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The Weekly Newspaper Fur Southern Jetfiry
Our 54th Ye$r
VOL. LIV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, August 4, 1971
No. 31
Vance unsure
about Mideast
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance
said Tuesday after meeting with
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee for two hours behind
closed doors that he did not know
if his visit to the Middle East will
be successful in renewing Israeli-
Egyptian talks.
“1 don't know what's going to
happen in the Middle East,” Vance
told reporters. He said he is going
to have face-to-face discussions to
ascertain the current situation in
Cairo and Jerusalem and to
examine steps which would be
considered necessary for a Middle
East settlement.
However, Vance said the United
States will not offer any proposals
of its own during his trip and he did
not expect a resumption of
Egyptian-lsraeli meetings during
this trip. Vance is expected to leave
for the Mideast late Friday, with
Jerusalem as his first stop. His trip
is expected to last five days.
Meanwhile, at the State
Department, spokesman Hodding
Carter refused to comment on
Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohammed Kaamel’s criticism of
the U.S. for being "very
disappointed” at Egypt’s refusal to
meet with Israel until Israel agrees
to withdrawal from occupied
areas.
Kaamel said after a 90-minute
meeting in Cairo Tuesday with
Alfred Atherton, the U.S. special
envoy to the Mideast, that "It is a
well-known fact that since, and
even before, President (Anwar)
Sadat launched his initiative and
visited Jerusalem, our positions
have been consistent and
constructive.” He said he did not
think that “anybody should feel
disappointed at our approach." He
said that any possibility of Egypt
reconsidering its decision would
have to await Vance's visit.
He refused to offer an
interpretation of Sadat's remarks
except to express “disappoint
ment." He said the decision for
Vance to go to the Middle East
“obviously was taken very
recently—in the wake of Sadat's
speech."
“Teat-tub* children? Why, yea ... and how many would madam like?”
Jewish test-tube babies a ‘no-no’
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The conception of The development of the system, Goren warned,
babies born from an egg fertilized in a laboratory is could damage the family framework and the
contrary to ethics and the principle of the Torah, relations between fathers and their children. He
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren said. said that because the pregnancy did not start in the
natural way, there was no link between father and
Reacting to the successful birth in England of child, nor between mother and child. However,
the 5-pound 12-ounce baby girl, who was delivered Goren added, the test tube child conception was
by Caesarean section last week at the Oldham not contrary to halacha. He said there was hardly
General Hospital in Lancashire, Goren said the any difference between such conception and
conception was contrary to the Torah view on adopting a child, and therefore, he suggested, the
natural human existence and natural family order, adoption of a child was a better way.
