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AsLever, SaysZOA NEW YORK - The Ziontat Organitation of America called on the agricultural committeef of the HOUM and Senate to uie America'! dominant poiltion in food production ai leverage to induce the oil producing nationt to lower their prices. In a letter to the Committee*, signed by Dr. Joseph P. Sternstein, president of the ZOA. the ZOA said, "all appeals to the rich Middle East oil producers to lower their exorbitant price demands are met with cold refusal." The ZOA pointed out that the latest price rise of oil has created a serious crisis in the production and supply of fertilisers in developing countries, especially India, Bangladesh. Pakistan, Sri^ Lanka and Ghana. Because of high oil prices, these and other Asian and African countries are unable to purchase enough oil for fertiliser. This aggravates the already serious food shortage* in these developing lands, and skyrockets the prices of existing food products, the ZOA said. Even though the United Slates "possesses large sources of energy supplies of Iter own and csn cope somewiNit with the challenges of the monopolistic oil suppliers," these price rises make the US., too, "a victini of the oil countrie*." Here in America, said the ZOA, the oil price rise causes hardships for the less fortunate segments of the population. The United Stales has also been hurl by the serious effect these price* have had on the poorer developing lands because of American "economic, political as well as htmianitarian interests in maintaining the independence, viability and progressive developnwnt.
I: c StampSale [ 'Big Success' \ NEW YORK - This year's \ stamp and coin auction, held [ on behalf of the Israel ' Campaign Fund and coorI dinaled campaign of UJA and ; Federation of Jewish L Philanlhropies, was a huge I success. p The auction, which look place at ihe Hotel Pierre here L on June 24, 1974, netted . pledges of 135,000. Ai a samll [dinner earlier, another . 120,1)00 was donated. t Major contributors inI-eluded Jacques Minkus, f President of Minkus Stamp I and Publishing Company; f Kuri Weishaupl, Kurt ' Weishaupl, Inc., Flushing; ' Henry Ginsberg, President of , Scoll Publishing Company; ^ Martin Bellinger. Martin Selllngcr Company; and .Captlol Coin Cvnpsnv.
Syria Is Becoming An Armed Camp SERVING OES MOINES,, Vol.UII-No.43
,COUNCIL BLUFFS LINCOLN, OMAHA Onrtaho, Nab., Fr(., August 2,1974
Pesler-SaieUiu CooiirucUoa Co. sqteriateadeni H. H. NiekuM, left, goes ever pisni witli MideirilfM worker at aew autdsar peel.
ByVltihakShargil TELAVIA(JTA)-Whyl» Syria Ihe most uncompromising and extreme of all the Arab states? This question continues to be asked again and again by Israelis. The answer can now be given and with it a warning for another Middle East war initialed by Syria. Syrian President Hafez Assad's regime is extremist in nature. The ruling Baath Party Is a minority party whicli rules over the masses. To maintain power, the Syrian government has to have a massive supply of weapons. Here the Soviet Union has come to the aid of the Raatliisli. Seeing that the party may lose ground at home as it has lost ground among the Arab states to Kqypt, the Soviet Union has •witched its major aid efforts from Egypt to Syria. While hardly a Soviet ship has come to an Egyptian port since Ihe Yom KIppur War. Syrian ports are filled with Russian ships unloading sleel. tanks, artillery, planes and sophisticated missiles. Coupled with Ihe feeling among the Egyptian and Syrian military that they won the Yom KIppur War. the reaupply has created a
Construction Strike Ends; ^/.y}''^"^ PoollsNeanng Completion Of War By Claudia Sbermaa OMAHA - After nearly eight weeks of a standstill on construction, workers resumed tiling and pouring cement last week on the two swimming pools at the new Jewish Community Center. Representatives of the Omaha Building (Contractor* Employers Assn. and Cement Finishers Local 5311 reached a setllement after an all-day meeting July 23 under
auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. About 80 construction projects in the area were affected by the strike. Although there are only about 250 members in the cement finishers union, an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 members of other unions refused to cross cement finishers' picket lines. Norman Bait, Ccjiter building construction
Cards for Soviet Jews To Be Sold at Cabaret OMAHA - Persons attending the Jewish Community Center's production of the musical "Cabarei" will be afforded a unique chance to show their support of Soviet Jewry, ihanks to a special project undertaken by the Omaha Committee (or Soviet Jewry. The committee, headed by Mrs. Shirley GoUstein and Mrs. Miriam Simon, will be selling Jewish New Year's greeting cards prior to, and during intermission of, performances of the musical. Bach card will seU (or SO QttmiH which ^Ifp cover*
postage. Those wishing to purchase cards may simply sign Ihe cards, or they may also Include a message of support. The Omaha commlilee will take care of addressing Ihe cards from Its list of names of Soviet Jews. "It's a marvelous opportunity to reach Jewish people in Russia," noted Mrs. Simon. "And by coincidence, nur sale lies in with some of the subject matter of 'Cabaret' — the persecution of Ihe Jewish people." The musical will be performed 8:30 p.m. Aug. 3-8 and laat Ih* JCC.
chairman, estimates Ihe Indoor pool will t>e completed in about three weeks. Workers are tiling the inside of Ihe pool and Ihe deck around 11. Final plumbing connections must be made. Workers are also pouring cement in the outdoor Olympic-size pool and around the deck. Plumbing connections and the outdoor bathhouse also must be completed. "Although work Is progressing," Ball said, "the outdoor pool will not be used this summer." Prior to Ihe fall session of Center classes which begins In October, several minicourses will be taught by the aquatics department, said Gary Javitch, Center aquatics director. A flyer mailed in August will announce swimming stroke clinics to be offered all age groups. "Center members wilt be able to enjoy recreational swimming throughout'the day," Javitch said. During the strike, arrangements were made for children enrolled In the Center's sports day camp to swim In the pool at Boys Town. The Center's swimming team also used the Boys Town pool.
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Chief of Staff Gen. Mordechai Gur added his voice to those warning that a new Middle East war Is a real posslbllty by the end of the year. Speaking to the IsraelAmarica Chamber of C^mmeref^ Gur said a situation CSHM develop which could lur« the Arab states into launching a new war. But Gur said the Israel Defense Force is preparing for Ihe eventuality by initialing new programs to increase the work-day in the army, intensifying training courses, and improving the system of calling up the reserves. He stressed that the Israeli army is both a defensive and an offensive fighting force and there is the possibility that Israel might attack first. As examples of situations which would lead lo a new war, Gur cited such developments as the United Nations troops being forced to leave the buffer zones, a feeling by the Arabs Ihat they can gain their political advantages through a military campaign coupled with the use of oil pressure, and a decision by Syria lo launch a war of Us own because of Its peaeni heavy stockpile of arms.
serious condition. The Syrian soldier no longer fears Ihe Israeli army. The initial svx:cess of the Syrians and Egyptians in the first two days of Ihe war have overshadowed their defeats in the later stages of the war. This feeling is more evident among Syrians than Egyptians although Egypt has gained more since the end of the war. Because of it, not one Syrian commander has been removed from his command, although he may have failed completely in holding back Ihe Israeli advances. In Egypt, there were many reshuffles as a result of the war and many senior officers, including the chief of staff, were removed. Materially. Ihe Syriaa army has been making great strides and it may now be the strongest alr-powcr in the Arab worM. Syria loel 222 of its 300 war planes in Ihe Yom Kippir War but it now has some 4W planes and Its air force Is now believed to be stronger than Ihe Egyptian air force. Syria has also been given by Ihe Soviets at least 24 MIG23s. the newest and most sophisticated of ttie Russian planes, and 200 MIG-21S, the (Irsl-line Interceptor. II has the lethal, mobile anti-aircraft SAM-6 missiles which were successful agaDlsl Israeli planes durii^ Ihe war, and has 40 missile batlerles and many tanks, although they may be lacking lank crews. Syria lost 1,200 tanks In the war but it has received 900 newer and better ones from the Soviets. The Syrian army is being rontlnually trained by some :i.liao Soviet technical advisors and Instructors, most of whom arrived In Syria after the Yam KIppur War. They Syrians have copied Iheanti-lank methods used by the Egyptians and have acquired large quantities nf Ihe "Sager" anti-tank missiles, both carried by the infantry and mounted on armored vehicles. It also has the SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles which are fired from Ihe shoulder or from an armored carrier. In addition, the Syrians are stock-piling long-range and medium-range ground-toground missiles, the "Frog" and the "Skud." while their artillery is equipped with 180mm. guns wiih a range of 40 kilometers. Syria is. no doubt, becoming the largest arsenal In Ihe Middle East, thus the warnings issued recently by Premier Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres against the unusual arms flow into Syria and the necessity to prepare for another war.