday without taking a special position on whether Jewish law permitt ed such an operation. The Ashken azic Chief Rabbi, Isser Unter- man, also expressed good wishe* but said that from the Halachic (religious law) point of view there are reservations and re strictions that could make heart transplant surgery unacceptable. Rabbi Unterman said trans plants are permitted on condition that there is no shadow of a doubt that the donor is dead when his heart is extracted. Dis cussing the matter several weeks ago, the Chief Rabbi said a man should be considered dead when he stopped breathing. But the question of the exact moment when death occurs is one on which all medical authorities have not yet agreed. In Mr. Sul lam’s case, the identity of the donor has been a closely guarded secret. Some reports said it was a traffic accident victim. The Chief Rabbinate is apparently waiting for further details of the circumstances before taking a stand in the case. A spokesman for the Chief Rabbinate told re porters that unofficially Rabbi Nissim would like a mixed team of rabbis and doctors to decide in each case if a donor is dead according to all criteria. Forty-two-year-old Dr. Levi who performed the eight-hour operation on Mr. Sullam was born in Bulgaria and studied medicine in Israel. He trained in Tokyo and between 1961 and 1964 he studied at the Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis where he was a classmate of Dr. Christian Barnard of South Africa, who performed the world’s first heart transplant operation in Cape Town a year ago. Mr. Sullam had been suffer ing from a severe heart ailment for more than a year. HANUKA GREETINGS Atlanta Cabinet Shop 591 Edgewood Ave., S.E. JA 4-6241 Atlanta, Georgia s, - ♦ mm Atlanta Cooperage Co. The Bernath Family Hanuka Greetings t^\oAem on l 5/ owerA 4975 Roswell Road, N.W. 252-5777 Hanuka Greetings Standard Truck & Equipment Company 1155 Hill Street, S.E. 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