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The Southern Israelite
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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Establish**' 1 1925
Vol. XLV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, April 3, 1970
In Brief
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sov
iet Ambassador Anatoly F.
Dobrynin met this week with
Secretary of State Rogers at the
latter’s request in a prelude to
projected bilateral negotiations
between Mr. Sobrynin and Jos
eph Sisco* United States Assis
tant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs.
PARIS (JTA) — A thousand
non-Jews and Jews protested this
week in the provincial city of
Rouen against anti-Semitic in
scriptions in the past few days
on synagogues and other pubhc
buildings. The demonstration
was led by the city’s Chief Rab
bi. The local Catholic Archbishop
expressed sympathy.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
The Israeli Government charged
this week that the March 18
Lebanese letter to the Security
Council president denying re
sponsibility for terrorist attacks
on Israel from Lebanese soil was
“an unabashed attempt to white
wash aggression.’’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Leon
Trotsky, one of the architects of
the Russian Revolution and an
ardent anti-Zionist is being de
picted as a Zionist agent in a
novel published in Moscow sev
eral days ago and already a
run-away best seller according
' to reports reaching here.
Ivan Shevtsov’s “In the Name
of Father and Son,” which deals
with life in a Moscow metallur
gical plant, has one character, a
Jew ’'named Aaron Herzovich,
who says of Trotsky: “Sometimes
the Zionist agents manage to in
filtrate the leadership of the
Communist Party as did Judas-
Trotsky or Bronstein.” Bron-
stein was Trotsky’s original
name. The book is said to be
filled with anti-Zionist state
ments. The novel was released
during the current frenzied anti-
Zionist and anti-Israel campaign
by the Soviet Government.
LONDON (JTA)—The Young
Liberals voted out of office their-
pro-Arab chairman at the annual
conference at Skegness, Lincoln
shire. But they heard an El
Fatah speaker and adopted a
resolution not likely to endear
them to Israel-sympathizers, al
though it called for direct ne-
gotions.
MONTREAL (JTA)— A pre
liminary hearing has been set
for April 3 in the case of 26-
year-old tinsmith Pierre Marcil,
who was arraigned in Criminal
Court for conspiring to kidnap
Israeli consul Moshe Golan.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Miss
Angie Brooks, president of the
United Nations General Assem
bly, replied to Arab protests over
her visit to Israel saying she
would visit Arab countries too
if invited and if it would help
bring peace. She spoke on the
Israel Armed Forces radio sat-
tion. Miss Brooks came to Is
rael on an official visit, the first
by a president of the General
Assembly while in office.
DETROIT (JTA) — l^ax M.
Fisher, Detroit financier and a
Jewish community leader, has
resigned as chairman of the Na
tional Center for Volunteer Ac
tion, established by President
Nixon to enlist citzien action on
the nation’s social problems. He
said the job should be rotated
annually, noting that he had al
ready served 15 months,.qr since
the beginning of the Nixon Ad
ministration. An informed Jew
ish source told the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency that the resigna
tion definitely did not indicate
a break by Mr. Fisher with the
Nixon position on the Middle
East, adding that Mr. Fisher,
whom he called one of the coun
try’s leading “Jewish Republi
cans,” had been planning for
several months to phase out his
chairmanship after activating
the NCVA. It is believed that
Mr. Fisher will maintain a con
sultancy with the White House.
The NCVA was created- as a
quasi-puublic. non-partisan, non
profit agency. Mr. Fisher was
serving as chairman without sal
ary.
Arab Terr
Heavy Fin<
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No. 13
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Flane Attack
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Rab
binical Alliance of America, an
Orthodox agency, denounced as
“offensive” the "Freedom Seder:
A New Haggadah for Passover,”
written by Arthur Wasbow, a
Washington Jewish activist. The
new Haggadah was published
this week.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Heavy
sentences imposed by an Athens
court Thursday on two Arab
guerrillas for their machinegun
attack on an Israeli airliner at
the Athens airport in 1968 were
viewed here as evidence that the
world was recognizing the dan
ger of such attacks on neutral
territory, and against civilians.
Mahmoud Muhammed, 26, a
teacher, and Maher Hussein Sul
eiman, 20, a student, were
Charged with willful manslaugh
ter, illegal possession and use of
weapons and explosives and ob-
stru g air navigation.
Le. . Shirdan, an engineer, was
killed and a stewardess wounded
when the guerrillas attacked the
El A1 plane, ready for take-off.
The teacher was sentenced to 17
years and five months in prison.
The student was given a term
of 14 years and three months.
They were found innocent of
charges of willful manslaughter,
which carries the death penalty
as a maximum sentence.
The court ruled there were
“extenuating circumstances” be
cause of the “feelings of patriot-
Russian-Born Israeli
Begins Hunger Strike
NEW YORK (JTA)—Charging
that the Oberammergau Passion
Play “remains deeply hostile to
Jews and Judaism,” the Amer- Nations headquarters.
NEW YORK (JTA)—A pale,
slightly built, bespectacled young
man wearing a yarmulka began
a hunger strike outside of United
lean Jewish Congress and the
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith sent a cable Saturday to
the Archbishop of Munich
urging him to cancel his plans
to attend the play, which opens
May 18. The production, which
has been staged every ten years
since 1634, has been widley re
garded as anti-Semitic, and a re
cent 'analysis in the London
Tablet by Sister Louis Gabriel,
director of the Center for Bib
lical and Jewish Studies at the
Convent of Our Lady of Sion,
concluded that it “distorted” and
'“falsified” the Gospels. The
cable was sent to Julius Cardinal
Doepfner by AJCongress presi
dent Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld
and ADL chairman Dore Schary.
Three years ago, Cardinal Doepf
ner had called on a monk to
revise the text, but the monk
reported that his changes had
been rejected by the play’s or
ganizers. The AJCongress also
reported that Lufthansa, the
German airline ,had agreed to
suspend advertising for their
tours that include tickets to the
play, pending Jewish acceptance
of a revised text.
Yasha Kazakov, 23, who was
born in Moscow and went to
Israel a year ago, said it would
continue until “the combined
voice of free people will bring
about a change in the attitude of
the Soviet Government” toward ^
the Jews. Specifically, young
Kazakov is protesting the refusal
of Soviet authorities to permit
his parents, Joseph and Sofia
Kazakov, his brother, Alexander
and his sister Vera to Join him
in Israel. He also demands free
dom to emigrate for his aunt,
cousins and grandmother and all
Jews who want to leave the
USSR. He has urged others to
join his vigil at the Isaiah Wall
on United Nations Plaza.
Kazakov speaks only Russian
and Hebrew and recounted his
story through an interpreter
who had joined him in his vigil.
He is a student at the Israel
Polytechnic Institute in Haifa
where he enrolled a year ago
after Soviet authorities inexpli
cably granted him an emigra
tion visa but refused the rest of
his family. His father, a 49-year-
old economics engineer lost his
job after requesting permission
ism” of the defendants and said
the two had acted under orders
from their “superiors.” Evangb-
elos Misopoulos, the prosecutor,
who had demanded conviction of
the phir on willful manslaughter
charges, said the attack had been
ordered by the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine.
The defendants declared they
had been ordered by the Popular
Front of the Liberation of Pal
estine. The defendants declared
they had been given orders to
destroy the airliner but not to
kill anyone on board. The court
awarded $1,000 in damages to the
widow of the slain engineer.
(British press observers said the
defendants and their lawyers in
the Athens trial was - highly
pleased by the court verdict.
Though the sentences were stiff,
the main point was that the
charge of willful murder against
Mahmoud Muhammed was re
duced to manslaughter by negli
gence and both of the accused
were acquitted of the charge of
-attempted mass murder. The
Guardian said the evidence indi
cates that political considerations
played an important part in the
trial. The Guardian’s Athens
correspondent noted that Greece
has no formal diplomatic rela
tions with Israel and generally
pursues a pro-Arab policy in for
eign affairs. The Athens Govern
ment was concerned with the',
welfare of the many Greek citfc-i
to leave. Last month he and 38
Russian Jews took the unprec
edented step of addressing a let
ter to the Soviet Foreign Min
istry pressing for their emigra
tion rights. They made a copy,
containing their names, addresses
and occupations and made it
avaliable to Western newsmen.
The letter was subsequently
published abroad. Young Kaza
kov' told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that since then, the So
viet government newspaper Iz-
vestia has singled out his father
for persecution. “He has lost bis _
Suggests
The youth conducts his vigil
from seven a. m. to 10 p. m. He
sleeps in a mobile trailer pro
vided by friends. The trailer
contains his picket signs.
One mah, who identified him
self as Alex Schlesinger, a sur
vivor of the Auschwitz and
Birkenau concentration camps,
said he joined young Kazakov
“to remind the world of a
pledge each of us concentration
camp inmates made 27 years ago
when we sat in the death camps
of Europe . . . that if we ever
emerged from the Hitler ordeal,
we would never again sit by in
silence while Jews anywhere in
the world were being persecuted
and abused.” Kazakov told the
JTA, through an interpreter,
that he will return to Israel. “It
is my home, where I belong.” But
he said he would continue his
hunger strike until the UN acts
on behalf of Soviet Jews.
Discontinue j
Training Arabs
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep.
J. Herbert Burke, Republican of
Florida, asked the Nixon admin
istration this week to discontinue
training 405 Arab military per
sonnel at U.S. bases since the
State Department -feels our coun
try should cool off tensions in
the Middle East by not selling
further jets to Israel.
“The State Department in
formed me by letter that a total
of 317 personnel from Arab
countries are being trained un
der the foreign military sales
program. Several of these tram- .
ees I know are being trained as
pilots,” Burke said. ....
The Congressman said the
Arab soldiers — 16 of them Jor
danians — are being trained to
handle U.S. military equipment
at military bases in this country.
France's Grand Rabbi
Takes Swipe at Gov't.
Missiles are reliably reported to have arrived enmasse in Egypt
to bolster the limitless supply from Soviet sources. The State De
partment disclosed in Washington March 31 that “items of sur
plus military equipment have gone to Israel recently.’^
PARIS (JTA) — Dr. Jacob
Kaplan, Grand Rabbi of France,
reaffirmed the right of French
Jews, “as free equal citi
zens,” to express their polit
ical opinions and “to have moral
and religious links with other
Jews wherever they may be.”
Dr. Kaplan thus .challenged
French Government spokesman
and supporters who have at
tached French Jewish leaders for
their criticism of the French
Government’s anti-Israel policies
and, particularly, the decision of
the Pompidou Government to
sell jet planes to Libya, an
avowed enemy of Israel. Writ
ing in Le Monde, leading Paris
daily, Dr. Kaplan declared that
French Jews “do not automati
cally espouse without consider
ation of merits, Israel’s policies
and positions. In this particu
lar case,” he said, “France’s
Jews, together with the over
whelming majority of France’s
citizens, feel that the current
French policy of supplying
planes and arms to Libya jeop
ardizes Israels very existence.”
The Grand Rabbi’s reaffirma
tion and defense of French Jew
ry was in the form of a reply
to an article which Le Monde
published last month. Written
by Rene Massigli, prominent
French diplomat and former Am
bassador to Britain, that article
accused French Jews of having
a “double allegiance” and Dr.
Kaplan of being guilty of “in
trusion into temporal affairs.”
Dr. Kaplan strongly affirmed
his right to take religious and
moral positions on matters which
he said affected the conscience
of the natioil, such as Biafra,
Israel or Vietnam. He pointed
out that Catholic and Protestant
churchmen did the same thing
and asked M. Massigli: “Are we
to be forbidden to do so only
because, in this particular in
stance, we hold views favorable
to Israel?”