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NEW YORK - (JTA) A mammoUi crowd ettlnuted at lSO-200,000 people packed Dag NEW YORK (JTA) - They came from as Hamnuirakjold Plaza and acQaMOt itreeU close as the apartment houses near thertJnIted near the United Nattona to hear qwakcn Nations and from hundreds of miles away, as representing American lalwr, politics, the far as AUanta to the south, Maine to the north dvil rights movement and the clergy — both and St. Louis to the west. Christian and Jawlah — proclaim solidarity SERVING DES MOINES, .CXXJNCIL BLUFFS LINCOLN. OMAHA Some 150,000-200,000 people jammed Dag with Uraei qui denounce as outrageous and Hammarskjold Plaza across from tlie United unconscionable the UN Ctaneral Assembly's Vol. LIV No. 6 Omaha, Neb.,FrI., Novembers, 1974 Nations Tuesday — Jews and many non-Jews, bcilowal of legltimancy on the terrorist young and old, representing synagogues, Organisation. The throne also heard from Jewish organizations, lalwr unions, and just tliemseives — in a two Israel statesmen — forprotest against the General Assembly's invitation to the mer Foreign Minister Abba Palestine Liberation Organization to address tiie world body. Eban and former Defense Many of the people woke up before dawn to come to New Minister Moshe Dayan — wtto York for Die demonstration. Mrs. Pearl Swartz of Boston said declared that Israel will stie had risen at 5 a.m. to join her B'nal B'rith group In the determine Its own fate and protest. continue to fulfill the Zkmlst "I came to rsprsasnt my people," she explained. "I am a Ideal. Jew." She sakl aha hoped the rally would put the world on noUoe About 1,500 policemen, that Yaalr Arafat's PLO terroriata cannot be granted reapecseveral hundred plain tabUlty. clothesmen and volunteer The crowds had nearly filled Dag Hammar skjold Plaza a marshalls provided by the half-hour before tlie noon-starting time. By the time Uie rally Conference of Presidents of began the plaza was filled and the crowd spilled over onto adMajor American Jewish jacent streets. Organisations, sponsor the Crowds continued to pour into ttie area througtiout the rally. giant rally, were on hand to Iliere was also a steady stream of people leaving as many had maintain security. apparently used their lunch hours to attend tiie rally. But their Though the demonstration places were rapidly filled by others streaming into the rally was emotional, order was area. throughout the The streets around the area were filled with parked tNiseaaa DES MOINES .LIT Mn. two hours of some 400 tMises were chartered for Uie event. Tlie participanto IUSCUMI RablMwIU te speeches, recitations and represented all American Jewry—ttiere were bearded Haslds, chalrpenm •( tk« Gcaenl songs that ended with the Orthodox youths in kipot, men in business suits, well-dressed ^Aa la Oac Campalga !• Oct shtging of Israel's natkmal womm, people wearing union hats and young people wearing A aatlvc sf DM antbem, Hatlkva. Jeana. she ta Ibc wife of I BO taddcnla. A Second Avenue between Cnd and ISth Street — the avenue HlwMea RaUaoMlU. partacr —IMIa'aw M«wt torvic* Mwi*. of iawsB Araba who weat lunqiag parallel to First Avenue where (ha UM Is located— ki charge sf (be Des Maine* staged a counterwaa btoekad to ihrm^ traffic, and the streeto laadb« to the UN afllea a( Caafars aa^ Ly braat «l»MflBitrnlhin a few Uecka front Second Avenue were cloaed to both pedestrians and CPAs, aa4 ito aMliwr •( RABAT. Moroeeo-Vailr Arafat, leader ct the Palestine away at ttia Isalab WaB ware vahlclea aoMqK tor 47th Street (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza). Vidar. n, Mkhlgan V. Uberatloa OrgaidialiaB (PLO), grtna and flaahea a vlctofy ilpi vMualljriVMnd. Security at the UN itaeif was the tightest even seen, and huniMliri JaHa, n. Hekrcw aa he rtta la on the BnalisMlpnof the Arab aummM meeting at dreds of policeroen were everywhere. The speakers at tbe UahrarsKjrf^cihBMB; Joy. II. Rabat, Menieoo. At the meefhig, Arab leaders voted demonstration inchided the But ttiere were no Incidents as the participants talked Jmkr at Raoseralt High aad two rival candidates for the lawuilnwly to reooffiiM the PLO as "the aoie legitimate among themselves, listened and applauded the speakers. Before Elysc, 14, a alalh-grader at rapraawdaflie of the Palasdnlan people" and called for the United States Senate from ttie rally, groups of youngsters broke into horas to the tune of MerrlU Jnalsr High. Mrs. New York SUte - Sen. Jacob creation of an Independunt Palestinian itate on any occufded Hebrew music coming from the speaker's stand. RaMaewiti kas been •Paleatlnlan land" that laael may rellnqniih. K. Javits, Republican, and Banners were everywhere protesting the PLO and UN president of TIfercth Ivacl former U.S. Attorney General General Assembly act. A wall along Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Wemen'i Lcagoe, and has is about to be hatred that to have foisted ufion them by Ramsay Clark, Democrat. had written on it In white the names of scenes of PLO atrocities served aa Ike Syaagopie heard In the General Also on the platform was the UN a murderous band — KIryat Sheroona, Lod Airport, Rome, Athens, Maalot, baard: ckafa-aua af tke Asaembly." Sen. Henry M. Jackson which repreaenU no one but Wanen'i Campaign-, Bareau Javits aaked, "How can Khartoum and Munich. (D Wash.) who declared, "We llaelf." One banner showed an oil well dripping blood on the UN. at Jewiik Edaeatian koard anyone iingwt that Israel be Javits noted that Israel "has cannot be silent while the PLO kMBiber; lirsel l^ik Force ^ikad to recoffiiie a band of Banneis read, "Am Ylsrael Chal," "There's no room for is permitted to terroriie its rightfuUy declared that It will terrorism," "Let Israel flow with milk and honey not blood," _ciulrman three yean, aad a never negotiate with the tamrMa wlw have novo-won way intothe United Nations." member of ihc CommaaHy an aleellan and who apeak no "For once foresight not hindsight," and "For the sake of Zlon I Jackson said he could PLO," and added, "The will not be silent." One banner read, "You don't have to be Reiatloni Commlsiioa. Ske "Imagine no greater insult to United SUtes, as a friend of lai^iagir but the '*"f f of Jewish to oppose Hitler's helpers — Bnal Sholem — Non-Jews Ins also served on Ike baard Israel, should honor this wanton and willful kllUngT He the Palestinian Arabs, no af Ike l«wa Cklldren aad said that "Israel does not for Israel." Many banners said, "NoJewish blood for AraboU." greater slap at their hopes to refusal and stand by Israel Family Service. against the onslaught of (C^ontinued on page 5) (Continued on PaKe 7) lead decent, moral lives, then
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Slster-Cfty Visitor Buoyed by Her Contact With Omaiians By RICHARD PEARL ^ OMAHA - A resident of , Omaha's slster-dty of Sefad returned to Israel last week : somewhat buoyed by the hope \, of help from Nebraska which ^ could be forthcoming next [spring. F, Hie visitor to Omaha was L Mrs. Heiene Van Moppes, a F native of Belgium who : emigrated from Australto to ' Israel with her husband over I six years ago. The attractivf dark-haired [ Mrs. Van Moppes. a smaUlsh y but bitenae woman who is part r of Sefad'a colany of artlsU, t said ]UBt before rctumfaig (hat she had felt "aa ' to Omaha."It is so to ieel you have un-
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derstandtog, that we are on the same wave length," she said. "It (Omaha's friendliness) took me by surprise. It was very rude of me to pop in like this, but Omaha peopte are so warm," stie said. She explained she had been to New York to see Charles L. Schreiber, 74-year-old philantropist who had asked her to advise him of the longterm needs of the children who had been vlctbns of the Ma'alot Masaarre (moat of the children came from SefMl). Schreiber bad come to Ma'alot aad Sefad -Just to aee lor his own ay«a the chlldrsa. II waa a permial oonlact aort a< tfabig. He waan't Juit giving
out money," Mrs. Van Moppes said. She came on to Omaha from New York as emissary of what she described as "a nucleus of angry young people who want to change, to Improve" the city of Sefad. Why the --angry young people" and the desire to Improve the city? Ilie slender motiier of three, wiio sat on Die edge of her chair and clenched and unclenched her fists as she spoke, explained It this way: Sefad (now changing the English spelling to -Zefat" to more closely match the Hebrew pronuncUtkm) is a 400-year-old city of 30,800 located to northern Israel near
the Syrian border. It is the capital of Cabalism and Jewish mysticism — "a beautiful city, very unique" which American Jews find to be more religious than ottier Israeli cities, and to which artists come In numbers. Sefad is also very popular with Tel Aviv residents — and thereto lies the crux of the matter, she continued. For Sefad "lives on ttie touristo three months of the year" wtien tliey come north in tlie summer to escape Tel Aviv's heat. -We are only living on three months of the year, but we are try tog to change. "We are equipped to have peopte (visit Sefad) but mit to