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BLUFFS. LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Nob.. Frl. July 16,1976
/Attitude Toward Its People Impresses Veret
By Barbara Simon OMAHA—Former Omahan Barry Veret o( Chevy Chase, Md., who is Assistant General Counsel (or the Agency for International Development in the U.S. State Department, visited here in late June before leaving the United States for a two-year duty tour In Guatemala.
The U.S. government has given $700 million in aid to Egypt, for example, to rebuild Egyptian-held territories along the Suez Canal in the hope that the economic benefits to the Egyptians will lessen their desire for war along the Canal, Veret said. While here, Veret visited his mother Freda. ?
He will serve as Regional Legal Advisor for the A.I.D. economic development programs there. His task will be to negotiate loans for e c o n o m i c and s o c i a l development projects in Guatemala, such as schools, h o u s i n g p r o j e c t s and agricultural programs. Veret's legal workforAJ.D. has taken him to various countries. In the past year he has been to Korea, Portugal, West Africa, South America andlsracl.
His wife Nancy, who will a c c o m p a n y h i m to Guatemala, said here that she hopes to pursue her career in archaeology there by joining a University of California exploration at a Mayan and Olmec site in the Guatemalan Highlands.--:' u ; , , Veret is the son of the late Paul Veret, former director of t h e Omaha* J e w i s h Federation. Veretand wife Nancy. (JP Photo)
guaranteed by the U.S. a l s o g i v e s e c o n o m i c government. The new living assistance to other mid-east unite will ^be for new Im- countrles^says Veret. ' migrants and young couples.: The U.S/government, has "Next to defense," say|- soriie SpMiflB"objectives in Veret, "housirig is the numb*;;m2ndjtiejxplauis. It feels that one priority of the Israeli" if any country begins to government. I'm really Im- build—schools, factories, Veret participated in the pressed with their attitude houses, farms—and becomes' negotiations and signing of a toward; earing for people by involved In social programs $25 million loan to Israel for doing all they can to provide and a better life for their low income housing, made by adequate housing for all people, that government will be less interested in war and the Savings and Loan Industry Israelis/: •of the United States and The U.S., through A.I.D., more Interested in a stable peace and in economic progress. This belief, Veret Uganda Secrets Disclosure Criticized feels, is part of the rationale JERUSALEM (JTA) - municatlons and ordnance behind the A.I.D. program to Members of the Knesset's men. He said 33 doctors' the Arab states as well as to V Foreign Affairs and Security participated, either at En- Israel. Committee have complained tebbe airport or at other to Premier Yitzhak Rabin stations. over the disclosure of top Gur also disclosed that the Facsimile Published secret deatils of the July 3 e n t i r e o p e r a t i o n w a s JERUSALEM (JTA) - A Uganda rescue operation by rehearsed the night before it facsimile edition of the oldest Chief of Staff Gen. Mordecha! took place .and. that the . known manuscript of the ,Gur. The committee members rehearsal lasted two minutes Hebrew Bible — the Aleppo said that Gur, who held a longer than the actual rescue Codex — was published by the press conference in Tel Aviv operation which was com- Hebrew University last week. Thursday, made public facts pleted in 53 minutes. Four of It is the fruit of 20 year's work that the MKs had received in the .Air France hijackers, by a team of Hebrew .; strictest secrecy, Rabin including the German man University scholars, headed reportedly told the committee and woman were killed within by Prof. Moshe Goshen members that he had not 45 seconds of the Israeli Gottsteln. The 500-page red - authorized any publicity and landing and three-other and blue leather-bound fachad no advance knowledge of terrorists were killed a few similes wUl sell for $400 seconds later. apiece. ' •• the Gur press conference. Finally, Gur said that the Defense Ministry sources said the Chief .of Staff did not decision to land at Nairobi,. require yremjsiionj from t}le Kenya before returning to .Premier te -holdta press^ -Israel was made at. the last conference. They said he got minute in oro'cr to hospitalize ~ his approval "from whoever the wounded. "We forced OMAHA-Tho J e w i s h he should have gotten it," ourselves on the Kenyans," he Community Center Is meaning apparently, Defense said. The fact that the three planning its first family Israeli military transports Minister Shimon Peres. picnic, e JCC spokesman landed briefly in Nairobi has Gur m a d e s e v e r a l has said. The picnic, which given rise to reports that the disclosures about the rescue will be held at the JCC, Is missions week ago that had K e n y a n g o v e r n m e n t for all Center members and mri been known previously. He cooperated with Israel to (heir families and will ruri said the Israeli rescue fcrc^.r-csrt^exteiifin carrying out from r-4i39-p3nirS?!?!4avr included paratroopers, In- the rescue. This has been Sept. 19. Details will be fantrymen, members of the denied by official sources in forthcoming. crack Golani Brigade, com- both Kenya and Israel.' His recent visit to Israel prompted some interesting comments on the domestic iccoe there and some ob•ervatlons of VS. economic policy in the Middle East.
Richard HJller LeoMeyerson General Co-chairmen Men's Division
Hope Fades For Mrs. Bloch LONDON, England - Hope thfjt'Mrs.'Dora Bloch is still alive is slim. Britian's High Commissioner to Uganda, James Hennessy, returned from Kampala on July 12 with no further Information as to the whereabouts of the 75year-old widow who is the only •• Air France hijack hostage still unaccounted for. Hennessy had been dispatched to Uganda last-week to determine what happened to Mrs. Bloch. '•.;: y?5
JeanetteNadoff Chairman Lyra Ann Monasee Vice Chairman Women's Division
There are recent conflicting reports concerning' Mrs. Bloch'B fate. . A Kenyan newspaper, Dally Nation, quoted an Ugandan traveler as saying he had seen what appeared to be her partially Durnedbbdy in a forest near .Kampala, London sources were unable to confirm that the body was indeed that of Mrs. Bloch, who holds dual British-Israeli citizenship. She had become ill during the hijacking and was taken to a hospital in Kampala. She was not at Entebbe Airport for the'daring July 4 rescue by Israelicammandos. ~'
JCC Plans
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. This is a letter we did not plan to write but it Is more than a routine letter — it is a call for a response — for there are in the lifetime of adopter or a nation, certain events which call for a response. Such was the heroic rescue of the hostages on July 4. It was an act which once again gave proof to the fact that in the final analysis, when Jews are in trouble they may only look to their fellow Jews for help. , , And so a response is called for + an American Jewish response to the terrorists and their mad ally, Idi Amln. And also a response of a different kind, a response of thanksgiving and appreciation to those who have, once again, added immeasurably to our pride. Words of thanks are good, but they are not enough. We must back up our words with concrete action. The response in Israel was overwhelming. The Israelis, who are the highest taxed people in the world, have voluntarily contributed over $3,000,000 to the soldier and sailor relief fund as an expression of their solidarity. We urge you to demonstrate your solidarity with the people of Israel by making your 1976 pledge to the Omaha Jewish Philanthropies Campaign now. A dip-out coupon will be found on Page 7 of the Jewish Press for persons wishing to make their pledge now. If you have made your pledge, we urge you to pay it now.
~ WASHINGTON (JTA) Israel and eight other countreis formally became members of the Inte/American Development Bank last Thursday. They'lire the first states outside the Western Hemisphere to join the financial institution that is made up.of theUnlted States Canada, and 2o"~TiaTTn American and Caribbean countries.
Hostage Is Buried TEL AVIV—The family of Ida Borowlcz, a 56-year-old hostage killed in the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe AirportJn' Uganda, weeps at her grave as military personnel lower hef* coffin during a funeral near Tel Aviv. Mrs. Borowlcz, one of three hostages kiiied in the raid, and her husband were im-" : migrants from the Soviet Union. They were remembered in Tel' Aviv as the first Jewish couple who had dared to send to Israel for publication a copy of a sharp letter they had written to SovietPresident Nikolai V. Podgomy complaining that it was impossible to raise their children as Jews In the Soviet Union. A soa* who wss beside his mother when sheV - she had. been shot duringg the rescuej ~enfcr|a the room and Tired at p e b p i e ^ g An Israeli soldier then burst into the room and shot the terrorist, hewkMRNSPlioto)