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The Mystery of the French Gunboats TEL AVIV (JTA)—A Defense Ministry spokesman said he knew n o t h i n g of five French-built gunboats reportedly speeding across the Mediterranean manned by Israeli crews. The 40-knot Diesel-powered craft were built for the Israel Navy in France but were "frozen" by the French arms embargo against ' Israel,
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There were "smiles all around in Israel," The London Sunday Express reported, as the news of the gunboat coup got around. The paper noted that there was no official comment
on the-incident but that "people in the streets of Tel Aviv were congratulating themselves on having 'pulled a fast one on the French." The five boats slipped out of Cherbourg on Dec. 25 after they were allegedly sold to a Norwegian firm for oil research in the North Sea. They were said to>Jje flying the Norwegian flag and to be officered by Norwegian merchant mariners with Israeli crews. . Wire service reports quoted Israeli Embassy sources in Paris as saying that the boats, which cost $1 million apiece, had been sold to a Nor-
wegian firm and that the Israeli crews aboard them were "loaned" to the new owners. "Apart from that, it has nothing more to do with us. We have got our money back and the matter is now between the French and the new owners," the Embassy spokesman is reported to have ! : said. But Norwegian authorities in Oslo and Paris denied that Norwegian nations had purchased the boats. They said there was no record of animport '•'""!. iving been applied for and that '' ($* ' inued oh Page 8) '
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Rogers Defends US Policy Washington (JTA) — Secretary of State William P. Rogers vigorously defended America's latest proposals for a Middle East settlement and indicated displeasure with Israel's assessment of them as tantamount to "appeasement" of the Arabs. Mr, Rogers devoted much of Education and welfare concerns were the subject of discussion when HEW Secretary Robert E. Finch recently met with tits top. leadership of the National Council of Jewish Women In Washington, D. C. Airs. Leonard H. Weiner of Detroit (center), NCJW President, and Miss Hannah Stein, Executive Director, discussed day care in particular, for it Is a current program priority of the Council.
Omaha Federation Board Holds Final Meeting of Year The Executive Committee of the Omaha Jewish Federation held its final meeting of the year Monday, December' 29. The s p e c i a I dinner-meeting was called to cover items not completed during the regular December board meeting! Major action was the unanimous adoption of a publication pdllcy^for the Jewish Press. (See edltoral page C; Sidelines page 7.) \ C. M. Newman, chairman of., the 1969 Jewish Philanthropies Campaign, announced a total of $935,000 raised in the 1969 drive. Daniel Katzman, co-chairman of the new Jewish Community Center Building Committee, announced" that interviews of architects will be held during the current month, and that
further plans for the new JCC facility would be announced in the near future. Joe Rice, chairman of the Dr. Sher Home for the Aged, reported that space is now available for immediate. occupancy at the home. ' Mr. Rice noted that the available space is unusual at the home which usually operates at maximum capacity, with waiting Jists. "Those interested in obtaining residency at the Dr. Sher;Home are .urged to take'advantage of the space available now," Mr. Rice said. Inquiries may be made with Mr. Rice; with Mrs. L. Yager, the Family Service Director at the J.C.C., or with David Orkow, director of the Dr. Sher Home.
AJCongress Warns Against Public Aid For Parochial Schools NEW YORK (JTA)-The American J e w i s h Congress warned against continuing efforts of religious groups,to win p u b l i c funds for parochial schools. It said bills providing substantial, state aid to nonpublic^ schools had been rejected in 1969 by 17 state legislatures but had been adopted in . three states. It asserted that the drive for public aid, if successful, would deal "a devas-" tatlng blow to our already hard-pressed public school system." ' What the AJC described as "substantial" victories in 19G9 in obtaining public funds for parochial schools were reported in Uiree states—Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. The. new laws there have already" been challenged in the courts, the Congress said. Renewed efforts are to be expected in 1970,. it said, in all the 17 s t a t e s in which aid to church-related schools was defeated this year.
his first major news conference in four months to the Middle East crisis. He said he could understand Israel's concern but added that Americans must conduct their policy in the best interests of the United States. • He said the U.S. recommendations, which would have Israel withdraw from almost all of the occupied Arab territories in return for a b i n d i n g peace commitment from the. Arabs, was "fair" and "entirely c o n s i s t e n t " with the United Nations Security Council's resolution of J4ov. 22, 1967, which provided the "framework" for peace. In reply to a question,. Mr. Rogers said "there.is no.,.link;.; age" between Israel's dispute with the U.S. over withdrawal from the occupied territories and Israel's pending request
Ambush of Israel Bus Kills American Tourist
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli authorities ' are investigating the fatal ambush of a bus Saturday carrying American tourists. One man, identified as Leon Holtz, 48, of Brooklyn, was killed. The bus was returning to. Jerusalem from the Negev when it was fired on near the village of Dura in the Hebron area. Holtz, hit in the chest, was rushed to Hebron where he died in an Army hospital.. The area of the attack is under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. The attack occurred shortly before sunset, Israeli authorities said the bus should hot have been in that vicinity at the, time. The bus drivel1, David Danziger» apparently took a shortdetectives found a list of 11 other Jews ear- cut'over a little frequented .LondoiLjJTA,)—Further_details of an almarked for kidnapping and papers listing the route In order to get out of the leged plot by Arab terrorists to kidnap Anglocurfew area before dark. day-to-day movements of some of them. Jewish millionaires who are major supporters The Mirror quoted a detective who led the Mr. Holtz was traveling with of Israel appeared in the British press this raids as saying that the El Fatah plans "may his wife, Esther. She was taken week. . • sound "far-fetched, but every detail has" been to Hadassah Hospital in JeruThe plot was exposed by a British detective analyzed, checked and carefully worked out." salem for treatment for shock. who infiltrated a pro-Arab organization. AcScotland Yard officials declined to say No other passengers were incording to'tlie DailyMirror, the Foreign Office whether there was any connection between-the jured. Mrs. Holtz was informed has the names 6f two Arab diplomats who of her husband's death by Minarrest of Capt. Trefor Owens Williams, 40 in were''allegedly the local contacts of the kidBracknell, on charges of planning to blow up .ister of Tourism, Moshe Kpl. napers and were to have supplied them with art airliner of another country and charges •Slie said this was their first funds. . . . made by Paul Rose, M.P. that an Arab or- visit to Israel, a trip her hus? The Evening News reported that the inganization was recruiting British nationals to band had been planning for 2d tended victims were Charles Clore,, 65 and sabotage El Al airliners at Heathrow Airport, years. The couple left their 14year-old son at home. They arLord Sieff, of Brimpton, 80 and their families London. rived In Israel on Dec. 25. who were to have been drugged and flown to According to the prosecutor's office, Wilan El Fatah hideout in the Middle East where liams made ~a fufl confession of involvement in Israeli authorities said the they would be held for ransom. attack was the first on a cian espionage pfot. A q u a n t i t y of'explosives vilian vehicle in the Hebron was in his possession. He Was held without The Mirror reported that the kidnap plans were discovered in the course of four police -v bail on charges1 that could carry 14 years im«. area in two months. Previous raids In and around London. The paper said l t ' ^ ''' ' a t t a c k s have been mada
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for more arms and economic aid from the U.S. He said Israel's request was' being given careful consideration "with tha knowledge that the U.S. has an obligation to support the sovereignty Of Israel and its future security." • Asked if the U.S. might limit arms shipments to Israel under existing contracts—apparently Phantom jets—in view ot Israel's attitude toward Wash* ington's latest proposals, Mr. Rogers said: "we have had no discussion on that at all." Referring to Israeli charges of "appeasement" he said that was an "unfortunate word"' because it suggested that ths Arabs were "enemies of tha JUJL_awl-we are a p p e a s i n g them," lie observed that the U.S. has. had friendly relations with the A r a b s for 'man/ years."
against trucks carrying Israeli sightseers and against private automobiles. Mr. Holtz's death was the second American fatality in Israel, due to enemy action. Last June, a California .school teacher was killed in a rocket attack near the Dead Sea.
$1 Million Gift For Tel Aviv U. New York (JTA)—A contribution of $1 million to Tel Avijr University toward the establishment of a new center for technological studies was made last week by Leonard Rosen, president of the American Friends of Tel Aviv University, • at the organization's annual dinner. Mr. Rosen, a resident of Miami, Fla., is also deputy chairman of the university's board of governors. Dr. George S. Wise, president of Tel Aviv. University, warned that unless Israel can bring the number of its university students up to 70,000 and triple the number of science students, it will fall behind ihe Arab states, in technological manpower. He cited the rapidly increasing number of Arab students in universities in Arab countries and abroad and-declared'that "we are no longef dealing with felaheen but with a generation of young, ojrelk educated"t>eople," .