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<L> rH O O -H O D Xi P Q c £ o <u « •H > -H f’ < -P £> cO r £ a> P -el Fi <v-t o p p r <u H P 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.