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An in-deptli report of current conditions in the Middle Easjt will be presented to the Omaha Jewish community Sunday, August 10, by John Illavacek, KMTV news analyst, Mr. Hlavacek will offer candid views, Impressions and predictions gleaned from his recent tour of Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, at a special open meeting of the Omaha Jewish Federation to be held at 8 p.m. at Temple Israel. In announcing plans for the s p e c i a l meeting, S. Elmer Gross, federation president, urged the community ."to take advantage of this unique opportunity to hear a first-hand report from Mr. Hlavacek, a seasoned reporter with more than two decades of experience as
Mayor Lindsay Tells Concern for Israel • New York (JTA)— Mayor John V, Lindsay told a Histadrut dinner' this week that "Israel's greatest enemy is the indifference of a world whose attention is turned to other lands Americans must respond to Israel, the Mayor said. "We must not supply w o r d s and promises. We must supply action. We must not look away from Israel with the excuse that our own problems are so •great—our own needs so urgent —that we have no time or energy or help to give Israel," he -said.
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an observer of Middle East conditions." Mr. Hlavacek will be introduced by Robert Feinberg, a member of the UJA and Israel B o n d s national boards. Mr. Feinberg noted that of particular interest will be Mr. Mavacek's i m p r e s s i o n s of the changes in Israel since he last visited the country in 1965. While in Israel and the Arab
Arab Refugees Gel Free Heart Surgery Jerusalem (JTA)—A year old agreement between the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center and the United Nations Relief and Works Administration (UNRWA) to treat Arab refugees 'with heart ailments has resulted in successful&open heart "surgery on 10 patients without charge. : AbqiiUhalf-the patients-were children and two 25 year old women, each with five children have been returned to normal life with the replacement and repair of d e f e c t i v e heart valves. Such surgery normally costs about $3,000. West bank Arabs with heart ailments are first examined at the" Lutherans' Auguste Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem under UNRWA auspices. -Hadassah cardiac surgeons and cardiologists periodically consult colleagues at Auguste Victoria and examine patients there. Some are referred to the Hadassah medical center for further tests and surgery is performed if warranted.
countries, Mr, Illavacek visited both with government officials and "the man-on-the-street," and will discuss all these impressions at the meeting Sunday. Following his presentation, a question and answer session' will be held. While in Israel, -Mr. Hlavacek visited with Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Newman and their children, who are spending, the summer in Israel. He also met with former Omahans, Mrs. Lilliaif Margolin Mirviss and her husband, Jacob,-and with Mrs. Sylvia London Doron. A report of liis meeting with the Omahans was presented recently on the regular M o n d a y t h r o u g h Friday 10:15 p.m. KMTV news f e a t u r e , "The Hlavacek Report." '
far Israeli Deployment Jerusalem (JTA) — Reports that Syrian units were entering Jordan for deployment ment along Jordan's northern border in the Irbid area were considered by observers here as still another proof of Egyptian President Nasser's urgent need for relief from Israeli pressure on the Suez Canal sector which lie hopes to obtain by diverting Israel's attention to other fronts. The" observers noted that the reported entrance and deployment has not been confirmed
Cornell Offieicil DeniesvGbcrge Of Compys ilaek Anfi-Semifism Washington (JTA)^-The Cor- ception." The column pub.nell University provost, Dale lished in the Post on July 21, B. Carson Has accused nation- declared that "the dominant issue to be pursued by Cornell's a l l y syndicated columnists . black militants", when school is Rowland Evans and Robert No- resumed" in' the fall "has an vak of "particularly. blatant overt anti-Semitic tone: A .and damaging" inaccuracies in charge that Jewish professors a column declaring there was blocked the appointment to the —felaek—antt-SemiUsm—on—tha. faculty of an extremist black strife torn campus, the Wash- -militant—on—grounds—of—antU ington Post reported this week. Semitism. The column added that Cor- Novak replied that he and Ills colleague had re-checked nell Negro students would de, their sources "and stand by the mand that John Hatchett of column as written without ex- New York be hired "as a mat' ter of black self-determination whether or not he is anti- SeWJC to Discuss mitic." Hatchett was named director last September of a new MarYouth Poblems tin Luther King Jr. Afro" TEL AVIV, (JTA)-A meet- American Center at ing of the executive committee New York Student He had. -of the WofldlJewish Congress, written an"University. article in a Negrol which will open in Jerusalem teachers periodical -next Jan. 7, will devote one full that Jewish teachers charging; dominatday to Jewish youth problems, ed the New York public school Dr. Joachim Prinz, chairman system and that they and 1 of the WJC governing council; their J'Negro initators ' were said. •• poisoning the minds of Negro Asserting that "we, the pres- pupils. ent generation of Jewish lead- - New York University subseership, are practically fit for quently cancelled the appointthe old, age home," Dr. Prinz ment under an arrangement said that though many of the under which students said they Jewish youth in America were would finance a similar apradical, hot "all" were" members point mentfoFlhoNegro teach; of the New Left. This Jewish er without university approval. - youth, he said r is seeking-EorneL —The column asserted that new missions in Jewishncss and ''this introduction of anti-Seis not looking for a Jewishness mitism deepens Cornell's .cll< which is narrowed down to the mate of fear. Through the sumJewish dietary laws. They want mer, there were scattered* cam? something of the Prophets who pus beatings of white students also brought social messages by unknown Negro assailants." to the people." The Provost replied that tho
JOHN HLAVACEK, Ieft7 KMTV news analyst, is pictured with an Israeli driver of a captured Russian six-wlieel armored personnel carrier, on the Golan-Syrlan border. —KMTV Photo.
assertions of -campus beatings were "also untrue" and that he was not aware "that anything like a climate of fear exists on the campus at this time."
by either Jordan or Syria. The observers said that if the reports were true, it appeared that the new "eastern command" of the Arabs — Iraq, Syria arid Jordan—had been asked by Nasser to take immediate action and that the Syrian troop entry was the in!-' tial response. It was reported that the Saudi Arabian brigade now in Southern Jordan would be reinforced, making King Hussein head of a state harboring four foreign armies—those of Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the El Fatah terrorist group, •Israeli officials were reported to be watching the situation carefully, particularly in terms of the fact that the Syrian move/ would constitute a clear viola-
tion of the Israeli-Jordan cease, fire agreement. British press reports from tha Middle East asserted that SyrIan troops had moved into Jordan, describing the purported development as evidence: o£ greater cooperation between the Arab states in support bt Egyptian President Nasser's proclaimed goal of wearing Is« rael down by attrition. The observer asserted that Israel privately told the Big Four powers that unless tho Middle East cease-fire was re« established and direct ArabIsrael negotiations were resumed promptly through "Unit-ed Nations p e a c e -emissary,^ Gunnar Jarring, Israel would, take more drastic military action to end the. "war of attrition."
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Bonn (JTA) — Charges were worrisome aspect of a possible filed this week by Frankfurt substantial NPD gain of seaty p r o s e c u t o r Dietrich Rahn in the Bunestag in the forth« against an unspecified number coming Sept. 28 general ele'e* ot-monitors-ot the extemlst-^ions^woulolbjeJt£Mectonpub« National Democratic Party on lie opinion aboard. "~"T~ charges , they beat. protesters Mr. von Hasseli also a mem< and passers-by outside a riot- ber of the Chancellor's Chris* one NDP meeting in Frankfurt tian Democratic Union, told ft last week. party meeting in Munich thaf The beatings reportedly took NDP was not a neo-Nazi party place after Dr; Benno Korber, and that most of its members the leader of the 60 monitors were "honorable people" seek* at the rally, ordered his men ing "law and order.? • to d e a r thecongested entrance of the meeting hall "at any cost." The monitors wore helmets and black gloves. A spokesman for the Federal Interior -Ministry, which has Montgomery, Ala. (JTA) >-r. been seeking a ban against the Gov. Albert P. Brewer has dl« NDP, said it was the first time rected all universities and col< the monitors had appeared -in leges in Alabama to-permit uniform clothing. He added that the absence of, Jewish students AMBASSADOR VOSEP , Frankfurt authorities will have on September 22, the Day,of to decide whether the helmets Israel't Permanent Representative "to' Atonement, " a s a n excused ab« {lib (Jnltcd .Nations, ii 3BU0-7O recip- and gloves constituted uniient of tho Bam Bcbcr Alcpli Zadik forms, which are banned at sence in observance of Yorri Aleph ..Distinguished Alumnus Award. West_German_ jgolitlcal__ func- Kippur." Gov. Brewer acteq -at-the.request..of.Col._RubhiML; AZA IJ tho" bo/»' coiiiponoiit of tbo tions. ' 60,000-member B'oal B'rlth Youth of Montgomery. •In r e l a t e d developments. Hanan Organ Uatlon, Named in honor u( " The governor made no re« 'AZA founder Saw Bcbcr of Omahn, -_. Chancellor "Kurt Kicsinger ana Neb, tbo award Is presented annually Kai'Uwe von Hasscl, president ference to high schools an,4 to former members nlio attained dis- of the Bundestag, the lower elementary schools but ar« tinction. Ambassador Tekoali, 44, was house of Parliament, was criti- rangements were being madd n member of an AZA chapter in cized for declaring they did not by Jewish leaders to draw th$ Shanghai, irticra lie attended a unl< executive's decision to the at* torslty before he went to Harvard consider the NDP a neo-Nazi tention of local school boards for post-graduate- work in interna- ^ > party,- although \ he ..addedithat tional relations. H« was formerly some of its leaders were, for- with" therrequest thaWhey e x Israel'1 Ambassador to Brazil tni tt mer Nazis. The Chancellor also cuse the absence of Jewish p * 61* Soviet Union. . i \ :. ; reportedly said that the only pils on the holy days. ,
Collegians Excused During Yom Kippur