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Washington (JTA)—Several tests. The signers called "upon members of the Philadelphia annual convocation to provide thousand Jewish students and you, Mr. President, to listen Union of Jewish Students dis- such forums after the unexpectmany of their elders took part and to declare yourself, that cussed the escalation of the ed appearance °* " ' mvocaa repin the massive anti-war dem- you are listening with under- war in Viet Nam. The board asked 50 member rabbis at tudent onstration near t h e White standing." . House which observers said Rabbi Irving Greenberg, as- tending the organization's lit! drew some 100,000 participants sociate professor of history a\ in a peaceful protest. A coordi- Yeshiva University, joined with nating council made up of Jew- a Protestant a n d Catholic ish organizations in the area church leader in an appearprovided help to the Jewish ance Thursday before the Senyoungsters, including overnight ate Foreign Relations Comhousing and food service. mittee. Their statement that A Sabbath service was held the Viet Nam war was a "moral Friday night and Saturday disaster" was lauded by Sen. morning inside the B'nai B'rith J. W. Fulbright, the Arkansas building for observant Jewish Democrat who is chairman of students. Outside in front of the the committee. He said he had building a liberal scrvlco was never before heard "statements led for about 150 youthful wor- of such depth and perception" shippers. Emergency medical as that of the three religious arrangements were set up in ' leaders and indicated he might the reliigous action center and call on them again during committee hearings on the the B^nai B'rith building. The Jewish Community Coun- war's moral impact. Rabbi Elias Charry, presicil of Greater Washington joined with the Council of dent of the Board of Rabbis of Churches in a letter to Presi- Greater Philadelphia, reported dent Nixon asking him to wel- that many member rabbis had come the anti-war demonstra- provided forums Friday during tors and to listen to their pro- and after services at which
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sense of horror of students over the war escalation and asked the rabbis to allow student representatives to speak at services. Most of the rabbis approved the request. /•
There were kids, signs and songs, but no protests in Memorial Park last Sunday. For details see Pages 6 and 7; Sidelines, Page 5.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Nixon Administration was reported tl^fs week to be taking a new look at a March 30 decision to ' postpone for the time being any action on Israel's request to buy 25 more Phantom jets'and 100 Skyhawk jets. The reported review followed the failuro of Jacob Beam, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, to get satisfactory replies to questions he put to Soviet leaders in Moscow about reports that Soviet pilots were flying operational missions in Egyptian planes. Israel has confirmed these reports and the United States has indicated it has independent verification of the flights. State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey said that Beam bad been given "no clarification or elaboration" on the Soviet air missions beyond the acknowledgement earlier in the week by Soviet Premier Kosygin that Soviet military advisers were attached to Egyptian military units. State Department officials reportedly concluded that Israel's long-pending request for additional supersonic warplanes would have to be reconsidered in the light of the expanded Soviet military role in Egypt and its impact on the Mideast power balance.
. Washington, (JTA)—A num- dents." It d e c l a r e d that, ican troops from Viet Nam ber of Jewish organizations de- "Branding students who dem- with all haste." nounced the Nixon administra- onstrate for peace and freePresident Nixon was urged tion for creating an atmosphere dom as campus 'bums' creates by the National Federation of that led to the fatal shooting of Temple Sisterhoods to call upon four Kent State University stu- the dangerous climate in which the governors of the fifty states legitimate and ideoV^tj^ dents, three of whom were to restrict National GuardsTs^seeiTas un-American.'*" Jewish. men from carrying live amFive national Jewish .rab- munition in their w e a p o n s The Chicago Board of Rabbis d e c l a r e d in a telegram to binic and synagogal organisa- while on duty in civil disorders, President Nixon that "the at- tions, representing the Con- "except in extreme emergtitude implicit in recent ad- servative, Orthodbx and Re- ency" and only upon direct ministration statements" about form branches of American orders of an "authorized ofstudent dissidents "feeds the Jewry, joined in a statement to ficer who personally assumes flames of violence and con- denounce "the gulf that separ- responsibility and the results FORMER VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H, HUMPHREY * frontation and encourages the ates many' of this nation's for giving orders." Mr. Nixontragic use of force against youth from the institutions of was told that "the tragedy that AND FORMER SENATOR WILLIAM BENTON government and its leaders." occurred on campus of Kent demonstrators." NAMED HONORARY FELLOWS'OF WEIZMANN INSTITUTE Declaring that the nation can- State University must never; The board, - which sent its not live in fear of its own telegram also to Illinois Sena- youth, the presidents. of the be repeated." tors Charles Percy and: Ralph. five groups asserted that "our Smith, said it deplored the entire society," as we know it, violence on college campuses cannot survive in a repressive "and especially the t r a g i c atmosphere in which non-viodeaths of four innocent stu- lent dissenters are treated with disdain, contempt and worse," Paris' (JTA)—An apple a They declared .that "under U.S. Sixth Fleet day may keep the doctor no conceivable circumstances away, but a bagel a day for the pointblahk firing into Qh Special Alert could more than 10 weeks is only a crowd of students, at Kent keeping French President Tel Aviv (ZINS)-The Amer- State University be justified." Georges Pompidou irritated. ican Sixth Fleet, cruising the Rabbi Elias Charry, presiPackages containing sinMediterranean, has been put dent of the Board of Rabbis of gle bagels have, arrived by on' a special alert, according to Greater-Philadelphia said one mail, at the Elysee Palace a dispatch filed by the military of the effects of the Cambodia every day since the French expert of "Ha-aretz", relying escalation ."most recently and leader returned from his vison well-informed sources. terribly," was the killing .of it to the United States folThe press report stated -that four Kent University students. lowing his denial of pre-paid the Americans have verified He said the "polarization" of jets to Israel and his apthe fact that Soviet, pilots are the American people must endproval of jQt sales to Libya. operating over Egyptian skies that this was "our first priorAdding to the mystery is On May 6, fo'rviicr Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and forme and the special alert is a direct ity." He added that only the the postmarking oi each U.S, Senator William Bchton were invested as Honorary Fellows ol of this \ development, President c o u l d bring this package from a different the AVcizrnann Institute of Science in ceremonies held at Rchovot- ; result Shown hero on-his arrival in Israel, in r> photograph released by the. ThereY is as yet no indication about ','by ah immediate cessa-, part of Paris, and the fact that the American fleet has set tlon of the Cambodian advenAssociated Press, is Mr. Humphrey, flanked on the left by Meyer WV that bagels are not available a course for the eastern end of : ture and by continuing'the proWeisgal, Chancellor, and on the right by Dr. Albert B; Sabin, Presiin the French capital. ; ltrio;Mediterranean.,. ; :.,'... . dent of the Weizmann Institute of Science. , gram of withdrawal of Amer-
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