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New York Mayor Lindsay Meets Mexican-Jewish Teenagers
PjamiUa Bcnado, 14 years old, presents a gift to Mayor John V. JAiissy'as a token of appreciation from forty-eight MexicanJewish teenagers who visited with the Mayor at New York's City Hall last week. The youngsters, who arc on a month-long tour of too United States, were guests of the New York City and West* Chester chapters of the American Jewish Committee during their stay In the metropolitan area. Heir trip, under the auspices ot the 'Beth Israel Community Center of Mexico City, will also Include ''~'ts to Harrkburg, Akron, Milwaukee, Iowa City, Kansas City, .£•>_—H_--!!2S-ond SanLAnlonla. :
Senators Send Letter To Nixon onMid-East Washington (JTA)—Seventyone of the Senate's 100 members-have signed a letter t o President Nixon advising him" that "peace efforts by the United States should be pursued with all possible vigor, so that the integrity of every country in the .(Middle East) area within mutually recognized and secure borders may be realized.". The.Intervention of the SovlefTOnibrt on behalf of the-United Arab Republic and other "events" the Senators wrote "place the situation in a more. grave and even broader context than before."
Eastern Girl To Be Cantor New York (JTA)—A Connecticut girl will become the first female student at the Hebrew "UnfoFCdHegd Cantorlal School here in September in a bid to be the first trained and accredited woman cantor in Jewisli Cantorial school officials said, that Barbara Ostfeld of North Haven, Conn., will be one of 25 cantorial students, at the school during the /coming academic year. If she successfully com• pletes the. five-year program, she will be qualified to participate in services, though presumably only at Reform con_eefiaUpnsL_i./__^_j
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The officials said she was auditioned .this past spring, the first time in the 95 years of the school that 'a woman had been auditioned. Miss Ostfeld said she had wanted to be a cantor since she was a little girl. She is a stu ~^Jent~bft;lassieal-music-and4ici interest in singing and music led her to choose the canlorate. School officials said that, like all, other students, Miss Ostfeld will be qualified to serve as a student cantor, her first year, If her studies are satisfactory.
June 21, 71 Senators addressed a letter to Secretary of State William . P. Rogers urging the immediate sale of 125 Phantom and Skyhawk jets to Israel. Two other Senators later signed that letter and three others sent their own messages, for a total of 76. Four Democrats who did not sign the first letter endorsed the plea to the President. They are Sam J. Ervln Jr. and B. EverotV Jordan of North Carolina, Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina and Frank Church of Idaho. Senator Albert Gore, who signed the letter to Mr. Rogers, did not sign the one to Mr. Nixon. •' The signers included Nebraska Senators Roman Hruska and Carl Curtis, Jacob J. Javits and Charles E. Goodell of New York, Edward M. Kennedy and Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, John G. Tower, and Ralph Yarborough of Texas, Edmund S. Muskie M MalnerGeorgcTS: McGoveiif of South Dakota, Hugh Scott .of Pennsylvania, Stuart Syjningtonjjf Missouri, Abraham "TOblcoff c3 ConnecTicuET George Murphy of California, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Hale Boggs of Louisana, Fred H. Harris of Oklahoma and Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota. •The 71 Senators stated that "strategic Interests of the United States and its allies are being challanged" by the So_¥Ms'_ JMd^astJjujldup. President Nixon said July 1 that the Mideast situation was "more dangerous" than that in. Vietnam and that the United States will "do what is neeessary to maintain Israel'3 strength. The Senators supported the statement and add* be deterred. from bringing about a confrontation as .the result of a clearly expressed policy on.the part of the United Stdtcs to protect and defend its interests-in the Middle East
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alks United Nations (JTA)—The formalities of laying the basis for peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt and Jordan began here as Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring, the United Nations special Middle East envoy initiated his round of talks with Secretary General U Thant and his top aides. The Swedish diplomat also met with United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers for what a UN spokesman termed an "overview of the Middle East situation." A UN spokesman said the meeting between Mr. Rogers, Dr. Jarring, Mr. Thant and Undersecretary Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was at the request of the Secretary of State. Rumors had been rife during the day that Mr. Rogers felt his peace plan, rather than any proposal by the Big Four, should be the guideline for Dr. Jarring resuming his peace mission. Emerging from his meeting Mr. Rogers was asked if he resolved his differences with Mr. Thant as to whose instructions should guide the ambassador. The Secretary of State replied only that he had no differences with Mr. Thant over Ambassador Jarring. Until ^ the Swedish diplomat has taken his instructions
from Mr. Thant and his peace mission activities have been mandated by the Security Council. The role of the Big Four is to find a guidejine for reactivating the peace missionbut the"guideline has to first be approved by Mr. Thant as "positive." . • While Dr. Jarring is in New York he is also expected to meet with the ambassadors of the Big Four powers and those of Israel, Egypt and Jordan. UN spokesman said today that there is no "time table" for Dr. Jarring's stay in New York. One source noted that the duration of his stay here will "depend on what happens during his talks (here) and developments in the Middle East." But while he is here, the Swedish dip!*mate is expected to explore three areas concerning the next steps in the Mideast peace settlement: the size of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) to supervise the cease-fire; the duration of the cease-fire; and the location for the peace talks. Any one of these elements, observers here said, could stymie .actual peace negotiations for weeks, if not for months.
Rabbi Reports ¥iefncsmese Werf Pecce Despite Thieu . New York (JTA)—Rabbi Balfour Brickner, director of the Commission on Interfaith Activities of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations recently returned from a trip to Vietnam and reported that a "burgeoning peace movement" is "alive everywhere" in Vietnam and is supported by all ranks of the citizenry. A long time critic of American involvement in the Vietnamese war, Rabbi Brickner said President Thieu and Vice President Ky are well aware of the growing peace movement. "They declare that anyone calling for an immediate peace will be considered a friend of-the communists and all powers of the government and the law would be arraigned against such person," he said. « Rabbi Brickner declared that those involved In the peace movement are "as miiitantly anti-communist as they are anti-Thieu-Ky." Their desire is not so much a quick withdrawal of "American troops
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from Vietnam as it is a with- Expansion in Mideast drawal of U^ S. support of the Thieu government. Rabbi Brickner also reported that his group, joined by Australians, New Zealanders, and Dutchmen who also visited Saigon to investigate the Vietnamese peace movement, had visited Con Son Island with its infamous "tiger cages" and had participated in a student peace protest which was teargassed by the Saigon Security Police. "The incongruity of America providing tear gas to the Saigon police for use by that force to r e p r e s s such basic civil rights and freedom to assem-* ble and the r i g h t of free_ speech, was not. lost on the Saigon students," Rabbi Brickner stated. "They wonder how a government that invades an-' other country, in order to impose freedom and democracy, permits the repression of the very freedoms and democracies it is there to protect."
New York (JTA)—"The Russians are really not interested in anti-Israel propaganda as much as simple expansion into the entire area of the Middle East," said William Cole, the CBS News correspondent who was expelled from the Soviet Union June 29. Cole said t h a t ' policy pits the USSR directly against the United States in tha Mideast. ; He added that "the new friendliness between the Arabs . and the Russians" is responsible for the attempted repression of Soviet Jewry's back-toIsrael campaign." Mr. Cole, who was expelled f o r "activities incompatible with the status of a foreign journalist,." said he believed it wal for his "contacts with the dissident movement there." He noted that the Kremlin's propaganda campaign has been "so tough1, many Jevris.h leaders say i that it's not anti-Zionist, they say it's outright anti-Semitic/' i
Gardner Named to Katzman Chair
VTDrr Charier 0. = Dr. Gardner eaniefl his B.Sr"from Harvard;"a'M.Srfrom Gardner was named "Meyer Degree from the University of Nebraska University and his Katzman Professor of Agron- Nebraska; a Master of Busl- Ph.D. in agronomy from North omy" by the University of Ne- ness Administration D e g r e e Carolina State University. ' Draska , Board of ""Regents on the recommendation of President Joseph Soshnik. Dr. Gard-. ner's appointment brings to 22 the number of Regents professorslups held by faculty members on the Lincoln campuses. The Meyer Katzman Professorship was e s t a b l i s h e d through an agreement between the' University of Nebraska Foundation and thq M e y e r K a t z m a n Foundation. The Chair will be supported by a $5,000 annual contribution from the Foundation with Mr. Katzman's children s e r v i n g as trustees. It is the hope of the Katzman Foundation • to fully endow the Chair in the future. Dr. Gardneri_S-PjrQfessor_of agronomy in quantitative genetics has been a member of the faculty at the College of Agri- Pictured above from left to right, Mrs. Charles 0. Gardner, culture for more than 20 years. Dr. Charles Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Katzman. Dr. GardThe Meyer Katzman Professorner lias been named Professor of Agronomy at the University ship, which he will hold, is be- of Nebraska, filling the chair established by the Meyer Katzing awarded for the first time. man Foundation.