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LINCOLN. OMAHA Omaha, Nab.. Fri.. AprH 12,1974
Fighting Escalates on Syrian Front AVIV, (JTA) - An bncl Air Force plane wu liMt and iU emr balM out 0MrUkaaaaet«nlU)r; in ita vidaity o( Mi. Herman, a miUtary tpotetinan rtporlad. According to tbe ipoknman, Ibe plane caught flre at • retull of a mechanical maUunctioa and had lo l>e abandoned. It wii the firit UntU Air Force plane loel ilnce tbe Yom Kippur War. The type of plane and number of it! crew were not diiloaed. Tba temUlea at the crew
Soviet JftM^ Observe Passover in Rome NEW YORK. (JTA) Paaaover (bit year had . ipaeial iBaaaing at a Eattlyal «l faMdom ind Uberatioii for ntarty tix hundred Rutaian Jaw* ia Roma eoreute to the Unitad SUIat and other Wettem eountriet, U wai reported by Edward Glntberg. chairman of tba Joint DittribuUirf) Committee. Abeot «0 attanM a teder wbicb tbe JDC arranged for them at the Rome Jewith Community Children't Home, Gimbcrg laid. HM* are St5 Soviet Jewi among tbe 6M traaainigranli in Rome for whom JDC it providing food, •belter and medical care while they wait (or their travel arrangementa to b« canpletad.
memben have been notified. The official Lehaneae radio reported that two Itraeli pilolt had bailed out lately and were taken priaoner. Meanwhile, Syrian forcaa continued ihelling laracU potiUona all along the ceaaafire linei. Itraeli forcei returned the fire. No Itneli caiualtiet were reported. A military tpoiietmtn taid artillery and tanic (ire waa exchanged on tbe loutbem Golan Hei^U and in the Syrian enclave captured by brael duriag the Yom Kippur War. He wid the Syriant alto fired (rom time lo lime at Itraeli poiitiont OD Mt.
Fighting eaealated along the Syriis fnmt over the Paitover wecfemd Itrael Air Force plant went Into action Saturday (or the flnt time tince the ceaie-lire to (orettall t Syrian commando group itttempting to leize the peak o( Mt. Hermon, tome 1000 feet tbove ie« level. An UraeU aokUer wai in>ir«i during an eigh t^hour artillery duel. Syrian gunaeri ihelled liraell Mtitioflt In the touthanrSolan Heightt and along the Yom Kippur War enclave moat of Saturday, employing artillery, tank gunt ind, In one lector
l Dutch Radio Charged • **%h Nazi Collaboration Aroaterdam, (JTA) — A book by a Dutch televiilon journalitt accuting (he Dutch radio networlu o{ collaboration with the Naxit during the occupition (1944^5) ia cauiing a tenia tlon thnx^hout The Natherianda. The book, by Dick Verfcijk, la not doe to go on aala imtll the end of thit month, but excerptt have appeared in tevdraldaiUet and weekllea In the laat few weefca. Verkijk, who wat a child during the occupation, did teveral yaara' reaearch on the 7M)i>age itudy of the network!' attitude during the occupation. In tbe book, he thowa moat networkt and their amptoytt wilUngly coUaboratad with tbe (jermant, inclodfa^ many waO-known namaa itiU hi the budncM today. Apparently Ibe poet-war de-Naiifk:atiaa ot tbe broadeaating builneea wat limited to the ramovafl of only the moit batant Nati'iympathlxert. VerUJk't hook received »tharp ttuck (rom a (ormer Dutch retittanca leader and gevammantofnclal.TO-yaar-old Dr. Jaap Burger, who criticbed Ibt hook (or being "bated on abttract raaaarob by a man who during the occuptUon wat too young to bear any napiiMiMUty " Dr Burger headed the poat-wir deNadflcation program in The Netberlandt and wat Labor Minittar in teveral poetwar CaMoeU.
teveral Soviet-made "Sager" anti-Unk miiailea. Tlie Syrian attanpt on Mt. Harmon wai regarded at tbe moat terioua etcalatlon ilnce tbe Syrian Initiated thejir war of attrition over a month ago. The Hermon peak wat captured by Itraeli (orcei during the Yom Kippur War but was abandoned becaute of levere weather conditont on the inow-covered mountain. Iiraeli forces conUnued to patrol the region, however, and on Saturday morning they spotted Syriant on the mountain top. Tbe Syrian (brce, ealimated at M or more men, wat ragarded at a poatible advance (orce heralding a majer Syrian ^ground attack. MMP
KELIGIODS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO GOI^N IIEIGHT8 — Empty ahelt cailngt larTound an iirtcU gun in the Golan Hcighti. where artUcry excliaagei betweea Ike Syrlaat atd the laraelit occur almeat every day.
Jewish Groups Assail Saxbe for Statement on Jewisli intellectuals NEW YORK, (JTA) - Uta Unhm of American Hebrew Congregatlona hat aiked Fretident Nixon to get a public apok)gy (rom Attorney General WUUam Saxbe, or bla retignation, (or hit comment that "Jewltb intellectualt" during the McCarthy era were "very enamored o( the Communitt Party." Saxbe made the comment in Watblngton in announcing he had ordered a new itudy o( the Joatice Department's role in daaling with tubvenive activitiei. The requeit to Nixon waa made in a telegram (rom the pretident o( the Re(orm
Leopold Trepper An^lves in Israel TEL AVIV, (JTA) LeopoU Trepper, the onetime matter spy, arrived here last week. He told reporlera tha» he came to spend Pattover with hit (amily and it considering settling in Itrael at the end o( the year. Trepper, 70, it alto seeking medical treatment (or a chronic lag aliment. He told reporton that ha comidered bis arrival in Itrael tomething o( a miracle. Poliih authorities granted him an exit' viae last year after a three-year itruggle on hit part.
organiiatlon. Rabbi Alexander Schindler, who declared "we are outraged by the incredible statement attributed to Attorney (General Saxbe regarding Jewith intellectualt. Such reckleis generallzatlont feed prejudice and division." Rabbi Schindler added "I urge you to use your Influence to see that thia insulting statement be repudiated. Mr. Saxbe should either publicly retract thIt gratuitous and harmful comment or he shauU be aaked lo reaign hit ofOce.'
Ibat "there was a great distrust of the faiUUectnal" duriag the McCarthy era and that "one of the chaaget (hat's come aboat It becaate •f the Jewith Intellectaai. who hi thoM days was very eaamored a( tbe Commaaist party," aa apparent ialicatloa Saxbe (eit the alleged Jewith intellectaai tapport ao loager exitted."
Saxbe was denounced by the Anti-De(amation League o( B'nai B'ritb and the Jewith Labor 0)mmittee (or the comment. Benjamin ^ B. Epttein, ADL director, taid It Saxbe aaid he had ordered was "Incredible" that the an investigation of the con- Attorney General "should trovertial Attorney General'i make auch an unfounded lilt o( tubveraive blanket charge accuaing 'the organisations and related Jewith intellectual' at a internal security lawa to group o( having been determine whether such a liat enamored ol the Communitt should be maintained and Party. Epiteifi. taid Saxbe'i whether the present list waa comment "confirrot the "raaliatlc." He said tuch a/ ADL't newett findbigi about review was ncceiaary the intentitivity o( otherwlte becauae a "new breed" of reaponsible Americans to the terroritt groupt had replaced harm(ul impact o( (alse anUtbe McCarthy-era "Com- Jewlsh stereotyping." Jacob munitt-bated" organizatlona Shelnkman, president o( the as potentUI threat lo United Jewith Labor Committee, SUtet security. He said that said that "the (i(nets o( a man the "World-wide trends are to hold high public office who more towards terrorism," engages In tuch Iniidiout invohrlng "a different type of stereotypes mutt be terioutly perton." questioned. Saxbe't atperSaxbe raited the matter af siont on tb^ loyalty o( Jcwiah faitcDcttMla la taykig American Jewa It In-
compatible with it reiptnsibilitiet as head of tbe Department of Juadce."
Saxbe^G*fers 'Clarification' WASHINGTON, (JTA) Attorney General William Saxbe hat iaaued a statement which a apokesman termed a "clarification" o( hit comment lait Wednetday that "Jewithc intellectuals" were "very enamored o( the C^ommunitt Party" during the McCarthy era. In his "clarification" Saxbe taid he had "long (elt there was a great deal of antiSemitiam in the Communitt witch hunts o( the late 1940a and early l9S0t. Much ot it was directed at some highly visible Jewith intellectual! who were comidered aympathetlc to Rusala." Saxbe added that "becauae of the Soviet potture toward the issues o( importance lo Jews, thIa It no longer the case today and I believe thit change can best be teen by the totally dlHerent type of individual involved in the terroritt groupt now operating." The Attorney General's original comment evoked tharp criticitm (rom Jewith leadfKwand Congretimeii,