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Vol. XLV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, March 6, 1970
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No. 10
I*Inn to Sell White Owned
Stores in Ghetto to Blacks
l^EW YORK (JTA)—The In
terracial Council for Business
Opportunity and the American
Jewish Congress this week an
nounced joint sponsorship of
“Project Transfer," a pioneer
ing program that has been op
erating quietly for nearly a year
to arrange the orderly sale of
profitable businesses in New
York City ghetto areas from
white to Black owners.
A dozen white-owned busi
nesses are now in active negoti
ation for sale to new Black
owners and four sales have al
ready been completed, it was re
ported at a meeting in Harlem
of black lawyers, accountants
and prospective buyers. The
stores range in net income from
$15,000 to $40,000 annually and
nearly all have employees in ad
dition to the owner. Many of the
buyers are persons who have
worked in the stores in man
agerial roles, it was noted. Proj
ect Transfer was founded in Jan
uary 1969 by the Ford Founda
tion.
Martin V. Waters, president
of the New York ICBO and Jer
ome J. Steiker, Project Transfer
chairman for the American
Jewish Congress, said the Amer
ican Jewish Congress, through a
volunteer consultants’ group of
businessmen, attorneys and ac
countants, finds white-owned
profitable businesses in New
York City that are available for
sale and evaluates them as to
their financial worth and future
possibilities. Mr. Steiker noted
that “only solid businesses with
growth potential are consider
ed.” The Interracial Council for
Business Opportunity double
checks the businesses, locates po
tential Black buyers, and helps
the buyer during and after the
sale.
What’s This? A Godd Word
About Jewish Collegiates
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
The Hillel director at San Fran
cisco State College has asser
ted that Jewish college stu
dents in general are avoiding
hard drugs and excessive drink
ing and do not have the con
tempt for their parents which
“many gentile children” feel
for theirs. Rabbi Roger E.
Herst expressed those views in
an interview with the San
Francisco Jewish Bulletin. He
was asked about the degree to
which American Jewish youth
were affected by the social and
sexual revolutions. He replied
it was his impression “that the
Jewish student is affected by
sex and drugs as problems of
adolescence but he seems to be
able to handle it more intelli
gently because of a certain kind
of roots he gets from the fam
ily.”
“He may smoke pot,” Rabbi
Herst added, “but he doesn’t
go to the next step—the hard
stuff. He may drink but never
to excess. These kids will re
bel to an extent against their
parents, as any child does,” he
declared, “but they don’t be
lieve their parents are hypo
crites, nor do they have any
deep hate for them, by and
large, unlike the contempt
many gentile children feel for
their parents.”
He declared also that the
crisis among American Jewish
youth was not one of identity
but of education. He said the
Jewish students are so exposed
to American secular life that
“they get further and further
away from the core of Juda
ism.” He added that “the
magnetic .attraction to Israel
and what is happening there is
beginning to balance this off.”
He said that Hillel students
locally had been active in Isra
eli concerns, the United Jewish
Appeal, fund collecting for Bia-„
fran children, conducting serv
ices, supporting the Vietnam
Moratorium and helping the
Alcatraz Indians.
Nixon Apologies
For Protests
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Pres
ident Nixon has apologized to
French President Georges Pom
pidou for the “few citizens who
have acted in a discourteous
manner and in a disrespectful
manner to a state visitor.” In a
direct slap at the anti-Pompidou
demonstrators in Washington,
Chicago, San Francisco, Stanford
University, White Plains and
New York, Nixon said they “do
not represent the American peo
ple and this country’s attitude
toward France.” According to
Presidential Press Secretary Ron
Ziegler, Nixon called Pompidou
and personally apologized for the
demonstrations that have upset.
Pompidou’s visit. He also stated
his intention to go to New York
to attend the Franco-American
Society dinner honoring Pompi
dou. Nixon was not originally
scheduled to attend. The dinner is
being given by William Burden,
former Ambassador to Belgium.
Dr Hanoch Milwidsky Head of the Department of Thoracic and
Cardio vascular Surgery of the Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center, Jerusalem, who died when a Swiss airliner ex
uded over Zurich. Dr. Milwidsky is shown with an Arab patient
whom he had successfully treated at Hadassah.
Pompidou Tells Congress Israel
Has Right to Exist, Security
WASHINGTON (JTA)—French
President Georges Pompidou told
a joint session of Congress that
France reaffirms “the right of
the State of Israel not only to
exist but also to security” from
the Arab nations. He emphasized
that a peace settlement in the
Middle East must include a so
lution to the problem of the Pal
estinian Arab refugees and a re-’
nunciation of force by Israel and
her Arab neighbors.
“Who does not understand
that there is no assured future
for Israel outside a lasting en
tente with the world which sur
rounds it.” M. Pompidou told
the senators and House mem
bers. The entente, he said “im
plies renunciation of military
conquest.” This, along with the
solution of the refugee problem,
“in a situation where feelings
and fanaticism are increasing
daily should, to be quickly
reached, proceed from the
United Nations action and in
particular from the four perm
anent members of the Security
Council to define and propose
the general conditions for a set-
Iement and to provide guaran
tiees for it,” M. Pompidou said.
The French President, who ar
rived in this country and was
scheduled to visit a number of
major cities before departing ior
Paris on Inarch 3, haa paff!
sailed m this country for the
sale of Mirage jets to Libya
while imposing an embargo on
Mirage jets to Israel that has
been paid for About half of the
members of Congress attended
the joint session. Those absent
had announced in advance they
would not attend as a protest
against France’s sale of jets to
Libya. Congressional aides, in
vited by the Speaker of the
House, attended the session and
filled the empty seats of the
protesting congressmen. Unlike
the previous day when a young
student interrupted M. Pompi-
Challenge Draft
Exemption For
Yeshiva Bochas
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An
Army reserve officer has
brought suit against the Gov
ernment to end the exemption
of yeshiva students from mili
tary service. The suit named De
fense Minister Moshe Dayan.
The . Supreme court opened
hearings and will decide whether
Gen. Dayan will be required to
answer the suit. Yeshiva stu
dents in Israel have been exempt
from military service since the
State was established in 1948.
They remain one of the few
draft exempt groups in a coun
try where every able-bodied
male and female faces military
conscription.
The plaintiff in the case, a
mathematics student, claimed that
the policy was politically moti
vated and therefore invalid. He
said the exempt status of some
5,000 yeshiva students imposed
undue hardship on reservists
who must serve for longer per
iods owing to the nation’s
mounting defense needs since
the June 1967 Six-Day War. He
said his own studies had been
interfered with and that the
drafting of Yeshiva students
would ease the burden somewhat
for all.
dou’s address to the National
Press Club by shouting “mur
derer” and “French Hitler,”
there were no incidents during
his address to the joint session.
However, shortly after M. Pom
pidou began his address New
York Representative Lester I.
Wolff left his seat and walked
out of the chamber demonstrat
ing his opposition to French
Middle East policy. Wolff was
the only Congressman to walk
out during Pompidou’s address.
Focusing on the sale of jets
to Libya, M. Pompidou asserted
that Israel had achieved “un
deniable success on the battle
field.” But, he added, “Who can
not see the precariousness and,
in the long run, sterile nature
of the victories gained?” Most
of his address was concerned
with past friendships between
France and the United States and
the outlook for this . country in
Vietnam war which, he hinted,
was similar to the war France
had with Algeria.
Earlier in the day a broadcast
by CBS stated that a decision
had been reached by the White
House to sell 25 additional jets
should be taken to bring peace
to the Middle East.
He replied “no one pereon has
that solution but peace should
be achieved in the shortest pos
sible time.” Pompidou suggested
a possible approach: a Four
Power conference on the Middle
East.
Concerning France’s sale of
Mirage jets to Libya, he asserted
that the only Mirage fighters in
Middle East skies were those be
longing to Israel. He said he
wouldn’t be surprised if he saw
Egyptian or even French ad
visers in Libya. Whether this was
a veiled threat remains unclear.
Pompidou ended his responses
to questions about the Middle
East by declaring that “the cap
ital of France is not in Cairo
nor is it in Tel Aviv. We are not
against Israel. We seek peace in
the area.”
Baptist Minister
Prays at Grave
Of Slain Wife
to Israel and on Jan. 30 Presi
dent Nixon said he would an
nounce in 30 days whether or
not the U. S. would sell addi
tional planes. The CBS broad
cast said this decision would be
announce# next week. Ronald L.
Siegler, White House Press Sec
retary, told newsmen “the mat
ter is still under consideration
and no decision has been made.
There will be a full discussion
of the situation before a decision
is made.” In Jerusalem the Is
rael Foreign Ministry gave no
confirmation tp the CBS report.
The French President’s speech
to the National Press Club last
ed for only seven minutes and
dealt with the close ties France
has with the United States even
though at times there may be a
difference of opinion. Following
the speech M. Pompidou was
asked what steps he thought
Arabs Disrupt
Toronto Protest
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An
American Baptist minister
prayed to God to
* ‘ who
prayed over the grave of his
wife, Barbara 31, who was killed
when Arabs machine-gunned a
busload of American Christian
tourists near Hebron.
Mrs. Ertle, the mother of two,
was buried at the American
cemetery here. “May the Lord
remove all bitterness from the
heart of the Arab nation and
may He forgive the assailant,”
Rev. Ertle prayed. Israel au
thorities cordoned off the area
and imposed a curfew after the
bus ambush. But no arrest have
been made so far.
Another American to u r i s t,
Leon Holtz, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was killed in a bus ambush in
the Hebron area last Dec. 27.
Israeli police have uncovered an
Israeli Arab terrorist cell in
Nazaret and in Western Gal
ilee. A police chief reported
that there were indications of ef
forts at reorganizing renewed
terrorist acts in Israel.
Long Beach
TORONTO (JTA)— A public
meeting, called by Evangelicals,
Catholics, Liberals and Protes
tants, drew 500 persons at
Yorkminster Baptist Church but
was disrupted ^y an Arab group
which shouted, heckled, chanted
“El Fatah.”
Nine policemen were required
to restore order. One Arab ripp
ed pages from the Bible and
threatened a member of the
five-man panel. “When you re
turn Jerusalem, El Fatah will
get you” was the greeting given
to main speaker Reverend Doug
las Young of Holyland Institute,
Jerusalem.
The attack! was prompted by
remarks Rev. Roland Decorne-
ille„ an Anglican, aimed at the
anti-Israel record of A. C. For
rest, editor of the United Church
Observer. Previotisly 1,000 Jew
ish students of the University of
Toronto and York University
and Jewish day schools marched
in downtown Toronto picketing
the French consulate on the oc
casion of French President
Georges Pompidou’s visit to
America. Youths carried a cof
Center Board
Bouts on War
LONG BEACH, Calif. (JTA)—
Two officials of the Jewish
Community Center have de
fended a practice of the center
board in taking stands on pub
lic issues—such as a board res
olution supporting last Novem
ber’s Vietnam Moratorium—“as
a responsible part” of the board
members “as leaders in the Long
Beach Jewish community.”
Publication in the Jewish
Community Federation News of
the resolution touched off con
siderable debate, with some
critics asserting that the board
could not speak for the Jewish
community on such controversial
issues. The response of the board
was contained in a statement
signed by President Stanley V.
Goldin and executive director
Mervin Lemmerman, which was
published in the current issue of
the Federation News. The new
statement stressed that it was
the board which had gone on
record “as supporting the spirit
of the Vietnam Moratorium and
voicing a deep desire for an im
mediate end of the Vietnam
fin.
war.”