By WILLIAM B. SAPHIRE
Arab foes, separately conveys civil war in which his forces the views of one side to the decisively trounced the PalesAfter a hiatus of 131 days, other—back and forth as be did tinian guerrillas. T h e r e are the Jarring peace talks got off so often in the past. new regimes in Syria and Iraq, to a fresh start last week. Once If nothing came of the Jar- seemingly less radical and less again, the Middle East crisis ring mission before, what can violence-prone than before. was focused on the person of be expected of it now? All of these developments Gunriar V Jarring. Diplomats a g r e e that Jar- contribute to what diplomats Is there anything fresh about ring's modus operandi has not call a better climate for subthe Jarring talks? For more changed. What has changed is stantive negotiations. Despite this, diplomats on all than two years, Dr. Jarring the climate and the slow, inexpursued his mission in the Mid- orable movement of events that sides are frankly skeptical if dle East and in New York. - constitute history. For one not altogether pessimistic about But the record of his labors, thing,, there is a cease-fire now the revived peace talks. They disclosed In detail for the first between Israel, Egypt and Jor- all agree that the WUsonian time in Secretary G e n e r a l dan that did not exist a year credo of "open diplomacy openThant's 40-page progress re- ago. For another, there is the ly arrived at" belongs to a byport to the Security Council, American peace initiative—the had little to show in the way of Rogers Rescue Mission of June progress. For all his tenactiy 1970 — w h i c h engendered the and Infinite patience Jarring cease-fire and brought about achieved little more t h a n a the current talks. • commitment to paper—volumes Changes of it—of the fundatmental difThere have b e e n dramatic ferences between Israelis and changes in the Mideast. Nasser Arabs that have spelled three is dead and his successors, still wars in the last 20 years. largely an unknown quantity, Will the Jarring talks, 1971, may in the long run prove be a rerun of the earlier phases more flexible. IB Jordan, King of the Jarring mission? They Hussein, once the occupant of are. not direct talks. Jarring the shakiest throne in the East, meets separatply witli the rep- has emerged a firm master in resentatives of Israel and her his own house after a bloody
The Arab • representatives, so far are all of ambassadorial rank. For the time b e i n g , Eban's alternate, Israel's UN Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, will be carrying the ball. And for the time being, most diplomats feel, it is enough to get the Jarring talks rolling again. They expect the talks to drag on and on and, 'in some respects, would welcome endless procedural wrangling. A f t e r all, it would keep the parties occupied and would keep the Mideast cedse-fire from coming apart.
WISH Serving Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha
Jewish Leaders Assail New York (JTA) — In the.not condemn this act. The apwake of last Friday morning's plause for it cemes from imbombing of the Soviet cultural prisoned Soviet Jews. The offices in Washington; D.C., commuting of the death senthe_ American Jewish Commit- tences in Leningrad was but tee' has called on President a skirmish in the war of liberNixon and Congress to "intro-. ation. We ask the people of duce and appxoye'legislation... •thc-world'to^join i n tbarwar." making a federal crime of the illegal actions against the of- The sabotage was deplored ficial properly and personnel by Jewish leaders. Dr. Wilof foreign governments in the liam A. Wexler, president of B'nai B'rith, called It "a repUnited States." Friday's explosion, caused' rehensible act of terrorism that by a pipebomb blast, in the can only exacerbate the plight alleyway adjoining the Soviet of Soviet Jews and provide anoffices near Du Pont Circle, other pretext for Soviet haejected a child out of its bed rassment of American officials and broke windows of the of- in Moscow." Richard Cohen, associate exfices and of the American Museum Assoication b u i l d i n g ecutive director of the Amerlr across the street, but there can Jewish Congress, said the saboteurs "stand condemned were no injuries. Half an hour after the blast, as enemies of the Jewish peoan anonymous woman caller ple (who) play into the hands told the Associated Press: of Soviet propaganda by divert"This is a sample of things ing attention from the real to come. Let our people go. crime: the repression of Jew'Never again!'" There was ish life in the USSR." speculation that the bomb had R a b b i Herschel Schacter, .been set by either the Jewish chairman of the American Defense League, which uses Jewish Conference on Soviet the slogan "Never again!" or Jewry, denounced the blast as by persons seeking to impli- "another in the recent series cate the JDL. . of outragous and. se'nseless In New York, the JDL de- acts of violence that can only nied responsibility for the harm, not aid, the cause of bombing, but declared: "We do Soviet Jewry."
gone era. If there is to be any genuine bargaining it must be away from the glare of publicity, they say. But that will be difficult to achieve in the busy UN backyard. The Israelis are hopeful that the talks may be removed at some stage to a quieter spot, closer to home. They also hope that, the * 'ks will be elevated *" a Minister)*1 say, , Ai\«! seriou Israt a ^ S -iier, Aba EL xl3\iirt*tf* ... designated to repi* ...«, his government.
Vol.
On Trial
IAIX—17
OMAHA, N E B , Fill.,
JAN. 15, 1971
Participant Selected For Israel Pilgrimage
Omaha — Announcement has Mure Delinan, Lawrence Denbeen made of the selection of enberg, Pavid Duitcli, Joseph the first 18 participants for this Eiscnberg, John G o l d m a n , Mark Gould, Keith Livingstone, summer's Y o u t h Pilgrimage Ronald "Meyerson,- Diane -Mor- Prograril in I s r a e l . Several ris, Genine Ruderman, Mark more applications are being S c It u p a c k, Beth Stacnberg, considered by the Pilgrimage Keith Wagner and Lori Wintfoub. Committee. Participants are required to The program is being cosponsored by the Omaha Jew- attend a special weekly class Lassal Kaininsky, a 40-year- ish Federation, Beth I s r a e l program as preparation and . Synagogue, Beth El Synagogue orientation for the summer pilold engineer in a design inand Temple Israel. The aim of grimage. The first class session stitute, is one of the nine Jews the program is, "to strengthen will be held next week, and willinvolved In the second group the Jewish identity of youth meet weekly until June. Each participant will receive of Leningrad trials. One of through a program of study, the first Leningrad Jews to travel and work in Israel." a $250 grant from the Federation, in addition to a similar apply for exit to Israel, Ka- Stanley Slosburg heads the Is- grant from the sponsoring synarael Pilgrimage Committee. ininsky wrote open appeals Participants selected include: gogue which will apply against after 32 complaints were ig- Nancy Brown, Joel Cassman, an estimated $1,190 cost for the Gary Cohen, Jayne Crandell,- 7 week pilgrimage. nored by Soviet authorities.
Will Seirteiiee TEL AVIV (JTA)-Lt. Wolf Zalmanson will appeal the 10year prison sentence handed down last week by a Soviet military tribunal for his alleged role in a plot to hijack a Soviet airliner. His plans were disclosed by his father, Josef, in a telephone call to relatives in Israel. "The older Zalmanson said he was permitted to visit his son, an engineer officer in the Russian Army after sentence was pronounced. He said the young man asked Israeli relatives to send him a Hebrew primer so that lie could study the language while in prison. Zalmanson's brother Isak, his sister Silva and his brother-inlaw, Edvard Kuznetsov, were sentenced to severe prison terms by a Leningrad City Court last month. Kuznetsov was originally U.S. STUDENTS MEET BEN GURIONf Fifty students from the American College in Jerusalem sentenced to death but the Supreme Court of the Russian'Federa- traveled to Sde Boker to meet Ben Gurlpn. The former Israeli Prime Minister spent nearly two tion later commuted his sentence to 15 years at hard labor and hours with the young people, discussing a wide variety bt: topics; Tire students; wfire fascinated by •. reduced the sentences of. several other defendants; • .'• - ,the Old Man. As one of tbp boys remarked, t'Beh Gurion is a legend In his'own life(iine, and it Is According to his father, Zalmanson said he would appeal bet. awclnspirlng to meet a legend!" The four-year, Jlberal arts. AmerlcaaCol|egei»;il|eonJy.Ei)gll.sh- , cause he has nothing to lose., ? ,i < ; -M : • .f -language college In Israel. -. •;;,••.;,;'• ,wi,'.;.-...i'/i;j,.,....M..o t ..ii...».>;...,1 • . '