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/ SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
A
Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 1925
Vol. XLVIII
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, June 8, 1973
One Section— 16 Pages
NO. 23
NY Mayoral Candidates Oppose
Sale of Arms to Arab States
ISRAELI COTTON FARMERS TOliR GEORGIA — Georgia Com
missioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin (end of table) discusses cotton
production with Israeli cotton farmers touring Georgia. Included in the
tour group was Run Hadvati, Jehuda Arazy, Micla Jacai, Amie Keren,
Joram Tomez, Jigal Garber and and Elazar Kletter, all engaged in cotton
production in Israel.
NEW YORK (JTA )— The four
battling candidates for the
Democratic Mayoral nomination
found an issue on which they
could agree.
They agreed that proposed
American arms sales to Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait would cause
nothing but more trouble in the
Mideast. Abraham D. Beame,
the City Controller, declared
“It’s a very dangerous action
that discourages peaceful
negotiations and endangers the
preservation of a ceasefire.”
Beame called on President
Nixon and the State Department
to cancel the proposed sale.
Albert B lum enth al,
Atlanta Federation Leaders
Say *700.000 Still Needed
Assemblyman from the West
Side of Manhattan, said: “We
must remain united in our
responsibility and commitment
to assist Israel in protecting
itself from attack. It’s
outrageous and deplorable for
our country to provide arms to
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.”
Rep. Herman Badillo stated:
“The reported sale of arms to
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will not
help the cause of peace in the
Middle East.” Rep. Mario
Biaggi said : “The sale of arms
by our country to Saudi Arabia
and Kuwait is outrageous and
intolerable. It imperils the very
delicate ceasefire that now exits
in that troubled part of the world
and I, for one, urge President
Nixon not go to through with it.’
Some 800 contributors still
to be solicited for 1973, and the
workers who will talk to them,
will decide the outcome of
the 1973 Atlanta Jewish Wel
fare Federation campaign.
In so deciding, General Cam
paign co-chairmen Jerry Dubrof
and Sidney Feldman stated this
week, they will also decide the kind
of life and security that will be the
lot of thousands of their fellow
Jews in Israel, in Russia, elsewhere
in the world and in Atlanta.
With almost $3.5 millions now
pledged, there remains a minimum
of $700,000 to be contributed by
those 800 men and women who
gave this amount last year. The
amount raised to date represents a
5.8% increase over last year’s giv
ing, but not enough to offset the in
creased operating costs of the
beneficiary agencies, according to
the chairmen.
The importance of increased
giving by contributors and speedy
coverage of prospects by chairmen
and workers was stressed by
Dubrof and Feldman. In a state
ment issued to “all who have not
thus far made their 1973 com
mitments," they said, “It must be
obvious to all of us, as Jews com
mitted to the survival of our peo
ple, that 1973 is a particularly
meaningful year.
"It is a time when the people of
Israel celebrate the 25th anniver
sary of statehood, and when we
who have extended our help to
them these past 25 years share
their joy and pride.
“However, it is also a year when
our support must be of neces
sity exceed any previous level of
help if even the most basic
human needs are to be met.
"It is a time when over 12,000
immigrants came to Israel since
the first of the year — to an Israel
already struggling with vast
homefront needs and an assort
ment of internal hardships which
can be alleviated only by way of
the most exemplary philanthropy
on our part.
"We appeal to the Jewish men
and women of our community to
search their hearts in this year of
significance to assess the situation
fully as it exists today, and to act
in a manner consistent with the
needs and the dictates of their con
sciences and memories."
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Israeli Ambassador Simcha
Dinitz called Monday on Dr.
Henry Kissinger, President
Nfxon’s national security
advisor, to express his country’s
concern about the sale of F-4
Phantom jets to Saudi Arabia.
According to sources here, the
action by Dinitz did not
constitute a protest against
Washington’s negotiations with
Saudi Arabia for Phantoms but
an effort to seek clarification on
the sale. Sources also reported
that Dr. Kissinger would pass_
the Ambassador’s observations
on to Nixon and promised a
reply.
The meeting between Dinitz
and Dr. Kissinger was part of the
on-going high-level contacts
between Israel and the United
States since reports disclosed
that the U S. is planning large-
scale arms sales to Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia.
Dinitz had been instructed by
the Israeli government to seek
full details from the State
Department on the quality and
quantity of American arms going
to the Arab states. Last week
Dinitz also met with Assistant
Secretary’ of State Joseph J.
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Jackson: Detente With USSR
Should Include Free Emigration
NEW YORK (JTA) - Sen.
Henry M Jackson said Sunday
that detente with the Soviet
Union “should reflect progress
in the area of human rights" and
that in that area "free
emigration is first among
equals.”
The Washington Democrat
discussed the problem of free
emigration for Jews and others
in the Soviet Union in an address
delivered at the 42nd annual
commencement exercises of
Disillusioned by Peaceniks, POW
Who Shunned Honors Takes Own Life
Hometowns across the country
have honored their returned
prisoners of the Vietnam War
with enthusiastic celebrations to
manifest their ^J«dhess in having
them back after their ordeals in
enemy military prison camps,
but Air Force Capt. Edward
Brudno would have none of those
happy homecomings.
His father, Dr. James C.
Brudno, an internist in Quincy,
Mass., told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency: "He wants
no part of anything like that.
He’s been through too much.
When his health gets better he
will go back to graduate school
for his master's, probably in
Air Force Captain Edward
Brudno ahuned the happy
homecoming accorded other
POW’a.
Sunday, he shunned life
itself and was fotmd dead in
the home of his wife’s family
in Harrison, N. Y„ apparently
a suicide.
One of the several notes he
left reportedly read “Life is
not worth livtag.”
Funeral services are
scheduled for June 8 in
Quincy, Mass., at Temple
Beth H. The rites were
delayed because ofShavuot.
electronics and possibly in
aviation.”
Captain Brudno, who at 33 is
the oldest of the four Jewish
prisoners back from Vietnam,
was one of the longest-held
captives of the 566 returned
POWs. He was imprisoned 89
months. Bom June 4, 1940, in
Quincy, Mass., he was 25 when
his fighter F4C jet was shot down
Oct. 18, 1965, over North
Vietnam and he was captured
He joined the Air Force in April
1963, the same year that he was
graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
In those seven and one-half
dreary years in prison camps,
only one letter was received by
him from his wife, Debra, to
whom he had been married only
three months when he left for
Southeast Asia. Not more than
two letters reached him from his
parents, his father said.
For long periods he was in
solitary confinement and no
news of any kind was allowed to
be given him. Thus he wasn't
even aware of the Six-Day War
until more than four years
afterwards. Like learning about
America putting men on the
moon, the news came to him and
others accidentally. "Sometimes
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Yeshiva University.
The legislator, who Ws the
author of legislation linking U.
S.-Soviet trade with emigration
rights for Soviet citizens, was
awarded an honorary’ degree of
Doctor of Laws.
Other honorary doctorates
awarded by Yeshiva University
today included doctorates in
humane letters to Dr. Jean
Piaget, the Swiss child psy
chologist, and to Elie Wiesel,
the author. Some 44)0 bachelor’s,
229 master’s and 70 doctoral
degrees, and 115 certificates and
diplomas were conferred upon
graduates of ten of the
university’s undergraduate,
graduate and professional
schools. The occasion also
marked the 30th anniversary of
the appointment of Dr. Samuel
Belkin to the presidency of
Yeshiva University.
Jackson told his audience
that he was in daily receipt of
appeals “often written and
communicated at great risk"
from “innocent men and women
whose only desire is to emigrate
from behind the Iron Curtain "
Many of them are from Jews, he
said. “I am proud as an
American that these brave
people have turned For us, a
nation of immigrants, to turn our
backs on them in the interests of
the most shallow notion of
detente — or worse yet, in the
blind imrsuit of profits from
trade — would be a betrayal
equalled only by our abject
si'ence in the 1930s.”