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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XLV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 23, 1970
Two Sections—12 Pages
No. 43
Israel, Egypt Banter
About Resuming Talks
Egypt Says US Brc
By Selling Arms tc
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is
rael government re-affirmed of
ficially Monday that it will not
return to the Jarring peace talks
until Egyptian missile violations
in the Suez truce zone are rec
tified. The announcement, issued
after a cabinet meeting, stated
that “Israel will not start shoot
ing as long as the Egyptians do
not” after the current 90-day
cease-fire expires Nov. 5. Earlier
Israel issued another complaint
against Egypt—its 23rd—for vio
lating the cease-fire by ad
vancing more missiles into the
restricted zone. President Anwar
Sadat, of Egypt, declared in
Cairo that his government is
prepared to agree to one exten
sion of the cease-fire, provided
that the Mideast peace talks res
ume under the auspices of
United Nations envoy Dr. Gun
ner V. Jarring. In a television
interview in New York, Egyp
tian Foreign Minister Mahmoud
Riad rejected as much as a
“token” withdrawal of missiles
from the truce zone. Premier
Golda Meir arrived in New
York. She told newsmen at Ken
nedy Airport that Israel was
‘“prepared for quiet diplomacy”
to end the Mideast crisis. She
insisted however that Israel
would not return to the Jarring
talks until the Egyptian govern
ment “recreated the situation ac
cording to the cease-fire agree
ment.” She said once that is
done, "talks can begin immedi
ately.”
A cabinet session, presided
over by Acting Premier Yigal
Allon, heard Foreign Minister
Abba Eban’s report on his con
versation with Vice President
Spiro Agnew in Washington last
week and approved Mr. Eban’s
return to New York next week
to head the Israeli delegation
at the General Assembly. A bit
ter debate on the Mideast is
shaping up in the General As
sembly next week.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
State Department official this
week refuted the claim by
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mah
moud Riad that his country in
no way violated the cease-fire
agreement. The Department
spokesman, Jqhn King, said that
the United States has “a full
public record that there have
been serious violations of the
standstill provisions of the cease
fire.”
Mr. Riad, in a television inter
view said that U. S. intelligence
photographs proved nothing be
cause they were of dummy mis
sile sites which were being
shifted constantly and were
legally within the 32-mile
standstill zone. Refuting Mr.
Riad’s claim, Mr. King quoted
at length from Secretary of
State William P. Rogers’ Oct. 9
press conference statement in
which Mr. Rogers said that he
himself had closely studied the
U. S. evidence with intelligence
experts and was completely
Rally for Soviet Jewish Youth Produces Varied
Audience More Solemn Than
by Adolph Rosenberg
Atlantans—some 400 strong—
assembled Sunday under the
huge turkey oak in front of the
Jewish Community Center and
talked tachlis about the plight
of Russian Jewry.
A score or so of non-Jewish
notables were on hand for the
protest demonstrating solidarity
with Russian Jewish youth who
traditionally on Simhat Torah,
the lone time when it is per
mitted,' dance in the streets of
Moscow near the big synagogue
to show their religious affinity.
Former U.S. Congressman
Charlie Weltner was the main
speaker telling the vastly mixed
audience of young and old that
the suppression of the culture
and practice of religion by any
people "becomes rightfully the
concern of all people.”
Andrew Young has issued a
statement calling upon Christ
ians everywhere to join in a na
tionwide expression of support
for the Jewish people living in
Russia. Young, who seeks the
post vacated in Congress by
Weltner several years ago, was
present Sunday, as was his Re
publican opponent U.S. Flet
cher Thompson.
Jack Goren chaired the pro
gram arranged under auspices of
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fed
eration Committee on Overseas
Jewry.
Jewish war veterans of Post
112 on hand in caps and uni
forms, presented the colors.
Members of Atlanta’s youth,
Stuart Cohen read a letter smug
gled out of Russia in 1968 and
Marc Weinberg read “Rabi Yar,”
a poem about persecution, bring
ing tears to many who heard
the vibrant messages.
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend sang
“Massada Shall Never Fall
Again,” the stirring melody oath
adopted by inductees in the Is
rael army, first a verse in He
brew, then a verse in English.
Gail Goldstein and Lori Levin
read another letter telling of the
plight of Jews behind the Iron
Curtain.
Rabbi Robert Ichay, spiritual
leader of Or VeShalom Congre
gation, delivered a prayer for
Soviet Jewry.
Then there were songs and
dancing, led by Cantor Good-
friend and accordianist Ira Rib-
ack. Mostly the youth sang and
danced for more than an hour
after the program-ended.
A petition to be sent to the
Russian Embassy was passed
around for signatures and sev
eral youngsters sold buttons em
blazoned with “Let My People
Go” and “Are We the Jews of
Silence.” Proceeds* about $100,
were forwarded to the New
York headquarters of the “Stu
dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry,”
to help finance the cost for pos
ters and literature the group dis
tributes throughout America.
All in all, the rally was the
occasion for introspection by
participants and observers.
“We did not expect so many
people,” was one reaction.
“Where are the other 20,000 At
lantans,” was another. “At best
this is but a mere two or three
percent.” “Where are the rest of
the young people?” “Why does
the plight of Soviet Jewry not
turn on our youth?”
There were leaders who were
grateful for such a fruitful and
vigorous first beginning and
others who contemplatively
weighed the esoteric question of
whether Russia pays any atten
tion to such crowds in the first
place.
But for those who participa
ted in Sunday’s autumned full
ness, the program produced
special self - acknowledge
ments and a glow of inner satis
faction that at least a few hun
dred persons—few in relation
ship to the thousands who might
have poured out to identify—had
done what they could.
Said one skeptic, “now I can
understand why there were no
public arousings for the Six Mil
lion.”
More than likely the rally
showed up the division in most
American ethnic and even gener
al groups as to whether public
opinion can be gauged by mass
turn-outs or is the personal
quality of contemplation of peo
ple reacting mentally rather
than physically.
satisfied that serious violations
had occurred.
Mr. Rogers said further at the
time that there was "no doubt
about the fact that fill of the
parties agreed that after the
ceasefire there would be no im
provement in military situation
in the 50 kilometer zone and the
language (of the agreement) is
perfectly clear.” Mr. King said he
was “not aware” that the U. S.
planned to make public the
evidence in its possession. He
had no comments on a report in
the Washington Star that Amer
ican pilots were flying Phantom
jets to Israel.
According to the Washington
Star, U. S. Marine Corps reserve
pilots have been “secretly ferry
ing” new F-4 Phantom jets
from this country to Israel for
the last three weeks. The report
by Orr Kelly, stated the pilots
fly as civilians under contract
to the McConnell-Douglas Air
craft Corporation in St. Louis,
Mo., the manufacturers of the
jet plane, “but the flights are
made with the full cooperation
of the United States govern
ment.” A Defense Department
spokesman told the Jewish Tel
egraphic Agency that he had
“absolutely no comment.”
Spokesmen for the aircraft
company could not be reached
for comment. Mr. King also
refused to comment, when ques
tioned by a Tass correspondent,
on a Washington Post report
that the State Deparment was
feuding with the United States
Information Agency over the
latter’s allegedly “hard line”
toward the Soviet Union in the
Middle East and other areas of
big power conflict According
to the Post, Secretary Rogers
reminded USIA director Frank
Shakespeare that the USIA was
not entitled to strike out on its
own in foreign policy matters.
The Post said the issue arose
after the USIA issued an in
ternal policy guide to its staff
seeking to get the agency to
draw an explicit parallel be
tween the Soviet missiles in the
Suez cease-fire zone and the
Cuban missile crisis of 1962. An
earlier conflict arose between
the State Department and the
USIA when the State Depart
ment “toned down” a message
to USIA posts abroad charging
direct Soviet responsibility for
the Suez' truce violations, the
Post said, adding that the State
Department wanted to avoid ac
cusing the Russians directly be
cause of efforts to get the Jar
ring peace talks going and be
cause Moscow was not a formal
signatory to the cease-fire ar
rangements.
Two Jewish Scientists
Among Nobel
LONDON, (JTA) — Two Jew
ish scientists—Sir Bernard Katz
of London and Dr. Julius Axel
rod of Bethesda, Md. — were
named in Stockholm this week
as two of the three winners of
the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize in
Physiology and Medicine. The
Swedish Royal Caroline Medico-
Surgical institute announced the
selection of the three, who will
share $76,800. The third winner
is Sweden’s Dr. Ulf von Euler.
The trio won for research on
transmissions between nerve
cells, knowledge useful in treat
ing nervous and medical disor
ders. Sir Bernhard, 59, has been
a professor and head of the Bio
physics Department at Univer
sity College here since 1952.
Bom in Leipzig, he went on to
obtain a master’s degree in 1934,
a Ph.D. in 1938 and a doctor of
science degree in 1943—the first
from the University of Leipzig,
the last two from the University
of London. He has been resident
in London since 1935. A noted
lecturer and author, he was elec
ted vice president of the Royal
Society of Medicine in 1965 and
was awarded its Copley Medal
in 1967.
Dr. Axelrod. 58, of the Univer
sity Public Health Service in
Bethesda, has also been associ
ated with the National Institute
of Mental Health since 1955. He
received his bachelor’s degree
from the City College of the
City of New York in 1933, his
master’s degree from New York
University in 1941 and his Ph.D.
in chemical pharmacology from
George Washington University,
Washington, D.C., in 1955. A
previous Jewish winner/ of the
Physiology and Medicine prize,
Germany’s Dr. Otto H. Warburg
(1931) recently died at the age
of 87. Another Jewish winner
(1952) was Dr. Selman A. Waks-
man, the Russian-born American
credited with developing strep
tomycin. Dan Rice, a spokesman
Peace Winners
for the National Institute of
Mental Health at Bethesda told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that Dr. Axelrod is a “self-effac
ing person” who was “non-plus-
sed and speechless” when he re
ceived word of his Nobel Prize.
“He was very, very pleased. He
was totally and genuinely sur
prised,” Dr. Rice said. He said
Dr. Axelrod heard about the
award while he was at a den
tist’s office having a tooth filled.
In Brief...
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Relia
ble sources said here that U. S.
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers has offered to play a
tape recording of a telephone
conversation between himself
and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
F. Dobrynin to refute Moscow’s
contention that the Soviet Union
was not a party to the Israel-
Egyptian cease-fire agreement.
According to the sources, the
Russians have not yet respond
ed to the offer. It was also learn
ed that the U. S. has indicated
it would be satisfied with less
than total removal of the mis
siles from the truce zone btit
that the Soviet Union has re
jected this. ,
SDEH BOKER (JTA) — The
desert village of Sdeh Boker was
the scene of a major traffic jam
Sunday as thousands of Israelis
came on foot, in cars and by
helicopter to personally greet
former Prime Minister David
Ben Gurion on his 84th birthday.
Mr. Ben Gurion, making one of
his rare appearances wearing a
tie, welcomed the well-wishers
outside a sukkot near the Negev
school that he helped found. He
said that the 64 years during
which he has lived in Israel had
taught him entirely new con
cepts of Zionism, Socialism apd
the Bible.