The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, October 09, 1970, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925 Vol. XLV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 9, 1970 Yhree Sections-20 Pages Mideast Peace i Talks Suspended UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The Middle East peace talks which floundered and sputtered have been suspended entirely within two months of their in ception. Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring, the Mideast peace envoy ended his efforts here last weekend to bring about Israeli-Arab talks and is returning to Moscow for at least two weeks to resume his regular post as Swedish Ambassasor to the Soviet Union according to announcements here. Spokesmen for the United Nations said that Secretary Gen eral U Thant and Dr. Jarring decided to suspend the peace talks efforts because the Mid east mediator had done “all he can do” in the present circum stances. Dr. Jarring is expected to return to the UN about Oct. 15. He came to New York on Aug. 2 in an effort to start peace talks between Israel and her Arab neighbors. Egypt, Jor dan and Israel agreed to ne gotiations under his auspices on the basis of the United States peace initiative projected by Secretary of State William P. Rogers. A UN spokesman said then that Dr. Jarring’s length of stay in New York and his course of action “will be determined” during his talks here. The peace talks, however, were doomed almoat f—i Mb In gin ning as Egypt, in violation of the standstill agreement within the cease-fire accord along he Suez Canal, began to move mis siles and construct missile sites within the 32-mile standstill zone. Talks “for a just and last ing peace” began on Aug. 25 just 17 days after the U. S. sponsored cease-fire plan went into effect. Dr. Jarring conferred with representatives of Egypt and Jordan and met twice that day with Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah. That same even ing Mr. Tekoah returned to Jer usalem for consultations and on Sept. 6 Israel announced it was withdrawing from the talks be- ceause Egypt had persistently violated the standstill agree ment. During the past month Dr. Jarring has met sporadically with representatives of Israel, Egypt and Jordan, with rep resentatives of the Big Four and that with Mr. Thant, but real negotiations never got off the ground. After the death last Monday of Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser positions apparently hardened all around. At the Big Four meeting last Wednesday the Soviet delegate, Yakov Malik, reportedly accused the United States of trying to sabotage the Jarring mission. Charles Yost, the U. S. ambas sador, cited Egyptian standstill violations and was reported to have stated that it was impor tant to know whether one could trust the word of a govern ment. Mr. Yost added that the Jarring talks could not be res umed until the missile viola tions had been rectified and urged Britain, France and the Soviet Union to help bring it about. Mr. Malik was reported to have told the Big Four that they should “redouble” then- efforts to reach the terms of a fair settlement in the Middle East. On Tuesday, Israel’s For eign Minister Abba Eban said Israel remained firm in not re turning to the peace talks until Egypt “corrects” its “illicit” missile buildup and added that he hoped to meet again with Dr. Jarring whose international judgment Israel trusted. Earlier, in a speech to the General As sembly, Mr. Eban offered to “use my presence here for talks with heads of Arab delegations on the establishment of peace and on the creation of the at mosphere and conditions in which a fruitful negotiation can take place.” There is, he assert ed, “no rational or defensible reason for refusing such an op portunity.” In Washington, State Department spokesman John F. King said that the U. S. has been informed that Dr. Jarring “will remain available to re turn to New York on 24 hours’ notice.’ Grenades Tossed Onto Temple Lot Two training-type grenades tossed onto the parking lot of the Temple in Atlanta but officials thought it was nothing more than the work of a prank ster. One of the grenades exploded, causing a stain, a halffoot in diameter on the concrete. The other was turned over to Ft. Benning authorities. The ex plosion took place shortly after midnight last Sunday. Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, spiri tual leader, felt the incident was insignificent. Twelve years ago, the Temple facilities were badly damaged by dynamite. In Brief... NEW YORK (JTA) — Presi dent Nixon was praised by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organ izations for “steadfast leader ship” in the successful effort to free hostages aboard airliners hijacked by Arab terrorists last month. Dr. William Wexler, chairman of the group, said in a letter to the White House that • President Nixon’s “insistence that all hostages be released simultaneously, rejecting any individual negotiations for the separate release of the nation als of various countries, brought about positive changes” in the policies of other nations “only too eager to ransom their citi zens without regard to the safe ty of others.” The last group of freed hostages returned to New York Wednesday afternoon, hours before the start of Rosh Hashana. TEL AVIV (JTA)—Last week was the quietiest week along the Israeli-Jordanian border in some time. Not a single incident was reported during the last week of the Jewish New Year and the next three days, or through noon Monday. There were, how ever, two incidents along the Lebanese border, compared with one the previous week and six in the Gaza Strip, down from nine. There were no incidents along along the Suez Canal cease-fire line, except for two isolated shots. Israeli authorities are alert, however, to possible trouble stemming from the Jor danian government’s granting of border enclaves to Palestin ian commandos. Such an en clave appears to exist already in the Irbid area, where the government’s army seems to have very little control. That en clave is opposite the Israeli set tlements in the Beisan and Jor dan Valleys. JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is raeli government has turned down an offer by El Fatah to free an Israeli watchman they kidnapped ten months ago in Continued on page 4 World Series Baseball Game To Be Played on Yom Kippur NEW YORK (JTA)—This year—not for the first time —a World Series baseball game will be played on Yom Yom Kippur. The 1970 series series between the Cincinna ti Reds and the Baltimore Orioles begins in Cincinnati this Saturday, which in ad dition to being the Day of Atonement is also the Sab bath. A spokesman for the Baseball Commissioner’s of fice here acknowledged to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that such schedul ing, which prevents ob servant Jews from attend ing, watching (on televis ion), listening (on radio) or playing in a game on Yom Kippur, “has been going on for so many, many years” that “there isn’t really much you can do about it.” The spokesman said the matter had been considered “very thoroughly, very carefully,” but that the team owners had accepted the predica ment and decided not to make an issue of it. The owners, the source said, have consistently reject ed the idea of World Series night games — scheduling, for example, this Saturday afternoon’s game for Satur day night—as being too rad ical a move. A special com mittee named by Commis sioner Bowie Kuhn two years ago to recommend ways to improve the game apparently made no head way on the problem of series games to Yom Kippur. IN THIS ISSUE Photo Page of Rank and File, leadership Reaction to Israel Crisis Shaky Cease-Fire Just May Continue WSHINGTON (JTA)— Diplo matic circles here expect a period of quiet in the Middle East while the Egyptians sort out their internal problems fol lowing the death of President Nasser. There are rising hopes that the 90-day Suez cease-fire will be extended beyond its Nov. 5 expiration date. Diplomats here also put credence in Egyptian statements, backed by Caro’s Soviet allies, that they seek a peaceful settlement of Mideast conflict, a policy which, they say, was pursued by President Nasser. President Nixon has re ceived private assurances of this from Egyptian leaders, the State Department disclosed. The assurances were convey ed to Elliot L. Richardson, Sec retary of Health, Education and Welfare, who headed the Presi dential delegation to passer’s fun eral in Cairo last Thursday. Mr. Richardons conferred at some length with Egypt’s in terim President Anwar Sadat and with Foreign Minister Mah moud Riad and Minister of Na tional Guidance Hassanein Hey- kal who was an intimate of the late President Nasser. The U. S. delegation was reportedly sur prised and pleased by the warmth and seriousness with which it was received by the Egyptian leadership. The feeling in diplomatic cir cles here is that at least one part of Secretary of State Wil liam P. Rogers’ Mideast peace initiative — the cease-fire — mains intact although the two sides seem as far away as ever from the parallel peace talks under United Nations envoy Gunnar V. Jarring. Dr. Jarring, who returned to Mocow, might return to the UN about Oct. 15 when Israeli and Arab leaders will be present at that time for a 25th anniversary commemora tive session of the General As sembly. Soviet Premier Alexi N. Ko sygin has announced that he would not attend, thereby scut tling chances for high level talks on the Mideast. Nevertheless, there was nothing to rule out Dr. Jarring from using the op portunity to try again to get the stalled peace talks off the ground. Egypt and the Soviet Union issued a joint communi que in Cairo affirming contin uation of the policies agreed upon by the late President Nas- Fire Destroys 6,000 Books at Aussie Center MELBOURNE (JTA)—Detec tives of the arson squad are in vestigating a fire at the Kad- imah Library of the Jewish Cultural Center here that des troyed 6000 valuable Hebrew and Yiddish books. Most of the volumes were over a century old and considered irreplace able. The collection had been as sembled from all over the world during the 60 years since the Kadimah Library was es tablished by Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe. Suspicion of arson was aroused because of a fire six months ago that destroyed a new stage built for the Yiddish theater here. At that time arson was suspected. ser and Soviet leaders. Those policies include the goal of a political solution and and accep tance of the cease-fire. The com munique was issued after four days of intensive consultations between Premier Kosygin and the post-Nasser leadership of Egypt. Mr. Kosygin headed the Soviet delegation to Nasser’s funeral and used the occasion to re-afirm Russia's continued mil itary, economic and diplomatic support for Egypt. The joint communique spoke of the com mon objective of “eliminating the consequences of Israeli ag gression by achieving perman ent peace in the area.” The semi-official Cairo daily A1 Ahram said that the Soviet Union will give “full and con tinuous support to Egypt.” The paper said pressure must be exerted to break Israel’s attempt to ’ “Obstruct the settlement of the Middle East crisis” but a political solution must not be rejected. Israel’s Defense Minis ter Moshe Dayan said in Jerusalem that Egypt apparently had call ed off its war of attrition against Israel before Nasser’s death be cause it was going against Egypt. He claimed that that was the reason why Nasser accepted the American peace initiative and decided against ending die cease-fire because of news that the U. S. was going to send mare Phantom jets to Israel. Gen. Dayan said that indica tions of Egyptian recognition of the futility of its war of at trition was the most hopeful development of the past year. He said the Arab-Israeli conflict may have entered its final phase but warned that this didn’t mean that the bloodshed was over. He expressed hope that the Egyptians would agree to extend the Suez cease-fire be yond the Nov. 5 deadline. Ob servers here predicted a month of quiet in Jordan in the after- math of a savage civil war that ravaged that country last month. The new civilian gov ernment in Amman has taken a conciliatory position toward El Fatah, the largest of the Palestinian guerrilla groups, though it is still bitterly at odds with the Marxist-oriented, ex tremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Jor dan’s new Minister of Informa- tioon, Abu Odeh, said in Am man that the government favor ed a peaceful settlement of the Mideast conflict but would nonetheless give guerrillas a free hand to mount attacks against Israel. That position apparently de rived from the accord signed by King Hussein and El Fatah chief Yassir Arafat in Cairo last Sunday, only a day before President Nasser died. Although the guerrillas were badly maul ed by Hussein’s forces, the king was unable to destroy them or to seize their strongholds in northern Jordan. His re-conci liation with Arafat was brought about by heavy pressure from other Arab countries, notably Egypt, Libya and Kuwait. The latter two oil-producing coun tries cut ofof their financial sub ventions to Jordan. Under the agreement the guerrillas - will withdraw from Amman and will concentrate in the Western bor der regions, their staging area for attacks on Israel.