States' share of contributions H.E.W. has already been forced funds are b e i n g diverted to to the United Nations Relief to cancel a project that would UNRWA to pay Arab camp salj Washington — U. S..Govern- and Works Agency. This diver- provide educators with Israeli aries and for purchase of food j ment physicians, scientists, and sion coincided, however with insights into education of the from abroad for-the refugees j educators arc d i s m a y e d to new A.I.D. requests for over culturally deprived. Under the direction of Law$10 million for universities in ' learn t h a t the At the U. S. Bureau of fishBeirut and Cairo. The Arab eries, officials had e a g e r l y rence H. Mirel, the American ' State D e p a r t - ] universities will use the money awaited the results of the ex- Friends of Hebrew University's ' rncnt Is termlfor new buildings and faculty periments on blue green algae Office of Research and Develi tutting hundreds J salaries r a t h e r than for re- at Hebrew University, a pro- opment is trying to find spon'of Research Prosearch. • ject shedding new light on pol- sors of research in birth conjects at Israeli ] trol and other priority topics. An estimated 1,200 Israeli luted water and fish,. • Universities and scientists and technicians may • Institutions that The crisis has led the He- Philanthropists contribute genbe forced to close tbeir labora- brew University to open a spe- erously for University build' seek solutions to tories at raid-point although cial o f f i c e in Washington to ings that will d i s p l a y their American Urban such agencies as the V. S. Na- seek alternative financing from names but are less interested Problems. tional institutes of health are foundations, industries and indi- in research. The funds for eagerly awaiting new findings viduals so that, important reHealth authorities were anxthe p r o j e c t s Friedman on cancer and other diseases. search projects can be contin- ious to have the findings on nu. have been reThe most distressed voices ued despite the cancellation of tritional research, cancer inappropriated for Arab refugees tn the Gaza Strip and West are heard at the Department of United States g o v e r n m e n t vestigation and other undertakBank to help cover the United Health, Education and Welfare. funds. The cancelled American ings.
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By MILTON FRIEDMAN
Vol. LXVH—«8
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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1969
Even the U. S. Defense Department- is concerned. Thousands of American soldiers in Southeast Asia have suffered from-rnalaria and the Hebrew University was working on a vaccine against malaria sought by the U. S. Army Medical Corp. But the Bureaucratic Budget manipulators have redistributed U. S. counter-part funds in Israel to end all American Governmental Research by 1973. Research funds . are drying up at the very moment- when America is hearing a great outcry for a breakthrough in the areas of pollution, health, education and nutrition, the very fields in which the bureaucrats have blocked progress.
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More Aircraft for Israel? U.$rSpokesman Won 1 ! Say
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Washington (JTA)—State De- more than half of 80 Skyhawks. partment s p o k e s m a n Carl Last Dec. 27, the United States Bartch, declined to comment agreed to sell 50 Phantoms to . this week oh press reports that Israel. Meanwhile, Defense DepartIsrael had asked to buy addiS. Elmer Gros, president-of ["""*** tional F-4 Phantom jets and ment officials disclosed that Is- the Omaha, Jewish Federation, ' Skyhawks to maintain air su- raeli Air Force technicians and has announced the appointment were taking ad' periority over its Arab neigh- mechanics vanced training at U.S. Airof Daniel Katzman and Joe bors.. Force bases in this country to Rice to serve as co-chairmen The report, circulating here maintain.and service the Phan- of the new Jewish Community .for several weeks, said that the toms which have not yet been Center Building Committee. Mr. Katzman will be responsible for > Nixon Administration had been delivered to Israel. building design and con• asked to sell Israel about 80 Defense officials were skep- the ~! more Skyhawk A-4 flghter- tical about press reports on struction, and Mr.. Rice will ' bombers and about 23 more su- the purported new Israeli bid head the fund-raising efforts. • personic Phantoms. At present in which alleged.Israeli interIn making the announcement; 'prices for the planes, it was est in getting Phantoms equip- Mr. Gross noted that the new '' estimated that the transaction _.per. to, carry .nuclear, .weapons. chairman fill the void ..created "•"• would involve about $150 mil-" They said Israel has repeated- by tile death of Milton Living. lion. --{•'•'_ ly denied possession of such ston, who was serving as chairUnder a 1966 agreement ex- weapons and therefore would man of the Building Committee panded in January, 1968 during not ask for specially-equipped at the time of his death. Mr. ' the Johnson Administration, jetplanes or other delivery sys- Gross also noted that the new architectural arran g e m e n t s the United States has delivered tems. would have to be made as a result of Alex Wcinstein leaving the city to make his home in Joe Rice Daniel Katzman Hawaii. this search immediately, and "I am sure," said Mr. Gross, tunity given for anyone with "that the efforts of Dan Katz- hopefully, an architect will be Ideas for the new building to hired and basic designs will bo man and Joe Hice will enable have their suggestions constd™ available by the first of -the ered." • •; Tel Aviv (JTA)—The news- sary "affidavit of invitation", us to have ihs best possible in year." ' a new Center building for our Mr. Rice echoed Mr. Katz;•• paper Maariv published a copy "to be reunited with their fain-' community." Mr. Katzman noted that the man's views on the importance of a letter purportedly written ily in Israel. Commenting on his appoint- new building will be serving of the right facilities to be inOn June 16, they were In| by a Jewish family in Moscow i to President Podgorny of the formed that their application ment, Mr. Katzman said, "I the next 3 or 4 generations of cluded in the Center building. have accepted this assignment Omaha Jewry. "To be sure that "I am pleased," ^said Mr. •Supreme S o v i e t , demanding had been denied. 1 their right to emigrate to Is- The family appjied for the because I am interested in ob- the building will serve not only Rice, "to have the opportunity d but b t projected j t d to work with Dan on • this im! rael "because we feel ourselves exit p e r m i t s in accordance taining excellence in design and presentt needs, future-needs of the community. portant project. I am confi;jttriliiy^or-jilCenter3}uildingJor_Jul Premier Kosygin in Paris in our community. y With A l e x screening of ideas will be most dent," he. said, "that just as of that "state,1?. The family was identified as December, I960, that Russian Welnstein leaving the commun- important. A committee will be we will make every effort to Klizemer-Borochovitz of 457-1 citizens who wished to leave ity, we must start all over named to review new Center provide a building to serve the Nocokuzminskaya Street, -flat their c o u n t r y to be reunited again, with no preconceived buildings in comparableJewish various needs of our total Jewwith their families a b r o a d notions as to local or out-of- communities." In addition, Mr. ish community, we will get the 72, Moscow. The letter criticized Soviet would receive permission to town architects who can best Katzman said, "surveys will be moral and financial support treatment of the Jews. Accord- leave the Soviet Union. • serve our needs. We will begin made locally, as well as oppor- from the community to enable us to get the job done." Ing to the text published in Maariv, the family said it had been trying in vain since December to get permission to emigrate and continued: "We, have been raised according to Jewish1 traditions. But 11 w e r Jerusalem (JTA)—The British present conditions onr children Broadcasting Corp., was re- : are deprived of the possibility k n o w l e d g e their existence Boston (JTA)—About 150 stu- from Holland, Italy, • various to have rejected an Isof learning Hebrew and all oth- dents' of the New Left, mostly Eastern European countries, stems from the fact that the ported applicant for a television, er subjects that are needed to from Western countries, have Guyana, Guinea and India. . volunteers are militant leftists raeli training course in -London in learn the great cultural heri- formed a sort of "international El Fatah spokesmen and Jor- while El Fatah strives, to remainly Arab students are tage of our p e o p l e . We are brigade" and are training with danian authorities deny the ex-' main apolitical and does not which ; dreaming of going to settle In Arab guerrilla fighters at se- lstence of the volunteers or want to risk loss of the finan- enrolled. According to Itzhak Livni, diIsrael. As citizens* of Russia, cret camps in Jordan for com- their training camps but Coo- cial support it receives from fn accordance with tbe basic bat against Israel. According to ley. reported he had spoken to such' conservative Arab coun- rector of the Israel a r m e d laws of Russia which are op- John K. Cooley, Christian persons directly involved with tries as Saudi Arabia and Ku- forces broadcasting station, the posed to racial discrimination, Science Monitor cdrrespondent, them.-According to the Times, wait. • , Israeli applicant was a former we have the full right to emi- their training is sponsored by most of them plan to return to "The volunteers, according member of the Army broadcast• grate to Israel. We pray that El Fatah, the largest Pales- Europe to organize anti-Israel to somo of the Swedes involved Ing staff. the Soviet authorities will re- tinian commando group. "If El activities ranging from boy- regard their adventure as an He was turned down on the veal an understanding of our Fatah's normal training cycle cotts of Jewish-owned firms to important factor in tho global grounds that inclusion of an Ispeoples' problems and that our is f o l l o w e d , the volunteers sabotage. ' n a t i o n a l liberation move- raeli in the course would have , ' the spirit of teamrequest will be granted." should be ready for combat Cooley observed that "this Is ment,'" Cooley wrote. He said jeopardized work among the group. A c c o r d i n g to the Boston missions by October/' Cooley the first-known instance since that Scandinavia has become a Mr. Livni said he protested to Globe, which received a copy said, that, according to infor- the first Palestinian war o£ center or political and propa- BBC officials who. told him that anda warfaro between proof the letter from the Academic mantsy they Include four Amer- -1948 that a number of European, rab and pro-Israeli groups. if a sufficient number of IsCommittee on Soviet Jewry, icans; 30 Britons, including 10 volunteers have received comraelis wished to, study, BBC; three members of the family girls; 20 Irish; 20 French; 10 bat training to fight on tho "The first Scandinavian Pales- might arrange a special TV applied for exit permits on West Germans, and eight Arab side." Ho said the re- tine Committee was formed in course for them. ,•., ., . j, . -• ', Dec. 30, 1968, with the neees- Swedes. The remainder are luctance of- El Fatah to ac- 19G7.
Soviet-Jewish Family Claims Right to Emigrate fo Israel
ISO "New Left" Students Train Arab Guerrillas in Jordan
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British Broadcasters Nix Israeli Applicant